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on November 20, 2014 in World News

Is Obama Trying to Cause Civil Unrest in America?

Is Obama Trying to Cause Civil Unrest in America? Administration chooses to announce controversial amnesty plan at same time as Officer Wilson verdict The timing is so senseless that it almost looks like Obama is deliberately trying to stir up domestic disorder. Police departments across the country are preparing for riots in the aftermath of what many expect to be the acquittal of Officer Darren Wilson, a decision expected to be made within the next 36 hours. Meanwhile, Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn warns that Obama’s plan to legalize as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants, set to be announced tonight,… View Article

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on November 20, 2014 in World News

Conservative government to study privatization of some police services

Conservative government to study privatization of some police services Questions of accountability surround the growing business of private security services as Conservatives commission academic study. The Conservative government is examining the “opportunities and challenges” involved in privatizing some policing services in Canada. Public Safety officials are commissioning a study to examine the growing industry of private policing in Canada and abroad, and to outline the role private security firms could play in traditional public policing roles. The study appears to be primarily motivated by the cost of and increased pressure on public forces, despite historically low crime rates. “Policing has… View Article

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on November 20, 2014 in World News

Gabby Giffords’ Gun Control Group We’ll Be Back In 2016

Gabby Giffords’ Gun Control Group We’ll Be Back In 2016 After spending $10.6 million in the Nov. 4 elections and “barely [winning] half its contests,” Gabby Giffords’ gun control group—Americans For Responsible Solutions (ARS)—says it will be back in 2016. But Politico describes this as “a steep task,” and that may be putting it mildly. Think about it—ARS endorsed 18 total candidates in House, Senatorial, and gubernatorial races. Of these, they claim nine wins yet among the high-profile races in which they supported pro-gun control Senators, ARS came up nearly empty-handed. They supported Senators Mark Udall (D-CO) and Kay Hagan… View Article

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on November 20, 2014 in World News

Customer Shoots, Kills Armed Man During Attempted Daytime Robbery

Customer Shoots, Kills Armed Man During Attempted Daytime Robbery On November 18, a customer in an Indianapolis pawn shop foiled an attempted daytime armed robbery by shooting and killing the suspect. The pawn shop was Cash America, 2428 E. 38th Street. According to The Indianapolis Star, the robbery was attempted about 2:18 p.m. and when Indianapolis Metropolitan Police (MPD) arrived on scene they initially thought the store owner had shot the suspect. But they learned that “a customer at the shop shot [25-year-old] Tyerre Allen… multiple times after Allen brandished a weapon as he entered.” Witnesses say the unidentified customer… View Article

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on November 20, 2014 in World News

NBC Questions Own Poll Showing Latinos Oppose Amnesty

NBC Questions Own Poll Showing Latinos Oppose Amnesty A new NBC/WSJ poll shows that 37 percent of Latinos actually oppose President Obama’s expected executive amnesty while only 43 percent support it. That was enough for NBC’s Mark Murray to add a disclaimer to the results, pointing out the small sample size of Latinos in the poll. “The sample size here is small (just 110 Latino respondents), so the numbers have a high margin of error,” he wrote in an official report on the poll. Surprisingly, only 63 percent of Democrats support Obama’s decision while only 11 percent of Republicans support… View Article

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on November 19, 2014 in World News

Tanzania evicting 40,000 people from homeland to make room for Dubai royal family

Tanzania evicting 40,000 people from homeland to make room for Dubai royal family 40,000 Masai people will be evicted from their homeland in Tanzania, because the Dubai royal family has bought it with the intention of using it as a reserve to hunt big game. Last year, the Tanzanian government had resisted the purchase, proposing instead a “wildlife corridor” dedicated to hunting near the Serengeti national park. However, the deal will still reportedly go through, and the Masai will have to leave by the end of the year. The deal was brokered by the Ortelo Business Corporation (OBC), a luxury… View Article

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on November 19, 2014 in World News

Achtung! Germany named world’s favorite country

Achtung! Germany named world’s favorite country Well, it took about 70 years. Yes, from being the world’s pariah in the decades following Nazism and World War II, Germany is now the world’s favorite country, according to the Anholt-Gfk Nations Brand Index, which measures the image of 50 leading nations. The Teutonic powerhouse knocked the United States from its longtime perch at the top of the ratings, which measure “twenty-three different attributes that make up the six overall dimensions on which national image is based.” “Germany appears to have benefited not only from the sports prowess it displayed … at the… View Article

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on November 19, 2014 in World News

Alleged Victim: Cosby Is A ‘Serial Rapist’

  Alleged Victim: Cosby Is A ‘Serial Rapist’ Another woman has come forward to claim that she was raped by Bill Cosby. Joan Tarshis told “CBS This Morning” that the actor and comedian drugged and raped her on two separate occasions in 1969 when she was 19. She said that Cosby invited her to help come up with material for his comedy act. Then when she was on the set of “The Bill Cosby Show,” he gave her a cocktail. “I was sitting up writing one second and the next second I was lying down on the couch having my… View Article

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