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Infected meat could reach UK’s plates, inspectors warn
Fears expressed over shakeup in rules that shifts responsibility for checking quality shifts to food companies. from theguardian.co.uk: Food inspectors have issued a grim warning that more infected animals could enter the food chain because of a shakeup in the inspection process which, they say, means some of the millions of animals they reject each…
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Water Crisis Not Over After West Virginia Chemical Spill
from hereandnow.wbur.org: It’s been called one of the most serious episodes of drinking water contamination in U.S. history. Four months after thousands of gallons of the coal-washing chemical MCHM spilled from an unregulated above-ground storage tank into the Elk River, many people in and around Charleston, West Virginia, are still using bottled water. Water bans…
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#Heartbleed Bug: Passwords, Credit Cards, Sensitive Data at Risk
from ibnlive.in.com: Passwords, credit cards and other sensitive data are at risk after security researchers discovered a problem with an encryption technology used to securely transmit email, e-commerce transactions, social networking posts and other Web traffic. Security researchers say the threat, known as Heartbleed, is serious, partly because it remained undiscovered for more two years.…
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Skype TX Promising Pro-Level Broadcast Service
from theregister.co.uk: TV journalists weary of trying to gather acceptable audio from Skype, your time to celebrate is now: Microsoft is rolling out a high-quality service designed for the broadcast market. If it does what it says on the box, Skype TX (transmitter, geddit?) will stick Microsoft’s elbows in the ribs of the expensive platforms…
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Starbucks Sorry for Louisiana Barista’s Demonic Emblems on Catholic’s Coffee
from nydailynews.com: It was one hell of a coffee. Starbucks has been forced to apologize after a barista wrote out the mark of the devil in caramel syrup on a Catholic teacher’s cup of joe. Megan Pinion said she was stunned Sunday when the Mall of Louisiana outlet served up her two drinks – complete…
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Are Secret, Dangerous Ingredients In Your Food?
from washingtonpost.com: Food manufacturers are routinely exploiting a “legal loophole” that allows them to use new chemicals in their products, based on their own safety studies, without ever notifying the Food and Drug Administration, according to a new report by an environmental and consumer advocacy group.
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Sun Sets, Mars Rises In Cosmic Alignment
from guardianlv.com: Night sky gawkers are preparing for an uncommon occurrence coming this Tuesday evening on April 8. That is when three entities within the solar system will be in a near perfect queue. The Sun, Earth and Mars will all be lined up in a stunning cosmic alignment, and Mars will also be visible…
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Russia Will Not Import GMO Products: PM Medvedev
from RT.com: Russia will not import GMO products, the country’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said, adding that the nation has enough space and resources to produce organic food. Moscow has no reason to encourage the production of genetically modified products or import them into the country, Medvedev told a congress of deputies from rural settlements…
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Military Drone Crashes Near Pennsylvania Elementary School
from RT.com: A nearly 400-pound unmanned aerial vehicle crash-landed near an elementary school in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania on Thursday afternoon, irritating members of the community and alarming civil liberties advocates nervous about drones flying over the US. The drone, an RQ-7 Shadow, is 11 feet long with a 14 foot wingspan. Why it was flying…
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George Soros Pushes For Marijuana Legalization
from zerohedge.com: It seems two states is not enough for billionaire investor George Soros (who is ranked the 9th most influential marijuana user in the US). As The Washington Times’ Kelly Riddell reports, advocacy groups are leading the campaign to crush marijuana prohibition from coast-to-coast, and 83-year-old Soros is helping line the pockets of those…
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Jehu and the Eradication of Baalism
from TheBibleForStudents.com: Jehu assembled all the Baal-worshipers, prophets and priests to a solemn assembly in the temple of Baal. None was excluded and no worshiper of God was included. Their religious robes were put on. Jehu offered the burnt offering. Then he ordered his 80 warriors stationed outside to massacre everyone in the temple. They…
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Interview w/ Jefferey Jaxen on ‘Divergent’
Admittedly inspired by the Milgram Experiment, Veronica Roth’s ‘Divergent’ is making easy money at the box office – but do the bad reviews show that youth are rejecting this latest batch of predictive programming? Writer/researcher Jefferey Jaxen joins us to talk about – not only this dauntless manipulation of media – but some of the…
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That Harvard Book Bound In Human Flesh Isn’t Actually Bound In Human Flesh
from bostonmagazine.com: Science: 1, Internet: 0. For one reason or another—perhaps it was the flashy headline, or the gruesome mysterious details—a nearly decade-old story published by the Harvard Crimson about a collection of books at the university’s library, that are allegedly bound in human skin, crawled to the surface of the Internet this week. But…
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Weird Weather, War Make Food More Expensive
from qz.com: The winter of 2014 hasn’t been kind to the cost of breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Food prices have jumped more than 5% since the start of the year, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s food price index, which was updated this morning with new data for March. Sugar, cereals, and vegetable…
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White House Created ZunZuneo, ‘Cuban Twitter,’ NOT As Covert Operation
US Secretly Created ‘Cuban Twitter’ to Stir Unrest* from voanews.com: The White House says a so-called “Cuban Twitter” communications network created by the U.S. government was a development program, not a covert operation. White House spokesman Jay Carney commented about the program Thursday, responding to a report by the Associated Press news agency. Carney said…