Hint: No catsup on the burger – The typical American consumer is accustomed to unwrapping a hamburger from their favorite fast food establishment and finding “the works:” lettuce, tomatoes, pickles and a few packets of ketchup on the side. However, according to researcher John Stanton, the “frills” that come with fast food or restaurant meals could become a thing of the past. He says, “In an environment where food companies are reducing the size of packages and charging more for products, consumers can expect to pay for what they used to get for free.”
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…as Obama says they are? – Obama has said he’ll create jobs by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. How badly do we need this done?

Very badly, it turns out?especially when it comes to bridges. A recent report issued by the American Society of Civil Engineers gave the nation?s failing infrastructure an overall grade of “D.” The report, which suggested that it might cost as much as $2.2 trillion to remedy America’s ailing physical backbone, included everything from schools and parks, to bridges and dams, to levees and rail systems. This is the same report card that the group issued to Congress in 2005, except that, in reality, the rating has slipped from a “high D” to a “low D.”
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Leaked to Corporations? – Col. Philip Corso claimed that Roswell debris was leaked to companies in the US, so that they could use it to create new technologies. Could this be true?

In the Honolulu Exopolitics Examiner, Michael Salla writes that, “Testimonial evidence exists that corporations have become the ultimate repository of the nation’s UFO secrets?A recently deceased corporate whistleblower revealed how during the mid-1980s, he worked for six months ?for a large aerospace defense contractor based in California. [He]?found many files dealing with flying saucers and extraterrestrial life. The files contained: ‘Reports, photos, media materials (tapes, films, video cassettes) and material from crashed saucers.'”
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…As predicted by the Master of the Key – A new university has been founded to get ready for an expected gigantic increase in human knowledge coming over the next fifty years, and to prepare the way for computers that are more intelligent than humans. The Master of the Key, an unusually prescient man that Whitley Strieber met briefly in 1998, said, “To save yourselves, you must learn to build machines that are more intelligent than you are,” and the founders of Singularity University are expecting just that to happen by mid-century.

The school is backed by Larry Page, Google co-founder, and Peter Diamandis, chief executive of X-Prize, which provides grants to support technological change.
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