Month: April 2014
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Peaches Geldof Was Obsessed With Occult, Spiritual Study
from dailymail.co.uk: While Peaches Geldof appeared to have beaten her drug demons, her continuing fascination with the occult, and particularly a mysterious religious cult called OTO, worried her family. Just three weeks ago Peaches, 25, tweeted a picture of bookshelves groaning with works by Aleister Crowley, the British founder of the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO).…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode106 – Listen
“♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫” on Episode106 – Listen which features brand new sounds from Bad Suns, Starwalker, Hercules & Love Affair, S. Carey, Esme Patterson, Ramona Lisa, Pattern is Movement, G. Love & Special Sauce, Baseball Project, BettySoo, Beck, MaLLy and Vibragun… Download/Subscribe Previous: Episode105 – Nirvana **************************************** ♬Liner Notes♬: It’s…
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Cancer-inducing benzene traced in China water supply
from RT.com: Residents of Lanzhou, northwest China, have started panic-buying bottled water after city authorities confirmed the lethal chemical compound benzene was contaminating the city’s drinking water at 20 times the national safety level. Lanzhou warned its 2.4 million residents not to consume any water from the tap on Friday after tests conducted at a…
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Satanism Tops Agenda of Teachers’ Conference
from newera.com.na: Top on the agenda of the teachers’ conference that starts today in //Karas Region is alleged satanism at schools and pupils possessed by demons. The unending reports of learners being possessed by demons and practices of witchcraft at schools have prompted //Karas educationalists to include the item on the agenda of the regional…
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Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise Imperils Our Future
from postcarbon.org: Richard Heinberg speaks on his newest book, covering the short-term nature of the recent North American oil boom and the financial bubble that supports it. Heinberg covers the implications of the 2016-2017 peak in unconventional output by providing essential information for any community facing the false promises of companies planning to extract realit.
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Why U.S. Fracking Companies Are Licking Their Lips Over Ukraine
from alternet.org: The way to beat Vladimir Putin is to flood the European market with fracked-in-the-USA natural gas, or so the industry would have us believe. As part of escalating anti-Russian hysteria, two bills have been introduced into the US Congress – one in the House of Representatives ( H.R. 6), one in the Senate…
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Google & Facebook Used Lobbying Groups to Oppose Internet Surveillance Restrictions
from vice.com: Revelations about the National Security Agency’s most controversial surveillance program, which centers on the bulk collection of hundreds of billions of records of Americans’ phone conversations, were quickly greeted with calls for reform by major internet powerhouses like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo last year. But all four companies, along with dozens of…
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Brazil Skirts Organizational Disaster With Most Expensive World Cup Ever
from ibtimes.com: When it comes to soccer, Brazil is a country of superlatives. Its fabled national team, whose skills with the ball are proverbial, has won the most World Cups, appeared in more finals than anybody else, and is the only squad to have qualified for every tournament since the competition began in 1930. But,…
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Late Night Remains a Men’s Game
from huffingtonpost.com: The major networks have yet to place a woman behind the desk of a late night show. With the exception of Chelsea Lately who is not aired on one of the three major networks [and is also reportedly ending her show anyway], late night television is absent of women, which means that the…
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Former #PaulAllen Bodyguard Cites “Rampant Mistreatment, Sexual Harassment and Illegal Activity”
from seattlepi.com: After years of acrimonious litigation, Vulcan Inc. has made onetime Paul Allen bodyguard Tracy Turner pay. Turner was among 15 former bodyguards to leave the Seattle Seahawks owner’s firm claiming rampant mistreatment, sexual harassment and illegal activity. Unlike the rest, Turner will have to pay her former employers $45,000 for their trouble. A…
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Sebelius Resigns After Obamacare Launch Woes
from reuters.com: Kathleen Sebelius, the U.S. health secretary who oversaw the botched rollout of President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare reforms, has resigned, a senior administration official said on Thursday. Obama has chosen Sylvia Mathews Burwell, his budget director, to replace Sebelius, a second official said. Obama was due to announce the change with Sebelius and…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode189 – More Good News, Seawater Fuel, Blood Moon
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode189 – More Good News, Seawater Fuel, Blood Moon 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: Metgasco’s Gas Exploration Well Delayed After Protesters Block Entrance to Bentley Site…
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DNA Nanobots Deliver Drugs in Living Cockroaches
from blacklistednews.com: It’s a computer – inside a cockroach. Nano-sized entities made of DNA that are able to perform the same kind of logic operations as a silicon-based computer have been introduced into a living animal. The DNA computers – known as origami robots because they work by folding and unfolding strands of DNA –…
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Jack The Ripper Mystery Solved After 125 Years?
from express.co.uk: The Jack the Ripper mystery that has kept the world enthralled since the killer first struck on the streets of Victorian London has been blown apart on the 125th anniversary of the grisly crimes by a former murder squad detective. And the bad news for the countless millions of amateur sleuths who have…