Author: Paul

Perks of reaching 55 or being over 60 and heading towards 70 or beyond!

01.
Kidnappers are not very interested in you.

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In a hostage situation, you are likely to be released first.

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No one expects you to run  —  anywhere.   Continue reading “Over Age 55 Perks”

BARACK OBAMA:   Let me be perfectly clear, if the chickens like their eggs they can keep their eggs. No chicken will be required to cross the road to surrender her eggs.

HILLARY CLINTON:  What difference at this point does it make why the chicken crossed the road.

GEORGE W. BUSH:  We don’t really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either with us or against us.  There is no middle ground here.            Continue reading “A non-partisan Why did the chicken cross the road?”

Impact Lab

You won’t necessarily sacrifice comfort by living in a tiny house,  at least not according to work-at-home husband and wife team Andrew and Gabriella Morrison. They live in a 221 square foot home, which is dubbed hOMe. The tiny hose is designed in a way that maximizes each part of the living space, giving the appearance of being a much larger house than it is. The home greatly resembles a shipping container from the outside due to its shape, and is only 8 feet and 6 inches wide.   Continue reading “A tiny home that appears much larger than it actually is”

Tech Eye – by Edward Berridge

The Optical Fibre Communications Conference (OFC) has revealed details of a new approach to chip-to-chip communications based on silicon photonics.

The paper explains how to develop a modulator and a tuneable filter created using IBM’s CMOS process that the paper’s presenters believe could make inter-chip communications ten times more energy efficient.   Continue reading “Researchers come up with new chip to chip communications”

RT News

The termination of a safety manager from a Washington state nuclear facility this week marks the second time in four months that a whistleblower was fired from there after speaking out.

Donna Busche, 50, was fired Tuesday morning by URS Corp, a federal subcontractor hired by the United States government to build a $12.3 billion plant that will make glass from the waste being held at the old Department of Energy-owned Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the southeastern part of the state. Construction of the plant is currently on hold because of safety concerns, and the facility has been previously referred to as the most-polluted nuclear weapons production site in the US.   Continue reading “Nuclear site whistleblower fired after complaining about safety conditions”

Disinfo – by Jacob Sloan

Two weeks ago we noted that in a span of six days, a former Federal Reserve economist was found dead in an apparent suicide, a former senior manager for Deutsche Bank was discovered hanging from a noose in his home, and a JPMorgan Chase vice president seemingly jumped to death in London. The Financial Post reports that the string of sudden fatalities among masters-of-the-universe continues:   Continue reading “37-Year-Old JPMorgan Executive Is The Latest Leading Banker To Die Strangely Over The Past Three Weeks”

Bloomberg – by Masumi Suga, Yuji Okada and Jacob Adelman

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501), operator of the crisis-ridden Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, said it found a new leak near the tanks holding contaminated water at the disaster site.

The utility, which serves 29 million customers in the Tokyo metropolitan area, is collecting soil where the leak occurred and doesn’t believe any water reached the ocean, company executives said at a briefing in Tokyo. About 100 metric tons (26,400 gallons) of water may have escaped a concrete barrier, the company said.   Continue reading “Tepco Finds New Leak of Radioactive Water at Fukushima Site”

Carlsbad Current-Argus – by Zack Ponce

CARLSBAD — Traces of radiation have been found approximately half a mile northwest of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, a federal nuclear waste repository approximately 26 miles east of Carlsbad.

Tests by the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center, a division of the College of Engineering at New Mexico State University, showed evidence of trace amounts of americium and plutonium on an air filter Wednesday afternoon at a sampling station off the WIPP Access Road.   Continue reading “Lab: Radiation detected above ground near WIPP site east of Carlsbad”

Stay with this — the answer is at the end. It may blow you away.

One evening a grandson was talking to his grandfather about current events. The grandson asked his grandfather what he thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and just things in general.

The Grandfather replied, “Well, let me think a minute, I was born before:   Continue reading “How Old is Grandpa?”

 

Continue reading “Spraying today ahead of a rain front. SOP”

Natural News – by S. D. Wells

Step right up to your favorite food bar, whether at Whole Foods, Harris Teeter or Farm Fresh, and “get you some” potato salad, coleslaw, egg salad, pasta salad, chicken salad, tuna salad, baked goods, or just make your own salad with lots of salad “dressing” and you are most likely getting a few heaping tablespoons of rapeseed oil with each serving, better known these days as canola oil. Now, whether or not there really is any such thing as organic canola oil, well, the jury is still out on that one. Regardless, canola oil is not good for you, and it ALL goes through a “deodorizing” processing stage that removes the “stink” of rapeseed, in case you didn’t know.   Continue reading “Canola oil: The #1 hidden health ‘danger’ at the prepared food bar”

The New American – by Bob Adelmann

Connecticut State Police Lieutenant Paul Vance reported last week on the failure of gun owners in the state to register their “assault” weapons, noting that fewer than 50,000 applications had been received from the owners of an estimated 350,000 weapons in the state. And even that number might be too small. In simple terms, gun owners numbering in the thousands — perhaps tens of thousands, maybe totaling 100,000 — have simply ignored the December 31 deadline to register their firearms and thereby add their names to a de facto gun-owner registry.   Continue reading “Connecticut Gun Owners Ignore Registration Deadline”

SOTT – by Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph

Hundreds of children are dying needlessly from cancer or being left with debilitating conditions because life-saving drugs are only tested on adults, health experts have warned.

Since 2007, of the 28 new cancer drugs which have been given European approval, half cannot be licensed for children because youngsters were not included in their trials.   Continue reading “Children denied life-saving cancer drugs – They might actually do better without them”