Month: January 2014
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US Sends Troops to Korean Peninsula as Instability Grows
from usnews.com: The U.S. military is sending 800 more troops, as well as tanks and armored vehicles to South Korea in February, the Pentagon announced Tuesday, as the latest step in America’s attempts to quell perceived instability in the Pacific rim. The unit from the 1st U.S. Cavalry Division based out of Fort Hood, Texas,…
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The GMO Emperor Has No Clothes
from farmwars.info: We have been repeatedly told that genetically engineered (GE) crops will save the world by increasing yields and producing more food. They will save the world by controlling pests and weeds. They will save the world by reducing chemical use in agriculture. They will save the world with GE drought tolerant seeds and…
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Space fishing: Japan to test ‘magnetic net’ for space junk
from RT.com: Japan’s space agency is subcontracting a fishing net company to develop a technology to clean up the space junk that poses a direct threat to Earth’s communication networks. The mission is planned for 2019, with first tests scheduled for this February. Tokyo’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Nitto Seimo Co, a company with…
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Keeping Happiness at Arm’s Length
In “The Illuminati’s Secret Weapon – Sin,” Henry Makow puts spiritual battle waged against humanity in simple relief. Makow quotes an aide to Sen. Jacob Javits in the seventies, Harold Rosenthal, who revealed in pamphlet, “The Hidden Tyranny” : “The very moment you seek happiness outside yourselves, you become our willing servants.” Rosenthal, was supposedly,…
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Satanist Murders Metal Singer Because He Wasn’t Really A Satanist
Fan kills black metal singer for not being Satanic enough from metalinjection.net: The Bangkok Post reports that Surrender of Divinity vocalist, Samong Traisattha, was murdered last Wednesday, January 8. He was 36 years old. He was murdered by a supposed fan of his music. Traisattha’s widow, Jaruvan Surapol says the fan, Prakarn Harnphanbusakorn (pictured), came…
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Food Stamps at Pot Shops Banned Under Colorado Bill
from abcnews.go.com: Food stamps for a pot brownie? It’s an urban myth in Colorado, but state lawmakers want to make sure that doesn’t happen. A bill proposed this week by several Republicans would add marijuana dispensaries to liquor stores, gun shops and casinos as places where recipients of public assistance payments and food stamps can’t…
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Ariel Sharon and the Legacy of US-Backed War Crimes
from antiwar.com: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon died over the weekend. Much of the U.S. and Israeli media have whitewashed Sharon’s legacy, erasing from history the fact that he was a wretched war criminal who was devoted to a Greater Israel and to massacring any civilians he perceived as obstructing that goal.
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Could data collection have stopped 9/11? White House thinks so
from latimes.com: Many of President Obama’s closest advisors have embraced a controversial assessment of one of the National Security Agency’s major data collection programs — the belief that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks could have been prevented had government then possessed the sort of vast trove of Americans’ telephone records it holds now… In…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode093 – Promised Land
“♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode093 – Promised Land which features brand new sounds from Static Jacks, Title Fight, Glen Hansard, Avid Dancer, Augustines, Places to Hide, Hereticks, TOY, The Head and the Heart, Damien Jurado, Hammock, Flume and Chet Faker, Battleme, Buffalo Clover, Strange Names, Los Macuanos, Royal Bangs and…
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‘Lone Survivor’ Cast, Director Worked With Navy SEALs On Set
Every War Movie Is a Pro-War Movie from articles.latimes.com: “Lone Survivor” writer-director Peter Berg is a man who values accuracy. In adapting former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell’s nonfiction account of a disastrous military mission in Afghanistan, Berg enlisted a group of the elite force as technical advisors and granted them an uncommon degree of authority…
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Oscar Screeners: Long Tolerated, But Only Official After Next Week
from variety.com: Oscar ballots have all been safely delivered to PricewaterhouseCoopers, but the schmoozing and subtle campaigning will still be in high gear this weekend, thanks to the Golden Globes, AFI Awards, BAFTA/LA tea, Q&A’s and studio parties. But all this drum-beating only works if the voters have seen the film. Screeners have been a…
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Study Says Food Industry Cuts 6.4 Trillion Calories
from usatoday.com: Some of the nation’s largest food companies have cut daily calorie counts by an average of 78 per person, a new study says, more than four times the amount the industry pledged to slash by next year. The study sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that between 2007 and 2012, the…
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#Target says data breach bigger than previously thought
from cbsnews.com: The revelations about Target’s (TGT) data breach continue to get worse, with the retailer now estimating that at least 70 million customers have been impacted, almost twice as many as the 40 million it had earlier disclosed. And it may turn out even more people were affected. Target said that its forensics investigation…
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#Google’s robots and creeping militarization
from dailycaller.com: Google CEO Larry Page has rapidly positioned Google to become an indispensable U.S. military contractor. Google recently purchased Boston Dynamics, a robotics pioneer that produces amazing humanoid robots for the U.S. Defense Department. This development invites attention to Google’s broader military contracting ambitions — especially since Boston Dynamics is the eighth robotics company…