Archive for November, 2014
Penalty For Uninsured Not Signing Up For Obamacare To More Than Triple
November 12th, 2014Via: CBS: Americans will see their bank accounts shrink if they don’t sign up for Obamacare in its second enrollment season. Uninsured Americans who decide not to enroll will face a penalty of $325 per person, more than tripling the $95 penalty those who did not enroll had to pay the first time around. Children […]
You Don’t Know Shit
November 12th, 2014Vis: Vice: Every day, America must find a place to park 5 billion gallons of human waste, and we’re increasingly unable to find the space. We wake up in the morning, brush our teeth, and flush the toilet, thinking that the waste water disappears into the center of the Earth. If only that were the […]
ESA Lands Science Probe on Comet
November 12th, 2014#CometLanding Via: European Space Agency, Rosetta Mission / Twitter: TOUCHDOWN for @Philae2014! #CometLanding pic.twitter.com/ZMBeB8ng3h — ESA Rosetta Mission (@ESA_Rosetta) November 12, 2014 More: Philae Touches Down On The Surface Of A Comet
Indian Women Die After State-Run Mass Sterilisation Campaign Goes Wrong
November 12th, 2014Via: Guardian: Eleven women have died in India and dozens more are in hospital, with 20 listed as critically ill, after a state-run mass sterilisation campaign went horribly wrong. More than 80 women underwent surgery for laparoscopic tubectomies at a free government-run camp in the central state of Chhattisgarh on Saturday. Of these about 60 […]
How the CIA Brought Animal Farm to the Screen
November 12th, 2014Via: Telegraph: The film version of Animal Farm was released to acclaim 60 years ago. There was a gala launch at the United Nations in New York and the film was praised by national newspapers. “The British out-Disney Disney” was one headline. George Orwell’s novella remains a set book on school curriculums, and his satire […]
“An Autonomous Weapons Arms Race” Is Underway
November 11th, 2014Via: New York Times: On a bright fall day last year off the coast of Southern California, an Air Force B-1 bomber launched an experimental missile that may herald the future of warfare. Initially, pilots aboard the plane directed the missile, but halfway to its destination it severed communication with its operators. Alone, without human […]
SpaceX Working on Micro-Satellites for Internet Access
November 11th, 2014Via: PCWorld: SpaceX is working on a network of micro-satellites that will be used to provide Internet access, according to the company’s founder and CEO Elon Musk. “SpaceX is still in the early stages of developing advanced micro-satellites operating in large formations,” Musk wrote in a message on Twitter on Monday. “Announcement in 2 to […]
Luxury Doomsday Condos All Sold
November 11th, 2014Dog park? Dog park. Via: Wall Street Journal: Mr. Hall, who lives in a Denver suburb, bought his first missile-silo site in Kansas in 2008 and completed construction in December 2012. A year later, he says, the development had sold out. Work on the second security compound—the one where Mr. Allen bought a unit—is under […]
Israel Has Officially Banned Fluoridation of Its Drinking Water
November 10th, 2014Via: Newsweek: On Tuesday of this week (Aug. 26), Israel officially stopped adding fluoride to its water supplies. The decision has “been lauded by various rights groups, but criticized by many in the medical and dental communities as a serious mistake,” as the Times of Israel put it. The tasteless, colorless chemical is put into […]
Kenya: Catholic Doctors Claim WHO/UNICEF Tetanus Vaccine Is Part of a Population Reduction Program
November 10th, 2014Let’s ask the medical doctors out there: Is there a nothing-to-see-here explanation for five doses of “tetanus” vaccine containing Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG)? Via: Matercare International: “Let me authoritatively clarify the concerns raised by the Catholic Bishops on the just concluded tetanus vaccination by sharing extracts from the official position of the Kenya Catholic Doctors […]
