When Jonathan Watts was a child, he was warned: “If everyone in China jumps at exactly the same time, it will shake the earth off its axis and kill us all.” Three decades later, he stood in the gray sickly smog of Beijing, wheezing and hacking uncontrollably after a short run, and thought: The Chinese jump has begun. He had traveled 100,000 miles crisscrossing China, from Tibet to the deserts of Inner Mongolia, and everywhere he went, he discovered that the Chinese state had embarked on a massive program of ecological destruction. It has turned whole rivers poisonous to the touch, rendered entire areas cancer-ridden, transformed a fertile area almost twice the size of Britain into desert—and perhaps even triggered the worst earthquake in living memory. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/141658076X/
So you like to play in the dirt?
How’s this for an excavator? http://www.youtube.com/v/9JYZ7K5y86k?fs=1&hl=en_US Digs the equivalent of 40,000 men with shovels.
Researcher Cracks WPA-PSK in 20 Minutes with Amazon Cloud; Cost Him $1.68
A security researcher has tapped Amazon’s cloud computing service to crack Wi-Fi passwords in a fraction of the time and for a fraction of the cost of using his own gear. http://cryptogon.com/?p=19843
US Government to Europe: Give This to Your People Or There Will be "Some Pain"
Monsanto has a long and sordid history of manipulation and questionable business practices. Fred Branfman, writing for AlterNet sums it up when he says that the most terrifying revelation of Wikileaks is just how much our government lies to us, referring to our government and military as a “vast lying machine that perpetuates mass murder in our name.” http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/01/12/wikileaks-reveals-us-sought-to-retaliate-against-europe-over-monsanto-gm-crops.aspx
Why 1/3 of the Population Gets Sick by Restricting This Vital Food Group
Vegetarian versus meat-eating comparison: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/01/08/chris-masterjohn-criticism-of-the-china-study.aspx
Genetically Modified Soy Beans Cause Reproductive Abnormalities
Something in the GM Soy Diet Was ‘Wrecking the Ovary and Endometrium’ of the Rats http://cryptogon.com/?p=17939
IBM tops frenzied US patent game
More in 2010 than in first 50 years of Big Blue. Utility patents in the US were granted at a frenzied pace in 2010, with the US Patent and Trademark Office granting 219,614 and smashing last year’s total by 30 percent. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/243983,ibm-tops-frenzied-us-patent-game.aspx
A Quote
Completely contradictory to everything healthy, but a good chuckle nevertheless. “Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.” Erma Bombeck
New Evidence Identifies Strong Cell Phone Cancer Link
A research group has reported a sharp increase in the incidence of parotid gland tumors over the last 30 years, with the steepest increase happening after 2001.
Many cell phones actually contain package inserts that warn you to hold the cell phone away from your head when in use. Apple recommends keeping your iPhone at least 5/8 of an inch from your head, while BlackBerry recommends about an inch. http://emf.mercola.com/sites/emf/archive/2011/01/05/new-evidence-identifies-strong-cell-phone-cancer-link.aspx
Declassified NZ Defence Force Reports Reveal Chemtrail Linked To Outbreak Of Illnesses
Among a recently-released assortment of declassified reports of sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) from New Zealand, dating from 1952-2009, were letters written in 1999 and 2000 by a concerned citizen, who predicted that an outbreak of illnesses would occur after an “aircraft contrail,” otherwise known as a ‘chemtrail’, was seen over a populated area. http://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/declassified-nz-defence-force-reports-reveal-a-chemtrail-was-linked-to-outbreak-of-illnesses/#more-5097