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Sumatra Earthquake: 7.8-Magnitude Quake Hits Indonesi...
By Escape The Illusion on April 6, 2010 | No Comments
JAKARTA, Indonesia — A 7.8 earthquake shook Indonesia’s northwest island of Sumatra early Wednesday, prompting a brief tsunami warning and sending residents rushing for higher ground. There were no immediate reports of widespread damage. The quake struck at 5:15 a.m. (2215 GMT) and was cente... -
Endangered Species on the Grill: The US’s Shock...By Escape The Illusion on February 15, 2010 | No Comments
Millions of fork-twirling gourmands — many of them in the U.S. — are eating endangered wildlife trafficked by international criminal networks. Can shellfish cry? Ask the 4,756 abalone bagged by smugglers and confiscated in a single recent raid on a house in Cape Town, South Africa. It... -
Millimeter-Scale, Energy-Harvesting Sensor System Can...By Escape The Illusion on February 9, 2010 | No Comments
A 9 cubic millimeter solar-powered sensor system developed at the University of Michigan is the smallest that can harvest energy from its surroundings to operate nearly perpetually. The U-M system’s processor, solar cells, and battery are all contained in its tiny frame, which measures 2.5 by ... -
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... -
One Day We’ll All Be TerroristsBy Escape The Illusion on December 30, 2009 | 2 Comments
Syed Fahad Hashmi can tell you about the dark heart of America. He knows that our First Amendment rights have become a joke, that habeas corpus no longer exists and that we torture, not only in black sites such as those at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan or at Guantánamo Bay, but also at the federal... -
Who’s Really Behind Organic Food Brands Like Am...By Escape The Illusion on November 2, 2009 | No Comments
Over the past decade many small organic food brands have been snapped up by giant corporations. Clearly, this can be bad for standards and quality. http://www.alternet.org/story/143647/who%27s_really_behind_organic_food_brands_like_amy%27s_and_odwalla?page=entire ...
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Cameras keep track of all cars entering city
By AnotherSon on September 18, 2009 | 1 Comment
Cameras installed at Medina intersections monitor every vehicle coming into the city. The cameras capture all license-plate numbers, in a crime-prevention measure that one council member says “outweighs concern over privacy.” http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009873854_me...
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