http://wordpress.org/news/2012/01/help-stop-sopa-pipa/ You may have heard people talking/blogging/twittering about SOPA — the Stop Online Piracy Act. The recent SOPA-related boycott of GoDaddy was all over the news, with many people expressing their outrage over the possibilities of SOPA, but when I ask people about SOPA and its sister bill in the Senate, PIPA (Protect IP Act), [...]
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The Australian and Swedish governments show themselves to be poodles of the American establishment, Australia by besmerching a citizen who hasn’t yet been charged with any related crime, and Sweden by resurrecting a once-dropped legal case surrounding unprotected consensual sex. Wikileaks acted as a distributor of information they have been supplied with, and following true journalistic [...]
This clip from the Australian ‘Catalyst’ programme shows two applications of compressed air technology being used to power vehicles. Possibly the ideal method for urban driving at least:
A different perspective on some facts and figures relating to BP’s recent fire/oil-spill and similar events that weren’t BP related: 11: The number of people killed in accident on oil-rig leased by BP. 15,000+: The number of people killed in accident at Bhopal plant owned by American company Union Carbide. 4: The number of presidential [...]
This time Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert talk about the walking zombies of the world’s largest economies.
Afghanistan now exports not opium, but heroin. Opium is being converted into heroin on an industrial scale, not in huts and houses but in factories. The chemicals needed for this process are shipped into Afghanistan by tanker. The tankers and bulk opium lorries on the way to the factories share the roads (improved by international aid) [...]
This video and similar articles on the web cover some of the concerns expressed about the dispersant Corexit, including: Corexit is a solvent primarily used as a dispersant for breaking up oil slicks. It is produced by Nalco Holding Company which is associated with various major oil companies. Corexit 9500, four times more toxic than crude oil, [...]
A report on Bloomberg indicates that the housing and debt crisis in the U.S. is far from over, as instances of so-called ‘Buy and Bail’ are on the increase. Buy and Bail consists of acquiring a new house before the buyer’s credit rating is ruined by walking away an existing mortgage loan because it is “underwater” [...]
