The marketers have your earAdvertisers have a new way to get into your head.
Marketers around the world are using innovative audio technology that sends sound in a narrow beam, just like light, making it possible to direct messages right into consumers' ears while they shop or sit in waiting rooms.
The audio spotlight device, created by Watertown firm Holosonic Research Labs Inc., has been used to hawk everything from cereals in supermarket aisles to glasses at doctor's offices. The messag... (more)
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EU/US "single market" next stage in Bilderberg/Trilateral plan for world governmentPlans for a world currency and world government have gone one step forward with the signing of a new 'transatlantic economic partnership' between the US and the European Union, with the two powers agreeing on a 'single market'. As reported by the BBC, "the pact is designed to boost trade and investment by harmonising regulatory standards, laying the basis for a US-EU single market."
The European Union -... (more)
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On the government's 'watch list'YOU MIGHT not realize it, but your government might be targeting you for an extra little dose of hell next time you try to board an airplane.
"Not me," you say, not with your clean criminal record, commitment to community and expressed contempt for Osama bin Laden. You know your name would never pop up on the government's secret list of people who merit closer scrutiny at airports.
So I thought.
Then, in recent weeks, my attempts to print advance boar... (more)
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Computer Game Violence Level - Confiscated Swords Led To Student's RemovalPolice discovered five swords in the bedroom of a Clements High School senior whose home they searched after getting complaints about a 3-D computer “shoot-‘em-up” game map the student designed, which depicted a portion of the school.
That information surfaced in a Fort Bend Independent School District Police Department report released Tuesday, and was confirmed by several district officials who also revealed other details about the case for the first time.
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Italian TV Network Covers WTC 7 Evidence Seven is exploding
On April 16, 2007, a major Italian network (Canale 5) has aired some conclusive evidence that Building 7 did not collapse on its own, but was deliberately taken down with the use of explosives.
The piece was part of a larger presentation we provided to the network as an update on the ongoing research on 9/11. In particular, we included a clip we had all seen many times before, but possibly never listened to with the fu... (more)
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Army Squeezes Soldier Blogs, Maybe to DeathThe U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops' online activities since the start of the Iraq war. And it could mean the end of military blogs, observers say.
Military officials have been wrestling for years with how to handle troops who publish blogs. Officers have weighed the ne... (more)
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Top officials: Bush can still wiretap US citizens without warrantSenior Bush administration officials said Tuesday that they believe the president still has the constitutional authority to continue his domestic wiretapping program without first seeking court approval.
"Senior U.S. administration officials have told the U.S. Congress that they could not promise that the Bush administration would fulfill its January pledge to continue to seek warrants from a secret court for a domestic wiretapping program," reports the International Herald... (more)
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Tape 'reveals order' to shoot Vietnam protestersThe command, as Alan Canfora heard it on a 37-year-old audio recording recently discovered in a government archive, appeared to leave no room for doubt. "Right here. Get set. Point. Fire." Then came 13 seconds of gunfire. When it ended, four students were dead and nine injured, and the shootings at Kent State University became engraved in America's collective memory as one of the most painful days of the Vietnam era.
Yesterday, Mr Canfora, who was among the nine students wounded o... (more)
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Millions Of Chickens Fed Tainted Pet Food: FDA Claims No Threat To HumansAt least 2.5 million broiler chickens from an Indiana producer were fed pet food scraps contaminated with the chemical melamine and subsequently sold for human consumption, federal health officials reported yesterday.
Hundreds of other producers may have similarly sold an unknown amount of contaminated poultry in recent months, they added, painting a picture of much broader consumption of contaminated feed and food than had previously been acknowledged in the widening pet food sca... (more)
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Dublin diocese pays out 7.8 million euros for sex-abuse claimsThe Catholic Church in Dublin has paid out 7.8 million euros (10.6 million dollars) to settle claims of sexual abuse by priests, Irish press reports said Wednesday.
Eight Dublin priests have been convicted of child sexual abuse and three more are currently facing charges, the Irish Examiner reported.
The number of allegations against priests jumped from 102 in 2006 to 147 in 2007. Civil cases have been brought 112 times against 32 priests in the Irish capital, and 4... (more)
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Blair denies MI5 failures and rejects call for 7/7 inquiry Tony Blair today ruled out demands for a new inquiry into the July 7 bombings, denying claims that MI5 overlooked crucial evidence which could have prevented the attacks
In the Commons, the Prime Minister said a fresh inquiry would be a "mistake" and would undermine support for the security services in the fight against terrorism.
His comments came amid reports that MI5 did not show surveillance photographs of the bombers' ringleader Mo... (more)
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Establishment May Exclude Ron Paul From GOP Debate(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Ron Paul of Texas wants to bring American troops back from Iraq, having opposed the war from the outset. He's also a Republican candidate for president - possibly the most contrarian in the field of 10 - and he may be excluded from a forthcoming GOP candidate debate.
The same could apply to Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, the ranking Republican and past chairman of the House Armed Services Committee during most of the war on terror.
Rep. Tom T... (more)
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Enter the EmpireComfort and Masquerades
The wealthiest nation-state the world has ever seen has for the last sixty years been standing atop the upper crust of humankind, basking in the splendor of unfathomable richness, enjoying unprecedented standards of living, accumulating power and control at tremendous speed and becoming, at the expense of the planet and its inhabitants, the latest incarnation of Rome. America, that city on a hill, from where modern man's guiding light emana... (more)
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Post Mortem for the Stock Market "There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class that’s winning." Investment tycoon, Warren Buffett
The real estate market is crashing faster than anyone had anticipated. Housing prices have fallen in 17 of 20 of the nation’s largest cities and the trend lines indicate that the worst is yet to come. March sales of new homes plummeted by a record 23.5% (year over year) removing all hope for a quick rebound. Problems in the subprime and Alt-A loans... (more)
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Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our WaterThe Bush administration is helping multinationals buy U.S. municipal water systems, putting our most important resource in the hands of corporations with no public accountability.
All across the United States, municipal water systems are being bought up by multinational corporations, turning one of our last remaining public commons and our most vital resource into a commodity.The road to privatization is being paved by our own government. The Bush administration is actively... (more)
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Fertilizer Terrorists Fingered Intelligence AgenciesThe media frenzy surrounding the conviction of five terror suspects in the UK this week has failed to underline the fact that once again the so called terrorists have direct links to intelligence agencies.
At the end of a year-long terror trial on Monday five men were given life sentences for a foiled plot to build a huge fertilizer bomb for a UK attack.
Although there has been a relentless focus on the fact that... (more)
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Documents Reveal: Cops Planted Pot on 92-Year Old Woman They Killed in Botched Drug Raid According to federal documents released this week, these are the events that led to Kathryn Johnston's death and the steps the officers took to cover their tracks.
Three narcotics agents were trolling the streets near the Bluffs in northwest Atlanta, a known market for drugs, midday on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.
Eventually they set their sights on some apartments on Lanier Street, usually fertile when narcotics agents are looking for arrests and seizures.
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Farewell, Randall Tobias, the Man Who Turned His Wife's Suicide into a Sales Pitch for ProzacUntil last Friday Randall Tobias was the Bush Administration official in charge of foreign aid. He oversaw the distribution of billions of dollars worth of drugs and medical services through programs that advocate abstinence and forbid recipients from giving out condoms and providing health education to prostitutes. On Thursday evening Tobias was informed by Brian Ross, the head of ABC News, that his phone number identified him as a client of Deborah Jeanne Palfrey's escort service. Tobias ackno... (more)
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Happy 'Mission Accomplished' Anniversary Yesterday was the fourth anniversary of one of the most dishonest propaganda speeches in modern American history.
President Bush did his flight suit strut on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in front of a banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished." While Bush’s popularity has collapsed since then, the pundits and publications that crowned Bush for that speech should also live in infamy.
Bush procla... (more)
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Pentagon to Merge Next-Gen Binoculars With Soldiers' BrainsDarpa says a soldier's brain can be monitored in real time, with an EEG picking up "neural signatures" that indicate target detection. Image: Darpa
U.S. Special Forces may soon have a strange and powerful new weapon in their arsenal: a pair of high-tech binoculars 10 times more powerful than anything available today, augmented by an alerting system that literally taps the wearer's prefrontal cortex to warn of furtive threats detected by the soldier's subconscious.
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Bush Declares Today American "Loyalty Day" Lost in the shuffle of losing American troops at a record clip in Iraq and George W. Bush itching to veto the bill that would bring our military men and women home, was the fact that King George has formally declared today as "Loyalty Day" in America.
"America was founded by patriots who risked their lives to bring freedom to our Nation. Today, our citizens are grateful for our Founding... (more)
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Gig Harbor High students protest surveillance cameras GIG HARBOR, Wash. - A couple of dozen Gig Harbor High School students are demonstrating outside the school today to protest the use of a surveillance camera to catch two girls kissing.
One student reporting the demonstration for the school paper, Amber Critchley, says they are saying the school shouldn't have interfered and that sexual orientation shouldn't matter.
Principal Greg Schellenberg says the protest is a disruption but classes ... (more)
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