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STICKY:
Rules to live by
(closed)
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1. Debate logically and Honestly
2. Keep within reason.
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Pakistan Wants To Mine Border With Afghanistan
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CTV News
MacKay rejects Pakistan's border mining plan
Updated Tue. Jan. 9 2007 11:08 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
Foreign Affairs Minister Pe...
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10 Year Old Hangs Self After Watching Hussein Execution
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CBC.CA
HOUSTON (AP) - A 10-year-old boy was apparently mimicking Saddam Hussein's execution when he hanged himself from a bunk bed, police and family members said.
Sergio Pelico was found dead Sunday in his a...
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Smoking Bans Help Addicts Quit
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CBC.CA
Bans help smokers quit: health experts
Jan. 1 sees no cigarettes in Calgary bars, prizes for Quebec quitters
Last Updated: Monday, January 1, 2007 | 10:11 AM ET
CBC News
As the start of anoth...
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Series Of Bombings In Bangkok
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CBC.CA
The Canadian government is advising Canadians not to travel to Bangkok after a series of deadly bombings on New Year's Eve.
Nine bombs exploded across the Thai capital late Sunday an...
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Dems win
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I rejoicd at the great victories.
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Dog Handling Soldier Will Not Return To Iraq After Allegations Of Abuse
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CBC.CA
A U.S. solider convicted of abusing an inmate in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and who was supposed to return to the country with his military unit will not be going back, the army said Friday.
Spec. Sa...
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CBC Review Of Borat
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Review If you must see the sort-of-documentary Borat — and you must — wear a turtleneck, maybe even a cowl neck. At the very least, have a scarf on hand, as it will help to have somewhere soft to bury your face and hide from the horror. Here is a...
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Insurgent Footage
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Graphic Sniper Footage.
Found it to be quite clear on U.S. Troops vulnerability.
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Canada Looking To Extend Afghan Tour Dates/Rerole Troops
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CBC.CA
The Canadian military wants to increase the time served by its troops in Afghanistan to nine months, up from six, a general told soldiers gathered in Edmonton on Saturday.
Brig.-Gen Mark Skidmo...
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Three Day till complete retirement
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I just can't wait. After 68 years of life, I am going to plop down and relax with all the money I have accumulated. Its good to be alive.
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Japan Approves Sanctions Against North Korea
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CBC.CA
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's cabinet decided Friday to close the country's ports to North Korean ships and ban trade with the country in response to the North's claimed nuclear test this week, a news report said.
Prim...
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Deserter Who Fled To Canada Released By US Military
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CBC.CA
A 24-year-old soldier who fled to Canada after serving in Iraq has been released by U.S. military officials and won't face a court martial, his lawyer said Friday.
Jim Fennerty told the Lexingt...
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Canada Asks US To Own Upto Arar Case
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CBC.CA
Canada wants assurances that U.S. officials will deal honestly with their Canadian counterparts and incidents like the deportation of Canadian Maher Arar to Syria will not happen again, Prime M...
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Amish Urge Forgiveness For Shooter
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CBC.CA
GEORGETOWN, Pa. (AP) - A procession of 34 buggies and carriages carried mourners to a hilltop cemetery Thursday as the Amish community buried the first of five girls killed by a gunman inside their tiny one-room s...
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A pattern in rural school shootings: girls as targets
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This is down right depressing.
By Gail Russell Chaddock and Mark Clayton, Staff writers of The Christian Science Mo... >
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Pakistans Sells Suspects To US For Bounty
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CBC.CA
Pakistani authorities have illegally sent hundreds of Pakistanis and foreigners to prisons or handed them to the United States for money, said a report released Friday by Amnesty Internatio...
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Bush urges allies to unite in terror war
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Realization?
By ANNE GEARAN, AP Diplomatic Writer 51 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Before they sat down with
President Bush for a peacemaking dinner at the White House, the bickeri...
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Gay Couple Told Not To Kiss On Plane
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New Yorker
American Airlines Flight 45—departing Charles de Gaulle at 10:40 A.M., arriving J.F.K. at one each afternoon—is a tourist’s delight: timed just right to avoid late checkout, leav...
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BETRAYED, SOLDIER QUITS
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Blair treats soldiers like this, what an ass. 24 September 2006 EXCLUSIVE Army officer quits in disgust over Afghan shambles & reveals: Our troops are called The Borrowers because they have to cadge ammo The heat is s...
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3-year-old buys pink convertible on Internet
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Now this is wierd.
2 hours, 10 minutes ago
LONDON (Reuters) - Jack Neal briefly became the proud owner of a pink conver...
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US/Canada Relaxes Ban On Liquids And Gels On Aircraft
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CBC.CA
Travellers in Canada and the United States may purchase liquids and gels at airports and carry cosmetics and toiletries under revised security rules effective tomorrow, offici...
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Retired officers to criticize Rumsfeld
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Well, better late then never.
By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent 2 hours, 11 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Retired military officers on Monday are expected to bluntly accuse Defense Secr...
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Man Gets Run Over By Own Car After Threating Bikers
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Yahoo News
PITTSBURG, Calif. - An alleged drunken motorist who brandished a pool cue while driving at a group of motorcyclist...
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OP-ED Piece On Homeless Shelters
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CBC.CA
Let's face it. The homeless are not an attractive people. It is hard to be around them. They can look frightening, they can smell bad, and they most often want something from you. They make us uncomfortabl...
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Bin Ladens Death Not Confirmed
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CBC.CA
PARIS (AP) - President Jacques Chirac said Saturday that information contained in a leaked intelligence document raising the possibility that Osama bin Laden may have died of typhoid in Pakistan last month is "...
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US Airport Rent-A-Cops Detain Venezuala Foreign Minister
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CBC.CA
Venezuela has complained to the United Nations after its foreign minister accused officials at a U.S. airport of illegally detaining him and then trying to frisk, handcuff and strip-searc...
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US Demands Of Pakistan Post 9/11
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CBC.CA
The U.S. threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the Stone Age" after the Sept. 11 attacks if the country refused to help America with its war on terrorism, Pakistani President Pervez Mush...
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Canadian PM Defends Afghan Mission In UN Address
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CBC.CA
The success of the mission in Afghanistan is vital to the health and future of the United Nations, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday in his first address to the world body.
"If w...
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UN Speeches
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Iran's President Ahmadinejad's speech at UN
The following is the full text of his speech before the Sixtieth Session of the United Nations General Assembly on 09/17/05
09/19/05 "ICH" -- --
"In the Name of the God of Mercy, Compassion, Peace, Freedom and Justice
"Mr. Presi...
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