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    Which Companies Benefit From Food Stamps?

    Video: Which Companies Benefit From Food Stamps? - Yahoo! Related: Mike Krieger: Where Food Stamps Go to Die We all know the economy sucks. We all know we are headed in the wrong direction. We all know our leaders are corrupt, immoral, greedy and violent. You don’t need me to tell...
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    Members of Gulf Cartel Behead Five Rival Zetas

    With Machetes… On Camera An unbelievably horrifying video has been posted on a popular cartel-focused blog that shows a number of Gulf Cartel members interrogating and eventually beheading at least three members of their rival Los Zetas, ABC News first reported. The three-minute...
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    Playboy Playmate granted U.S. 'genius' visa

    Alrighty then. Shera Bechard, the Canadian-born former girlfriend of Playboy Enterprises founder Hugh Hefner, would not be an obvious candidate for the special visas that the U.S. government reserves for "individuals with extraordinary ability." Playboy magazine named Bechard Miss...
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    Arizona Millionaire Commits Suicide In Court *Graphic*

    (Potassium cyanide, Raw Video followed by News Report) It's more unsettling than graphic but a fair warning for the sensitive: Man Collapses, Dies in Court After Being Convicted of Arson - YouTube PHOENIX - Did this convicted arsonist poison himself in court? Michael Marin...
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    Open WiFi leads to SWAT Team fail

    The long-standing, heavily documented militarization of even small-town American police forces was always going to create problems when it met anonymous Internet threats. And so it has, again—this time in Evansville, Indiana, where officers acted on some Topix postings threatening violence...
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    N.M. cops not allowed to carry guns

    Another candidate for the 'Odd News' request forum: Freight trains still rumble through Vaughn, NM just like they have since the 1800s. There are two schools, and a couple of bars and restaurants. Hoteliers still rent rooms to travelers even though few tourists stay overnight...
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    Ontario’s Tories take on the unions — and it’s about time

    Recently the Toronto Star has been entertaining its readers with a series of stories on how work gets done at the Toronto District School Board: $143 to install a pencil sharpener, $2,900 to install an electrical outlet, that kind of thing. The work is performed by members of the...
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    JPMorgan Trading Loss May Reach $9 Billion

    Losses on JPMorgan Chase’s bungled trade could total as much as $9 billion, far exceeding earlier public estimates, according to people who have been briefed on the situation. When Jamie Dimon, the bank’s chief executive, announced in May that the bank had lost $2 billion in a bet on...
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    MNR job cuts, office closures coming, province says

    Job cuts and office closures are coming to Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources as it chops $70 million or 10 per cent of its spending over three years, Minister Michael Gravelle confirmed Thursday. “These are tough decisions,” he acknowledged at a news conference, overshadowing the...
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    One dead, 2 wounded in Fort Bragg shooting

    One solider killed another at Fort Bragg this afternoon and then turned his gun on himself, the Army says. The shooter and a third soldier survived with injuries. The Army did not identify the soldiers. NBC News reports that the dead soldier is a battalion commander. Update at 6:21 p.m. ET...
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    Another Obama-Funded Solar Company Files For Bankruptcy

    Abound Solar, Recipient of $400 Million Loan Guarantee, Shuts Down Abound Solar, a Colorado thin-film photovoltaic panel startup that snagged $400 million in federal loan guarantees to take on industry leader First Solar, is shutting down and filing for bankruptcy, according to the U.S...
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    Obamacare upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court

    The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the vast majority of the U.S. Affordable Care Act, including the controversial individual mandate. The court on Thursday handed Obama a campaign-season victory in rejecting arguments that Congress went too far in requiring most Americans to have health...
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    Canadian pipelines targeted by U.S. funds

    'Charities' are helping the U.S. keep Canada over a barrel Ross McMillan, the CEO of the controversial charity Tides Canada, will speak Wednesday at the Economic Club of Canada on accountability and transparency in the charity sector. Perhaps Mr. McMillan will explain why the U.S. Tides...
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    New Program Teaches Border Agents to Flee and Hide When Confronted

    n another nauseating series of “Virtual Learning Center” brainwashing courses that Border Patrol agents are forced to sit behind a computer for hours and endure, we are now taught in an “Active Shooter” course that if we encounter a shooter in a public place we are to “run away” and “hide”...
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    Dotcom searches illegal: Judge

    The High Court has ruled the police raid on internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom's Auckland mansion was illegal and the removal from New Zealand of cloned copies of hard drives seized was unlawful. Justice Helen Winkelmann found the warrants used did not adequately describe the offences to which...
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    Android phone tips

    Personally I don't have this thing but many found this info helpful on another site that I am blatantly plagiarizing. Take it or leave it. stop ads in Android notification bar....and helpful data control Do you get those symbols in your notification bar and an advertisement in your...
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    Inmate admits disembowelling and murdering child rapist

    A prisoner has admitted disembowelling and murdering a child rapist during a brutal attack at a top-security jail. Mitchell Harrison, 23, was serving an indefinite sentence at Frankland Prison, Durham, for raping a 13-year-old girl when he was brutally killed last October. He was attacked...
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    Queers Against Israeli Apartheid still unsure whether they can march at Pride Parade

    With a few days left before the annual Pride Parade, one group’s spot in the march is still undecided. Due to complaints filed against Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) under Pride Toronto’s dispute resolution process, the group might not be able to participate in Sunday’s parade. A...
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    Report into Afghan detainee transfers clears military police

    The Military Police Complaints Commission says there was no wrongdoing by Canadian military police in the long-running controversy over the torture of detainees in Afghanistan. The mandate of the commission's inquiry was tightly restricted to the question of whether a small group of eight...