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The Freedom Foundation is a far-right organization in Washington that helped write the ALEC toolkit for other states. They are funded by big corporations like Walmart and shadowy conservative foundations from out of state. Since former BIAW leader Tom McCabe took over as their CEO in November...

The whole Middle east needs a cleansing. They take no one seriously. Time to straighten them out like Japan was.

The U.S. ranks 13 out of 16 countries in energy efficiency, Germany is #1 : TreeHugger

A Rwandan man accused of war crimes was arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol in northern Maine after a local citizen reported a "suspicious person" walking near the Canadian border. Jean Leonard Teganya, 42, a Rwandan who authorities said had violated international law and the Canadian...

“Justice was served,” “I do feel as though I have been vindicated.” Jon Everhart alleged in his lawsuit against the Prince George’s County school board that a principal forced him out of his job because of his race. Everhart, 65, speaking by phone from Ohio after the verdict in the U.S...

The Prime Minister of Swaziland, Sibusiso Barnabas Dlamini, threatened that the trade union and human rights leaders who attend the African Summit in Washington, D.C. should be strangled upon their return. The threat was made when the Prime Minister was being questioned by parliamentarians as...

Ottawa is refusing to bring injured children from Gaza to Canada for treatment, despite pleas from hospitals, health-care workers and the Ontario government. It’s too risky to transport injured children and keep them away from family, Foreign Affairs spokesperson Adam Hodge via email. He said...

If you’ve spent any time outside this summer, it’s likely you’ve fought off plenty of mosquitoes. But now there’s even more reason to swat them away due to a new virus carried by the pests that’s spreading quickly. The new threat, a virus called chikungunya, has doctors such as Rutgers...

Dr. Marvin Malek has been yearning and advocating for a publicly financed, single-payer health care system for at least two decades. Now, as Vermont stands on the threshold of being the first state to launch such a plan, he's confessing to trepidation. "I am pretty damn nervous," he confided...

The story........ https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/vancouver-property-owners-bringing-wrecking-ball-character-homes-152254211.html

A homeless man stole cookies from a church in the 10700 block of Okeechobee Boulevard. A deputy found him sitting by the building’s entrance. He said he had been looking for assistance, pulled on a door and it opened. He helped himself to the cookies, but a cleaning person saw him and called...

I have tenants moving out of a 3 bedroom basement apartment in August, the apartment is for rent September 1st. This apartment has not been maintained or cared for in any way whatsoever, and is quite frankly disgusting. I don't know how anyone could possibly live in this much filth; however...

Lake Erie, which is a source of drinking water for the Toledo water system may have been impacted by a harmful algal bloom (HAB). These organisms are capable of producing a number of toxins that may pose a risk to human and animal health. HABs occur when excess nitrogen and phosphorus are...

The black flag of the Islamic State, formerly known as Isis, which has declared a new Muslim caliphate across Iraq and Syria, has been banned from public demonstrations in the Netherlands – in advance of a large pro-Palestine march scheduled for central Amsterdam tomorrow. With more than 5,000...

Ristigouche-Sud-Est in Gaspésie region sued for passing bylaw protecting water sources from drilling The Gaspésie village of Ristigouche-Sud-Est is being sued by Gastem, a Quebec-based oil and gas exploration and development company, for passing a bylaw in March 2013 establishing a...

This concept is taught early on to foreign students learning English because it can be confusing to someone whose native language does not have that feature. Homophones, as any English grammarian can tell you, are words that sound the same but have different meanings and often different...

No word on whether he's hanging with the bro's in the crackhood............ Citing Horner’s short temper, alleged bullying and threatening nature, and involvement in physical and verbal altercations at a local pub, colleagues say the mayor’s behaviour has been inappropriate...

Qatar has not paid their workers in over a year for construction of the 2022 World Cup stadium. Fifa doesn't care. This latest bit of mistreatment is especially offensive, as this particular group of unpaid workers built the tower where Qatar's Supreme Committee for Delivery and...

For the second year in a row a court has decided that a Thunder Bay woman suffering from chronic pain can deduct the cost of spending the winter in a hot climate. In the latest decision, the Tax Court of Canada has overturned a Canada Revenue Agency ruling, allowing Trudy Tallon to claim a...

Aaron McGruder's new show, Black Jesus, hasn't even aired its first episode, and if Christian-rights groups have their way, it never will. McGruder's comedy show for the Adult Swim network finds Black Jesus, played by actor Gerald "Slink" Johnson, living in Compton, Calif., where he tells his...