Month: June 2013
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FBI director admits domestic use of #drones for surveillance
from RT.com: The FBI uses drones for domestic surveillance purposes, the head of the agency told Congress early Wednesday. Robert Mueller (pictured), the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, confirmed to lawmakers that the FBI owns several unmanned aerial vehicles, but has not adopted any strict policies or guidelines yet to govern the use…
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The alarming truth about genetically modified foods
from undergroundhealth.com: The more we learn about genetically engineered (GE) foods, the clearer the dangers become. The artificial combining of plants with genes from wildly different kingdoms is bound to cause problems. As the years roll on, such suspicions are becoming increasingly validated. In recent weeks, we’ve not only learned that GE corn is in…
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‘Eat and Support’ #Fukushima Rice, Without Knowing and Without Choice
from FukushimaUpdate.com: From rice to be grown and harvested in 2013, the national government is buying up 250,000 tonnes for the government’s rice reserve; of that, 40,000 tonnes, or 16%, may come from Fukushima Prefecture. The Fukushima prefectural government is encouraging farmers to participate in the government bidding if they fear “baseless rumors” driving down…
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Air pollution exposure while pregnant linked to autism risk
from cbsnews.com: Exposure to aiir pollution while pregnant may increase a woman’s risk that her unborn child eventually develops autism. Researchers looked at more than 116,000 women to determine whether they were exposed to pollution during pregnancy. They found certain chemicals and pollutants were linked to heightened risk for the neurodevelopmental disease that affects one…
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Mysteries of the Freemasons: The Beginning
History channel provides interesting links between Knights Templar and Freemasonry in “Mysteries of the Freemasons: The Beginning.” “They claim they’re merely a civic-minded fraternity, bound together by harmless rituals. But throughout their long history, the Freemasons have been reviled as devil worshippers, accused of provoking revolution, and suspected of plotting to take over the world.…
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The Great American Dragnet: Over 200 Million People Are in the Facial Recognition Database
from BlacklistedNews.com: You are probably participating in the facial recognition database whether you want to or not. Most likely, your visage is there to be easily identified, without your consent, even if you’ve never committed a crime. Using the vague criteria of “law enforcement purposes”, the United States has more than 200 million Americans filed…
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Tragedy And Hope’s ‘Casual Cafe’ Presents: “How To Podcast” with Richard Grove and James Evan Pilato by Jan Powers
from TragedyAndHope.com: How does one go from being a listener or a viewer to producing audio and video media independently? Jan Powers, a fan and listener of both Richard Grove’s Peace Revolution podcast and James Evan Pilato’s Media Monarchy podcast, asked “How does one get started in podcasting” and the result is this phenomenal episode…
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White House Movies Broadcasting Message?
Webster Griffin Tarpley divulges on recent Jeff Rense Show possibility of a White House meme broadcast through the media. Two recent movies “Olympus has Fallen” and “White House Down,” suggest elites may be circulating a predictive programming meme of a coup or even blatant military ouster of current White House. Tarpley believes President Obama didn’t…
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Janet Napolitano Denies Existence of ‘Orwellian State’
from Politicker.com: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano weighed in on the NSA intelligence leaks on Friday, telling NY1 that fears over government surveillance were overblown. “I think people have gotten the idea that there’s an Orwellian state out there that somehow we’re operating in. That’s far from the case,” she told Errol Louis during an…
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NSA admits they listen to U.S. phone calls without a warrant, more than half the Senate skips briefing
from EndTheLie.com: In a secret briefing, the National Security Agency (NSA) admitted they can listen to U.S. phone calls and other communications without a warrant but over half of the Senate decided to fly out of Washington D.C. early and skip the briefing on the NSA’s surveillance programs. According to Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), in…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode063 – You Know
♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫” on Episode063 – You Know which features brand new sounds from Laura Marling, MS MR: Bones, Ocean Blue, Radiation City, Lucy Schwartz, Jason Isbell, Baptist Generals, Future Bible Heroes, The National, Akron/Family, Sun Gods To Gamma Rays and Alison Moyet… Episode063: MP3/FeedArchive Previous: Episode062 – Recover ****************************************…
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Retro Sci-Fi Weekend: ‘Journey to the Seventh Planet’
A 1962 sci-fi B-movie, “Journey to the Seventh Planet,” filmed in Denmark for $75,000 USD and co-written and directed by Sidney W. Pink. Pink credited as father of color 3-D movies, and also, for discovering actor Dustin Hoffman. A reader wonders whether beyond a strong exchange rate in early sixties, filmmakers also put casting couch…
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Barbie’s Sordid Past as a Sex Doll
Is it Barbie in the picture (left)? You would be incorrect if you thought so. It’s actually Lilli, a German doll intended for an adult market. In “Barbie Exposed,’ Sandra Barr provides the skinny on Barbie’s sexual history: “Lilli … was originally a cartoon character for the tabloid Bild-Zeitung in Hamburg Germany. In 1953 Bild-Zeitung…