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George Smitherman is supposed to be the mayor of Toronto. During the 2010 election, the former deputy premier was the liberal elite’s standard-bearer. Sure, his name was attached to a few sordid, multi-million-dollar political disasters, but that’s true of pretty much every career...

The eruption of a “supervolcano” hundreds of times more powerful than conventional volcanoes – with the potential to wipe out civilisation as we know it – is more likely than previously thought, a study has found. An analysis of the molten rock within the dormant supervolcano beneath...

Military drones set to get stronger chemical weapons and could soon make their OWN decisions during missions The U.S. Department of Defence (DoD) revealed its Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap, setting out its technology aims for the next 25 years Its plans include drone-bombs that can...

via bcf Food gift card campaign thrown together to make Wynne look good This gift card program was rolled out so quickly and with such little thought it was bound to fail. The government told people they could get money for free — and then were surprised when droves of people showed up to...

'America no Longer Leads the World' The Nobel Peace Prize-winning former president of Poland, Lech Walesa, says President Obama has failed to reclaim America’s role as a world leader. “When he was elected… there was great hope,” Walesa said. “…. we were hoping Obama would reclaim moral...

Calif. high court grants undocumented immigrant admission to state bar - U.S. News

Blizzard to Reach From NYC to Boston Thursday Night A major snowstorm will reach from across part of the Midwest to the central Appalachians and New England Thursday into Friday. A blizzard will evolve from the storm in parts of the Northeast. The storm will affect more...

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An Ohio woman who forced her 10-year-old stepson to fatally shoot his father in November 2003, ruled an accident at the time, was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole Thursday. According to the Toledo Blade, 46-year-old Judith Hawkey of Oakwood, Ohio, was sentenced in...

The Congo River traverses the continent of Africa, ending its journey in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where it spills 1.5 million cubic feet per second into the Atlantic Ocean. Now, plans are underway to harness this tremendous force of water in what promises to be the world’s...

via sda: In a decision hailed widely by those who live a safe distance from The Trade, Canada's Supreme Court reaffirms that Canadians pelvic freedoms shall not be infringed. Just don't yell "whore" in a firehouse. Free Hookers! - Small Dead Animals

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A content editor on Reddit’s science forum wrote Monday that the site has banned climate-change skeptics, and asks why more news outlets haven’t done the same. “About a year ago, we moderators became increasingly stringent with deniers,” Reddit content editor Nathan Allen wrote in grist...

DC District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle yesterday ordered the Obama Administration to release a copy of an unclassified presidential directive, and she said the attempt to withhold it represented an improper exercise of “secret law.” The Obama White House has a “limitless” view of its...

A gold and jade statue of Mao Zedong worth more than $16 million was unveiled Friday, in the latest example of Communist China’s indecision over how to commemorate its founding father’s 120th anniversary. The statue, 80 cm (32 inches) tall but weighing more than 50 kilograms, was put on...

We just don't get enough plague anymore. A village in Madagascar has been hit by a deadly outbreak of the bubonic plague, medical experts on the island have confirmed. Tests were carried out after at least 20 people in the village, near the north-western town of Mandritsara, were...

via sda "Just because the Wichita suspect says he was was inspired by Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki doesn't mean we know his motives." Good ol' BBC: "... does not appear to have been affiliated with any religious group" Fuk you media and your social-engineer mental masturbators.

Canadians have no clue when the exhortations coming from Sierra Club, Greenpeace or the David Suzuki Foundation are financed by U.S. interests We don’t allow foreigners to vote in our political campaigns for the obvious reason that our political leaders should court, and be accountable...

Fox News host Megyn Kelly caused controversy last night as she confidently declared that not only is Santa Claus white but Jesus Christ is too. Despite logic dictating that a man born in the Middle East more than 2,000 years ago would at the very least have been olive-skinned - Kelly...

IT is a case of shocking depravity which came to rest in the hills surrounding a picturesque farming community nestled in a valley southwest of Sydney. Unknown to the 2000 citizens of the town in a fertile valley amid the south-western slopes of NSW, a dark...