Month: May 2014
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SpaceX Unveils Dragon V2 Spaceship for Astronaut Trips
from nbcnews.com: SpaceX unveiled the spaceship it expects to use to send NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, known as the Dragon V2, at its headquarters on Thursday amid surroundings as glitzy as an auto show. Maybe that shouldn’t be surprising, considering that the company’s billionaire founder and chief designer, Elon Musk, also runs…
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Brazil Finds Expired Food at Hotels Hosting World Cup Teams
Brazilian authorities have confiscated food “not fit for consumption” from two hotels that will host the English and Italian national teams during the upcoming World Cup competition in Brazil.
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The Geopolitics of the Eurasian Economic Union
from globalresearch.ca: The deal signed last week by Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan to create a Eurasian Economic Union is yet another countermeasure against US and European attempts to isolate Russia. By moving towards closer economic cooperation, Russia hopes to build, piecemeal if necessary, a common Eurasian economic space that will ultimately rival the US and Europe in…
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Starting Bid $666: Inside eBay’s Occult Pricing System
from dailydot.com: If you’re visiting eBay with the intention of purchasing something weird, perhaps even something really weird, then chances are that you’re going to end up bidding $666. For some reason, sellers of “spooky” items like to set the starting bid as the Biblical number of the beast.
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10 Companies Make 90% of Your Conventional Crap
from thedailymeal.com: It’s hard to believe, but most of the food in your home along with your cleaning supplies, over-the-counter medicines, and even your soap are produced by just ten mega-corporations that own virtually every nationally available brand.
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SpaceX Unveil the Dragon V2 “Space Taxi”
from spacex.com: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled the next version of its Dragon spacecraft — Dragon V2 — on Thursday night from the company’s manufacturing facility in Hawthorne, California. The Dragon V2 is designed to ferry NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station. It’s an upgraded version of the Dragon cargo ship, which…
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Obama ‘Plans’ to End US Troop Presence in Afghanistan by 2016
Seriously, For Real This Time… You’ll Be Gladio That We Did… from reuters.com: U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday outlined a plan to withdraw all but 9,800 American troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year and pull out the rest by the end of 2016, ending more than a decade of military engagement…
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Facebook can now officially eavesdrop on you
from androidpit.com: The Facebook app was recently updated in the USA, adding a feature which turns on the device microphone in order to record background sound to know what is happening around you. Facebook sees this feature as a win for users, since status updates can be posted even quicker. On the other hand, skeptics…
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Concerns in Europe After Far-Right Gains in EU Elections
from time.com: Although mainstream parties remain in control, significant gains made by Euroskeptic and anti-immigrant party wins in last week’s elections to the European Parliament have raised fears of increasing isolationism within the E.U.
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Russian Orthodox Church the Absent Player at Pope-Patriarch #Jerusalem Summit
from blogs.reuters.com: When Pope Francis meets the spiritual head of the world’s Orthodox Christians next week, the speeches and symbolism will focus on how these ancient western and eastern wings of Christianity want to come closer together. After almost a millennium apart, however, the key to the elusive unity they seek does not lie in…
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After The March Against Monsanto, Momentum Favors The People
from activistpost.com: It is clear that we have just witnessed the largest single worldwide protest against a company and their products. What is also clear is the major public disgust for anything bearing the words ‘GMO’. Monsanto’s only refuge lies in massively funded mouthpieces in the form of news clips and certain public figures, combined…
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Google Unveils Self-Driving Car, Sans Steering Wheel
from cnet.com: Google has built a self-driving car from scratch — a vehicle that has no steering wheel or accelerator or brake pedals. A two-seater prototype of the vehicle was unveiled Tuesday by Google CEO Sergey Brin during an onstage interview at the Recode Code Conference in Palos Verdes, Calif. Instead of the car controls…
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New Survey Shows Many Sickened After West Virginia Chemical Spill
from latimes.com: When a storage tank spilled an obscure coal-cleaning chemical into the water supply in West Virginia in January, officials ultimately told 300,000 people not to use the water. Charleston was the largest city affected, as well as the source of the spill. And according to a recent survey of about 500 people in…
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State Department Tells US Citizens to Leave Libya Immediately
from reuters.com: The State Department on Tuesday told U.S. citizens in Libya to leave immediately, warning that the security situation in the country was “unpredictable and unstable.” “The Department of State warns U.S. citizens against all travel to Libya and recommends that U.S. citizens currently in Libya depart immediately,” the State Department said in a…
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Inside Manhattan’s Most Hipster-y Megachurch
from religion.blogs.cnn.com: While some churches are struggling to attract younger members, 20 and 30-something-year-olds are waiting in long lines to get into Hillsong’s services. Pastor Carl Lentz is the main attraction.