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GRANBY, Que. (CP) — A Quebec man is demanding compensation for a penis enlarger he claims never worked, despite 500 hours of use. The man has gone before a small-claims court, hoping for an award of $762 to recoup the cost of the device as well as moral and punitive damages. He told a newspaper in Granby, Que., that he was initially drawn to the X4 Extender Deluxe Edition by an advertisement that promised results within several months. The $262 device is sold by Montreal company HotGVibe. A Quebec judge is expected to hand down a decision in the next...

The Berkeley City Council will consider a resolution that would declare the Army private suspected of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks a hero and call for his release. The council plans a vote Tuesday on the resolution in support of Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is being held in a military brig in Virginia. A city commission already has approved it. Bob Meola, who authored the resolution, tells the San Francisco Chronicle that Manning is a patriot who deserves a medal. ---snip---

--snip-- "The Tea Party for me is a nonprofit, contemporary art project, it is a social sculpture that is community based and works with a lot of different artists. Since I am interested in the human meeting rituals the WTP serves a sense of coming together for shared exchanges of ideas and experiences," says the artist who expresses his dissatisfaction with the current Tea Party movement in the US. "The WTP sees the commonalities of cultures and communities rather than their differences. The current Tea Party movement in America is very right wing and is trying to promote white picket...

YORK, Pa. - They lived outside society, hidden from the world in a squalid row house with no heat, electricity or running water. They had no birth certificates, no schooling, no immunizations or evidence of medical care - nothing whatsoever to prove their existence. Police in this south-central Pennsylvania city are still piecing together how the parents of five children - ranging in age from 2 to 13 - managed to conceal them for so many years. And why."I don't know what would possess them at all," said detective Dana Ward Jr., who tracked down the children after a child-welfare...

<p>ST. LOUIS - For eight years, Janite Lee lived the good life.</p> <p>She moved into a gated community in Town and Country. She dined with world leaders. She had a reading room at Washington University's law school named for her.</p>

A little more than two years ago, economist John Williams of shadowstats.com predicted a “severe recession” was coming and soon. At the time, I was working as an investigative correspondent for CNN. I interviewed Williams for a story about the coming financial crisis. Most so-called experts, at the time, did not see the financial meltdown coming, let alone that all the banks were in trouble. Williams’ assessment of the economy was spot on in 2008. I don’t see how you can characterize what we have now as anything but a “severe recession.” Accurate information is the first and foremost reason...

A father-of-two died of cancer the day after a 'breakthrough' drug he had battled for nearly five months to get finally arrived in the post. The family of Stuart Cunningham, 51, were left heartbroken after he succumbed to the disease without getting the chance to try the drug, known as Afinitor. Used to treat kidney cancer, it is an option for patients who have not responded to Sunitinib, the primary drug used to fight the condition. Mr Cunningham's wife, Tracy, said she was 'angry and frustrated' at the NHS, which refused to fund the Afinitor because it was not 'cost-effective'....

Despite Hugo Chávez's reforms, plentiful food staples at cheap prices remain a fantasy for many in Venezuela. Hours of shopping might yield only bitter coffee and unbuttered bread. --snip--

....The “13 Keys” featured in Allan Lichtman’s renowned book Keys to the White House, have been highlighted in dozens of articles throughout the world and are a resource for aspiring politicians. The “13 Keys” are conditions that favor reelection of the incumbent party candidate. When five or fewer are false, the incumbent party candidate wins. When six or more are false, the other party candidate wins.--snip-- • KEY 1 (Party Mandate): After the midterm elections, the incumbent party holds more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives than it did after the previous midterm elections. (FALSE) • KEY 2 (Contest):...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Imagine no cars - or fewer, anyway. In New York, a two-mile stretch of the FDR Drive parkway is torn down to open lower Manhattan for parks and plazas, and bicyclists are given their own lane on the Brooklyn Bridge. An elevated highway in Guangzhou, China, is transformed into a pedestrian promenade, and rooftops are linked by raised walkways and bikeways. In Jakarta, Indonesia, traditional bike taxis called becaks are re-engineered to be lighter and easier to steer. --snip--

Watch "Make Mine Freedom" {1948}

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If you are interested in buying some camping or hope and change survival gear, this guy has a store in Ca that he is trying to liquidate. I don't know the reason why he's leaving the state, but by relieving him of his wares, he can leave a lot freer and sooner....and it's another business out from under the oppressive yoke of the Peoples State of California. CampingMaxx.com

A two year old boy was banned from eating cheese sandwiches at a council-run nursery unless his parents added a lettuce leaf. Jack Ormisher had his packed lunch taken away by staff who said it violated their healthy eating policy. When Jack's father went to pick him up from the Westfield Children's Centre, in Pemberton, near Wigan, he was told to include lettuce or tomato in future so the sandwich could be classed as a ''snack'' rather than ''lunch.'' The rebuke came after the nursery drew up a list of ''healthy eating options'' for youngsters which include various fruit and...

COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (AlertNet) - A "people's agreement" reached at an alternative climate change summit this week calls for the creation of an international "climate and environmental justice" court with binding legal power to sanction those who contribute in unwarranted ways to climate change. Such a body is needed in the short term to fight again the impunity enjoyed by major emitters of climate-changing gases, said experts and activists at the People's World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights, held this week in Cochabamba. "I think this court is completely feasible. Not only that, it is urgent and indispensable,"...

The residents of Kibwezi, Kenya are fond of all kinds of fruits but they refuse to consume water melons for some reasons. Those who raise them have no market in their own place. They have to take them to the main highway linking the capital Nairobi to the seaport of Mombasa. ‘These fruits are not eaten by people around here’, says Mr Kyalo David with a stock of water melons along Nairobi Mombasa road. There, travelers by them. Veronica Ndiuku lives in Kibwezi and have planted water melons herself. Despite that, she is not ready to eat any: ‘You know...

We the people are coming for them. They can listen, or not. Makes no difference. Don't watch the vid.....listen.