Month: January 2014
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North American Integration Continues After Robert Pastor’s Death
from thenewamerican.com: The plans of the last decade for a North American Union (NAU) led by Robert Pastor, director of the Center for North American Studies at American University (AU) in Washington D.C. have accelerated in recent months under different cover. Pastor died on January 8, but not without having done serious damage to American…
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Farm Bill Ends Subsidies, Cuts Food Stamps
from money.cnn.com: A group of bipartisan lawmakers on Monday agreed to a deal on a farm bill that would end direct subsidies to farms in favor of crop insurance. The deal could trim as much as $90 a month from food stamps for 850,000 recipients. The farm bill would last five years and needs to…
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Challenger Disaster Home Video Surfaces on 28th Anniversary
from huffingtonpost.com: Frances and Michael VanKulick lived so close to Kennedy Space Center that the windows of their house would rattle every time a space shuttle launched. It was from their front yard in Melbourne, Fla., that Michael VanKulick captured this previously unseen video of the Challenger disaster, which 28 years ago on Tuesday exploded…
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Scarlett Johansson Stands By Israel’s SodaStream Ad Campaign
from eonline.com: A few weeks after being announced as the face of Sodastream International’s new ad campaign, which includes a Super Bowl commercial, the Her star has issued a statement in response to criticism from Oxfam that Johansson was implicitly supporting Israel’s politics because the Israeli manufacturer of the do-it-yourself soda maker operates in the…
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China’s Imperiled Jade Rabbit Moon Rover: ‘Goodnight, Humanity’
from cnn.com: China’s brand new moon rover is already saying farewell. The diminutive lunar explorer, known as Jade Rabbit, or “Yutu” in Chinese, was about halfway through a three-month mission to study the moon’s crust when it suffered a potentially crippling breakdown, said state media. The report, authored by China’s state-run Xinhua news, was written…
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Katy Perry’s ‘Dark Horse’ Grammy Performance Had Witchcraft, Satanic Symbolism
christiantoday.com: Pop star Katy Perry’s performance of “Dark Horse” during the 2014 Grammy Awards on Sunday evening has shocked some fans as it displayed dark satanic imagery, including witchcraft and demons. Perry was dressed as a witch and wore a Knights of Templar cross across her chest during the performance. She also pole-danced on a…
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Chemical Spill In West Virginia Worse Than Initially Reported
from huffingtonpost.com: The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection issued an update on Monday evening indicating that the Elk River spill in West Virginia earlier this month involved more gallons of chemicals than previously reported. Freedom Industries, which owned the tank that leaked into a river supplying water in the state, now says that approximately…
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Google Acquires British Artificial Intelligence Developer DeepMind
from dealbook.nytimes.com: As it aims to build driverless cars and the next generation of robots, Google said on Monday that it had acquired the British artificial intelligence developer DeepMind. A Google spokesman confirmed the deal but declined to provide the transaction’s cost or more information on how Google planned to use DeepMind’s projects, which include…
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Columbia Mall Reopens After Shooting That Left Three Dead
from baltimoresun.com: The Mall in Columbia reopened Monday afternoon, allowing customers to return to the shopping center for the first time since a deadly weekend shooting shook people throughout the Howard County community. Officials acknowledged that the mall will never be the same after a gunman killed two people in a skate shop Saturday morning,…
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Strategy, Military Tactics and Weapons: Asymmetric War and the New Geopolitics
from globalresearch.ca: Political and military planners spend a great deal of time and effort ‘war-gaming’ various scenarios, hoping to predict outcomes, and prepare accordingly. This is no trivial task in the 21st century, but as history teaches, and despite the proclamations of so-called war ‘experts’ – it has never been an exact science. The threat…
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Spy Agencies Scour Phone Apps for Personal Data
from ndtv.com: When a smartphone user opens Angry Birds, the popular game application, and starts slinging birds at chortling green pigs, spies could be lurking in the background to snatch data revealing the player’s location, age, sex and other personal information, according to secret British intelligence documents.
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States Consider Labels for GMO Genetically Modified Foods
from webmd.com: A number of states are considering laws requiring labels on food products that contain genetically modified ingredients. The states are weighing such action because there is no federal regulation. Currently, only Connecticut and Maine have such laws, but they won’t take effect until other states implement their own rules. Bills to require labels…
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Peace Doves Come Under Attack At The Vatican
from washingtonpost.com: Pope Francis waved to tens of thousands in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday and called for peace and “constructive dialogue” between the Ukrainian authorities and its people. As a peace gesture, Italian children released two white doves from the window of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. After the Angelus prayer, Pope Francis…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode095 – Turn It Around
“♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode095 – Turn It Around which features brand new sounds from Angelique Kidjo, Milagres, Mutual Benefit, Damien Jurado, Tamikrest, Angel Olsen, Nick Waterhouse, Chantal Acda, Cibo Matto, Scott H. Biram, Crystal Method, Lucius, Digital Wild, Dum Dum Girls, Kristoff Krane, Kraak and Smaak, Elizabeth McQueen and…