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“It’s not paranoia if something is really out to get you.”™

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Posted on June 17th, 2010

Written by sally

Tags
carnivore, diet, early onset, flexitarian, food, girls, meat, meat industry, obesity, puberty, risk, trigger, tweens, unhealthy, vegetarian

Early Puberty Linked To Meat Heavy Diets

Maybe this freaks me out because I was such a late bloomer—but girls getting boobs at 9 just worries me. I know there was always that one girl in the class who seemed to “blossom” earlier than everyone else and it either made her the butt of jokes or super popular (mainly with the boys), but I’m talking about the alarming rise of early onset puberty.
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Posted on October 13th, 2009

Written by august

Tags
camera, cctv, crime, crime prevention, Crowdsourcing, duality, fear, gaming, internet, privacy, private, public, Safety, security, Shielding™, surveillance

Private…Errr Internet Eyes are Watching You

Much has been said about the power of crowdsourcing, but, the concept of an online game that harnesses the power of the internet “hive-mind” to prevent crime named “Internet Eyes” seems to walk a tight rope between security and invasion of privacy.
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Posted on September 16th, 2009

Written by adam

Tags
children, gym class, health, heart monitors, parenting, Safety, school, Shielding™, well being, wellness

Monitoring the Hearts of Children

Strap it on Timmy, we need to know if your heart is going to explode after three laps!
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Posted on August 25th, 2009

Written by sally

Tags
control, cyber attack, DDoS, denial-of-service, functionality, hackers, illegal, internet, vulnerable, websites

Are You a Target or An Unknowing Bot?

Do you know what DDoS stands for? You might have seen it bandied around more frequently lately re: Twitter outages. Well for those that don’t know it stands for “distributed denial of service”. A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its [...]
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Posted on February 11th, 2009

Written by admin

Tags
21st century defense initiative, balance of power, Barely Legal™, blackwater, brookings institute, civilian law, command and control, corporate warriors the rise of the privatized military industry, Deity Complex™, Esteem, great powers, Guarding™, hegemonic stability theory, immunity, mercenary, Physiological, plausible deniability, political expedience, power transition, pw singer, rule of law, Safety, security contractors, Shielding™, well being

Blackwater, Total Intelligence Solutions and the Next Corporate Security Nightmare

Blackwater has reportedly created a CIA like intelligence division called, Total Intelligence Solutions, that will sell it’s information to the highest bidder. Jeremy Schahill, author of the book, “ Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army,” expresses serious concern in light of this new development “They’re marketing their services to not only [...]
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Posted on February 10th, 2009

Written by admin

Tags
aersolize, atmosphere, carbon dioxide, climate change, design, environment, futurist, gases, geography, geological solids, global warming, mapping, reaction, Safety, science, sea levels, Shielding™, urban planning, well being

Watermarks

In the 2004 flick The Day After Tomorrow, Hollywood gave us the worst case scenario of the possible effects of global warming and climate change, showering us with natural disasters to the tune of worldwide hurricanes, tornadoes, below freezing temperatures and floods. Now most of us aren’t worried about that kind of catastrophic scenario occurring, [...]
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Posted on January 29th, 2009

Written by august

Tags
consumption, contamination, drugs, fish, harmful, hospital waste, investigation, pharmaceutical, proof, Safety, sheilding, tainted, water, well being

Next Environmental Threat: Pharma-Water

There is a growing concern over the levels of pharmaceutical drugs that are being found in our lakes, rivers, streams and oceans. Although alarming in terms of human consumption, the greater concern is what effects will high levels of anti-depressants and antibiotics have on wildlife and microbe populations? MSNBC reports: “When researchers analyzed vials of [...]
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Posted on December 30th, 2008

Written by august

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abstinence, education, government funding, johns hopkins, lie, pledge, protection, Safety, sex, sex education, sexual behavior, Shielding™, study, teenagers, well being

Abstinence Only Programs Fail to Keep Their Promise

Sexual Education has always been a sticky issue, but new research from Johns Hopkins University may ignite a whole new debate. A newly released study found that teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely as those who don’t to have pre-marital sex and are less likely to practice safe sex. [...]
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Posted on December 12th, 2008

Written by admin

Tags
automotive industry, big 3, butterfly wings, car, chrysler, ford, gm, mexican, Safety, Shielding™, well being

Butterfly Storm

For all the flat-earthers out there who are still saying, what the hey, I don’t work for an American auto company, and I drive a Toyota anyhow, (and I include the Republican Senators from Dixieland who consider their constituents to be the Japanese car assembly plants in their states), this world is too complex for [...]
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Posted on December 4th, 2008

Written by admin

Tags
health reform, insurance, pre-existing medical condition, replacement insurance, Safety, Shielding™, unitedhealth continuity, well being

Insurance Insurance Scam

Just as government is ideally where people combine together to get things done that the individual cannot do on their own, i.e. infrastructure such as roads, etc., insurance is supposed to spread risk that the individual has, such as fire or injury, to the community as a whole. Unfortunately, you can see that often governments [...]