Canada's only vegetarian food bank is barely five months old and already serving more than 200 people from two locations, its founders say.

"We've been very busy," says Jessica Smith.

"And I have a feeling with the economy doing what it's doing,
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]]> That the late, great Barry White was vegan might come as a surprise to meat-lovers who equate veganism with malnourished, pasty physiques.
Given the abundance of meat alternatives, vegans can have robust physiques just like the amply proportioned croon
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]]> Rep. Brad Sherman says Congress threatened with Martial Law if bill is not passed. He also said the stock market would have dropped over 5,000 points in 2 days.
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]]> One in five teachers would like to see the cane brought back in schools to help discipline unruly children, a survey has revealed.
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]]> A former Buckingham Palace butler has been unmasked as a sexual predator who ran a paedophile ring while serving the Royal Family.

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]]> What goes up will come down

"The path that we're on right now is not sustainable."

"The portfolio adjustments will be swift and severe."

There's going to be a major realignment of global living standard." Nobody in the US wants to talk about it
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]]> From The Onion. Fake experts posit ways to reduce carbon load of world domination.
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]]> Wed Sept 24, right in middle of WallSt bailout fight, House passed $612b defense bill by 392-39 vote without a murmur of public protest or any meaningful press comment (NYTimes- 3 short paragraphs buried in story about another appropriations bill)
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]]> Scientists are finding that particles that are barely there – tiny objects known as nanoparticles that have found a home in electronics, food containers, sunscreens, and a variety of applications – can breech our most personal protective barrier: --
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]]> what they didn't know was that hundreds of thousands of Americans woke up yesterday morning and decided it was time for revolt. The politicians never saw it coming.
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]]> What more important info needed to elect president other than his fitness for office? Yet an ad calling attention to McCain's skin cancer & the need for more info re his medical records has not been run: CNN refused, Fox called it shameful & MSNBC...
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]]> An excellent examination of the power that will be bestowed upon the Secretary of the Treasury if the Bailout Bill as currently written is approved. There really are no safeguards or caps, folks. Read this piece to find out why.
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]]> Moderator Jim Lehrer of PBS steered the early discussion to the economy, an area where Obama is generally thought to have the upper hand. McCain tried to hit Obama for requesting $932 million of pork-barrel projects in his years as an Illinois senator.
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]]> Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency!
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]]> Treasury Sec. Hank Paulson's $700 billion bailout plan now has a name: the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. But even as Capitol Hill debates TARP, few seem to have noticed the proposal item that puts taxpayers on the hook for future bailouts
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]]> Has anyone asked your opinion about the bailouts. Ron Paul tells us that the bailouts WILL NOT bailout the AMERICAN TAXPAYERS! As U.S.taxpayers we have a right to let our elected representatives know how we feel. They are suppose to be working for us.
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]]> "The decease of the US and Western hegemony will not be caused by the challenge from such rising powers as China or other countries. It will be caused by the world's irreversible efforts for a hegemony-free political structure. "
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]]> Sand contaminated with depleted uranium when US military vehicles/munitions caught fire at base during 1st Gulf War was being repatriated. Hazardous materials storage lucrative growing business, esp since Rumsfeld's "frontier stockades" or "lily pads"...
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]]> US, World Stocks Soar... Obama Meeting With Advisers Paul Volcker, Lawrence Summers, Robert Rubin... McCain: Fed Needs To Stop These Bailouts... Dueling Ads... Credit Shock: Like 1973 Oil Embargo... Main Street Hit Hard...
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]]> f you had the vote, would you be in favour of the Lisbon Treaty ? (the Irish were the only people allowed to vote) This has been seen in June 2008 by the Irish having a referendum where they said NO, but the EU does not accept the result.
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]]> With all the Israel bashing going on, I would like to raise the attention to some positive sides of Israel. It's pretty funny, even if you do not like Israel.
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]]> Pakistan,a new war develops as US strikes..Would someone sit the Bush administration down and remind them that they are messing with the only Islamic state that DOES have nuclear weapons.
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]]> Dr. Albert A. Bartlett's eight-part presentation on "Arithmetic, Population, and Energy"professor emeritus, department of physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, believes that the greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand
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]]> Ready to learn everything you need to know about the economy in about three hours?
The Crash Course is a condensed online version of Chris Martenson's "End of Money" seminar.

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]]> Wall Street isn’t remotely prepared for the inestimable damage the financial system would suffer if A.I.G. collapsed.
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]]> The short of it is that YouTube has censored a video documentary that appeared to be close to having an effect on a hard fought and contentious American presidential election.
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]]> The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) is deeply shocked and condemns in the strongest terms the killing of five Pakistani women, including two minors, who were buried alive for having decided to marry men of their choice.
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]]> This is a long article but well worth the read. I points out just who the real Sarah Palin is, and you'll learn she's more secretive that Bush.
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]]> The Church of England will officially apologise to Charles Darwin for misunderstanding his theory of evolution.In a bizarre step, the Church will address its contrition directly to the Victorian scientist himself, even though he died 126 years ago.
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]]> one large maglev wind turbine could generate one gigawatt of clean power, enough to supply energy to 750,000 homes. It would also increase generation capacity by 20% over conventional wind turbines and decrease operational costs by 50%.
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]]> ENJOY ENJOY ENJOY ..................SHARE WITH FRIENDS .........
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]]> Oil derived products are ubiquitous. But, do you realize just how common they are? If you think you’ve shed your oil addiction, think again. I guarantee you will find at least one product in this list that surprises you.
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]]> As has been extensively documented, many of the criticisms Obama has faced are based on outright falsehoods. To understand the attacks on Obama, one must acknowledge that they operate together, as one coherent, thematically unified campaign: Swiftboating
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]]> New FBI report confirms white supremacist groups infiltrating the military, serving in Iraq/Afghanistan. Neither Rumsfeld nor Gates enacted any sort of systemic investigation/crackdown despite Congressional demands. Military extremists - elevated threat..
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]]> What John McCain doesn't want you to know about Sarah Palin : Here's hoping this article starts shining a little bit of light on the subject--the last thing we need a literal heartbeat away from the Presidency is a ninja dominionist.
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]]> Here’s a fun site offering a comparison between Palin and Obama:
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]]> Great info from the Sierra Club on drilling for oil - the facts, the consequences and how it's not a panacea for prices at the pump.
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]]> McCain't has chosen Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his presumptive vice-presidential nominee. Read all about it, and her.
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]]> The weakened US dollar has fallen out of favor with organized crime groups to pay for drug shipments or to settle scores, a Canadian government report said Friday. And if the greenback continues its slide in 2008, as expected, more and more criminals...
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]]> The son of one of the most revered leaders of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has renounced his religion to move to America and become an evangelical Christian.
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]]> AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic applied Wednesday to the U.N. war crimes tribunal to summon three former U.S. officials and a former prosecutor to support his claim that he was offered an immunity deal.

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]]> A Serbian newspaper has backed Radovan Karadzic's claim he signed a deal with US authorities to evade indictment over war crimes charges.
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]]> Thoughtful look at how we choose to forgive - or not - those who have wronged us. Share a forgiveness story.
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]]> dollar business with no such thing as inexpensive treatment and no one within the system seems to be looking for alternatives, instead they're
brutally suppressed:
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]]> Illuminating article on the presumptive Democratic vie-presidential candidate from Delaware. Learn about who he his, the legislation he's supported and his long career in the political arena.
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]]> With just 75 days before his successor is elected, has President George W. Bush finally lost the plot? Some of the cockiness has gone out of his walk.
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