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Students suspended from Canadian high school for arguing against wearing rainbow poppy

Anna Slatz
The Post Millennial
Sat, 09 Nov 2019 13:45 UTC
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Natalie, the 17-year-old girl who was suspended from Stonewall Collegiate yesterday over a rainbow poppy row, has provided an exclusive statement to The Post Millennial with additional details on the controversial situation.

"It all started when teachers, counsellors, and some students said we should wear the rainbow poppy..." She wrote, stating that she disagreed with the decision to change the traditional red-and-black poppy used to honour Canadian veterans during the Remembrance Day holiday. "I typed up papers on a computer, printed them off, and taped them up in the halls."

The printed papers contained some quotes from news stories and people on social media Natalie had collected of individuals expressing criticism of the rainbow poppy. Natalie says she was just trying to express her beliefs and opinion on the matter.

Comment: See also: LGBT rainbow poppy causes controversy; critics say it disrespects veterans

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Not creepy at all: Giant Greta Thunberg mural to grace downtown San Francisco


RT
Sat, 09 Nov 2019 10:23 UTC
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A four-story mural of climate activist Greta Thunberg is set to be unveiled next week in San Francisco. Many, however, have already found the work unsettling, describing it as something straight out of a dystopian Sci-Fi movie.

The mural depicts the face of the 16-year-old media darling, gazing down at passersby on Union Square in San Francisco, with her signature tense expression.

Argentine artist Andreas Iglesias, who is putting the finishing touches on the massive work, said his ultimate goal is to raise awareness about climate issues.

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California brewery prints 'Epstein didn't kill himself' on the bottom of cans


Fox26 News
Fri, 08 Nov 2019 00:01 UTC
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Clovis brewery prints "Epstein didn't kill himself" on the bottom of cans.
Questions surrounding Jeffrey Epstein's apparent suicide have popped up everywhere lately, and now they have even made their way to the bottom of a beer can.

Printed on the bottom of the cans sold at Tatical Ops Brewing in Fresno is the message, "2019/11/06 EPSTEIN DIDNT KILL HIMSELF."

Manager Carlos Tovar said he first thought of the idea about a week ago.

Comment: The "Epstein Didn't Kill Himself" meme has reached an entirely new, unprecedented level as it has officially crossed the line from internet meme into physical reality. There are other examples, beyond these latest beer cans. Although it may be seen by some as a joke, it points more to the unwillingness of the public at large to accept the official story regarding Epstein's death. Perhaps the pedophiles in high places won't get away with it this time. Here's hoping.

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The brutal murder of the Mormon family in Mexico was almost inevitable

Leon Krauze
Slate
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 12:05 UTC
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© Herika Martinez/AFP via Getty Images
On Tuesday, members of the LeBaron family look at the car where some of the nine murdered family members were killed and burned earlier that week in Mexico
Early Monday morning, along a remote dirt road that links the northern Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora, a group of men ambushed a convoy of three vehicles driven by three young mothers traveling with their 14 children. Even in the context of Mexico's habitually grim crime news, the details of what happened are shocking. According to a straightforward and affecting statement by Julián LeBaron, leader of the Mormon community in northeastern Chihuahua that the victims called home, two of the women were on their way to visit family while another one was heading to pick up her husband from the Phoenix airport. "They never made it," LeBaron wrote. The women and children were "shot, burned and murdered in cold blood."

Rhonita Maria Miller was killed and incinerated inside her car, along with four of her children, including Titus and Tiana, her 8-month-old twins. Christina Marie Langford apparently stepped out of her car and, according to LeBaron's account, "waved her arms to let her attackers know that there were women and children inside the vehicles." They shot her anyway. Dawna Ray Langford was also murdered, next to two of her boys. Five other children were wounded in the attack. After the assault, 13-year old Devin Blake Langford hid wounded children behind bushes by the side of the road and walked over 14 miles back to La Mora, the Sonoran community from where they had departed, to get help.
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Project Veritas: Ex-ABC News staffer is not our source; whistleblower releases statement

Eric Spracklen
Project Veritas
Fri, 08 Nov 2019 03:33 UTC
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Editors Note: Project Veritas is publishing the writing below at the request of the ABC news insider who gave us the Amy Robach tape.

This was submitted to us in light of the actions taken against those wrongfully identified as involved in the leaking of the tape and the reactions of ABC news to their spiking of the story on Jeffrey Epstein.

By Ignotus

To my fellow man:

I came forward with this information bearing no motives other than to have this information public. I did not and do not seek any personal gain from this information whether it be financial or otherwise and will always decline. When I became aware of this moment, I had the same reaction as many of you did. Anger, confusion and sadness. I care not about petty political quarrels and only hope for the best in all of us.

To my fellow ABC News employees:

I've walked the halls experiencing similar feelings we are all having right now. All of you regardless of your own personal differences in one form or another do an outstanding job. I sincerely enjoy working with each and every one of you and will continue to do so throughout our careers.

Comment: See also: Killing the messenger by proxy: Heads roll over ABC News' Epstein coverup — at CBS, for exposing it

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People

Dems think Bernie better on policy issues, but will vote for Biden in hopes he dethrones Trump - Poll


Source
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 12:47 UTC
Bernie Sanders - Joe Biden
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Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders speaks as former Vice President Joe Biden listens during the fourth U.S. Democratic presidential candidates 2020 election debate in Westerville, Ohio, U.S., October 15, 2019.
Bernie Sanders's progressive agenda has struck a chord with Democrats who now think he is the best on healthcare and climate, and on par with Joe Biden on economy and immigration. However, Biden remains their preferred candidate.

While the independent Vermont senator is trailing Biden in the polls, his take on key US policies is shared by more constituents than that of the former vice president, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted between November 1-4 has revealed.

Asked about what candidate they think is the best on environment, 24 percent of prospective Democratic voters went for Sanders against 17 percent for Biden. As far as the other major issue, healthcare, is concerned, Sanders commands a 10-point lead over Biden.

While American voters in general favor Sanders over Biden on economy and jobs, as well as on the immigration policy, Democrats are divided in their opinions. Some 18 percent believe Biden and Sanders are best on immigration, while 21 percent side with either of the candidates on economy and jobs.
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A 25-year-old Muslim immigrant from Iran is Boris Johnson's challenger in UK polls

William Booth
NDTV
Fri, 08 Nov 2019 22:18 UTC
Ali Milani

Ali Milani arrived in London from Tehran with his mother and sister when he was 5.
Ali Milani arrived in London from Tehran with his mother and sister when he was 5.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday launched his Conservative Party's campaign for the general election. But there's a hitch. Johnson has to win back his own seat - fending off a challenge from a young Muslim immigrant who represents the Labour Party. It looks as if it could be a tight race.

Johnson represents Uxbridge, a suburb of northwest London and no longer the safe seat for Tories it was a decade ago. In the last general election, in 2017, Johnson won his race by just 5,034 votes. If Labour can swing 5% of the electorate its way, the prime minister could be in trouble.

British lawmakers don't have to live in the districts - or constituencies - they represent, and Johnson doesn't live in Uxbridge, though he makes occasional meet-and-greet appearances.
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Trove of explosive secret internal Facebook documents and emails were just leaked online

Rob Price
Business Insider
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 19:56 UTC
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in October.
An explosive trove of nearly 4,000 pages of confidential internal Facebook documents has been made public, shedding unprecedented light on the inner workings of the Silicon Valley social-networking giant.

On Wednesday, the investigative reporter Duncan Campbell released a vast swathe of internal emails, reports, and other sensitive documents from the early 2010s that detail Facebook's internal approach to privacy and how it worked with app developers and handled their access to user data.

The documents were originally compiled as part of a lawsuit that the startup Six4Three brought against Facebook for cutting off its bikini-photo app's access to the developer platform. The documents were supposed to remain under seal — but they were leaked.
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Growing trend: Migrants are illegally crossing into US via Canadian borders

Anna Giaritelli
The Washington Examiner
Fri, 08 Nov 2019 05:00 UTC
US-Canada Border
Mexican citizens are increasingly being arrested for illegally entering the United States from Canada, and the majority are going through a specific part of Vermont and northeastern New York, according to federal law enforcement officials.

In the area, known as the Swanton Sector, 822 people during the 2019 fiscal year were stopped while traversing fields and forests between official crossing points, more than the total, 758, arrested for crossing in all seven other regions on the Canadian border. Mexicans and Romanians make up 565 of the 822 known illegal entrants.

Norm Lague oversees operations at Champlain Station, the busiest of Swanton Sector's eight offices. During a tour of the region this week provided to the Washington Examiner, Lague said his station's intelligence unit had concluded more than half of Mexicans and Romanians they arrested had flown into Canada by way of its Electronic Travel Authorization program. The three-year-old program allows citizens from certain countries to enter without first obtaining a visa. People from those two nations are not allowed to enter the U.S. without a visa, but they are legally entering Canada and sneaking across the border from there.

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Got it covered: 34-ton titanium-decorated dome placed on top of Russia's grand military cathedral


RT
Fri, 08 Nov 2019 17:22 UTC
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A grandiose cathedral on the outskirts of Moscow, which is set to become the main Orthodox Christian church for the Russian military, reached a milestone on Friday when builders put in place the first of its six domes.

The dome, which weighs 34 tons and measures 12 meters across, was lifted by a high-endurance crane to the height of a 20-story building and lowered onto one of the Resurrection Cathedral's four smaller towers in Kubinka. An even bigger dome will later be placed on the central tower, raising a cross to a height of 95 meters. The sixth dome will crown the bell tower.

Befitting a military church, the domes are shaped to resemble medieval helmets. They are made of stainless steel and covered with a film of titanium nitride rather than traditional gold.
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