Month: December 2013
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Tougher Tactics Desperately Needed to Win War on GMO Food
from huffingtonpost.com: As I listened to the ads from the ill-fated campaign to label genetically modified food in Washington, I felt a sickening case of déjà vu. About a year ago, I wrote a controversial article for the Huffington Post, titled “Ten Grassroots Lessons From Monsanto’s Swift Boating of the Prop 37/Label GMO Campaign.” To…
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Boeing Wins $76 Million “Doomsday Plane” Contract
from stratrisks.com: The Department of Defense has awarded Boeing a $75.7 million defense contract modification, the Pentagon announced Monday. The award relates to an existing sole-source contract under which Boeing serves as Product Service Integrator on the E-4B Advanced Airborne Command Post platform, performing maintenance, modification, and support services on the planes. Present plans call for the E-4Bs…
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Food Allergies Less Deadly Than Accidents
from well.blogs.nytimes.com: A fatal allergic reaction is a dramatic event, often involving a young person, so it naturally attracts attention. But that attention itself may lead people to overestimate the risk. In fact, a new study finds, people with food allergies have far less chance of dying from such a reaction than from an accident.
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Is Krampus the Christmas Demon Becoming Too Commercial?
from csmonitor.com: Chains, devil horns, and pitchforks are not things most people associate with the holidays. But for many in the Alpine region of Europe, that’s precisely where Krampus – a half goat, half demon creature, carrying rusty chains and sticks – belongs: in the Christmas season. Yet some say that the centuries-old European folktale…
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Comet #ISON Is Really Done For
from guardianlv.com: Comet ISON appears really done for this time. It was first reported to have been destroyed when it passed by the sun. That information was apparently to some degree exaggerated, but it appears this time that the comet’s demise is the real thing. Fragments of the object which had been called the “comet…
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@Bandsintown: Keeping Up With Concerts
Ever since I stopped reading the local ‘alternative’ weeklies, I’ve needed a way to stay up on concerts coming to town. Enter the BandsInTown app. You let the app scan the music you have on your smartphone and then it’ll keep you up-to-date with any live shows that those bands have coming up. Like the…
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‘Society’ (1989): Group Sex, Incest and Ritual Sacrifice
Wow! Does 1989 film “Society” represent predictive programming? Why else would this particular mythical horror be shown repeatedly to the public? Is it similar to representing demons as aliens to take edge off “naked shock” of initial reactions? A 2009 post, “The Dark Side of Society – Elite Satanism in the movies,” shares interesting – even fascinating…
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SpaceX Rocket Successfully Launches Its First Commercial Satellite
from reuters.com: An unmanned Falcon 9 rocket developed by Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, blasted off on Tuesday to put its first commercial satellite into orbit, staking a potentially game-changing claim in a global industry worth nearly $190 billion a year. The 22-story rocket lifted off from its seaside launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air…
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Prehistoric Cave Prints Show Most Early Artists Were Women
(Note: This is our first #MediaMatriarchy post.) from nbcnews.com: Alongside drawings of bison and horses, the first painters left clues to their identity on the stone walls of caves, blowing red-brown paint through rough tubes and stenciling outlines of their palms. New analysis of ancient handprints in France and Spain suggests that most of those…
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With Look Ahead to Manned Mission, #China Launches Lunar Rover
from computerworld.com: China on Monday launched a lunar probe carrying an exploration rover in what is expected to be the nation’s first soft-landing on an extraterrestrial body. The Chang’e-3 spacecraft carries a lander, as well as a rover named “Yutu,” which means Jade Rabbit, according to the Xinhua News Agency, China’s official news service. The…
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Genetic Fallacy: How Monsanto Silences Scientific Dissent
The Eye Opener Report with James Corbett from boilingfrogspost.com: That a former Monsanto scientist should find himself in charge of a specially-created post at the very journal that published two landmark studies questioning the safety of that company’s products should surprise no one who is aware of the Monsanto revolving door. This door is…
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#Amazon Testing Delivery By #Drones
from chicagotribune.com: Amazon.com Inc. is testing delivery packages using drones, CEO Jeff Bezos said Sunday on the CBS television program “60 Minutes.” Bezos said the drones, unmanned vehicles that fly through the air, could deliver packages that weigh up to five pounds. That represents roughly 86 percent of packages that Amazon delivers, he said. The…
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Princess Diana’s Ghost Would’ve Scared Kate Middleton Out of Di’s Flat
from mirror.co.uk: Prince William was right when he avoided taking over his mum Diana’s old flat at Kensington Palace because her ghost would have “given Kate the wobblies”. The bizarre claim is made by Princess Michael of Kent, who goes on to say she lobbied courtiers for the couple to get the bigger apartment that…
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As Polio Spreads In Syria, Politics Thwarts Vaccination Efforts
xfrom npr.org: The World Health Organization has declared a polio emergency in Syria. After being free of the crippling disease for more than a decade, Syria 10 confirmed cases of polio in October. Now the outbreak has grown to 17 confirmed cases, the WHO last week. And the virus has spread to four cities, including…
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Oregon’s Top Food Safety Sleuth, William Keene, Dies Suddenly at 56
from oregonlive.com: William Keene, Oregon’s top food safety sleuth who was known nationwide for cracking outbreaks, died on Sunday afternoon at the age of 56. He was rushed to the hospital about two weeks ago, suffering acute pancreatitis caused by gallstones. On Sunday afternoon, he was gone. “We’re all in shock,” said Pam Keene, his…