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Monday, June 27, 2016

North Dakota Resettlement Agency Caught in Apparent Lie as County Confirms Four Refugees with Active TB

Tuberculosis was once a top killer in the U.S. The disease was such a threat that
overcoming it helped lay the groundwork for modern medicine

Dr. John Baird, Health Officer for the Fargo Cass Public Health Department in North Dakota, confirms to Breitbart News that the agency, which serves all of Cass County, has diagnosed and treated four refugees with active tuberculosis (TB) between 2012 and 2015.

Baird’s confirmation of active TB among refugees in the Fargo community comes barely a month after a spokesperson for Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota (LSSND), the resettlement agency hired by the federal government to operate the program in North Dakota, denied that any refugees it has resettled in North Dakota have been diagnosed with active TB.

“We have a good working relationship with NDDoH [North Dakota Department of Health], and have not encountered any issues pertaining to active TB disease among refugees,” an LSSND spokesperson told Fargo’s local NBC television affiliate, KVLY, as reported by the station’s Valley News Live program on May 16.

“Based on Dr. Baird’s statement, the LSS statement to Valley News Live in May was factually inaccurate at best, and an intentional deception...

PHILIPPINES: Beheading of Canadian citizen John Hall by Muslim terrorist group Abu Saddaf (WARNING: Extremely Graphic)

PHILIPPINES: Beheading of Canadian citizen John Hall by Muslim terrorist group Abu Saddaf (WARNING: Extremely Graphic) By Shoebat Foundation on June 26, 2016 in General By BI: After beheading his fellow Canadian John Ridsdel in April, Abu Sayyaf – the Islamic militants from south Philippines – beheaded Canadian Robert Hall. Mr. Hall’s severed head was found near a Catholic cathedral on a remote island of Jojo.

The two Canadians, as well as a Norwegian man and a Philippine woman were kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf from a resort in September 2015. The militants demanded large ransoms for the release of hostages. Because the second payment deadlines was not met, the second hostage was beheaded. The fates of Filipina Maritess Flor and Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad are unknown.