Month: February 2014
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United Nations Report Catalogs North Korea’s Crimes Against Humanity
from latimes.com: Torture, deliberate starvation and other abuses carried out by North Korean authorities — possibly on the orders of leader Kim Jong Un — are crimes against humanity and should be referred to an international court or tribunal for prosecution, United Nations investigators said Monday. A 400-page report catalogs practices long cited by defectors…
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Camel Analysis Makes Shock Claim That Bible May Not Be 100% Factual
from gizmodo.co.uk: Some of the Bible’s anecdotes might not be entirely true is a shocking claim made by researchers, who suggest that the timelines of some Bible stories don’t match up with the reality of camel development history. Suggesting that camels weren’t domesticated for man’s use in the region until well after the events in…
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Close Call In Space Tonight: Asteroid Zips By Earth
from cnn.com: Only in space would 2 million miles be considered a close call. An asteroid with an estimated diameter of three football fields zoomed by Earth late Monday, missing our home by about that distance. It traveled at some 27,000 miles per hour. The asteroid came just about a year after a relatively small…
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Rockefeller: “I Wouldn’t Drink That Water If You Paid Me”
WV Residents Still Wary of Water After Chemical Leak from thelead.blogs.cnn.com: It was a half-day for the students at Grandview Elementary in North Charleston, West Virginia, Monday, and it wasn’t in observance of George Washington’s birthday. Teachers at the school reported smelling a licorice-like chemical odor this morning, a lingering problem since last month’s chemical…
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‘Natural’ vs ‘Organic’: How Food Labels Deceive
from abcnews.go.com: When strolling the supermarket aisles, do you know the difference between “natural” and “organic”? Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a food watchdog group, has been battling what he considers misleading or confusing labels — everything from “natural” to “whole grains” for decades. “The food industry…
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Bizarre Rant About 9/11 At Florida School Board Meeting
from mynews13.com: The Marion County School Board’s vice chairwoman raised eyebrows when she closed the meeting with a bizarre rant, claiming she had cracked a “secret code” related to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Angie Boynton was noticeably absent when Florida’s first lady visited Marion County Schools Thursday. At the end of Tuesday night’s board…
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Australian ISP’s against government crackdown on piracy
from afr.com: Australia’s leading internet service providers have hit out at proposals by Attorney-General George Brandis to stop internet piracy as being a “political thought-bubble” and burden on the industry that won’t stop crime. Senator Brandis last week said the government was considering the introduction of graduated warnings scheme, known in the industry as a…
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Japan, U.S. apart over farm produce, auto trade in TPP trade talks
from houseofjapan.com: Japan and the United States moved no closer to an early conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact in ministerial talks Saturday, remaining divided over thorny farm produce and auto trade issues. Both governments will “continue to work” on narrowing the gaps ahead of an upcoming plenary ministerial meeting in Singapore, Japanese…
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Catfish Oversight, Weather Radios and Christmas Tree Tax: Meet the Pork-Filled $956B Farm Bill
Farm Bill Cuts $8 Billion in Food Stamps, Preserves Handouts to Koch Industries* from dailymail.co.uk: The federal government pays for a $15 million ‘wool trust fund,’ runs a $170 million program to protect catfish growers from overseas competition, sets aside $3 million to promote Christmas trees, funds another $2 million to help farmers sell more…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode098 – Watch Me Now
“♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode098 – Watch Me Now which features brand new sounds from Sleepy Sun, Growl, Doug Paisley, Carper Family, Nick Waterhouse, Bossacucanova, De Lux, Latasha Lee & The BlackTies, Magna Carda, Hospitality, Blank Realm, Hard Proof, Erik Koskinen, Haden Triplets and Childbirth… Download/Subscribe Previous: Cradle Your Device…
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Germany to beef up counter-espionage against US, Western allies – report
from rt.com: Following decades of a heavily subdued program, Germany is planning to resume counter-espionage against both the US and other Western allies in response to ongoing revelations surrounding NSA’s global surveillance practices, Der Spiegel reports. Another primary motivation for the resumption of surveillance is US reluctance to agree to a no-mutual-spying treaty desired by…
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St Valentine’s Day = Pagan Holiday
Zen Gardner distills much longer Christian article on pagan roots of St. Valentine’s Day. Holiday appears another example of making Christianity amenable to pagan worshipers. “Like Christmas, Easter, Halloween, New Year’s and other holidays of this world, St. Valentine’s Day is another attempt to ‘whitewash’ perverted customs and observances of pagan gods and idols by…
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33rd Annual Cobra Gold Military Drill Kicks Off In Thailand
In its 33rd iteration, Cobra Gold is designed to advance regional security and ensure effective response to regional crises by exercising a robust multinational force from nations sharing common goals and security commitments in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Sexually Transmitted Food Poisoning?
from npr.org: Twenty-five years ago, two pals went out for a seafood dinner while vacationing in the Bahamas. What could be better than some fresh grouper steaks and a night on the town without the wives? Um, plenty. A few hours after dinner, the men started having stomach pains and diarrhea. Their legs began to…
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‘I Cast Satan Out’: Following Obama Controversy, You Won’t Be Seeing Devil in ‘Son of God’ Movie
from theblaze.com: Amid the success Mark Burnett and Roma Downey had with “The Bible” miniseries last year came the major controversy over the claim that Satan, played by actor Mohamen Mehdi Ouazan, looked just like President Barack Obama. Downey told TheBlaze Thursday that the controversy over the devil was a distraction that took attention away…