Month: May 2014
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode111 – Mental Radio
♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode111 – Mental Radio which features brand new sounds from The Faint, Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger, Caught A Ghost, Mimicking Birds, Tele Novella, Architecture in Helsinki, Family Crest, Dolly Parton, Sturgill Simpson, Actual Wolf, HTRK, Young Magic, Built To Spill and Mudhoney… Download/Subscribe Previous:…
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Robots Will Replace Fast-Food Workers
from money.cnn.com: As protesters across the country call for the fast-food chains to raise their wages, a number of companies have begun experimenting with new technology that could significantly reduce the number of restaurant workers in the years to come. Restaurant industry backers warn that a sharp rise in wages would be counterproductive, increasing the…
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Shocker! Snowden a Spy ‘At All Levels’
from ndtv.com: US fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden “trained as a spy” and worked “undercover overseas” for intelligence agencies, he told NBC News in excerpts of an interview aired Tuesday. In his first interview in US media, Snowden hit back at claims that he was merely a low-level contractor, saying he worked “at all levels…
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Search to Be Opened to Private Contractors
from online.wsj.com: Authorities will open up the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to private contractors next week, with the launch of a public tender that could take two months to complete, a person familiar with the search said. Malaysian, Chinese and Australian authorities are seeking a single contractor to coordinate an expanded undersea search…
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Young Blood = Fountain of Youth?
Susan Duclos asks right question in “Occult Child Sacrifice Goes Mainstream,“ where will the blood come from? Duclos sums up latest discussion floating in the ether: “By now many have heard about the newest research results showing that ‘young blood’ can help reverse the aging process as multiple news reports are shown in the video…
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Soldiers, Selfies and Martial Law: Thailand’s Tourism Industry Suffers
from cnn.com: In most capital cities, waking up to images of armed soldiers, military vehicles and blockades on the streets — the result of an unexpected 3 a.m. announcement that the army has declared martial law — might be cause for alarm. But Bangkok isn’t your average city. Since 1932 — the year Thailand became…
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Prominent Hacker Who Became FBI Informant Is Released
from mashable.com: The hacker who cofounded the shadowy LulzSec group, but who then helped the U.S. government disrupt at least 300 cyberattacks while working as an FBI informant, is now a free man. A Manhattan federal district court judge granted Hector Xavier Monsegur, better known by his hacker moniker “Sabu,” a sentence of time served…
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Standing Up To Goliath: #MarchAgainstMonsanto
from march-against-monsanto.com: On May 24, millions of activists from around the world will once again March Against Monsanto, calling for the permanent boycott of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and other harmful agro-chemicals. Currently, marches will occur on six continents, in 52 countries,with events in over 400 cities. In the US, solidarity marches are slated to…
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Now Cheap Food Blamed for America’s Obesity Crisis
from nbcnews.com: Why are Americans so fat? A new study suggests we’ve been getting it all wrong. It’s not that we don’t exercise enough or spend too much time at the office, or that good, healthy food is too expensive, researchers reported Thursday. And it’s not about socioeconomic status, race or geography. Rather, the main…
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Camelopardalids! Stargazers on Alert for Rare, Maybe Epic Meteor Shower
from cnn.com: Actually, these meteors aren’t necessarily falling on the Earth. Rather, it’s the Earth that’s moving through the debris of Comet 209/P Linear. Whatever the reason, experts say this one-night-only phenomenon known as the May Camelopardalids could produce a huge light show — or be a dud. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory noted that some…
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Russia and China Seal Historic $400bn Gas Deal
from RT.com: After 10 years of negotiations, Russia’s Gazprom and China’s CNPC have finally signed a historic gas deal which will provide the world’s fastest growing economy with the natural gas it needs to keep pace for the next 30 years. The total value of the contract is $400 billion, Gazprom CEO Aleksey Miller said.…
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Penn Jillette Gets Death Threats Over Atheist Views
from goddiscussion.com: Magician Penn Jillette, from Penn& Teller, has received death threats for his anti-religious beliefs. He has written books titled God, No! and Every Day is an Atheist Holiday! Penn is, and always has been, outspoken about his beliefs which has caused numerous death threats over the years. In an interview with Seven magazine,…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode194 – Belgium Buyer, Royal Nazi, GMO Ban
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode194 – Belgium Buyer, Royal Nazi, GMO Ban 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: Did the Fed Launder $141B Through Belgium to Hide Massive Increase In QE?…
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Bewildered By Bilderberg
from npr.org: The Bilderberg annual conference is convening at the end of May in Denmark. Or so it’s reported. For folks who have never heard of Bilderberg, it’s an invitation-only confab of high-powered people who jawbone about world issues. Its mission, according to its official website, is at once simple and complex: “to foster dialogue…
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China Proposes Security Alliance To Counter U.S. Influence
from japantimes.com: China’s president called Tuesday for the creation of a new Asian structure for security cooperation based on a regional group that includes Russia and Iran and excludes the U.S. President Xi Jinping spoke at a meeting in Shanghai of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-building measures in Asia (CICA), an obscure group that…