I’ve just finished reading about another shooting in Denver, Colorado. Supposedly, another 18 year old teen shooter was one of two suspects involved in a Highlands Ranch, Colorado school shooting, 1 dead 7 injured. To me, this rings hollow. This type of thing has been going on for years, so much so that we just breeze over the headlines. As I was reading this I starting thinking to myself, what kind of video games do these supposed shooters play at home with their friends?    Continue reading “True Patriotic Video Games About The Bill of Rights?”

Daily Mail

One of the two students who opened fire on a school in Denver has been identified as 18-year-old Devon Erickson.

An 18-year-old boy was killed and eight other students were injured when gunfire erupted at STEM School Highlands Ranch on Tuesday afternoon at 1.53pm local time.  Continue reading “Denver shooting: Devon Erickson identified as one of two teen shooters.”

Daily Mail

In the span of nearly a decade, Donald Trump lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer, a new report has claimed.

Ten years of Trump’s official Internal Revenue Service tax transcriptions, obtained by the New York Times, make shocking reading.

The figures, which date from 1985 to 1994, reveal that the future president lost $1.17billion in 10 years.  Continue reading “Trump’s hotels and casinos lost $1.17billion over 10 years”

Daily Mail

Everyone knows keeping a toddler still can be next to impossible – so how do you stop them from moving during an X-ray?

It turns out that doctors can use a strange looking contraption called a Pigg-O-Stat to keep control of wriggly little ones.  Continue reading “Unusual device used to keep wriggly babies still during X-rays leaves Twitter users in hysterics”

Overdrive

The truck driver involved in a deadly crash along I-70 near Denver last week was charged Friday, May 3, with 40 separate criminal counts as a result of the crash.

The Jefferson County district attorney formally charged 23-year-old Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos, of Houston, Texas, with four counts of vehicular homicide, six counts of first-degree assault, 24 counts of attempted first-degree assault, two counts of vehicular assault, one count reckless driving and three counts crime of violence.  Continue reading “Trucker faces 40 criminal counts stemming from deadly I-70 crash near Denver”

Digital Trends – by Jon Martindale

A new Russian law which makes it possible for the government to sever the country’s internet connections to the outside world has the support of less than a quarter of the population, but it’s coming into force anyway. The new “Runet” law is packaged as important for national security, but detractors are concerned that it could see the authorities cut off its citizens’ access to internet sites and services outside of Russia entirely.  Continue reading “Russians don’t like the new internet censorship law, but it’s happening anyway”

Collective Evolution – by Arjun Walia, Jan 4, 2018

“We recently took a scientific delegation to witness Stan’s work…and came back saying, this is one of the most important inventions of the century.” – Leonard Holihan, from the Advanced Energy Research Institute at the time (source)

Everyday the world becomes aware of technologies that have the potential to halt the unnecessary damage we continue to create using fossil fuels. We’ve been talking about it for years, transitioning our way of  life to be more harmonious with the planet and its natural systems. I’m not talking about solar or wind power (although great), I’m talking about clean and green technology that  render fossil fuel burning technologies inferior and obsolete.  Continue reading “Flashback: The Inventor of a Water-Powered Car That Died In A Restaurant Yelling ‘They Poisoned Me’”

Daily Mail

Mark Boyle hasn’t switched on a light for three years. Nor has he boiled a kettle, bunged on a wash, turned on the oven, or the radio, vacuumed, cheered on his favourite football team on the TV, listened to any recorded music, sent an email, made a phone call or updated his social media.

Not because he’s lazy, but because, in December 2016, he pledged to live technology-free. On his banned list was anything that requires power or ‘an ongoing energy input’.  Continue reading “Now THAT’S switching off! He’s a modern-day Robinson Crusoe who lives without power”

France 24

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed into law a “sovereign internet” bill which will allow Russian authorities to isolate the country’s internet, a move decried by rights groups.

Russian lawmakers insist the new law is necessary to ensure the security of Russia’s online networks but critics say the vaguely worded bill gives new censorship powers to government monitors.  Continue reading “Putin signs controversial internet law”

Yahoo News

Beijing (AFP) – President Xi Jinping urged China’s youth on Tuesday to be loyal to the Communist Party as he sought to whip up patriotic sentiment in a nationalist speech marking the centennial of a student protest.

Xi delivered his hour-long plea at the Great Hall of the People to commemorate the May Fourth Movement, a landmark protest against colonialism and imperialism that rocked China in 1919.  Continue reading “Xi urges youth to ‘love’ the Communist Party”