Andono Bryant shuffles across an old shuffleboard court to pick up groceries at the food co-op. "This is the real Occupy," she says. The 44-year-old mother of five grown children scoops up boxes of food. She doesn't have time to go a mile away to the Occupy protests and shake ... Read More
Poor, but feeding the rich
Posted On Monday, 09 Jan 2012 By Freddy Mercury. Under Business & Finance, Economy, Family, Food, Health, Money Tags: Health, loss of jobs, minimum wage, OccupyWallStreet, poor, poverty, rich, survival
Andono Bryant shuffles across an old shuffleboard court to pick up groceries at the food co-op. "This is the real Occupy," she says. The 44-year-old mother of five grown children scoops up boxes of food. She doesn't have time to go a mile away to the Occupy protests and shake ... Read More
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How Threatening Is The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)?
Posted On Monday, 09 Jan 2012 By Freddy Mercury. Under News, Welcome to the Future Tags: internet, online piracy act, privacy
Not too long ago, I reported on a new bill being considered in Congress that could result in the shut down of social media sites that have been critical to the Occupy movement. My focus at the time was on the threat to the protests more than it was about ... Read More
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dead at age 69
Posted On Monday, 19 Dec 2011 By Freddy Mercury. Under International, Welcome to the Future Tags: 69 years old, cry, dead, dictator, heart attack, Kim Jong Il, leader, mourn, North Korea, son, U.S., unrest
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- Kim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic longtime leader, has died of heart failure. He was 69. In a "special broadcast" Monday from the North Korean capital, state media said Kim died of a heart ailment on a train due to a "great mental ... Read More
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America’s Safest Cities, 2011
Posted On Monday, 19 Dec 2011 By Freddy Mercury. Under Good News, US Tags: America, cities, crime rate, healthy, list, low, safest
Plano, Texas, has some pretty ho-hum claims to fame: It’s home to junk-food headquarters Frito-Lay and the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, for starters, as well as to retail giant J.C. Penney. But it’s also America’s safest city by our determination, and that’s nothing to yawn at. Plano, a city of ... Read More
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How Pay-Pal Squeezes Merchants with Unfair and Likely Illegal Business Practices
Posted On Monday, 19 Dec 2011 By Freddy Mercury. Under Business & Finance, Economy, Money Tags: balance, credit card, funds, hold, money, orders, Payal, purchase, transactions
When Andrew Sauter decided to start taking online credit card payments for his small business, he didn’t think twice about PayPal, the dominant Web-based money transmitter in the United States. A subsidiary of the auction giant eBay, PayPal bills itself as “the faster, safer way to pay and get paid ... Read More
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Why young evangelicals are leaving church?
Posted On Monday, 19 Dec 2011 By Freddy Mercury. Under Religion Tags: church, evangelical, low turnout, pastor, people, young
Republican conservatives should be worried. Evangelical churches that frequently support conservative candidates are finally admitting something the rest of us have known for some time: Their young adult members are abandoning church in significant numbers and taking their voting power with them. David Kinnaman, the 38-year-old president of the Barna ... Read More
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Feds crack down on homeopathic weight loss remedy
Posted On Tuesday, 06 Dec 2011 By Freddy Mercury. Under Health, Medical, US, WTF? Tags: big brother, FDA, homeopathic medicine, medical
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal regulators are ordering several companies to stop selling an unproven weight loss remedy that uses protein from the human placenta.The Food and Drug Administration says it issued warning letters to seven companies that sell the protein as drops, pellets or sprays. The products are advertised as ... Read More
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Research suggests that people who are most successful at losing weight eat breakfast every day. Start your morning with a healthy, energizing and metabolism-revving breakfast using these 3 “magic” ingredients: whole grains and lean protein to help you stay full right through until lunch and some fruit or vegetables for ... Read More
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Lenore Zimmerman, 85, was angry and embarrassed after what she claims was a strip search at Kennedy Airport Tuesday. Now another woman in her 80′s at the very same terminal says she was exposed one day before.
From her home in Sunrise, Florida, 88-year-old Ruth Sherman says she knows for a ... Read More
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There were naked men, and penises a plenty, men without their clothes -- plain and simple, and strapping young bucks ready to go. The occasion was not a gathering in the Castro, but a feminist-themed exhibit, "Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze," which is currently on display at the SOMArts ... Read More
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Lisa Gesik hesitates to log into her Facebook account nowadays because of unwanted "friend" requests, not from long-ago classmates but from the ex-husband now in prison for kidnapping her and her daughter. Neither Gesik nor prison officials can prove her ex-husband is sending her the messages, ... Read More
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It all started in 1933 with a paper by Howard Warren, a Princeton psychologist and president of the American Psychological Association, who spent a week at a German nudist camp a year earlier. According to Ian Nicholson, Professor of Psychology at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, in ... Read More
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Chuckle of the Day!
Posted On Thursday, 17 Nov 2011 By Freddy Mercury. Under Chuckle of the day, Comic Strips, Hump Day Tags: cartoon, chuckle, funnies, humor, laugh
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Internet titans fight SOPA with full-page NY Times ad
Posted On Thursday, 17 Nov 2011 By Freddy Mercury. Under International, Views Tags: bill, Congress, freedom of speech, government, internet, policing, privacy
Internet giants have taken to the pages of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and the Washington Times, to fight back against SOPA, the Internet censorship bill.
Nine giants of the Internet — Google, eBAy, AOL, Facebook, Yahoo, Zynga, LinkedIn, Mozilla and Twitter — placed a full-page ad ... Read More
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Vatican takes legal action over pope-imam, Obama-Chavez kissing Benetton ad
Posted On Thursday, 17 Nov 2011 By Freddy Mercury. Under LGBT Issues, News Tags: ads, Benetton, campaigin, catholic, church, controversy, diversity, global, kiss, message, religion, Unhate
The Unhate Foundation, founded by the Italian clothing company, is an advocacy group for tolerance. The controversial ad campaign is an attempt for Benetton to regain its status from the “United Colors” ads that regularly shocked viewers with subjects that had nothing to do with clothing: A priest kissing a ... Read More
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George Clooney Contemplates Suicide
Posted On Wednesday, 16 Nov 2011 By Leah Cim. Under Arts & Music, Entertainment & Media, LGBT Issues, News, Views Tags: George Clooney, George Clooney Contemplates Suicide, suicide, Suicide Rate High For Middle aged Americans
The last taboo... Suicide.
As pathologies like ADHD, PTSD, schizophrenia, grow and spread throughout demographics, like general sociopathic tendencies spread beyond the 35 year old upper to upper middle class white male. So does suicide. For years we have known that the highest rates of teen suicides are among homosexual adolescents. ... Read More
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McQueary: ‘I did stop it’
Posted On Wednesday, 16 Nov 2011 By Freddy Mercury. Under News, WTF? Tags: child rape, coverup, email, Football, lies, McQuery, Paterno, Penn State, Sandusky, scandal, showers
Mike McQueary, the Penn State assistant football coach under fire for his reported lack of action in an alleged 2002 rape of a boy by Jerry Sandusky, said in an email to a former classmate that he stopped the assault in an athletic facility shower and discussed it with police. ... Read More
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When 12-year-old Rachel Wheeler was greeted with songs and praise in the Haitian village she helped develop, she felt satisfied. But, she also decided in that moment on her next pressing philanthropic project to pursue. The budding humanitarian plans to raise money to construct a school for kids who lost ... Read More
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4 Occupations Embracing the Homeless (As Cities Increasingly Can’t Take Care of Them)
Posted On Thursday, 10 Nov 2011 By Freddy Mercury. Under News Tags: 99%, encampment, financial crisis, OaklandPD, occupy, OccupyWallStreet, outrage, peaceful, police, protests, riots, tents, violence, Wallstreet
In just under two months, the Occupy movement has managed to turn the country’s attention toward social inequality. As many in the movement struggle with unemployment, student debt and unaffordable mortgage payments, words like foreclosure, debt and joblessness have reentered the public discourse.More recently, as the number of homeless people ... Read More
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Penn State Scandal: Rumor Claims Sandusky “Pimped Out” Boys to Rich Donors
Posted On Thursday, 10 Nov 2011 By Freddy Mercury. Under News Tags: child abuse, controversy, Penn State, sex scandal
Just when you thought the Penn State child sex-abuse scandal couldn't possibly get any worse, we may have just scratched the surface. Joe Paterno being fired could be just the start of arguably the biggest downfall in the history of college athletics. Pittsburgh radio personality Mark Madden, who penned a ... Read More
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Should You Join the Credit Union Boom?
Posted On Tuesday, 08 Nov 2011 By Freddy Mercury. Under Business & Finance, Economy, Money Tags: banking, corporate, credit union, greed, NYC, Oakland, OccupyWallStreet, protests
Business is booming at credit unions as consumers flee the high fees and low yields at traditional banks, but experts say comparison shopping is vital before switching and there may not necessarily be a credit union for everyone. As a result of Bank Transfer Day, in which consumers were ... Read More
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A Strategy to Change Minds: Focus on the Gay Family
Posted On Tuesday, 08 Nov 2011 By Freddy Mercury. Under LGBT Issues, Sexuality & Spirituality Tags: acceptance, California, discrimination, family, Focus on the Family, gay, kids, love, Prop 8
Neither of them knew much about the future, but it looked bright when Jay Foxworthy and Bryan Leffew decided to register as civil partners in the state of California. It was Leffew’s birthday that clear night in 1998, and Foxworthy took him out for a night on the town, under ... Read More
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‘I’m home!’ Adult children move back in
Posted On Friday, 04 Nov 2011 By Freddy Mercury. Under Family Tags: economy, family, home, jobs, security, shelter, support, unemployment
(CNNMoney) -- With job openings scarce, getting adult children to leave the nest is becoming a lot more difficult.
The number of adult children who live with their parents, especially young males, has soared since the economy started heading south. Among males age 25 to 34, 19% live with their ... Read More
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Oh Phoenix Jones – A real civilian Super Hero!
Posted On Friday, 04 Nov 2011 By Leah Cim. Under Honky Please, International, News, US, Views Tags: Benjamin John Francis Fodor, civilian Super Hero, Phoenix Jones, Rain City Superhero Movement
Last month we had a real live civilian Super Hero take to the streets. Yes, yes, we were all thinking it was only a matter of time... But beyond irony, yet of course the man was arrested with charges being filed against him for breaking up a fight with pepper ... Read More
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Freddie Mac reports Q3 loss, asks for $6B in aid
Posted On Thursday, 03 Nov 2011 By Freddy Mercury. Under Business & Finance, Economy, Money Tags: banks, corporate greed, fees, occupy, Wall Street
WASHINGTON (AP) — Government-controlled mortgage giant Freddie Mac has requested $6 billion in additional aid after posting a wider loss in the third quarter. Freddie Mac said Thursday that it lost $6 billion, or $1.86 per share, in the July-September quarter. That compares with a loss of $4.1 billion, or ... Read More
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MSN: Mutated 3-eyed fish caught in reservoir fed by nuke plant — (PHOTOS)
Posted On Thursday, 03 Nov 2011 By Leah Cim. Under International, Medical, News, Science, Technology, Video, Welcome to the Future Tags: 3-eyed fish caught near nuke plant, Argentina
The three-eyed fish from The Simpsons made popular in 1990 is an Argentinian!
Infobae (Argentina), October 29, 2011:
A group of fishermen caught a three-eyed wolf fish in a lake near a nuclear power plant in Cordova.
The discovery occurred in the reservoir lake called “Hot Water Jet”, which is located near the ... Read More
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Belgium plans to phase out nuclear power!
Posted On Wednesday, 02 Nov 2011 By Leah Cim. Under Health, International, News, Politics, Science, Technology Tags: Belgium to phase out nuclear power!, nuclear shutdown, renounce nuclear energy
Germany and now Belgium. Good on ya! Other countries in the mix... Austria voted against their first power stations 1978 and again in 1997. Italy New Zealand have been nuclear free since 1987. LC
Belgium's main political parties have agreed on a plan to shut down the country's two nuclear power ... Read More
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Occupy This! Motherf%*$er!
Posted On Thursday, 27 Oct 2011 By Leah Cim. Under Business & Finance, Economy, Events, International, News, On the Scene, Politics, Views, Welcome to the Future Tags: depression, economy, occupy oakland, occupy SF, recession
I do not use the term Motherf%*$er! lightly. Especially in this instance.
Yet in regards to the strangle hold of world finance, I can not think of a more appropriate term for what we are thrusting upon our Mother Earth. The patriarchal influence that has rewritten modern his-story is dying of ... Read More
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Olbermann calls on Quan to resign after Occupy protest
Posted On Thursday, 27 Oct 2011 By Freddy Mercury. Under Politics Tags: 99%, California, greed, Mayor Quan, Oakland, OccuplyOakland, outrage, protest, raid, tear gas, Wall Street
Firebrand TV commentator Keith Olbermann says Oakland Mayor Jean Quan should resign for “having betrayed everything she had supported and all those who supported her” by allowing police to violently clear out downtown protesters. “There is no excuse, there is no justification, there is no rationalization for being the mayor ... Read More
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Higher demand and a reduced number of available seats will lead to higher airline ticket prices next year, even in a slow-growing economy, according to the American Express Global Business Travel Forecast released Wednesday. But prices won't jump as much as they did between 2010 and 2011, the forecast said. ... Read More
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Why do we crave creamy, crunchy, fried dishes that cause bulging waistlines, higher cholesterol and rising blood pressure? Because they taste good! Read on for the 10 worst foods you’re eating and get healthy substitutes when you just have to indulge. Plus, what’s your diet downfall? Take our quiz to ... Read More
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Ariz. cheerleaders’ breast cancer T-shirt splits community
Posted On Wednesday, 26 Oct 2011 By Freddy Mercury. Under Health, Medical Tags: breast, cancer, charity, controversy, disease, Health, outrage, promotion, self-examination, t-shirts
GILBERT, Ariz. -- A controversial pink shirt Gilbert High School cheerleaders planned to wear while raising money for breast-cancer awareness has divided the community, parents and the cheerleading squad between those who support the principal's decision and those who think the girls should be able to wear their shirts. The ... Read More
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Teen violence linked to heavy soda diet: study
Posted On Tuesday, 25 Oct 2011 By Freddy Mercury. Under Health Tags: diet soda, medical, scientific, study, sugar, violence
Researchers in the United States said on Tuesday they had found a "shocking" association -- if only a statistical one -- between violence by teenagers and the amount of soda they drank. High-school students in inner-city Boston who consumed more than five cans of non-diet, fizzy soft drinks every week ... Read More
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Fallout Gets Notice – 60 Minutes Report
Posted On Tuesday, 25 Oct 2011 By Leah Cim. Under Health, International, Medical, News, Politics, Science, Technology, Under Reported, US, Video, Welcome to the Future, WTF? Tags: 60 Minutes, Arnie Gunderson, Fukushima, Obama, radiation
The mainstream is finally starting to report what a handful of sources have been covering since the Fukushima incident began in March of 2011. Last week 60 Minutes reported on the level of devastation being felt in Japan. It also covered the long term and ongoing effects of Chernobyl and ... Read More
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World Population Hits 7 Billion
Posted On Monday, 24 Oct 2011 By Leah Cim. Under News, Under Reported, Welcome to the Future Tags: global population, overpopulation
Welcome To The Future!
Just around the corner no longer. Human fertility rates will take care of things for Mother Earth just fine. But will we take care of ourselves? Will we adjust our social structure to connect from the bottom up - rather than dictate from the top down. Leah Cim
World ... Read More
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