The sharing experiment wants to draw attention to the fact that we live in a world with the capacity to feed twice its current population, but too many children still die from causes related to acute malnutrition each year. 2014 was the warmest year since we are recording temperatures. We are still more in love […]
What happens if Putin is in charge of the Internet
Email from Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska) and I must admit one of the few times I agree with a Republican. Dear Conservative, “We now have a court order. We’ll eradicate Twitter. I don’t care what the international community says. Everyone will witness the power of the Turkish Republic,” Prime Minister of Turkey, Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey isn’t […]
$18.04 billion in profit and the tax bill is?
In Apple’s case it is neglectable if not “ZERO”. Last week Apple Inc. announced the best quarter in company history. They just blew it. They deserve it. They changed the world one iPhone a time. I am a big Apple fan. Our household owns three MacBooks, one MacBook Air, one IMac, Two iPhones, one iPad. […]
3 minutes to doomsday – are you prepared?
They turned the doomsday clock for the first time in three years. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, a group founded by the creators of the atomic bomb, say the world is now three minutes from a catastrophic midnight and the closest it has been in 30 years. The main reason the scientist think why we […]
This is the last thing you will see when the world ends – on CNN
No it is not the president of the United States, no it is not a sleazy CNN spokesperson, it is this silly video an intern found in the CNN archives and posted online. What a sad & depressing ending if you ask me. Happy new year BTW. Hope you all will have a nice 2015 […]
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The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report about the CIA interrogation techniques employed in counterterrorism efforts during the administration of President George W. Bush. It is not lecture for the fainthearted. It includes: “rectal feeding,” sleep deprivation, insects, use of diapers, and mock executions. “rectal hydration” was used as a means of “behavior control.” It also includes CIA […]
We have elected those people to represent us – and they are screwing us all
These two movies are pretty popular in The Netherlands (combined 600k views, not at all enough, it is a much watch for every taxpayer in the EU). They are showing how evil our and your EU representatives are. They are definitely in for the money and nothing else. They are screwing us all and laughing […]
This is a preview of how our world will maybe look like soon…
I hope we will never say the phrases “we did not gasp what could happen” or maybe something like “everybody was just part of the system without realizing the consequences of our actions” If we do not watch out maybe our world might look like this in the near future: Video by Danny Cooke Chernobyl – the perfect […]
You be suprised what Apple Inc. greatest invention is…
Its not the iPhone, iPad or iTunes. No. Apple invented a tax-avoidance scheme known as the “Double Irish With A Dutch Sandwich,” which is now used by hundreds of other companies. Read this excellent article in the New York Times about how Apple is “avoiding” paying taxes via legal financial engineering. From the article: ” […]
Theo van Gogh – Freedom of Speech
Yesterday, 10 years ago Theo van gogh was brutally murdered in Amsterdam. The Dutch magazine HP/ De tijd published three columns of van Gogh about freedom of speech. People like van Gogh, Geert Wilders, Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali alle openly and loudly expressed their disagreement with the islam and fundamentalist radicalism using the scripture to […]