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• Shale Oil Extraction, A Water Pollution Method

  By Ecantados on July 18, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  We well know that potable water, once polluted, cannot be replaced easily. One of the methods of using potable water is extraction of oil from shale. Getting crude oil from rock represents perhaps the most difficult process of extraction. Oil shale must be… Read More ›

• Why This Man Supports Iran Deal — Despite Bibi’s Bluster

  By konigludwig on July 18, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  “There is no ideal world, and there are no ideal agreements,” says Ami Ayalon, a former director of Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service. “And let me add that there is no ideal Middle East.” Given the imperfections in the… Read More ›

• Syria Surrenders

  By Ecantados on July 16, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  gliding through the night towards an unknown sight attack and leave in ruins death seeking it’s boons homage to Death as the dogs of war seeds begun in bohr tred with heavy foot hatred with a deep root hurried across… Read More ›

• A New World Revealed

  By konigludwig on July 15, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  This morning, the United States became the first country to reach Pluto — and the first country to explore the entire classical solar system: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. NASA’s New Horizons interplanetary probe has been… Read More ›

• College is a con: The savage truth about your bachelor’s degree

  By jamiellang1960 on July 1, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Higher education wears the cloak of liberalism, but in policy and practice, it’s a cutthroat system of exploitation By David Masciotra, AlterNet Higher education wears the cloak of liberalism, but in policy and practice, it can be a corrupt and… Read More ›

• Internet Outages: Worldwide

  By Ecantados on July 1, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  http://www.outageanalyzer.com/ If you are following the story of Ethernet Internet cables being cut in California, here’s some more that happening.  Some could be simple equipment failure and others like in California, vandalism or terrorism, depending on how you view it.

• Whispering Taste

  By Ecantados on June 20, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  not forgotten, never forgotten, misplaced in childhood toys, tastes, memories, dreams, accidently invoked a spell woven as my mouth waters, throat swallows the sweet taste of a thin wafer, spread with cream comes to rest on my tongue like a… Read More ›

• A day in the life of a Palestinian child laborer

  By konigludwig on June 14, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  According to a Human Rights Watch report, hundreds of Palestinian youths, some as young as 11, are being employed on settlement farms. The work is hard, and conditions even harder. Three youngsters describe an average workday. Around 5 A.M., before… Read More ›

• A desperate thirst

  By konigludwig on June 7, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  By Soe Zeya Tun for Reuters This shot is of a group of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants from a boat carrying 734 people rescued off Myanmar’s southern coast last week. Those on board had been at sea for more than… Read More ›

• Street Carnival project brings minority cultures to cities across Egypt

  By konigludwig on June 6, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  The brainchild of Alexandria-based El-Madina foundation, Street Carnival is a street-theatre initiatives that aims to promote diversity and break stereotypes Street Carnival, a street theatre initiative that seeks to showcase marginalised and minority cultures, recently concluded its second round of… Read More ›

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