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American couple kidnapped by tribesmen in Yemen
By Escape The Illusion on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
Two American tourists have been kidnapped by Yemeni tribesmen near the capital Sanaa, reports say. Their Yemeni driver and tourist guide were also kidnapped. The tourists’ driver has reportedly made a call to the news agency AFP with the group’s demands and confirmed the couple’s n... -
Tyranny vs. the InternetBy Escape The Illusion on April 13, 2010 | No Comments
For those who aspire to tyranny, those who seek to control and dictate to the people, to undermine and limit the people’s freedoms, to expand their own power at the expense of the people’s liberties — in a word, those whose ambitions and machinations cannot stand the light of day a... -
Frightening Taste Of Internet Censorship As Major Fre...By Escape The Illusion on March 29, 2010 | No Comments
With influential proponents recently calling for a newly regulated world wide web, we got a preview of how that might look this past weekend after both Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com were completely blocked to many Internet users in New Zealand. The block was only removed early this morning foll... -
Google and China: What You Need to KnowBy Escape The Illusion on March 25, 2010 | No Comments
The ongoing battle between Google and China sometimes reads like a spy novel, featuring a giant technology company clashing with a cadre of totalitarian overlords, attacks by hackers apparently aimed at pinpointing citizen activists and dissidents, and grandstanding speeches by senators and congress... -
As China and US Plan to Exploit “Burning Ice...By Escape The Illusion on March 11, 2010 | No Comments
When methane and freezing cold water fuse under tremendous pressure, they create a substance as paradoxical as it coveted: burning ice. Earlier in the year, a report from the National Research Council identified the combustible water, also known as methane hydrate, as a potential source of natural g... -
Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees, but Biofuel DoesBy Escape The Illusion on March 2, 2010 | 3 Comments
The poplar tree has entered the crowded field of sustainable biofuel crops, and now it seems that China, Israel and the U.S. are racing to tap into its potential. Poplars have a couple of big advantages over conventional biofuel crops, especially food crops like soy and corn. For one thing, raisin... -
A new approach to ChinaBy Escape The Illusion on January 12, 2010 | No Comments
Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. Howev... -
China burning coal while developing green energyBy Escape The Illusion on December 14, 2009 | No Comments
Rising from the bowels of the earth are giant trucks laden with coal. One after another they lumber past. Just the wheels of each truck are double the height of a man. The engines roar as these massive machines grind up the road that climbs up from the bottom of the Pingshou open cast coal mine. We&...
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Medical Marijuana Apartheid: Different Rules Apply fo...By Escape The Illusion on December 14, 2009 | 2 Comments
A California hipster can hit the vaporizer without fear of harassment, but a lower-class person smoking a blunt may not be so lucky. About 80 percent of Americans approve of medical marijuana laws, but some conservatives are incensed that state legislatures keep passing them. In a recent column, Geo...
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Join the Oil Detox ChallengeBy Escape The Illusion on November 17, 2009 | No Comments
From plastic bags to lipstick, oil is everywhere. It’s time to stop the madness. Oil is everywhere. Seriously. It’s in the products we use everyday, from aspirin to toothpaste, it’s an ingredient in cosmetics from lipstick to nail polish, and most ominously, it’s the basic bu...
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