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on December 3, 2014 in World News

CBC’s Perilous Future as Half Public and Half State Broadcaster

CBC’s Perilous Future as Half Public and Half State Broadcaster “‘Well, first we’re going to get them on their knees and then we’re going to restructure them,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper is reported to have said recently about the future of the CBC. Ian Morrison of Friends of Canadian Broadcasting warns Canadians that “his (Harper’s) idea of restructuring…would be something along the lines of American Public Broadcasting (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR.) “The Harper government has cut $115 million from CBC’s budget since 2012 after promising during the last election to maintain or increase support for the CBC,” continues… View Article

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on December 3, 2014 in World News

Legendary Jean Beliveau dead at age 83

Legendary Jean Beliveau dead at age 83 It is hard to imagine a classier hockey player, on and off the ice, than Jean Beliveau. A supremely skilled centre for 18 seasons for the Montreal Canadiens, the 83-year-old Beliveau was also a gracious spokesman for the team and the sport. The NHL club lost the man who embodied all the attributes of their dynasty teams of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s — talent, flair, intelligence and success. He scored 507 goals, won 10 Stanley Cups and was captain for 10 seasons before his retirement in 1971, then moved seamlessly into an… View Article

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on December 3, 2014 in World News

Harper hits new 12-month high on preferred PM measure in Nanos Power Index

Harper hits new 12-month high on preferred PM measure in Nanos Power Index The federal Liberals continue to register the highest comparative score on the overall Nanos Party Power Index but Conservative Leader Stephen Harper continues to trend up on the preferred PM front. Overall, the Liberals scored 55.8 points out of 100 on the Nanos Power Index followed by the Tories at 53.1 points, the NDP at 49.5 points, the Green Party at 31.2 points and the BQ at 28.1 points (QC only). The Nanos Party Power Index methodology comprises a basket of political goods that includes ballot preferences,… View Article

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on December 3, 2014 in World News

Ponzi: Treasury issues $1T in new debt to pay old debt

Ponzi: Treasury issues $1T in new debt to pay old debt The www.fms.treas.gov/fmsweb/viewDTSFiles?dir=w&… target=”_blank”>Daily Treasury Statement[PDF] that was released Wednesday afternoon as Americans were preparing to celebrate Thanksgiving revealed that the U.S. Treasury has been forced to issue $1,040,965,000,000 in new debt since fiscal 2015 started just eight weeks ago in order to raise the money to pay off Treasury securities that were maturing and to cover new deficit spending by the government. During those eight weeks, Treasury took in $341,591,000,000 in revenues. That was a record for the period between Oct. 1 and Nov. 25. But that record $341,591,000,000… View Article

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on December 3, 2014 in World News

Glenn Beck loses bid to dismiss Saudi’s libel suit

Glenn Beck loses bid to dismiss Saudi’s libel suit A federal judge has rejected a bid by conservative commentator Glenn Beck to toss out a libel lawsuit filed by a Saudi student Beck repeatedly accused of funding the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. In a ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Patti Saris said the suit brought by Abdulrahman Alharbi could go forward notwithstanding claims by Beck, his website The Blaze.com, and firms connected to his radio show that the Saudi’s role in events near the finish line of the marathon made him a public figure. If deemed a public figure,… View Article

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on December 3, 2014 in World News

About 100 brains missing from University of Texas

About 100 brains missing from University of Texas The University of Texas at Austin is missing about 100 brains — about half of the specimens the university had in a collection of brains preserved in jars of formaldehyde. One of the missing brains is believed to have belonged to clock tower sniper Charles Whitman. “We think somebody may have taken the brains, but we don’t know at all for sure,” psychology Professor Tim Schallert, co-curator of the collection, told the Austin American-Statesman (http://bit.ly/11R7vym ). His co-curator, psychology Professor Lawrence Cormack, said, “It’s entirely possible word got around among undergraduates and… View Article

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on December 2, 2014 in World News

The Biggest Scandal in America Is Its Controlled Press

The Biggest Scandal in America Is Its Controlled Press Something’s wrong — and it’s not people such as Edward Snowden. How many Americans know that the current regime in Ukraine was installed in a very bloody February 2014 coup d’etat, that was planned in the U.S. White House, and overseen by an Assistant Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, and run by the CIA, and carried out for the White House by one of Ukraine’s two racist-fascist, or nazi, political parties, whose founder and leader still controls Ukraine though not officially, even these many months after his coup, and which nazi… View Article

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on December 2, 2014 in World News

Former Philly Police Captain: Cops Are Mercenaries for Corporations

  Former Philly Police Captain: Cops Are Mercenaries for Corporations Antithesis of Marshal Dillon assigned to destroy opposition to the state A retired Philadelphia police captain, Ray Lewis, has told the truth about the role of law enforcement in America. “It’s an oppressive organization now controlled by the one percent of corporate America. Corporate America is using police forces as their mercenaries,” Lewis said during a recent interview. “In such divisive times it’s important for people to realize this isn’t a black vs. white issue, but a blue vs. everyone issue,” writes investigative journalist Jay Syrmopoulos. “When a former cop… View Article

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on December 2, 2014 in World News

Police Blame Zemir Begic For His Own Murder by Hammer-Wielding Teens

Police Blame Zemir Begic For His Own Murder by Hammer-Wielding Teens “We think it was wrong place, wrong time,” police spokesperson St. Louis, Mo., police have effectively blamed murder victim Zemir Begic for being at the “wrong place” at the “wrong time” when teenagers attacked him with hammers after shouting “kill the white people.” Begic, 32, was beaten to death not far from the Ferguson riots Sunday morning by a gang of teenagers who’d been running up and down the street shouting “f*** the white people, kill the white people,” according to an eyewitness, but officials are claiming the murder… View Article

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