Corruption Is Responsible for 80% of Your Cell Phone Bill
Matt Stoller Alternet In the case of Big Telecommunications, buying politicians pays off handsomely by killing the competition. Last year, a new company called Lightsquared promised an innovative business model that would dramatically lower cell phone costs and improve the quality of service, threatening the incumbent phone operators like AT&T and Verizon. Lightsquared used a [...]
Read More →Pop Culture’s 100-year Obsession With Eugenics
By Charlie Jane Anders and Gordon Jackson io9 Everybody knows Khan Noonien Singh. He’s one of the most famous Star Trekcharacters who isn’t a starship crewmember. But he’s also the poster boy for eugenics, the notion that you can improve the human race by rewriting our genes. For the past century, pop culture has told [...]
Read More →British man ‘fathered 600 children’ at own fertility clinic
Rebecca Smith The Telegraph A British man may have fathered 600 children by repeatedly using his own sperm in a fertility clinic he ran, it has emerged. Bertold Wiesner and his wife Mary Barton founded a fertility clinic in London in the 1940s and helped women conceive 1,500 babies. It was thought that the [...]
Read More →Homeless Americans on the rise
Lisa Karpova Pravda.ru Millions of Americans may lose homes for debt Millions of Americans are at risk of losing their homes due to mortgage debt. The finding is by a group of experts from the International Monetary Fund, haning prepared an analytical report on the prospects of the global economy. “About 2.5 million owners of apartments [...]
Read More →Dinosaur Eggs Discovered in Chechnya
RiaN Participants of a geographic expedition in Russia’s North Caucasus Chechen Republic have uncovered a batch of alleged dinosaur egg fossils, the Vesti Respubliki online daily said on Friday. “We were exploring the site [a pristine area in Chechnya’s Sharoyski District], when one of us stumbled upon regular-shaped spheres lying on the nearby rocks. Proceeding [...]
Read More →European airlines cancel tickets of pro-Palestinian ‘flytilla’ activists
Haaretz Dozens of pro-Palestinian activists were prevented from boarding Israel-bound flights on Friday, due to the fact that their names appeared on a blacklist distributed by the Israeli government to a number of European airlines. The activists were on their way to participate in a fly-in protest against Israeli construction in West Bank settlements, scheduled [...]
Read More →North Korea may conduct third nuclear test to save face after failed Uhna-3 rocket fiasco
ANI North Korea may conduct its third nuclear weapon test to restore its honour, after the failed launch of an Uhna-3 rocket, analysts have claimed. According to reports, satellite imagery recorded by analysts showing what looks like preparations similar to the communist regime’s previous patterns of behavior with missile tests followed by bomb tests, suggest [...]
Read More →Astronomer finds planetary system larger than our own
DNA An astronomer has found evidence that points to a planetary system larger than our own solar system, around the star named HD 10180. Originally reported in 2010 to be orbited by seven planets, re-analysed data from the HARPS (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher) now indicates that the star has nine planets. Mikko Tuomi, [...]
Read More →Sarkozy lied about visiting Fukushima
SiFy News French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday admitted he did not visit Fukushima during a trip to Japan after the tsunami last March, but had told an election rally he had visited the stricken nuclear plant. Election rival Francois Hollande questioned Sarkozy’s claim that he had been to the nuclear plant, BBC reported. Sarkozy [...]
Read More →Iceland forgives mortgage debt of its population (Video)
TelesurTV The government of Iceland has forgiven the mortgage debt for much of its population. This nation chose a very different way of stopping the crisis from the rest of European countries. It decided to hear the requests of the population and to put politicians and bankers on the bench of the accused three years [...]
Read More →Video of Boy Shocked 31 Times For Not Removing Coat Finally Released
Heather Callaghan Activist Post “I never signed up for him to be tortured, terrorized and abused,” Cheryl McCollins told a jury on Tuesday. “I had no idea, no idea, that they tortured the children in the school.” In February, we reported Ms. McCollins’ plight and her calling for the public viewing of startling footage of [...]
Read More →27 Statistics About The European Economic Crisis That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
The Economic Collapse The economic crisis in Europe continues to get worse and eventually it is going to unravel into a complete economic nightmare. All over Europe, national governments have piled up debts that are completely unsustainable. But whenever they start significantly cutting government spending it results in an economic slowdown. So politicians in Europe [...]
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