Tag: obituary
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#Newspurge: March of the Meanies
Some 9/11 victims’ remains were sent to landfill // Michael Douglas to banksters: Stop imitating me // Andrew Breitbart Drops Dead in Los Angeles // Police dismantle Occupy London site // Rockefeller Throws Fundraiser at Mansion With Telecom, Mining Lobbyists
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#MediaMemes: Monkees, Bears, SEALs and Deals
“I’m a Believer”: Monkees Singer Davy Jones Dies at 66 // Michael Davis, Bassist in influential ’60s band MC5, dies 68 // Jan Berenstain, co-creator of Berenstain Bears dies at 88 // Bergman Favorite Actor Erland Josephson Dies At 88 // Navy SEALs Drama ‘Act of Valor’ Tops Box Office With $24.5M // Whitney Houston’s…
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2/16 Binge and Purge: Arsenic and Old Taste
Organic Food Can Have High Concentrations of Arsenic // EU and US agree to Historic New Partnership on Organic Trade’ // Organic Farmer Prince Charles on Changing Our Faulty Food System // China’s Xi, US officials talk food trade in Iowa // Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning // Obama’s budget cuts bacteria testing in produce…
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#MediaMemes: I Have Nothing
What Happened to Whitney Houston? // ‘Paint a Vulgar Picture’: Singer Whitney Houston dead at 48 // Sony sorry for price hike ‘mistake’ // Whitney Had Premonition of Death // Celine on Whitney “drugs, bad people or bad influence tookover” // Forget M.I.A’s Bird-Flip, Worry About Pop’s Sexual Moral Decline // Declassified documents show FBI,…
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Roger Boisjoly, Whistleblower Warned of Challenger Disaster, Dies 73
from nytimes.com: Six months before the space shuttle Challenger exploded over Florida on Jan. 28, 1986, Roger Boisjoly wrote a portentous memo. He warned that if the weather was too cold, seals connecting sections of the shuttle’s huge rocket boosters could fail. “The result could be a catastrophe of the highest order, loss of human…
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Media/Memes: Artificial Creations, Demands & Awards
Born to Die: Lana Del Rey, an Artificial Creation? // Etta James, ‘At Last’ Legend, Dies at 73 // Merle Haggard Hospitalized With Pneumonia, Cancels Shows // After terrific year, music biz demands that world adopt ‘SOPA plus’ // Sun shines again for Woody Allen after ‘Midnight’ // Scorsese’s ‘Hugo’ and ‘The Artist’ favourites for…
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Death of an Occult Crime Expert Reawakens Controversy
On Saturday, retired police officer Donald “Don” Rimer, 65, died from complications arising from a stroke… Rimer will most be remembered for is his career as an expert on so-called “occult crime.”
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before joe paterno’s death, a premature report
Early report of Joe Paterno’s death leads to apologies* from latimes: Media organizations and an interested public sat on edge Saturday afternoon, knowing grim news could come at any moment. Just before 6 p.m. PST, it did. Onward State, a student news site at Penn State, tweeted that according to its sources legendary former Nittany…
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media/memes: sinking ships, throat tones, hand jive
Video: Twilight Language: Titanic Tragedy – Costa Concordia* Adele Joins ‘Titanic’ In Her 16-week Chart Reign* Music Program Admits to Coaching 3rd Graders to Sing Occupy Song* Ringing tones of NY Philharmonic silenced by ringing cell phone* Video: L. Bernstein Conducts Mahler’s 9th Symphony* Joel J. Tyler, Judge Who Ruled ‘Deep Throat’ Obscene, Dies at…
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12/29 pop occulture: in the name of god, amen
mexico expects 52m tourists in maya region in 2012* the top religion and ethics stories of 2011* top ten ignored religion stories of 2011* top 2011 religion stories that weren’t* top ten horror films of 2011* beardless matisyahu still rocks hard, with dreidel mirror ball* hitchens was an atheist who believed*
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media/memes: a year of disappointment for hollywood
movie ticket sales hit 16yr low in 2011* from nytimes: With five days left in 2011, ticket sales in North America are running about $500 million behind last year – despite higher prices – prompting a round of soul searching by studios trying to determine what went wrong and how best to proceed. Movies are…
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12/22 newspurge: sometimes you have to work on christmas
biowars/envirohealth: japan pm says fukushima nuclear site finally stabilised* video: ‘statistically meaningful increase’ in west coast cancer from fukushima* philippines sends coffins, flood toll nears 1000 dead; president declares ‘state of national calamity’* river in china turns red; illegal workshop dumps dye in pipe network* drought has killed up to 10% of texas woodland trees*…
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kim jong il is dead, long live kim jong un!
north korea’s longtime leader & cult of personality dead at 69* from cnn: North Korea’s longtime leader Kim Jong Il, the embodiment of the reclusive state where his cult of personality is deeply entrenched, has died. He was believed to be 69. Regarded as one of the world’s most-repressive leaders, Kim Jong Il always cut…
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12/15 pop occulture: osama, occupy & more
poll: osama tops religion news for 2011* occupy 2.0? church leaders join movement* satire: 5 subtle ways to convince co-workers that you’re evil* atheists embracing faith for their kids* senate action averts shutdown of US religious freedom commission* christopher hitchens dead at 62*
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12/15 defcon: god’s particles, takedown sprees & more
ndaa gives pentagon a green light for cyberwar* congress authorizes pentagon to wage internet war* ‘blueprint for a secure cyber future’: dhs releases cyber strategy framework* california unveils cyber crime unit* florida arrests 48 in child computer sex crimes investigation* cops target climate-sceptic bloggers in three countries* sopa tweet triggers political explosion, delays vote* carrier…