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    Cons Scheming To Attack Negative Attack Ads With Positive Ads

    Isn't that what Orwell called Double Speak? They say they want to put an end to negative attack ads by attacking them with positive attack ads. When is the disrespect for the intelligence of Canadians going to end?
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    A Nice Spring Sprinkle!

    Rainfall Warning Issued at 3:45 PM CST Thursday 16 June 2011 Summary 50 to 75 mm rain totals beginning this evening into tomorrow night. That's about 2-3 INCHES Details An upper disturbance currently located over Idaho will track northeast this evening producing an area of...
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    Flaherty delivers stern fiscal warning to U.S.

    NEW YORK — Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on Wednesday ramped up his warnings to the United States about the U.S. failure to tackle its deficit, telling New York's business elite the fate of the world's economic recovery rides on what Washington lawmakers decide. Building on a warning...
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    Genetically modified cows produce 'human' milk

    Scientists have created genetically modified cattle that produce "human" milk in a bid to make cows' milk more nutritious. The scientists have successfully introduced human genes into 300 dairy cows to produce milk with the same properties as human breast milk. Human milk contains high...
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    Russia: NATO 'one step' from land war in Libya

    SINGAPORE – Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov says NATO is "one step" from sending troops into Libya in a bid to help rebels remove Moammar Gadhafi from power. Ivanov said Sunday at an Asian security conference in Singapore that Russia didn't know that a United Nations resolution it...
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    World Bank to suggest CO2 levy (TAX) on jet, shipping fuel

    I suggest the World Bank take a 'flying ****" at a rolling dougnut. Since when do banks vote? (Reuters) - The World Bank will suggest a global levy (TAX) on jet and shipping fuel in recommendations to G20 governments later this year on raising climate finance, a senior official said on...
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    Hooray...an even more worthless US Dollar and higher prices!

    Prepare for More Money Printing: Analyst Investors should prepare themselves for a third round of quantitative easing, Simon Maughn, co-head of European equities at MF Global, told CNBC Wednesday. “The bond market is going in one direction which is up-falling yields which is telling you...
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    Uranium Stocks Under Siege as Fukushima Continues Spewing Radiation

    by James West on May 30, 2011 By James West MidasLetter.com May 30, 2011 As shares in uranium exploration companies continued to shed value, Japan’s nuclear nightmare is still getting worse. News this weekend that the hope of ‘stabilizing’ the leakage of radiation by steam into the atmospohere...
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    Homeland security deploys mind-reading hardware

    The US Department of Homeland Security has begun field testing new technology which it thinks can identify people who intend to commit a terrorist act, just by looking at them. According to the magazine Nature, which we get for the spot the Schroedinger's cat competition, the US spooks have...
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    Crop report may 17 to 23, 2011

    Fifty-four per cent of the 2011 crop has been seeded, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture's Weekly Crop Report. The five year (2006-2010) average for this time of year is approximately 72 per cent seeded. Significant seeding progress was made in western and northern regions during the past...
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    Student at Ottawa high school explosion regains pulse-student now deceased

    An 18-year-old student who was seriously injured in an Ottawa high school autoshop explosion and lost his vital signs was later revived in hospital. Paramedics called to the school late Thursday morning had originally confirmed the male died at the shop at Ottawa's Mother Teresa Catholic High...
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    Wheat Board monopoly to end in 2012

    The Conservative government will use its majority in the House of Commons to end the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly on marketing wheat and barley, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said Wednesday. The government will likely introduce legislation this fall, Ritz said, with the changes expected to...
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    China to expedite 50 JF-17 kits for Pakistan

    China will expedite the delivery of 50 Chengdu/Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) JF-17 Thunder aircraft production kits to Pakistan, part of Islamabad's 150 firm orders for the single-engined fighter. The Pakistan air force has confirmed the expedited delivery but declined to comment on the...
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    Kite Surfing On Flooded Farmland

    I had to take a drive up to the Coteau along the way I saw 6 people kite surfing on a flooded farmfield at the city's edge. I have a feeling there will be pics on the paper in morning. I'll look for and hopefully post any photos. It looked like they were having a blast, it was very windy today...
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    Libya rebels (Good al Qaeda) seek funds in White House meeting

    Libyan rebels will meet senior White House officials in Washington Friday, seeking both cash and diplomatic legitimacy in their war to topple Muammar Gaddafi. The head of the rebel National Transitional Council's executive bureau, Mahmoud Jebril, will meet President Barack Obama's national...
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    Text Zombies

    I just watched a woman smoke her melon into a light standard....... Hahahahahaha
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    After Osama, China fears the next target

    Although relieved with bin Laden's death, many Chinese are scared where Washington will focus its attention next. The United States' most vilified terrorist foe has been dead only a week but China is already haunted by the phantom of the next big US enemy. Almost simultaneously with the spread...
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    This Spring's Fuel Prices Lie.

    Every spring right before seeding fuel prices jump and there is a fresh new excuse. The winner this year is: Oil Prices Will Top Highs After Correction: Goldman Goldman Sachs, which in April predicted this week’s major correction in oil prices, said on Friday oil could surpass recent highs...
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    Jessica Lynch - " I killed Osama in Pakistan"

    It's 100% true......
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    Plush pensions: MPs can afford to retire in style

    Pity Gilles Duceppe. The leader of the Bloc Québécois spent almost two selfless decades in Parliament being paid handsomely by the taxpayers of Canada to try and pry the country apart. And what is his thanks after he was defeated in his own riding on Monday and the Bloc was reduced to four...