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Farewell José Argüelles
By Escape The Illusion on March 26, 2011 | No Comments
Sad news this week, with the passing of 2012 author José Argüelles age 72. He was best known for organising the Harmonic Convergence event in 1987, and writing The Mayan Factor, published at the same time. This was one of the key factors that lead to the 2012 meme becoming known far and wide. Carl... -
Race and Politics in a Rural Louisiana Town Attract N...By Escape The Illusion on March 26, 2011 | No Comments
By Jordan Flaherty. A legal dispute in the rural Louisiana town of Waterproof has attracted the attention of national civil rights organizations and activists. Color Of Change, an online activist group that helped garner national attention for the Jena Six Case, recently rallied their members in sup... -
Glimpses of Hope in JapanBy Escape The Illusion on March 20, 2011 | No Comments
By Lennox Samuels. One nuclear plant is now stabilized—and, miraculously, a woman and her grandson were found alive after nine days in the rubble. Lennox Samuels reports on the country’s small successes. Plus, nuclear plant workers reveal the chaos after the quake hit. As Japan’s nuclear crisi... -
What You Aren’t Being Told About Ethanol and Corros...By Escape The Illusion on March 9, 2011 | No Comments
By Robert Rapier. History is littered with examples of ideas that seemed to be good for a while, but were later discovered to have unpleasant consequences. The pharmaceutical industry is full of cases of promising drugs that went through testing, received FDA approval, and then when they were rolled... -
Still Separate, Still UnequalBy Escape The Illusion on March 7, 2011 | No Comments
By John M. Davis. We like to think of the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision as a watershed that marked the beginning of an America characterized by greater equality and individual rights. So profound were the changes it wrought, we tell ourselves, that blacks were just one ... -
U.S. Flushes 12.5 Trillion Gallons of Energy Down the...By Escape The Illusion on March 5, 2011 | No Comments
By Tina Casey. Researchers from Newcastle University in the U.K. have done the math, and on the surface it looks pretty grim. Every year, the U.S. flushes about 12.5 trillion gallons of energy right down the drain. They’re actually talking about potential energy, in the form of biofuels that could... -
Why is there no Main Stream Media reporting the Rossi...By Escape The Illusion on March 3, 2011 | No Comments
Rossi/Focardi on February 10 and 11, 2011, at University of Bologna performed another test of the E-Cat device for 18 hours, putting to rest all the claims that have been put forth to dismiss this new energy source. Celani and others criticized phase-change calorimeters as too complicated so Rossi u... -
The Ugly Side of the Cut Flower IndustryBy Escape The Illusion on February 12, 2011 | No Comments
By Erica Hamilton. Pesticides, worker exploitation and environmental degradation. Where do those lovely Valentine’s Day flowers in supermarkets and florist shops come from? If you live in North America, chances are they come from Latin America, where they were cultivated, selected, arranged and pa... -
Robin Hood Is DeadBy Escape The Illusion on February 12, 2011 | 2 Comments
By William Rivers Pitt. The streets of Cairo were alive with jubilation on Friday after the announcement that Hosni Mubarak had finally surrendered to the inevitable and lit out of town. After more than two weeks of protest, tension and sheer grit, the deal went down and the air rang with shouts of ... -
A Reservist in a New War, Against ForeclosureBy Escape The Illusion on January 29, 2011 | 1 Comment
By Diana B. Henriques. While Sgt. James B. Hurley was away at war, he lost a heartbreaking battle at home. In violation of a law intended to protect active military personnel from creditors, agents of Deutsche Bank foreclosed on his small Michigan house, forcing Sergeant Hurley’s wife, Brandie...
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