By Sam bot on October 22, 2015
airstrikes, approval ratings, putin, russia, syria, syrian conflict, vladimir putin
Asia, Europe, Politics, Stories, Stories

VIA NBC News by Alexey Eremenko Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating has reached nearly 90 percent largely thanks to his military moves in Syria, according to a new nationwide poll published Thursday. <img class=”img-responsive img_inline” src=”http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2015_43/1271656/151022-russia-vladimir-putin-749a_3a0f1dd12b2c2ec48c046b98453009a8.nbcnews-fp-360-360.jpg” alt=”Image: Russian President Vladimir Putin” title=”Image: Russian President Vladimir Putin” itemprop=”image”/& Russian President Vladimir Putin PAVEL GOLOVKIN / Pool […]
By Sam bot on April 8, 2015
ancient, anomaly, china, discovery, time
Asia, Science, Stories, Stories

VIA The Mind Unleashed By: Tara MacIsaac, Epoch Times Oopart (out of place artifact) is a term applied to dozens of prehistoric objects found in various places around the world that seem to show a level of technological advancement incongruous with the times in which they were made. Ooparts often frustrate conventional scientists, delight adventurous investigators open […]
By Sam bot on April 7, 2015
afghanistan, endangered, endangered species, heroes, illegal, poaching, veterans
Global, Stories, U.S., Videos

VIA “higherperspectives.com” Higher Perspectives Kinessa Johnson is a former Army veteran who spent 4 years of her life in Afghanistan. She just recently made a trip to Africa in order to take on a new mission. Here’s how she described her new endeavor: “We’re going over there to do some anti-poaching, kill some bad guys, […]
By Sam bot on April 4, 2015
britain, clean water, england, london, natural, plants, pool, uk
Environment, Europe, Science, Stories, Stories

VIA “trueactivist.com” by Amanda Froelich True Activist The first-of-its-kind natural pool will use plants instead of chemicals to keep its water clean, exampling the best kind of balance which is possible between nature and urban environments. When innovative minds collaborate, anything is possible. And this chemical-free outdoor pool – the first in the UK – is a […]
By Sam bot on April 4, 2015
eco-friendly, environment, modernization, sustainability, tristan island
Europe, Stories

VIA “thespiritscience.net” by Jordan Spirit Science There’s a small island in the middle of the atlantic ocean, completely desolate from everything except for lots of water. The Island, named Tristan da Cunha, was first inhabited back in the 1810′s as an outpost by the British to stop a potential escape by Napolean. When that didn’t […]
By Sam bot on April 4, 2015
bank loans, banking, debt, economy, iceland, indentured
Economy, Europe, Politics, Stories, Stories, Stories, Videos, Videos, Videos

VIA “wakingtimes.com” by Waking Times Staff Writer Alex Pietrowski The tiny Nordic European island country of Iceland is presently experiencing one of the greatest economic comebacks of all time. After the privatization of the banking sector completed in 200o, the economy was thrown into a tailspin when over a five year period, private bankers borrowed […]
By Sam bot on April 4, 2015
environment, environment first, environmentally friendly, france, green, solar power
Environment, Europe, Stories

VIA “collective-evolution.com” by Alanna Ketler Collective Evolution A new law recently passed in France mandates that all new buildings that are built in commercial zones in France must be partially covered in either plants or solar panels. Green roofs, as they are called, have an isolating effect which helps to reduce the amount of energy needed […]
By Sam bot on March 26, 2015
animal-lovers, animals, fukushima, nature, nature-lovers
Asia, Inspiration, Stories, Stories

VIA “the-open-mind.com” by Jade Small The Open Mind Known as “the last man from Fukushima“, 55-year-old Matsumura is the only person still living in the exclusion zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which suffered a meltdown after the major earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011. He lives in the small […]
By Sam bot on February 16, 2015
denmark, ideology, ISIS, radical, shooting
Europe, Politics, Stories, Stories

VIA “Bloomberg.com” by Frances Schwartzkopff (Bloomberg) — Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said the gunman who attacked a free-speech event and a synagogue in Copenhagen over the weekend probably wasn’t part of an organized cell. “There’s no indication” of that, she said at a press conference on Monday, at which she identified as a Danish […]
By Sam bot on February 13, 2015
artillery, economy, hostility, independence, military, putin, russia, struggle, ukraine
Europe, Global, Politics, Stories, Stories

VIA “nytimes.com” by Andrew Higgins BRUSSELS — His country’s oil export revenues and currency have slumped. Its economy is shrinking, and some of his own allies in Moscow have questioned where he is leading them. Yet when President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia sat down Wednesday in the Belarussian capital of Minsk with the leaders […]