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Katy Perry: “I’m not Christian”
from goddiscussion.com: The pop star came out and said “I’m not Christian,” despite her conservative Christian upbringing and getting her start in gospel music. Katy Perry first put out a gospel record in February 2001 under her real name Katy Hudson. Since then, she has switched over to pop music. Perry said in an interview…
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Atheists Battle Supernatural Villains in New Comic Miniseries
from charlotteobserver.com: Justin Aclin, 33, is the co-creator of a new comic miniseries from Dark Horse Comics called “S.H.O.O.T. First.” “S.H.O.O.T. First” stands for “Secular Humanist Occult Obliteration Taskforce,” and the series involves a band of atheists who fight evil supernatural monsters that prey on human faith. Aclin, once a religious Jew, now identifies as…
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U.S. warns merchants on methods used by Target hackers
from reuters.com: The U.S. government on Thursday provided merchants with information gleaned from its confidential investigation into the massive data breach at Target Corp, in a move aimed at identifying and thwarting similar attacks that may be ongoing. The report titled “Indicators for Network Defenders” brings to light some of the first information gleaned from…
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How safe is West Virginia water, if pregnant women shouldn’t drink it?
from cnn.com: Days after they told some West Virginia residents they shouldn’t worry about drinking tap water contaminated with a chemical used to clean coal, local health officials issued a new advisory this week. Pregnant women, they suggested, might want to stick to drinking bottle water. In new guidance issued Wednesday night, West Virginia health…
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New World Next Week: Episode178 – ICC Vs. UK, CFR + The Fed, WV WTF
https://archive.org/download/20140116NewWorldNextWeek178/20140116_NewWorldNextWeek178-b.mp4 Download MP4 NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode178 – ICC Vs. UK, CFR + The Fed, WV WTF 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: Devastating Dossier on ‘Abuse’ by UK Forces…
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Joining a Handful of Other Cities, Lincoln, Nebraska Bans Police #Drones
from motherboard.vice.com: In two sentences, Mayor Chris Beutler of Lincoln, Nebraska has grounded any aspirations for unmanned aerial vehicles within his police department. As part of a comprehensive executive order on police surveillance activities, Mayor Beutler curtly singled out drones as clearly prohibited. “Drones are not authorized under this policy or any other Lincoln Police…
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Demon Possession: The New Confession of Modern Youth?
from charismanews.com: [M]ainstream music has taken on a whole new level of demonic influence as popular radio songs work to get our youth to confess they are demon-inspired, if not demon possessed. This revelation came as I was driving across the state of Florida with my teenaged daughter recently and decided to take a listen…
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Freedom Industries Cited at Second West Virginia Site
from ksdk.com: The company whose spill contaminated the water supply for 300,000 West Virginians has been cited for violations at a second facility where it’s storing chemicals. Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Tom Aluise says inspectors found five violations Monday at a Nitro site where Freedom Industries moved its coal-cleaning chemicals after Thursday’s spill. Inspectors…
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US physically hacks 100,000 foreign computers
NSA spies have inserted circuitry into computers in China, Russia, EU, India, Saudi and Pakistan to gain intelligence. from aljazeera.com: The United States has implanted devices in nearly 100,000 computers to spy on institutions such as the Chinese and Russian military, EU trade groups and agencies within Saudi Arabia, India and Pakistan. The New York Times on Tuesday cited documents…
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Helicopter Over Baltimore To Monitor Radiation
from baltimore.cbslocal.com: Homeland Security officials will conduct tests this week that could save lives and they’ll be done from a helicopter flying extremely low over the city. Officials will test for radiation so they can respond more quickly in case of a nuclear or dirty bomb attack… Eyes to the sky will notice an unusual…
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‘Devil’s Due’ Baby Prank Scares the Hell Out of New York
from thewrap.com: New Yorkers weren’t only victims of extreme cold earlier this month, they were the victims of a terrifying promotional prank for the upcoming found-footage horror movie “Devil’s Due.” “Devil Baby Attack,” a new video that launched on Tuesday, features an animatronic spawn of Satan rampaging through the snow-covered streets of NYC via a…
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Net neutrality gets a kick in the teeth
A US court has ruled against the FCC’s Open Internet regulations, putting the future of net neutrality completely up in the air. from zdnet.com: The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled in the case of Verizon et al. v. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and it’s bad, bad news…
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Supreme Court hands Monsanto victory over farmers on GMO seed patents, ability to sue
from RT.com: The US Supreme Court upheld biotech giant Monsanto’s claims on genetically-engineered seed patents and the company’s ability to sue farmers whose fields are inadvertently contaminated with Monsanto materials. The high court left intact Monday a federal appeals court decision that threw out a 2011 lawsuit from the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association…
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Fracking study finds combustible levels of methane in water after EPA gave the all clear
from RT.com: A report has found contaminated drinking water in parts of Texas, infuriating residents who had pressured the EPA to test for methane only to see the agency back off when the company allegedly responsible claimed that its own tests proved otherwise. Steve Lipsky, a resident of Fort Worth, Texas, complained to the Environmental…
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Suntory to Buy Jim Beam in $16 Billion Deal for U.S. Brand
from bloomberg.com: Suntory Holdings Ltd., the closely held Japanese whiskey and beer maker, agreed to buy Beam Inc. (BEAM) for $16 billion including debt to gain brands such as Maker’s Mark whiskey and create the world’s third-largest premium spirits company. Investors in the maker of Jim Beam and Canadian Club liquor will get $83.50 in…