Tag: boston
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food costs soar as thanksgiving looms, diners eat cost of inflation
from boston herald: Shoppers are feeling the pinch of higher food prices at the supermarket, and most consumers are convinced they will be shelling out even more cash for groceries next year. “Prices keep going up,” said Vladimir Nefyodov, a home health aide who shops for his elderly clients at Shaw’s in the Fenway. “My…
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food fest called off due to #OccupyBoston tent city
from boston herald: The sprawling Occupy Boston encampment in downtown has forced the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy to call off a food fest long planned for this weekend. The “Greenway Mobile Food Fest” set for Saturday has been canceled and won’t be held until the spring, the conservancy announced today. “Saturday’s event was to…
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Police State Updates: Wake & Find We’re Living In Oceania
The govt’s new right to track your every move with GPS // Carvers Bay, SC enlists 9th grade; freshmen all put in JROTC // Pentagon teaches Alaskan kindergarten kids as US schools are militarized for martial law conditioning // Microchipping the hiphop community // New Logan Airport searches blasted; TSA tests frisky frisking policy
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biowars/swine flu updates: tracking bracelets, superbugs & more
video: rfid bracelet after you get the US666 vaccine? flashback: boston launches flu shot tracking w/ rfid braceletsfrom boston globe: Using technology originally developed for mass disasters, Boston disease trackers are embarking on a novel experiment – one of the first in the country – aimed at eventually creating a citywide registry of everyone who…
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police state int’l: id cards, curfews, cops & camps
dc residents criticize new ‘dc one’ id cards to access services*cap aircraft to fly low over dc metro area*military jets dancing above storm lake, iowa*fbi says boston cops need m16’s to prevent city from becoming next mumbai*hal turner a trained fbi agent provocateur*lawyer: fbi paid right-wing blogger charged with threats*video: cops use old brink’s truck…
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swine flu updates: theories, queries & phase 6
… swine flu flashbacks: part 1, 2, 3 & 4 … who says swine flu not an accident from a labfrom nytimes: The swine flu virus did not result from a laboratory accident, the World Health Organization said Thursday, working to debunk rumors started by an Australian virologist and circulated by news outlets all over…
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military, feds & cops: bombs, lies, spies & sexcrimes
marine arrested at logan airport w/ bomb making materials from wikinews: Justin Reed, 22, a corporal in the United States Marines, has been arrested at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts after security personnel found a gun along with bomb-making material inside his checked-in luggage. According to Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Reed had traveled on…
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taxday 2009 & the great american econocrash
white house locked down after threat from tea bag 2,000 crowd capitol ‘tea party’ to protest taxesfrom oregonian: On a day already loathed by tax haters, 2,000 people crowded the Capitol steps to protest corporate bailouts, higher taxes and the state of government in both Oregon and in the United States. The demonstration in Salem…
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9/11 victims’ kin seek release of secret documents
from boston herald: Three families who lost loved ones in the 9/11 terrorist attacks head to court today to plead with a federal judge to release a million pages of documents detailing the mass murder of nearly 3,000 Americans. Those secret papers, one Bay State family member told the Herald, are “so bad you won’t…
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cameras, cops, confiscation & corruption
in more public places, cameras are on watchfrom boston globe: Over the past few years, some patrons of Lexington’s Cary Memorial Library have had the misfortune of encountering a person exposing himself. Five such incidents, along with vandalism that destroyed about $13,000 worth of property, prompted library officials and police to consider installing surveillance cameras,…
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spacewar, fcs, fake experts, fingerprints & kevlar
US & russian citizens want weapons-free outer spacefrom afp: Most Americans and Russians want their governments to ensure a weapons-free outer space and would back a treaty underpinning the move, a poll showed Thursday. Seventy-eight percent of Americans and 67 percent of Russians said their leaderships should refrain from deploying any weapons in space as…
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unknowing residents to take part in terror drill
city testing way to quickly distribute antibiotics from wcvb: About 23,000 Boston residents are weeks away from taking part in a bioterror drill, and many probably don’t even know it. Health officials plan to have mail carriers deliver tiny white cardboard boxes to the doorsteps and mailboxes of thousands of residents in the city’s West…