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Barack Obama NSA is not rifling through ordinary peoples emails
surveillance scandal, insisting US authorities are not "rifling through the emails" of ordinary people and he is confident the US intelligence services have "struck the appropriate balance" between security and civil rights."I was a critic of the previous administration for those occasions in which I felt they had violated our values and I came in [to office] with a ...
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Medical society votes to recognize obesity as disease
In order to fight what it described as an "obesity epidemic," the American Medical Association voted on Tuesday to recognize obesity as a disease and recommended a number of measures to fight it. The association voted on the measure at its annual meeting in Chicago. The AMA noted that obesity rates in the United States have "doubled among adults in the last twenty years and ...
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Video shows people vowing to sell Obamaphones for drugs
A Republican senator renewed his criticism of a government-backed program that hands out cell phones after an undercover video showed vendors helping people obtain the phones even after saying they wanted to sell them for drugs and other ...
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Stars Naked Afraid on Show
LOS ANGELES – It is one thing to be stranded in a remote area of the world and fight to stay alive. It's another to do so sans clothes. In the company of a complete stranger. With cameras rolling. The Discovery Channel bares all, quite literally, with its new series "Naked and Afraid," where each week a man and a woman - who have never met before - find themselves without ...
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Sheen Gets Blair Canned
It looks like Charlie Sheen got his way. Just days after he reportedly said he would not set foot on the set of his FX show 'Anger management' until co-star Selma Blair was fired, the studio announced Blair is making a sudden exit. In a statement Tuesday, producer Lionsgate says the actress won't be returning. The company says it wishes her "the very best" but has no ...
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The Problem With The Wealth Inequality In America Video. It Commits Worstalls Fallacy
There's an interesting video doing the rounds currently called "Wealth Inequality In America". It's drawing the usual oohs and ahhs from those who don't think about such things very much. Gee, America sure is an unequal place sort of thing. Unfortunately there's something of a problem with the piece. The numbers it is using are wrong. Wrong in the sense that ...
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Obama expected to propose reductions to Cold War-era nuclear arsenal
President Barack Obama was expected Wednesday to propose reducing the American nuclear arsenal by as much as a third, directing the Defense Department to align the United States with what the administration says are the more credible threats of the 21st century.The proposal outlined by the White House, to be detailed by Obama in a speech in Berlin, will include the maintenance of a ...
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Off the Snap JaMarcus headed north to Canada
heading north to the CFL . The remade Russell has dropped upwards of 30 pounds in an effort to get back into the NFL (though he’s still reportedly at 280). He’s had talks with a couple of teams, too, including the Chicago Bears, who wouldn’t mind another option behind Jay Cutler. Russell has not thrown a regular-season pass since 2009, so Canada might provide a backup plan, ...
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Mask ban bill expected to become law today
A bill that would ban the wearing of masks during a riot or unlawful assembly and carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence with a conviction of the offence is scheduled to become law today. Bill C-309, a private member's bill introduced by Conservative MP Blake Richards in 2011, passed third reading in the Senate on May 23 and is expected to be proclaimed law during a royal assent ...
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Canadian border agents being impersonated in phone scam
The CBSA said in a media release that the unit is not designed nor is it mandated to make phone calls requesting personal information or payments over the ...
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Hamilton man bikes cross-country for breast cancer gets robbed in Montreal
A month to the day after he started biking across the country, Kyle Chevalier was robbed. The 24-year-old McMaster University graduate from Ancaster is heading up the Biking for Boobies campaign, raising money for breast cancer research. On Friday, his chase car was broken into while at a stop in Montreal. He lost $700 of donated cash, 2 laptops, a camera and footage from cycling through the ...
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Statoil makes 2nd find in new frontier off Newfoundland
Statoil says it has discovered light, high-quality oil in the Flemish Pass basin 500 kilometres northeast of St. John's, raising hopes for an as-yet-untapped part of the Newfoundland offshore. "It is positive that we have found oil in this second major structure in the Flemish area," Erik Finnstrom, Statoil's senior vice-president for North America, told CBC News. "It ...
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Canada-U.S. team develops promising sharp-shooter anti-cancer drug
Dr. Tak Mak, Director of The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research, speaks during a press conference regarding the new breakthrough Cancer CFI-400945 drug that will enter clinical trials next month at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto on Tuesday, June 18, ...
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Obama Speaks In Berlin 50 Years After JFK
President Barack Obama is in Germany where he will push for a reduction of the world's nuclear stockpiles. His speech in Berlin will include a proposal for a one-third reduction in US and Russian arsenals, the White House has said. The president will make his case during a speech at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate. His address comes 50 years after John F. Kennedy's ...
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President Obama defends NSA programs says it thwarted at least 50 terror threats
Trying to tamp down concerns about government over-reach, President Barack Obama on Wednesday defended U.S. Internet and phone surveillance programs as narrowly targeted efforts that have saved lives and thwarted at least 50 terror threats."This is not a situation in which we are rifling through ordinary emails" of huge numbers of citizens in the United States or elsewhere, the ...
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Tory MP Shelly Glover bows to Election Canada probe files new expense claim
OTTAWA — Manitoba Conservative MP Shelly Glover has changed her mind and decided to file a new expense claim with Elections Canada for the 2011 federal election. House Speaker Andrew Scheer announced the decision by the MP for St. Boniface on Tuesday as he handed a committee the tricky question of whether Glover and James Bezan, the Tory MP for Selkirk-Interlake, should be suspended over ...
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Media Cut Obama Slack They Denied Bush on NSA
DALLAS, TX - APRIL 25: (L-R) Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, former President George W. Bush and his wife former first lady Laura Bush attend the opening ceremony of the George W. Bush Presidential Center April 25, 2013 in Dallas, Texas. The Bush library, which is located on the campus of Southern Methodist University, with more than 70 million pages of paper records, 43,000 artifacts, ...
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Walter Lee Williams Former USC Professor On FBIs Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List Arrested In Mexico
This 2011 image provided by the FBI shows Walter Lee Williams, 64, one of the U.S. FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives has been arrested in the resort city of Playa del Carmen, Mexico, Tuesday June 18, ...
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Obama silent on US arms to Syria praises G-8 plan for transition to Syrian peace
BERLIN - President Barack Obama is refusing to describe the type of military support the U.S. will give to Syrian rebels even as he praises a decision by world leaders at a just-completed summit to seek a negotiated peace. Obama says even though leaders could not agree on whether Syrian President Bashar Assad must go, he has decided it is not possible for Assad to regain legitimacy. Obama ...
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Video President Obama to call for changes to nuclear stockpiles
President Obama talks to Charlie Rose in an exclusive, wide-ranging interview. The president discussed the rapid rise of China and what he calls a "very blunt conversation about ...
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The Note Obama At The Gate
WHAT A DIFFERENCE FIVE YEARS MAKES: In Berlin five years ago, Barack Obama addressed one of the largest and most enthusiastic crowds he’s ever seen. He was treated as such superstar that the McCain campaign responded with a TV commercial using footage of the Berlin speech to brand Obama as a celebrity, not a leader, comparing him to Paris Hilton and Britney ...
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Obama to propose reductions to US nukes
LIVE VIDEO -- President Barack Obama delivers remarks at Germany's Brandenburg Gate, five decades after John. F. Kennedy visited the famous landmark that divided East and West ...
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Kids Count report Americas children are advancing despite the economy
The widely-watched Kids Count annual survey on the state of America's children shows gains in health and education despite the poor economy. But advocates say raised poverty rates merit more attention from ...
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Progressive Democrats of America DNC Delegate Support Surges for Guaranteed Health Care Plank
Donna Smith (773) 617-4493 Tim Carpenter, National Director, PDA (413) 320-2015 Norman Solomon, Obama delegate and co-drafter ...
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ACLU Reminds Americas Toughest Sheriff That Hes Not Above The Law
ACLU Reminds "America's Toughest Sheriff" That He's Not Above The Law PHOENIX - August 7 - The American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion yesterday to hold Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph Arpaio in contempt for disobeying a court order that would allow women prisoners in Maricopa County to obtain timely, safe, and legal abortions. In addition, today's motion asks ...
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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