Oak Ridge National Laboratory A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using a combination of neutron and x-ray scattering to make hydraulic fracturing safer and more efficient. They want to improve fracking, by blasting well surfaces, or bores, with acoustic energy, which would enhance the ability of fracking…
Viv Forbes
Letter-to-the-Editor $500M Climate Carnival Concludes
COP 24 just concluded in Poland. Nearly 23,000 climate saviours attended this 24th annual climate carnival. Every year, plane-loads of concerned busybodies fly to some interesting new location to spend tax dollars on a well-fed 12 day holiday. They concoct plans to ration and tax the energy used by real workers, farmers and families back…
Riley J. Hood
The Muslim Report: Egypt
In 2011’s Arab Spring, Egypt overthrew the Muslim Hosni Mubarak as a renegade infidel, and elected the Muslim Brotherhood’s very own Mohamad Morsi to oppress the people. It seems Morsi wasn’t content to keep his sadistic activities confined to the Coptics, he started torturing his fellow Muslims, who didn’t like the taste of their own…
Riley J. Hood
The Muslim Report: Turkey
“But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:” I Corinthians 4:3 Turkey was once Greek, until the Islamic Turks exterminated the Greek Christians and took over their homeland. During the Ottoman Empire as much as 20% of the population was Christian, living as second class citizens; but major persecutions in…
Riley J. Hood
The Muslim Report: Syria
“The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.” Psalm 103:19In 2015 the Islamic State, ISIS conquered the city of Palmyra in Syria. In keeping with their doctrine of Jihad, they destroyed ancient artifacts at the city’s museum. Some of the antiquities were hid by the 81year old curator,…
General
Switzerland – What’s in a handshake?
At first glance this may seem like a trivial story , but what lies hidden beneath it could have serious consequences for our children and grandchildren. In Switzerland it has long been customary for students to shake the hands of their teachers at the beginning and end of the school day. It’s a sign of…