VIA Daily Mail by Josh Gardner Many of the companies named in a report out April 9 from the Citizens for Tax Justice even received federal tax REBATES The companies include household names such as CBS, Mattel, Prudential and Time Warner At least 15 Fortune 500 companies, many of them worth north of a $1 billion, […]
This is the story of the people of Bougainville Island, a community in the Solomon Islands that successfully led a fight against attempts to setup a mining operation on their Island, which would have done irreparable damage to the local ecosystem. Directed by Dom Rotheroe, The Coconut Revolution shares the otherwise untold story of the successes […]
VIA Powerful Primates by Jesse Herman As a species the rhino is at least 50 million years old, but if something is not done to curb the appetite for its horn, it may not last the century. The poaching trade in both rhino horn and ivory has moved to a new level and now operates in […]
VIA The Guardian New measurements from the Gale crater contradict theories that the planet is too cold for liquid water to exist, but Mars still considered hostile to life The Curiosity rover is currently ascending Mount Sharp, in the centre of the Gale crater. Illustration: Stocktrek Images, Inc./Alamy Hannah Devlin, science correspondent @hannahdev Monday 13 […]
VIA Unofficial Networks In case you missed it, almost every Republican Senator just voted to sell our public lands — including National Forests, wildlife refuges and wilderness areas — to the highest bidder. This is just downright wrong. As Ronald Reagan once said, “The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive […]
Dada Gunamuktananda’s TEDx talk on the importance of consciousness as it relates to the betterment of the human being and our surroundings.
VIA Real Clear Politics by Michael Golden With tax day looming, Americans are once again questioning if they are getting their money’s worth from the most unpopular branch of government: the U.S. Congress. For most, the answer is no. It cost $4 billion last year to operate an institution that managed to spend another $3.5 trillion […]
VIA Pulptastic Just when we thought math teachers couldn’t possibly get any cooler than this guy, THEY JUST DID. You have got to love pranks! In the spirit of April Fool’s Day, Professor Matthew Weathers of Biola University decided to play a little trick on his unsuspecting students. Tumblr It started with a seemingly innocent trigonometry […]
Pictured above: The 30mm ammunition used by the Apache helicopter in the video, an attack helicopter commonly used in modern war. VIA Collective-Evolution by Arjun Walia Below is a very disturbing and well-known Wikileaks video exposing what happened (and is still happening) in the Middle East on a daily basis. It’s called “Collateral Murder,” and the […]
VIA Higher Perspectives In 2003, Tansy Aspinall and her father, Damian Aspinall, released the two beloved gorillas which they had raised, Djalta and Bimms, back into the wild. They haven’t seen them for the past 12 years, so they decided to travel around the global to visit them again. The video below captures the incredible moment […]
