June 2012
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Pizza Vending Machine: Europe's 'Let's Pizza'... →
Move aside, sushi robots — there’s a new automated chef in town. Thanks to Italian inventor Claudio Torghel, for the past three years Europe has enjoyed vending machine pizza, made from scratch in two-and-a-half minutes flat. Now, its distributor, A1 Concepts, plans to bring the contraption to the U.S.
The machines, aptly named “Let’s Pizza,” will likely be installed...
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Even bigger Big Brother: Facebook purchases... →
The readers End the Lie will likely in no way be surprised by the news that Facebook has purchased the facial recognition startup Face.com since Facebook has come under fire from European regulators for revealing a massive facial recognition database and been busted for spying on the text messages of smartphone users, showing a complete disregard for privacy.
If you continue to use Facebook in a...
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Kleiner Perkins Invests In Seed Company As It Sees... →
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the U.S. venture capital firm that provided startup financing to Amazon.com Inc. and Google Inc. (GOOG), is investing in a seed company as it forecasts food will become a “global problem of huge dimensions” over the next decade.
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Swedish Left Party Chapter Wants To Make Urinating... →
Male representatives on the Sormland County Council in Sweden should sit rather than stand while urinating in office restrooms, according to a motion advanced by the local Left Party.
Known as a socialist and feminist organization, the party claims that seated urination is more hygienic for men — the practice decreases the likelihood of puddles and other unwanted residue forming in the...
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New study shows chewing gum actually hinders... →
Researchers from Cardiff University in the United Kingdom have linked what many would consider an annoying habit of gum chewing to something much more troublesome: short-term memory problems.
Unlike high-fructose corn syrup which has been linked to decreased learning ability and memory function (on top of the inherent dangers of genetically modified foods), it appears that chewing gum actually...
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Prospero the Swarming Farmbot Wants to Show You... →
Agriculture is big business. But the future of big farming isn’t in massive machinery, but swarms of smart, cheap ‘bots seeding, tending and harvesting fields one plant at a time.
Whether conducted by an industrial farming outfit or a small, independent farmer, agriculture is all about yield. Per-acre production makes or break the year, and taken at the macro level it impacts global markets...
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Report: DHS risk assessment study of National Bio... →
For those who are unaware, the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan, Kansas will be the replacement for the aging Plum Island facility in New York where a great deal of the United States’ secret biological weapons research and develop has been conducted.
A great deal of speculation surrounds these types of programs with some contending that we could see a resurgence of the...
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Chinese buy London Metal Exchange in £1.4bn... →
One of Britain’s last great independent financial markets has agreed to sell itself to China.
The 137-year-old London Metal Exchange has agreed a £1.4bn takeover from Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) after a nine-month auction process which saw bids from InterContinental Exchange, CME Group and NYSE Nasdaq.
The deal will mean massive windfalls for the LME’s largest...
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On the Implications of Evangelical Prayer at the... →
First of all, it should be recognized that Wal-Mart has been deeply rooted in conservative Christianity from its founding in 1962 in the American Bible Belt. As the historian of religion and capitalism Bethany Moreton has shown in her important book, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise, the company has been a major force in bringing together the free-market dogma...
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Israel to put thousands of Africans in detention...
Am I the only one who wants to slap those Israelis across the face and say, “What happened to ‘never forget’?!”
Israel’s interior minister said on Friday he hoped to soon start moving tens of thousands of illegal African migrants from Tel Aviv and elsewhere to a detention camp being built and a planned “tent city.”
An Israeli court cleared the way on...
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Senator Asks DOJ to Investigate SWAT-ting Attacks...
A number of conservative bloggers allege they have been targeted through the use of harassment tactics such as SWAT-ting (fooling 911 operators into sending emergency teams to their homes), in retaliation for posts they have written, and now Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., has stepped into the matter. He has sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder urging him to investigate the SWAT-ting cases...
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Drawing in sidewalk with chalk now illegal in...
DENVER (CBS4)- Some call it a popular summertime pastime for children and others are calling it distracting and offensive. One Denver neighborhood HOA is trying to put a stop to sidewalk chalk art.
“It’s definitely better than video games,” said Sarah Cohen, 3-year-old Emerson Cohen’s mother. “It’s a simple pleasure for her.”
In the eyes of some, what Emerson is doing, drawing on the sidewalk...
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Developing: Nuclear Cover-Up? Extreme Radiation...
In a developing story that is raising concerns over a potential nuclear cover-up by the EPA, alarming amounts of radiation were reported near the border of Indiana and Michigan and later censored by the EPA online geiger tool. The readings, which were captured in a screenshot, measured as high as 7.139 counts per minute (CPM). This is particularly startling, as the normal radiation levels are...
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House panel recommends stop doing pat-down...
Of course, they will continue to grope us “regular” people who don’t opt to fork over our hard-earned cash to avoid it. It’s not like we already pay their salaries or anything.
WASHINGTON — If the Transportation Security Administration wants to fix its poor public image, it might want to stop patting down recognizable passengers such as former Defense Secretary Donald...
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“On average, an estimated 526,000 people died violently each year in 2004–09....”
– Armed Violence: Spotlight on Lethal Effects from the Small Arms Survey and the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development. (via crisisgroup)
Unfortunately it appears that this is being used in an attempt to delegitimize the ownership of small arms. That is just silly.
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'Don't trust men with beards, long hair' -...
Commissioner given authority over police grooming
Claims beards and long hair “diminish public trust”
He called new dress code “balanced” after complaints
NO PLACE for hipsters in the police force.
Victorian Deputy Premier Peter Ryan claims men with beards and long hair diminish public trust.
He made the claim as he introduced an amendment bill to give...
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I love everything about this...
midwest-monster:
snapcracklehan:
coketalk:
A tip for modern adulterers: if you’re planning to cheat on your wife of 10 years by awkwardly hitting on the model seated next to you on your flight out of Los Angeles, make sure she isn’t live-tweeting the entire miserable experience to her 13,000 followers:
(via ohno-polio)
This is the work of God.
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Busted! Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found on SUV →
humanformat:
The second of two GPS trackers found recently on the vehicle of a young man in California. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com
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The 25-year-old resident of San Jose, California, says he found the first one about three weeks ago on his Volvo SUV while visiting his mother in Modesto, about 80 miles northeast of San Jose. After contacting Wired and allowing a photographer to snap...
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Blackwater guards lose bid to appeal charges in... →
One of the highest-profile prosecutions stemming from the Iraq war period is to go ahead after the US supreme court refused to dismiss manslaughter and weapons charges against four employees of the private security company Blackwater Worldwide.
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The shooting took place on September 16, 2007 at the congested Nisour Square intersection, after a convoy of four armoured vehicles manned by...
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San Francisco To Get Pre-Crime Surveillance...
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System alerts authorities to “suspicious behavior” before crime is committed
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Hundreds of pre-crime surveillance cameras are to be installed in San Francisco’s subway system that will analyze “suspicious behavior” and alert guards to potential criminal or terrorist activity – before any crime has been committed.
-infowars.com
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Was It Legal For Police To Detain Every Driver At... →
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Police stopped every car at a red light on Monday in Aurora, Colorado,handcuffed every adult, and detained them for two hours. The police found the criminal they were looking for, but were their actions legal?
Responding to a tip that the person responsible for robbing a nearby Wells Fargo earlier was at that red light, the police moved in. They had no description of the criminal...
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cat-nelian:
Lol at white, nazi supporting scumbag supremacists blogging the shit out of American History X as if that film in any way, shape or form supports their views and their propaganda bullshit.
You wrong!
I see this equally as hilarious as idiotic white supremacists latching on to Jesus Christ in an attempt to make their disgusting ideology seem legitimate when he was a Palestinian...
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“I ask this sincerely: what kind of country targets rescuers, funeral attendees,...”
– Glenn Greenwald (via azspot)
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Flame Hijacks Microsoft Update to Spread Malware...
It’s a scenario security researchers have long worried about, a man-in-the-middle attack that allows someone to impersonate Microsoft Update to deliver malware — disguised as legitimate Microsoft code — to unsuspecting users.
And that’s exactly what turns out to have occurred with the recent Flame cyberespionage tool that has been infecting machines primarily in the Middle East and is believed to...
Private, public partners in Illinois CBRN...
First responders and authorities in Lake and Cook counties, Illinois, joined Army Reserve units to conduct Exercise Red Dragon 2012, a chemical, nuclear response exercise
More than 200 people representing businesses in Lake and Cook counties, Illinois along with public partners representing federal, state, and local jurisdictions, participated in a full-scale disaster exercise at Grainger in Lake...
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Police stop 265 cars at a DUI roadblock, arrest...
Portsmouth, NH - Two people were arrested Friday night at a downtown sobriety checkpoint where 265 cars were stopped, police said.
According to Capt. Mike Schwartz, the checkpoint was established on Market Street near the N.H. Port Authority at 10:30 p.m., and with the assistance of Portsmouth Police Explorers, it remained in effect until 2 a.m.. Authorized by a Rockingham County Superior Court...
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Virginia Tech working toward camera-covered campus
Since the April 16, 2007, campus shootings, the university has become a testing ground and even model for campus safety, including an extensive threat assessment program.
The project could result in up to 2,500 security cameras being installed around the 2,600-acre campus over the next several years, and add one more layer to Tech’s security efforts.
“You never stop trying to make the campus...
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Taxing drivers for how many miles they travel...
Minnesota and Oregon already are testing technology to keep track of mileage. Other states, including Washington and Nevada, are preparing similar projects.
In Minnesota, 500 volunteers in largely urban Hennepin and mostly rural Wright counties have been testing a system using software installed on smartphones, says Chris Krueger, spokeswoman for the Minnesota Department of Transportation....
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Law enforcement officials refuse to identify who...
Some area law enforcement officials apparently know who is installing the mysterious camera boxes on utility poles around St. Lawrence County, but they’re not saying who it is.
The boxes, with a window for cameras to peer out of, have popped up in Norwood, Raymondville, DeKalb Junction, Waddington, Massena and Canton, according to witnesses.
Law enforcement officials at local, state and federal...
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Why is the Air Force recognizing foreign law?
Note: all emphasis is added. This is a tiny piece of the entire article and the entire article is required reading if you want to grasp this material. All points indicated with “-” are directly from official Air Force documents obtained originally by CBS Los Angeles.
While the U.S. Air Force’s guidelines claim that drones are not allowed to carry out “non-consensual surveillance” on...
