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    Cheney fights back

    Ahh! So then there must have been weapons of mass distruction found in Iraq after all. WASHINGTON -- In the sharpest White House attack yet on critics of the Iraq war, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday that accusations the Bush administration manipulated intelligence to justify the...
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    Porn for War Dead Photos

    Excellent article at this website. It seems US soldiers in Iraq are sending in pictures of, among other things, Iraqi war dead for free access to porn websites. The obvious moral and legal implications of this aside, this is a very interesting dilema. Consider the dilemma, a North American...
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    US Scientific With Hunt??

    Found this scanning the Gaurdian this morning http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1558884,00.html#article_continue. Whatever happened to peer review? A far-reaching inquiry into the careers of three of the US's most senior climate specialists has been launched by Joe Barton, the...
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    Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

    Anyone out there familiar enough with The Charter to tell me why under the section of "Official Languages of Canada", that essentially every point is repeated but "Canada" is removed and replaced with "New Brunswick"? eg. What am I forgeting about Canadian history? full document...
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    United North America

    http://www.unitednorthamerica.org/ Came across this on another board. My question, why stop there?? Why not just a United States of the World??
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    Chavez Takes a Stand

    First George Galloway gave a US senate committee "what for". Now Hugo Chavez is considering breaking off diplomatic ties with the US. Perhaps at some point the Bush adminsistration will get the hint that they are not playing nice. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4571957.stm And Hamid...
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    BC Election

    It's early yet, but so far it's a dead heat between the Libs and NDP out west. Also there's a small majority in favour of STV thus far. http://www.cbc.ca/bcvotes2005/
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    Orthorexia

    Is this for real? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4389849.stm What I don't understand is how can one eat to healthy? "Orthorexics exhibit an over-enthusiasm for pure eating and healthy food. In moderation, of course, this can be beneficial. In extremis, however, malnutrition...
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    Gross National Happiness

    Something I came across that a good little socialist such as myself would like to see spread, at the very least, in this country. I know that there are a few posters here that will scoff and say that it will never work; however, I point to two things that dispute that: (i) It is already in...
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    Canada to get new territory?

    If I'm reading this correctly, we're in store for our next territory. Source: http://www.nunatsiaq.com/news/nunavut/50121_01.html
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    Bush Bullying

    I first heard about this on CBC Sunday Night. Couldn't find any mention of it in any of the papers yesterday until I was scanning around this morning. source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050124.wlibs0124/BNStory/Front/