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    Garbage truck lands on Saturn

    AKA...the Alberta Space Program. :lol: It was a shocking wake-up call for the owner of a Saturn in west Edmonton Monday morning. Brian Fortuin parked his car Sunday on the street, near 156th Street and 96th Avenue. Police knocked at his door at around 6:30 a.m. Monday telling him his "car...
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    A brilliant move by the greeners I guess

    Electric Car Company Given $200 Million Loan By Obama Admin Says It May Drop Plans To Build Its Cars In America… The luxury carmaker Fisker Automotive continues to signal it could ditch plans to build its next generation hybrid electric vehicle in the United States, despite the nearly $200...
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    Nice collection of documentaries

    Documentary List | Top Documentary Films
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    Iceberg flipping over

    Iceberg flipping over... - YouTube
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    NASA asks future moon explorers to keep away from Apollo landing site

    Don’t say you haven’t been warned. NASA put out an official document today specifying how close any future spacecraft and astronauts visiting the Moon can come to the artifacts left on the lunar surface by all US space missions, including the Apollo landing sites, any robotic landing sites...
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    Kathie Lee Gifford asks Martin Short about his wife

    ...two years after her death. Even mentions her by name as if to imply she actually 'knows' her to the viewers. He sure handled it with class though. Kathie Lee Gifford forgets MARTIN SHORT wife is dead on Today Show: HUGE MISTAKE May 30 2012... - YouTube
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    Rockefellers and Rothschilds unite

    Two of the best-known business dynasties in Europe and the US will come together after Lord Jacob Rothschild’s listed investment trust and Rockefeller Financial Services agreed to form a strategic partnership. RIT Capital Partners is to buy a 37 per cent stake in the Rockefeller’s wealth...
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    Russia in color, a century ago

    Lots more: Russia in color, a century ago - The Big Picture - Boston.com
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    Eagle Scout Challenges Boy Scouts' Anti-Gay Policy With Petition

    of 275,000 signed names mind you. Eagle Scout Zach Wahls challenged the Boy Scouts of America's anti-gay policy today when he delivered three boxes of petitions demanding change, signed by more than 275,000 people. Wahls, 20, presented the petitions during the Boy Scouts' National...
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    BBC News uses 'Iraq photo to illustrate Syrian massacre'

    Photographer Marco di Lauro said he nearly “fell off his chair” when he saw the image being used, and said he was “astonished” at the failure of the corporation to check their sources. The picture, which was actually taken on March 27, 2003, shows a young Iraqi child jumping over...
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    Frogs, Flames and Files

    Israel hints it may be behind super-virus targeting Iran 'Flame' cyber attacks that can steal vast amounts of sensitive data come as Tehran nuclear talks falter A top Israeli minister yesterday fed speculation that the Jewish state could be responsible for a powerful new virus said to...
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    Vladimir Putin 'rejects Barack Obama offer to attend White House'

    Vladimir Putin earlier this month rejected an offer from Barack Obama for landmark bilateral talks at the White House, the Kremlin has claimed. Less than a week before Mr Putin's May 7 presidential inauguration, he received a missive from Mr Obama touching upon bilateral and...
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    A soldier's personal mission accomplished

    Pretty remarkable. Vietnam veteran Jim Schweickert holds a gold watch, given to him for safe keeping in August of 1967, by another soldier he did not know well who was heading out on a mission in Vietnam. The soldier, Frank Cook, did not come back and then Schweickert was called out on a...
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    6 of their 14 kids killed by house fire 2 weeks ago

    And now...The mother and father have been arrested on suspicion of murder. Mick Philpott, 55, and his wife Mairead, 31, were arrested in Derby on Tuesday and are due to be questioned. Jade Philpott, 10, and brothers John, nine, Jack, eight, Jessie, six and Jayden, five, died in the...
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    NATO says al-Qaeda No 2 in Afghanistan killed...AGAIN

    They must be monitoring his respawn spot. NATO says al-Qaeda's second-in-command in Afghanistan has been killed in an air raid near the Pakistani border. The US-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, or ISAF, said on Tuesday that Saudi-born Sakhr al-Taifi was killed on...
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    More 'shake your head' news

    A high school student who stopped some students from bullying a mentally disabled student on the bus is A) Thanked by the school. B) Honored by the school. C) Banned from the bus from Fark: Orlando, Florida high school student Stormy Rich, 18, had been riding on a middle school bus to...
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    Yours for just £2.5million

    the magnificent 48-room Jacobean mansion now on sale (but no bath and a £100,000-a-year maintenance bill) Read more: Yours for just £2.5million¿ the magnificent 48-room Jacobean palace now on sale (but no bath and a £100,000-a-year maintenance bill) | Mail Online
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    U.S. Bishops Prepare Catholics for Civil Disobedience

    You might not have heard much about this since the MSM is basically ignoring it: Having organized 43 plaintiffs—including the archdioceses of New York and Washington and the University of Notre Dame—to file 12 different lawsuits against the Obama administration last Monday alleging the...
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    Breaking news at the Toronto Star

    Even their commenters want to know why this is a front page major news story in the largest paper in the country. :lol: Toronto Star reporter enters forbidden territory — Mayor Rob Ford’s office News, Toronto, GTA, Sports, Business, Entertainment, Canada, World, Breaking - thestar.com...
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    Invented in 1899 and hasn’t needed improving since...

    The paper clip is something of a fetish object in design circles. Its spare, machined aesthetic and its inexpensive ubiquity landed it a spot in MoMA’s 2004 show Humble Masterpieces. This was a pedestal too high for design critic Michael Bierut, who responded with an essay called “To Hell with...