Archive for July, 2009
Man Falls to Death Into Vat of Chocolate
CBS News: Authorities say a man has died after falling into a vat of melted chocolate in a New Jersey processing plant.
A spokesman for the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office says the 29-year-old temporary worker at Cocoa Services Inc. plant fell after a blade used to mix raw chocolate hit him. The man’s name has not been released.
The accident happened around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday as the worker was loading raw chocolate into the vat where it’s melted and mixed before being shipped elsewhere to be made into candy products.
The victim was said to have been trapped in the vat for nearly 10 minutes before being freed, reports CBS station KYW. Officials said a preliminary investigation has revealed that the worker may have suffered a head injury while inside the vat.
Prosecutor’s spokesman Jason Laughlin says a co-worker tried to shut off the machine and two others tried to pull the man out…
Journalist Files Charges Against WHO and UN for Bioterrorism and Intent to Commit Mass Murder
Hmmm… As the anticipated July release date for Baxter’s A/H1N1 flu pandemic vaccine approaches, an Austrian investigative journalist is warning the world that the greatest crime in the history of humanity is underway.
Jane Burgermeister has recently filed criminal charges with the FBI against the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN), and several of the highest ranking government and corporate officials concerning bioterrorism and attempts to commit mass murder.
She has also prepared an injunction against forced vaccination which is being filed in America. These actions follow her charges filed in April against Baxter AG and Avir Green Hills Biotechnology of Austria for producing contaminated bird flu vaccine, alleging this was a deliberate act to cause and profit from a pandemic.
Amendment to Audit Federal Reserve Blocked by Senate Leadership
Senator Jim DeMint (R–South Carolina) is blocked by the Senate Democratic Leadership from having a vote on his amendment to audit the Federal Reserve, based on a bill authored by Congressman Ron Paul (R–Texas) in the House, H.R. 1207, and Senator Bernie Sanders (I–Vermont) in the Senate, S. 604:
Five Bizarre Sexual Conditions That Can Ruin Your Life
Susan H., Cracked.com: Sometimes you hear on the news about weird medical conditions that actually cause more sex than normal. And when you hear about the poor dude whose condition caused him to have sex with 300 women you think, hell, how do I catch that shit? But these conditions are kind of like eating at Taco Bell. It may sound awesome in theory, but personal experience may leave you with internal bleeding.
#5. Hypersexuality: Commonly referred to as nymphomania by Internet perverts and perverts who still eschew technology but like the idea just the same; hypersexuality is what happens when your libido cranks the dial to 11 and leaves it there.
Why it Would Suck: Meet Heather Howland, developed hyerpsexuality after suffering a massive brain hemorrhage, which seems like a really awesome superhero background story. Not expected to live, she surprised everyone by waking up and trying to ride her husband like a…
Scientists Use The AIDS Virus To Cure Cancer
io9.com: HIV has been one of the worst killers of the past few decades worldwide — but now it may yield a cure for cancer. Scientists in Korea have been using the virus to cure lung cancer (in mice, at least.)
South Korean scientist Myung-Haing Cho modified a lentivirus, a genus in the Retroviridae family which includes most mammal immunodeficiency viruses, to deliver to lung-cancer tumors a gene, which inhibits cancer cells from reproducing in mice’s lungs. Their method of choice? A nasal spray.
They had various cancer-ridden mice sniff the modified lentivirus twice a week for a month, and they found that the modified virus completely halted the progression of the lung cancer without harm to the non-cancerous tissue. In some cases, existing cancer cells even died off without further therapy.
Scientists consider modified lentiviruses ideal for cancer therapy (in addition to other gene therapies) because it affects even non-replicating cells (like neurons)…
Honduras: What’s Black and White and Gets the Red Out?
The now-iconic photograph of the late 19-year-old Isis Obed Murillo, being carried by his friends to seek medical help moments after his shooting by gunmen during Sunday’s demonstrations in Tegucigalpa, was also published by the Honduran daily… Except that La Prensa chose to airbrush the young man’s blood out of the photo.
Media that literally whitewashes the story to this extreme, of course, is not shut down, destroyed or attacked by the coup regime. That treatment is reserved only for real journalists.
Honduras: What’s Black and White and Gets the Red Out?
The now-iconic photograph of the late 19-year-old Isis Obed Murillo, being carried by his friends to seek medical help moments after his shooting by gunmen during Sunday’s demonstrations in Tegucigalpa, was also published by the Honduran daily… Except that La Prensa chose to airbrush the young man’s blood out of the photo.
Media that literally whitewashes the story to this extreme, of course, is not shut down, destroyed or attacked by the coup regime. That treatment is reserved only for real journalists.
Honduras: What’s Black and White and Gets the Red Out?
The now-iconic photograph of the late 19-year-old Isis Obed Murillo, being carried by his friends to seek medical help moments after his shooting by gunmen during Sunday’s demonstrations in Tegucigalpa, was also published by the Honduran daily… Except that La Prensa chose to airbrush the young man’s blood out of the photo.
Media that literally whitewashes the story to this extreme, of course, is not shut down, destroyed or attacked by the coup regime. That treatment is reserved only for real journalists.
Pope Calls For New World Economic Order
From the New York Times:
Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday called for a radical rethinking of the global economy, criticizing a growing divide between rich and poor and urging the establishment of a “true world political authority” to oversee the economy and work for the “common good.”
Reportedly delayed to take into consideration the financial crisis, “Caritas in Veritate,” or “Charity in Truth,” was released by the Vatican on the eve of the Group of 8 industrialized nations summit meeting, which opens in Italy on Wednesday, and before Benedict is expected to receive President Obama at the Vatican on Friday.
In many ways, the document is a puzzling cross between an anti-globalization tract and a government white paper. Benedict also called for a reform of the United Nations so there could be a unified “global political body” that allowed the less powerful of the earth to have a voice, and he called…
Was Universe 1.0 Destroyed by Dark Matter?
Luke McKinney, Daily Galaxy: Did dark matter destroy the universe? You might be looking around at the way things “exist” and thinking “No”, but we’re talking about ancient history. Three hundred million years after the start of the universe, things had finally cooled down enough to form hydrogen atoms out of all the protons and electrons that were zipping around — only to have them all ripped up again around the one billion year mark. Why?
Most believe that the first quasars, active galaxies whose central black holes are the cosmic-ray equivalent of a firehose, provided the breakup energy, but some Fermilab scientists have another idea. Dan Hooper and Alexander Belikov posit that invisible, self-destructing dark matter may have blown up every atom in the universe. At least it’s plausible in that if we wanted to ionize an entire universe, we’d want something that sounded that awesome.
Dark matter is a candidate…
One Big Torrent
OneBigTorrent.org is a new place for sharing material that deals with or is relevant to issues of social justice, progressive and radical politics, independent media, ecology. We run a local bittorrent tracker (which we encourage uploaders to use), and we also host torrents from other trackers, as well as ed2K and Magnet links.
There cannot be a formal definition of what content we deem appropriate for upload. If the concepts above don’t suit you, browse the index — you’ll get the idea quickly. We typically remove obscure stuff dealing with UFOs, mind-control, secret societies, Black Helicopters and what have you. The net is full of this bs anyway.
Google Drops A Nuclear Bomb On Microsoft. And It’s Made of Chrome.
MG Siegler, TechCrunch: Wow. So you know all those whispers about a Google desktop operating system that never seem to go away? You thought they might with the launch of Android, Google’s mobile OS. But they persisted. And for good reason, because it’s real.
In the second half of 2010, Google plans to launch the Google Chrome OS, an operating system designed from the ground up to run the Chrome web browser on netbooks. “It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be,” Google writes tonight on its blog.
But let’s be clear on what this really is. This is Google dropping the mother of bombs on its chief rival, Microsoft. It even says as much in the first paragraph of its post, “However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web.”
Yeah, who do you think they mean by that?
And it’s a…
One Big Torrent
OneBigTorrent.org is a new place for sharing material that deals with or is relevant to issues of social justice, progressive and radical politics, independent media, ecology. We run a local bittorrent tracker (which we encourage uploaders to use), and we also host torrents from other trackers, as well as ed2K and Magnet links.
There cannot be a formal definition of what content we deem appropriate for upload. If the concepts above don’t suit you, browse the index — you’ll get the idea quickly. We typically remove obscure stuff dealing with UFOs, mind-control, secret societies, Black Helicopters and what have you. The net is full of this bs anyway.
Sharks Facing Extinction
AFP reports:
A third of the world’s open water sharks–including the great white and hammerhead–face extinction, according to a major conservation survey released Thursday.
Collapsing shark populations have already severely disrupted at least two coastal marine ecosystems, and could trigger even more severe consequences in the high seas, marine biologists warned. The loss of sharks from the world’s oceans could have unpredictable impacts; “Removing large predators would deprive ecosystems of players that have been around for more than 400 million years.”
The main culprit is overfishing. Sharks are prized for their meat, and Europe is the fastest growing market for meat from the porbeagle and another species, the spiny dogfish. The demand for shark fins, a traditional Chinese delicacy, has soared along with income levels in China over the last decade.
Long, Egg-Shaped Skulls Baffle Scientists
Archaeologists have discovered strange, elongated skulls on several continents; in South America, Europe, and Russia. Where did these skulls come from? It’s possible that ancient civilizations deliberately deformed the heads of infants, via head binding, with the intention of increasing their offspring’s mental abilities.
That said, it’s odd that the same extreme deformation would be found in differing corners of the world which had no contact with each other. Also, the skulls’ eye sockets seem oddly large … suggesting, perhaps, that they belong to an alien species.
Mayan ‘Apocalypse’ Crop Circle Appears At Silbury Hill
The giant pattern – thought to represent a traditional Mayan head-dress – appeared next to the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe last week.
Members of the crop circle community believe the mystic symbol is a signal of the end of the 5,126-year Mayan ‘Long Count’ calendar on December 21, 2012.
Karen Alexander, a crop circle enthusiast, said: “This is one of the most interesting crop circles I have ever seen. It is definitely a Mayan symbol and we are sure it is linked to the Mayan calendar, which ends in 2012.
“It appears to be a warning about the world coming to an end when the calendar does. For the ancient Maya, reaching the end of a cycle was a momentous event, so we are taking this crop circle very seriously as an indicator of a possibly huge event in 2012.”
Scientists Create Human Sperm In Lab
Scientists in Newcastle claim to have created human sperm in the laboratory in what they say is a world first.
The researchers believe the work could eventually help men with fertility problems to father a child.
L.A. Targets Cannabis Clubs
LOS ANGELES — Daniel Halbert moved here from Phoenix this year to invest his life savings in what he hoped was a golden opportunity: the medical-marijuana business.
But on Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council told him to shut down his dispensary, part of a broad crackdown against a growing and unregulated marijuana industry. More than 600 dispensaries have taken advantage of a loophole in city regulations to open shop here in the past two years.
The unchecked growth has alarmed some city leaders.
The Rainforest Collective, a small Los Angeles shop, dispenses medical marijuana but it’s facing possible closure from the city council. Sabrina Shankman reports.
“They were like a rash,” said City Councilman Ed Reyes, who is leading the effort to shut down many of the dispensaries. He said a colleague told him that at one dispensary near a high school, the student crowds outside made the pot store look “like an…
