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EdenSoy comes out against birth control — really!

Michael Potter, CEO of Eden Foods, said through his attorney: “In accordance with his Catholic faith, Potter believes that any action which either before, at the moment of, or after sexual intercourse,...

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Ukrainian Carding King ‘Maksik’ Was Lured to Arrest

The Bitemaster was surfing around the Web when he came across this article from 2010: Ukrainian Carding King ‘Maksik’ Was Lured to Arrest | Threat Level | WIRED. In short, Maksym Yastremskiy, a...

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RT.COM, the Russian propaganda outlet, joins the chorus of “America is an...

Perspectives on Politics, an academic journal, is planning to publish a paper on whether elites, interest groups or average citizens exert the most influence on American policy. The paper is too long...

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AirBNB drives up evictions; activists fight back

Here’s the Warning Sign Activists Stick On Illegally Converted Airbnbs. San Francisco landlords are illegally evicting tenants so they can get the higher rents afforded by AirBNB customers. In...

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Dick Morris now touting penny stocks

Former political consultant Dick Morris, whose record of predictions is less than stellar, has recently emerged as a financial guru offering to help you plan for your retirement. Be sure to read about...

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Amid backlash, hotel rescinds $500 fines for “negative” online reviews

Yes, a hotel really had a policy (since removed from their website) of imposing fines on guests who posted negative reviews online. This brings to mind one restaurant the Bitemaster saw on Yelp. A...

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Starbucks closed their stores in Israel but continues to support countries...

Yeah, Starbucks got out of Israel but they’re still in Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. Click the links to read about the peoples’ paradises that Starbucks...

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Good news for Sports Illustrated advertisers

Apparently Sports Illustrated has instituted new criteria in the evaluation of some of its editorial employees: how “beneficial to advertiser relationship” an editor/writer’s work is. If you’re...

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The truth behind Whole Foods dropping Chobani yogurt

In late 2013, Whole Foods announced that it was dropping Chobani yogurt, the number one brand of Greek yogurt. “The company plans to make room for non-genetically-modified food and organic brands...

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Right wing “think tank” protests Labor Day by working today.

“I can’t think of a problem in society that can’t be traced in some way back to the abuses of organized labor, so it would be hypocritical of us to take a day off on its behalf,” said Freedom...

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The Bitemaster is nostalgic for Spitzer

Attorneys general are now the object of aggressive pursuit by lobbyists and lawyers who use campaign contributions, personal appeals at lavish corporate-sponsored conferences and other means to push...

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California teachers sue union over dues

The so-called Center for Individual Rights (a right wing litigation boutique funded by the usual billionaires) is helping ten California teachers challenge the state “union shop” law. Apparently these...

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Ted Cruz wants you to have slow porn

We all know how Ted Cruz is fighting against net neutrality. Oh, you didn’t know? Well Cruz thinks it’s a good idea for your cable company or ISP to decide which programs come to you at full speed and...

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Uber Executive proposes using Scientology tactics on journalists who criticize

You know what Scientology does to its opponents: it declares them “fair game” and uses investigations, character assassination, legal action and infiltration to eventually destroy them. That’s what...

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NYC Mayor di Blasio reboots huge Bloomberg tech boondoggle

When exHizzoner Bloomberg was in control of the program to overhaul the 911 system in New York City, he made millionaires out of scores of tech consultants. The result, the $2 billion project is...

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Bank of America does it again

When Bank of America wouldn’t halt its incessant robocalls to Nelson and Joyce Coniglio of Florida, they sued. And won $1 million. That’s nice. But the Bitemaster remembers when BOA wouldn’t pay the...

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Amazon outsources to an outsourcer

In the old days, a company would save money through integration — which meant owning every part of their business from raw materials, parts manufacturing, assembly, distribution, all the way through...

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Robots will raise your taxes

The University of Maryland is using the ‘deep learning’ technique to teach robots how to cook. The researchers at the university gathered data from 88 YouTube cooking videos and turned it into cooking...

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Think you can delete them cookies? Well, think again.

Online ad company Turn uses tracking cookies that come back to life after Verizon users have deleted them. Turn’s services are used by everyone from Google to Facebook. If you’re surprised, you haven’t...

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What’s Verizon up to now?

Verizon tracks you using their secret cookies but doesn’t want the government to be able to subpoena their offshore servers which store data from their US customers. What gives? Maybe they’re angling...

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