From CounterPunchhttp://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/19/poverty-squalor-and-nuns/As both a non-Catholic and atheist, I have all the creds I need when it comes to doing a number on the granddaddy of organized religions. As a non-Catholic, I can mock their rituals, I can deplore their history, I can wail in indignation at their sexual molestation scandals, and I can snicker at the Pope’s hat.And as an ...

Images of the Grand Canyon are the first to be taken by the company's Trekker platform, which allows workers on foot to collect 360 degree imagery with a back-pack mounted camera system.'Our team strapped on the Android-operated 40lb backpacks carrying the 15-lens camera system and wound along the rocky terrain on foot, enduring temperature swings and a few muscle cramps ...

I guess this is no different from Google where search will bring up paid content first. Also probably Facebook must be under pressure to ramp up revenue give that FB share price has fallen.I’ve stayed on Facebook after its repeated privacy violations partly because I foolishly believed there was some sort of democratic approach to sharing freely with others. The ...

So much for fiscal prudence. $4.9 Trillion added by George Bush Presidency. $8 trillion by the Obama Presidency.Total U.S. debt has increased by 70 percent under Obama, from $10.625 trillion on January 21, 2009 to over $18.005 trillion today (Dec 2 2014) Each household in the U.S. now carries the burden of $124,000 in national debt alone - or $56,378 ...

Here are the excerpts from the NY Times articleThe traits — thicker hair shafts, more sweat glands, characteristically identified teeth and smaller breasts — are the result of a gene mutation that occurred about 35,000 years ago, the researchers have concluded. The discovery explains a crucial juncture in the evolution of East Asians. But the method can also be applied ...

Body Piercing Ritual called Kavadi (or Kaavadi) at a Hindu Kovil (I think Kali Amman) at Paniaddi near Noracholai (Kalpitiya Road)I was fascinated and amazed at the ecstasy and joy clearly visible in the devotee. See wiki on Body Piercing for Background InfoCouple of Links to other Body Piercing RitualsThailands Vegetarian Festival Thaipusam in SingaporePassing Thought:I read somewhere "You'll find ...

“The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist” Ananda Coomaraswamy, A pioneer historian of Indian Art and foremost interpreter of Indian culture to the West’.Ananda Coomaraswamy: The Arts and Crafts of India and Ceylon (1913) not really a review but excerpts from the book. Very readable and not just the ...

*#06# into Keypad to get IMEI number. If phone gets lost or stolen the phone let the company know IMEI number. Does Dialog Mobitel etc support "blacklist IMEI number" of lost phone.The International Mobile Equipment Identity or IMEI is a number, usually unique,[1][2] to identify GSM, WCDMA, and iDEN mobile phones, as well as some satellite phones. It is usually ...

Liberia and Ebola is in the News. A Rubber Farm (Estate for us Sri Lankans) leased by Firestone is also in the news as one of the few places where Ebola has been stopped from spreading.What the articles dont mention about the Rubber Farm is that it is a million acres (4% of the land in Liberia), and in 2005 ...

There have been a few comments with accusations of Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing of Tamils by the Sri Lankan Govt. 65% Sri Lankan Tamils live in Sinhalese Majority areas..In comparison only 1% Sinhalese live in Tamil majority areas.The Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora is 22% of the Sri Lankan Tamil PopulationLankan Tamils Living among Sinhalese65% of the Sri Lankan Tamils live in ...

Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan says another economic crash is probably in the books. Dont dismiss him as just the RB India Governor. Raghuram Rajan is also a Professor of Finance at University of Chicago and one time chief Economist at IMF.I personally keep track of Raghuram Rajan and Satyajit Das, both great names in the Finance world ...

Some interesting facts on US involvement with the Ebola Virus.#20 Researchers from Tulane University have been active for several years in the very same areas where this Ebola outbreak began. One of the stated purposes of this research was to study "the future use of fever-viruses as bioweapons".#21 According to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation in Sierra Leone, researchers ...

A must read article along the lines of Joseph Tainter's Collapse of Complex Societies. Examines the viability and sustainability of increasing complex societies. Is “doing more with less”, i.e. is ever increasing productivity sustainable.One should also think of increasingly complex Finance and Financial Instruments, and increased instability of finance and economies (kind of touched here) when reading the article. Its ...

Excerpt of an Article in Zero Hedge (a Financial blog) Newsweek reported in 2009:Monkeys that see sexually active females register as much as a 400 percent jump in testosterone (nature’s own performance-enhancing drug) promoting lean muscle and quick recovery times, according to the Yerkes Center for Primate Research at Emory University. In humans, German researchershave found that just having an ...

US Debt of 16.8 Trillion: How it Breaks down. Note the Federal Reserve cannot be strictly considered completely Federal Government.via:http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/10/230944425/everyone-the-u-s-government-owes-money-to-in-one-graph

First thanks to Tilak Ranaweera who commented about Obama wearing a sarong and a little googling turned up a treasure trove. The excerpts below.When Barack Obama met Genevieve Cook in 1983 at a Christmas party in New York’s East Village, it was the start of his most serious romance yet. But as the 22-year-old Columbia grad began to shape his ...

Zola Rajapakse has been selected to be one of the competitors in the World’s Toughest Trucker competition, which will be shown on the Discovery Channel.Zola, is an Old Royalist, one of the brothers in Eric Rajapakse Opticians family. Zola currently lives and runs a Trucking company in Arizona . More bio details available here.Airplay times and clips from the series ...

I keep getting this question of low unemployment numbers of US reported in the media, whereas I say there is high unemployment in the US.So first the point form answer.a) What the media reports is U3 from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS). U3 are those unemployed and participating in the labor force, i.e looking for a job.b) There ...

There is accumulating circumstantial evidence that Epstein's millions are from some other source, likely a country. No, its not Russia, its the country that has been caught many times spying in the US. The fund that Epstein runs does not generate the income that funds the lavish lifestyle. Blackmail in itself too cannot generate Epstein's income. Is Epstein selling/getting ...

From BBC.Saudi Arabia has invested in Pakistani nuclear weapons projects, and believes it could obtain atomic bombs at will, a variety of sources have told BBC Newsnight. While the kingdom's quest has often been set in the context of countering Iran's atomic programme, it is now possible that the Saudis might be able to deploy such devices more quickly than ...