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The George Carlin Experiment: how did you react?

Clint Richardson
Reality Blog
Sat, 11 Jan 2014 16:30 UTC

You could say I grew up watching George Carlin.

He was always my favorite rhetoric-ist. The most logical. The most reasonable. He was in effect my only access to what I now know as the Trivium.

In my first 25 years of life, George Carlin's material truly made me laugh at what could only be defined as Carlin's hyper-realistic perspective stand-up routine. It was the most harsh and abusive form of truth intervention for the entire human species - and yet it was masked brilliantly as comedy.

At around age 25, I attended an event in Las Vegas that was the beginning of my own transformation and incremental arrival into the over-exposure of hyper-reality Carlin spewed. This event was George Carlin, live at the Bally's Casino resort. How wondrously excited I was to see up close and personal one of my few Idols in life. And the show went on...

But something was different.

Something just didn't feel right.

George wasn't the problem, for he was delivering his material just as rehearsed-ly as he always had, mentally re-ciphering eerily associative memory poems with endless lists of material and anecdotal stories with an almost autistic flair.

No, the problem laid elsewhere... It was the crowd. And it was myself.

U.K.: High on mephedrone, student cut his own penis and stabbed his mother

Adam Withnall
The Independent
Thu, 09 Jan 2014 13:10 UTC

Police described both as stable after they were rushed to hospital with life-threatening – and in the teenager’s case, apparently self-inflicted – wounds

A 19-year-old student has cut off his own penis and stabbed his mother while high on the party drug mephedrone, it was claimed yesterday.

Emergency services rushed to a house in Haywards Heath, West Sussex and apparently found the man hanging from a bedroom window with blood pouring from wounds to his groin.

Police confirmed they entered the house in the early hours of Sunday 29 December and found the 46-year-old mother, who had phoned 999. Both were rushed to hospital with what were described as life-threatening - and in the man's case, self-inflicted - wounds.

Food prices rose 5.8% in Armenia in 2013, expected to jump another 10% in 2014

ARKA News Agency
Thu, 09 Jan 2014 13:10 UTC

Meats and vegetables are getting more expensive by the month

Food prices in Armenia went 5.8% up in 2013, the National Statistical Service reports.
According to the statistical report, 2.3% increase in prices was recorded in December against November 2013, mainly due to 4.3-24.2% rise in prices for fruits, vegetables and potatoes.

Prices for potatoes and vegetables rose by 1.7% in December 2013 against the same month of 2012 and by 24.2% against November 2013.

Comment: See also: Food prices in Armenia may jump ten percent this year

You can start canning both your meats and vegetables so you can be prepared for the rough times ahead.

Food price rises in U.S. blamed on cold weather

Jason Nappi
WJBF.com
Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:02 UTC

Frozen sprinklers, an iced over fountain, and smoke from a heater working overtime.

These are all signs of the deep freeze that took over the CSRA this week.

But is this cold weather causing food prices to rise at your local grocery store?

Ricky Volpe, Research Economist at the USDA says, "Any sort of weather anomaly, unusually hot or cold or dry or wet weather is going to cause problems for the agricultural sector. So it certainly makes sense that we're going to see a short term bump in costs."

Comment: Have you been canning?

Food prices to rise by up to 8% in Czech Republic

Prague Daily Monitor
Wed, 08 Jan 2014 12:47 UTC

Czech food producers expect that food prices will grow by 5 to 8 percent starting from January 1 as a result of forex interventions launched by the Czech National Bank (CNB), Food Chamber spokeswoman Jarmila Stolcova told CTK Tuesday.

The weakening of the crown currency following the central bank's interventions is criticised above all by those producers that import a large part of commodities for their production, such as smaller producers of sweets and some meat processors, Stolcova said.

Growing costs are forcing food companies to cut margins, but a number of them cannot afford further reduction. Some producers even fear they will have to restrict production and cut staff numbers, according to Stolcova.

Comment: People might want to start canning their meats and lard right now, so that they are able to have proper nutrition when meat products become a luxury item affordable only for the very few. Czech food prices grew nearly 7 percent in 2012, which was the fastest rate in the EU, and the trend continues.

Mainstream Media Blackout: Maine Second State to Pass GMO Labeling Law

Melissa Melton
The Daily Sheeple
Sat, 11 Jan 2014 00:00 UTC

Maine joined Connecticut this week as the second state in the nation to sign a genetically modified food labeling law, but you may not have heard much about it because the mainstream media hasn't really said anything about it.

Do a basic news engine search and you'll see that no mainstream media outlets have reported anything on this story. In fact, at the time of writing this, the most I could find was Washington Post Blog and Grist (with a ridiculously biased title).

No MSNBC. No CNN. No ABC.

No other major news outlets are touching this story. Why?

Massachusetts man goes to jail for automated Google+ invite to ex-girlfriend

RT
Fri, 10 Jan 2014 20:44 UTC

Sending an ex-girlfriend an email invitation to join Google+ despite an active restraining order landed a Beverly, Massachusetts man in handcuffs and behind bars.

The problem? Thomas Gagnon, 32, says he never actually sent an email of any sort. Instead, he claims it was Google's fault.

According to Gagnon, Google automatically sent the invitation without informing him or asking for his consent.

As the Salem News reported, Gagnon was arrested about 90 minutes after his ex-girlfriend notified police. The officers agreed the sent invitation constituted a violation of the restraining order, and while the district court judge acknowledged he wasn't sure precisely how Google+ processes invitations, he set bail at $500.

While Gagnon argues he did not send the invitation, both he and his attorney, Neil Hourihan, are at a loss when it comes to explaining how the message was transmitted.

Family imprisoned for enslaving and brutally beating man with learning disabilities

Polly Rippon
The Star
Tue, 07 Jan 2014 19:01 UTC

CCTV footage of members of the Rooke family assaulting Craig Kinsella.

A Sheffield man with learning difficulties was held as a slave and brutally beaten by members of a family who were jailed today - watch the harrowing CCTV footage here.

WARNING: This video evidence is disturbing and not suitable for younger viewers.

Three members of the same family were locked up after enslaving the victim in their garage and treating him as 'their punchbag', a court heard. David Rooke, aged 44, was locked up for six years and six months, while his son Jamie, 19, was jailed for four years. Wife Donna Rooke, 40, was sentenced to four months behind bars.

Their victim, Craig Kinsella, aged 34, had been attacked with a spade handle, a crow bar and a pick axe handle, starved of food, and forced to sleep on a concrete floor with no access to a toilet.

Pat Robertson: Global warming is a scam because there are no SUVs on Jupiter - He's right, but he's still a nutter

David Edwards
Raw Story
Tue, 07 Jan 2014 18:06 UTC

Televangelist Pat Robertson pointed to the cold U.S. weather on Tuesday - and the fact that there were no "SUVs driving around in Jupiter" - to assert that global warming was a scam created by scientists.

"The inconvenient truth is it's getting cold," Robertson said, riffing off the title of Al Gore's climate change documentary. "And some parts of America are colder than Mars! Why? We've got a special story today about how come we could very well be entering another little ice age."

Later in the show, the TV preacher laughed and noted that the Russian-flagged ship Akademik Shokalskiy had been stuck in ice near Antarctica while trying to research global warming.

"There's just one problem," he said. "The Earth isn't getting warmer. In fact, it's because of the Sun. The Sun is now showing signs that we're headed for something very, very different: global cooling."

Impatient North Carolina cops allegedly shoot mentally ill teen: 'We don't have time for this'

David Edwards
Raw Story
Tue, 07 Jan 2014 18:01 UTC

A North Carolina detective is on leave after shooting a mentally ill teen who had reportedly already been subdued with a Taser.

A Brunswick County event report obtained by WECT indicated that two officers were called to Boiling Spring Lakes home after 12:34 p.m. on Sunday afternoon. One of the officers told Brunswick County Dispatchers that there had been a confrontation with 18-year-old Keith Vidal, but repeated several times that the situation was under control.

A second unit with one officer arrived 14 minutes later and notified dispatchers that he was forced to shoot the teen in self defense.

Mark Wilsey, the teen's father, explained to WECT that members of his family had called the police for help with his son's schizophrenic episode. He said that officers shocked Vidal with a Taser several times to get him under control.

"We don't have time for this," Wilsey recalled one of the officers saying before he fired in between the two officers who were holding the teen down.

"There was no reason to shoot this kid," Wilsey insisted. "They killed my son in cold blood. We called for help and they killed my son."

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Society's Child

The George Carlin Experiment: how did you react?

U.K.: High on mephedrone, student cut his own penis and stabbed his mother

Food prices rose 5.8% in Armenia in 2013, expected to jump another 10% in 2014

Food price rises in U.S. blamed on cold weather

Food prices to rise by up to 8% in Czech Republic

Mainstream Media Blackout: Maine Second State to Pass GMO Labeling Law

Massachusetts man goes to jail for automated Google+ invite to ex-girlfriend

Family imprisoned for enslaving and brutally beating man with learning disabilities

Pat Robertson: Global warming is a scam because there are no SUVs on Jupiter - He's right, but he's still a nutter

Impatient North Carolina cops allegedly shoot mentally ill teen: 'We don't have time for this'

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