The Daily Populous

Monday December 4th, 2017 morning edition

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Terry Crews has been sounding the alarm on toxic subcultures for decades.

In February of last year, Crews and his wife attended a party at the home of Adam Sandler in the Hollywood Hills.

Crews said Venit stared at him from a distance and stuck out his tongue in an “overtly sexual” manner before approaching him.

“And then he comes back again and he just won’t stop,” Crews recalled on GMA.

Those tweets were part of a thread that Crews posted last month in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

And now, Crews faces an even steeper climb than Kaep on his quest to expose and correct his profession’s corrupt code.

I said, 'No, it's not brave, he's just talking,’" she said on her talk show shortly after Crews’ GMA interview. »

In 1980, an 18 year old Canadian who lost hist leg due to bone cancer began a trip across Canada to raise money for Cancer research. He ran a marathon every day (26+ miles) on an artificial leg and towards the end with large tumors in his lungs - died in 1981. (2010)

Authored by thegolder.com

In 1980, with one leg having been amputated, he embarked on an east to west cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research.

In 1980, he began the Marathon of Hope, a cross-country run to raise money for cancer research.

Considered a national hero, he has had many buildings, statues, roads, and parks named in his honour across the country. »

The FCC Wants to Kill Net Neutrality. But Congress Will Pay the Price

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The move would mean the FCC would have almost no oversight authority over broadband providers like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T.

For years, those broadband providers have used lawsuits and agency filings to fight FCC oversight and overturn its authority to prevent net neutrality abuses.

That resulted in a win: limited but well-defined FCC net neutrality rules which, for the first time in FCC history, survived court challenges. »

North Korean defectors say nuclear tests have ravaged their health

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SEOUL, South Korea — Defectors who lived near North Korea’s nuclear testing site say they believe they are suffering from exposure to radiation and fear for the health of family members still living there.

She eventually escaped in 2010 from her home in Kilju County, home of North Korea’s nuclear testing site, Punggye-ri.

During the last seven years Lee lived in the North, the leader at the time, Kim Jong Il, test-detonated two nuclear bombs near her home. »

The movie Crocodile Dundee's character was loosely based on a man called Rod Ansell, who was lost in the outback for 56 days, sued Paul Hogan for not profiting from the film, lost his property, started growing weed, got hooked on meth and ended up dying in a drug fuelled police shootout.

Authored by dynastynow.com

It propelled the actor Paul Hogan to fame and fortune playing the character who wrestled crocodiles and mesmerised buffalos.

Next morning, Ansell came out of hiding and crawled towards the road- block armed with two guns.

Why did he walk into a police trap when as skilled a bushman as he could easily have slipped away? »