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I need to find these links often, so I put them all here for my own convenience, you are welcome to snorkel though the good data as well. There's nothing you can do to get on here, other than to be perceived as useful by me. --Walter

World News / General Info:
Everyone has their axe to grind, sometimes it really helps to see exactly how they do it.

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BBC News Concentrator (Eng)

CBC News Concentrator (Eng)

CTV News Concentrator (Eng)

CNN

The Daily Reckoning (Finance)

Science Daily

Der Spiegel News Concentrator (Eng)

China.org (Eng)

NPR National Public Radio Site, Audio and Text

Shadow Stats, a Different View

NASA Home Page

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive

Zhongwen.com Learn Chinese Characters + Culture (Eng)

The Jerusalem Post (Eng)

Aljazeera (Eng)

Asahi Shimbun, Japan's Leading paper (Eng)

Google Financial News Concentrator (US)

Google Financial News Concentrator (CAN)

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

RT News Concentrator (Eng)

US Drought Map

North American Drought Map

Canadian Drought Map

Big Picture Agriculture Weather Maps

National Hurricane Center (NOAA)

XE World Currency Conversion





Important Software Links (all personally recommended by me):

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Avast, home of the most excellent Avast Free anti-virus software

Malwarebytes, home of the free Malwarebytes anti-malware software

VideoLAN, the source of the amazing free VLC Player

SOURCEFORGE, the source of outstanding Freeware for many platforms

Piriform, the source of many must-have Windows utilities like CCleaner

Greenshot, the best Freeware Screen Capture Utility

CoffeeCup, great Web software, not free, but reasonably priced





Governments:

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Canadian Federal Government

British Columbia Provincial Government

District of West Kelowna

US Government Web Portal





The Dark Side of the Net (Caveat Emptor - User Beware):

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EZTV

IMDB

TPB

1337X

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