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Haiti Beyond the Cleanup
By Escape The Illusion on February 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
Haiti experts are warning that unless the international community comes up with new, more imaginative and more inclusive approaches to reconstruction and development in the earthquake-ravaged nation, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country can look forward to more of the same. They see the su... -
FBI wants records kept of Web sites visitedBy Escape The Illusion on February 6, 2010 | 2 Comments
The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes. FBI Director Robert Mueller supports storing Intern... -
Big Banks Are Feeding Like Parasites on the Govt.R...By Escape The Illusion on February 4, 2010 | No Comments
Big bank CEOs like to trumpet free-market ideology, but they depend on the government for survival in good times and bad. Wall Street bankers, along with the rest of the players in the financial industry, like to think of themselves as swashbuckling capitalists. They battle cutthroat competition wit... -
Tobacco plants tapped to grow solar cellsBy Escape The Illusion on February 4, 2010 | No Comments
Engineered virus injected in plants can produce alternative energy. Tobacco plants could help wean the world from fossil fuels, according to scientists from the University of California, Berkeley. In a paper in the journal ACS Nano Letters, Matt Francis and his colleagues used tobacco plants, infect... -
Rubbing Salt in Guantanamo’s WoundsBy Escape The Illusion on January 23, 2010 | No Comments
Task Force Announces Indefinite Detentions. With a stunning lack of sensitivity, President Barack Obama’s Guantánamo Review Task Force chose the anniversary of the president’s failed promise to close the prison to announce its conclusions regarding the eventual fate of 196 prisoners. As... -
Haiti’s voodoo priests object to mass burialsBy Escape The Illusion on January 18, 2010 | No Comments
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti’s voodoo priests are objecting to anonymous mass burials as an improper way to handle the tens of thousands of dead from the earthquake — and have taken their complaint to President Rene Preval. Dumping the dead in hurriedly excavated mass graves withou... -
Seattle’s New City Attorney: We Will Not Prosec...By Escape The Illusion on January 16, 2010 | No Comments
Source: Seattle Times By Emily Heffter Seattle’s new city attorney is dismissing all marijuana-possession cases, starting with those that were already under way under the old city attorney. City Attorney Pete Holmes, who beat incumbent Tom Carr in November, said he dismissed two marijuana-rela... -
The U.S’s Hidden Role in the Disaster in HaitiBy Escape The Illusion on January 15, 2010 | No Comments
Source: Alternet.org By Carl Lindskoog, AlterNet. Posted January 15, 2010 Haiti’s many years of underdevelopment and U.S.-sponsored political turmoil made the Haitian government ill-prepared to respond to such a disaster. In the hours following Haiti’s devastating earthquake, CNN, the Ne... -
Sprint begins charging questionable feeBy Escape The Illusion on January 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
If the past few months is any indication, this new fee Sprint is charging won’t be around long. But let’s go ahead and talk about it since it’s yet another way one of the wireless carriers is trying to make more money off their customers in a questionable way, and you need to know about it whe... -
Unemployment: The 2010 Time BombBy Escape The Illusion on January 11, 2010 | No Comments
New figures show jobs were lost in December at ten times the expected rate. American employers eliminated 4.2 million jobs in 2009 and sent unemployment soaring into double digits for the first time in more than a quarter century. Since the fall of last year, the official jobless rate has been over...
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