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Archive for March, 2012

Baltimore Maryland Lottery Winner Tom Kreft Tricks Media Into Reporting He Won Mega Millions

| March 31, 2012 | 5 Comments

(Thomas Dishaw) Tom Kreft an aspiring film producer tricks media into reporting that he won the Mega Millions jackpot. Just a day short of April Fools day  Kreft plays one of the biggest media hoax of 2012. After hearing the winner was from Baltimore County Maryland, Kreft decided to put his Photoshop skills to work and [...]

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Starbucks Admits To Using Beetle Extract In Popular Drink Coloring

| March 30, 2012 | 1 Comment

(NaturalNews) For being a multinational corporate food and beverage giant, Starbucks has actually been among the most proactive in ridding its offerings of toxic additives and artificial colors, and switching to natural alternatives. But the company’s recent decision to change its Strawberries & Creme Frappuccino blended beverage formula has the vegan community in an uproar, [...]

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Biden: “We Want To Create A Global Minimum Tax”

| March 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Real Clear Politics)  ”For years, American manufacturers have faced one of the highest tax rates in the world. We want to reduce that by over 20%. We want to drop the rate, particularly, for high-tech manufacturers like you, Mr. President, even further than the 20%,” Vice President Joe Biden said at a manufacturing plant in [...]

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Canada Kills The Penny

| March 30, 2012 | 1 Comment

(Ottawa)  There may still be pennies from heaven, but they won’t be coming from the mint much longer. The humble one-cent piece is set to disappear from Canadian pockets, a victim of inflation. Thursday’s federal budget said the Royal Canadian Mint will strike the last of the little coins this fall. The budget says the [...]

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Controversial Pesticide Linked To Bee Collapse

| March 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Brandon Keim)  A controversial type of pesticide linked to declining global bee populations appears to scramble bees’ sense of direction, making it hard for them to find home. Starved of foragers and the pollen they carry, colonies produce fewer queens, and eventually collapse. The phenomenon is described in two new studies published March 29 in Science. [...]

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Department Of Homeland Security Is Buying 450 Million Rounds Of Bullets

| March 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Eloise Lee)  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office is getting an “indefinite delivery” of an “indefinite quantity” of .40 caliber ammunition from defense contractor ATK. U.S. agents will receive a maximum of 450 million rounds over five years, according to a press release on the deal. The high performance HST bullets are designed for law enforcement and ATK [...]

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Displaced C.I.A. Spy Uses Twitter To Blast Agency

| March 29, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Eli Lake0)  The Twitter feed belonging to Lynnae Williams at first glance looks like most Twitter feeds. There are tweets about what she is reading (“Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” “Madame Bovary”); tweets about politics (leans towards the Occupy movement); and tweets about food (tuna casserole, carrot-cake muffins). But on closer inspection, the feed features something rare for Twitter [...]

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‘KillZimmerman’ Twitter Advocates Violence Against Martin’s Killer

| March 29, 2012 | 0 Comments

(David Martosko)  On March 24 a “KillZimmerman” Twitter account began publishing calls for violence against George Zimmerman, the self-appointed neighborhood watch captain who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26. Five days later, the account is still on its crusade to avenge Martin. The sender’s initial tweets made his or her aims clear: [...]

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Police Can Hack Your Phone In 2 Minutes

| March 29, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Andy Greenberg)  Set your iPhone to require a four-digit passcode, and it may keep your private information safe from the prying eyes of the taxi driver whose cab you forget it in. But if law enforcement is determined to see the data you’ve stored on your smartphone, those four digits will slow down the process [...]

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Scientists Suggest That Eating Placenta Is Good For You

| March 29, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Jamie Condliffe)  The entire animal kingdom does it, but most humans become squeamish and pull their faces at the very notion. But now, scientists are suggesting that mothers—and perhaps even fathers—would benefit from eating parts of the placenta following child birth. Yum. A team of researchers from the University at Buffalo has been studying afterbirth ingestion [...]

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Leaving Your Apartment To Take Out The Trash May Get You Arrested In N.Y.

| March 29, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Andrew Jones)  The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) filed a lawsuit against the New York City Police Department (NYPD) Wednesday, alleging that in addition to stopping primarily black and Latino residents in public spaces as part of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program, officers are illegally searching people in private buildings. According to a press release, [...]

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George Zimmerman, Son Of A Retired Judge, Has 3 Closed Arrests

| March 29, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Rolling Out)That’s the question that’s being asked now that more information on Trayvon Martin’s 28-year-old killer is being revealed. Robert Zimmerman, a former Orange County magistrate judge, recently wrote a letter to The Orlando Sentinel defending his son, who’s been dragged through the mud for shooting the unarmed 17-year-old last month. In the letter, the senior Zimmerman asks people [...]

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FBI Taught Agents They Could Bend Or Suspend The Law

| March 28, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Spencer Ackerman)  The FBI taught its agents that they could sometimes “bend or suspend the law” in their hunt for terrorists and criminals. Other FBI instructional material, discovered during a months-long review of FBI counterterrorism training, warned agents against shaking hands with “Asians” and said Arabs were prone to “Jekyll & Hyde temper tantrums.” These [...]

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7 Things The Obama Administration May Soon Require Everyone To Purchase

| March 28, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Mike Adams)  The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments this week about Obama’s health care law, which has been challenged by twenty-six states. The crux of the legal arguments center around whether the federal government can mandate private citizens to purchase a product or service they may not even want or need. (I don’t buy [...]

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Cash Mobs Gather To Splurge In Locally Owned Stores

| March 27, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Reuters)  Flash mobs have been blamed as a factor in looting during urban riots. But now a group of online activists is harnessing social media like Twitter and Facebook to get consumers to spend at locally owned stores in cities around the world in so-called Cash Mobs. At the first International Cash Mob day on [...]

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Justice Roberts: Can The Government Make You Buy A Cell Phone?

| March 27, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Byron Tau)  Opponents of the individual mandate provision of President Obama’s health care law contend that if the government can force you to buy health insurance, its powers of compulsion are virtually unlimited. Chief Justice John Roberts wonders what else Washington can force citizens to buy in this exchange:   CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Well, the same, [...]

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Money Moves 5 Doomsayers Are Making Now

| March 27, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Market Watch)  They are sentries at the stock market’s wall of worry, warning investors to prepare for another epic crash for debt-laden economies. Yet with U.S. equity markets on a tear since early October, hitting levels not touched in several years, most of Wall Street isn’t seeing much cause for alarm. But investors should be [...]

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8,131,012 Is The Most Terrifying U.S. Patent Ever Issued

| March 27, 2012 | 0 Comments

(John Galt)  Imagine that one day some poor sucker was acting weird because he appeared that he had too much to drink and stumbled into a city square with his briefcase in tow. In reality he was just lost and exhausted. Imagine a computer that observes this individual via a security camera monitoring system used Artificial Intelligence [...]

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U.S.Trial Program Would Spy on Internet Users To Prevent Animal Abuse

| March 27, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Stephen C. Webster)  The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) offered an unusual contract (PDF) this month, soliciting bids from private software developers for a trial program that would scour the Internet for detailed information on all animal sales, potential animal welfare abuses and other unlawful economic activities relating to animals within the U.S. In other [...]

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Made from Genetically Modified Bacteria Waste, Aspartame Risks Public Health

| March 27, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Andre Evans)  Aspartame is one of the most used artificial sweeteners in the food supply today. It also happens to be one of the most dangerous. Aspartame is used in thousands of products as a substitute to sugar, though consumers would actually be better off eating regular sugar. Specifically, the toxic substance is often found in diet soft [...]

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Michigan D.N.R. Plans To Kill Pigs Based On Their Color

| March 27, 2012 | 0 Comments

(NaturalNews) The state of Michigan is only days away from engaging in what can only be called true “animal genocide” — the mass murder of ranch animals based on the color of their hair. It’s all part of a shocking new “Invasive Species Order” (ISO) put in place by Michigan’sDepartment of Natural Resources(DNR). This Invasive [...]

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Nations Cocaine Supply May Be Infected With Flesh Eating Disease

| March 27, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Katie Moisse) Cocaine cut with the veterinary drug levamisole could be the culprit in a flurry of flesh-eating disease in New York and Los Angeles. The drug, used to deworm cattle, pigs and sheep, can rot the skin off noses, ears and cheeks. And over 80 percent of the country’s coke supply contains it. “It’s probably quite a [...]

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Supplement Industry Getting Ready For A Hostile Takeover

| March 27, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Bill Sardi)  After the Presidential election anticipate what amounts to terrorist attacks upon the dietary supplement industry as regulatory agencies and the news media do the bidding for big business in a predictable industry takeover now that vitamin pills are yielding greater profitability and unit sales growth than the American economy as a whole and [...]

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Forgetting to Turn Off Cellphone Before Takeoff May Cost You $10,000 or More

| March 27, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Fox)  The agency that operates the New York City area’s three major airports wants passengers who don’t turn off their cellphones or tablets before takeoff to pay up or go to court. The executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said Monday the agency is considering levying fines that could [...]

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Kim Dotcom: US Government Used Megaupload

| March 26, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Torrent Freak)  Aside from preparing the cases of the Megaupload defendants, a team of lawyers is working hard to grant the site’s users access to their personal data. The cyberlocker is working out a deal with the Department of Justice to allow users to download their personal files. Interestingly enough, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom reveals [...]

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Turkish TV Ad Uses Hitler To Sell Shampoo

| March 26, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Spiegel)  A Turkish cosmetics company is under fire for featuring Adolf Hitler in a television advert for men’s shampoo, but it continues to run on the country’s state television network despite widespread outrage. The 12-second commercial shows black-and-white footage of Hitler delivering an impassioned speech, dubbed with a high-pitched voice screaming the following words in clipped Turkish: [...]

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