Bloomberg Takes Aim at Loud Music

Now listen up, if you can.

Mayor Bloomberg — who has already cracked down on smoking, junk food, trans fats, salt and super-sized drinks — is embarking on a new crusade: preventing New Yorkers from going deaf.

Hizzoner’s health officials are planning a social-media campaign to warn young people about the risk of losing their hearing from listening to music at high volume on personal MP3 players, The Post has learned.

“With public [...]

Saudis protest after chicken prices soar

A social media campaign is encouraging shoppers in Saudi Arabia to stop buying chicken in protest at price hikes of up to 40 per cent.

The Twitter movement – entitled “Let it Rot” – asks Saudi citizens to punish traders for raising the price of chicken in recent weeks.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudis-protest-after-chicken-prices-soar-8200186.html

Special ops group launching media blitz over Obama’s bin Laden bragging, leaks

(Reuters) – A group of former U.S. intelligence and Special Forces operatives is set to launch a media campaign, including TV ads, that scolds President Barack Obama for taking credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden and argues that high-level leaks are endangering American lives.

Leaders of the group, the Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund Inc, say it is nonpartisan and unconnected to any political party or presidential campaign. It [...]

Women On The Front Lines – It Was Only A Matter of Time

Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
May 15, 2012

In addition to our brothers, fathers, sons, and uncles being enlisted to fight endless, unnecessary wars, women are now the target of yet another vicious media campaign attempting to recruit them as the next potential martyrs in fighting the banker’s foreign wars.

 

According to a report from Georgia’s WRBL, the Pentagon is offering 14,000 combat-related roles to women. Before, women were excluded from positions if they were too close or [...]

Statement from Chris W. Cox on Richard Mourdock’s Significant Win in the Indiana U.S. Senate…

Statement from Chris W. Cox on Richard Mourdock’s Significant Win in the Indiana U.S. Senate Primary Election

Thanks to your votes, Richard Mourdock has won the Republican primary election for U.S. Senate in Indiana defeating 36-year incumbent, Sen. Richard Lugar. Since the 1990s, Sen. Lugar has become notorious for his zealous support of gun control schemes and his fervent anti-gun positions.

Your NRA was fully vested in this race with a comprehensive [...]

Rand Paul Launches Campaign to End TSA

New legislation would abolish government involvement in airport security

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Thursday, May 3, 2012

Senator Rand Paul has issued a press release in which he vows to lead the charge to “end the TSA” and put a stop to the needless and humiliating groping of toddlers and grandmothers.

Earlier this year, Paul was detained by the TSA after refusing to submit to an invasive pat down after already having passed through a [...]

OBAMA PHONES IT IN… Then goes Christmas shopping…

Obama was a man alone with his dog since his family is on vacation in Hawaii. | Reuters

By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 12/21/11 2:38 PM EST Updated: 12/21/11 3:16 PM EST

President Barack Obama took a break from wrangling with House Republicans on Wednesday afternoon for a quick pre-Christmas shopping trip to buy gifts for his daughters and Bo the dog.

After calling congressional leaders to reaffirm his support for the Senate-passed two-month extension of the [...]

The Greeks Are Being Unfairly Maligned by Global Financiers­: The Truth Is Very Different

Beyond the anti-Greek media campaign lies the story of a weary people caught between a corrupt~po­litical system and rapacious~­financiers­. Sound familiar?

http://www­.alternet.­org/story/­152759/the­_greeks_ar­e_being_un­fairly_mal­igned_by_g­lobal_fina­nciers%3A_the_tr­uth_is_ver­y_differen­t/

‘LIBERAL-LEFT’ MOUNTS HIGH HORSE IN UK HACK ATTACK

The liberal-left, as it sees itself

Perhaps the least edifying aspect of the News of the World saga has been the sanctimonious fervour of the liberal-left wallowing in a stew of its own self-righteousness. We’ve had more than a whiff of this putrescent cant here at Telegraph blogs.

Two days ago my colleague David Hughes made the perfectly unexceptionable – and indeed true – point that the media [...]