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    The Army's secret Cold War experiments on St. Louisans

    via Fark During the Cold War, the US Army began covert tests on residents of the city of St. Louis: "The study was secretive for reason. They didn't have volunteers stepping up and saying yeah, I'll breathe zinc cadmium sulfide with radioactive particles" St. Louis (KSDK) - Lisa...
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    ACLU: Bush administration quadrupled warrantless wiretaps.

    Just kidding. It was Obama and Holder. from: Doug Ross @ Journal: ACLU: Bush administration quadrupled warrantless wiretaps. Just kidding. It was Obama and Holder. Gee, and all this time I thought Democrats hated wiretaps and warrantless surveillance. The ACLU reports: Justice Department...
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    Campbell Soup Leaving California

    California’s state song will soon be changed from "California, Here I Come!" to "California, There It Goes!" An American icon, the Campbell Soup Company, is closing its plant in Sacramento, leaving 700 people without jobs. The plant was built in 1947, and some of its workers have worked...
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    G20 protester gets 10 months

    Good. TORONTO - In a chaotic courtroom scene with some of his supporters swearing at the judge and forcibly ejected, masked G20 protester George Horton was sentenced to 10 months in jail for attacking a police cruiser and assaulting an officer. He is the first to be convicted and sentenced...
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    Global Gold Mines and Deposits Ranking 2012

    via The Blaze: Visual Capitalist’s Beautiful Graph of the Worlds Gold Mines & Deposits | TheBlaze.com Sources: Global Gold Mines and Deposits Ranking 2012 | Visual Capitalist http://www.nrh.co.il/i/pdf/NRH_Research_2012%20World_Gold_Deposits.pdf
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    Fox News shows car chase suicide live

    Shepard Smith Apologizes after FOX News Airs Car Chase that Ends in Suicide A car chase in Phoenix, Ariz. today ended in a suspected carjacker committing suicide, and FOX News aired it live despite its five-second tape delay. Mediaite reports that FOX had been tracking the chase since...
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    The Onion spoofs Iran news agency on Obama-Ahmadinejad story

    77% of Americans would prefer Iranian President Ahmadinejad to Obama, according to Iranian Fars news agency and their source, The Onion A news agency in Iran has published a report by the satirical news website, The Onion, saying rural white Americans would rather vote for President...
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    Harper Praises Netanyahu’s UN Red Line Speech

    From Zip: It Is Now “Reverberating” Around The World… I’m not afraid to admit it, I’m a Stephen Harper fanboy. Via JPost:Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that his speech at the UN is now “reverberating” around the world, Netanyahu said...
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    Terror suspect admits to funding Mujahideen

    FBI interrogation video of Sayfildin Tahir Sharif to be played in Edmonton courtroom An Edmonton man wanted in the United States for terrorism told RCMP that he sent money out of the country to Islamic guerrilla fighters, a court heard today. Sayfildin Tahir Sharif, shown in an undated...
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    Tips on chained teen suspects focus on Ontario

    Police looking for 2003 grey Hyundai Elantra with Nova Scotia plates RCMP in Nova Scotia say tips continue to pour in about the location of two men charged with forcible confinement and s e x ual assault involving a teenaged boy in Upper Chelsea, Lunenburg County. The police have been...
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    The last Northlander leaves today

    Sign of the times. Isolates the north. Ontario Northland will have an extra seven buses on the highways over the Thanksgiving weekend to fill the gap left by the cancellation of the Northlander train, according to a spokeswoman for the Crown corporation. The last Northlander runs Friday, a...
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    Screaming Heads

    An interesting place not too far a drive north of Toronto. Makes for an interesting Halloween visit if nothing else. Screaming Heads It's in my old stomping grounds (Burks Falls) and when you see the scale of everything it's pretty surreal. Bing Maps - Driving Directions, Traffic and Road...
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    'Blackberry Finger' gets man arrested

    The man who sent s e x text in error to ALL his contacts... and ended up in prison Craig Evans, 24, had been jailed for 18 months for inciting a child to engage in s e x ual activity Freed after judges hear the messages went out to all his contacts including members of his own family...
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    Harper jumps into Middle East politics

    NEW YORK, N.Y. - Iran represents "a clear and present danger" to all of the world's nations, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a speech to a high-powered audience here Thursday night that included former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger. Kissinger, in fact, introduced...
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    Canadian energy firm hit by cyber attack

    OTTAWA - A cyber attack on a major player in Canada's energy industry is "extremely serious," says a former Canadian diplomat who specializes in Chinese crime and espionage."Canadians just don't want to take this seriously," Brian Adams said. "In essence, it's an electronic war that's going...
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    Former Vancouver Olympics CEO denies abuse allegations

    John Furlong, the former CEO of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, says he categorically denies allegations of abuse made against him by former students at a Burns Lake, B.C. school. Furlong, 61, also told a Vancouver news conference Thursday that he would sue over allegations that have been...
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    TSA Phoenix airport "freeze drill"

    TSA Phoenix airport "freeze drill" scare tactic (22 September 2012) - YouTube Uploader: As if air travel couldn't get any worse: this (regrettably short) video shows an new TSA "strategy" which they are quietly beginning to implement: the "freeze drill". h/t Blaze
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    So it WAS Al Qaeda!

    AHA! Clinton Suggests Link to Qaeda Offshoot in Deadly Libya Attack http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/world/africa/clinton-cites-clear-link-between-al-qaeda-and-attack-in-libya.html?hp&_r=0
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    Weird Crime: Suds of good clean rage

    via Fark News: Man arrested on domestic battery charge. Fark: ...for washing his girlfriend's mouth out with soap when she wouldn't stop swearing. Florida: ...also washes out own mouth out of respect for his parents Pasco County, Florida On the evening of September 25, 2012, John Vincent...