Working As A Light During this Massive Tragedy

“The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.”   ~B.C. Forbes~         NYU Hospital Evacuation: Nurses Manually 'Breathed' For [...]

Monsanto's Destruction Continues on...

    We already know the links between herbicides and sterility in men, birth defects, mental illness, obesity and possibly cancer—but now we have something new to add to the nasty effects of pesticides list — Parkinson’s disease and similar neurodegenerative conditions. New research, published in the journal Neurotoxicology [...]

Afghanistan Sees Rise in ‘Dancing boys’ Exploitation

“Like it or not, there was better rule of law under the Taliban,” said Dee Brillenburg Wurth, a child-protection expert at the U.N. mission in Afghanistan, who has sought to persuade the government to address the problem. “They saw it as a sin, and they stopped a lot of it.”   DEHRAZI, Afghanistan — The 9-year-old boy with [...]

"You Know You're A Bad Person If? You Shoot a Little Girl in the Face."

“I don’t care what their justification is. You can be certain an ideology is wrong when the perpetrators of the crime try to justify the attempted murder of a little girl. The fact of the matter is these sick people do not see what they did as wrong. In fact they believe they did the will of Allah… I’m sure I’ll be accused of being intolerant [...]

"Every day an Afghan Girl is Abused, Raped, has Acid Thrown on Her Face and Mutilated"

"Every day an Afghan girl is abused, raped, has acid thrown on her face and mutilated. Yet no one remembers or acknowledges these girls,"  ~Elay Ershad, who represents the nomadic Kuchi people in Afghan parliament, told Reuters.~     KABUL (Reuters) - The global attention bestowed on a Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the [...]

"Most Unproductive & Unpopular Congress In Modern History"

"Coburn's report estimates $132 million of taxpayers' money was wasted on "the most unproductive and unpopular Congress in modern history… The waste is unbelievable," says Coburn. "We're bankrupt, this country is bankrupt, and people just don't want to admit it." http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/wasteful-spending-tax-dollars-martian-menus-non-profit-105911755.html [...]

U.S. Is Still Pursuing the Same Old Self-Destructive Habits.

“The U.S. is still pursuing the same old self-destructive habits. Until we stop consuming so much and start producing more, we're in no position to demand anything.” ~Barry P. Bosworth “The truth hurts sometimes, but pretending everything is okay and looking the other way is insane.” ~Consul Nicholas Moore Who Owns America’s [...]

Another Tragedy...Change Will Never Be Soon Enough in This World.

“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have a real conversation with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.”                                                                                                                                                     ~Thomas Moore~                                              [...]

Trouble On The Horizon, An Outbreak

Company linked to meningitis scare besieged as deaths rise By Greg McCune CHICAGO (Reuters) - The company that produced contaminated medications linked to an unprecedented fungal meningitis outbreak faced mounting scrutiny on Saturday over whether it illegally sold drugs to medical facilities, as the death toll from the disease grew to 15. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said another [...]

The Truth Is Not That Complicated

The truth is the distractions in our nation and the excessive use of these, hinders progress, and leaves many in a kind of drunken state of mind. We’re being misdirected by too much T.V; (the crap reality shows comes to mind where we watch and mock people), excessive partying, recent novels; (which are popular yet sloppily written), [...]

Science & Religion; The Epic Battle.

Those who call themselves creationists will never earn the respect of the hypocritical mainstream scientists, and vise versa, as long as both sides claim to be certain they're way is the right way. We need more scientists, (not creationists), who will simply state the facts as they are, without embellishing, and then leave the reader to [...]

Malala Yousafzai: Pakistan bullet surgery 'successful'

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”                                                                                                                         [...]

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UK, Japan scientists win Nobel for adult stem cell discovery

By Anna Ringstrom STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scientists from Britain and Japan shared a Nobel Prize on Monday for the discovery that adult cells can be transformed back into embryo-like stem cells that may one day regrow tissue in damaged brains, hearts or other organs. John Gurdon, 79, of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, Britain and Shinya [...]

Eating Meat Made Us Smarter; Made Us Human

Fragments of a 1.5-million-year-old skull from a child recently found in Tanzania suggest early hominids weren't just occasional carnivores but regular meat eaters, researchers say. The finding helps build the case that meat-eating helped the human lineage evolve large brains, scientists added. "I know this will sound awful to vegetarians, but meat made us human," said researcher Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, an archaeologist [...]