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An Inconvenient Truth

Editor-in-Chief — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 07:43:16 +0000

For most of us, there is no debate anymore. The Human Race is abusing and pillaging Mother Earth to no end. We pollute the air and soil, wipe out plant and animal species altogether, and have put our world on a dangerous path. The result of our hedonistic planetary lifestyle includes rising water levels and polar melting, destabilizing currents and wind flow, and both decreasing and [...]

The Brady Report: No Debate on Climate Change

Editor-in-Chief — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 05:02:49 +0000

From Kyle Brady…. The climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark has been the talk of the last two weeks, where countries argue over what limited emissions targets will be agreed to and how it will be financed, not to mention on what baseline the changes are calculated. But this entire argument between nations has underlined a [...]

Lighting Up Iran

Editor-in-Chief — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:43:21 +0000

The people of Iran have not quietly gone away since the abhorrently fraudulent federal election back in June. Let us not forget the number of votes in dozens of cities across the country exceeded the number of eligible voters by nearly three million. After two weeks of near daily protests, the Mullah backed regime stood its ground and announced [...]

Top Ten Ways to Improve Your Memory

Editor-in-Chief — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:33:20 +0000

The human brain is like a huge university library that stocks its many shelves with memories as opposed to books. An area of the brain known as the hippocampus, the part of the brain in charge of memory, has the most responsibility in this mind library. It hops back and forth between the new releases [...]

The Brady Report: Death Before Reform

Editor-in-Chief — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:05:00 +0000

With the American Congress and much of the country’s population debating healthcare reform, people from the outside looking in don’t quite understand what all the fuss is about. Even more so, many look on in disbelief over why things have gone so far off the deep end. Name-calling, racial slurs, accusations of communist or even Nazi like behavior, and above all else, a steady [...]

A Christmas Carol – The Original

Editor-in-Chief — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:04:21 +0000

The greatest Christmas movie of all time is usually a toss up between Jimmy Stewart’s It a Wonderful Life or Alastair Sim’s A Christmas Carol. RELATIVITY OnLine weighs in on the side of good old Ebenezer Scrooge, an international and indelible icon of redemption. Originally written in 1843 by literary immortal Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol [...]

Memories of Magic

Editor-in-Chief — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:35:10 +0000

From David Anthony Hohol… Of all my memories of Christmas past, the most magical was a personal and very private moment in time. It was 1978 and I was an independent-minded eight-year old boy, who’d already seen much of the country. My family recently made another unexpected move, taking me away from yet another school and [...]

Yesterday’s Yugoslavia

Editor-in-Chief — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:00:37 +0000

From Sinisa Boljanovic… On March 24, 1999, NATO forces began attack on Serbia and Montenegro. The bombing went for 78 days. A few thousand people were killed, many buildings, bridges, railroads, roads and factories were destroyed. Also, many people still experience mental and psychic effects of the fear they had been through. Ten years later, Serbian bloggers [...]

Sarah Palin on Canadian Health Care

Editor-in-Chief — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:40:56 +0000

From David Anthony Hohol… One of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s most enduring television comedies, “This Hour has 22 Minutes” gained headlines recently, when given a quote by the Republic Party porfessoinal celebrity Sarah Palin. Palin, who’s quickly become one of the most famous politicians on the planet, was approached by CBC comedian Mary Walsh while playing her beloved [...]

Top Ten Countries for Life Expectancy

Editor-in-Chief — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:00:44 +0000

Would you like to live to a ripe old age? Pack your bags and move to one of these countries. In compiling life expectancy data, by far the most important factor is wealth; people with money tend to eat healthier, not smoke, and drink less. They also have access to the good health care. Adding [...]