Archive for April, 2012

Coca-Cola Caught With High Levels Of Chlorine In China’s Soda Supply

| April 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Agence France-Presse)  Coca-Cola has been ordered to temporarily halt production at a bottling plant in northern China, after media reports of chlorine in its products, according to a government statement. Shanxi province ordered an investigation after reports that a batch of drinks contained water with chlorine, the province’s quality bureau said in a statement at the weekend. “An on-site inspection, [...]

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Chicago To Welcome Militarized May Day?

| April 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Yana Kunichoff)  If there is going to be a dress rehearsal for the coming NATO summit in Chicago, May Day is it. The first major mobilization of the 99 percent the month of the summit will take place on Tuesday, May 1. It will also, coincidentally or not, be the first day that police in [...]

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Official List Of Words Feds Monitor On Social Networking Sites

Official List Of Words Feds Monitor On Social Networking Sites

| April 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Alexander Higgins)  The Feds have been forced to release their social network monitoring manual, which contains the list of words the government watches on social media and news sites. Earlier the Huffington Post reported on the Feds have been forced to give up their list of words they monitor on Facebook, Twitter, and comments being [...]

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May Day-Occupy Plans Global Disruption

| April 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Henry Goldman)  Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, whose anti-greed message spread worldwide during an eight-week encampment in Lower Manhattan last year, plan marches across the globe tomorrow calling attention to what they say are abuses of power and wealth. Organizers say they hope the coordinated events will mark a spring resurgence of the movement after a quiet winter. [...]

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Stephen King Warns Of A Kingsian Apocalyptic Scenario

| April 30, 2012 | 25 Comments

(Stephen King)  Chris Christie may be fat, but he ain’t Santa Claus. In fact, he seems unable to decide if he is New Jersey’s governor or its caporegime, and it may be a comment on the coarsening of American discourse that his brash rudeness is often taken for charm. In February, while discussing New Jersey’s newly [...]

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Milwaukee Red Cross Told To Prep For Chicago Evacuation During NATO Summit

| April 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

(CBS)   Is there a secret plan to evacuate some residents of Chicago in the event of major trouble during the NATO summit next month? CBS 2 has uncovered some evidence that there is. It comes from the Milwaukee area branch of the American Red Cross. CBS 2 News has obtained a copy of a Red [...]

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The Top 10 Events Leading To Humanity’s Demise

The Top 10 Events Leading To Humanity’s Demise

| April 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Activist Post)  Misdirected environmentalism continues to paint humanity as the enemy of itself simply through the natural exhalation of carbon dioxide.  However, there are many other more demonstrable ways indicating that humanity is not heading toward a flourishing, healthy future. While we believe in the inherent goodness of the vast majority of people, as well [...]

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U.S.D.A. Owns The Word “Organic”

| April 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Thomas Dishaw) Usually the news I read doesn’t surprise me. I read about 100 articles per day ranging from economics, politics,health  and corruption. So not a lot of things get by me. But this story did and it blew my mind.  The U.S.D.A. owns the word “organic” Let me say that again, the U.S.D.A. owns the word “organic” . This [...]

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Police Departments Wait Anxiously To Fly Drones Over U.S. Cities

| April 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Brian Bennett)  Police departments across the country have bought inexpensive small drone aircraft with cameras to help track drug dealers, find missing children and locate wandering Alzheimer’s patients, but federal rules designed to protect the nation’s airspace have kept them grounded. That is about to change in a dramatic way. Under a law President Obama signed in [...]

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How To Hide From Face-Detection Technology

| April 30, 2012 | 1 Comment

(John D. Sutter)  If you take Adam Harvey’s advice, here’s what you might wanna wear to a party this weekend: A funny hat, asymmetrical glasses, a tuft of hair that dangles off your nose bridge and, most likely, a black-and-white triangle taped to your cheekbone. Optional: Cubic makeup patterns all around your eyes. All of these otherworldly fashion accessories – [...]

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22 Signs That The Collapsing Spanish Economy Is Heading Into A Great Depression

22 Signs That The Collapsing Spanish Economy Is Heading Into A Great Depression

| April 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Economic Collapse)  What happens when debt-fueled false prosperity disappears?  Just look at Spain.  The 4th largest economy in Europe was riding high during the boom years, but now the Spanish economy is collapsing with no end in sight. When a debt bubble gets interrupted, the consequences can be rather chaotic.  Just like we saw in [...]

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Rape Away The Gay-Cleveland D.J. Tells Father “Get One Of Your Friends To Screw Her Straight”

Rape Away The Gay-Cleveland D.J. Tells Father “Get One Of Your Friends To Screw Her Straight”

| April 29, 2012 | 1 Comment

( Stephen D. Foster )  A radio personality in Cleveland is facing tremendous backlash after telling a father that he should get one of his male friends to rape his daughter to force her to turn straight. In response to an email from a father who suspected his daughter was gay after discovering her kissing another girl, [...]

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Pirate Party Taking Prisoners In German Parliament

| April 29, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Juergen  Baetz)  Pirates are capturing Germany’s political system.  The party with the outlaw name started as a marginal club of computer nerds and hackers demanding online freedom, but its appeal as an antiestablishment movement has lured many young voters to the ballot boxes, catapulting it into two state parliaments in less than a year. The all-volunteer Pirates [...]

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Navy Nears Deal To Help Avoid Cal Power Shortages

| April 29, 2012 | 0 Comments

(AP)   The Navy is nearing a first-time agreement to reduce electricity use at its sprawling San Diego-area bases, if power runs short in Southern California this summer. The Navy is San Diego Gas & Electric’s largest customer, and the deal is intended to diminish the threat of blackouts while the San Onofre nuclear plant remains offline. Under the agreement, [...]

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Canadian Police Declare Student Protest Illegal

| April 29, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Mathaba)  Police in Canada declared a students’ mass demonstration illegal, saying they were bringing in the riot squad because projectiles had been thrown at them and they were asking everyone to leave, but students did not obey their orders. Students say that it appears that the state security forces have been inserting masked agent-provocateurs into [...]

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Top 10 Recent Conservative Congressmen

| April 29, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Mike Holme)  In a time in which both Democrats and Republicans are busy condemning each other as radicals, I think it is true that neither parties know what constitutes radical in the grand scale of US politics. I think this list provides some perspective. The ten listed are based on a study conducted by Professors [...]

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U.S. City Shuts Off Your Sewer And Water For Unpaid Red Light Tickets

U.S. City Shuts Off Your Sewer And Water For Unpaid Red Light Tickets

| April 29, 2012 | 0 Comments

(The Newspaper)  With more and more vehicle owners simply deciding refuse to pay red light camera and speed camera tickets, private, for-profit companies and municipalities are growing increasingly desperate. America’s second-largest city shut down its photo ticketing program last year largely because residents who could not afford the $500 citations did not pay them. On Monday, Las [...]

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Top 10 Worst Moments In Human History

| April 29, 2012 | 1 Comment

(Flame Horse)  So often we publish lists that praise events in human history – tales of victory over diseases, disastrous situations, and the like. But alas, history is also replete with events that we must remember so as to not repeat them, but we wish had never happened. This list looks at ten of the worst [...]

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Video Highlights Of The White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2012

| April 29, 2012 | 0 Comments

(R.C.P.)  President Obama jokes about eating dogs, the GOP primary and himself at the 2012 White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, April 28, 2012. Some of Obama’s funnier lines are below. Obama: “My mother was born in Kansas, my father was born in Kenya, and I was born, of course, in Hawaii.” Obama: “Four years [...]

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13 Year Old Put On Sex Offender List

| April 29, 2012 | 0 Comments

(John Woods)  Jamie was ten years old when he saw his first pornographic sex scene. During a sleepover, a classmate offered to show him ‘some funny pictures’ on his laptop. ‘At first I found it a bit scary and a bit yucky,’ Jamie told me as he shifted uncomfortably on his chair during our therapy [...]

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V.A. Threatens Veteran’s Benefits For Handing Out Bible Tracts & Dvd’s

| April 28, 2012 | 6 Comments

(Brian D. Hill)  A normal 63 year old veteran, who could never have expected a confrontation with the VA Police, was threatened to lose his VA benefits and would have been possibly charged with a felony. His only crime was giving out Political Documentary DVD’s and biblical literature. This all happened at the Sheridan VA Medical [...]

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Pepsi Isn’t The Only Company That Uses Aborted Fetal Cells As Flavor Enhancers

Pepsi Isn’t The Only Company That Uses Aborted Fetal Cells As Flavor Enhancers

| April 28, 2012 | 8 Comments

(KipNews)  Children of God for Life is calling on the public to boycott products of major food companies that are partnering with Senomyx, a biotech company that produces artificial flavor enhancers, unless the company stops using aborted fetal cell lines to test their products. In 2010, the pro-life organization wrote to Senomyx CEO Kent Snyder, pointing [...]

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10 Gorgeous Buildings Made Out of Books

| April 28, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Emily Temple)  Here at Flavorpill, we’re pretty big book nerds. We’re such big book nerds that what we’d really like, more than anything, is to live in a house made of books — we think it’d totally work as long as we weren’t reading one from the ceiling when it started to rain. Plus, we’ve [...]

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Dentist Pulled Out ALL Boyfriend’s Teeth After He Dumped Her

| April 28, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Simon Tomlinson)  A dentist pulled out all her ex-boyfriend’s teeth after he dumped her for another woman – who has now left him because he is toothless. Anna Mackowiak, 34, is facing jail after taking her revenge on 45-year-old Marek Olszewski when he turned up at her surgery with toothache just days after breaking up [...]

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Obama’s Jimmy Fallon Appearance Violated Campaign Finance Law

| April 28, 2012 | 0 Comments

(Ben Shapiro)  Last night, President Obama appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s unwatchable show to “slow-jam the news.” By this, Fallon meant that Obama would read a campaign speech about student loans, Fallon would utter a few lines to back him up every so often, and his lead band singer would warble in support of Obama’s propaganda. [...]

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Top 10 Evil Human Experiments

| April 28, 2012 | 16 Comments

  (List Verse) This list contains descriptions and images of human experimentation which may cause offense to some readers. Human experimentation and research ethics evolved over time. On occasion, the subjects of human experimentation have been prisoners, slaves, or even family members. In some notable cases, doctors have performed experiments on themselves when they have [...]

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Public Distrust Of The Media At All Time High

| April 28, 2012 | 1 Comment

(Paul Farhi)  Charges of media bias have been flying like a bloody banner on the campaign trail. Newt Gingrich excoriated the “elite media” in a richly applauded moment during one of the Republican debates. Rick Santorum chewed out a New York Times reporter. Mitt Romney said this month that he faces “an uphill battle” against [...]

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