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Major food companies are planning "to halt advertising junk food to children under 12 throughout Europe," but in the U.S., McDonald's has found "a nifty way to reach kids ... advertise on report cards." The fast food giant "picked up the $1,600 cost of printing report-card jackets for the 2007-2008 school year in Seminole County, [Florida], in exchange for a Happy Meal coupon on the card's cover." The promotion is an apparent violation of the Better Business Bureau's Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative, which McDonald's joined last year. Initiative members agree "to limit advertising to children under 12 and focus on better-for-you options." In other advertising news, a New York billboard for an A&E television show "uses technology ... that transmits an 'audio spotlight' from a rooftop speaker so that the sound is contained within your cranium." A&E deemed the "creepy" voices-in-your-head effect perfect for the show, which is about ghosts. But Gawker asked, "How soon will it be until in addition to the Do Not Call list, we'll have a Do Not Beam Commercial Messages Into My Head list?"
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Pani113 replied on Permalink
So it wasn't Satan
I spent years in Ca, where I had the misfortune to live in an area infested with cults! No I am not kidding. They had all kinds of tricks up their sleeves when it came to harassing people. They had one trick where they could stop a car engine. One would feel a pulse of electromagnetic energy, and then dead engine. Later, I saw on one of those news shows this can be done by anyone with a basic knowledge of electronics and simple equipment. I had a friend who claimed to hear such voices, and when I tried to help that person, I heard them a few times myself. I always knew in my heart it must be some kind of technology that few people know about yet. Interesting that both places I lived were near military bases. $10 says it was some kind of government experiment that got out of control. Hope it all comes out before the economy crashes. I guess if it is a marketing tool, even possessed Uncle Sam can't keep it quiet.