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on August 28, 2015 in World News

Australia cancels loopy plan for visa police, and other reasons to fear for humanity

Australia cancels loopy plan for visa police, and other reasons to fear for humanity by Kelly McParland The Australian government is looking very bad after it announced a new paramilitary unit with its own uniforms to stop people in Melbourne streets and check for papers as part of a campaign against visa fraud. Titled “Operation Fortitude” it was compared to the Stasi — East German secret police — quickly ran into a wave of mockery and was swiftly cancelled. One Australian columnist wrote: “Operation Ineptitude …was an ill-conceived debacle from start to its inevitable abandonment …. Questions still abound. Whose… View Article

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on August 28, 2015 in World News

Justin Trudeau faced with persuading voters that debt and deficits are not dirty words

Justin Trudeau faced with persuading voters that debt and deficits are not dirty words by John Ivison The fog of electoral war cleared momentarily and one of the key themes of the 42nd general election came into focus, as Justin Trudeau announced the second major economic theme of the Liberal Party platform. The Liberals will double the amount spent on infrastructure over the next 10 years to $125-billion, in an attempt to stimulate demand in the economy, he said. The move will require deficits of less than $10-billion in each of the next two fiscal years, but the budget will… View Article

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on August 28, 2015 in World News

Private Prisons Threaten To Sue States Unless They Get More Inmates For Free Labor

Private Prisons Threaten To Sue States Unless They Get More Inmates For Free Labor Freedom is apparently bad for business. That’s the message from the private prison industry which is threatening to sue states if they don’t start locking more people up. The private prison companies, well-known for profiting off of incarceration and crime, is now saying that the state’s they have contracted with aren’t keeping up their end of the bargain. The private prisons rely on a certain number of inmates for free and virtually-free slave labor. That labor is used for a variety of trades, including making uniforms… View Article

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on August 28, 2015 in World News

Armed resident protects 6 people, including baby, during violent home invasion

Armed resident protects 6 people, including baby, during violent home invasion by Jennifer Cruz A man is dead after a broad daylight home invasion at a Forth Worth apartment this week turned into a shooting with the resident protecting all six people inside, including a 1-month-old baby. The Star-Telegram reported the two suspects burst into the apartment just after 1 p.m. Tuesday and demanded “everything.” According to resident Brad White, who was in the apartment with his girlfriend and newborn baby, the suspects got into a scuffle with those inside before the residents demanded the suspects leave. One of the suspects… View Article

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on August 28, 2015 in World News

Suspect Shows Up At Hospital After Home Invasion Shootout

Suspect Shows Up At Hospital After Home Invasion Shootout SPRINGFIELD TENNESSEE: (Smokey Barn News) Tuesday morning around 2:10 a.m., Springfield Police Officers responded to to a home located on Childress Street in response to a possible robbery. According to the victims living at the home, there was a knock on the door. One of the victim’s (identified by police as a Hispanic male in his fifties) armed himself with a gun and opened the door. There were three men with guns standing at the door, and all of them (including the resident) began shooting, witnesses told police. As the shooting… View Article

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on August 28, 2015 in World News

Rush Limbaugh: Shooter a ‘victim’ of liberalism

Rush Limbaugh: Shooter a ‘victim’ of liberalism ‘Crutch’ allowed Flanagan to blame coworkers, boss, management, everybody else by Bob Unruh The black man who shot and killed two white former coworkers during a live standup at a Virginia television station on Wednesday was immersed in victimhood brought on by a society that advocated quotas over talent, according to talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh. “Vester Flanagan was hired repeatedly to meet these [equal opportunity] and affirmative action goals, and he was fired repeatedly. Most likely his incompetence got him fired. But it was also attitude related. When he was fired so… View Article

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on August 28, 2015 in World News

Obama’s next backdoor assault on 2nd Amendment

Obama’s next backdoor assault on 2nd Amendment ‘The point is just to try to reduce legitimate gun ownership’ by Greg Corombos Secretary of State John Kerry once again signed the United Nations Arms Treaty on Wednesday, a move that supporters say will help stop weapons from getting into the hands of criminals and terrorists worldwide but critics contend is is a backdoor assault on law-abiding gun owners. The treaty would require nations to conduct a detailed registration of all guns. The issue is dead on arrival in the U.S. Senate, but one of the leading experts on guns says even… View Article

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on August 28, 2015 in World News

Nielsen is now tracking ratings for nearly 1,000 streaming shows

Nielsen is now tracking ratings for nearly 1,000 streaming shows Studios are now getting data on who’s watching what on Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu By Kwame Opam Netflix is notorious for not providing audience numbers for its streaming programs, instead leaning on subscriber growth to give observers a sense of how well its efforts are doing. That’s starting to change. The Wall Street Journal reports that Nielsen is currently months into a program that allows it to track shows on Netflix and other services like Amazon Prime and Hulu, and it now has data on nearly 1,000 shows — including how many… View Article

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on August 28, 2015 in World News

America Is So in Play

America Is So in Play Donald Trump’s staying power in the polls reflects a change in the electorate only now coming into focus. By  Peggy Noonan So, more thoughts on Donald Trump’s candidacy, because I can’t stop being fascinated. You know the latest numbers. Quinnipiac University’s poll this week has Mr. Trump at a hefty 28% nationally, up from 20% in July. Public Policy Polling has Mr. Trump leading all Republicans in New Hampshire with 35%. A Monmouth University poll has him at 30% in South Carolina, followed 15 points later by Ben Carson. Here are some things I think… View Article

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on August 28, 2015 in World News

Judge Sentenced To 28 Years For Selling ‘Kids For Cash’ To Prisons

Judge Sentenced To 28 Years For Selling ‘Kids For Cash’ To Prisons by Reagan Ali A Pennsylvania judge in Pennsylvania was just sentenced to 28 years in prison for selling “kids-for-cash.” The bribery scandal made headlines when Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was alleged to have taking $1 million in bribes from juvenile detention centers to fill their cells with children who came before him in court. The Associated Press says the following: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court tossed about 4,000 convictions issued by Ciavarella between 2003 and 2008, saying he violated the constitutional rights of the juveniles, including the right to… View Article

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