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Of Devils & Dust...and profits?
Posted by: Andy Mathisen
Burns Lake :: Canada | updated 2012-12-14 04:07:36 -0800 | disasters-news
Today marks a sad anniversary for the working folk of Canada. On May 9th, 1992, twenty-six miners met a sudden death when the Westray Mine in Novia Scotia exploded. The inquiry after showed that a push for production for the...
Levon Helm; Dixie Gone Down
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New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2012-05-03 01:38:32 -0700 | entertainment-news
So sad to see icons and musicians from my generation pass thru this "vail of tears"..but...so it goes? Honey-sweet, slanged and down-south voice Levon Helm is with us no more. I grew up with the music of "The Band". From...
Adios Colombia...Hola Senor Montana?
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Cartagena :: Colombia | updated 2012-04-18 09:38:47 -0700 | political-news
If the recent debacle in Colombia has taught us anything it would most certainly be a lesson in the sins of vice. Both Harper and Obama limped home chastised by Latin America for their very "retro" views on drug policy...
Of Whores..and Spies..and other guys?
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Havana :: Cuba | updated 2013-04-13 22:29:31 -0700 | political-news
It's been near on one year since I last posted on Allvoices. But the present Rumba in Colombia has forced my quill to quiver. Some prompting from Punditty didn't hurt either! Perhaps it was novelist John LeCarre or maybe Ecclesiastes...
A Fish Story (Part 2) The Akebono Maru
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Ucluelet :: Canada | updated 2012-04-18 10:23:34 -0700 | your-story
Some 36 hours later the Tanu lay broadside across from the Akebono Maru some 25 miles west of Ucluelet, British Columbia. It was a scud grey day with a six foot sea when I was deposited unceremoniously onto the seat...
A Fish Story (Part 1)
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Duncan :: Canada | updated 2012-04-18 10:23:34 -0700 | your-story
The Tanu lay long and sleek near the Esquimalt graving dock in Victoria, B.C. She was gun-metal grey and built to cut like a knife through building seas. She spoke of both salutes and seaworthiness; all business with few pleasures....
