France Closes 400 Schools, Rioters Planning Major Escalation October 6th and 7th, Next Target London and U.K

 The Last Refuge

"That isn’t some tiny collection of basement-dwelling extremists. It is nearly half of Democrats surveyed."  Brian C. Joondeph 

"There’s generally a strategy to the madness; you just have to wait until it starts to become visible.  The anniversary of October 7, 2023, massacre is right around the corner.

Hamas-led attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and involved mass shootings, hostage‑taking, rapes and horrific assaults on civilian communities.

As noted in the end of this article about the French protests, “student organizations are nevertheless calling for protests to continue, with the movement now looking towards Tuesday’s National Day of Action.”

EUROPE – Around 400 of France’s 3,700 secondary schools were closed on Friday on the orders of police prefects, with many schools switching to online lessons.

Education Minister Edouard Geffray urged parents to intervene, warning that young people were putting themselves at risk.

“Children are in danger on the streets,” he told BFMTV. “Parents must, quite clearly, take action and tell their children not to go [to the blockades].” The protests began over staffing, funding and school conditions and have spread rapidly across the country.

The Interior Ministry said 1,027 secondary schools were affected on Thursday, including 222 that were blockaded. Around 30 university campuses were also blocked.

It said 1,949 people were arrested on Thursday alone, mainly in connection with violence, unlawful gatherings and attacks on people in positions of authority. (read more) . . .  More.

When Political Violence Becomes Acceptable   

"America traditionally has had a rather simple method for dealing with politicians we don’t like. We vote against them. . . . What we don’t do is shoot them.

Or at least that used to be the understanding."

Of course, the Flydubai event was terrorism

"The co-pilot has admitted that he intended to kill thousands of people on Israeli soil."

Andrea Widburg

"It would have been the largest mass-casualty event ever. Instead, it was something else. We can point to luck, coincidence, or a higher power, but whatever the cause, something amazing happened last week."

. . . "If you’re looking for miracles in daily life, consider the successive miracles that had to occur for the Flydubai flight to land with no serious injuries other than those Captain Smit Machchhar sustained in the original attack. Here are those miracles:

• Captain Machchhar opened the reinforced locked door. Had he not done so, the plane would have crashed, and all would have died.


• The Boeing-manufactured 737 plane withstood a sudden 16,000-foot plunge at almost supersonic speeds, something it was not built to handle.


• Several passengers, instead of panicking, reacted quickly and headed straight to the cockpit and were able to enter it.


• Having stormed the cabin, they were not deterred by the fact that the co-pilot was armed with a deadly axe and was using it to disable the plane’s controls. They pulled him away from the instrument panel and tied him up with the cords from the airline’s cheesy free headsets.


• Yaniv Hayoun, a plumber who liked watching shows about airplane crashes, knew enough to push forward the control yoke that allowed the plane to level out—which, thankfully, the co-pilot hadn’t destroyed.


• The plane, having survived the first plunge, survived being leveled and continued to be airworthy despite serious structural damage.


• There were other pilots on the plane who were safely able to land it.

"That’s a whole lot of miracles for an event that took almost as little time to happen (up until the landing part) as it took me to write this or you to read it. Indeed, one Israeli who was actually on the flight noted that there were many more that did not make the headlines: . . . More.

White House begins mailing $500 ObamaCare 'refund' checks

The Hill 

 “You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back,” Trump said in the letter. 

"The White House began mailing $500 refund checks Wednesday to just about 1 million Americans who the administration says were overcharged for their ObamaCare insurance. 

"Treasury Department checks will begin going out to more than 950,000 Americans across 30 states that use healthcare.gov, the federal marketplace where people sign up for ObamaCare health insurance, according to an administration official. 

“For years, the Biden administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov,” President Trump wrote in a letter accompanying the checks that was shared with The Hill. “That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now I’m returning it to you!” 

"Direct payments to consumers are a key part of Trump’s health plan. The president has touted taking money intended for enhanced ObamaCare subsidies and paying it directly back to Americans to let them purchase their own health insurance.  

"There are 19.2 million people enrolled in Affordable Care Act coverage, so only a small fraction will be eligible for the rebates. People who still get premium subsidies aren’t eligible, nor are the people who live in the mostly blue states that operate their own exchanges. 

"Texas and Florida have the most residents who will receive money, according to a White House tally. In Florida, the administration estimates 127,900 people will receive a refund. Officials estimate there are 139,000 eligible people in Texas.  

"Most of the recipients of these checks will be people who earn above 400 percent of the federal poverty level — $64,000 for a single person or $132,000 for a family of four.

"These higher-income earners no longer receive financial assistance to help them afford premiums after congressional Republicans, backed by the Trump administration, let ObamaCare’s enhanced subsidies expire at the end of last year.  

"The loss of the enhanced subsidies caused many people’s premiums to double or even triple, prompting millions to downgrade their plans or drop coverage entirely." . . . More.