Month: August 2014
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#China Industrial Profits Drop in August as Slowdown Deepens
from bloomberg.com: Profits at industrial companies in China declined last month for the first time in two years as a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy deepens. Total profits of China’s industrial enterprises fell 0.6 percent from a year earlier in August, the National Bureau of Statistics said today in Beijing. That compares with July’s…
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Will the Makers of Superhero #Movies Consider a Female-Led Movie?
from superherohype.com: Back on August 1, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige was asked how close he thought they were to getting a superhero movie out there with a female lead and he replied as follows: “I think it comes down to timing, which is what I’ve sort of always said, and it comes down to…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode124 – Hold On ♬
♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode124 – Hold On which features brand new sounds from OK Go, My Brightest Diamond, Wannabe Jalva, Allah-Las, Chrissie Hynde, Man Man, Sylvan Esso, Dilated Peoples, Groove Armada, Fink, Twin Peaks, Rubblebucket, Otis The Destroyer and Tomten… Download/Subscribe Previous: Episode123 – True **************************************** ♬Liner Notes♬:It’s Labor…
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The Movie “Videodrome” and The Horror of Mass Media
from VigilantCitizen.com: “Videodrome” is an 80′s science fiction horror film that contains some gore, James Woods and Betamax videotapes. Above all, the movie communicates a strong message on the perversity of mass media, its dangers to the human psyche and how it is used to manipulate the masses. This article will look at the meaning…
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Inside Google’s Secret Drone-Delivery Program
from theatlantic.com: A zipping comes across the sky. A man named Neil Parfitt is standing in a field on a cattle ranch outside Warwick, Australia. A white vehicle appears above the trees, a tiny plane a bit bigger than a seagull. It glides towards Parfitt, pitches upwards to a vertical position, and hovers near him, a…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode201 – IMF’ed, Losing Libya, Foley Follies
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode201 – IMF’ed, Losing Libya, Foley Follies 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: Another IMF Chief Takedown As Lagarde Under Investigation In France IMF Chief Charged With…
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New Age Bullshit and The Suppression of The Sacred Masculine
from ZenGardner.com: The following is an excellent 7 hour presentation by Mark Passio (go HERE for that and other video clips) that will rub many people in the New Age movement wrong but for the majority of what he is saying, I agree. For those who don’t have the patience of watching a 7 hour…
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U.S. Food, Chinese Processing: the Latest Food Outrage
from blacklistednews.com: The US FDA prevents such things as artisinal cheese and butter being imported from Europe, products that have been in use for hundreds of years and don’t make people sick, but–speaking of sick–this breathtakingly corrupt agency is allowing big food processors to grow food in the US but then process it in China in…
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U.S. Hospitals Overdo Ebola Plans, Posing New Risks
from reuters.com: Fear of Ebola is causing U.S. hospitals to take precautions that, paradoxically, might backfire, increasing the risk to those caring for a patient with the deadly disease, researchers warned this week. The only confirmed Ebola cases on U.S. soil so far have been two American aid workers flown from Liberia for treatment…
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SpaceX Falcon 9-R Rocket Suffers Malfunction, Self-Destructs During Test Flight
from dailytech.com: The SpaceX team suffered a setback yesterday when its experimental Falcon 9-R (F9R) reusable rocket experienced a malfunction during a test flight in Texas. According to SpaceX, an “anomaly was detected” during the test flight, and as a result, the flight was auto-aborted and the rocket F9R was instructed to self-destruct. In a…
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U.S. Food, Chinese Processing: the Latest Food Outrage
from blacklistednews.com: The US FDA prevents such things as artisinal cheese and butter being imported from Europe, products that have been in use for hundreds of years and don’t make people sick, but–speaking of sick–this breathtakingly corrupt agency is allowing big food processors to grow food in the US but then process it in China in…
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U.S. Hospitals Overdo Ebola Plans, Posing New Risks
from reuters.com: Fear of Ebola is causing U.S. hospitals to take precautions that, paradoxically, might backfire, increasing the risk to those caring for a patient with the deadly disease, researchers warned this week. The only confirmed Ebola cases on U.S. soil so far have been two American aid workers flown from Liberia for treatment…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode123 – True
♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode123 – True which features brand new sounds from Sarah Jaffe, Bob Moses, Operators, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Alvvays, The Both, Golden Dawn Arkestra, Mia Doi Todd, Teleman, Deers, Ty Segall, White Lung, Benjamin Booker, BadBadNotGood and S… Download/Subscribe Previous: Episode122 – Thought Of Sound…
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Witchcraft & Shamanism
from Patheos.com: There is a large and growing body of evidence in anthropological and historical literature that historical European-style witchcraft was a form of shamanism. There are essentially three lines of argument here: One, espoused by Éva Pócs and Carlo Ginsburg, connects medieval and Early Modern practices to pre-Christian religious beliefs, mostly in eastern Europe…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode200 – Ferguson Violence, More Water Wars, Portland Portfolio
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode200 – Ferguson Violence, More Water Wars, Portland Portfolio 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: Activists Say Outside Agitators to Blame for Ferguson Violence PBS: Timeline of…