Monthly Archives: October 2009

A world of trouble in 140 characters

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but tweets could break your bank account. It’s a lesson being strongly felt south of the border, where incautious outbursts on the micro-blogging service Twitter are landing their authors in court. It’s amazing … Continue reading

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Afghan runner-up lists election conditions

Abdullah Abdullah has set out a list of “minimal” conditions that he says must be met if the run-off presidential election between him and Hamid Karzai is to be perceived as fair. Mr. Abdullah, a former foreign minister, called reporters … Continue reading

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FDA: H1N1 scams a danger on the Internet

Air “sterilizers.” A photon machine. Supplement pills to boost the immune system. Protective shampoos and face masks. Even fake Tamiflu. These and other products making bogus claims to prevent or treat H1N1, known as swine flu, are flooding the Internet … Continue reading

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Salvage company wants to launch Titanic expedition

NORFOLK, Va. — The company that has exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic is planning a possible expedition to the world’s most famous shipwreck in 2010. The first expedition to the North Atlantic wreck site since 2004 is revealed in … Continue reading

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Ottawa to take action on pension funds

The Harper government is looking at overhauling tax law to encourage bigger pension-fund surpluses, as part of a series of reforms to the country’s crumbling pension regime to be introduced this fall. Concerned over plan deficits, the government since January … Continue reading

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Harper may ignore Copenhagen

Environmental evangelicals are the most gullible constituency on the planet. They will be spouting industrial quantities of dogma at the Copenhagen treaty summit this December. Here’s a prediction: after it’s all over, the last man standing at the BS Corral may well … Continue reading

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World Oct. 26th, 2009 (10)

#1 — BBC | Afghan crashes kill 14 Americans At least 14 Americans have been killed in a series of air crashes in Afghanistan, military officials say. [...] Times | Fourteen Americans dead as helicopters crash in Afghan raids #2 — … Continue reading

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Canada Oct. 26th, 2009 (10)

#1 — CBC | Canadians not welcome in Libya Canadian travellers have been told they’re not welcome in Libya, in an apparent reprisal for Canada’s near tongue-lashing of Moammar Gadhafi. [...] #2 — CBC | Get H1N1 vaccine: health minister … Continue reading

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The raid that rocked the Met (1)

The Finchley Road is one of the busiest thoroughfares heading out of London. It leads traffic north past Lord’s Cricket Ground and the multimillion-pound houses of some of the country’s richest hedge-fund managers all the way to the M1. At … Continue reading

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The real climate change catastrophe (1)

Next Thursday marks the first anniversary of one of the most remarkable events ever to take place in the House of Commons. For six hours MPs debated what was far and away the most expensive piece of legislation ever put … Continue reading

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Protesters storm parliament in Kabul

Police opened fire as hundreds of protesters tried to storm Afghanistan’s parliament today. Religious students chanting “Death to America” burnt an effigy of President Obama less than a week after he warned that Kabul might no longer be a credible … Continue reading

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Tories step up gun registry fight

Conservatives are ramping up their fight to kill the gun registry with a series of hard-hitting ads targeting a dozen or more opposition MPs, Sun Media has learned. The series of radio spots to hit airwaves Monday will directly call … Continue reading

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