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‘Dead’ crash victim abandoned by ambulance crew found alive by SES volunteers

April 2, 2012
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Ambulance Victoria is undertaking a review after a car crash victim declared dead by a paramedic was later found to be alive when cut from the wreck by a SES volunteer. Paramedics were called to the crash between a sports car and a four-wheel-drive near Bacchus Marsh just before 3pm AEST on Sunday. Paramedics...
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Wheelchair-bound meth addict jailed for 10 years after sexual assault on chihuahua

April 1, 2012
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A CALIFORNIAN man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for choking and sexually assaulting a chihuahua, and must now register as a sex offender. Sacramento prosecutors said Robert Edwards De Shields, who is confined to a wheelchair, was convicted last month of the crimes against the eight-month-old chihuahua mix living with the family...
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Austrian man saws off own foot to avoid work

March 29, 2012
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VIENNA (Reuters) – An unemployed Austrian man sawed his foot off, apparently to avoid being found fit to go back to work. Hours before an appointment on Monday for the labor office to check on his health, the 56-year-old man held his left leg against an electric saw in his home workshop and severed...
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iJourney: An Ego Strategy to Avoid Surrender

March 27, 2012
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What is conventionally called “love” is an ego strategy to avoid surrender. You are looking to someone to give you that which can only come to you in the state of surrender. The ego uses that person as a substitute to avoid having to surrender. The Spanish language is the most honest in this...
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Borat anthem played by mistake at medals ceremony

March 24, 2012
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(Reuters) – Kazakhstan’s shooting team demanded an apology after a spoof national anthem from the comedy film Borat was played instead of the real one at a medal ceremony in Kuwait, the BBC reported on Friday. The team’s coach told Kazakh media the organisers of the Kuwait tournament had downloaded the parody from the...
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You’ve won billions! Ah … sorry, no you haven’t

March 23, 2012
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THREE hundred Danes believed a dream lifestyle of champagne and caviar awaited them this week after they were announced billionaire lottery winners – until they discovered it was a mistake. All 300 had received an email from the head of the Danish state-run lottery company, Danske Spil, congratulating them on the astronomical sums they...
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Employers asking interviewees for facebook passwords

March 21, 2012
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When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password.Bassett, a New York City statistician, had just finished answering a few character questions when the interviewer turned to her computer to...
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Thatcher snatched Ronald Raegan’s doodle 30 years ago

March 17, 2012
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NewsCore FORMER British prime minister Margaret Thatcher swiped a page of doodles by then-US president Ronald Reagan at a summit more than 30 years ago, newly released papers revealed. Britain’s only female prime minister to date noticed the US leader sketching during a G7 summit in Canada in 1981 and decided to pocket the...
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Julian Assange announces plan to run for the Australian Senate

March 17, 2012
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will run for a seat in Australia’s Senate. Source: The Daily Telegraph  WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange plans to run for a seat in the Australian Senate, despite being under house arrest in the United Kingdom, the whistleblower group has tweeted. Wikileaks announced its intentions today, saying the organisation also planned to field...
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George Clooney arrested at Sudan protest

March 17, 2012
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Hollywood movie star George Clooney has been arrested at Sudan’s embassy in Washington at a protest about the escalating emergency in Sudan. The Sudanese government has been blocking humanitarian aid from reaching a volatile border region where hundreds of thousands of people are short of food. Clooney, his father Nick and other activists ignored...
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