I'm not gonna unless you make me

Coke and Pepsi will discontinue the use of 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI) in their beverage manufacturing due to the likelihood of it causing cancer.  Did the two soda giants discontinue this practice after they found out that it is a potential cancer causing agent?  Of course not.  They discontinued to practice after California decided to add 4-MEI to their carcinogens list forcing the companies to either get rid of the ingredient or facing the possibility of having to put cancer warning labels on their bottles.  Well, I guess as long as it happens right? 

(Touch Me)

courtesy of BBC News

Kite flying isn't what it used to be

From the good people at prisonplanet.com comes this story about military intervention at a kite festival this past weekend in Austin.

"Uniformed troops from the Texas State Guard were used for the purposes of crowd control during the Zilker Kite Festival in Austin this past weekend, with video showing the troops ordering parents and children to board school buses at the end of the event.
Disturbing footage of the troops controlling the movement of attendees was filmed by Infowars reporters, in addition to a police helicopter circling above. However, the website of the Zilker Kite Festival attempted to downplay the Guard’s involvement as if it was completely normal."

Quite an interesting story.  Military folks are rounding up women and children and busing putting them out of town.   A little unsettling sure but this is not one of those read the headlines tells you the story type thing.  So, this Kite Festival thing is a small and volunteer group that has this festival once a year that is big as heck and need help to oversee it.  Now, you’ve got three options.  Have more people in your kite club which obviously isn’t going to happen. Two, you could HIRE cops to come out and help just let’s be clear, not many cops are just going to volunteer their time at a stupid kite thing knowing they could get 40 dollars an hour at the grocery store.  So #3, national guard people volunteer their time (and are allowed to do this by their superiors cause they are in kind of uniform so I'm sure they need approval) to come and to help out crowd control and crowd wrangle.  Well if you do not have A or B option, then C seems like a reasonable and responsible decision to make to ensure that your crowd of people keep in line.  Now, in the time I come from back before 2001, we could have an event like this and not need security.  We just kind of understood that we were going to a kite event and to chill the fuck out for a few hours and not try to stab anyone around.  Is there a rhyme or reason for that?  Sure, but those reasons number in the hundreds of thousands depending on what human being is experiencing something at some specific time.  We no longer live our lives inside a 15 mile radius.  Every human being truly has an impact on each and every other one.  The slave labor in Siberia (Touch Me).  The suicide workers at Foxconn (find the net story somewhere down below).    It all matters.  My point here is, keep reporting things, Alex Jones but Alex Jones readers and listeners, calm it down and gather a little back story knowledge before you go too crazy.   When we don’t call out the National Guard, no one knows what will happen (Touch Me).