Tag Archive | environment
Proof that Gun Control is not Working
Mass Stabbing Hits Texas College ‘At least 15 people were injured and a suspect was in custody after a stabbing at the Cy-Fair campus of Lone Star College Tuesday morning. ‘The suspect is Dylan Quick, 20, a law enforcement source told the Chronicle. ‘The stabbings happened about 11:20 a.m. at the campus at 9191 Barker […]
The Evil ‘Monsanto Protection Act’
Help stop it for the sake of your children From Food Democracy Now!: ‘Clearly Monsanto and the biotech industry are getting desperate and want to try an end run around a growing movement of farmers and citizens who are rejecting their products and calling for GMO labeling in an effort to make sure their new […]
What You Need to Replace Google Reader
‘The good news is, there’s a ton of other great RSS services out there today, ones that have come online in the past few years or held on even though Google Reader remained dominant.Here’s all the info you’ll need to find a new service and get your feeds moved to it, pronto, before your Google […]
Pandora’s Coffin
Why letting ‘sleeping dogs lie’ is often right. Hate mail could be fatal and had driven people to suicide ‘The head of historic British church York Minster has contacted police after receiving hate mail, intensifying the row over where the recently-discovered remains of King Richard III should be buried.York lawmaker Hugh Bayley told parliament that […]
The PediHome WN!!
(What Next!!) I boldly predict that this invention will flood the Third World very soon Tricycle House pedal-powered RV offers lots of home comforts ‘Conceived by architectural firm People’s Industrial Design Office (PIDO) for 2012’s “Get It Louder” Exhibition in Beijing, the Tricycle House addresses the fact that private ownership of land is not permitted […]
Mexican Eco-Terrorists Attack Nanotechnologists
‘Over the past two years, Mexican scientists involved in bio- and nanotechnology have become targets. They’re not threatened by the nation’s drug cartels. They’re marked for death by a group of bomb-building eco-terrorists with the professed goal of destroying human civilization. ‘The group, which goes by the name Individualidades Tendiendo a lo Salvaje (ITS), posted […]
The First Website in 1991
This was where the phrase ‘World Wide Web’ came from Most of the world remained ignorant of this monumental development until the Mosaic browser debuted in 1993. ‘“The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.” So reads the text at the top […]
Rape + Guns = Freedom
‘Good news, everyone! For those of you who, like me, have been wondering when conservatives would stop making infuriatingly stupid statements about rape and guns, It just got worse. Now they’re making infuriatingly stupid comments about rape and guns at the same time…’ http://www.dailykos Conspiracy to Destroy Philippine Coral Reefs? Just last September 2010, a […]
Extremely Radioactive Snow in Fukushima
‘Snow samples taken just the other day in Fukushima show extremely high levels of cesium 134 and 137. ‘Professor Christopher Busby, an expert on the effects of longterm exposure to low doses of radiation says, point blank that the Fukushima Catastrophe is the worst nuclear disaster in history. He says that a radius of at […]
Ecuadorian Tribe Will Fight to Death Oil Firm
‘A battle is looming between one of South America’s largest state-backed oil companies and an indigenous community of about 400 in the Ecuadorian rainforest. ‘The area is near Yasuni National Park, in eastern Ecuador, home to some of the richest variety of life on Earth. Studies have shown that a single hectare here contains a […]