Tar Sands Money Could Pay For Electric Cars

Send to KindleTweet A joint Co-operative Group/WWF report says that investments in oil by way of tar sands will divert money away from renewable energy investments. According to The Ecologist, BP is committing $12.5 billion to tar sands projects and infrastructure, and plans to acquire a major stake in a Canadian oil sands company. Shell [...]

Are Our Cell Phones Made of Conflict Metals?

Send to KindleTweet Human rights campaigners are demanding that technology companies be honest with customers regarding the origin of metals in their products, reports The Ecologist. According to Global Witness, militia groups in the Republic of Congo control most of the mineral trade. The trade includes tin and gold, which is ultimately manufactured in mobile [...]

Iran: “A Military Dictatorship?”

Send to KindleTweet U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that Iran is becoming a military dictatorship, according to BBC News. She said this while touring the region as she spoke to students at a local university. Sources say Clinton was there to help Saudi Arabia persuade China to stand against Iran’s nuclear objective. [...]

Yale Study May Lead To Better Mosquito Repellents

Send to KindleTweet A new study is helping scientists develop new ways to fight malaria-transmitting mosquitoes. Researchers found that most malaria-transmitting mosquitoes have scent receptors that detect compounds in human sweat. John Carlson, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale and senior author of the study said “The world desperately [...]

Government Agency Urges Black HIV/AIDS Awareness

Send to KindleTweet The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, joins African-Americans in remembering those who have died with AIDS and in fighting the disease. “We have a national responsibility to alleviate the HIV/AIDS-related suffering of African-Americans by ensuring that they have full knowledge of—and access to—all [...]

Calling All Men! Willing To Please?

Send to KindleTweet Who wants to be a male prostitute? Well if you want to be one, go apply at the Shady Lady Ranch in Nevada! The brothel charges $300 an hour for the man of your choice. Prostitution is legal in Nevada if you didn’t already know but this ranch offers males, which switches [...]

HIV/Aids Immigration Ban Lifted In U.S.

Send to KindleTweet A 22-year old HIV/Aids immigration has been lifted in the United States The ban has stopped anyone who is positive with either HIV or AIDS from entering the country. The ban, which was started in the late 1980s, was lifted on Monday and the U.S. plans to host a bi-annual global summit [...]

Communist Dictator Has Secret Passages

What communist world dictator might have a backup escape route underground?

Soldiers Leaving Diamond Field In Zimbabwe

Send to KindleTweet The African nation of Zimbabwe is reportedly pulling soldiers out of a diamond field after global diamond trade chiefs alleged abuses were taking place, according to BBC News. Activists say troops had killed 200 people at the Marange field and all the profits were going to President Robert Mugabe and his people, [...]

English To Be Taught By Mobile Phones

Send to KindleTweet The six largest mobile operators in Bangladesh have joined forces with the British Government to unveil the world’s largest project to teach a language using mobile phones, according to The Times of London. The $50 million project was funded by the British Government to promote speaking English in Bangladesh and it is [...]

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