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    Putin backs deeper ties with North Korea

    Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Wednesday for deeper ties with North Korea to improve regional security, a day after holding talks with a personal envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Senior North Korean officials visit Moscow infrequently but the isolated country is trying...
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    Our cooling world

    Despite a bitter U.S. cold snap, the globe is rushing hell-bent toward its warmest year on record with last month setting the fifth monthly heat record of year. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that last month was the hottest October on record worldwide...
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    Egypt’s first female genital mutilation trial ends in not guilty verdict

    Dr Raslan Fadl and father of girl who died during the procedure have been acquitted, dashing hopes for a nationwide crackdown. Raslan Fadl, a doctor and Islamic preacher in the village of Agga, northern Egypt, was acquitted of mutilating Sohair al-Bata’a in June 2013. The 12-year-old died...
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    Man in prison 19 years for molesting freed after claim recanted

    Jerry Lee Brock, 55, had been in prison since his conviction for first-degree molestation in 1995. In 2012, the alleged victim, Regina Rush, came forward to say she made the whole thing up, partly as a way to get more attention from her mother. Last week, Thurston County Superior Court Judge...
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    The 78 Canadian Heritage Moments

    Part 1: 78-61 http://justinmcelroy.com/2014/11/10/ranking-the-canadian-heritage-minutes-every-one-of-them-part-1-78-60/ Part 2: 60-41 http://justinmcelroy.com/2014/11/11/ranking-the-canadian-heritage-minutes-every-one-of-them-part-2-60-41/ Part 3: 40-26...
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    Banks/Dealers Do Double Speak on 8 yr Car Loans

    I'll never forget the first time I heard a commercial for a '84 month car loan'. I was in the local Home Hardware and they had a radio station playing over the speaker system. At some point there was a commercial and the part I caught was '84 month loan'. I stopped and listened and they...
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    Alberta has had 13 Toxic Spills in October

    West Coast Native News | On First Nation Issues, Events, And Environmental Issues On The West Coast And World Events. Over the past year WCNN has reported on many Crude oil and Toxic produced water spills all over Alberta, in fact we have reported over 600,000 Litres of toxic crap that has...
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    NHL'er Bankrupted by Parents Spending

    On the morning of Oct. 7, two days before the Blue Jackets opened the 2014-15 season, Jack Johnson left his Ferrari parked in the garage of his Dublin apartment and drove his BMW to a federal courthouse Downtown to file for bankruptcy. Johnson has earned more than $18 million during his...
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    Harper Conservatives are Incompetent Reformers

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    Self Made Millionaire Lied to Yahoo Finance

    27-year-old "self made millionaire" admits that his wealth was actually inherited from his parents We came across Ivanov’s story first in an article he wrote for a well-regarded personal finance blog. He had written a couple of other guest posts on other blogs, but no major publication had...
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    Alberta Landowner Appeals Constitutional Issue in Fracking Case

    Can provincial legislation protect the state and "block an individual from seeking a remedy for breach" of her fundamental rights and freedoms under the nation's Charter of Rights? That's the question that lawyers representing Alberta oil patch consultant Jessica Ernst have now posed to the...
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    Sleepy Trucker Kills 2

    The driver of a tractor trailer has been arrested for allegedly falling asleep at the wheel and causing a "horrific" crash that killed two people and injured nine others on Route 222 in Berks County early Wednesday morning. The trucker, identified as Steven Bernier, 50, of Reading, has been...
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    Obama puts up petition to stand up for net neutrality, directed at the FCC

    https://www.barackobama.com/net-neutrality/?utm_campaign=MISC&awesm=ofa.bo_q1fH&utm_medium=socnet&source=socnet_fb_MISC_20141119_bo_net-neutrality_addyourname_1&utm_source=fb&utm_content=20141119_bo_net-neutrality_addyourname_1
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    The US Senate has voted down the USA Freedom Act by a vote of 58-42,

    leaving it just two votes shy of the 60 it needed. The bill would have ended the controversial phone record metadata collection by the NSA, but the Senate was not in favor of rolling back any of the NSA's broad surveillance powers. USA Freedom Act for NSA reform is voted down in the Senate |...
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    U.S. Regulators Call for Takata Airbag Recall

    In a significant shift, federal safety regulators on Tuesday called on automakers to conduct a nationwide recall of vehicles that contain driver’s-side airbags made by the Japanese supplier Takata. The agency said it had yet to make a detailed list of the models or model years affected. But...
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    Pleaded Guilty But gets 'off' on a Technicality

    Criminal sexual conduct charges brought against John Robert Lind were dismissed earlier this month even though police say he admitted ejaculating in his co-worker's coffee on at least two occasions. Judge Patrick Diamond wrote that the charges of fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct and...
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    Guests fined for leaving review of ‘filthy, dirty rotten’ hotel on TripAdvisor

    When a couple left scathing comments on a travel review website that a hotel in northern England they had stayed at was a “filthy, dirty rotten stinking hovel,” they thought no more about it. But Tony and Jan Jenkinson were shocked later to see an extra £100 ($156) added to their credit card...
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    Investigation finds 10 more dead children of faith healers

    “Difference of opinions, difference of religion, different ideas - we follow the word for what it is, what the bible says,” said Mark Jerome, who attends the Followers of Christ Church in Marsing, Idaho. The same last names appear over and again, going back decades. Some - like Beagley -...
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    His plan was inspired by God, but he's not asking for money

    What a difference between the money grubbers and someone who truly wants to help............... A NFL player has left behind his $37 million contract in order to do something he has never done before: become a North Carolina farmer. According to CBS News, St. Louis Rams center Jason...
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    The Other Canadian Tar Sands Pipeline Quietly Snaking Into the U.S.

    While the country focuses on the pending Senate vote to approve or reject the Keystone XL pipeline, another Canadian company is quietly pressing ahead on a pipeline project that will significantly raise the volume of tar sands oil transported through the U.S. The company is pressing ahead...