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(Zürich, Switzerland — March 24, 2015) – Switzerland’s largest supermarket chain, Migros, is causing quite a stir with its latest marketing campaign. Some might even say they’re causing a Führer. Migros finds itself apologizing for an “unforgivable blunder” related to – of all things – coffee creamers. The lids for the company’s coffee creamers –…
(Washington, DC — February 20, 2015) – Going against Congressional wishes, a top national nutritional panel released a report urging Americans to steer clear of diets high in red meat, angering Congressmen in the process. Given that Congress says little about the plight of the nation’s poor and underserved, not to mention those Americans who…
(Corcoran, CA — February 10, 2015) – It is often said that couples want each other for their bodies, referring to a level of physical attraction that is often the basis for relationships and, in some cases, marriage. Leave it to Charles Manson to add a witchy aspect to this premise. 2014 was a busy…
(Washington, DC — February 4, 2015) – Playing to their base, politicians have entered the fray of an age-old question: To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? Meanwhile, average, ordinary, everyday Americans are hoping for a “mute” vaccine to use on these politicians. Ever since a recent measles outbreak in California, vaccination has been a hot…
(Washington, DC) – The results from the 2014 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) are in. And they’re not good. The FEVS is commissioned by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Sent out whenever OPM feels like it, the FEVS accepts input from current Federal employees and ranks their concerns and opinions about their jobs, their…
(Washington, DC) – Ted Kaczynski, move over. You’ve got company. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) (also known as “Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)” and “Islamic State (IS)” and “Al-Qaeda in Iraq”) has taken a page from the Unabomber’s playbook and is now threatening “postal jihad” against the United States.…
(Washington, DC) – When FLATLINEgov first reported on the African Ebola outbreak on August 6, there had been 1,700 cases reported, 900 of whom died. America’s public health officials assured average, ordinary, everyday Americans that they had nothing to fear from Ebola. Two months later, average, ordinary, everyday Americans can see just how wrong the…
(New York, NY) – If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Unless you happen to be a football player in the National Football League (NFL), in which case literally beating ’em seems to be all the rage. Domestic violence is terrorism, plain and simple. It’s meant to terrorize spouses. It’s meant to terrorize children. These…
(San Francisco, CA) – As the world struggles with the loss of comedian Robin Williams, a laser focus has been placed on his cause of death – suicide – and the depression that plagued him for decades. Williams committed suicide yesterday by hanging himself with a belt. In America, one person commits suicide every 13…
(Atlanta, GA) – The latest outbreak of the Ebola virus is showing no signs of slowing down, and as the numbers of the dead and infected continue to climb, so do the number of countries with citizens showing symptoms of the disease. The current outbreak began in Guinea in March. More than 1,700 cases of…
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