Monthly Archives: September 2011

Teeny, tiny environmentalists about to be run over by a VERY big truck! (1)

A couple months ago, Jake Featheringill and his wife got robbed. It wasn’t serious. No one was home at the time, and no one got hurt. But for Featheringill, it was just the latest in a string of bad luck. … Continue reading

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Canada-U.S. border-patrolling aircraft hunt ‘bad people doing bad things’ (1)

The unmanned planes look north toward the long, lightly defended and admittedly porous Canada-U.S. border – the best route many Americans believe for jihadists seeking to attack the United States to sneak across. Like their missile-carrying military cousins prowling Pakistan’s … Continue reading

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Afternoon Update September 30th, 2011 (10)

CANADA #1 — CNews | Bear gobbles up pies at B.C. pizza joint (video available) CALGARY – Andrea Lawrance is used to customers having growling tummies. But this unexpected visitor had a bear-size case of the munchies. [...] #2 — Globe … Continue reading

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Berlin bailout fails to ease euro fears as Greek default seems unavoidable (13)

Fears over the future of the eurozone grew last night despite German backing for a new bailout fund aimed at saving the single currency. It ‘now seems unavoidable’ that basket-case Greece will default on its towering debt pile of around … Continue reading

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East Alton Copper Gang Led Double Lives

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOX) – They were married with kids — six men who held down decent jobs, until co-workers wondered how they could  afford fancy trips, new vehicles and the latest riding lawn mowers. The six are now charged with taking … Continue reading

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Defected brigade says it has killed 80 members of Assad’s forces

A defected brigade called al-Harmoush claimed in a recorded public statement on Wednesday that it killed 80 people in the Syrian regime’s security forces and the Shabiha elements. The Shabiha are gang-like gunmen employed by the Syrian regime to carry … Continue reading

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Will: For Barney Frank, no Fed dissent will do

“If two people always agree,” says Ben Bernanke, “one of them is redundant.” So imagine what the Federal Reserve chairman thinks of Rep. Barney Frank’s legislation designed to dampen dissent within the Fed. Fond of diversity in everything but thought, a certain kind … Continue reading

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Drug scams a billion-dollar industry for Russian gangs

LONDON — Russian gangs and their Chinese associates are making billions of dollars from selling fake and unlicensed medicines over the Internet, putting thousands of people at risk, British police and medical regulators said on Thursday. The criminals sell the … Continue reading

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O’Connor: Canada tries to do right thing, fails miserably

Sometimes, say, every once in a Fall Harvest Moon, our government steps up and does something that has nothing to do with partisanship or the economy and everything to do with what is morally right and just. That is what … Continue reading

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Rosett: U.S. Taxes and the United Nations Money Pit (1)

Whether you love or hate the United Nations, one thing all Americans ought to be able to agree on is that sloshing billions of American tax dollars into the UN, with little accountability and regardless of UN performance, is a … Continue reading

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Hutchinson: Forget the political posturing, RCMP are staying in B.C.

VANCOUVER — The Mounties are not leaving British Columbia. Forget the veiled threats of abandonment, the suggestions that contract renewal negotiations between the province and the federal government will dissolve soon without agreement. There is political posturing, and there is … Continue reading

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