Month: May 2014
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Americans Will Never Have the ‘Right to Be Forgotten’
from time.com: Americans shouldn’t expect the same privacy protections as in Europe, where a top court has ruled citizens have a “right to be forgotten” Privacy has just taken on new meaning in Europe. The European Union’s highest court has ruled that any of the region’s 500 million citizens can compel Google and other search…
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Modern Pope Gets Old School On The Devil
from washingtonpost.com: A darling of liberal Catholics and an advocate of inclusion and forgiveness, Pope Francis is hardly known for fire and brimstone. Yet, in his words and deeds, the new pope is locked in an epic battle with the oldest enemy of God and creation: The Devil.
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Frugal US Consumers Make It Tough for Food Companies to Raise Prices
from reuters.com: Consumers “have gotten really good over these last four years at stretching a penny,” said Pat Conroy, leader of the U.S. consumer products practice at Deloitte LLP. Referring to the recession, he said, “Our hypothesis was that this thing was going to leave a scar, not a bruise. So far, we’ve been right.”…
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#BringBackYourDrones: US Drones Search for Kidnapped Nigeria Girls
from time.com: White House officials confirmed that reconnaissance drones are now patrolling an area the size of West Virginia in a search for nearly 300 kidnapped schoolgirls… The United States has deployed drones to Nigeria to help search for more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by militant group Boko Haram, officials confirmed Wednesday.
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Eyeopener Report: China’s “War on Terror”
from boilingfrogspost.com: Uyghur disenfranchisement is played upon to foment Islamic radicalism and political separatist sentiment. The East Turkestan Islamic movement seeking to wrest Xinjiang from China’s control offers a number of parallels to the shadowy “Al Qaeda” terror organization, including a mysterious leader living in a secret mountain base in Pakistan’s lawless border region and,…
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Moon Will Occult Saturn on May 14
from autoworldnews.com: Saturn will appear in the sky later tonight just to the lower left of the moon, according to SPACE.com. “At dusk on Tuesday, Saturn will appear about 5.5 degrees to the lower left of the moon,” said SPACE.com. “The moon will move toward Saturn at its own apparent width (one-half degree) per hour…
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Unable to Find New Location, Harvard Drops Satanic Black Mass
from myfoxboston.com: After being unable to find an off-campus location that would host the club’s black mass, the Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club announced it would no longer be sponsoring the event, but the New York-based Satanic Temple planned to stage their own black mass at an “undisclosed private location.”
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64 Countries Have Done What U.S. Won’t to Make Our Food Safer
from policymic.com: Sixty-four nations enforce consumer “right to know” laws on GMO food, while the United States has little regulatory framework surrounding genetically modified food products. The map above shows, as of 2013, the 64 nations that regard food labeling as a consumer priority. They include: Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria,…
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Iran Tells Pakistan: Beware of ‘Hands’ Sowing Rift Between Us
from dailytimes.com.pk: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Monday lambasted the US and ‘some other states’ for their attempts to create rift between Iran and Pakistan. “There are hands at work that intend to cause differences between the two friendly and intimate nations through different methods, including stirring insecurity at the lengthy common borders.…
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FCC Net Neutrality Plan in Chaos
from time.com: FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a former top cable and wireless industry lobbyist, appears to have misjudged both public opinion and his fellow Democratic commissioners regarding his “Open Internet” proposal… Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler is scrambling to change his “Open Internet” proposal after a torrent of criticism from Internet giants, startups, venture…
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Some Denounce Return of 9/11 Remains to World Trade Center
from nydailynews.com: A dawn procession carried the unidentified remains from the city medical examiner’s office to the new WTC memorial site. Some families wore black tape over their mouths in protest of the transfer, while others praised it. The long-unidentified remains of missing World Trade Center victims returned to Ground Zero in a solemn Saturday…
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Frozen Food Group Goes on Offense as Sales Feel the Burn
from SOURCE: Frozen food makers plan to launch their first national TV ad in defense of their products on Tuesday as the category fights to boost slipping sales. The ad will include the tag line “Frozen: How Fresh Stays Fresh” and is intended to address negative misconceptions people have about frozen foods. It’s part of…
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11 Powerful Netflix Documentary Films About Food
from policymic.com: Food porn, #cleaneating, Instagrams of each and every meal of your day: We are living in a culture of food obsession by way of voyeurism. We rarely dine without documenting the experience, and in response to the timeless question “who runs the world?” one look at social media will give you the answer:…
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Nasty Beef: World’s Best Worst Food Sites
from cnn.com: Is it possible to vomit while laughing? This appears to be the question behind a pair of websites that lampoon the popular practice of people taking pictures of their food and posting the results on social media. Someone Ate This and Cook Suck (websites contain obscenities), which celebrate the botched efforts of would-be…
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Voting Opens in Eastern Ukraine Poll
from smh.com.au: Voting opened across a swath of eastern Ukraine on Sunday morning in a separatist referendum, a wild venture in geopolitics that far outweighs its estimated cost – just $US1000 ($1068), according to rebel organisers.