Day: February 17, 2014

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How We Can Use Social Media to Build a Better World

Fernando Kaskais

By Mary Elizabeth Williams We’ve been given some fantastic tools to help decide what stories get told, so we should use them to promote social justice. Who do you see represented in the world? Who gets written about? Whose stories get told? You satisfied with that? Or do you want to see something different? Then let’s start by telling different stories ourselves. Earlier this month, Anil Dash wrote a compelling piece for Medium in which he revealed that a little over a year ago, he’d done some social network soul searching and was surprised at what he learned. “I followed … Continue reading How We Can Use Social Media to Build a Better World

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Caracas Says that Media War Has been Launched Against Venezuela

Fernando Kaskais

The Venezuelan Government is going to act through legal channels before the media manipulation against the country, on the context of rightist violent actions carried out nationwide, informed Communication and Information minister Delcy Rodriguez. “We will not allow these kind of manipulation,” said the Minister during a press conference last Sunday evening at Miraflores Presidential Palace, Caracas. Condemning the harassment and attacks of fascist groups against public media outlets, minister Rodriguez showed a series of manipulated pictures spread by national and international media as Spain’s ABC, Chile’s El Mercurio, Tal Cual and El Nacional. In this connection, Rodriguez remarked that … Continue reading Caracas Says that Media War Has been Launched Against Venezuela

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Young Europeans are massacring Christians in Syria: Who is funding and sanctioning this bloody mayhem?

Fernando Kaskais

by Andrew E. Harrod German citizens have participated in the bloody expulsion of Christian villages in Syria, according to the German news magazine Focus. The incident is part of a larger problem involving German and other citizens from Western countries joining jihadist groups in Syria’s brutal, multiparty civil war, raising Muslim terrorism concerns in Syria and beyond. A radical Muslim militia conducted an “ethnic cleansing” of Syrian Christian villagers near the border with Turkey on Aug. 6. According to the Focus report, two unnamed Western intelligence services identified German Muslim converts and other Germans with an “immigration background” as militia … Continue reading Young Europeans are massacring Christians in Syria: Who is funding and sanctioning this bloody mayhem?

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Scientists Warn Against Mass Industrialization of Deep Sea

Fernando Kaskais

Scientists call for international stewardship of deep ocean ecosystems in face of mining operations – by Lauren McCauley Deep sea ecosystems are under threat of mass industrialization, warned a panel of scientists on Sunday. Speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago, the scientists warned that without international cooperation with a focus on “deep-ocean stewardship,” deep sea mining will follow the destructive examples set by commercial fishing and offshore fossil fuel operations. Vast tracts of deep seabed are already being leased by commercial mining operations, said panelist Professor Lisa Levin, who heads the Center for … Continue reading Scientists Warn Against Mass Industrialization of Deep Sea

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Miranda Barbour: Craigslist killer claims ‘I’ve killed 22 more as part of Satanic cult’

Fernando Kaskais

In a newspaper interview from jail, Barbour said her first experience of murder came at age 13 shortly after she joined an Satanic cult in Alaska Tomas Jivanda Sunday 16 February 2014 A woman charged with the murder of a man she and her husband lured to a meeting point after meeting him on Craigslist, has admitted to the murder and claimed she has killed over 20 other people. Miranda Barbour, 19, of Pennsylvania said she killed at least 22 others across the US as part of her involvement in a Satanic cult. Speaking to Pennsylvania’s Daily Item newspaper from … Continue reading Miranda Barbour: Craigslist killer claims ‘I’ve killed 22 more as part of Satanic cult’

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More and More Americans Think Astrology Is Science

Fernando Kaskais

By Chris Mooney “I believe in a lot of astrology.” So commented pop megastar Katy Perry in a recent GQ interview. She also said she sees everything through a “spiritual lens”…and that she believes in aliens. According to data from the National Science Foundation’s just-released 2014 Science and Engineering Indicators study, Americans are moving in Perry’s direction. In particular, the NSF reports that the percentage of Americans who think astrology is “not at all scientific” declined from 62 percent in 2010 to just 55 percent in 2012 (the last year for which data is available). As a result, NSF reports … Continue reading More and More Americans Think Astrology Is Science

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Loneliness twice as unhealthy as obesity for older people, study finds

Fernando Kaskais

Scientists found that the loneliest were nearly twice as likely to die during their six-year study than the least lonely. The findings point to a pending crisis in the UK as the population ages and people increasingly live alone or far from their families. Ian Sample in Chicago Loneliness can be twice as unhealthy as obesity, according to researchers who found that feelings of isolation can have a devastating impact on older people. The scientists tracked more than 2,000 people aged 50 and over and found that the loneliest were nearly twice as likely to die during the six-year study … Continue reading Loneliness twice as unhealthy as obesity for older people, study finds

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Foreigners Bought Half Of All London Homes Selling For Over £1 Million

Fernando Kaskais

by Tyler Durden Actually, according to the first detailed estimate of international purchase activity in London by Knight Frank, the percentage of all central London homes that sold for more than 1 million pounds to foreigners in the 12 months through June 2013, was 49% to be exact. And as we showed yesterday when we put China’s loan creation in the context of US and Japanese QE, keeping in mind the use of proceeds of all this newly created inside money has to ultimately go somewhere – that somewhere in this case being London and other global luxury real estate, … Continue reading Foreigners Bought Half Of All London Homes Selling For Over £1 Million

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The Credit Card Gravy Train

Fernando Kaskais

by Soren Dreier The credit card business is now the banking industry’s biggest cash cow, and it’s largely due to lucrative hidden fees. You pay off your credit card balance every month, thinking you are taking advantage of the “interest-free grace period” and getting free credit. You may even use your credit card when you could have used cash, just to get the free frequent flier or cash-back rewards. But those popular features are misleading. Even when the balance is paid on time every month, credit card use imposes a huge hidden cost on users—hidden because the cost is deducted … Continue reading The Credit Card Gravy Train

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The Sixth Extinction: Earth is on the brink of another massive loss of animal species but this time the calamity isn’t an asteroid or ice age…

Fernando Kaskais

Earth is on the brink of a sixth mass extinction – and this time the calamity isn’t an asteroid or a cold snap Brad Plumer There have been five mass extinction events in Earth’s history. In the worst, 250 million years ago, 96 per cent of marine species and 70 per cent of land species died off. It took millions of years to recover. Nowadays, many scientists are predicting that we’re on pace for a sixth mass extinction. The world’s species are already vanishing at an unnaturally rapid rate. And humans are altering the Earth’s landscape in far-reaching ways: we’ve … Continue reading The Sixth Extinction: Earth is on the brink of another massive loss of animal species but this time the calamity isn’t an asteroid or ice age…