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Students punished for wearing American flags on Cinco de Mayo

On any other day at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Daniel Galli and his four friends would not even be noticed for wearing T-shirts with the American flag. But Cinco de Mayo is not any typical day especially on a campus with a large Mexican American student population. Galli says he and...
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Pensioner’s red, white, and blue anti-MP election protest poster is branded ‘racist’ by police

Pensioner’s red, white, and blue anti-MP election protest poster is branded ‘racist’ by police

A pensioner who put up a red, white and blue election poster telling voters to kick out MPs was accused of racism by police. After being inundated by canvassing politcians, Roy Newman, 74, decided to tell other voters: ‘GET THE LOT OUT.’ But 90 minutes after he put up the homemade sign up in...
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Are you a fattist…another new politically correct term

Some people are racists, some are elitists. Some people are fattists. While you’ve never considered yourself a person who discriminates against others, you might be in danger of becoming a “fattist.” A fattist is a term coined to describe people who are prejudiced against overweight people. You know, people who complain about obese people...
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Rwanda presidential candidate denies genocide

Rwanda presidential  candidate denies genocide

Rwandan opposition leader and presidential hopeful Victoire Ingabire was arrested Wednesday on charges of denying the 1994 genocide and “collaborating with a terrorist organisation”, an official said. Ingabire, a likely challenger to President Paul Kagame in August presidential elections, was arrested in Kigali at around 0800 GMT and later appeared before a prosecutor at...
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Book Axed Over Typo… one of its recipes recommended adding “salt and freshly ground black people”

Book Axed Over Typo… one of its recipes recommended adding “salt and freshly ground black people”

Penguin Group Australia will have to pay £12,000 to fix the embarrassing typo, which the firm called nothing more than a “silly mistake”. The error works out at about £2,000 per letter. The Pasta Bible recipe for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto was supposed to call for black pepper. The 7,000 copies were...
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Aussies declare ‘no satire allowed’

The US-based owner of a satirical Wikipedia-style website may be charged under Australian law over a deliberately offensive article about Aborigines. The Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (HREOC) contacted Encyclopedia Dramatica owner Joseph Evers, after 20 indigenous Australians complained about the article’s content. Earlier this year the same article — which includes...
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Fraternity throws ghetto party in celebration of black history month

LA JOLLA, Calif. – A party thrown by UC San Diego fraternity students mocking Black History Month has school administrators up in arms. UC San Diego administrators are condemning a weekend ghetto-themed party thrown off-campus by fraternity students to mock Black History Month, but they aren’t likely to discipline anyone, it was reported Wednesday....
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Young students are to be taught about all faiths, including the ones where plants have souls and the dead must be eaten by vultures

Primary school children should be taught about obscure religions that believe plants have souls and the dead must be eaten by vultures, according to government guidance. Ministers are recommending that pupils as young as five learn about minority faiths – some of which have a few thousand British followers – alongside Christianity and Islam....
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Anger at US builds at Port-au-Prince airport…like they were doing so well on their own

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Anger built Saturday at Haiti’s US-controlled main airport, where aid flights were still being turned away and poor coordination continued to hamper the relief effort four days on. “Let’s take over the runway,” shouted one voice. “We need to send a message to (US President Barack) Obama,” cried another. hostednews/afp
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The Wolf is shooed away, makes friends with Little Red Riding Hood, and becomes a vegetarian

Not all the ‘classics’ on sale are quite how we might remember them. In Tempar’s version of Little Red Riding Hood (The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood by Agnese Baruzzi and Sandro Natalin) the Wolf is shooed away, makes friends with Little Red Riding Hood, and becomes a vegetarian. In the Usbourne...
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