Month: October 2013
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Pharaohs of the Sun
from NationalGeographic.com: On a morning in the year 1353 B.C. a young pharaoh of Egypt rose before dawn to greet the sun with a poem he loved and perhaps had written: “Beautifully you appear from the horizon of heaven,” he prayed as sunlight began to flood Egypt’s capital city of Thebes. To him the rays…
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Four on trial in #France for religion-inspired kidnap and torture
French torture trial over crucifixion-style exorcism* from rt.com: A group of former members of a US-based protestant church, the Seventh Day Adventist, are on trial in France for torturing a 19-year-old woman while attempting to exorcise “the devil” out of her in shockingly-violent style. The trial of three men and a woman, all of French…
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Monsanto Exec Wins This Year’s ‘Nobel Prize In Agriculture’
from markcrispinmiller.com: In an obscene development, a Monsanto executive is winning this year’s “Nobel Prize of agriculture” — the prestigious World Food Prize — for creating GMOs. Receiving it legitimizes the sort of rampant genetic modification Monsanto pioneered, and helps validate a ruthless business model that impoverishes farmers and monopolizes our food. If that wasn’t…
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#SupremeCourt Justice #Scalia Says #Satan Is ‘Real Person’
from religion.blogs.cnn.com: As the Supreme Court begins its new term Monday, the devil is not on the docket – but the Evil One apparently is on the mind of Justice Antonin Scalia. New York magazine has published a fascinating new interview with Scalia in which the outspoken jurist tackled a number of topics. But none…
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Internet for all?: A4AI, ‘Alliance for Affordable Internet’ founded
from zdnet.com: In the 21st century, you could argue that Internet access is almost as important as literacy. In much of the developed world, Internet access is affordable and easily available. In the third world, it’s often neither affordable nor available. The newly created Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) seeks to make the Internet accessible…
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The world’s 7 most dangerous food destinations
from foxnews.com: A high murder rate, common kidnappings, and violent riots are probably not things that anyone wishes to see at the top of a travel description. But what if you were to find out that along with the potential risk of danger, these destinations could provide you with exceptional local eats? Could the quest…
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NSA & GCHQ target Tor anonymity network
from theguardian.com: The National Security Agency has made repeated attempts to develop attacks against people using Tor, a popular tool designed to protect online anonymity, despite the fact the software is primarily funded and promoted by the US government itself. Top-secret NSA documents, disclosed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, reveal that the agency’s current successes against…
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Washington state battles over genetically modified food
from usatoday.com: Washington state is the next battleground in an ongoing effort by food activists to get products containing genetically engineered ingredients labeled. California voters rejected a similar initiative 53% to 47% in a bruising and expensive election in 2012. Initiative 522 goes before voters Nov. 5. It would require that foods containing ingredients from…
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In Age of Anywhere Delivery, the Food Meets You for Lunch
from nytimes.com: Now that the hungry can use cellphones and food-delivery apps to order anything their stomachs desire to the very spot where they stand, however, delivery is no longer confined to the apartment or the office — or even, for that matter, to a place with an address. “We go to the park all…
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The John Todd Enigma
John Todd first warned of an occult conspiracy, in the seventies, years ahead of wider public awareness! Todd remains an enigma, predominantly discredited due to inconsistencies and lapses in personal behavior. Was Todd simply a con man, seeking attention and favor by misrepresenting himself? Todd was, perhaps, the first to claim former membership in the…
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‘Mystery Babylon’
ChristmasIsALie.com produces expose, Mystery Babylon,” touting view Christianity, as we know it, is really Roman Nicolaitaniam. A prior post covered a related riveting video, “The Nicolaitans: Ground Zero for the Anti-Chirst.” The present writer finds both videos erudite and compelling – well worth your time!
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Colorado School of Mines engineers turn food garbage to glass
from denverpost.com: Colorado School of Mines engineers have found an alternative to digging into mountains for minerals: mining the minerals from food waste. They’ve turned putrid banana peels, eggshells and rice husks into crystal-clear glass. Now they’re investigating what other muck may yield. In a lab here, they rigged up a cooking system that starts…
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How the Adobe hack could fuel next wave of cyberattacks
from usatoday.com: Adobe has taken several steps to calm concerns among its corporate users about the loss of customer account data and critical source code to hackers. The company has begun advising enterprise customers that Adobe product users will be required to change their account password at their next login attempt… Meanwhile, corporations would be…

