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    The crime rate declined in 2013

    but some offences were up. The police-reported Crime Severity Index (CSI), which measures the volume and severity of crime, declined 9% in 2013 compared with 2012. This was the 10th consecutive decline in the index. The CSI was 36% lower than 10 years earlier. The traditional crime rate...
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    "Not white" cop shoots unarmed white kid in Salt Lake City

    a little something for everbody eh...paging eric holder. Utah officer who shot Dillon Taylor was wearing a body camera The Salt Lake City police officer who shot 20-year-old Dillon Taylor outside a convenience store last week was wearing a body camera. And that footage will be released...
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    ISIS Now Using Mohamed Elibiary’s Comments On “Inevitable Caliphate” To Recruit

    I won’t bore you with translations but members of the social media team on Twitter for Islamic States of Iraq and Syria are now using Mohamed Elibiary’s statements that “a caliphate is inevitable” as a recruitment tool. Elibiary’s comments are appearing in hashtags for ISIS now as well as in...
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    Officer helps man in wheelchair stranded in storm

    CTV Calgary ‏@CTVCalgary Officer in Fort Myers, Fla, helps stranded man in wheelchair during heavy storm, take a look... Officer helps man in wheelchair stranded in storm | CTV Calgary News
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    Teens Charged In South Pasadena School Shooting Plot

    The two boys allegedly planned to kill three staff members and gun down as many students as possible. Two South Pasadena teens have been charged with allegedly planning a shooting at their high school, prosecutors said Wednesday...
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    Federal judge orders DOJ to release Fast and Furious documents

    Today, United States District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered that the Department of Justice must turn over a log of withheld Fast and Furious documents by October 1. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., issued the following statement: Today a...
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    Top 10 US Cities Running Out of Water

    The U.S. Drought Monitor has released new data on U.S. cities that are running out of water — and believe it or not, the top 10 spots are all located in California. Some of the worst drought conditions on record have left much of the Golden State grasping for moisture wherever it can be...
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    Performance art, feminism and implicit guilt

    or something: via sda They're Here To Teach Us Artists Katy Albert and Sophia Hamilton, aka Mothergirl, tell us that their work "exhibits a strategically refracted or misrepresented view of current political and...
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    Black "straight-A" teen shot/killed in Chicago drive-by shooting

    The People's Cube ‏@ThePeoplesCube ": Black "straight-A" teen shot/killed in Chicago drive-by shooting http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/chicago-shooting-shaquise-bucker-271656901.html …...
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    Lac-Mégantic report blames lax oversight, weak safety culture

    A railroad with a “weak safety culture” and a federal regulator that was asleep at the switch combined to bring about the worst accident in modern Canadian history, says a report by the Transportation Safety Board. The agency’s investigation into the rail disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Que...
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    Death knell for AGW

    hockey schtick ‏@hockeyschtick1 New paper: Babies are anthropogenic source of carbon emissions which lead to climate change &'threat to environment' http://feedly.com/k/1tklzZ4 these anthro-lunatics should take a...
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    Reporter posts photos of 'rubber bullets...

    via Fark: proving once and for all that that "Media Guide to Firearms" image is not really a joke these ignorant, moronic trolls bask in their duties as journalists, information gatherers, news spreaders...yeah, whatever...they're all the same: How a Reporter’s Clueless Report on ‘Rubber...
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    Inside the trailer park

    Photo series explores the lives and loves of the families living in a a California mobile home community Far from the kudzu-covered southern Piedmont or tornado-prone prairie where popular depictions so frequently park mobile homes, a San Francisco photographer has captured the essence of...
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    Francis, the awesome Pope, strikes again

    :smile: Who needs a Popemobile? Francis shuns his personal helicopter and takes the train to Mass in Korea Pope Francis took train to Daejeon, where he led service at football stadium He was seen in fourth car of train in first-class, with 500 other passengers Had already refused a...
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    The Dumbing Down of America – By Design

    This presentation focuses on the myriad ways in which the powers-that-be in the United States have been systematically dumbing down Americans as a society for a very long time – all by meticulously calculated design. Originally the term dumbing down was used as a slang expression in 1933 by...
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    How the GW myth is perpetuated

    For all of you mouth breathing, devolved global warming deniers out there, apparently there is finally hope that you’ll be brought out of the darkness. Mega-wealthy hedge fund manager Tom Steyer (who has long since made his own bundles of Benjamins and now has the leisure to devote all of...
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    37 yrs ago today we lost the KING of Rockn'roll

    Charles Adler ‏@charlesadler #ElvisPresley 35 yrs ago today we lost the King of #Sask #JohnDiefenbaker
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    Only 11 Countries On Planet Free Of Conflict

    As new wars and civil unrests seem to be flaring up every week, we look for the only countries in the world that could be considered ‘conflict-free’ With the crisis in Gaza, the rise of Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria and the international stand-off ongoing in Ukraine, it can...
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    Enter Pyongyang [Time lapse vid]

    Enter Pyongyang - YouTube but then there's this: Inside North Korea (Part 1/3) - YouTube or, if you can stomach a slideshow, here's what it probably looks like: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleto...t-1465704.html
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    Who's the biggest name in Canadian broadcasting?

    The Globe and Mail Kevin O’Leary of CBC’s Dragon’s Den and Lang and O’Leary fame jumped to Bell Media this week, capitalizing on his rising star and seeking a broader and larger audience. Meanwhile, Globe readers have made an article about CBC laying off two veteran sportscasters one of the...