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The ADA Diet Kills

05/28/2012 - 6:11am
Diabetics cannot process carbohydrates. It's fact. But the recommended diet from the American Diabetes Association is loaded with them. Why? Because they don't want to fix you they, and the corporations to fund them, want you to contribute to the insulin industry. If you follow the ADA diet you will slowly and painfully die


The Mystery of Evil

05/28/2012 - 6:00am
Where does evil come from? If God is all-powerful and created a universe that is very good why does evil exist? While the possibility of evil was created by God, the initial cause of the actuality of evil is the angelic and the human will. St. Augustine tells us that while evil exists, it is not an essence but rather the absence of an essence


Eurovision: From universal friendship to dirty politics

05/28/2012 - 5:39am
When in 1955 the "Eurovision" appeared, it was touching and harmless: the entertaining TV show was to promote friendship between peoples and the bizarre at the time idea of television. This was the goal of the European Broadcasting Union that borrowed the idea of ​​the enchanting song show from the Music Festival in San Remo, Italy


World Press Photo enjoys gloating over death

05/28/2012 - 5:08am
The most prestigious photojournalism competition in the world World Press Photo, whose 55th final was held in February of this year in Amsterdam, has awarded "Special Mention" to the still of a video capturing Muammar Gaddafi a few minutes before his death. The West gives awards for things that would have been punishable by prison sentence earlier


Bullseye! Bug splat! US drones target Mosque in Pakistan?

05/28/2012 - 4:41am
Bug splat. This is what they call the strike from a drone, an unmanned aircraft flown from a computer console thousands of miles away somewhere in deepest US of A. Bug splat. In other words, murdering people in Pakistan, Afghanistan. Bug (insect) splat (crushed). The latest "Bug splat" took place on Thursday in Pakistan. In a Mosque, apparently...


Two men set themselves on fire in Tibet's Lhasa

05/28/2012 - 3:42am
Two men set themselves on fire in the Tibetan city of Lhasa on Sunday, Chinese state media said, confirming earlier reports. One of the men died and the other "survived with injuries", Xinhua news agency said.


It is not a crisis, the bills have finally arrived!!!

05/28/2012 - 2:54am
Every now and then we hear about one of the greatest economic crises which hit the world at the end of 2008, and how we must save our state budgets, make all sorts of cuts in public administration... let us just go a little bit back in time and we will see the naked truth, as it is, and the sad truth is the bills have finally arrived


Obama and Romney know how to gamble

05/28/2012 - 2:49am
Two of Mitt Romney’s fiercest former rivals, Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani, defended him Sunday against the Obama campaign’s attacks on his business record.


Biodiversity: The alarm bells are ringing

05/26/2012 - 5:18am
This week the UNO signalled International Day for Biological Diversity, proclaimed to raise awareness and understanding of biodiversity issues. When we examine what is at stake, the results are as horrifying as they are shocking, and reveal the enormous mountain of work that Humankind has to begin...and fast


European crisis may hit Russia harder than ever before

05/25/2012 - 9:30am
The political collapse in Greece and Moody's downgrade of the rankings of 16 Spanish banks have led to the decline in stock indexes all over the world. In Russia, the head of the Central Bank, Sergei Ignatiev, showed an optimistic reaction to such unpleasant news. Making a speech at the government last week, the official urged everyone not to panic