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Classy. Directors fired as $2M in toys, nearly $250K in cash go missing from Salvation Army centres Mere days into its high-profile Christmas kettle drive and a busy donation season, the Salvation Army is grappling with two separate scandals that have led to senior personnel losing their...

Vote-seeking koolaid-speak: Climate change a 'real and present danger,' Kent says In perhaps his most forceful comments on climate change to date, [Environment Minister Peter] Kent says the recent Hurricane Sandy that devastated parts of the U.S. East Coast is putting the issue top of...

Fark headline NEW DELHI: In a secret operation, LeT terrorist and 26/11 attacks accused Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab was hanged in the high-security Yerwada Jail in Pune at 7:30am today after a four-year-long trial. Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan said he was buried inside the...

A terrorist blew up a bus on Shaul Hamelech Street in Tel Aviv around noon Wednesday. Magen David Adom said that at least 10 people were injured, three moderately to seriously. Police confirmed that the explosion was a terrorist attack, although Channel 2 reported that it was not a suicide...

If you’re a member of hacking group Anonymous, it’s now illegal to show your face in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Dubai police have declared the Guy Fawkes mask, the disguise most strongly associated with Anonymous, illegal. Police issued a warning was issued to anyone considering...

More than 1,000 coal-fired power plants are being planned worldwide, new research has revealed. The huge planned expansion comes despite warnings from politicians, scientists and campaigners that the planet's fast-rising carbon emissions must peak within a few years if runaway climate change is...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has criticized the U.S. military for violating an agreement and illegally continuing to hold Afghans as prisoners against the orders of the Afghan government and courts. The deal, signed in March, gave the US six months to transfer the captured Afghans – an...

remove US flag and replace with Palestinian flag The Socialist Aotearoa group organized a march, including members of Occupy Auckland & Occupy New Zealand, and moved on the US Consulate in Auckland, New Zealand on Saturday. Claiming to be part of a “Global Peace and Justice Solidarity...

via sda We Don't Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors Supporters hailed the Desertec Industrial Initiative as the most ambitious solar energy project ever when it was founded in 2009. Major industrial backers pledged active involvement, politicians saw a win-win proposition and...

New Suit Adds Second Allegation of Underage Sex Sesame Workshop announced on Tuesday that Kevin Clash, the long-time puppeteer of Elmo, has resigned. In its statement Tuesday, Sesame Workshop said "the controversy surrounding Kevin's personal life has become a distraction that none of us...

PETERSBURG, Va. (WTVR) - A Petersburg mother waking up to make a pot of coffee early Monday morning saved her family from a fire. Barbara Tucker says she was walking down the hallway when she spotted smoke and flames around 7 a.m. That’s when she started yelling for her family, including...

In Prison For Plot To Blow Up Ohio Bridge… Upstanding citizens: CNN conveniently omits the fact that these guys were members of Occupy Cleveland.(CNN) — A self-described anarchist who calls himself “Cyco” got an 11-year prison sentence Tuesday for his role in a failed attempt to blow up...

Who let this guy in? :lol: Attaboy. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday referred to Israel as “a terrorist state,” a remark that the Obama administration has yet to challenge. “Israel is a terrorist state,” Erdogan said at an Islamic conference in Istanbul. He also...

Now who will protect us from a figment of Al Gore’s imagination? Via Greenwire:With the U.S. intelligence budget shrinking, the CIA has quietly shut down its Center on Climate Change and National Security — a project that was launched with the support of Leon Panetta when he led the...

:lol: Police are investigating an incident at a Berks County hunting club in which someone on the hunting grounds allegedly targeted a mechanical flying object rather than a living and breathing one. SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) are in the midst of a campaign against the...

The International Monetary Fund said it’s considering classifying the Australian and the Canadian dollars as reserve currencies. The two “are to be considered for inclusion” separately in the IMF’s “Currency Composition of Official Foreign-Exchange Reserves” data, the Washington-based...

via Fark Your tax dollars at work: Town of 1,000 has a $77 million airport with no air service; now adds $29 million harbor with no road access A harbor for Akutan, but no road to it | Alaska Newsreader | ADN.com

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A district attorney in upstate New York has admitted that he acted in pornographic movies in the 1970s then lied when questioned about it during his second campaign...

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