Month: November 2013
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‘Eyes Wide Shut’ Decoded: Part 2
Vigilant Citizen (VC) addresses secret society ritual in second article – pretty interesting stuff. Our protagonist Bill seeks out new experience, upon learning of his wife’s temptations through her own honest admission. Bill encounters an old friend, Nick Nightingale at the beginning of his night out on New York: “Bill meets his old friend Nick…
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One Month After Government Shutdown, Silk Road 2.0 Launches
from vocativ.com: The underground black market is back! Meanwhile, the government admits its “whack-a-mole” strategy failed. Last week, it was reported that the mysterious Dread Pirate Roberts II was planning on resurrecting Silk Road—the underground black market shut down by the FBI in October. Today the anonymous founder made good on his promise. The site—which…
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‘Eyes Wide Shut’ Decoded: Part 1
Vigilant Citizen (VC) takes “the profane” on a guided tour of Stanley Kubrick’s last film, “Eyes Wide Shut” to reveal occult meaning of what’s right in front of otherwise “eyes wide shut.” A series of three articles, VC hands readers sets of glasses to give them the “eyes to see.” First article begins with apt…
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First Openly Gay Bishop Says “Jesus Must Be Cringing”
from advocate.com: Jesus must be embarrassed by the actions of those who claim to follow him — such as those who invoke Christianity in their opposition to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, says Bishop Gene Robinson. “Jesus was always preaching compassion and acceptance for the most marginalized in his time, those pushed to the edges of…
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Discount Supermarkets Offer Huge Savings By Selling Expired Food
from foxnews.com: Grocery bills can be more 10 percent of American’s household expenses, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But when buying items on sale or using coupons isn’t enough, some shop at discount or salvage grocery stores. What’s that, you ask? These are supermarkets that specialize in items that other chains no longer…
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$1M Bitcoin Theft From Website, Some Say Inside Job
from bbc.co.uk: A man who ran an online “wallet service” for storing Bitcoins has claimed hackers stole virtual currency from his site worth more than one million Australian dollars. The Australian man said 4,100 Bitcoins (US$1.04m, £650,000) were taken in two separate attacks. He said he would not report the theft to police as Bitcoin…
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The Witchcraft of Rock and Roll
Remember parents’ warning against Rock and Roll as the Devil’s work? There was disdain in the fifties for Elvis’ pelvis, followed by ubiquitous warnings in the sixties about rock and roll as Satanic evil! What if the old fogies were right after all? John Lennon was of the opinion, “there was nothing” before Elvis and…
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FDA to Ban Artery-Clogging Trans Fats
from abcnews.go.com: Heart-clogging trans fats were once a staple of the American diet, plentiful in baked goods, microwave popcorn and fried foods. Now, mindful of the health risks, the Food and Drug Administration is getting rid of what’s left of them for good. The FDA announced Thursday it will require the food industry to gradually…
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Lady Gaga to Sing on Virgin Galactic Rocket Ride
from space.com: Lady Gaga is planning to fly to space. The famed 27-year-old pop singer is scheduled to blast off on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo in early 2015, according to press reports. Gaga will reportedly sing one song during her trip into suborbital space. “She has to do a month of vocal training because of the…
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New World Next Week: Episode172 – Arafat Poisoned, India To Mars, Fukushima Cleanup
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode172 – Arafat Poisoned, India To Mars, Fukushima Cleanup 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: Swiss Study Shows Polonium Found In Arafat’s Bones Swiss Scientists Confirm Polonium…
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AT&T gets paid millions by the CIA to give up user data
from RT.com: The second-largest telecom country in the United States has been on the Central Intelligence Agency’s payroll to the tune of $10 million a year in exchange for voluntarily handing over troves of phone logs, the New York Times reported Thursday. Citing federal officials with knowledge of the program, The Times’ Charlie Savage wrote…
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Food waste study shows 4.2 million tonnes thrown out in Britain
from rawstory.com: British households are throwing away 4.2 million tonnes of food and drink a year, the equivalent of six meals every week, a study published on Thursday said. Some £12.5 billion worth of food and drink was discarded in 2012, with the average British family wasting nearly £60 a month, according to the study…
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Fukushima Trial Run Begins Dangerous Reactor 4 Clean-Up
from FukushimaUpdate.com: Preparations to begin the potentially catastrophic decommissioning of the crippled Reactor 4 at the Fukushima nuclear power plant will begin this week with a test run. The test, which could push back the beginning stages of fuel rod removal by two weeks, includes moving a “protective fuel cask” into and out of the…
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More Asteroid Strikes Are Likely, Scientists Say
from smellslikehumanspirit.com: “When an asteroid exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in February, shattering windows for miles and injuring well over 1,000 people, experts said it was a rare event — of a magnitude that might occur only once every 100 to 200 years, on average. But now a team of scientists is suggesting that…