Rupert Murdoch wants you (and your money)

“People are used to reading everything on the net for free, and that’s going to have to change”, Rupert Murdoch said last week.
You mean we pay for internet access, have to scroll through the billions of adverts you cleverly place inbetween paragraphs (and make millions off), and you want us to pay you for the [...]

Know your Enemy – Church of Scientology

Fact.
The Cult Awareness Network was bought out by the Church of Scientology.
For years, the Cult Awareness Network was the Church of Scientology’s biggest enemy. But the late L. Ron Hubbard’s L.A.-based religion cured that — by taking it over
http://www.rickross.com/reference/newcan/newcan15.html

Internet Evolution – “The Machine”

www, world wide web, web, internet, net, web 2.0, (web 3.0??)….. “The Machine”
Paradigm Shifts
Evolution of information is going to play a significant role in the future of the human race. With massive technology advances, and high demand for better, faster, stronger everything, the role the (currently known as) internet will play is huge. Web 2.0 [...]

Know Your Enemy – The Creation Museum

The Creation Museum is a creationist museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, designed to promote young Earth creationism. The museum presents an account of the origins of the universe, life, mankind, and man’s early history according to a literal reading of the book of Genesis.
As they are not too interested in providing facts, i thought i would [...]

Porn + Sex + Celebs = your local news

In todays “hit driven” e-commerce, it’s no suprise that certain “key words” are plugged as much as possible to spark peoples interest… despite not really being news worthy at all. It’s quite a sad state of affairs, but i guess all we can do is boycott as many of these news/gossip sites run my mega-rich [...]

Kremlin to Pitch New Currency at G20

Russia has proposed a number of measures to conquer the current financial and economic crisis and to rebuild the world financial system in its aftermath.
These proposals have been sent to the leaders of the G20 countries, the Commonwealth of Independent States and various international organisations.
The Kremlin published its priorities Monday for an upcoming meeting of [...]

Amazing “Wee Planets” Photography by Alexandre Duret-Lutz

Alexandre Duret-Lutz’s amazing collection of very creative pictures.
“Shooting these wee planets is currently just a hobby, but as these have gained a lot of interest in the recent months I’m being contacted by people willing to use them in communication and advertising,” he said / Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Homepage of Alexandre Duret-Lutz

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via news.com.au

See what 1 Trillion Dollars looks like!

The term “billion” is thrown around the media these days like it’s nearly worthless, it’s hard to get your head around what that is in real terms. Simple answer is more than you’ll ever see in your life time, however this guy has used Google Sketchup for us lay-men to visualize just how much real [...]

Humanitarian Disaster 2009

Catastrophic Fall in 2009 Global Food Production, an article by Eric deCarbonnel, outlines some very serious problems we will be facing in the near future.
After reading about the droughts in two major agricultural countries, China and Argentina, I decided to research the extent other food producing nations were also experiencing droughts. This project ended up [...]