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    Man stabbed, beheaded on bus in Manitoba

    This is tooo bizarre. Can you imagine being on the bus? Nightmares forever. BRANDON, MAN. — A young man travelling on a Greyhound bus was stabbed to death and beheaded by a stranger in a horrifying act of apparently random violence.The incident occurred on a bus travelling from Edmonton to...
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    British warship has been discovered in Lake Ontario

    The HMS Ontario, a British warship built in 1780, has been discovered in deep water off the southern shore of Lake Ontario. In the early evening hours of October 31, 1780, the British sloop of war HMS Ontario sank with over 120 men, women, children and prisoners on board during a sudden and...
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    All you need is ubuntu (BBC)

    By Sean Coughlan BBC News Magazine Bill Clinton told the Labour conference to get into ubuntu. Eh? Ubuntu. That was what Bill Clinton told the Labour party conference it needed to remember this week. "Society is important because of Ubuntu." *** No, it's a word describing an African...
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    This is too funny

    You Are My Sunshine. Can't stop laughing. :lol:
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    Fellow Ontarians, anyone sign up for

    Direct Energy? It's this "deal" where you sign up to lock in your gas and/or hydro rate for the next 5 years. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this. Thanks. :cheers:
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    Freedom and democracy in America

    By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan administration. 01/06/08 "At Christmas time it has been my habit to write a column in remembrance of the many innocent people in prisons whose lives have been stolen by the U.S. criminal...
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    News You Won't See on Fox

    IRAQ: Killer of U.S. Soldiers Becomes a Hero By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail* BAGHDAD, Jan 7 (IPS) - The recent killing of two U.S. soldiers by their Iraqi colleague has raised disturbing questions about U.S. military relations with the Iraqis they work with. On Dec. 26, an Iraqi soldier...
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    Check out Fuse

    right now. CBC Radio 1. You know, if ya feel like it. Good music.
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    Meanwhile, down in the US

    The first vote is happening. Iowa is always first. Corn farmers. Last I heard, Obama was winning but it's getting really hard now to find any counts. We'll soon see how this will all play out.
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    Regressive Antidote: Getting past "Oh"

    [Source: http://www.regressiveantidote.net/Articles/Getting_Past_Oh.html ] "Why Americans Misunderestimate the Depravity of the President They Hate Most Americans have long ago now reached two conclusions about their government. First, that George W. Bush is an incompetent president with...
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    Happy Solstice!

    Bet you slept through it, eh. The daylight is the shortest. The sun has its lowest arc in the sky. And soon the days will get longer. 8-)
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    Dan Fogelberg died

    of prostate cancer at 56 "Sunday, December 16 Dear friends, Dan left us this morning at 6:00am . He fought a brave battle with cancer and died peacefully at home in Maine with his wife Jean at his side. His strength, dignity and grace in the face of the daunting challenges...
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    US has right to kidnap British citizens

    AMERICA has told Britain that it can “kidnap” British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States. A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court...
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    Any "Afghanada" fans here?

    On CBC. Radio 1. I've been a long time listener, anyone else?