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Stock markets predicting Trump presidency?
The markets have accurately predicted almost every winner since WWII
By Brad Hunter, 24 Hours
First posted: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 01:08 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 04:22 PM EDT
Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States if a decades-old predictor’s winning streak continues.
According to the London Independent, U.S. stock markets have accurately predicted the White House winner of every presidential election since the Second World War.
And this year’s winner -- if history has anything to with it -- is a Trump win next Tuesday.
"Going back to World War Two, the S&P 500 performance between July 31 and Oct. 31 has accurately predicted a challenger victory 86% of the time when the stock market performance has been negative,” Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research, told CNBC.
And that’s a dire harbinger for Democratic standard-bearer Hillary Clinton.
The criteria used to come up with the bloviating billionaire being the most powerful man in the world is predicated on a number of things: a falling stock market and the S&P dropping 2.2% the last two months.
Only three times since the end of the war has the formula failed.
If the stock market is in the midst of a bull run, the incumbent party wins 82% of the time, the paper reports.
Only once -- in 1956 -- had the incumbent held on when the stock market is tumbling. And historically, that’s Britain and France attacked Egypt over the Suez Canal.
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower kept America out of the fray.
Stovall added that the real fear among investors is the Democrats taking the Oval Office, the Senate and the House, making it easier to push through wide-ranging reforms.
"This time around if the Democrats retain the White House, I will come up with two responses. One is that history is a guide but never gospel, and two, the negative performance by the market could be a reflection of the worry of domination that a Democratic sweep would bring,” he said.
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'Vote Trump' tagged on Miss. black church hit by arson
Emily Wagster Pettus, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Thursday, November 03, 2016 09:27 AM EDT | Updated: Thursday, November 03, 2016 04:08 PM EDT
JACKSON, Miss. — A police chief in the Mississippi Delta says a “person of interest” is talking to investigators about the torching of an African-American church that was spray-painted with the words “Vote Trump.”
Greenville Police Chief Delando Wilson said the man voluntarily went to the police department, without an attorney, and spoke to detectives Wednesday and Thursday. Wilson stopped short of calling him a suspect and would not release his name, saying Thursday: “We just want to ensure the integrity of the investigation.”
Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church was about 80 per cent destroyed in the fire set intentionally Tuesday night, Greenville Fire Chief Ruben Brown Sr. said.
Investigators found evidence of arson and sent samples of an accelerant to the state crime lab for testing, Brown said. He said there were no signs that any explosive device had been used.
Gov. Phil Bryant, a Republican who has been campaigning for GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, said Wednesday that “anyone who burns a place of worship will answer to almighty God” and “should also answer to man’s law.”
Greenville is a Mississippi River port city of about 32,100 people, and about 78 per cent of its residents are African-American.
The FBI is conducting a civil rights investigation and spokesman Brett Carr has said it’s too early to determine whether the incident can be considered a hate crime.
U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, whose district includes Greenville, is the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee. He told The Associated Press on Thursday that a member of his staff spoke to the head of the Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence and analysis division about the church fire. Thompson said the department has jurisdiction to investigate cases that might be considered “domestic terrorism.”
“If there is something like the Ku Klux Klan or the Aryan Nation ... we look at that as domestic terrorism,” Thompson said.
The Hopewell congregation is 111 years old and uses a building that has been expanded but still included part of its original structure, Brown said.
The pulpit and pews were burned, and soot stained the beige brick around some windows. Water from hoses and heat from the fire also damaged the church’s kitchen and the pastor’s study.
Pastor Carilyn Hudson promised that the congregation of about 200 members will rebuild. A GoFundMe page, where online donations can be made to pay for repairs to the church, raised about $188,000 by Thursday evening, organizers said.
An $11,000 reward was offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever set the fire.
Greenville Mayor Errick Simmons said a racial reconciliation service that had been planned long before the fire will be held in the city Sunday. He said a diverse group of people took part in an ecumenical prayer service in response to the fire Wednesday night by the Mississippi River waterfront, about four miles from the church. It ended with people hugging and singing, “This Little Light of Mine.”
“Everyone left there peacefully,” Simmons said.
"Vote Trump" is spray painted on the side of the fire damaged Hopewell M.B. Baptist Church in Greenville, Miss., Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016. Fire Chief Ruben Brown tells The Associated Press that firefighters found flames and smoke pouring from the sanctuary of the church just after 9 p.m. Tuesday. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Hacked road sign flashes ’Crooked Hilary,’ ’Vote Trump’
The Associated Press
First posted: Thursday, November 03, 2016 03:17 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, November 03, 2016 03:47 PM EDT
LAKE RIDGE, Va. — A spelling-challenged hacker changed an electronic road sign in Virginia to urge people to “VOTE TRUMP” and skip “CROOKED HILARY.”
Police say the sign, located in Prince William County, flashed a profane term for women in addition to the messages about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
It was initially placed at the Tackett’s Mill commuter parking lot to encourage people to vote.
Winston Forrest, a spokesman for the county elections office, says a box holding a computer on the side of the rented sign appears to have been left unlocked and tampered with.
Officials say locks have been placed on the remaining voting road signs, and the wrong message was turned off.

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Getting the "Ivanka Trump Look" is plastic surgery's latest craze
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First posted: Monday, November 07, 2016 03:13 PM EST | Updated: Monday, November 07, 2016 03:22 PM EST
While women across North America are joining the social media campaign #grabyourwallet to boycott Ivanka Trump’s fashion line, two Texas socialites are literally grabbing their wallets and dishing out major cash so they can look like her.
ABC News Nightline reports Tiffany Taylor, 33, a mom of three and Jenny Stuart, 36, a mom of two have spent thousands to get the “Ivanka Trump Look.”
Ivanka Trump’s looks haven’t been lost on her father Donald Trump, either. He’s raised a few eyebrows with comments saying she has “the best body” and that perhaps he’d date her if she wasn’t his daughter.
According to the Sun UK, Taylor likes “Ivanka Trump’s classic features and that is what I’m kind of modelling the look after.” She told ABC that she’s had more than $80,000 worth of plastic surgery. Some of her procedures include cheek injections, having her eyelids done, a new nose job and a “mini eye lift, and then my chin area lifted up to help with my acne scars and define the chin and I also had lipo in my stomach.”
Stuart, who told ABC that she gets compared to Angelina Jolie when she goes out, opted to have her nose done, got liposuction and preserved the fat for a Brazilian butt lift, she also got fillers in her face and breast implants - all to the tune of $40,000.
Houston-based plastic surgeon Dr. Franklin Rose who’s worked on both Taylor and Stuart told ABC that he is getting an increase in requests from ladies wanting to get the “Ivanka Look.” Rose said, “She's very beautiful and she's very poised … and very elegant and very soft-spoken. So patients want to be like that.”
Hopefully, both ladies don’t have buyers’ remorse like Claire Leeson from the UK who spent $30,000 to look like Kim Kardashian. Leeson told the Sun UK: “I’m sick and tired of being compared to Kim Kardashian, I am my own person,” after being called out on social media.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering how Stuart is planning to vote, the answer may surprise you. Stuart told ABC she cast an early ballot for Hillary Clinton.
“It might seem ironic to some I’ve spent all this time and money to try and look like Ivanka, who I still adore and I think she’s gorgeous and a good business woman, but I don’t associate her with father,” Stuart told ABC. “I cannot possibly condone his behavior even though I have historically voted Republican … so I voted for Hillary.”
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More Americans set their career sights north of the border
Michelle McQuigge, THE CANADIAN PRESS
First posted: Monday, November 07, 2016 06:39 PM EST | Updated: Monday, November 07, 2016 06:49 PM EST
TORONTO — A growing number of Americans are setting their career sights north of the border, according to government and other data, and experts believe that is partly due to the spectre of a Donald Trump presidency.
Data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) shows a significant spike in the number of work permits being granted to American residents.
The number of people receiving Canadian work permits in the first eight months of the year soared 54 per cent over the same period in 2015.
Both the government and immigration lawyers say there have not been any policies to account for the increase.
Elsewhere, job seeking company Monster Worldwide released figures showing the number of American site users searching for jobs based in Canada has surged 58 per cent so far in 2016.
Experts say they suspect the uptick in people both expressing interest and actually obtaining jobs in Canada is a direct result of the U.S. election and the hostile political climate that likely won’t dissipate once the ballots are counted.
Brett Bruin, who once worked as the director of global engagement for U.S. President Barack Obama and now works as a consultant for businesses setting up outside the United States, said Canada is a particularly appealing destination for Americans whose political views skew to the left.
The prospect of a Trump presidency is a likely factor in the exodus of American workers heading north, he said, while conceding that the polarizing election has likely motivated some of Hillary Clinton’s detractors to cast their employment nets a little wider as well.
“Americans by and large are concerned on both sides of the political isle, and that anxiety is starting to spill over in a more serious consideration of what kind of country they, and perhaps even more significantly they want their children, to grow up in,” he said in a telephone interview.
Bruin said Canada’s potential appeal is broad based. The geographical proximity and cultural similarities to the U.S. make it easy to acclimatize to for both workers and their families.
Canada’s current left-leaning government and its inclusive immigration policies, he said, add further appeal and stand in particular contrast to some of the dialog that’s dominated the recent U.S. election.
The increase in Canadian-bound workers has been significant in the first eight months of the year, according to IRCC.
The ministry issued 22,274 work permits to American residents from January through August of 2016, up 54 per cent from the 14,486 granted over the same period the year before.
The ministry would not speculate on the cause, but said it has not relaxed admission requirements or adopted any other procedural changes that would account for the spike.
Immigration lawyer Henry Chang of Toronto’s Blaney McMurtry believes political considerations lie at the heart of the surge.
He said work permits offer a comparatively easy way for wary Americans to take a short-term break from their home country, since requirements for such a document are much less stringent than for permanent residency.
Chang noted that the spike in permits being issued was particularly pronounced early in 2016, around the time Trump emerged as the likely Republican presidential nominee.
“If they assume that Donald Trump would win only one term, they only need to remain in status here for four years and then they can go back,” Chang said. “Many work permits are issued for up to three years initially and can be extended well beyond four years.”
The Monster data suggests that even people who have not taken the step of moving to Canada for work have at least toyed with the idea.
Monster users searched for the keyword “Canada” less than 20,000 times in all of 2015, but internal company data said that number had jumped to more than 30,000 between January and October 2016. Monster pegs the increase at 58 per cent in total.
Bruin suspects that interest in Canada will not wane after the election, citing the divisive campaign and hostile rhetoric as factors that may have made some Americans ask some fundamental questions about the country they’ve called home.
“We have done some rather irreparable harm, at least over the short term, to Americans’ core beliefs in the principles, the people, the institutions that have been pillars in our understanding of the country we live in and the confidence that we have in it,” he said. “That doesn’t change after Nov. 8.”
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Priest makes appeal for Trump by putting aborted fetus on altar in live Facebook video
Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Washington Post
First posted: Tuesday, November 08, 2016 09:37 AM EST | Updated: Tuesday, November 08, 2016 09:56 AM EST
Editor's Note: The following story contains graphic images.
Ahead of Tuesday's presidential election, the Rev. Frank Pavone took an aborted fetus, laid it upon an altar Sunday and posted a live video on Facebook. Pavone, a Catholic priest who heads New York-based Priests for Life, said the fetus was entrusted to him by a pathologist for burial.
During an already heated and divisive campaign season, Pavone's video has raised questions for some about what is appropriate antiabortion and political activism in the church. As of Monday afternoon, the video, which is 44 minutes long, had 236,000 views. In it, he holds up a poster of graphics of abortion procedures.
In Pavone's Facebook appeal, he wrote, "we have to decide if we will allow this child killing to continue in America or not. Hillary Clinton and the Democratic platform says yes, let the child-killing continue (and you pay for it); Donald Trump and the Republican platform says no, the child should be protected."
A call placed to the spokesman for the Diocese of Amarillo in Texas, which is Pavone's diocese, was not immediately returned Monday. The receptionist, however, said her phone has been ringing off the hook.
In a blog post for Patheos, Scott Eric Alt argued that what Pavone did was sacrilege, a violation of Catholic Church canon law, which states that the altar is "reserved for divine worship alone, to the exclusion of any secular usage."
"Being pro-life is about respecting the dignity of the human person," Alt wrote. "It is the antithesis of respect for the dignity of the human person to use a dead child as a political prop to lobby for your presidential candidate the day before an election."
Pavone is a high-profile antiabortion activist who has clashed with leadership within the Catholic Church. In 2014, Cardinal Timothy Dolan cut ties with the priest after Dolan suggested that Pavone had stonewalled financial reform within his organization, which is based out of Staten Island. A spokesperson for Dolan, who is also chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Pro-Life Activities, said the archdiocese does not have a relationship with Pavone and has no comment on the video.
In a blog post for the Archdiocese of New York, Ed Mechmann wrote about the "revulsion" he felt about the video.
"A human being has been sacrificed and the altar of God has been desecrated, all for politics," he wrote. "Everyone who respects the dignity of every human person should reject and disavow this atrocity."
Trump has been a divisive candidate for antiabortion activists, who have tried to keep women at the forefront. Earlier this year, the GOP candidate suggested that women who have abortions should be punished, a position he later reversed.
If anything, Pavone's actions are a signal that the older antiabortion groups are on their way out, said Charles Camosy, a bioethics professor at Fordham University and a board member of Democrats for Life of America. The use of graphic images has been a divisive issue in the antiabortion movement, and Camosy said Monday that nearly everyone he knows, including conservatives, have condemned Pavone's video.
"This plays into the narrative so many people have of us, that this is a bunch of wild extremists who will put an aborted fetus on Facebook Live. Come on!" Camosy said. "This is the death rattle for the culture-war-focused pro-life movement."
The video comes after a group of Catholics inserted fliers into parish bulletins in San Diego claiming that a vote for a Democrat is a mortal sin. San Diego's Bishop Robert McElroy criticized the flier.
And on Saturday, Pope Francis condemned the political use of fear and the building of walls, describing the refugee crisis as "a problem of the world" and urging political leaders to do more.

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The letter, emailed to journalists Wednesday, was written on behalf of the so-called Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s spokesman, warns Trump that peace will be elusive as long as foreign troops are on Afghan soil.

He adds that independence from foreign dominance is “the only asset” that an impoverished nation like Afghanistan truly has.
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