Month: February 2014
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GM Reveals CEO’s Pay Details to Counter Gender-Bias Criticism
from nytimes.com: Mary T. Barra, chief executive of General Motors, will earn as much as $14.4 million in compensation during her first year on the job, the company said on Monday. The automaker made her compensation package public two months ahead of schedule in response to criticism from politicians and media commentators in recent weeks…
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Switzerland Vote to Limit Foreign Workers Captures Growing European Fears About Immigration
from washingtonpost.com: A tightly contested vote in Switzerland to limit workers from European Union countries brought threats of retaliation Monday from leaders across the continent. The vote also stoked fears that Swiss citizens were reflecting the zeitgeist across Europe, where right-wing populists increasingly are seizing the spotlight with an anti-immigration political agenda. Amid claims of…
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‘World’s first’ farmer trial over GM crop contamination begins in Australia
from apperspective.net: A landmark legal battle between two farmers over alleged GM contamination has started in the Western Australian Supreme Court. The case is expected to determine GM farmers’ liability if their crops affect neighboring territories. The globally monitored legal battle involves local farmer Steve Marsh (pictured) who sued his neighbor Michael Baxter for negligence…
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Japan-Based Bitcoin Exchange Glitch Unsettles World
from online.wsj.com: Prices of bitcoin have recently fluctuated on factors ranging from government regulation to the virtual currency’s acceptance by real-world retailers. Now add another driver: perceived technical glitches. A leading bitcoin exchange Monday blamed a long-unresolved technical issue for its decision to abruptly halt customer withdrawals last week. Prices of bitcoin were sent reeling…
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Texas Teens Charged In Girl’s Death Linked To Occult
from chron.com: Two teens have been charged with capital murder in the death of a girl whose killing has been linked with the occult. Jose E. Reyes, 17, was arrested on Sunday in the NASA-area slaying, Houston police said on Monday. A 16-year-old boy was arrested on Monday. They were charged in the death of…
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Britain’s Eastern Coast Yields Oldest Human Footprints Outside Africa
from slashdot.com: “They were a British family on a day out — almost a million years ago. Archaeologists announced Friday that they have discovered human footprints in England that are between 800,000 and 1 million years old — the most ancient found outside Africa, and the earliest evidence of human life in northern Europe. A…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode097 – Cradle Your Device
“♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode097 – Cradle Your Device which features brand new sounds from Mogwai, Thumpers, Warpaint, Elizabeth & The Catapult, Dog Bite, Mayer Hawthorne, Bombay Bicycle Club, Sons of Fathers, Autumn Defense, Tom Brosseau, Temples, Tinnarose, Leif Vollebekk, Nicole Atkins, Mammút, Natural Child, Little Man, James Vincent McMorrow,…
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Bitcoin Exchange CEO Charged With Laundering $1 Million Through Silk Road
from wired.com: The CEO of Bitcoin exchanger BitInstant has been arrested and charged with money laundering over allegations that he and another man sold more than $1 million in Bitcoins to buyers and sellers of drugs on the underground drug site Silk Road. Charlie Shrem (pictured), 24, who ran BitInstant out of New York, is…
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Harvard: Fluoride Lowers Children’s Intelligence By 7 IQ Points
from washingtonsblog.com: The Harvard School for Public Health reports: In a meta-analysis, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and China Medical University in Shenyang for the first time combined 27 studies and found strong indications that fluoride may adversely affect cognitive development in children. Based on the findings, the authors say that this…
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Occult Death Series: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Merovee makes interesting comparisons to Whitney Houston death in recent blog, “The Death Of Philip Seymour Hoffman.” Illuminati excel in number obsession, parallels and inversions that leave a signature likely beyond probability of mere coincidence. “Both Philip Seymour Hoffman and Whitney Houston were found in a bathroom from suspected drugs overdoses,” notes blog and adds,…
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Muslims Flee Christian Militias in Central Africa Republic
from goddiscussion.com: Christian militias are brutally attacking Muslims in Bangui with both villages and towns being affected. Whole villages are being deserted as Christians are burning and looting Muslim’s houses and mosques. Now, tens of thousands of Muslims are fleeing the violent areas and into neighboring countries in hopes for safety.
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Concerns over privacy raised in wake of Osaka facial recognition experiment
from apperspective.net: Privacy concerns have been raised over an upcoming surveillance project slated to take place at the Osaka Station. A 2-year experiment that involves monitoring the movements of people arriving at the Osaka train station through a facial recognition system. The test will be conducted by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology,…
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The Amazing Healing Properties of Fermented Foods
from greenmedinfo.com: Between the hard and fast dichotomies of cooked and raw, dead and alive, is this beautiful thing called fermented. A place where many of the digestive challenges associated with raw foods (e.g. enzyme inhibitors, anti-nutrients, lectins) are overcome in favor of not just preserving their benefits (e.g. enzyme activity, vitamin content, life energy),…
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Interview w/ Michael Vail of StratRisks on Sochi, TPP, Ukraine
For our first installment of ‘Geopolitiks’ – a new series examining the real “news of the world” – we’re joined by Michael Vail of the indispensable StratRisks.com to help us look at the five-ring Sochi circus, the looming Trans-Pacific Partnership and the shaky situations in the Ukraine, South Sudan and more. “Read all about it!”…
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Loch Ness Monster Dead? Lowest Sightings Reported in 90 Years
from hngn.com: Is Nessie dead? Reports suggest the iconic Loch Ness Monster has not been spotted in over a year. This is the first time in about 90 years that there has been such a long absence of sightings, BBC News reported. Gary Campbell, who keeps records of sea monster sightings, said nobody has claimed…