Tag: pdf
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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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homeland security testing ‘pre-crime’ detection technology
from allgov: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been secretly working on technology that can tip off law enforcement about those planning to commit a crime. Part profiling, part advanced mathematics, the Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) is described as a “pre-crime” system by DHS. The program uses ethnicity, gender, breathing, eye tracking and…
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government pulls back on junk food marketing proposal
from ap: Tony the Tiger and Toucan Sam can rest easy. Government officials fine-tuning guidelines for marketing food to children say they won’t push the food industry to get rid of colorful cartoon characters on cereal boxes any time soon. related update: deceptive marketing exposed in new report* download pdf: cereal crimes: how ‘natural’ claims…
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‘no food rights’ judge quits to work for monsanto law firm
from food freedom: As courts and bureaucrats continue to assert that citizens have no fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of their choice, we find Monsanto lurking nearby. The Wisconsin judge who recently ruled that we have no right to own a cow or drink its milk resigned to join one of Monsanto’s…
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tracing canals of mars
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), mapping Martian surface the past five years, has captured images indicating water, according to article via Mars Daily! “Last August…scientists found dozens of slopes across the southern hemisphere of Mars where previously undetected dark streaks come and go with the seasons. When the planet heats up, the streaks appear and expand…
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#FastAndFurious gun-running scandal could bring down obama admin
new documents released by white house from blacklisted news: Could Fast and Furious be the scandal that brings down the Obama administration? With the full knowledge of the Department of Justice, ATF agents facilitated the sale of thousands of guns to Mexican drug cartels and dropped all surveillance of those weapons once they crossed the…
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zombie apocalypse: loss of full awareness and agency
Is there something more to a recent emergency awareness campaign by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)? Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu believes there is in his insightful article, “The Meaning of ‘Zombie Apocalypse’,” where a seeming hip approach to preparedness provides cover for a vaccination apocalypse. L’Hommedieu informs, “imagine this: multiple vaccinations incorporating the destructive…
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nasa to recruit fresh batch of astronauts
from theregister.co.uk: Ever wanted to get into space, armed with your three PhDs or test pilot’s licence, but nothing suitable comes up in the Jobcentre search? Well luckily for you, NASA is hunting for a new class of astronauts – but, be warned, new recruits may wait a long time to get into space.
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Activist Post Erased: Internet Censorship Or Cybermetrics Psyop?
Was the removal of Activist Post (AP), a week ago, only an attempt at clumsy internet censorship? The website released a statement regarding its takedown.
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Net Neutrality Rules Published, Lawsuits Soon to Follow
The FCC has finally officially published long-delayed rules prohibiting cable, DSL and wireless internet companies from blocking websites and requiring them to disclose how they slow down or throttle their networks.
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The Right To Choose What We Eat
from Food Freedom: Does an individual really have the right to eat whatever he or she wants to eat? This is the fundamental question behind Rural Vermont’s food sovereignty campaign. Rural Vermont, the statewide group dedicated to advancing economic justice for Vermont farmers through advocacy and education, is ramping up a campaign to encourage towns…
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internet hits all-time high as news source, tv at all-time low, says pew
from cnsnews: The Internet has risen to its all-time high as a primary source of news for Americans with 43 percent now saying they get most of their news on national and international issues from the web, according to a survey published Thursday by the Pew Research Center for The People & The Press. Meanwhile,…
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wisconsin judge says raw milk is no ‘fundamental right’
from the complete patient: Those raw milk proponents advocating “teach, teach, teach” may want to enroll Wisconsin Judge Patrick J. Fiedler in their first class–in the kindergarten section. In response to a request from the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, the judge issued a clarification [PDF] of his decision last week regarding his assessment of the…
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Sony Forces Gamers to Promise They Won’t Sue En-Masse for Hacks
After being spectacularly hacked multiple times earlier this year, Sony has decided it’s tired of being sued for its security failures and other issues and is requiring gamers on its Play Station Network to sign an agreement saying they won’t join class-action lawsuits to take the tech giant to court in the future.
