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on August 27, 2015 in World News
LGBT Rainbow Hate-Flag Found In WDBJ Killer’s Virginia Apartment
LGBT Rainbow Hate-Flag Found In WDBJ Killer’s Virginia Apartment by John Nolte The Daily Telegraph has learned that “police reportedly confiscated a gay pride flag” from the apartment of Vester Lee Flanagan Wednesday. In an apparent hate crime, Flanagan is the 41 year-old black journalist who murdered two white Virginia reporters on live television Wednesday morning before turning his gun on himself. In a manifesto faxed to ABC News, Flanagan, an Obama-supporter, claimed that his motive involved a “race war.” Flanagan was black and gay and apparently angered by the fact that he had been a victim of racism and… View Article
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on August 27, 2015 in World News
TV networks face shaky future in changing media landscape
TV networks face shaky future in changing media landscape By Matthew Garrahan High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email [email protected] to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/15f65100-4c9c-11e5-b558-8a9722977189.html#ixzz3k26gFdbg Sharply falling stock markets have brought company valuations under renewed scrutiny but, for media groups, the China-induced panic is merely a sequel to an already painful re-evaluation by investors. Media shares first went into freefall at the beginning of August, when companies on both sides of the Atlantic suffered… View Article
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on August 27, 2015 in World News
Bilingual services audit tackles long-standing problem
Bilingual services audit tackles long-standing problem In this 2013 file photo, a student at Belmont-Cragin Early Childhood Center posts his name tag. About 60 percent of students at the center and the affiliated Belmont-Cragin Elementary are English learners — one of the highest percentages in CPS. By Kalyn Belsha Editor’s note, Aug. 27, 2015: This story received so many comments that violate Catalyst’s comment policy that we have disabled further comments on this story, in addition to deleting all of the 309 comments that were posted. A month ago CPS announced it would audit services for English-language learners at every… View Article
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on August 27, 2015 in World News
Fort Bragg Troops Train for Domestic Emergency: “This Exercise Is About the Home Front”
Fort Bragg Troops Train for Domestic Emergency: “This Exercise Is About the Home Front” Ostensibly, and on the surface, they are trained to “help out” with things like natural disasters, floods and hurricanes by Mac Slavo They are “ready” too for chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear hazards. Slightly below the surface, these Fort Bragg Army engineers are also training — this time in Florida — to assist local authorities in the event of domestic disorder and potential chaos — prepared to quell civil unrest, riots, mass unrest or even the aftermath of terrorist attacks. Scenarios which could all be really… View Article
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on August 27, 2015 in World News
Obama Says Guns Worse Than Terrorism
Obama Says Guns Worse Than Terrorism Makes comments hours after shooting in Virginia by Brian Lilley President Barack Obama reacted to the live, on-air shooting deaths of a reporter and cameraman during an interview with a local ABC affiliate in Philadelphia. Speaking with reporter Monica Malpass, Obama said more Americans are killed by guns than terrorism. “It breaks my heart every time you read or hear about these kids of incidents,” Obama said before taking aim at guns in America. “What we know is that the number of people who die from gun-related incidents around this country dwarfs any deaths… View Article
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on August 27, 2015 in World News
Wheelchair-bound man denied housing because not Muslim
Wheelchair-bound man denied housing because not Muslim ‘If it’s legal, it should not be legal – it’s insulting, that’s what it is’ Despite Canada’s reputation for casting a very broad social safety net and a Human Rights Code that aggressively punishes acts of discrimination, Austin Lewis, a 21-year-old paralyzed man confined to a wheelchair since a disease attacked his spinal cord when he was 8 years old, has just been told he has one less option for government-subsidized housing. His problem? He’s not a Muslim. Noting he wouldn’t be treated in this way in the far less-progressive southern U.S., Lewis… View Article
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on August 27, 2015 in World News
Court whacks lesbian mayor for trying to pull switcheroo
Court whacks lesbian mayor for trying to pull switcheroo ‘She has attempted every possible means of silencing the voters’ by Bob Unruh Houston’s lesbian mayor, Annise Parker, who unsuccessfully issued subpoenas for the sermons of pastors, creating a nationwide furor, has been slapped down again by the state Supreme Court in her effort to defend an ordinance giving special rights to transgender citizens in employment and use of public places, such as bathrooms. This time, the court has rejected her council’s wording – which critics says is deceptive – on the ballot voters will use to decide on the ordinance…. View Article
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on August 27, 2015 in World News
Farrakhan blasts WND, others, for reporting call to ‘kill’
Farrakhan blasts WND, others, for reporting call to ‘kill’ ‘10,000 men’ needed to ‘stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death we are feeling’ by Bob Unruh Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has lashed out at WND and other media organizations that reported his recent controversial statements calling for an army of 10,000 to “rise up and kill those who kill us” and citing the Quran’s “law of retaliation” that imposes a “life for a life” standard. “I never said kill all white people,” Farrakhan said in a video made at a “Justice Or Else”… View Article
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on August 27, 2015 in World News
‘Hundreds of white people must be killed for gun laws to get stricter’ – John Rosenthal
‘Hundreds of white people must be killed for gun laws to get stricter’ – John Rosenthal The tragic shooting that killed two journalists in Virginia won’t force Congress to take any measures for tougher gun control, as it cares more about the firearms industry, says John Rosenthal, founder and chairman of the Stop Handgun Violence group. RT: Do you think gun laws will be changed? John Rosenthal: No. Individual states like Massachusetts can pass gun laws. I am a gun owner and we have the lowest firearm fatality rate per 100,000 in the US. But Virginia and 32 other states… View Article
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