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Debate Over Debit Card Regs Misses Some Potentially P...
By Escape The Illusion on April 30, 2011 | No Comments
By Marian Wang. Controversy over the Fed’s proposed debit card regulations has largely focused on the proposed cap on interchange fees —the fees banks receive from merchants for processing debit transactions. That provision has sparked an all-out lobbying war between merchants who think intercha... -
Inexpensive LED Light Bulbs Have ArrivedBy Escape The Illusion on April 27, 2011 | 1 Comment
LED light bulbs have long had incandescent and CFL (compact fluorescent) bulbs beat in terms of energy efficiency, yet they’ve taken a back seat to the CFLs due to the much higher price tag of an LED bulb. That is until now. As incandescent bulbs are being phased out, lighting companies are scramb... -
The Gravity of Enlightenment and 2012By Escape The Illusion on April 27, 2011 | No Comments
By Vasily Souzdenkov. 2012 ? Is known as a date to spread fear and confusion into the minds of everyday people. From all those doomsday prophecies to the end of the world myths, this date has been turned about side down from what it is really supposed to mean. People know really little about the tru... -
SETI Institute to Shut Down Alien-Seeking Radio Dishe...By Escape The Illusion on April 27, 2011 | 2 Comments
By Lisa M. Krieger. f E.T. phones Earth, he’ll get a “disconnect” signal. Lacking the money to pay its operating expenses, Mountain View’s SETI Institute has pulled the plug on the renowned Allen Telescope Array, a field of radio dishes that scan the skies for signals from ex... -
Obama’s Birth Certificate: Reaction Round-UpBy Escape The Illusion on April 27, 2011 | 1 Comment
By Kathy Gill. When I saw the headline this morning, my first thought was “well that took you long enough.” That’s not because I thought President Obama should have to release his “long form” birth certificate. It’s because by doing so now, his action is a day late and a dollar short, as... -
Why and How Apple Is Collecting Your iPhone Location ...By Escape The Illusion on April 22, 2011 | No Comments
By Brian X. Chen. Apple claims turning Location Services to “Off” will cease all transmission of geodata from a device to Apple. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com iPhone and iPad customers were spooked Wednesday to find out that their devices have recorded a detailed history of their geographi... -
The Zip Up Protect Your EnergyBy Escape The Illusion on April 21, 2011 | No Comments
Keep your energies humming with the 3 thumps and protect yourself from negative energy with the zip up. In this video Marion Ross and Tracy Latz give you techniques to assist you to feel strong, centered and protect your good energies from negative energy coming in from the outside.The electromagnet... -
The CFL FraudBy Escape The Illusion on April 21, 2011 | No Comments
By Edmund Contoski. A compact fluorescent light (CFL) on the ceiling burst and started a fire in a home in Hornell, N.Y. December 23, 2010. “Those are the lights everybody’s been telling us to use,” said Joe Gerych, Steuben County Fire Inspector. “It blew up like a bomb. It... -
10 Reasons to Still Be Pissed Off About the BP Disast...By Escape The Illusion on April 21, 2011 | 1 Comment
By Kate Sheppard. Your guide to the worst oil spill in US history, one year later. 1. BP is gunning to get back to drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. When the Department of Interior issued its first deepwater permit since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, it was for a well that BP owns half of. Earlier t... -
US farm companies charged with human traffickingBy Escape The Illusion on April 21, 2011 | No Comments
US authorities on Wednesday filed charges against two companies on charges they exploited hundreds of Indian and Thai workers who earned a pittance and were forced to stay in decrepit conditions. In what it called its largest ever human trafficking case in the farm sector, the US Equal Employment Op...
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