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Fairview NZ the latest finance co to collapse (Newstalk ZB via Yahoo!7 Finance)

Another finance company has folded.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...

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Wanna help planet? ‘Let’s all just die!’ “May we live long and die out†is the unofficial motto of a new movement that seeks to improve the Earth’s ecosystem by ensuring that the human species does not survive. (tags: environmentalwhackos extinction humans) Play Nicely With Others Games to Play With Your Camera (tags: photography) Top 10 Weird Uses for Vodka Vodka also has a long history of use as medicine. While some of those historic promoters were half-cocked, it’s true that vodka hashttp://www.trommetter.com/log/archives/200...

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Sports on TV/Radio (The San Francisco Examiner)

LOS ANGELES ( Map , News ) - The head of the sports agency representing O.J. Mayo denied any illegal activity involving the Southern California star on Monday, a day after ESPN reported Bill Duffy Associates gave cash to an event promoter who provided gifts.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...

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Is the Senate willing to force an election over Bill C-10?

In an op-ed in yesterday’s Calgary Herald titled “Dangerous censorship hidden in act,†Alberta Senator Tommy Banks implied that the Senate is willing to force an election on Bill C-10. Bill C-10 would grant the Heritage Minister broad power to deny Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credits to films that contain subject matter that is contrary to federal policy objectives. The Canadian film industry is calling the bill censorship, and even conservative columnists like George Jonas don’t likhttp://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2...

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Helping Addicts

The medical model that I refer to is the framework of dealing with addiction by treating “sick†people. This treatment is done by “well†people. I guess it started as a way to deal with denial. The basic problem with this whole line of thinking is that you can call someone “well†by sending them to take classes about symptoms and this would determine the level of “help†that is given. What other field of medicine focuses mainly on the symptoms? I mean, where is the cure? Certainly a label cahttp://kathyberman.com/?p=430...

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