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Outrage in San Francisco: City Gives Residents ‘...
By Escape The Illusion on March 6, 2010 | No Comments
The city’s actions are a wake-up call that the entire nation regularly consumes foods grown on fields fertilized with sludge. When San Francisco, one of the greenest cities in America, offered its residents free compost, many were excited to take it. After all, purchasing enough compost for ev... -
A measure for the multiverseBy Escape The Illusion on March 3, 2010 | No Comments
WHEN cosmologist George Ellis turned 70 last year, his friends held a party to celebrate. There were speeches and drinks and canapés aplenty to honour the theorist from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, who is regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on general relativity. But... -
Hemp for Alternative Energy and MoreBy Escape The Illusion on March 3, 2010 | 2 Comments
Fuel: * Farming 6% of the continental U.S. acreage with biomass crops would provide all of America’s energy needs. 1 * Hemp is Earth’s number-one biomass resource; it is capable of producing 10 tons per acre in four months. 1 * Biomass can be converted to methane, methanol, o... -
Intelligence In The Media: Reading Between The LiesBy Escape The Illusion on March 3, 2010 | 2 Comments
Has the media been hijacked by governments and intelligence agencies – the CIA, MI5, MI6 – to manipulate public opinion…? Intelligence In The Media: Reading Between The Lies By Jon King The Paradox, And The Shared Agenda To some, the phrase ‘Intelligence In The Media’ describes a paradox. ... -
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... -
Republican Bunning blocks unemployment benefits; Demo...By Escape The Illusion on February 26, 2010 | No Comments
Next Monday, 3 million Americans are going to have bad day. Their unemployment benefits and COBRA health care subsidies will end. “Tough shit!” I kid you not… That’s what Republican Jim Bunning said on the Senate floor as he filibustered unemployment and COBRA benefits extens... -
Texas Suicide Flyer Had Real Populist GrievancesBy Escape The Illusion on February 21, 2010 | No Comments
Joseph Stack’s suicide screed chafes and exposes a raw wound this country does not know what to do with. Liberals are dismissing Joseph Stack’s rant as a brutal anti-government battle cry — “Tea Party on steroids.” Conservatives are dismissing it as the petulant whine ... -
SETI Opens All Data and Coding to the PublicBy Escape The Illusion on February 13, 2010 | 1 Comment
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) just announced that it is releasing all information to the public. SETIQuest.org was launched on Wednesday to facilitate the release and help coordinate an ‘army of citizen scientists’ to help search for anomalies in interstellar microwave patt... -
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...
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