House Of Horrors.
Posted by: clearly_obscure
Ninemsn's Report

In what I would call one of the most disgusting, vile forms of betrayal of a "childs" trust, a father had kept his daughter locked in his cellar for 24 years, during which time, has had 7 children with her. Three of "their" children (aged 19, 17, and 5) had never even seen daylight. Three other children were adopted by the man and his wife, who "knew" absolutely nothing about the girl being held in the cellar after he husband apparently told her their d
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Employers To Read Workers Emails Australia
Posted by: Mayet ~ Endless Spirit ~
The Crossroad Inn
Australia has quietly proposed new email security that will allow bosses to spy on employees emails for "security reasons". I love how they slip something so sly in and make it look so completely innocent and a much needed have to have commodity. They actually convince people to accept this loss of privacy. Sounds so innocent, but what people don't see is the bigger picture. The greater chopping and slashing of peoples rights and privacy which is creating a race of sheep and people who believe
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England Bans Food Dyes
Posted by: Mayet ~ Endless Spirit ~
I don't know why it takes Government so long to get with the program on certain issues. One of them is food color. As a mother of food sensitive hyperactive autistics, I know what food colors can do. if you give my child green or red food color in cordials or other foods you can actually watch the physical and mental changes in them. Within 15 minutes a normal placid happy child will be a ranting running yelling jumping, climbing the walls tarzan on steroids.

Everyone knows this, even parents of non sensitive children, so why does it take "decades" as quoted in the fo
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Plum Island
Posted by: Seth God of Chaos


I make it a rule to never ascribe malicious intent to any occurrence that can be reasonably attributed to human stupidity. There is no such thing as a completely fail-safe system; at least, none that human ingenuity can devise. Likewise, I acknowledge the role of coincidence in the course of human events. Synchronicity does not necessarily imply a designing will. Shit happens, as they say.

The tragic loss of the space shuttle Columbia is a classic illustration of both of these principles: The shuttle is as close to a fail-safe system as our species is capable of. No
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20 Ways The World Could End
Posted by: invader_gir
We've had a good run of it. In the 500,000 years Homo sapiens has roamed the land we've built cities, created complex languages, and sent robotic scouts to other planets. It's difficult to imagine it all coming to an end. Yet 99 percent of all species that ever lived have gone extinct, including every one of our hominid ancestors. In 1983, British cosmologist Brandon Carter framed the "Doomsday argument," a statistical way to judge when we might join them. If humans were to survive a long time and spread through the galaxy, then the total number of people who will ever li
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Aquagenic Urticaria
Posted by: klutch
i seen this news report on a 19yo that is allergic to water, there are only a few recorded cases, i found it interesting and thought you might aswell

news report by ACA

document tation of the case ashley has.
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The Tibetans Are Revolting
Posted by: Acid
Massive protests over China's regime in Tibet is causing disruption to everything that is even remotely Olymptics related. Tibetan protests have spread to other privinces with a Chinese crackdown seeing many arrests.