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on November 12, 2015 in World News

Students across U.S. to march over debt, free public college

Students across U.S. to march over debt, free public college By Curtis Skinner (Reuters) – Students were set to walk out of classrooms across the United States on Thursday to protest ballooning student loan debt for higher education and rally for tuition-free public colleges and a minimum wage hike for campus workers. The demonstrations are planned just two days after thousands of fast-food workers took to the streets in a nationwide day of action pushing for a $15-an-hour minimum wage and union rights for the industry. Events for Thursday’s protests, dubbed the Million Student March, have been planned at colleges… View Article

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on November 12, 2015 in World News

Daily newspapers down nearly 80%, hard news ‘in danger’

Daily newspapers down nearly 80%, hard news ‘in danger’ By Paul Bedard (@SecretsBedard Hard news faces the same kind of extinction as newspapers and magazines, the result of a dramatic death spiral of reporting jobs and ads and the rise of the type of opinion journalism popular two and three centuries ago, according to a new report and analysis. “Hard news is in danger,” said a new report from the Brookings Institution. The report detailed a fall-off in advertising revenues and employment and raised the question that without editorial employees filtering the news, credibility will be undermined. “These trends have… View Article

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on November 12, 2015 in World News

Entire Liberal cabinet responsible for climate-change agenda: Dion

Entire Liberal cabinet responsible for climate-change agenda: Dion Shawn McCarthy OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail All Liberal cabinet ministers have been charged with ensuring the success of the new government’s commitments on climate change, Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion said in an interview Wednesday as he prepares to engage the country’s diplomatic corps in the international fight against global warming. A veteran climate warrior, Mr. Dion will play a pivotal role in the Liberal government’s climate agenda, both as minister for global affairs and as chair of the cabinet committee on environment, climate change and energy. He is expected to join… View Article

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on November 12, 2015 in World News

4 out of 5 Military Personnel Want Concealed Carry on Bases

4 out of 5 Military Personnel Want Concealed Carry on Bases by AWR Hawkins On November 10, a RallyPoint/Rasumussen Reports poll showed that 81 percent of current and retired military personnel want concealed carry on stateside bases so they can defend their lives in the event of an attack. The push for concealed carry is opposed by only 15 percent of military personnel. According to Rasmussen, the support for concealed carry “is equally high among all branches of the service.” But “those in the reserves are slightly more supportive of this proposal than those on full-time active duty or who are… View Article

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on November 11, 2015 in World News

PHOTOS: America Celebrates Veterans Day Coast to Coast

PHOTOS: America Celebrates Veterans Day Coast to Coast by Mary Chastain11 Nov 201592 Cities across America are celebrating Veterans Day today with parades and ceremonies. People in their communities are congregating in schools, town halls, and public venues to celebrate those among them and those who have passed for serving in our military and keeping America free. Schools across America organized Veterans Day events. As students have the holiday off, many of these events occurred yesterday. American Legion Flag Raising opening Veterans’ Day Assembly yesterday at my school. Thank you veterans. pic.twitter.com/UjVrHgJUVk — Bryan (@hunleycrew) November 11, 2015 #Farrell students shake Veterans… View Article

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on November 11, 2015 in World News

New Muslim Majority City Council Member in Michigan Issues Warning

New Muslim Majority City Council Member in Michigan Issues Warning by Pamela Geller11 Nov 20152,041 Last week, I reported about the first American city in history to elect a Muslim majority City Council. Well, it didn’t take long for the Islamic supremacist aggression and hostility to surface — did it? It never does. Always conflict and strife. A cell phone video, taken moments after Muslims received the word that they took over the city council, has surfaced of one of the organizers of the Muslim city council effort saying, “Today we show the Polish and everybody else…” The town has… View Article

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on November 11, 2015 in World News

Women, But Not Men, Hit By Spike In Middle-Aged White Mortality

Women, But Not Men, Hit By Spike In Middle-Aged White Mortality by John Hayward11 Nov 20159 A researcher who investigated the new study that shows increased death-rates among middle-aged, middle-class whites has revealed something even more jarring — since 2005, all the extra dead were women, not men. “The death rate has been rising for middle-aged white women and declining for middle-aged white men” since 2005, said the author, Andrew Gelman, a statistics professor at Columbia University. “Not by a lot – we’re talking a change of 4% over a decade – but this is what we see,” he added. Middle-aged white males have… View Article

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on November 11, 2015 in World News

Middle East Christianity Doomed, Aid Group Warns

Eve Of Destruction: Middle East Christianity Doomed, Aid Group Warns by Simon Kent Middle East Christianity will disappear within a decade as its followers face utter annihilation at the hands of Islamic State (IS) terrorists, a Catholic aid group has warned. The alarming rate of decline in the Biblical heartlands means the religion could vanish in areas it has called home for millennia unless the world steps in, says the international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need. In a report titled Persecuted & Forgotten? disturbing data outlines the plunging numbers of Christians in the part of the world that gave birth to… View Article

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on November 11, 2015 in World News

IT Workers Laid Off, Forced To Train Foreign Replacements

Scores Of IT Workers Laid Off, Forced To Train Foreign Replacements Rachel Stoltzfoos Reporter Another business is laying off American tech workers and forcing them to train their foreign replacements, joining the ranks of Southern California Edison, Disney, Fossil Group and Catalina Marketing. Cengage Learning, a multinational education content producer, told 75 of its tech workers in October they would be out of their jobs in January, reported Computer World. In the meantime they’re training their foreign replacements, and if Cengage finds out they’re talking to the media they’ll lose their severance pay. “I was so furious,” one of the laid off… View Article

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on November 11, 2015 in World News

Slovenia erects fence along border with Croatia to control migrant flow

Slovenia erects fence along border with Croatia to control migrant flow Slovenia started erecting a razor wire fence along parts of its border with Croatia amid heavy security on Wednesday, saying it wanted better control over the surge of migrants passing through as they make their way across Europe. Around 180,000 people, many fleeing war in Syria and Afghanistan, have entered Slovenia since mid October, most of them heading north to Austria and then Germany. Europe is facing a record influx of migrants and is deeply divided on how to act. European Union leaders are due to meet in Malta… View Article

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