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Brain Freeze
The Slurpee craving comes a little later and doesn’t seem as important as the first shoe sale of the summer. However, I still manage to drink at least one a year. I am a Coke girl. The Slurpee craving comes a little later and doesn’t seem as important as the first shoe sale of the summer. However, I still manage t... more
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The Privitization Of Our Water Not Covered By The MSM
Imagine, that we are beyond the energy crisis-in that we are used to paying double or triple prices for what in the previous century was a small part of the family budget. But now we are faced with a new shortage that taps another precious resource. Water only comes through the tap fours hours a day and we are forced to pay ten to hundred times what we paid in the 90s. Welcome to the world of privatized water, where fresh water is treated like a commodity, traded and sold in the international market to the highest bidder.
No longer can you assume a God-given right to drink from a mountain spring, but instead you will have to pay a toll to drink from Enron Springs, Monsanto Wells or receive tap water from Bechtel Water Works. Global consumption of water is doubling every 20 years, more than twice the rate of human population growth. According to the United Nations, more than one billion people already lack access to fresh drinking water. If current trends persist, by 2025 the demand for fresh water is expected to rise by 56 percent more than the amount of water that is currently available.
Multinational corporations recognize these trends and are trying to monopolize water supplies around the world. Monsanto, Bechtel, Enron and other global multinationals are seeking control of world water systems and supplies. The World Bank recently adopted a policy of water privatization and full-cost water pricing. This policy is causing great distress in many Third World countries, which fear that their citizens will not be able to afford for-profit water.
Last year in a little known case of high scale international water marketing, a supertanker was reported to have filled up with water from Lake Erie and after paying the Canadian Government they shipped the water to Southeast Asia. Maude Barlow, chair of the Council of Canadians, Canada's largest public advocacy group, states, "Governments around the world must act now to declare water a fundamental human right and prevent efforts to privatize, export, and sell for profit a substance essential to all life. Research has shown that selling water on the open market only delivers it to wealthy cities and individuals. The finite sources of freshwater (less than one half of one per cent of the world's total water stock) are being diverted, depleted, and polluted so fast that, by the year 2025, two-thirds of the world's population will be living in a state of serious water deprivation."
Governments are signing away their control over domestic water supplies by participating in trade treaties such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and in institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO). These agreements give transnational corporations the unprecedented right to the water of signatory countries.
Monsanto plans to earn revenues of $420 million and a net income of $63 million by 2008 from its water business in India and Mexico. Monsanto estimates that water will become a multibillion-dollar market in the coming decades.
This international water crisis news story was selected by over 150 faculty and student researchers at Sonoma State University's Project Censored in California as the number one most censored news story for 2000.
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And this is still being censored by the MSM. Just as multinationals move to control our food, they are doing the same to "own" water which is a human right and the MSM is an accomplice to it by not educating the public to what is going down. The MSM is however more than happy to advertise "clean coal" and nuclear, and propaganda by oil companies making us believe they care about this planet as they ravage it. So, for me Current is the only place where this news can be seen to hopefully bring awareness about what is going down... we are being bought and sold and the very substance of our survival along with it. So the question is: what are we going to do about it?
Imagine, that we are beyond the energy crisis-in that we are used to paying double or triple prices for what in the previous century w... more -
Coke machines to become CO2-cooled
"A few years ago, Coca-Cola decided it would significantly decrease its environmental impact. When it took a good look at where its environmental footprint was highest, it saw that vending machines are a big culprit.
Let’s take a moment to accept the “Duh” of this.
To combat the vending machine factor, Coca-Cola began replacing HFC machines with CO2 machines. Yep – Carbon Dioxide is helping our environment! By the end of 2006, the company had 6,000 units placed world-wide (yes, that’s relatively few when considering they have 10 million machines operating around the globe, but still nothing to sneeze at). Continuing with that trend, they’ve drastically increased their CO2 machine intake by purchasing 100,000 new compressed carbon dioxide beverage coolers.
The new machines will emit 75% fewer greenhouse gasses, though they cost about 25% more. This is significant when considering that HFCs are major global warming pollutants and, if allowed to run as rampant as they currently are, their overall contribution to global warming pollution could nearly double within 40 years. Compressed Carbon Dioxide-based cooling units, on the other hand, will help reduce the impact of these HFC clunkers on our planet – and since Coca-Cola is a global company, it truly is a global issue."
" "A few years ago, Coca-Cola decided it would significantly decrease its environmental impact. When it took a good look at where its en... more -
Cocaine Jesus statue seized at the border
Federal agents in Laredo seized a 6lb pure cocaine statue of Jesus estimated at $30,000 street value.
The statue was made of a cocaine paste that was molded into a figure of Jesus and then intricately painted. It was extremely detailed all the way down to the hair.
If the statue had made it across the border the dealers would have dissolved the cocaine in water. Federal agents in Laredo seized a 6lb pure cocaine statue of Jesus estimated at $30,000 street value. ... more -
Half city's youth 'take cocaine', Merseyside, UK
More than 50% of young people in Liverpool admit to having taken cocaine, a new report claims.
The finding is part of research that shows an "epidemic" of drug use, with respondents saying they take drugs and drinking to enhance their sex lives.The finding is part of research that shows an "epidemic" of drug use, with respondents saying they take drugs and drinking to enhance their sex lives. More than 50% of young people in Liverpool admit to having taken cocaine, a new report claims. ... more -
With Some Food in Short Supply, Belgium Students Get Wasteful
Thousands of Belgian students participate in a soda and Mentos fountain record attempt.
A student association in Leuven, Belgium, arranged the record breaking attempt at a historical square in the city.
1360 students simultaneously placed a tube of sweets into a bottle of soda to create the fountains.
The mixture shot into the air covering the revellers in sticky fluid. The concoction of sodas and Mentos became popular on the website YouTube after two men, known as EepyBird, from the USA posted videos of them making the fountains.
The EepyBird website says the coke and mentos cocktail works because of a process they call 'nucleation' where the carbon dioxide in the soda is attracted to the mentos, creating enough pressure to form geyser-like fountains.
The two men, Fitz Grobe and Stephen Voltz who describe themselves as mad scientists were present at the event and said it was an 'astonishing' experience. Thousands of Belgian students participate in a soda and Mentos fountain record attempt. ... more -
Coke - Good Guys or Bad Guys?
Majora Carter talks about being selected by Coca-Cola to carry the torch for the Olympic Relay in San Francisco.
This is pretty interesting when you consider that Majora Carter is an outspoken activist and that many people are starting to protest Coke's sponsorship of the Beijing Olympics.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/23/olympicgame...
By the way, during the relay Majora whipped out a Tibetan flag. Immediately, the torch was snatched from her hands and she was pushed to the side. Good times!
Majora Carter talks about being selected by Coca-Cola to carry the torch for the Olympic Relay in San Francisco. ... more -
Charlie Brown Finally Has His Day
In this Super Bowl ad for Coca-Cola Charlie Brown finally wins at something. Sweet retribution for all of us "Blockheads" in life.
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What Happens To Your Body Within An Hour Of Drinking Coke
"Within the first 10 minutes, 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system..." So that is why it helps me stay awake :)
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Blasphemous Coca-Cola!!
440 residents of Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod lodged a complaint against Coca-Cola accusing it of blasphemy in its ad. The ads use images of Orthodox churches and crosses, and some crosses "were even put upside down."
Coca-Cola officials say the ads are aimed at promoting Russia's culture.
What do you say?
440 residents of Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod lodged a complaint against Coca-Cola accusing it of blasphemy in its ad. The ads use... more -
Katie gets all touristy in Atlanta.
Katie and Darryl take a long weekend road trip to Atlanta recently and ended up doing all things touristy. A RandomThis video by The Knoxville News Sentinel's Katie Hall. Katie and Darryl take a long weekend road trip to Atlanta recently and ended up doing all things touristy. A RandomThis video by The K... more
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Coca Cola readying self-chilling soft drinks?
Coca Cola may be plotting a new version of Sprite that actually chills itself upon opening. Apparently, the drink has to be kept at a specified temperature before being snapped up, and once the oh-so-thirsty consumer pops the top, "a mechanism inside creates ice made from the drink, so it is not diluted." Gross! Coca Cola may be plotting a new version of Sprite that actually chills itself upon opening. Apparently, the drink has to be kept at a ... more
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Diet Coke is 99% Water
Back in the day, when people noted that Diet Coke was 99% water, it was an insult. The point was that water was free, and Diet Coke was just free water plus a little bit of artificial this and that so you would have to be a fool to pay so much for it.Of course, times have changed. Bottled water now generates an estimated $50 billion in sales each year, with that number growing rapidly. According to this CBS News report, which puts soda revenues at $68 billion a year and stagnant, bottled water is now as big a business as soda. Back in the day, when people noted that Diet Coke was 99% water, it was an insult. The point was that water was free, and Diet Coke wa... more
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