All Entries in the "World" Category
Sea Life Facing Extinction Faster than Previously Thought
Ocean Life and Humanity in Danger of Extinction A panel of scientists have released findings that the oceans are more traumatized than what was previously thought. There appears to a clock ticking on ocean life and within one human generation, humanity could start to see the beginnings of the end of the life on Earth. [...]
Blackbeard’s Gold
Most everyone who has ever heard anything about pirates knows the name Blackbeard and that he is the fiercest pirate to ever live, and that we even know where his ship is. Massive recovery efforts were recently announced in an attempt to raise the wreckage of the Queen Anne, Blackbeard’s flagship. Friday the largest piece of [...]
Farmville Online Agriculture Degrees and a Free Tractor
Farmville Can the time you spend on Farmville be applied to online agriculture degrees? No, absolutely not, but for some players of Farmville, their interest in farming as a diversion can easily be transferred to an actual degree by selecting any of the online agriculture degrees that are now available; free tractor not included. Free [...]
Doomsayers Get What They Want
Doomsayers, get what they want. Some historical predictors of the end of the world have bilked people out of money, had them join them in suicide, but not every doomsayer is ultimately evil. Some of those that preach or warn of the impending destruction of the world get an interesting little piece in history. It’s [...]
Stating the Case of Israel in a World Forum
It is hard to believe that the President that brought down OBL could possibly make such a glaring faux pas regarding Israeli policy regarding its own national borders. It happened though and the result, only a few days before the question goes to the UN, is that Prime Minister Netanyahu was given a forum to [...]
A World War Against Disease
In your time, right now, fewer than ten million children died because of improvements made to their lives in part to the work that the World Health Organization is doing to open access for immunizations. Right now, Polio is very near the brink of being eradicated with Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and Nigeria being the four [...]
Immigration Issues Addressed by President Obama
President Obama visited El Paso, Texas today to speak about immigration laws and the path he would like to go towards with the country. There are no plans for the President to introduce any new legislation regarding immigration. The president has argued that a bipartisan effort is required to make any real changes with current [...]
Poverty, Hunger, Farmville, Feed the Hungry and the Wrong Kind of Hybrid
“I like to look at the headlines, but I like to keep my eye on the trend lines.” HRC, U.S. Secretary of State Two years ago in Italy, nations of the world came together and agreed to end world hunger and poverty. A fairly lofty endeavor and in comments made today at the Food [...]
Why So Many Pictures of OBL?
One might think that it is propaganda week for Al-Qaeda with all of the smiling images of their felled leader plastered across the interwebs. Then the call for gruesome kill shot photos of OBL were denied by the White House. Good move or bad move, time will tell, but morbid curiosity can always be satisfied [...]
Good Day America, Vanquishing a Shadow
It has been a decade of an open wound. The wound has healed enough to keep trudging on, but Osama Bin Laden’s evasion of the US Military has left a mark upon the way that each American has lived their lives. It may not have been felt while you made breakfast or drove to work, [...]