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Why people are still getting sick 17 years after 9/11

Thousands of those who responded to the September 11 attacks or lived near the World Trade Center have experienced health problems linked to the attack.

www.businessinsider.com|Lydia Ramsey

• First responders and survivors of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks are still feeling the effects on their health.
• As time has passed, more lasting health conditions seem to be linked to the 2001 attack.  
• But connecting health problems and 9/11 is no small feat. Researchers are still trying to pin down the association between the attacks and conditions like cancer, respiratory issues, and other ailments.

A lot is still unknown about how the lasting health effects of 9/11 will affect people in the coming decades. For example, cancers might start to become more frequent a few more years down the line. The health program's enrollment has steadily been rising since it opened, with a few hundred more responders and survivors joining each month.

9/11 First Responders Slam Trump for Not Backing Their Health Care Funding

Some 9/11 first responders say Trump didn't back bill funding their health care.

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“Talk is cheap. I’m mortified that he can stand in front of the nation ... and wrap himself in the flag.”, Rich Alles, a deputy chief in the New York City Fire Department,

Facing the expiration of the James Zadroga Act in October -- a law passed in 2010 to fund health care for more than 70,000 sick first responders and the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund -- Alles and other advocates asked all the presidential candidates to support a bipartisan bill to permanently fund the programs.

“It frustrated the hell out of me because he’s such a supporter of law enforcement,” said Anthony Flammia, a retired NYPD officer and registered Republican who said he hasn’t settled on which presidential candidate he'll be voting for. “He didn’t even comment on it.”

“40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually, before the World Trade Center, was the tallest — and then, when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second-tallest. And now it’s the tallest.”

— Donald J Trump, September 11, 2001  #NotNormal #NotOK

1. al-Qaeda flew a hijacked plane into the North Tower at 8:46 am
2. al-Qaeda flew a hijacked plane into the South Tower at 9:03 am
3. The South Tower collapsed at  9:59 am
4. The North Tower collapsed at 10:28 am
5. Of the 2,977 victims killed in the September 11 attacks, 412 were emergency workers in New York City who responded to the World Trade Center.
6. There were more than 6,000 others injured.
7. PRESIDENT TRUMP’s Muslim Ban and Travel Ban did not include countries that produced the terrorists; Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt.

Suspect in Quebec Mosque Attack Quickly Depicted as a Moroccan Muslim. He’s a White Nationalist.

Both the White House and Fox News helped to spread these false claims, and have still not retracted them.

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1. Azzeddine Soufiane, 57, a butcher. His widow Najat Naanaa.
2. Abdelkrim Hassane, 41, programming analyst with the provincial government. He had a wife and 2 daughters
3. Khaled Belkacemi, 60, professor at Laval University. His widow, Safia Hamoudi, was also a professor in agri-food engineering.
4. Mamadou Tanou Barry, 42, worked in IT.  He had two boys aged 2 and 4
5. Ibrahima Barry, 39, brother of Mamadou Tanou. Worked for the province’s health-insurance board. He had four children. His wife is in poor health
6. Boubaker Thabti, 44, He had two children - aged 3 and 10

A MASS SHOOTING at a Quebec City mosque last night left six people dead and eight wounded. The targeted mosque, the Cultural Islamic Center of Quebec, was the same one at which a severed pig’s head was left during Ramadan last June. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the episode a “terrorist attack on Muslims.”

Almost immediately, various news outlets and political figures depicted the shooter as Muslim. Right-wing nationalist tabloids in the UK instantly linked it to Islamic violence. Fox News claimed that “witnesses said at least one gunman shouted ‘Allahu akbar!’,” and then added this about the shooter’s national origin:

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer exploited the attack to justify President Trump’s ban on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries. “It’s a terrible reminder of why we must remain vigilant and why the President is taking steps to be proactive rather than reactive when it comes to our nation’s safety and security,” Spicer said at this afternoon’s briefing when speaking of the Quebec City attack.

The actual shooting suspect is 27-year-old Alexandre Bissonnette, a white French Canadian who is, by all appearances, a rabid anti-immigrant nationalist. A leader of a local immigration rights groups, François Deschamps, told a local paper he recognized his photo as an anti-immigrant far-right “troll” who has been hostile to the group online.

The Globe and Mail added that he “was known in the city’s activist circles as a right-wing troll who frequently took anti-foreigner and anti-feminist positions and stood up for U.S. President Donald Trump.” And Bisonnette’s Facebook page – now taken down but still archived – lists among its “likes” the far right French nationalist Marine Le Pen, Islam critics Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the Israeli Defense Forces, and Donald J. Trump (he also “likes” the liberal Canadian Party NDP along with more neutral “likes” such as Tom Hanks, the Sopranos and Katy Perry).

• Trump Silent As Quebec Mosque Terrorist Is White Christian Pro-Trump Fanatic, Occupy Democrats
• Quebec City mosque attack suspect known as online troll inspired by French far-right, Globe and Mail
• Quebec City mosque attack suspect Alexandre Bissonnette charged with 6 counts of 1st-degree murder, CBC
• Quebec Mosque Attack Forces Canadians to Confront a Strain of Intolerance, NYTimes
• The Quebec Shooter Was an Islamophobic Supporter of Marine Le Pen,  Jezebel
• Far-Right French Pol Marine Le Pen Just Casually Dropped Into Trump Tower to Have Coffee in the Basement, Jezebel