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Employers Now Requiring You To Forfeit Your Facebook Password

March 20th, 2012 -- Posted in News, Wake Up! | No Comments »

Recently many businesses and government agencies have been asking applicants for their facebook username and password during the interview process when the applicants Facebook pages are set to private. This comes at a time when the job market is slowly beginning to build back up. A lot of applicants obviously refuse to hand over their accounts as it’s technically like someone telling you to give them the keys to your house so they can snoop around but other’s are finding it hard to say no. Further Your Knowledge »

Police Use Grenades On Peaceful Protestors

March 17th, 2012 -- Posted in News | No Comments »

On March 15th in Montreal Canada, the annual March Against Police Brutality protesters were walking down the street in peaceful protests and police started using grenades on the crowd. Several citizens were wounded from the grenades during the police’s violent attacks on the protesters. Further Your Knowledge »

Ohio Officer Used Stun Gun on 9-Year-Old Boy

March 17th, 2012 -- Posted in News, Wake Up! | No Comments »

An officer in Ohio was called to a house who’s mother was having her 9 year old son arrested. The police were called on the boy for skipping school and when the officer arrived the boy begged his mother to let him go to school instead of with the officer. Further Your Knowledge »

Vinegar, Water, & Alcohol Remedy For Ear Infections

March 6th, 2012 -- Posted in DIY | No Comments »

I was on Facebook yesterday and several people had been posting that they or their kids were sick pretty much the past couple weeks. There was one friend that had a sick daughter who was also diagnosed with an ear infection. The mother of the child had been getting responses on things to do to treat the infection instead of using the antibiotics. She apparently picked one of the idea’s and went with it. Further Your Knowledge »

The Department Of Homeland Security Searches Your Facebook And Twitter For Keywords

March 1st, 2012 -- Posted in Wake Up! | No Comments »

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has recently released documents of their intent to scan facebook and twitter for certain keywords that will then go into a database to be marked as items of interest and then filtered through by analysts. This list is of massive proportion and Congress has approved it. Whether anyone wants to believe it or not this is real and anything you put on your timeline, friends posts, chats, or messages will now be scanned and possibly used against you or your friends. This is not a joke and shouldn’t be taken lightly welcome to SOPA 2.0. Further Your Knowledge »

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch To Get Hit With Debris From Japanese Tsunami

February 29th, 2012 -- Posted in Wake Up! | No Comments »

U.S. Officials said today that debri that has washed out to see from Japans tsunami that hit last year will soon be washing up on remote stretches of the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii.

This debri will first hit Hawaii this winter which includes refrigerators and televisions. The debri got caught up in ocean currents and will eventually hit Further Your Knowledge »

Soylent Green

February 28th, 2012 -- Posted in Documentaries | No Comments »

A tale of Earth in despair in the year 2022. Natural foods like fruits, vegetables, and meat are now extinct. Earth is overpopulated and New York City has 40 million starving, poverty stricken citizens. The only way they survive is with water rations and eating a mysterious food called Soylent which is delivered by the government. A detective investigates the murder of the president of the Soylent company and he uncovers the secret ingredient of Soylent Green which is more disturbing than the Earth in turmoil. Further Your Knowledge »

Beaver Anal Gland Juice In Your Food

February 17th, 2012 -- Posted in Wake Up! | No Comments »

A friend of mine on Facebook posted an interesting article about some of the ingredients that is being used in our food supply as additives to “enhance” flavoring. After you read about this shocking discovery you will probably not ever want to eat anything that’s processed or has additives in it ever again. Especially those foods that have vanilla or raspberry flavoring in them! Further Your Knowledge »

Rocket Mass Heater Building For Your Home

February 11th, 2012 -- Posted in DIY, Helping | No Comments »

Here’s a video I that was recommended to me on youtube called Rocket Mass Heater. Basically it’s a method of building a sideways fire that is used to heat up your house or other building. These heaters are used completely underground or above ground enclosed in a mass of clay/rocks/bricks. In most cases it’s merely a cob construction around the heater. It warms the entire construction that’s built around the heater and also has a barrel sticking out the top of the object which emits heat into the room as well. Further Your Knowledge »

100 Things You Probably Didn’t Know You Could Compost

February 10th, 2012 -- Posted in DIY, Helping, Safe Food | No Comments »

Anybody that has a compost pile or bin knows that basic stuff like leaves, sticks, apple cores, banana peels, and other plant type materials can be put in the pile but I bet a lot of you don’t know that there are tons of other normal household items that can be put in as well. These items are usually just thrown in the trash and away they go to the landfill. Further Your Knowledge »