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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 27, 2015 in World News

‘If we stop training, arming jihadists, the war will end’ – Virginia state senator

‘If we stop training, arming jihadists, the war will end’ – Virginia state senator As the Syrian civil war continues to rage and Islamic State maintains its foothold in the region, Virginia state Senator Dick Black told RT that “if the US stopped training jihadists and arming jihadists, the war will end.” In a lengthy interview, the Republican state senator connected the crisis in Syria to the actions of countries such as Saudi Arabia and Turkey, who he said have armed extremists like Islamic State militants that are fighting against the Syrian government. He also blamed US meddling in the… View Article

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on September 27, 2015 in World News

German far-right mobilizing against migrants

German far-right mobilizing against migrants Germany’s domestic intelligence chief warned Sunday of a radicalisation of right-wing groups amid a record influx of migrants, as xenophobic rallies and clashes shook several towns at the weekend. President Joachim Gauck meanwhile warned of Germany’s “finite capacity” to absorb refugees, cautioning against more “tensions between newcomers and established residents”. Domestic spy chief Hans-Georg Maassen said that “what we’re seeing in connection with the refugee crisis is a mobilisation on the street of right-wing extremists, but also of some left-wing extremists” who oppose them. He added, speaking on Deutschlandfunk public radio, that for the past… View Article

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on September 27, 2015 in World News

Brigitte Gabriel: ‘Europe is Eurabia Right Now’

Brigitte Gabriel: ‘Europe is Eurabia Right Now’ by Robert Wilde Brigitte Gabriel, an Arab Christian, who as a young girl was a victim of radical Islam during the Lebanese Civil War, joined Breitbart’s Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon and Editor-in-chief Alexander Marlow on Breitbart News Saturday, broadcasting live at the Values Voter Summit in Washington D.C. In her book Because They Hate, Gabriel recounts that in 1975 when she was 10-years-old living in southern Lebanon, militant Muslims from throughout the Middle East poured into her country and declared jihad against the Lebanese Christians. For over seven years Brigitte and her family lived in… View Article

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on September 27, 2015 in World News

Middle America Waking Up to a Mexican Cartel Heroin Nightmare

Middle America Waking Up to a Mexican Cartel Heroin Nightmare by Sylvia Longmire27 Sep 201516 When most Americans hear the word heroin, they probably imagine a junkie underneath a highway overpass or an aging rock star with a needle sticking out of his arm. But the face of heroin abuse and addiction in America has changed dramatically in the last few years, and Mexican cartel drug traffickers are making sure those deadly little “balloons” filled with black-tar venom get into the hands of Middle America’s youth. According to a longform report by the Washington Post, heroin has surpassed cocaine and… View Article

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