Month: May 2014
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Major U.S. ISP’s Accused of Deliberately Slowing Traffic
from yahoo.com: Five major internet service providers in the US and one in Europe have been accused of abusing their market share to interfere with the flow of the internet for end users. The accusations come from Level 3, a communications company that helps connect large-scale ISPs like Comcast or AT&T to the rest of…
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India turns to Russia to help supply arms to Afghan forces
from stratrisks.com: India has signed an agreement under which it will pay Russia to supply arms and equipment to the Afghan military as foreign combat troops prepare to leave the country, in a move that risks infuriating Pakistan. Under the deal, smaller arms such as light artillery and mortars will be sourced from Russia and…
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Chicago Library Branches Closed on H.H. Holmes Execution Day
from chicagonow.com: Well officially it is closed for a “staff training” day but we lovers of strange Chicago history know better! Born Herman Webster Mudgett and made a household name by Erik Larson’s Book “The Devil in the White City”, he graduated from the University of Michigan College of Medicine in 1884 and thereafter moved…
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Fast-food workers announce global protest, walkouts set for 33 countries
from aljazeera.com: Fast-food workers are planning a global strike for better pay and working conditions, with actions set to take place in 150 U.S. cities and 32 other countries in a bid to exert pressure on multinational companies. Strikes are planned for May 15 across five continents in countries including Morocco, Japan, India, Belgium, Germany,…
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Yvan eht Nioj: Egypt TV Says The Simpsons Predicted Syria Chaos
from dailymail.co.uk: The sighting of a Syrian opposition flag in a 2001 episode of The Simpsons is proof the United States is behind the country’s civil war, an Egyptian television channel has claimed. A report on Al-Tahrir TV featured an episode of the Fox show called New Kids On The Blecch which originally aired more…
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Apple Patent Could End Butt Dialing Forever!
from appleinsider.com: Apple is famous for its pioneering touchscreen devices, but a new patent shows the company has also dabbled behind the scenes in touch-sensitive buttons that would be able to distinguish between accidental activation and an actual finger press. The concept comes from a patent continuation published this week by the U.S. Patent and…
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Your Guide to the Politics of the Eurovision Song Contest
from thewire.com: Beneath the annual extravaganza of sequins and lights, the Eurovision Song Contest is an undeniably political event, from the strategic voting to using the competition as a way to boost a country’s image on the continent. But this year, turmoil in Ukraine and Russia’s anti-gay propaganda laws both look set to further politicize…
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Interview w/Jon Rappoport on MKULTRA Jazz
Investigative journalist Jon Rappoprt’s article, ‘US Jazz Musicians Were Drafted Into the CIA’s MKULTRA,’ caught my ear so he’s joining Media Monarchy for some classic ‘Acid Dreams’.
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Soylent and the End of Food
Has a Tech Entrepreneur Replaced Our Meals? from newyorker.com: In December of 2012, three young men were living in a claustrophobic apartment in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, working on a technology startup. They had received a hundred and seventy thousand dollars from the incubator Y Combinator, but their project—a plan to make inexpensive cell-phone towers—had…
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Stamp Out Hunger, Largest Single-Day Food Drive, on May 10
from news-press.com: Summer is coming, school will be out, and the need for food assistance will grow. So the timing is right for the nation’s largest single-day food drive, “Stamp Out Hunger,” set for Saturday. This is the one day when letter carriers collect nonperishable food that has been left by mailboxes. The National Association…
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F$%k the EU! (The EU is F*#ked) – The Geneva Business Insider
from corbettreport.com: David L. Smith of the Geneva Business Insider joins The Corbett Report once again to discuss the latest in economics, finance, geopolitics and society. This month they tackle the ongoing Ukrainian crisis and how it will inevitably backfire on the EU and the US, the so-called European recovery, and the European immigration issue.
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#Oklahoma’s ‘Satanic Monument’ Nears Completion Next to Ten Commandments
from theglobaldispatch.com: The New York-based Satanist group has released photographs of its sculpted ‘Homage to Satan,’ which the group plans to place next to a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the Oklahoma state capitol building. This monument is subject of a federal lawsuit after the group proposed the statue as a tribute in…
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What The Bryan Singer Scandal Says About Hollywood
from time.com: The casting couch is as old as Hollywood itself. Ever since there have been aspiring actors eager for a chance to break into the business, there have been powerful producers and directors offering opportunity and access in exchange for sexual favors. But in the wake of accusations that X-Men director Bryan Singer sexually…
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The Fat Cats of Fast-Food
from consortiumnews.com: Pay inequity has worsened across the U.S. economy, but perhaps nowhere more than in the fast-food industry where CEOs and other top executives fatten their compensation as their fast-food workers subsist on taxpayer-provided food stamps, as Michael Winship explains. Bad enough that the empty calories of many a fast-food meal have all the nutritional…