Month: November 2013
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Police Use ‘Nose Telescope’ for Cannabis Odor Mapping
Denver has passed a new “odour ordinance” with a potential $2,000 (£1,247) fine for anyone found guilty of polluting the atmosphere.
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China Easing Up On Its One Child Policy and Forced Labor Camps
from seattletimes.com: President Xi Jinping announced Friday the most sweeping package of economic, social and legal reforms in China in decades, including a relaxation of the country’s “one-child” policy and the scrapping of its much-criticized system of labor camps. The changes rolled back harsh social policies that dated back to Communist China’s two most eminent…
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Meet Lee Harvey Oswald: Sheep-Dipped Patsy
The Corbett Report reminds listening audience in approach to 50th Anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination that Lee Harvey Oswald was “certainly not” a lone assassin as government mouthpieces continually sell American public. Corbett sensibly addresses facts such as globetrotting lifestyle of Lee Harvey Oswald without visible income, in and out of Russia at…
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Astronomers reveal guts of mysterious black hole jets
from sciencerecorder.com: According to a recent press release from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, an international team of researchers has solved an age-old question of the enigmatic jets emitted by black holes. The findings appear in the latest issue of Nature, in an article entitled, “Baryons in the relativistic jets of the stellar-mass…
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Good Eggs, Virtual Farmer’s Market, Delivers Real Food
from nytimes.com: When I was growing up, my father was fond of ordering steaks through the mail. When they arrived, my sister and I gleefully danced around the icy packages and argued over who got to open them. I can still remember marveling at the novelty of meat arriving in the same pile as regular…
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What’s The Most Important Thing Food Labels Should Tell Us?
from npr.org: Food labels have become battlegrounds. Just last week, voters in Washington state narrowly defeated a measure that would have required food manufacturers to reveal whether their products contain genetically modified ingredients. Supporters of the initiative — and similar proposals in other states — say that consumers have a right to know what they’re…
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New World Next Week: Episode173 – Afghan Opium Record, GCHQ Spoofs LinkedIn, GMO Apples
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode173 – Afghan Opium Record, GCHQ spoofs LinkedIn, GMO Apples Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Afghan Opium Output Soars To Record Level…Again An Introduction To Gladio…
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Illuminati Sightseeing: House of the Temple – Washington DC
House of the Temple “…is a Masonic temple in Washington, D.C., United States that serves as the headquarters of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, U.S.A. (officially, “Home of The Supreme Council, 33°, Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, Washington D.C., U.S.A.”),” according to Wikipedia. Jim Shaw, a former 33rd degree…
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No blackout, but two-day ‘GridEx II’ seeks to expose security flaws
from jconline.com: GridEx II is conducted by the North American Electric Reliability Corp., a Georgia-based nonprofit whose mission is to ensure the reliability of the Bulk-Power System in North America. NERC is subject to oversight by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. As a software simulation, Rogers said no individuals or businesses will actually suffer any…
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Flashback Video: 1983 TV News Report Confirms ‘Satan Sells’
from noisecreep.com: “One thing is for sure: Satan sells.” These were the introductory words to a news report in 1983 following a clip of Motely Crue‘s ‘Take Me to the Top,’ which, as we know, is not about the Horned One. Surprisingly, the news report is actually pretty objective instead of condemning the music. When…
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Depressed People May Age Faster, Study Suggests
from nbcnews.com: People suffering from depression may be aging faster than other people, according to a new study from the Netherlands. In the study of about 1,900 people who had major depressive disorders at some point during their lives, along with 500 people who had not had depression, researchers measured the length of cell structures…
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Dispute with Kraft costs Starbucks $2.7 billion
from usatoday.com: An arbitrator on Tuesday concluded that Starbucks must pay $2.23 billion in damages plus $527 million in prejudgment interest and attorney’s fees, following the coffee giant’s early termination of a bagged coffee grocery deal between Starbucks and Kraft Foods. The award will go to Mondelez International, which spun off Kraft Foods in 2012.
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GridEx 2013 Power Grid Preparedness Drill This Week, Nov13-14
from blog.chron.com: For the next two days–November 13 and 14–the United States, Canada and Mexico, along with hundreds of companies and organizations in all three countries, will take part in the GridEx 2013 Preparedness Drill – one of the largest preparedness drills in our country’s history. It has been reported that the United States, Canada…