Is your constant craving for coneing clips hastening the destruction of the world? People tend to think of internet usage as "virtual" or "magic" but, it isn't so.
YouTube viewing alone pumps thousands of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day. Computer servers add to worldwide carbon emissions at the same rate as the aviation industry, and Facebook and Apple are powered largely by coal. In fact, I better stop typing right now. Via Hungry Beast: Read more »
Is The Internet Polluting The Planet?
Ron Paul: "We Need To Stop Allowing Secretive Banking Cartels To Endlessly Enslave Us"
The barrage of political statements on the debt ceiling is reaching a crescendo. Following Eric Cantor, here is Ron Paul. Debt Ceiling Drama First of all, politicians need to understand that without real change default is inevitable. In fact, default ... Read more »
New doubts over crucial evidence in Lockerbie trial
A prosecution expert misled judges at the Lockerbie trial about key evidence, according to a classified police memo obtained by the Sunday Herald.Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over the Scottish border town on December 21, 1988, killing 270 people.The ... Read more »
42% of Britons Will Get Cancer, Statistics Show
There's something wrong with our civilization when you have a better (worse?) than 40% chance of getting cancer in your lifetime. Denis Campbell writes in Guardian:
It was one of the starkest statistics about the nation's health — that one in three of us would get cancer. Sadly, the figures have just got worse. Cancer experts now believe 42% of Britons will get the disease. Macmillan Cancer Support has revised the figure after its researchers analysed official data covering diagnosis of cancer, death from the disease and overall mortality. Of the 585,000 people who died in the UK in 2008, 246,000 of them — 42% — had been diagnosed with cancer at some point. The one in three figure has been used by cancer experts, campaigners and ministers for a decade. It is based on the fact that research into every death in the UK in 1999 showed that 220,000 people — some 35% of the 630,000 total deaths — had previously been found to have the disease.Read more »
Ron Paul Op Ed in The Hill: Competing Currencies a Defense Against Profligate Spending
By Rep. Ron Paul | The Hill 07/11/11 The end of June marked what is hopefully the end of the Federal Reserve's policy of quantitative easing. For months the Fed has purchased hundreds of billions of dollars of Treasury debt, enabling the government to... Read more »
Frightening ‘Super Gonorrhea’ Strain Emerges
It has been found in Japan, the country from which new strains have typically originated in the past. (Due to their love hotels?) It could go global in a decade, writes Reuters:
Read more »Scientists have found a “superbug” strain of gonorrhea in that is resistant to all antibiotics and say it could transform a once easily treatable infection into a global public health threat.
The new strain of the sexually transmitted disease — called H041 — cannot be killed by any currently recommended treatments for gonorrhea, leaving doctors with no other option than to try medicines so far untested against the disease.
Magnus Unemo of the Swedish Reference Laboratory for Pathogenic Neisseria, who discovered the strain with colleagues from Japan in samples from Kyoto, described it as both “alarming” and “predictable.”
In a telephone interview Unemo said the fact that the strain had been found first in Japan also followed an alarming pattern — “Japan…
The Alex Jones Show Hour 1: The Government Tax Takeover 2/4
The Alex Jones Show Hour 1: The Government Tax Takeover 2/4 IMFs Global Taxes Can Only Be Enforced Through Global Government Steve Watson www.prisonplanet.com www.infowars.com Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 As you will have no doubt read in the headline... Read more »
Ernest Hemingway’s Final Days and the FBI
Hemingway biographer A. E. Hotchner’s article in the New York Times details the rapid decline of Ernest Hemingway during his final years. Institutionalization, self-doubt and paranoia came to a head on July 1, 1961 when the author took his own life.
Hemingway’s depression and instability has been well-documented, but what is interesting is that the FBI’s monitoring of his phones, correspondence and activities contributed to his sense of fear and paranoia.
This could be the rare case of someone who’s paranoia about “being watched” is actually due to the fact that he/she is actually being monitored. A. E. Hotchner writes:
Read more »EARLY one morning, [on July 1st], while his wife, Mary, slept upstairs, Ernest Hemingway went into the vestibule of his Ketchum, Idaho, house, selected his favorite shotgun from the rack, inserted shells into its chambers and ended his life.
There were many differing explanations at the time: that he had terminal cancer or money problems, that…
Ron Paul’s Solution to the Debt Ceiling Impasse
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/91224/ron-paul-debt-ceil... Representative Ron Paul has hit upon a remarkably creative way to deal with the impasse over the debt ceiling: have the Federal Reserve Board destroy the $1.6 trillion in government bonds ... Read more »
Wikileaks’ Mastercard Parody
Wikileaks is suffering under a banking blockade from companies such as MasterCard and PayPal:
Censorship, like everything else in the West, has been privatized. For six months, five major US financial institutions, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, Western Union and the Bank of America have tried to economically strangle WikiLeaks as a result of political pressure from Washington. The attack has blocked over 90% of donations, costing some $15M in lost revenue. The attack is entirely outside of any due process or rule of law. In fact, in the only formal review to occur, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner found, on January 12, that there were no lawful grounds to add WikiLeaks to a financial blockade.Read more »
