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Canada
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has changed his mind on the national anthem.
It’s just fine the way it is.
Two days after Harper, in the speech from the throne, said his government would review the wording of the English version of O Canada, with an eye toward making it “gender neutral,” the idea was abruptly shelved.
Virtual World: [...]
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Iran
118 UN members reaffirm support for Iran’s N-program
As the West pushes for new sanctions against Iran, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) moves to issue a new statement, voicing its support for Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.
US: Healthcare
Support from his own party in doubt, President Barack Obama summoned more than a dozen House Democrats to the White House [...]
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Teh Interwebs
It’s the bane of Web designers everywhere, and it makes most modern Websites look broken and horrible. So why are 20% of web surfers still using it?
Today was supposed to be a great day for the Web. As of March 1, 2010, Google will no longer support Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 browser-a decade-old dinosaur [...]
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Arrested Terrorist Leader Exposes Extensive CIA Connections
TruthIsTreason/Kevin Hayden
Source: RT News & Steve Watson
The leader of a Pakistan based terrorist organisation closely affiliated with Al Qaeda has detailed how his group benefited from extensive political and financial support from the CIA in return for continued attacks against the government, the people and the infrastructure of Iran.
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Sharks
113 nations have signed on to conserve migratory shark species. This is being heralded as a landmark decision.
On the flip side we have seen this kind of thing before.
Nations banding together to work long ranging plans for animal conservation and who fall foul to enforcement issues or internal pressures from commercial fishing interests.
In short, while [...]
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Iran might be seeking to develop nuclear weapons capability, inspectors say
Joby Warrick and Scott Wilson/WashPo
19 Feb 2010
U.N. nuclear inspectors, citing evidence of an apparently ongoing effort by Iran to obtain new technologies, publicly suggested for the first time Thursday that the country is actively seeking to develop a weapons capability.
Israel is accused of waging covert war across the Middle East
Sheera Frenkel in Jerusalem
Israel is waging a covert assassination campaign across the Middle East in an effort to stop its key enemies co-ordinating their activities.
Israeli agents have been targeting meetings between members of Hamas and the leadership of the militant Hezbollah group, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
They are also suspected of recent killings in Dubai, [...]
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Iran
Several international networks have said that Iran is disrupting their Farsi-language satellite transmissions, Israel Radio reported Friday.
BBC Radio, The Voice of America and the German network Deutsche Welle defined the interference as electronic disturbances from Iran.
The report said that the regime began to disrupt the transmissions on Thursday with the beginning of celebrations on the [...]
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Canada
This Thursday (February 11), our prime minister, who is simply too busy to face Parliament in Ottawa, will somehow find the time to come to Victoria and address the B.C. legislature. British Columbians will not be amused.
Iran
The Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has announced that Iran has produced its first package of highly enriched uranium just [...]
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