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yes, I know...but still: The CBC is calling for a national discussion about its future. Like any other citizen in this country, you have the right to be heard in this ongoing discussion about CBC, and you can share your views about the public broadcaster with your friends, neighbours and...

via sda Restoring Sanity To Its Rightful Place The fallout from the new government’s budget is still being seen in Australia, but it is already obvious that climate change is a loser when it comes to funding. Prime Minister Tony Abbott has long been skeptical of global warming and the...

How do you reel back lost years? How do you reconstruct a life turned to dust and rubble? How do you retrieve a love so precious that the mention of it causes your eyes to well? You sit in a Manhattan office and put these questions to Amine Baba-Ali, a courtly middle-aged man with a...

Millions of people are unwittingly pouring hundreds of tons of tiny plastic beads down the drain. These can persist in the environment for more than 100 years, and have been found to contaminate a wide variety of freshwater and marine wildlife, The Independent on Sunday can reveal...

a wonderful country that brazil Prisoners in Brazil’s northeastern state of Sergipe took 122 hostages during a riot at the facility on Saturday, AFP quoted a prison official as saying. Four prison officers are among the hostages most of whom are relatives who were visiting the prison...

via bcf #bringbackourgirls Hash-tag campaign answered by #carbombkills5 KANO, May 18 (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed five people on a street of popular bars and restaurants in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Sunday evening, in an area mostly inhabited by southern...

h/t sda Blackmailers got caught: A number of animal rights groups including the D.C.-based Humane Society of the United States ended their long-running litigation with Feld Entertainment this week by paying nearly $16 million to settle unproven allegations that Feld’s Ringling Bros. Barnum...

check it right now, then check it again... It was called by some the ouroboros — a serpent that swallows its own tail. For some it was an early emblem of utter futility. And I think about it when I hear some of the strange, absurd and utterly self-contradictory reports from North American...

Backyard flamethrowers and other fracking myths Katewerk ‏@katewerk Can we get a retweet @ElizabethMay! Anti-fracker attached garden hose to a gas vent, not a water pipe for hoax. You’ve probably seen it on...

Bill Whittle: Gaslighting - YouTube gaslighting, bitches. :lol:

Japanese beverage maker Otsuka is sending a 1 kilogram titanium can filled with powdered sports drink and children's dreams to the moon. The specially designed canister, which contains a shipment of Otsuka's Pocari Sweat powder, will mark a disturbing new frontier for humanity: the first...

meanwhile, from a different corner of the world... French boys can wear skirts to school – an unusual initiative aimed at supporting sex equality has been offered by the education chiefs in the French city of Nantes. On Friday schoolboys at 27 schools in the city have been given an option...

The most damning aspersion that can be lobbed against any person, or the exposure of “secret government activity,” overwhelmingly is “Conspiracy Theorist.” That pejorative ‘handle’ is equated with imbecile mind-activity with aspersions often suggested as ‘tin hat wearers’. Well, step aside...

and compares them to today. WW1 did start 100 years ago. History always has a way of repeating itself. Ex-chancellor Schmidt slams EU over Ukraine Former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt said on Friday the Ukraine standoff recalls the lead-up to World War I and blamed the "megalomania" of EU...

For most American women beyond the age of high school gym class, “I’ve got my period” isn’t considered much of an excuse for anything. We’re meant to pop an Advil and get on with things, Red Devil be damned. But in several, mostly East Asian, countries, so-called “menstrual leave” is a...

Sudanese court says that Meriam Yehya Ibrahim who faces a death sentence for apostasy can have her baby An Islamic court in the Sudanese capital has said that a pregnant woman sentenced to hang for apostasy after she married a Christian man will be allowed to give birth before she...

you ain't. :lol: Casino mogul Steve Wynn pays $28 million for Popeye statue Ask the average person what he or she would do with $28 million, and we're guessing that buying a 2,000-pound statue of Popeye the Sailor Man would be near the bottom of the list. Not so for casino mogul and...

Amid contrived outrage over Benghazi and the improving fortunes of its healthcare reform, the Obama administration could be facing a genuine scandal about its treatment of military veterans that has the potential to attract broad political condemnation of its competence. The Department of...

to hit D.C. to oust Obama, Biden, Boehner, Holder A group of self-described revolutionary-style patriots with a million mobilized militia members are heading to downtown Washington, D.C., this week to bring a simple message to political leadership, from President Obama to House Speaker...

This book is gonna make a lot of people madder than they already are but more than likely educate the misinformed fence-sitters. Ezra Levant: ‘Not one drop of poisoned water’ All the anti-fracking hype is designed to make you believe that the U.S. government has been asleep at the switch...