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    Tungsten-Filled Gold Bar Found in U.K.

    Here’s an unsettling story out of the U.K.: Last week, the gold dealer ABC Bullion received an email from one of its refinery partners warning them about a Metalor 1000gm Au bar that had been drilled out and filled with Tungsten. more Uh-Oh: Tungsten-Filled Gold Bar Found in U.K...
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    Give him his 'space', man

    President Obama Asks Medvedev for ‘Space’ on Missile Defense — ‘After My Election I Have More Flexibility’ SEOUL, South Korea — At the tail end of his 90 minute meeting with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev Monday, President Obama said that he would have “more flexibility” to deal with...
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    A general is only as good as his soldiers

    After Jack Layton's death this summer, a lot of NDPers in Ottawa had to shoulder heavy loads. Even if Layton had been around to lead the party, it wasn't going to be easy to integrate a caucus full of inexperienced Quebec rookies into the team, while simultaneously adapting to the new...
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    PC student tests forbid dance, dinos & lots more

    In a bizarre case of political correctness run wild, educrats have banned references to “dinosaurs,” “birthdays,” “Halloween” and dozens of other topics on city-issued tests. That’s because they fear such topics “could evoke unpleasant emotions in the students.” Dinosaurs, for example, call...
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    The nodding (zombie) disease in Ugnadan children

    Agnes Apio has to tie up her son Francis before she can leave the house. In his state, he is a danger to himself. Where once he walked and talked like a normal child, now he is only able to drag himself along in the dirt. Francis is suffering from “Nodding Disease,” a brain disorder that...
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    US paid $50,000 per shooting spree death

    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - The United States has paid $50,000 in compensation for each Afghan killed in the shooting spree attributed to a U.S. soldier in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan official and a community elder said Sunday. The families of the dead received the money Saturday at...
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    10 Reasons Why Nothing You Do On The Internet Will EVER Be Private Again

    10 Reasons Why Nothing You Do On The Internet Will EVER Be Private Again
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    Government to keep data on citizens with no terrorism ties

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    More rulz is rulz

    State rules bar Down Syndrome student from playing his favorite sport, basketball ISHPEMING, MI -- Eric Dompierre loves sports, especially basketball. In fact, this week, he earned our "Play of the Week" with a shot against Negaunee, Michigan in the District Final. Eric never let the fact...
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    Televangelists Accused of Defrauding $50 Million from Trinity Broadcasting Network

    Televangelists Paul and Jan Crouch have faced plenty of mountains building their religious broadcast empire — among them allegations of a homosexual tryst and a prolonged battle with the Federal Communications Commission — but the most recent attack on the founders of Trinity Broadcasting...
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    Titanic: survivor's vivid account resurfaces

    The dramatic first-hand account of Jack Thayer, a 17-year-old survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, is to be published next month after lying almost forgotten for decades. It was the desperate cries for help that haunted John "Jack" Thayer after he witnessed the death throes of...
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    RCAF guard asleep at post

    NORTH BAY - An RCAF corporal has been fined $500 for falling asleep while guarding the aircraft of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other government members during a trip to Morocco. Master Corporal C.J.S. Agnew was found guilty by a Standing Court Martial on March 5 at CFB North Bay...
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    Saudi Arabia And China Team Up To Build A Gigantic New Oil Refinery

    The largest oil exporter in the Middle East has teamed up with the second largest consumer of oil in the world (China) to build a gigantic new oil refinery and the mainstream media in the United States has barely even noticed it. This mammoth new refinery is scheduled to be fully...
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    AccuWeather last fall:

    Winter is gonna be so bad you are gonna want to move. AccuWeather this spring: yeah about that, we're going with tsunami debris :lol:
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    Some of my photos

    Somebody with your talent can sure make this city look a lot different through a lense than the way I 'don't see' it as I whiz through my daily blinkered and close-minded life. Good job man. The entire Durka_album is worth several looks.
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    It's a Trap!

    You'd still hit it. ;-) Miss Universe Canada yanks transgendered contestant from pageant The Miss Universe Canada organizers concede Jenna Talackova is a “real girl,” but that doesn’t mean they will let her in their beauty pageant...
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    ‘Borat’ national anthem accidentally played for Kazakh athlete (video)

    A gold-medal winning athlete from Kazakhstan was forced to stand through a national anthem that insulted other countries and boasted of her nation's "clean prostitutes" when organizers at a shooting competition accidentally played a fake anthem from the comedy film "Borat." Gold...
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    10 Places You’re Not Allowed to See on Google Maps

    If you think you have seen it all then you are wrong, Google Earth and Google Map does not allow you to see everything. There are some places or secrets which are kept under darkness by Google Maps. Below is the list of 10 places which are not allowed to see on Google Maps. Mashable came up...
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    Possible coup in China?

    'Tanks in the streets of Beijing': Chinese leaders order internet whitewash amid rumours of attempted military coup Nervous leaders in China have blocked all internet reports of an alleged attempted coup. Online reports of tanks on the streets of the capital Beijing and shots fired within the...
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    Disney's The Sweatbox

    An interesting article on this blog: Watch a Rare Disney Behind the Scenes Documentary Called ‘The Sweatbox’ Disney is a prolific company with its name on a great many successes, and it likes to hide its missteps and failures. The process of doing so sometimes helps those mistakes become...