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Anybody following the Blade Runner murder trial? It is super big on TV here. Not really sure why other than to think that it is somehow making good TV and nothing else bigger is knocking it off the...
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I never personally heard about the man in the wheelchair waiting for 2 years facing a similar crime. If that is true and I have not a doubt it is that gives me a level of anger that Oscar was able to...
Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) called on Monday for more raids in Egypt, praising the operations against “the soldiers of Al-Sisi” in Sinai and urges militants to “continue on this path”,...
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This news article I found to be relatively disturbing. It outlines how youth of Somali lineage are being recruited in increasing numbers in Alberta, Canada. The article references Edmonton and...
Big earthquake in California in the Napa area last night in the range of a 6 magnitude. All TV is pre-empted covering this. Governor has declared a state of emergency.
What I'm seeing is lots of...
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This brings up a point we raised in another thread regarding the difference in build quality in the UK as opposed to say the USA, it was in regards to why our properties tend to be smaller than...
A week or so ago a black (ok -African American) 18 yr old teenager, 300+ pounds - really big guy robbed a convenience store and roughed up the clerk. He was subsequently ordered to STOP by a WHITE...
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What else can I say but :br: :br: :br: at last someone who tells it like it is instead of dressing the problem up with any excuse that can be dreamt up. We have another revelation today about a group...
Been spending the afternoon catching up on all the world news I've missed for the past few weeks and just started hearing about Boko Haram - an Islamic group that has been kidnapping young girls in...
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Seems most of the girls kidnapped have now escaped. Am looking at a photo of them on YahooNews and they really seem quite different from the girls kidnapped. The photo on Yahoo News IMO shows women...
Am referencing the kidnapping and execution of 3 Israeli teenagers and Israel's actions in the wake of this. This was a very heinous act.
What I'm querying is Israel's reaction now in that they are...
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That is what I'm thinking now too H. Just another reason to start a whole other series of strikes and attacks. Might as well prolong the misery for everybody.
Canada has now enacted legislation prohibiting unwanted spam! This new law comes into effect today whereby is you're caught sending out spam an individual can be fined up to 1 million and a...
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Just wanted to report I've gotten just as much SPAM from all my relatives throughout the world offering me investment opportunities and inheritances as always!! This new piece of legislation sure...
A Canadian-Egyptian journalist has been sentenced on terrorism charges to 7 years. Quite a bit of outrage happening as apparently the trial produced no evidence and seemed a sham.
Didn't personally...
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After the over throw of Mubarak and the election of Morsi a BBC journalist reported from Luxor, he stopped a number of German tourists outside Luxor temple and asked them if they would return to...
This is just BREAKING NEWS and is almost beyond belief. The latest crisis in the USA is they are experiencing a huge surge of children crossing the border - 90,126 CHILDREN so far in 2014 just...
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Well my post disappeared again! Wonder what is going on?
Anyway - the readers digest version of what I recall saying was that we can't seem to understand WE are marching to a different drummer, not...
Just reading the news about the terrorist attack in Pakistan on the airport. Definitely a step UP in the terror tactics being used. While the news is indicating the terrorists didn't seem to be...
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Pakistan has and always will be a breeding ground for Islamic extremists, that is why the UK has so many home grown radicalised young men eager to get involved in such acts abroad and in the UK and...
The USA just traded 5 Afghani prisoners to get their one and only POW, Sgt Bergdahl, from the Afghan war returned to them. I remember quite well when this man when missing. Initially nobody knew what...
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@H - I was actually thinking that when you mentioned a ground swell of discontent starting there. In the USA there is a huge ground swell of discontent starting and gaining momentum and seems just...
This has been making major news here in Canada. Not so much in the USA. I don't think India is on the radar of the USA so they're not as interested but this is major news in my area. Possibly due to...
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Besides there being ongoing sexual assaults happening by the minute in India on also finds the caste system, rampant poverty, arranged marriages, mutilating acid attacks, buring via gas/kerosene,...
Not that this was a plane the size of the Malaysian flight but it was a much smaller and definitely older version of an aviation mystery affecting this area. 72 yrs ago a Canadian pilot and 3 British...
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Apparently this wreck was found by loggers in 2013 but they were unable to get to it until right now. Hard to say what is left of the wreckage all this 72 yrs later added to which is rainforest...
Seems Kate has gotten caught by a stray gust of wind that blew her skirt up and the nether regions were caught by a paparazzi!! From what I've read she is very angry about this and might sue!...
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@Jayway
I misread your post at first and for Walmart I read Walnut.
On reflection though, that would fit for some that I see on beaches and around pools. :lol:
I didn't copy and paste the entire article which is on MSN News online - BUT the headlines read that 2 billion people in the world are obese:
Researchers found more than 2 billion people worldwide...
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All these tax rules have some basis and reasoning behind them and we are all subjected to them, just because you don't understand them or don't agree with them does not give you permission to commit...
I saw a day or two ago that there was an explosion in an underground mine in Turkey leaving 200+ trapped miners. Was reading about historic dangerous mining conditions and this latest tragedy....
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True. Profits usually rule in any country, society, culture.
The actor Bob Hoskins has died aged 71, I liked him very much, a much better example than some of the Cockney tossers we usually hear about. I wonder how long it will be before someone claims him as...
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My favourite was 'Mona Lisa', and I could watch that again and again! He had been suffering from Parkinson's for a couple of years. He is much missed already. :(
Don't know if you'll all remember a few months back when a bridge went out on Interstate 5 in the Mount Vernon area of Washington and I had just driven that bridge a couple of days earlier in the wee...
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I think the death toll as of this morning was 24. Terribly tragic and sad. Also something like 100 people still unaccounted for. Cold so always the concerns of hypothermia too. What has collapsed is...
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