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  1. dancing-loon

    Feds blocking Detainee Inquiry

    Ottawa hopes to block probe into Afghan detainees The government is seeking to block an independent investigation by the Military Police Complaints Commission into Canada's handling of Afghan detainees, according to court documents filed in Federal Court. Amnesty International Canada and the...
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    Bottled Water

    Is it time to stop buying bottled water? Its harmful to the environment People believe the marketing hype too much Bottled water is good where there is a lack of healthy water Bottled water costs up to 1,000 times the price of tap water Its no better for you. Bottled water is often just...
  3. dancing-loon

    Ex-Presidents not cheap to keep!

    A good article - provides figures and facts about the financial cost to the tax payers for Exes' upkeep. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9531.html
  4. dancing-loon

    What would you have done?

    What a character test!!! Be honest, what would you have done? http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/...=mostpop_story ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you think the $2000 reward was fair? Why should he get anything at all?
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    Berlin's Canadian conundrum on the Hindu Kush

    Berlin's Canadian conundrum on the Hindu Kush The contentious eastward expansion of NATO isn’t the only issue clouding the transatlantic alliance’s summit in Romania this week. The Local’s Marc Young explores German reluctance to join the fighting in southern Afghanistan and the implications...
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    Verdi Opera - naked seniors!

    I don't know where else to put this. So, may it find a few readers here. Verdi opera with 35 naked seniors sells out The ruins of the World Trade Center and naked senior citizens wearing Mickey Mouse masks will share a stage Saturday, when a German theatre's sell-out reinterpretation of a...
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    Missing child Madeleine McCann

    The parents of missing Madeleine McCann believe there would have been a greater chance of finding her if a missing child alert system had been used. Kate and Gerry McCann want the European Parliament to improve inter-country co-ordination for the existing system. The couple said it worked...
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    Pakistan: US detainees - no witness trials

    Afghans Hold Secret Trials for Men That U.S. Detained Dozens of Afghan men who were previously held by the United States at Bagram Air Base and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are now being tried here in secretive Afghan criminal proceedings based mainly on allegations forwarded by the American military...
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    Who else but the Germans....

    ....would come up with such a crazy idea!:roll: Watch this video... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7335351.stm
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    McCain

    McCain makes upbeat Iraq speech John McCain, the Republicans' choice for president, has said the US can succeed in Iraq, but warned against any hasty withdrawal of US troops. Mr McCain said: "We are no longer staring into the abyss of defeat." From June 2007 until Mr McCain's most recent...
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    Diana

    Princess Diana unlawfully killed