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on July 3, 2014 in World News

Rob Ford fact check: Verifying Toronto mayor’s remarks

Rob Ford fact check: Verifying Toronto mayor’s remarks Mayor blames drinking, drug abuse for racist, homophobic slurs In his first post-rehab interview, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admits to “lying, conniving and hiding to cover up” his substance-abuse problems. The mayor’s deceptions have led his political opponents and members of the public to question his most recent public statements, not least a remark to CBC News reporter Dwight Drummond that his “public record is better than any mayor’s in the city of Toronto.” Here’s a closer look at other comments the mayor made in his conversation with Drummond, and inconsistencies in… View Article

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on July 3, 2014 in World News

Google Moving to “Suppress Legitimate Journalism”

BBC Reporter: Google Moving to “Suppress Legitimate Journalism” “Right to be forgotten” ruling threatens to “curb freedom of expression” BBC economics editor Robert Peston warns that Google’s implementation of the controversial “right to be forgotten” ruling is working to “suppress legitimate journalism” after one of his articles about Merrill Lynch boss Stan O’Neal was scrubbed from the search engine. A recent ruling in the European Court of Justice mandated that Google must delete “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant” data when it receives a request to do so, which could open the floodgates for powerful individuals, corporations and institutions to… View Article

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on July 3, 2014 in World News

Tuberculosis outbreak at Sacramento high school

Tuberculosis outbreak at Sacramento high school A California high school is at the center of a tuberculosis outbreak linked to an infectious student who tested positive for active TB in February, county health officials said Wednesday. Four more students at Grant Union High School in Sacramento have contracted active TB. Three related tuberculosis cases are considered an outbreak, Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Laura McCasland said. Four relatives and friends of the student who initially tested positive have also contracted active TB — bringing the total to nine known cases. Symptoms of active TB can include… View Article

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on July 3, 2014 in World News

Chris Christie Vetoes ‘High Capacity’ Magazine Ban

  Chris Christie Vetoes ‘High Capacity’ Magazine Ban On July 2, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) vetoed A2006, a gun control bill which would have limited magazines in NJ to 10 rounds. Christie said he vetoed the bill because “it would do nothing to reduce gun violence. According to NJ.com, Christie said: This [bill] is the very embodiment of reform in name only. It simply defies common sense to believe that imposing a new and entirely arbitrary number of bullets that can be loaded into a firearm will somehow eradicate, or even reduce, future instances of mass violence. Gun… View Article

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on July 2, 2014 in World News

Rob Ford on drug use

Rob Ford on drug use: ‘You name it, I pretty well covered it’ Toronto mayor says drug use began long before he became mayor Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted today to CBC that he abused alcohol in his city hall office, but refused to say whether he would resign if he returns to drinking and using drugs. Ford made the comments Wednesday in a one-on-one interview with CBC’s Dwight Drummond, three days after returning to work following two months in a rehabilitation facility. In his interview with CBC, Ford also blamed his bad behaviour, such as making sexist and homophobic… View Article

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on July 2, 2014 in World News

Independent Media is the Only Real Press

Michael Savage Says Independent Media is the Only Real Press Praises Infowars and PrisonPlanet.com for questioning the administration After describing how lapdog media figures cozy up to the establishment, conservative radio talk show host and author Michael Savage gave kudos, in particular, to the work of Infowars’ newest reporter Staff Sgt. Joe Biggs, who last week traveled to south Texas where House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was scheduled to give a press conference. Infowars was denied access to the Congressperson because it was not “pre-credentialed” by the establishment, in other words it was decided the news organization based in central… View Article

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on July 2, 2014 in World News

Allow Police to Confiscate Guns Based on Accusation Alone

    Bill Would Allow Police to Confiscate Guns Based on Accusation Alone California’s AB 1014 labeled most draconian gun control legislation in the country A draconian gun control bill set to be voted on by the California legislature would allow police to confiscate a person’s firearms solely on the basis of an accusation made against the gun owner by a family member or a health professional. Although the bill was amended after an onslaught of complaints, the legislation is still being labeled as the harshest gun control law in the country. AB 1014, authored by Assemblymembers Das Williams and… View Article

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on July 2, 2014 in World News

Obama worst President in 70 years

Obama worst President in 70 years   <iframe width=”590″ height=”332″ src=”http://launch.newsinc.com/?type=VideoPlayer/Single&widgetId=1&trackingGroup=69016&siteSection=washingtontimes_pp_nws_non_sty_ppap&videoId=26323740″ frameborder=”no” scrolling=”no” noresize marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″></iframe>   Poll after poll shows President Obama’s approval rating dipping recently, and one new Quinnipiac University Poll finds that voters say Mitt Romney would have been a better choice in 2012. With Mr. Obama deploying military troops to Iraq, failing to find compromise with Congress and seeing major defeats in the Supreme Court, voters continue to sour on him.   Quinnipiac found 45 percent of voters say the country would have been better off if Mr. Romney, the 2012 GOP nominee, had been elected,… View Article

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on July 2, 2014 in World News

CBC could learn a thing or two from Knowledge Network

CBC could learn a thing or two from Knowledge Network Documentaries and kids’ programming are winners with continually growing audiences If CBC executives have a transformational vision for its post-hockey era, they certainly haven’t articulated it. Aside from cutting jobs, services and selling assets in response to having lost the cash cow of Hockey Night in Canada, there is no blueprint for how CBC will be more relevant and interesting to Canadians. There is no bold suggestion such as maybe reverting to a commercial-free service like the BBC, PBS, Knowledge Network, TV Ontario and CBC Radio, which any ardent CBC… View Article

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