From the Community: Invasion of the mind controlling parasites?
Defense Industry: Keep Paying Us or the Economy Dies
Submitted by Anonmaly
A new report from aerospace leader Lockheed Martin has suggested that cuts to the defense budget could spell economic disaster.
In other words, it’s not just the prospect of declining defense budgets that ravage the most important nodes of the defense industrial base. On the low-pay end of the spectrum, it’s the fact that manufacturing plants have moved to low-wage places like China — which also erodes U.S. engineering know-how. On the high end, defense firms now have to compete with Apple, Google, Facebook and anything Y Combinator funds for bright tech engineers. All that is a problem that extends way beyond defense budgets, and into fundamental questions of how the U.S. structures its economy and values work.
Invasion Of The Mind-Controlling Zombie Parasites
Submitted by Misti
No, it's not a new horror movie just in time for Halloween. NPR reports on the way parasites in the brain can alter behavior -- and humans aren't immune to the effects.
"Studies have looked at accidents — individuals in automobile accidents, both actually drivers and pedestrians — and they have increased rates of Toxoplasma as well," says Bob Yolken, chair of Pediatric Neurovirology at Johns Hopkins medical school.
Developing countries doing more to check emissions than rich ones: report
Submitted by JanforGore
Who is doing the most to reduce harmful emissions? It's not the rich countries responsible for the majority of greenhouse gases, according to a new report, but developing nations.
The authors of the SEI report concluded that unless the UN accounting system shut the loopholes, the rich countries would be able to meet their pledges "with very little actual mitigation, and possibly with none at all".
It also noted that the rich countries had not decoupled their consumption patterns from emissions but rather they had shifted many of those emissions to developing countries. In other words, the fossil-fuel driven consumption levels of the rich countries have not reduced over time and the actions taken by them to reduce emissions have been only those which brought net-benefit to their economies.
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Absolutely not.
We should not reward inferior companies. If Lockheed Martin cannot compete without corporate welfare, then they should go out of business and another company with bright and innovative engineers will replace them.
The same with oil and gas. If they cannot profit without tax payer subsidies then let them fail and lets move towards sustainable energy.
It will be GREAT for the economy. They are a leech on the economy.
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