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Category Archives: Public Service
Wikileaks Diplomatic Document Release May Uncover Massive U.S. Criminality
Wikileaks.org today released 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables that have apparently caused grave concern in Western governments. The documents have already revealed that the U.S. has been spying on the United Nations Secretary General. Also, Wikileaks is currently under a massive cyber attack that began early Sunday morning. We can easily guess who is behind that.
The U.K.’s Guardian newspaper has been given the document release files by Wikileaks. You can go and explore the database here.
The U.S. government has stated that the release of the documents is illegal. I beg to differ. It is information that people need to know about their elected leaders. On the basis of this information we can begin to get rid of government officials who turn out to be little more than gangsters. It may be time to realize that the release of information about the backroom dealings of Western governments and their diplomat/spies is a long overdue protection and counterbalance against criminal activities by government officials up to and including the President of the United States.
And in case you didn’t realize it, this is why President Obama wants an ’emergency’ switch to shut down the Internet in the U.S.
Hey world, enjoy the data!
Animation: How To Feed The World
The real problem with feeding the world properly is the production of meat. Meat is a very destructive product because it is a huge polluter and uses land inefficiently. Denis van Waerebeke made this instructive short film about world hunger.
11-Year-Old Raises Money For Gulf Birds With Art
This is a nice kid. She’s Olivia Bouler and she’s an artist with a great love for birds. She is offering her art for sale to help the birds in the BP Gulf Oil Disaster. The money goes to organizations that can help out like the National Audubon Society.
Here’s a Facebook page that Olivia’s parents set up for the project.
Surgeons Offer a BP Oil Spill Plug Idea Based on Blood Vessel Plugs
A pair of surgeons who specialize in stopping uncontrolled bleeding from blood vessels have offered their solution for plugging the Gulf oil leak. It uses basic technology that shuts off high pressure leaks inside the human body.
Watch the film below, then watch the idea I presented on May 27th below that. The two ideas are very close and share a heavy top weight concept connecting to an extending narrow pipe. The surgeons have added the concept of tapering the extending pipe. Fascinating. I think that the real solution to plugging the oil gusher will be something very close to these ideas.
The idea from the surgeons:
My idea:
Kids Demonstrate BP Oil Disaster Plug Idea
This is a good demonstration of an idea for helping in the Gulf BP disaster. I don’t know if the blowout preventer could withstand the downward force exerted upon it by the plug however. But there are certainly adaptations of this idea that might work if the blowout preventer were removed from the equation. The main point though is that kids are engaging in logical thinking about the problem. At this very moment, I would be willing to bet that the complete solution to the BP oil disaster is already available. It has been thought of and put somewhere. For sure. It simply needs to be found now.