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Massive Power Outages Were Caused by Hackers

According to CBS’s 60 Minutes program two blackouts that affected millions of Brazilians in 2005 and again in 2007 were caused by hackers going after systems that control the power grid.

Pope Benedict XVI Wants to Save Humanity From Homosexuality

Pope Benedict XVI has likened saving humanity from the ravages of gays and transsexuals to saving the rain forests from the ravages of man. “(The Church) should also protect man from the destruction of himself. A sort of ecology of man is needed,” the pontiff said to the Vatican inner council known as the Curia…Full […]

Monkeys go Ape at their Trainer

FUNNY – In eastern China, in a market a trainer wanted to make the monkeys ride mini bicycles. But the monkeys went wild when the trainer handed out a vicious beating to one of them during a performance. In turn one of the angry animals twisted his ears. Another monkey pulled his hair, biting his […]

Barack Obama – Americas First Black President

Image by jmtimages via Flickr Caribbean nationals celebrated as Barrack Obama broke through racial barriers and created history by becoming the first black American president. Obama warned Americans of the difficult road ahead and urging them all – Democrats and Republicans – to come together for the benefit of the country, and to those across […]

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