Unemployment is down to 4.9% the lowest it has ever been for 22 years

The report “was not a shocker, but it was definitely on the strong side, The unemployment rate, derived from a separate survey of American households, ticked down to 4.9% last month from 5% in September. A highlight from Friday’s report: Average hourly earnings for private-sector workers rose 2.8% in October compared with a year earlier, the strongest annual wage growth since June 2009. Revisions added a total of 44,000 jobs to earlier payroll estimates for August and September. Hiring over the past three months averaged 176,000 a month. The overall pace of job creation has slowed in 2016, averaging 181,000 a month through October versus 229,000 for all of 2015.

Wages continued to rise as the labor market tightened and employers competed to hire and retain workers. Average hourly earnings for private-sector workers rose 10 cents from September, or 0.4%, to $25.92 in October. Economists had expected a 0.3% increase on the month.

ISIS take a huge blow when leaving Falluja (Iraq) last night. Hundreds of militants killed by airstrikes.

It is not totally clear how effective the airstrike was, US and British aircraft and drones slammed a convoy of at least 120 vehicles, while ground artillery also was involved by Iraqi security forces. I heard just moments ago that CNN claimed over 100 dead while BBC International says the ISIS fighters killed in this attack could be up to 800.

The only certain news is that the ISIS terrorists/fighters are leaving the city of Falluja disorganized and in complete panic mode. However considering that ISIS is a group of at least 50,000 militants I would say that the attack was significant, but the allies have a very long way to go if they want to wipe out the terrorist group.

Not only does ISIS have the numbers in manpower, but they have the funding and the equipment to keep on fighting for months even years.

A two-year-old toddler posted by alligator at the Disney resort.

A terrible tragedy for the family of this small child, however didn’t claim that they are not responsible, so let me get straight to the point here:
you open a hotel and right next to this hotel is a massive pond, there are signs all around the pond claiming you cannot swim in it, however there are no signs claiming that there are alligators living in that pond.

An alligator comes out on the water snatches a little child and takes him back inside the pond. Who is responsible for this?

Let me say that any other place in the world right now that resort would have been closed down and most probably arrests would have already been made. But because Disney owns the state of Florida, nothing will happen, nobody will be punished for this negligence and most probably even a civil lawsuit will end up with pennies on the dollar because there is no judge in the state of Florida that has the courage to go against the Disney, as I already said basically owns the state of Florida.

In my personal opinion the director of the hotel should have been immediately arrested, because there is no way that he could Not know that the pond was infested with alligators, he had not posted around the area that there was the presence of alligators, there was no fence or any other barrier to prevent a possible attack on human beings or domestic animals.

Basically that anywhere else in the world would have occurred immediately and most probably the director of the hotel would still be in prison until trial.

In the meanwhile the body of the child has been recovered and from what we understand the alligator responsible for this attack was put down.

I will keep you updated on this as I have taken it to heart as I believe that Disney should not get away with this and should be sued back to the Stone Age and they are the only responsible for this terrible tragedy and they should pay dearly.

Needless to say that the headlines are about the terror attack on the night club in Orlando

I find it even hard to talk about this, but it is a reality and it happened again on US soil. First of all, as I have already posted on all the Thomas F Cheng social media pages: My heart and thoughts go out to all the victims, the families and all their friends. I can just imagine how terrible it must be for you all in this moment.

Well, this person, this assassin, this terrorist is called Omar Mateen, a US citizen with Afghan parents. It seems that he was however interviewed twice by the FBI first in early 2013 then later on in mid 2014, thus regarding some extremist remarks made by Mateen to a colleague. The FBI closed the investigation claiming that Mateen was not considered dangerous or a threat to national security.

Manteen legally purchased several firearms before the attack on the night club in Orlando, An AR 15 with over 500 rounds and a series of semi-automatic handguns. Being a US citizen and having a clean criminal record Mateen obtained the weapons that same day, this also due to the fact that he has a Florida concealed weapons permit.

Only in the next days will we understand if this assassin had any close ties with ISIS, the FBI and other federal agencies are already looking into his cellphone, laptop and home computer to see what they can come up with and to connect the dots…

Has Mateen any contacts in the US, are there others like him ready to act? I really hope that the investigation can find that out and if there are others like him, that they get them in time and take them off the street!

I’m following close this situation and we will be talking about it a lot in the next days.

T.F.C.

A court in the UK sentences a pedophile to life in prison “22 times!”

A court in Great Britain has just sentenced a former middle school teacher to 22 life sentences for extreme child abuse after using his position teaching English in Malaysia to gain access to all of his victims.

The Judge Sir. Peter Rook sentenced freelance photographer Richard Huckle (age 30) to serve a minimum of 25 years for 71 offenses against children aged between six months and 12 years from 2006 all the way through to 2014.

Huckle was arrested back in 2014 where investigators found 20,000 indecent images on his computer, over a thousand of them showed him abusing children in his custody. Huckle also created and posted on the web a 60-page “how to” guide for other pedophiles seeking to evade getting busted by authorities that could be looking into them.

So what brought down Egypt air flight 804?

In the past three days there has been a massive amount of speculation regarding this tragedy. First of all my thoughts and prayers go out to all the victims and their families and friends that are suffering in this moment. I can only imagine how much grief they are going through right now.

I have personally had the opportunity to talk to a commercial airline pilot yesterday evening and we obviously discussed this latest tragedy and he actually came to the conclusion that without the black boxes there is really not that much that we can say, with the information gathered so far, the airline captain confirmed that there must have been some sort of explosion on board, because an aircraft cannot decrease its height is rapidly unless it puts itself into a deep dive or if it has lost extreme pressure either in the pilot Cabin or the fuselage itself.

From what we understand the United States has sent two submarines in the search the black boxes and if found will hand them over and to the Egyptian authorities and have given their full cooperation in the case that the Egyptian government may need it.

The next question would be: If it wants a terrorist attack, if it was some sort of explosive device on board, somebody has to explain to me how on earth did it get on board the aircraft at de Gaulle airport in Paris, the claim that they have the tightest security in any airports around the world. However, this aircraft was traveling from Egypt to Paris and then from Paris back to Cairo, so some experts say that somebody could have planted the explosive device with a timer in Egypt with security is extremely low, where basically anyone can get on board with anything.

I will be flying from Los Angeles to London tomorrow and of course after the latest facts I really do not have peace of mind knowing that I am flying in an aircraft for 16 hours.

George Zimmerman is auctioning off the gun that was used to kill Trayvon Martin

I found out about this news on Facebook, I was going through the latest news and noticed that CBS has posted an article regarding the fact that this gun was going up for auction. I commented claiming that even if it may seem immorally wrong too many of us that Zimmerman would actually auction off the weapon used to take the life of Martin, he was not however breaking any federal or state laws by doing so.

To be honest I wish I never even commented as such, as I was verbally beat up by many people that thought that my words were to backup Zimmerman in his actions, however mine was just a comment that constitutionally he is not breaking any law by doing so, therefore I opened the discussion also on my official Thomas F. Cheng Facebook page and there comments were a lot more pain I was definitely not run around the page and insulted like I was earlier on before on the official CVS Facebook page.

I always like bringing up touchy situation, because I want to see the opinion of every American regarding the matters, but at the same time I always appreciate if everybody will respond in an orderly fashion in a respectful way and I would also like them to read and comprehend the word before attacking somebody.

I myself have never fought into this case unless and the opinion of others, I was not there I don’t know what happens and to be honest I really wouldn’t like to be there and, all I said once and I repeat that Zimmerman simply by auctioning off this weapon is not breaking any laws.