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People of Turkey taking the streets against new Internet Censorship law. Protests against an increase in internet censorship in Turkey took to the streets again tonight in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.
This new Censorship Law will allow Turkey’s telecommunications authority to block websites and censor any internet content without a prior court decision. Continue reading “Turkish Citizens Say No to Internet Censorship, Take the Streets in Protest”
Collective Evolution – by Jeff Roberts
Today, a bipartisan letter to President Obama was sent by Congressman Earl Blumenauer (OR-03) along with 17 other members of Congress, asking him to tell Attorney General Eric Holder to reschedule marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act to Schedule II, meaning marijuana possession wouldn’t be as much of a crime as heroin, and would be punished the same as if someone had the prescription drug Oxycodone if carried illegally, such as not having a prescription. Continue reading “18 Members Of Congress Ask Obama To Reschedule Cannabis”
Off the Grid Survival – by Travis P
The first time I’d heard the term “hemostatic” was early in my Marine Corps career. It was at a traumatic first aid course with our company Corpmen teaching us things that would later save lives less than a year later in Afghanistan. The word hemostatic comes from two words. The first is “statikos,” also known as static, which means to stop. “Hemo” comes from the word “hemorrhage” so combined they mean essentially to stop bleeding. Continue reading “Revolutionary Off-Grid Device Seals Wounds In Seconds”
NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) – New York state Sen. Ruben Diaz Jr. introduced a bill that would require parents of elementary school children to attend a minimum of four parent support classes. If parents don’t go, 6th graders won’t move onto 7th grade.
Leslie Venokur, the co-founder of Big City Moms, called the idea “crazy” and “insane.” She said that what is most concerning that the education commissioner and Board of Regents would develop the parenting guidelines. She said the Regents should “stick to what they’re good at which is teaching kids and staying away from the parents.” Continue reading “NY lawmaker: Parents should take parenting classes”
The bitterly cold winter the country is experiencing now took government climatologists completely by surprise, but was predicted with dead-center accuracy by the Old Farmer’s Almanac, a 200 year-plus publication.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center worked feverishly, plugging all available data into supercomputers to predict temperatures would be “above normal from November through January across much of the lower 48 states,” according to Bloomberg Businessweek. Continue reading “Farmer’s Almanac nails winter freeze; government climate scientists way off”
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