QUEBEC POLITICIANS ARE KILLING PATIENTS

The head of a nurse's union at the MUHC said conditions at the Glen super hospital are dire and will continue to deteriorate unless governmental budget cuts to healthcare are reversed.

At a press conference held jointly by a union representing nurses and cardiorespiratory therapists and political party Coalition Avenir Quebec, union president Denyse Joseph said patients are unable to get proper care at the superhospital.

She said there are currently 200 vacant healthcare positions, with no plans to fill them, and a lack of staffing means equipment is being left unused.

Joseph blamed the conditions on the $120 million slashed from the MUHC budget since 2012 and said she plans to present Health Minister Gaetan Barrette with a petition containing 14,000 signatures calling on them to reverse the cuts.

"We're going to have patients, they're going to be put in double rooms or hallways of a hospital," she said. "It's putting patients at risk. In a hallway, you have nothing. In an emergency, you're lucky if you have somebody pass by you."

While patient care has suffered, Joseph said the hospital's nurses are working in untenable conditions.

"I don't have time to do the best care for these patients," she said. "This affects the mental (health) and when they get home, they cry. They don't want to come to work anymore because they're overwhelmed. There's a major increase in long term sick leave at the MUHC for personnel and most of them are related to mental healthcare."

It's a problem that will only get worse as Quebec's healthcare system becomes further stressed by an aging population," said Joseph.

"You have more diagnosis, so you're more sick. Of course, when you come to the hospital, you're more sick so you need more care. At the same time, we're reducing the beds. There's less beds in the hospital and there's no beds in the community. We have to find a way so the patients that need acute care are seen in the MUHC."

CAQ MNA Nathalie Roy said that while the cuts to healthcare were originally introduced by the Parti Quebecois, the Liberals have done nothing to stop them. She acknowledged that while the MUHC serves all Quebecers, it is largely used by Anglophones. She said her party wants to show that it values Anglos ahead of next year's provincial elections.

Montreal – CTV News


What politicians and the media never say is that 


PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE -

BUT CONSERVATIVES, THE FILTHY RICH, WILL PROTEST ABOUT HOW THEIR MILLIONS ARE BEING DRAINED TO PROVIDE FOR "UNFIT" PEOPLE WHO REALLY SHOULD SHUT UP AND DIE. 

THE JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL IN MONTREAL IS OVERWHELMED WITH REQUESTS FOR CANCER CARE. THEY ARE DROWNING FOR LACK OF RESOURCES. THE QUEBEC GOVERNMENT KEEPS CUTTING THEIR BUDGET SO THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO HIRE ENOUGH QUALIFIED DOCTORS OR PURCHASE ALL THE ESSENTIAL EQUIPMENT THEY NEED TO MEET THE DEMAND FOR VITAL HEALTH CARE. 

THE DOCTORS ARE EXHAUSTED, EVEN GOING WITHOUT MEALS THEMSELVES IN ORDER TO HELP THE PATIENTS. 

THERE DOES APPEAR TO BE A "RACIST" ELEMENT IN THIS. IT APPEARS THAT BEING "ANGLO" OR JEWISH IS A DISADVANTAGE IN QUEBEC. BUT THE JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL SERVES AND EMPLOYS PEOPLE OF ALL RELIGIONS, RACES, NATIONALITIES AND LANGUAGES. EVEN IF YOU SPEAK URDU OR MANDARIN, THEY WILL PUT OUT A CALL TO FIND ANYONE IN THE HOSPITAL WHO CAN TRANSLATE FOR YOU. 

AND, AS IT IS IN THE U.S.A., MONEY IS WORSHIPED BY THE POLITICIANS AND THEIR SPONSORS. HUMAN LIVES ARE TREATED AS STATISTICS.

THE COST OF LIVING - PRICE FIXING VITAL MEDICINES

Why Did That Drug Price Increase 6,000%?  It's The Law

Matthew Herper ,  FORBES STAFF 

I cover science and medicine, and believe this is biology's century. 

 

It's happened again. Of course it has happened again. A drug company has brought a drug that has been available as a generic elsewhere in the world for decades at a shockingly inflated price.

 

The drug, in this case, is a steroid called deflazacort, has been approved for treating kids with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. It has fewer side effects than existing steroids, and many patients have been getting it from Europe or Canada at a price between $1,000 or $2,000 a year.

 

Yet a pharmaceutical company in Deerfield, Ill., has gotten approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to sell deflazacort (snazzy brand name: Emflaza). The company, Marathon Pharmaceuticals, is charging a list price of $89,000 – a 6,000% price increase.

 

If this doesn't feel like déjà vu all over again, you haven't been paying attention. Yes, it was a 5,000% price increase on a drug for a rare infection that made Martin Shkreli, then chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals, "the most hated man on the Internet." But Shkreli's was an incremental innovation in price gouging. Before that, we had the case of Makena, used to prevent pre-term birth. It was launched in 2011 at a price of $1,500 when a similar drug was previously available, from compounding pharmacies, for $20. The strategy basically worked: AMAG Pharmaceuticals, which now owns Makena, booked sales of $93 million in the third quarter of last year.

 

Why does this keep happening? Well, with the exception of Shkreli, enabled by a thicket of market inefficiencies, because it's the law. And that's very much the case for Marathon and Emflaza.

 

Because this steroid has never been approved in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration considers it a new drug. That means that not only did Marathon have to go through the process of getting it approved as a new drug, but that it gets the benefit of laws Congress has passed to encourage drug companies to develop new medicines for rare diseases.

 

Those legal benefits include a 7-year monopoly under the Orphan Drug Act, and a rare disease priority review voucher that allows a company to get a sped-up FDA review for another drug. Such vouchers can be sold for large sums.

 

The idea behind those benefits is that society needs to pay in order for drugs for rare diseases to be developed. It seems obvious that getting a generic steroid that is approved in the rest of the world through the FDA should not have the same benefits to a company as inventing a new medicine. Yet, under the law, it does.

 

This isn't Shkreli-level malfeasance. Mitigating factors: Marathon says that only 7% to 9% of the patients who could benefit from Emflaza were able get access to it by importing the drug from other countries. In order to get the FDA approval, Marathon conducted 17 clinical and pre-clinical trials, and had to go back and find the data from studies conducted by the drug's original manufacturer. The FDA is making Marathon conduct post-approval studies, including one in children younger than five.

 

Does this justify a 6,000% price increase? Marathon says it actually expects to net "only" $54,000 a year from insurers. The company has also said its business will not be profitable for several years. It expects patients with insurance to get access to the drug for a co-payment, and will give it away to others for free. In other words, the high cost of this medicine is not intended to gouge patients, but to get us all to pay not only for the cost of getting the drug through FDA, but also to provide a big profit that will incentivize drug makers to bring more drugs to the United States.

 

This lays bare one of the absurdities of the FDA process: for a drug to be approved, a company must do the work of bringing it to market. For new medicines, developed at high cost by pharmaceutical companies, this is the right approach. But for medicines that have been in clinical use for decades it may not be. Imagine how much money we would all save if we paid for the National Institutes of Health to survey such drugs, collect real-world data on them, and have the FDA approve them without giving any company exclusivity? Then generic drug companies would make the medicines at much lower cost. Senator Ted Cruz has argued that drugs approved by European or Canadian regulators should automatically be approved in the U.S. That's not a good idea, because it would lead to manufacturers of new medicines always going to whoever set the lowest bar. But for old medicines a system like that may make sense.

 

That's not the system we have. Marathon is increasing the access of boys with a deadly disease to a medicine that will help them, and charging what it thinks is an honest price based on the regulatory burdens it has. That doesn't make the price OK. But it's how executives can convince themselves that what they are doing is OK.

 

The problem is, it's not OK. The price is absurd, and the price increase short-circuits the fairness circuitry built into the human brain. There's some amount that Marathon should charge for the work it did. But is it $85,000 per patient, or even $52,000? Probably not. And that priority review voucher itself could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Congress is obsessed with these vouchers. Maybe they're not the best solution to problems in the pharma business?

 

Marathon is a member of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the drug industry trade group. Drug companies cannot use their usual argument of saying this is an "outlier." This is one of their own – although Marathon may find itself feeling as if it is being ostracized from the club. As patent lawyer Rachel Sachs notes, the big drug giants need to distance themselves from this move – and maybe find a way to actually come to the table on preventing big drug price increases.

 

Pharmaceutical company executives, here is your problem: You won't get credit for the wonderful innovations your companies produce if your prices make people feel sick.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2017/02/10/a-6000-price-hike-should-give-drug-companies-a-disgusting-sense-of-deja-vu/#457c927d71f5

EPR

European Drug Prices: New Commission Report on What Policies Work and What Could Work

Posted 25 February 2016

By Zachary Brennan

The complicated world of drug pricing presents an array of challenges for keeping costs low in the US and EU, though European countries are increasingly employing new policies to keep price gouging in check.

 

The 260-page report on drug pricing in Europe, released Thursday by the European Commission, looks into two policy options: external price referencing (EPR), which is predominantly a tool for medicine price control and currently employed across the region, and differential pricing (DP), which is a strategy to improve access to otherwise unaffordable medicines.

 

EPR, also known as external reference pricing or international price comparison/benchmarking, is defined by the European Commission "as the practice of using the price(s) of a medicine in one or several countries in order to derive a benchmark or reference price for the purposes of setting or negotiating the price of a medicine in a given country."

 

EPR is used in 29 countries in the EU, as well as in Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey, though different approaches are applied in Germany, Sweden and the UK, which employ various forms of EPR, value-based pricing (VBP) and other pricing regulation schemes.

 

According to a survey from last year, the commission found that 20 of the 29 countries that apply EPR use this policy as their sole or main pricing policy. Countries most frequently referenced to are France, Belgium, Denmark and Spain, followed by Italy, the UK and to a lesser extent, Austria, Germany and Slovakia.

 

But the details of how an EPR scheme is designed differs between countries, the report notes, as 21 countries compare medicine prices at the level of ex-factory prices, while eight countries at the pharmacy purchasing price (wholesale price) level.

 

Others, such as Sweden, use an entirely unique system for determining drug prices through VBP via its Dental and Pharmaceutical Benefits Agency (known as Tandvårds- och läkemedelsförmånsverket or TLV) using three principles: (1) societal perspective, based on the principles of human value, need and solidarity and cost effectiveness, (2) threshold value, based on the individuals' maximum willingness-to-pay for a quality-adjusted life year (QALY) gained, and (3) marginal decreasing utility of treatments, which considers that the benefits of a treatment vary by indication or by degree of severity.

 

And in response to the limitations of EPR, many EU Member States have increasingly considered VBP elements in their pricing and reimbursement decisions, the commission noted. The commission also called for more countries to work on price monitoring, as it's included in the legislation of 25 European countries, but it's only done on a regular basis in 17 countries.

 

"In practical terms, EPR is a cost- and time-intensive exercise and would benefit from tools and mechanisms to ease the work load," the commission said.

 

One of the main limitations of EPR, the commission found, is that price comparisons are often not done at the level of real prices paid by payers (ie. discounted prices).

 

"Higher savings might be generated if prices actually paid by public payers are referenced to, i.e. considering also confidential discounts, rebates, and similar financial arrangements in the other countries," the commission said.

 

In addition, EPR incentivizes the marketing authorization holders (MAH) to first launch drugs in high-priced countries and to delay, or not market, products in lower-priced countries so as not to negatively impact the reference price.

 

The report also explores four ways to improve EPR, including through the use of a medicine price database (as of mid-2015 the Euripid database includes data from 27 European countries); comparing real prices paid in EPR, rather than official prices, which would lead to price reductions; performing regular (i.e. bi-annual or annual) price reevaluations; and further coordinating the use of EPR, for instance by extending the current formula to include some measures of countries' economic situations.

 

"For instance, countries could adjust prices by reference countries' purchasing power parities, rather than merely by nominal exchange rates, when performing EPR," the commission said. "This is a step that could be taken unilaterally by any EPR applying country. If several countries consider such changes, an exchange of information and best practice on criteria and methods for adjustment, which would support capacity building is recommended."

 

Discounts

The practice of lowering list prices through discounts, rebates and similar financial arrangements between public payers and MAHs is widespread, the commission said, with 22 countries reporting that discounts, rebates or similar financial arrangements either based on a law or confidential (based on agreements) are in place. However, the use of discounts provides financial benefits to the country using them, but other countries do not benefit from the lower prices since they refer to undiscounted higher prices.

 

"Confidential discounts, rebates or similar arrangements negotiated and agreed by manufacturers and payers are known to be in place in several European countries," the commission says. "Furthermore, price confidentiality eliminates, or at least reduces, accountability since decision-makers involved in activities such as procurement and medicine regulation are less able to exercise institutional and democratic control, thus increasing opportunities for discrimination and corruption."

 

Differential Pricing

Following the discussion of EPR, the EC moves on to differential pricing (DP), which it defines as "the strategy of selling the same product to different customers at different prices" even though costs are the same.

 

The idea of DP as it has been applied internationally is that, while manufacturers continue to receive high prices in high-income countries to cover all cost elements, medicines are provided to poorer countries at or slightly above their marginal costs.

 

"Since this would grant manufacturers additional markets where low profit margins might be outweighed by high unit sales, this would not be a loss for them," the commission says.

 

Overall, though, the commission found that "differential pricing is not a panacea" for ensuring access and it often "heavily relies on the willingness of the pharmaceutical industry," meaning it does not encourage sustainability or autonomy in low and middle-income countries.

 

"Manufacturers should be rewarded for innovation, so prices are seen as a financial incentive to fund R&D. However, costs of R&D are difficult to assess, and some authors demythologised the high cost of research," the commission says.

 

The use of DP has been limited to low- and middle-income countries, particularly to specific therapeutic groups such as vaccines, contraceptives and anti-retrovirals.

 

"The introduction of a fully-fledged DP scheme in Europe, as a government policy or EC supported policy in full respect of the subsidiarity principle, though not completely impossible, would however require addressing major obstacles in legal, technical, organisational and political terms and might not be the most preferred policy to address challenges in equitable access to medicines," the commission said.

 

The report also noted that if member states opt for the use of a DP scheme, all 28 EU member states "need to agree on principles and mechanisms of such a scheme. These principles and mechanisms should be fully transparent…A major point of agreement would concern the mechanism on how to decide the maximum or minimum entry price from which mark-ups or mark-downs are based."

 

The commission added that member states should consider performing a DP pilot to gain experience.

http://www.raps.org/Regulatory-Focus/News/2016/02/25/24409/European-Drug-Prices-New-Commission-Report-on-What-Policies-Work-and-What-Could-Work/

Additional References.

https://www.ft.com/content/0765175e-396a-11e7-821a-6027b8a20f23?mhq5j=e2

http://www.iol.co.za/business-report/companies-probed-for-drug-price-fixing-9783754

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drug-pricing-idUSKBN14328X

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1601294#t=article

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/health/drugmakers-lawsuit-insulin-drugs.html

HATE MAKES THE BEAUTIFUL UGLY

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Muslim woman severely injured in London acid attack on her 21st birthday - The Express Tribune

Her cousin was also injured in the attack

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SO MANY AFFECTED BY CANCER. WHY?

WHEN I WAS YOUNG, LONG, LONG AGO, WE NEVER HEARD OF CANCER. ONCE, WE HEARD THAT A WOMAN IN THE AREA HAD DIED OF "A LARGE TUMOR". IT WAS A RARE THING.

NOW, ALMOST EVERYONE IS TOUCHED BY CANCER. WHY? I BELIEVE THE RADIATION FROM ALL OUR GADGETS AND APPLIANCES ARE CHANGING OUR CELLS. BUT, OF COURSE, THIS WILL BE DENIED AND NOTHING WILL CHANGE.

AND OF COURSE, PEOPLE WILL DENY THAT CHERNOBYL AND ALL THE OTHER LITTLE "ACCIDENTS" AND HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT IS HAPPENING.

AND OF COURSE, PEOPLE ARE STILL DENYING THAT TOBACCO AND ASBESTOS KILL. MONEY IS GOD - EVEN IF IT KILLS US.

A PERSONAL REPORT FROM MOSUL

Mosul, 24 June: 

The military offensive in the old city of Mosul is in full stride. I manage to get a bit of restless sleep despite the ongoing noise of explosions from mortars and air strikes, as well as intermittent gunfire. We are woken at 4am with more casualties from a mortar attack in the old city. The body bags are already lined up by the entrance to the clinic. 3 dead. 2 survivors pelleted from head to toe with shrapnel, one with a penetrating eye injury, a mangled hand, and a horrible compound tibia-fibula fracture. But he's alive and that's all that matters right now. 

An old man in his 80s with septic wounds from shrapnel just sits in his wheelchair nearby and sobs. He says there is no reason to live anymore and wishes he could die. His son was shot by ISIS on one of the bridges over the Tigris a few months ago. 

As the day starts to get hotter the lines outside the clinic increase. Everyone is painfully thin. A father has brought in his 6 month old with marasmus. She's the size of a newborn. The mother has been unable to breastfeed and the child has only had cow milk since birth with the obvious results. The family have just gotten out of the old city. They too have been eating grass to stay alive for the past few months. 

An ambulance comes in with another body of a soldier killed by a sniper. His friends, all in their early 20s sit in the back of the ambulance sobbing their hearts out at the absolutely hopelessness of it all. 

I'm called over to see man led in by his elderly mother. He survived a mortar attack a few months ago but it blew off half of face and destroyed both his eyes. She's asking if there's anything we can do to help him. Obviously nothing. It just such a mess.

 

I wish you could all experience my day. 

It changes the way you see the world completely. For the worse, but for the better too.

Michael-John Von Hörsten with Elena Rohm.

WHAT IS EVIL? NO HORNS. NO TAIL.

Evil is within us.

It is a distortion, a perversion of the most basic drive in the world - survival.

The inborn urge that drives all living things to survive and to pass on our genes gets out of control in some people.

Instead of just striving to live and excel, some people - notably bullies and tyrants - keep pushing for more and more power without concern for any consequences - 

Without a care for what their actions may do to others.

Scientists who study children with behaviour problems will find that aggressive, wicked kids - even as young as two years of age - have inadequate aspects in their brains.

Maybe, if they catch these problems early enough, they might be able to prevent young bullies from turning into drug addicts, drunks, drop-outs, thieves, vandals, rapists and gangsters.

CHINESE FOOD - BOILED ALIVE WHILE PEOPLE LAUGH

CHINESE FOOD

THIS IS UNBEARABLE. I BOUGHT CHINESE FOOD IN MONTREAL YESTERDAY. THE PEOPLE AT MIRAMA SEEM LIKE SUCH PLEASANT FOLKS. I AM ALL IN KNOTS WORRYING ABOUT WHAT MAY BE IN MY FOOD. WE SHOULD NOT BLAME ALL CHINESE PEOPLE FOR WHAT THE SAVAGES IN CHINA DO, BUT WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSE TO THINK?

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CHINA: PET DOG BOILED AS PEOPLE LAUGH
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SADISTIC PEOPLE NEED TO BE TAUGHT.

petition: Crack down on man who hung dogs from washing line! Demand tougher animal cruelty laws!

A man hung dogs from a washing line, let other dogs tear a defenseless cat apart, and skinned an iguana alive. We must say no!

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• CARE 2 - GIVE US HIS LOCATION. I BELIEVE THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO HIM.
  
  

MONTREAL POLICE REFUSE TO INVESTIGATE THESE CRIMES

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http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2016/01/is-debbie-mcsweeney-still-prisoner-of.html

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2015/08/the-crimes-of-dawn-mcsweeney-kenneth.html

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2015/08/montreal-police-will-not-act-until_8.html

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2015/08/ed-mcsweeney-is-dead-we-may-be-in.html

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2015/07/5000-reward-4995-prince-of-wales-ndg.html

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2016/03/dawn-mcsweeney-robbed-my-family-with_10.html

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2016/04/if-dawn-mcsweeney-had-painted-target-on_43.html

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2016/08/why-dont-montreal-police-care-if-my.html

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2017/02/no-one-is-investigating-montreal-police.html

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2017/05/how-to-raise-criminal-tragedy-of-dawn_20.html

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2017/06/the-rape-of-jewish-family.html

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A LIST OF DONALD TRUMP'S LIES

Many Americans have become accustomed to President Trump's lies. But as regular as they have become, the country should not allow itself to become numb to them. So we have catalogued nearly every outright lie he has told publicly since taking the oath of office.

JAN. 21  "I wasn't a fan of Iraq. I didn't want to go into Iraq." (He was for an invasion before he was against it.) JAN. 21 "A reporter for Time magazine — and I have been on their cover 14 or 15 times. I think we have the all-time record in the history of Time magazine." (Trump was on the cover 11 times and Nixon appeared 55 times.) JAN. 23 "Between 3 million and 5 million illegal votes caused me to lose the popular vote." (There's no evidence of illegal voting.) JAN. 25 "Now, the audience was the biggest ever. But this crowd was massive. Look how far back it goes. This crowd was massive." (Official aerial photos show Obama's 2009 inauguration was much more heavily attended.) JAN. 25 "Take a look at the Pew reports (which show voter fraud.)" (The report never mentioned voter fraud.)JAN. 25 "You had millions of people that now aren't insured anymore." (The real number is less than 1 million, according to the Urban Institute.) JAN. 25 "So, look, when President Obama was there two weeks ago making a speech, very nice speech. Two people were shot and killed during his speech. You can't have that." (There were no gun homicide victims in Chicago that day.) JAN. 26 "We've taken in tens of thousands of people. We know nothing about them. They can say they vet them. They didn't vet them. They have no papers. How can you vet somebody when you don't know anything about them and you have no papers? How do you vet them? You can't." (Vetting lasts up to two years.) JAN. 26 "I cut off hundreds of millions of dollars off one particular plane, hundreds of millions of dollars in a short period of time. It wasn't like I spent, like, weeks, hours, less than hours, and many, many hundreds of millions of dollars. And the plane's going to be better." (Most of the cuts were already planned.) JAN. 28 "The coverage about me in the @nytimes and the @washingtonpost has been so false and angry that the times actually apologized to its dwindling subscribers and readers." (It never apologized.) JAN. 29 "The Cuban-Americans, I got 84 percent of that vote." (There is no support for this.) JAN. 30 "Only 109 people out of 325,000 were detained and held for questioning. Big problems at airports were caused by Delta computer outage." (At least 746 people were detained and processed, and the Delta outage happened two days later.) FEB. 3 "Professional anarchists, thugs and paid protesters are proving the point of the millions of people who voted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" (There is no evidence of paid protesters.) FEB. 4 "After being forced to apologize for its bad and inaccurate coverage of me after winning the election, the FAKE NEWS @nytimes is still lost!" (It never apologized.) FEB. 5 "We had 109 people out of hundreds of thousands of travelers and all we did was vet those people very, very carefully." (About 60,000 people were affected.)FEB. 6 "I have already saved more than $700 million when I got involved in the negotiation on the F-35." (Much of the price drop was projected before Trump took office.) FEB. 6 "It's gotten to a point where it is not even being reported. And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it." (Terrorism has been reported on, often in detail.) FEB. 6 "The failing @nytimes was forced to apologize to its subscribers for the poor reporting it did on my election win. Now they are worse!" (It didn't apologize.) FEB. 6 "And the previous administration allowed it to happen because we shouldn't have been in Iraq, but we shouldn't have gotten out the way we got out. It created a vacuum, ISIS was formed." (ISIS has existed since 2004.) FEB. 7 "And yet the murder rate in our country is the highest it's been in 47 years, right? Did you know that? Forty-seven years." (It was higher in the 1980s and '90s.) FEB. 7 "I saved more than $600 million. I got involved in negotiation on a fighter jet, the F-35." (The Defense Department projected this price drop before Trump took office.) FEB. 9 "Chris Cuomo, in his interview with Sen. Blumenthal, never asked him about his long-term lie about his brave 'service' in Vietnam. FAKE NEWS!" (It was part of Cuomo's first question.) FEB. 9 Sen. Richard Blumenthal "now misrepresents what Judge Gorsuch told him?" (The Gorsuch comments were later corroborated.) FEB. 10 "I don't know about it. I haven't seen it. What report is that?" (Trump knew about Flynn's actions for weeks.) FEB. 12 "Just leaving Florida. Big crowds of enthusiastic supporters lining the road that the FAKE NEWS media refuses to mention. Very dishonest!" (The media did cover it.)FEB. 16 "We got 306 because people came out and voted like they've never seen before so that's the way it goes. I guess it was the biggest Electoral College win since Ronald Reagan." (George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all won bigger margins in the Electoral College.)FEB. 16 "That's the other thing that was wrong with the travel ban. You had Delta with a massive problem with their computer system at the airports." (Delta's problems happened two days later.) FEB. 16 "Walmart announced it will create 10,000 jobs in the United States just this year because of our various plans and initiatives." (The jobs are a result of its investment plans announced in October 2016.) FEB. 16 "When WikiLeaks, which I had nothing to do with, comes out and happens to give, they're not giving classified information." (Not always. They have released classified information in the past.) FEB. 16 "We had a very smooth rollout of the travel ban. But we had a bad court. Got a bad decision." (The rollout was chaotic.) FEB. 16 "They're giving stuff — what was said at an office about Hillary cheating on the debates. Which, by the way, nobody mentions. Nobody mentions that Hillary received the questions to the debates." (It was widely covered.) FEB. 18 "And there was no way to vet those people. There was no documentation. There was no nothing." (Refugees receive multiple background checks, taking up to two years.) FEB. 18 "You look at what's happening in Germany, you look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this?" (Trump implied there was a terror attack in Sweden, but there was no such attack.) FEB. 24 "By the way, you folks are in here — this place is packed, there are lines that go back six blocks." (There was no evidence of long lines.) FEB. 24 "ICE came and endorsed me." (Only its union did.) FEB. 24 "Obamacare covers very few people — and remember, deduct from the number all of the people that had great health care that they loved that was taken away from them — it was taken away from them." (Obamacare increased coverage by a net of about 20 million.) FEB. 27 "Since Obamacare went into effect, nearly half of the insurers are stopped and have stopped from participating in the Obamacare exchanges." (Many fewer pulled out.) FEB. 27 "On one plane, on a small order of one plane, I saved $725 million. And I would say I devoted about, if I added it up, all those calls, probably about an hour. So I think that might be my highest and best use." (Much of the price cut was already projected.) FEB. 28 "And now, based on our very strong and frank discussions, they are beginning to do just that." (NATO countries agreed to meet defense spending requirements in 2014.) FEB. 28 "The E.P.A.'s regulators were putting people out of jobs by the hundreds of thousands." (There's no evidence that the Waters of the United States rule caused severe job losses.) FEB. 28 "We have begun to drain the swamp of government corruption by imposing a five-year ban on lobbying by executive branch officials." (They can't lobby their former agency but can still become lobbyists.) MARCH 3 "It is so pathetic that the Dems have still not approved my full Cabinet." (Paperwork for the last two candidates was still not submitted to the Senate.) MARCH 4 "Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!" (There's no evidence of a wiretap.) MARCH 4 "How low has President Obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!" (There's no evidence of a wiretap.) MARCH 7 "122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just another terrible decision!" (113 of them were released by President George W. Bush.) MARCH 13 "I saved a lot of money on those jets, didn't I? Did I do a good job? More than $725 million on them." (Much of the cost cuts were planned before Trump.) MARCH 13 "First of all, it covers very few people." (About 20 million people gained insurance under Obamacare.) MARCH 15 "On the airplanes, I saved $725 million. Probably took me a half an hour if you added up all of the times." (Much of the cost cuts were planned before Trump.) MARCH 17 "I was in Tennessee — I was just telling the folks — and half of the state has no insurance company, and the other half is going to lose the insurance company." (There's at least one insurer in every Tennessee county.) MARCH 20 "With just one negotiation on one set of airplanes, I saved the taxpayers of our country over $700 million." (Much of the cost cuts were planned before Trump.) MARCH 21 "To save taxpayer dollars, I've already begun negotiating better contracts for the federal government — saving over $700 million on just one set of airplanes of which there are many sets." (Much of the cost cuts were planned before Trump.) MARCH 22 "I make the statement, everyone goes crazy. The next day they have a massive riot, and death, and problems." (Riots in Sweden broke out two days later and there were no deaths.) MARCH 22 "NATO, obsolete, because it doesn't cover terrorism. They fixed that." (It has fought terrorism since the 1980s.) MARCH 22 "Well, now, if you take a look at the votes, when I say that, I mean mostly they register wrong — in other words, for the votes, they register incorrectly and/or illegally. And they then vote. You have tremendous numbers of people." (There's no evidence of widespread voter fraud.) MARCH 29 "Remember when the failing @nytimes apologized to its subscribers, right after the election, because their coverage was so wrong. Now worse!" (It didn't apologize.) MARCH 31 "We have a lot of plants going up now in Michigan that were never going to be there if I — if I didn't win this election, those plants would never even think about going back. They were gone." (These investments were already planned.) APRIL 2 "And I was totally opposed to the war in the Middle East which I think finally has been proven, people tried very hard to say I wasn't but you've seen that it is now improving." (He was for an invasion before he was against it.) APRIL 2 "Now, my last tweet — you know, the one that you are talking about, perhaps — was the one about being, in quotes, wiretapped, meaning surveilled. Guess what, it is turning out to be true." (There is still no evidence.) APRIL 5 "You have many states coming up where they're going to have no insurance company. O.K.? It's already happened in Tennessee. It's happening in Kentucky. Tennessee only has half coverage. Half the state is gone. They left." (Every marketplace region in Tennessee had at least one insurer.) APRIL 6 "If you look at the kind of cost-cutting we've been able to achieve with the military and at the same time ordering vast amounts of equipment — saved hundreds of millions of dollars on airplanes, and really billions, because if you take that out over a period of years it's many billions of dollars — I think we've had a tremendous success." (Much of the price cuts were already projected.) APRIL 11 "I like Steve, but you have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late. I had already beaten all the senators and all the governors, and I didn't know Steve." (He knew Steve Bannon since 2011.) APRIL 12 "You can't do it faster, because they're obstructing. They're obstructionists. So I have people — hundreds of people that we're trying to get through. I mean you have — you see the backlog. We can't get them through." (At this point, he had not nominated anyone for hundreds of positions.) APRIL 12 "The New York Times said the word wiretapped in the headline of the first edition. Then they took it out of there fast when they realized." (There were separate headlines for print and web, but neither were altered.) APRIL 12 "The secretary general and I had a productive discussion about what more NATO can do in the fight against terrorism. I complained about that a long time ago and they made a change, and now they do fight terrorism." (NATO has been engaged in counterterrorism efforts since the 1980s.) APRIL 12 "Mosul was supposed to last for a week and now they've been fighting it for many months and so many more people died." (The campaign was expected to take months.) APRIL 16 "Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!" (There's no evidence of paid protesters.) APRIL 18 "The fake media goes, 'Donald Trump changed his stance on China.' I haven't changed my stance." (He did.) APRIL 21 "On 90 planes I saved $725 million. It's actually a little bit more than that, but it's $725 million." (Much of the price cuts were already projected.) APRIL 21 "When WikiLeaks came out … never heard of WikiLeaks, never heard of it." (He criticized it as early as 2010.)APRIL 27 "I want to help our miners while the Democrats are blocking their healthcare." (The bill to extend health benefits for certain coal miners was introduced by a Democrat and was co-sponsored by mostly Democrats.) APRIL 28 "The trade deficit with Mexico is close to $70 billion, even with Canada it's $17 billion trade deficit with Canada." (The U.S. had an $8.1 billion trade surplus, not deficit, with Canada in 2016.) APRIL 28 "She's running against someone who's going to raise your taxes to the sky, destroy your health care, and he's for open borders — lots of crime." (Those are not Jon Ossoff's positions.) APRIL 28 "The F-35 fighter jet program — it was way over budget. I've saved $725 million plus, just by getting involved in the negotiation." (Much of the price cuts were planned before Trump.) APRIL 29 "They're incompetent, dishonest people who after an election had to apologize because they covered it, us, me, but all of us, they covered it so badly that they felt they were forced to apologize because their predictions were so bad." (The Times did not apologize.)APRIL 29 "As you know, I've been a big critic of China, and I've been talking about currency manipulation for a long time. But I have to tell you that during the election, number one, they stopped." (China stopped years ago.) APRIL 29 "I've already saved more than $725 million on a simple order of F-35 planes. I got involved in the negotiation." (Much of the price cuts were planned before Trump.) APRIL 29 "We're also getting NATO countries to finally step up and contribute their fair share. They've begun to increase their contributions by billions of dollars, but we are not going to be satisfied until everyone pays what they owe." (The deal was struck in 2014.) APRIL 29 "When they talk about currency manipulation, and I did say I would call China, if they were, a currency manipulator, early in my tenure. And then I get there. Number one, they — as soon as I got elected, they stopped." (China stopped in 2014.) APRIL 29 "I was negotiating to reduce the price of the big fighter jet contract, the F-35, which was totally out of control. I will save billions and billions and billions of dollars." (Most of the cuts were planned before Trump.) APRIL 29 "I think our side's been proven very strongly. And everybody's talking about it." (There's still no evidence Trump's phones were tapped.) MAY 1 "Well, we are protecting pre-existing conditions. And it'll be every good — bit as good on pre-existing conditions as Obamacare." (The bill weakens protections for people with pre-existing conditions.) MAY 1 "The F-35 fighter jet — I saved — I got involved in the negotiation. It's 2,500 jets. I negotiated for 90 planes, lot 10. I got $725 million off the price." (Much of the price cuts were planned before Trump.) MAY 1 "First of all, since I started running, they haven't increased their — you know, they have not manipulated their currency. I think that was out of respect to me and the campaign." (China stopped years ago.) MAY 2 "I love buying those planes at a reduced price. I have been really — I have cut billions — I have to tell you this, and they can check, right, Martha? I have cut billions and billions of dollars off plane contracts sitting here." (Much of the cost cuts were planned before Trump.) MAY 4 "Number two, they're actually not a currency [manipulator]. You know, since I've been talking about currency manipulation with respect to them and other countries, they stopped." (China stopped years ago.) MAY 4 "We're the highest-taxed nation in the world." (We're not.) MAY 4 "Nobody cares about my tax return except for the reporters." (Polls show most Americans do care.) MAY 8 "You know we've gotten billions of dollars more in NATO than we're getting. All because of me." (The deal was struck in 2014.)MAY 8 "But when I did his show, which by the way was very highly rated. It was high — highest rating. The highest rating he's ever had." (Colbert's "Late Show" debut had nearly two million more viewers.) MAY 8 "Director Clapper reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows- there is 'no evidence' of collusion w/ Russia and Trump." (Clapper only said he wasn't aware of an investigation.) MAY 12 "Again, the story that there was collusion between the Russians & Trump campaign was fabricated by Dems as an excuse for losing the election." (The F.B.I. was investigating before the election.) MAY 12 "When James Clapper himself, and virtually everyone else with knowledge of the witch hunt, says there is no collusion, when does it end?" (Clapper said he wouldn't have been told of an investigation into collusion.) MAY 13 "I'm cutting the price of airplanes with Lockheed." (The cost cuts were planned before he became president.) MAY 26 "Just arrived in Italy for the G7. Trip has been very successful. We made and saved the USA many billions of dollars and millions of jobs." (He's referencing an arms deal that's not enacted and other apparent deals that weren't announced on the trip.)JUNE 1 "China will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal plants. So, we can't build the plants, but they can, according to this agreement. India will be allowed to double its coal production by 2020." (The agreement doesn't allow or disallow building coal plants.) JUNE 1 "I've just returned from a trip overseas where we concluded nearly $350 billion of military and economic development for the United States, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs." (Trump's figures are inflated and premature.) JUNE 4 "At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is 'no reason to be alarmed!'" (The mayor was specifically talking about the enlarged police presence on the streets.) JUNE 5 "The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C." (Trump signed this version of the travel ban, not the Justice Department.) JUNE 21 "They all say it's 'nonbinding.' Like hell it's nonbinding." (The Paris climate agreement is nonbinding — and Trump said so in his speech announcing the withdrawal.) JUNE 21 "Right now, we are one of the highest-taxed nations in the world." (We're not.)

President Trump's political rise was built on a lie (about Barack Obama's birthplace). His lack of truthfulness has also become central to the Russia investigation, with James Comey, the former director of the F.B.I., testifying under oath about Trump's "lies, plain and simple."

 

There is simply no precedent for an American president to spend so much time telling untruths. Every president has shaded the truth or told occasional whoppers. No other president — of either party — has behaved as Trump is behaving. He is trying to create an atmosphere in which reality is irrelevant.

 

We have set a conservative standard, leaving out many dubious statements (like the claim that his travel ban is "similar" to Obama administration policy). Some people may still take issue with this standard, arguing that the president wasn't speaking literally. But we believe his long pattern of using untruths to serve his purposes, as a businessman and politician, means that his statements are not simply careless errors.

 

We are using the word "lie" deliberately. Not every falsehood is deliberate on Trump's part. But it would be the height of naïveté to imagine he is merely making honest mistakes. He is lying.

 

Trump Told Public Lies or Falsehoods Every Day for His First 40 Days

 

The list above uses the conservative standard of demonstrably false statements. By that standard, Trump told a public lie on at least 20 of his first 40 days as president. But based on a broader standard — one that includes his many misleading statements (like exaggerating military spending in the Middle East) — Trump achieved something remarkable: He said something untrue, in public, every day for the first 40 days of his presidency. The streak didn't end until March 1.

 

Since then, he has said something untrue on at least 74 of 113 days. On days without an untrue statement, he is often absent from Twitter, vacationing at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, or busy golfing.

 

The end of May was another period of relative public veracity — or at least public quiet — for the president. He seems to have been otherwise occupied, dealing with internal discussions about the Russia investigation and then embarking on a trip through the Middle East and Europe.

 

Washington Post reports Trump shared highly classified intelligence with Russians

New York Times reports Trump hoped Comey would "let this go," referring to the Flynn investigation

Special counsel appointed in investigation of Russia's ties to the Trump campaign

Trump's Public Lies Sometimes Changed With Repetition

 

Sometimes, Trump can't even keep his untruths straight. After he reversed a campaign pledge and declined to label China a currency manipulator, he kept changing his description of when China had stopped the bad behavior. Initially, he said it stopped once he took office. He then changed the turning point to the election, then to since he started talking about it, and then to some uncertain point in the distant past.

 

When Trump said China stopped manipulating its currency

 

The Public's Mistrust of Trump Grows

 

Trump has retained the support of most of his voters as well as the Republican leadership in Congress. But he has still paid some price for his lies. Nearly 60 percent of Americans say the president is not honest, polls show, up from about 53 percent when he took office.

By DAVID LEONHARDT and STUART A. THOMPSON 
            
JUNE 23, 2017

NEW YORK TIMES

PHYLLIS CARTER'S JOURNAL - INTRODUCTION - DEMANDING JUSTICE EVERYWHERE

The Hope of the World
Rests in the Moral Courage

Of The Few

 

 

PHYLLIS CARTER'S JOURNAL

Building Camelot

One Essay At A Time

 

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com

 

 

Why are thousands of people around the world reading Phyllis Carter's Journal and The Dawn McSweeney Crime Case? Readership is increasing so rapidly, I can hardly keep up with informing the public.

 

Phyllis Carter's Journal reports on the hunger for justice by people all over the world and also presents my personal experiences with many famous, and not famous but very special individuals whose names have never been publicized, but who deserve to be remembered.

 

This is not a "newspaper". I write and share articles that are important, not necessarily up to date. You can get the daily news anywhere. I deal with relevant issues that affect lives and life itself deeply. I offer illuminating insights into fundamental matters based on decades of personal experience and my skills as a researcher and a professional investigator.

 

I write to inform, to enlighten, to expose evil and corruption, to inspire. Someone somewhere in the world, reading what I have to say may save lives, bring justice where justice has been denied.

 

I have no power, except the power of truth, but truth is the most powerful weapon on earth. Villains everywhere fear it.

 

This Journal is not for the faint of heart. I publish terrible truths and many of my posts are hard to see.  Many of the articles I publish are supported by photographs that I can barely stand to look at myself. But they are truth and the people must know the truth or evil and cruelty continue safely in darkness.

 

The Dawn McSweeney Crime Case - The reader will learn that I am a crime victim - and a victim of police abuse in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I am offering a $5,000. reward and seeking a lawyer to sue the Montreal Police for $100,000. for their part in the crimes of Dawn McSweeney and those she calls her "partners in crime ." 

Detailed reports at  http://dawnmcsweeney.blogspot.com.

EVIDENCE THAT DEMANDS A VERDICT - SUMMARY

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2014/03/evidence-that-demands-verdict-summary_11.html

 

THE CRIMES OF DAWN MCSWEENEY
AND THE MONTREAL POLICE

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2017/04/dawn-mcsweeney-thief-who-destroyed-my.html

June 23, 2017:  More than 400,000 people around the world have now read my reports. From Azerbaijan to Armenia, from France to Fiji, from the Maldives to Mexico, from Serbia to Sri Lanka, from Canada to China, people are reading these blogs day and night. There has been a particular interest in my reports in Russia. But there is still no justice for victims of crime and corruption in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

 

The reader will find more than two thousand entries here. This blog is a cornucopia of stunning reports and exposes, and essays that offer clear insights and vivid narratives of my personal experiences with many fascinating people, including Lorne Greene, Queen Elizabeth, Charles de Gaulle, John Diefenbaker, Paul Robeson, Danny Kaye, Frank Sinatra, Peter Townsend, James Mason, Maurice Chevalier, Jan Peerce, Count Basie, Liberace, The Mills Brothers, Pierre Laporte, MNA; Rod Chapleau, Engineer and Adventurer; Esteemed Koran Scholar and Translator, Devoted Son of Kashmir, Sayed Asgar Ali Razwy; Sea Shell Collector Lester Allen; Patrick Farney, Ronnie McKelvie; Private Investigator, Buck Fortin; Wally Aspell, Popular Entertainer, who knew everything there was to know about the music of Broadway and the movies; The elegant lounge Entertainer, George Taylor; Gentleman, Michael Steeler who took on the Vatican single handed; Gentleman Star of movies and television, Percy Rodrigues; The famous Opera Diva, Mme. Pauline Donalda; Frank Shoofy, Criminal Lawyer and Advocate for the poor; Bobby Beale who fought for English rights against the separatists in Quebec during the October Crisis; Magic Tom Auburn; Alma Mia Petrides D'Allaire Kotsos, Vaudeville Entrepreneure; Marlene Jennings, Member of Parliament and Quebec Deputy Police Ethics Commissioner; David Cowlishaw, Journalist and Advocate, Founder of UNDERDOG.

 

I also had the good fortune to meet Mike Running Cloud. Mike is Canadian, Anishinaabe Ojibwe. A wounded veteran of many battles, Mike is a U.S. Navy Seal. He gave me his big, hard hand to hold tight while I was being probed for a painful intravenous chemo treatment. Who cares what language or race anyone is when you are fighting for your life? A friendly hand may come from the most unexpected place.

To access a particular article, the reader may find it convenient to Google "Phyllis Carter's Journal" and the name of the subject. The archives are also listed on the left side of each page.

 

The reader will also find my love story and stories about my experiences in show business at -

MR. NOSTALGIA, CLIFF CARTER - 

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.com.

 

A WAR OF MANY BATTLES

 

These pages are written for the interest of intelligent, caring people who want to know the truth and who want to make a positive difference in the world.

 

I am fighting for my life, and I am fighting for justice.

 

If truth and tenacity

Are the characteristics of one who is insane,

I am truly mad - and proud of it.

 

Phyllis Carter

 

MY QUEST

 

What has happened to right and wrong ?

 

Here you will find a relentless quest for justice. Justice for the weak and the poor close to home and far away means justice for everyone, everywhere.

JUSTICE DEMANDS THAT 

THE PUNISHMENT MUST FIT THE CRIME

 

 

The reader will find a great variety of subjects 
by scrolling down and searching the various

archive indexes.  

 

PHYLLIS CARTER'S JOURNAL ARCHIVE  INDEXES

 

PARTS ONE TO TEN

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2011/12/archive-indexes.html

 

PART ELEVEN

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2011/12/
archive-index-eleven-september-to_9356.html

 

There are also sections on subjects of special interest -     

 

ALONG THE ROAD TO CAMELOT -

KNIGHTS, NOBLES AND KNAVES   

THE PEOPLE AND THE ADVENTURES

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2011/12/
along-road-to-camelot-knights-nobles_9140.html

 

and

 

MON NON EST QUEBECOIS -

SOME OF MY ARTICLES ABOUT QUEBEC

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2011/09/

some-of-my-articles-on-quebec.html

 

SOME OF MY ARTICLES ON HEALTH CARE

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2011/12/
some-of-my-articles-on-health-care.html

 

SOME OF MY ARTICLES ON POLICE AND COURTS

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2011/09/
some-of-my-articles-on-police-and.html

 

LANDLORDS FROM HELL

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2012/06/
landlords-from-hell-archive.html

 

 

New articles are published here day and night.

 

There is no fiction here, no profanity, no games. I share information I find interesting and important, but I do not endorse anyone. I do not accept money or compensation from anyone. I am not selling anything. I am not involved with any company or political party.

 

I honour people who practice peaceful religions, or no religion in particular - as long as they do no harm.

 

I do not suffer fools gladly.

 

I am beholden to no one who holds power, except whoever it is that gives us life.

 

I don't get around much anymore, but the world comes to me   in person and on the World Wide Web. I follow the news on TV from the American channels - especially PBS - to Deutche Welle, Jerusalem, France 24, Aljazeera, The World Channel, MHZ, NHK and BBC. I follow Independent Lens, Global Voices, Nova, Religion and Ethics Weekly, Bill Moyers, Closer to Truth, and many more PBS programs.

 

I study the news and discussion programs from Russia, China, Japan, Korea, Germany, Doha, Qatar and Australia giving me the opportunity to see reality . English subtitles broaden my language skills and my awareness of what we all have in common, and where we differ.

 

I don't go to bars, but I have rich conversations with taxi drivers who have come to Canada from other countries.

 

I enjoy the input of friends around the world including Celine Leduc who is a cornucopia of information about history and cultures, a warrior for women's rights and rights of Muslims and aboriginal peoples; Norman Simon who speaks for the rights of Jewish people; Cheryl Bullock of Barrie, Ontario, who fights for justice for abused women and children; Gordon Chamberlain in Toronto who fights for the environment; Andrea Sporkert in Germany who fights for the rights of animals; Irshad Manji who fights for justice for Muslim women and gay people; Pardon Chibuwe of Mutare, Zimbabwe; dear friends, my students, Tae-Sung and Yun Yong, scientist and doctor of South Korea; Vijdan Shah in New Delhi and Bung Yoke in Indonesia. Not only do I benefit from seeing the world through their eyes, I also enjoy their friendship and encouragement.

 

THERE CAN BE NO PEACE 
WITHOUT JUSTICE;

THERE CAN BE NO JUSTICE 
WITHOUT PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

 

See Also

DAWN MCSWEENEY AND HER PARTNERS IN CRIME

 

$5,000. REWARD

 

MONTREAL POLICE HELPED THIS TEENAGE THIEF

ROB AND DESTROY MY FAMILY.

http://dawnmcsweeney.blogspot.com

 

 

Marlene Jennings,

Member of Parliament, Canada,

and

Quebec Deputy Police Ethics Commissioner

Stated at two public meetings in Montreal -

"Mrs. Carter's rights were violated three times."

 

And on a much more tender note -

 

MR. NOSTALGIA, CLIFF CARTER

Our true love story

http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.com


I was backstage with Cliff at
Place des Arts,

in the 1970's and 1980's

As he shared memories with

Count Basie,

The Mills Brothers,

Liberace,

Jan Peerce

And others.

 

TIPS

 

Some Special Highlights

 

Keywords

 

Music

 

Mme Pauline Donalda

Why I did not become a Diva

Cliff Carter, Mr. Nostalgia

Wally Aspell

 

MONTREAL

 

Who Is Phyllis Carter?

Metropolitan News Agency

My Father, George Rubin

Memories Around Park Avenue -

1940's and 1950's

My Brother, Stephen Erwin Rubin

Pinkerton

Buck Fortin, Detective

Frank Shoofey, Lawyer

The October Crisis

St.Leonard

Bobby Beale

 

The Hope of the World
Rests in

The Moral Courage of

The Few

 

Phyllis Carter