Why the next world war will be fought over food

http://fortune.com/2014/12/21/why-the-next-world-war-will-be-fought-over-food/

The world has a massive food crisis - so big that the World Bank and the United Nations say there won’t be ( Read more... )

The Occupy Wall Street movement has been whining so loudly about the "plight of the 99%" and what to do about it that we've all forgotten about the fall of the Berlin Wall in '89 the end of the Cold War in 1991.

Lest we forget:

Here in America, everyone is in the top 1% in terms of the totality of humans everywhere on Earth. The homeless and ( Read more... )

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http://io9.com/5664390/5-times-we-almost-nuked-ourselves-by-accident

Accident, carelessness, and human stupidity have come closer to wiping out all life on Earth than anything else in all Earth's history.

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One of the main reasons I don't get all excited about predictions of the end of the world has to do with the fact that I was born in 1945, the year we used two nuclear bombs on Japan and thereby ended World War 2, one year before the Cold War began, and lived all the way through 45 years of that strange, terrifying not-war, which ended at the fall ( Read more... )

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World War III is a thought provoking look at an alternate ending of the Cold War. Compiled largely from TV news pictures and military videos from the period, World War III cleverly combines this footage in a convincing manner to give the illussion that what ( Read more... )

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