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December 14th, 2017, 11:15 am

'Homeless' man found €300,000 in Paris airport
should be
'Homeless' man STOLE €300,000 in Paris airport
The door of the Loomis cash management company in terminal 2F had been left unlocked and the man, in his fifties, walked back out with two bags of cash.
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A source close to the case was quoted in Le Parisien as saying: "This is indeed quite fortuitous.
"This homeless man benefited from a combination of circumstances to land himself a huge Christmas present."
 
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Re: Bad reporting

December 24th, 2017, 11:32 pm

this is a flat-out lie from TVNZ
Trump reacts to reports of FBI deputy director's retirement by tweeting false allegations

TVNZ confirm what President Trump said then call him a liar.
The liar here is TVNZ.
Trump tweeted today: "How can FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the man in charge, along with leakin' James Comey, of the Phony Hillary Clinton investigation (including her 33,000 illegally deleted emails) be given $700,000 for wife's campaign by Clinton Puppets during investigation?"
McCabe's wife, Jill, did not get $US700,000 in donations from Clinton for a Virginia state Senate race in 2015.
The donations came from Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe's political action committee and the Virginia Democratic Party before McCabe was promoted to deputy director and a supervisory role in the Clinton email investigation.
Notice that President Trump tweeted "Clinton Puppets," so it is disingenuous for TVNZ to respond that McCabe's wife did not get $700k in donations  from Clinton.
Terry McAuliffe was co-chairman of President Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign, and was chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign.
letter from the chair of the senate judiciary committee
As you know, Mr. McCabe is under investigation by the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General.  That investigation is examining whether the political and financial connections between his wife’s Democratic political campaign and Clinton associates warranted his recusal in the FBI’s Clinton email investigation.  On March 7, 2015, just five days after the New York Times broke the story about Secretary Clinton’s use of private email for official business, Mr. McCabe met with Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, a longtime, close associate of the Clintons—along with his wife, Dr. McCabe.  Mr. McAuliffe recruited Dr. McCabe, who had not previously run for any political office, to be the Democratic candidate for a Virginia state senate seat.  Dr. McCabe agreed, and Governor McAuliffe’s political action committee subsequently gave nearly $500,000 to her campaign while the FBI’s investigation of Secretary Clinton was ongoing.  The Virginia Democratic Party, over which Mr. McAuliffe exerts considerable control, also donated over $200,000 to Dr. McCabe’s campaign.  While Mr. McCabe recused himself from public corruption cases in Virginia—presumably including the reportedly ongoing investigation of Mr. McAuliffe regarding illegal campaign contributions—he failed to recuse himself from the Clinton email investigation, despite the appearance of a conflict created by his wife’s campaign accepting $700,000 from a close Clinton associate during the investigation.
 
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Re: Bad reporting

December 25th, 2017, 1:53 am

You been hitting the eggnog tonight?
 
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January 12th, 2018, 2:10 pm

The BBC is "deeply unimpressed" with an off-air chat in which two of its high-profile journalists joked about the gender pay gap, a BBC source has said.
Radio 4's Today presenter John Humphrys and North America editor Jon Sopel were discussing Carrie Gracie, who had quit as China editor over equal pay.
Before Monday's show, The Sun and Times reported, they joked of "handing over" pay to keep Gracie in the role.
Sweet. Eventually Leftists have to turn on their own. 
 
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Re: Bad reporting

April 5th, 2018, 6:33 am

N Korea missile 'could reach UK shores within months'
that seems a little slow
google tells me that Pyongyang and London are 5,397 miles apart. If the missile only took 1 month, it would be traveling at about 7.5mph
 
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Re: Bad reporting

April 5th, 2018, 8:45 am

N Korea missile 'could reach UK shores within months'
that seems a little slow
google tells me that Pyongyang and London are 5,397 miles apart. If the missile only took 1 month, it would be traveling at about 7.5mph
Indeed, takes months? I suppose due to BREXIT border controls and paper-work?
 
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Re: Bad reporting

April 5th, 2018, 11:09 am

N Korea missile 'could reach UK shores within months'
that seems a little slow
google tells me that Pyongyang and London are 5,397 miles apart. If the missile only took 1 month, it would be traveling at about 7.5mph
Indeed, takes months? I suppose due to BREXIT border controls and paper-work?
You are the slow one for still not understanding Brexit. Brexit means we have control over which missiles are allowed to enter the country. No longer will we have swarms of EU missiles everywhere, it means that North Korean missiles will find it easier to enter the country.
 
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Re: Bad reporting

April 5th, 2018, 11:43 am

N Korea missile 'could reach UK shores within months'
that seems a little slow
google tells me that Pyongyang and London are 5,397 miles apart. If the missile only took 1 month, it would be traveling at about 7.5mph
Indeed, takes months? I suppose due to BREXIT border controls and paper-work?
You are the slow one for still not understanding Brexit. Brexit means we have control over which missiles are allowed to enter the country. No longer will we have swarms of EU missiles everywhere, it means that North Korean missiles will find it easier to enter the country.
I have stopped worrying about BREXIT. It will never happen. 
 
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April 13th, 2018, 8:11 am

 
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Re: Bad reporting

May 30th, 2018, 8:27 pm

Afternoon Market Recap for May 30, 2018

USDA threw some bullish corn crop news into the mix late Tuesday, which weighed corn prices down all Wednesday
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Corn prices slumped Wednesday, after technical sellers stepped in due to bullish news from yesterday’s crop progress report. 
What?
 
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May 30th, 2018, 9:14 pm

Bullish on the corn crop, not on corn prices. I think.
 
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Re: Bad reporting

June 2nd, 2018, 9:53 pm

this from a canadian tv network
Trump slams Canada on Twitter, suggests replacing NAFTA with separate deals
In a 274-character tweet, Trump implored Canada to open its markets and take down its trade barriers.
"Canada has treated our Agricultural business and Farmers very poorly for a very long period of time. Highly restrictive on Trade! They must open their markets and take down their trade barriers! They report a really high surplus on trade with us. Do Timber & Lumber in U.S.?" he tweeted.
In reality, the U.S. government, by its own account, reported a U.S. goods and services trade surplus of US$8.4 billion with Canada in 2017.
This is classic bad reporting: you don't deny what President Trump actually said, you deny something that he didn't say.
There's been a discussion about US-Canada trade figures in the media since the Trump-Trudeau meeting a while back. Because the two sides calculate trade figures in a slightly different way, the Canadian figures show that Canada has a surplus while the US figures show that the US has a surplus.
President Trump was absolutely correct when he tweeted, "They report a really high surplus on trade with us."

CTV News is being disingenuous when they say, "In reality, the U.S. government, by its own account, reported a U.S. goods and services trade surplus of US$8.4 billion with Canada in 2017." That may well be true, but it doesn't alter the fact that what President Trump said is also true, that the Canadian government, by its own account, reported a really high Canadian goods and services trade surplus with the US in 2017.
 
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Re: Bad reporting

June 2nd, 2018, 10:00 pm

So what was said to be true was true except that it may not have been true when measured in CAD unless twittered by Trump on a Friday. In another word: bullshit.
 
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Re: Bad reporting

June 2nd, 2018, 10:16 pm

So what was said to be true was true except that it may not have been true when measured in CAD unless twittered by Trump on a Friday. In another word: bullshit.
CAD versus USD has nothing to do with it. The 2 sides use slightly different methodology, and that's precisely why CTV news phrased it's non-denial the way it did.
 
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Re: Bad reporting

June 6th, 2018, 11:15 am

BBC Education Of Mice and Men

They should have said "Spoiler Alert"