Pope launches strongest papal attack on organised crime since Pope John Paul in 1993 in impromptu comments about southern Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta crime group
A big wow on this story.
Pope Francis says that the mafia adores evil and they are excommunicated..
Will there be a horse head in the Vatican bed?
The New York TIMES is reporting this seemingly wretched news.. It reports this from Brussels:
The top American agriculture official on Tuesday called on the European Union to do more to ease restrictions on gene-altered food and feed crops if it hoped to reach a trans-Atlantic trade pact.
“There can’t be a trade agreement without a serious and significant commitment to agriculture,” the official, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, told reporters on Tuesday, a day after an informal meeting with European farm ministers. European consumers “ought to have a choice” whether to use biotech foods, he said.
Mr. Vilsack has a tough case to make, though. There continues to be deep resistance to bioengineered agricultural products in the European Union — or to easing many other agricultural trade protections, for that matter. The fight over food, in fact, is a big impediment to progress in talks that are already moving more slowly than officials on both sides had wanted when President Obama announced them last year.
Very disappointing..
And in some ironic twist, this is simultaneously happening: Obama is forming a team to study Colony Collapse of bees.
So while the United States is busy defending GMO food as safe and secure, it’s also going to face some rude awakenings as they get deep into the honey bee trench. Many global studies have already hinted as a cause: GMOs and Monsanto’s Roundup..
But….
The American study may very well have a different conclusion. After all, Vilsack is telling the UK to accept more bioengineered food. Maybe some cozy relationships of the past is adding fuel to the cause..
This has been an ongoing story of sinkholes in Palmyra, PA.. the location has been prone to enormous sinkhole recently..
Try to fathom these numbers: 280,000 and 970,000 abandoned oil and gas wells .. and if only a slight amount are leaking methane, that is not at all trivial.
Tensions between Moscow and Kiev continue to mount with Vladimir Putin’s latest show of force as Russia dismisses Petro Poroshenko’s “peace plan” as an ultimatum
The Washington POST reveals: The CIA cooked up an Obama Bin Laden ‘demon toy’.. the theory: An n Osama bin Laden action figure whose face peeled off to reveal a scary devil beneath.. It was meant to scare Afghanistan children and their parents..
A very interesting story is appearing in SLATE today..A former stormchaser now thinks the idea of chasing severe weather is unethical..
I will be upfront: I love watching live storm coverage, especially hurricane and tornado reports. But I equally think news forecasters who are paid by their employer to go into the storm is unethical. If one does it himself or herself, I think it’s based more on a passion.. I always think back to when Vince McMahan made Owen Hart get hoisted over 100 feet above the wrestling ring, and then he fell to his death.It’s a tough call..
Perhaps it could also be said that ‘ghost hunting’ is as unethical if not more so than storm chasers. If you believe in ghosts, that is..
Two leading voices in the world of science and technology are warning robots equipped with artificial intelligence could be leading humanity down a dangerous path.
We should be listening before it’s too late.
Pope Francis speaks out against legalized drugs, citing ‘evil’..
No word on whether he will start using grape juice instead of wine in his chalice..
Really.. And it’s driving people batty.. Here’s the story from MIC.COM, detailing the very real ‘mysterious hum’ that is driving people insane.. And something from very well-written article I never knew: There is a world hum database on Google..
Could this be a ghost of Alcatraz? That or Michael Myers. Or maybe even William Shatner (who’s was the face of the SHAPE)..
This man’s mugshot is heating up the internet and provoking a backlash..
His name is Jeremy Meeks, and he was arrested during a gang sweep in California..but the mugshot is being shared by women across the net who find him attractive..
An interesting debate on the HOT 93.5 Harrisburg radio Facebook page.. The station is asking women if they would date an attractive man WHO IS A FELON.. Most woman are fine with it.
The rolling fat man…
….wait.. what.. huh? say that again?
Saddam’s chemical weapon stockpile…?
MOVE OVER SLENDERMAN!! You’re going to take a back seat to the newest weird net phenom.. Get ready for a new internet meme: The Creepy Paddington bear. .. and any time someone destroys the innocence and beauty of youth, it’s creepy. Just as someone now has, pervading the memories of so many children comforted by Paddington Bear.. Welcome to the net, where nothing is sacred.
A very rare double tornado struck yesterday in Nebraska..And with it came heartbreak: A five-year-old is among the dead.. Others are injured.. According to AP dispatches, more than half of the town of Pilger, Nebraska, is destroyed..
The stranger part of the double tornado strike: Usually one tornado is stronger than the other and energy from ones feeds the other. In this case, both tornadoes appear to have been of the same strength and ferocitiy..
At one point, the twin tornadoes straddled a major highway..
Town all but wiped off the map..
Apartments and a mall will take its place, leaving only a historical plaque to commemorate the location where Mark Felt, a top FBI agent known as “Deep Throat,” would share Watergate secrets with journalist Bob Woodward
TEMPE, Ariz. — Starbucks employees nationwide will be eligible for a free college education through Arizona State University’s online program beginning this fall.
There are some strings attached and limitations within, but it’s quite an adventurous venture. SO now you know..A shame a college degree these days is worth as much as a Starbucks cup of coffee..
At this point, Miley Cyrus should just start her own nude website in which people watch her scratch herself and stick her tongue out all day.. The less than dignified music sensation posted a photograph of herself prior to a shower. Topless. Good thing you can’t smell a person through Instagram—after all this was prior to bathing. Smellagram is a future endeavor, but until then we can only just imagine..
There has been a dramatic escalation of violence in Iraq over the weekend as ISIS—or now ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant)—has been accused of mass murder. The accusation makes it easy when they go online to brag about their mass murder.. There are images and grisly videos circulating the world wide web.. the entire planet can now see the barbaric nature with which ISIL/ISIS imposes Sharia Law. And now this: Iran is directly getting involved with the conflict while the United States contemplates what else it will do.. In the meantime all eyes are on the Baghdad Embassy where personnel are still housed and militants take over more areas, closing in on the city..
At this point: 550 (or more?) Marines are on a warship in the Persian Gulf..
And of course there are some websites that argue the images are faked and photoshopped.. DUTCHSINSE paints a good picture that some may be, but not all are.. nor are all videos.. Sometimes “conspiracy” is shouted too often and too loudly..After all, let’s take a quick historical trip down amnesia lane .. Many are pointing out (rightly so) that the Bush adventure in Iraq was a bad move, few are speculating on how the recent movements by ISIS could actually be a product of the Obama Administration.. Lest we forget.. America’s allies are funding ISIS and so is America, too.. recent history tells us that it’s unwise to play our meager chess games in the Middle East. There’s never a victory..
