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Canadian earthquake more likely every day

Insurance companies are concerned that Canada’s earthquake readiness is not where it should be.

Canada suffers through more than 4,000 earthquakes a year, most only identified with the help of sophisticated seismic equipment, yet insurers are concerned that “The Big One” will cause much more damage than necessary because of older building codes being used and few seismic upgrades are completed for older buildings.

Earthquake readiness “Is a house of cards in Canada” says one anonymous representative of a national insurance company, “it’s good we’re able to reinsure our policies to help insulate our industry” in Canada.

Additional reading: Canada not prepared…

More Debt Than People

(BBanks) If the economy is so bad, and governments are propping up economies with greater debt loads, where is all the money going?

Who exactly is benefiting from all this largese? Are we just mortgaging our future so that a few wealthy people/companies/families/gangs, (etc) hold us ransom for money that will never, can never, be paid?

Are we living so ‘high on the hog’ that we can’t afford to contribute meaningfully to our own future well-being?

Studies have shown that the underground ecomonies of drugs, sexual trafficking and bootleg ‘everything’ has grown so much that the money possessed by these crime rings can never be brought to the surface of taxation and social responsibilities.

We are becoming not only indebted to our future but also to criminal activities!

The legalization of everything is coming so that governments, that have robbed from the middle-class and poor for so long, cannot continue to overlook the wealth of drugs and sex, and the possible tax revenues, much longer.

Our future outlook is much worse than anyone can imagine!

Dysrationalia

(SCInews-OP) Smart people seemingly doing stupid things.

“Dysrationalia” is in the running for top ten new words of 2009.

unNuclear UnKnown UnHostagetakers UnMissing Arctic Sea

(Somewhere Near Us) The missing cargo ship was never missing, just lost.

Or held to ransom. Or illegally trafficking nuclear materials and/or space aliens.

The story of the freighter Arctic Sea will certainly not end here. Maybe.

The -$1,000,000.00 gift for mom

(Israel) A woman bought a surprise gift for her mother, a new mattress, which unknowingly contained the mother’s life savings, apprx. one million dollars.

The money is now lost somewhere within three garbage dumps, amongst 2,500 tones of garbage that is dumped every day. The dumps have increased security to keep out treasure hunters and the woman, her mother and friends continue their frantic search. Who wouldn’t?

Soaring gas prices

Gas

Gas

(BMG) – Gas prices have increased 60% over the last 4 months and are now over US$40.00 per gallon meaning more than US$3.80 per gallon at the pumps. At the root of the global problem, Mr. Purnomo said, is global demand for oil that is far outrunning forecasts. “Everyone got it wrong,” he said, adding that OPEC was awaiting the results of a study about the effects of oil prices ranging up to $74 a barrel over the long term, rather than the range of $32 to $38 a barrel the cartel had assumed before. The benchmark grade of light, sweet crude for June delivery closed at $70.92 a barrel in New York, down 58 cents from Wednesday’s close. Meanwhile, the average joe is working harder at hating arabs and people that sell SUV’s in general.

Haircut results in child abuse charge

Haircut abuse

Haircut abuse

(BGA) – Local mother has been charged with child abuse after a neighbor called Child Support Services about the haircut of the youngest daughter of Mrs. Stazny. “Her hair wasn’t growing in on the sides of her head anyways,” Mrs. Stazny said “so we decided to have a little fun with it. Who knew I could be charged with child abuse!” Mr. Latimer, the family’s lawyer, is confident that the charges will be dismissed since the child was returned to her mother pending a court appearance. “Next they’ll try to outlaw how you can dress your children,” Mr. Latimer stated.

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