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Mark Zuckerberg Caught on Hot Mic Saying Facebook Will Censor Anti-Migrant Posts

Mark Zuckerberg Caught on Hot Mic Saying Facebook Will Censor Anti-Migrant Posts Facebook CEO tells German chancellor “we need to do some work” by Mikael Thalen Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was caught discussing the censorship of anti-migrant posts at the United Nations development summit Saturday while speaking with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. According to CNBC, the pair were picked up by a hot mic after Merkel confronted Zuckerberg on social media posts critical of “the wave of Syrian refugees entering Germany.” After being asked about Facebook’s efforts to curtail speech, Zuckerberg stated, “We need to do some work,” confirming he’d… View Article

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on September 29, 2015 in World News

Germans Could Have Their Children Snatched For Anti-Migrant Facebook Posts

Germans Could Have Their Children Snatched For Anti-Migrant Facebook Posts Opposing influx of “refugees” puts people at risk of being fired by Paul Joseph Watson Germans who make racist anti-migrant posts could have their children snatched by the state and be fired from their jobs, according to the German Lawyers’ Association. In an article entitled Racism and parenting: Threatening loss of custody?, lawyer Eva Becker, Chair of the Working Group on Family Law in the German Bar Association, outlines the conditions under which “xenophobic” Facebook posts could lead to parents being targeted. Although Becker asserts that merely opposing the settlement… View Article

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on September 29, 2015 in World News

Harper says low ratings, not government cuts, behind CBC’s problems

Harper says low ratings, not government cuts, behind CBC’s problems Conservative Leader Stephen Harper says the CBC’s budget troubles aren’t due to any government cuts to the national broadcaster, but rather because of its low ratings. He says his government has given the CBC and its French-language network, Radio-Canada, a total of $1 billion a year since 2006. Harper made the comments to CHOI Radio X, a Quebec City station, in an interview recorded Friday and broadcast Monday. “The reason for the difficulties aren’t the cuts,” he said. “There aren’t cuts. The reason is the loss of (CBC’s) audience. It’s a problem for the CBC to fix.”… View Article

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on September 29, 2015 in World News

Public school suspends 8-year-old girl for wearing wrong shade of green

Public school suspends 8-year-old girl for wearing wrong shade of green An elementary school in the pleasantly named town of Sicklerville, New Jersey suspended an 8-year-old girl for the crime of wearing a kelly green polo shirt. According to AP, “Winslow Township School’s code on dress and grooming says ‘school attire can influence a pupil’s behavior and potentially impact the academic environment.’” School clothing must be white, dark green or navy. Image: Screengrab from Fox 59  

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on September 29, 2015 in World News

Ahmed Mohamed’s School Discipline Problems Started Long Before His ‘Clock’

Ahmed Mohamed’s School Discipline Problems Started Long Before His ‘Clock’ The Dallas Morning News described Mohamed as having “racked up weeks of suspension” and pranking the “classroom projector.” His former Sam Houston Middle School 7th grade Texas History teacher, Ralph Kubiak, admitted that Mohamed’s First Amendment appeal when trying to wiggle out of trouble, although clever, backfired. The principal doled out Saturday detention. Retired, Kubiak admits a fondness for Mohamed yet dubbed him a “weird little kid” who could either wind up the CEO of a company or “head of a gang.” Kubiak recalls a chatty budding clockmeister. “He just went on and on.” Mohamed learned English as… View Article

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on September 29, 2015 in World News

Illegal Immigrant Accused of Gruesome Executions and Burning Corpses in Texas

Illegal Immigrant Accused of Gruesome Executions and Burning Corpses in Texas by Ildefonso Ortiz EDINBURG, Texas – One illegal immigrant has been formally charged with capital murder and another is expected to be charged soon in connection with the execution of two men and the burning of the victims’ corpses in Texas. The two jailed illegal immigrants are said to be members of a fearsome gang called the Tri-City Bombers which has been tied to multiple massacres and high profile murders in the past. This week, investigators with the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office arrested 22-year-old Edwin Adrian Salinas for his… View Article

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on September 29, 2015 in World News

Georgia Parents Grill School District about Class Pushing Studies on Islam

Georgia Parents Grill School District about Class Pushing Studies on Islam by Warner Todd Huston Parents in Walton County, Georgia, are meeting with school officials about the district’s curriculum, which parents feel pushes Islam on students. One parent, Michelle King, criticized the classwork, saying, “What they are learning goes against my religion completely.” Parents in the Atlanta suburb are worried that the classes are pushing Islam on students to the exclusion of Christianity and Judaism. “Like my daughter had to learn the Shahid and the Five Pillars of Islam, which is what you learn to convert. Nut [sic] they never once… View Article

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on September 28, 2015 in World News

Canada’s auto sector ‘nervous’ about TPP talks

Canada’s auto sector ‘nervous’ about TPP talks by Michelle Zilio, CTV Question Period As negotiations for a Trans-Pacific Partnership continue, the Conservative government is being accused of sending mixed messages on what the deal will mean for the auto sector. But speaking to CTV’s Question Period, Trade Minister Ed Fast assured a worried auto sector that the government is keeping its interests in mind at the TPP negotiating table. In the past, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has said the auto sector may not “necessarily like everything” in the TPP deal. “We have continued to consult very closely and very regularly… View Article

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on September 28, 2015 in World News

Woman, 99, denied citizenship despite living in Canada since 1933

Woman, 99, denied citizenship despite living in Canada since 1933 Citizenship and Immigration doesn’t know or understand its own rules, says critic By Rosa Marchitelli, CBC News A 99-year-old woman is going public after she was denied Canadian citizenship and a health card despite living in Canada for more than 80 years. CBC News investigates  ​ Joan Stirling’s application was rejected by Citizenship and Immigration Canada because she  couldn’t produce a specific piece of identification — her birth certificate from almost a century ago. Her friend, Diana Watson, has been fighting since 2012 to get Stirling recognized as a Canadian citizen, in… View Article

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on September 28, 2015 in World News

‘Pets Killed, Tires Slashed, Late Night Phone Calls’ to Silence Bill Clinton’s Sexual Assault Victims

‘Pets Killed, Tires Slashed, Late Night Phone Calls’ to Silence Bill Clinton’s Sexual Assault Victims by Robert Wilde Long time political operative and strategist Roger Stone appeared on Breitbart News Sunday, broadcast on SiriusXM patriot radio channel 125, with Breitbart’s senior investigative political reporter Matt Boyle. Stone who cut his political teeth working for Richard Nixon’s infamous Committee to Re-elect the President, later campaigned for Ronald Reagan, and until recently worked for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, shared a few nuggets from his new book The Clintons’ War on Women, which he co-wrote with Robert Morrow. Stone told Boyle that Hillary… View Article

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