Month: April 2014
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Anti-Semitic Fliers in Eastern Ukraine Denounced
from religion.blogs.cnn.com: U.S. officials Thursday denounced what one called a “grotesque” leaflet ordering Jews in one eastern Ukrainian city to register with a government office, but the Jewish community there dismissed it as a “provocation.” The fliers were handed out by masked men in front the main synagogue in Donetsk, where pro-Russian protesters have declared…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode107 – Pressure
“♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫” on Episode107 – Pressure which features brand new sounds from Wild Ones, Timber Timbre, AJ Davila, Kaiser Chiefs, Band of Skulls, Spottiswoode & His Enemies, Woods, Cloud Nothings, Saintseneca, Craft Spells, Courtney Barnett, Souljazz Orchestra, Tensnake and Kithkin… Download/Subscribe Previous: Episode106 – Listen **************************************** ♬Liner Notes♬: It’s…
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Let Them Eat Hemp
from realnewsaustralia.com: Food regulation in Australia can be baffling sometimes. It’s so easy to walk into a supermarket and fill your trolley with foods that can potentially undermine your health like litres of soft drink and cheap doughnuts. Yet if you want to buy hemp seed, a source of vitamins and minerals and a rich…
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New Map Shows Food Access Disparities
from nbcnews.com: In some counties, many of the residents don’t know where their next meal is coming from. This new map from Feeding America shows “food insecurity” from state to state. The darkest areas are the ones with the least access. To learn more, visit the Map the Meal Gap project.
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For Rapid Growth, Africa Is the New China
from theglobeandmail.com: The latest hot investing sector to bottom out: Emerging markets. Once a favourite of investors amenable to living on the knife edge of risk and reward, emerging markets have been dragged down by their slowing economic growth. Many strategists suggest investors forget about emerging markets for now and instead put money in developed…
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Filipinos Nailed to Cross in Good Friday Ritual Frowned on By Catholic Church
from blogs.reuters.com: Nearly 20 Filipinos and a Danish filmmaker were nailed to crosses to re-enact the crucifixion of Christ on Good Friday, a practice the Roman Catholic Church frowns upon as a distortion of the Easter message. The annual Philippine ritual draws thousands of spectators to San Fernando, 80 km (50 miles) north of Manila,…
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SpaceX Making Easter Delivery Of Station Supplies
from npr.org: A SpaceX supply ship rocketed toward the International Space Station on Friday, setting the stage for an Easter morning delivery and urgent spacewalking repairs later in the week. Following its midday launch through cloudy skies, the Dragon cargo carrier was shown drifting away in the blackness of space, against the blue backdrop of…
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Three More Vaccines Now Mandatory for Ontario Children
from theglobeandmail.com: Ontario is making three more vaccines mandatory for schoolchildren, a move that cements the province’s hard line against parents who decline to immunize their children. As of this September, Ontario students will need to be vaccinated against whooping cough, meningococcal disease and, if they were born after 2010, chickenpox. All three are already…
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Azerbaijan Pipeline Would Bypass Russia?
from politico.com: The confrontation between Ukraine and Russia is helping to create an opening for another former Soviet state that wants to become a bigger gas supplier to Europe. Azerbaijan — nestled between Russia to its north and Iran to its south — hopes its geographic and geopolitical position will help persuade the Obama administration…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode190 – Follow The LEEDIR, Mainstream Conspiracies, Nyet GMO
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode190 – Follow The LEEDIR, Mainstream Conspiracies, Nyet GMO Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Los Angeles Law Enforcement Looking To Crowdsource Surveillance Corbett Report Flashback: Episode…
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Kepler-186f: First Earth-Sized, Potentially Habitable Exoplanet Found
from popularmechanics.com: A team of astrophysicists at the SETI Institute and NASA’s Ames Research Center has just reached a major milestone in the search for life-supporting planets outside our solar system. For the first time, they have discovered an Earth-sized planet nestled in the temperate, liquid-water supporting distance from its star—the so-called habitable zone. “This…
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The Lincoln Imp
The Lincoln Imp is a stone figure at the Lincoln Cathedral in the town of Lincoln in England. “The legend is that a small devil entered the Cathedral out of curiosity and plagued the Angels. To prevent further mischief they turned him to stone. If you prefer, as a very old legend has it, one…
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Rising Food Prices Pinching Consumers
from usatoday.com: Two months of sharp increases in food prices show grocers are starting to pass along their higher wholesale costs to consumers. Retail food prices rose 0.4% in March, the same as in February and the largest amount since September 2011. By comparison, the prices of all consumer goods rose 0.2% in March and…
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Environmental Activists Murders ‘Have Soared Dramatically’
from ibtimes.co.uk: More than 900 environmental activists have been slain in 35 countries over the past decade with very few of their murderers ever likely to be brought to justice, a survey by London-based Global Witness group reported. Global Witness, which reports on links between environmental exploitation and human rights abuses, said the death toll has…
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DARPA to Set Sea-based Electronic Ambushes for Enemies
from stratrisks.com: U.S. military researchers are moving forward with a program to hide ruggedized electronic devices at the bottom of the world’s oceans that when called on will float to the surface to jam, disrupt, and spy on enemy forces. Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Virginia, this week…