Even MORE ISIS events

An ISIS magazine promotes slavery, rape, and murder in their God's name.

Previously I made a statement that I believe that they're just looking for attention, and in a way I believe that this is supporting my statement, but also fights it.

First, I don't think it's fair to consider the Islamic deity, or holy spirit, the same as one in another faith, such as Christianity. With that out of the way, the fact that their religious scripture not only approves, but praises the following of inhuman actions, in my opinion requires isolation. There shouldn't be any connection between those who follow that belief valiantly, and those who have nothing to do with anything they work for or believe in.

While this does seem extreme, It seems necessary. These people are advocating rape, slavery, ethnic cleansing and sexual abuse, and are trying to force these beliefs on the rest of the world, rather violently. I still think that they are acting for attention right now, it's for a bigger idea that they have, and it's rather frustrating that it's affecting the world as much as it is. Like stated previously, I don't believe they should be killed, but rather isolated by our choice. In doing this we sustain our humanity by not killing them for their beliefs, and allow them to live their lives by their ideals, but without any connection to those who don't wish to partake in that Religion.

Topping it off, most of what ISIS is doing is nothing new, we've seen it all before and a lot of these events are happening in other parts of the world without global recognition. ISIS is just like a little kid, doing substantially worse things, unforgivable things, but doing it on small scales and to the Biggest of the big countries, and trying to get more attention out of it.

I personally am pretty pissed at ISIS because they do these things based off of religion, and I'm not personally a very religious person, and dislike those who try to make actions towards or judgement upon someone else based on their religious beliefs.

Cure for cancer.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-07/queensland-scientists-discover-cancer-fighting-berry/5796106

Using a new berry that is very particular on where it grows, and only grows in North East Australia, can cure non-metastatic cancer. For those unaware, metastatic means that the cancer has grown to another part of the body, and isn't the original tumor, this berry has a 75% success rate on it's first attempt, and works with roughly 15 days.

This is phenomenal, and I hope it isn't worth and arm and a leg to create the compound out of the berry. There was a man who had discovered a completely organic insect repellent, and was completely edible to anything that wasn't an insect, but was nearly impossible to fund on a large scale because of how expensive the process to extract the substance and do whatever was necessary to perfect it to do it's intended purpose.

Sadly these tests have only been done on animals so far, and I believe they are now working on testing the aspects of the human body that could affect how the compound reacts, but it should, in theory, be almost exactly the same with the group of animals they've tested on so far.

This compound's effects are rather miraculous. It works within an extremely short time in comparison to the modern day solutions/fixes to cancer, and has such a high success rate. The only downside that I could see to this drug is the fact that it isn't able to be applied to any tumor in the body, and is restricted to a tumor accessible by direct injection, and aren't part of a metastatic chain.

Ebola is Curable (small rant)

EBOLA IS CURABLE AND I DIDN'T KNOW THIS.
A German scientist contracted the disease while working with WHO. He was treated and released from the hospital on Friday. Another patient who contracted Ebola in West Africa is being treated in Frankfurt. The unidentified Ugandan man who worked for an Italian aid gorup was brought there on Friday from Siierra Leone.
"As the US and the world raatchet up their humanitarian response to an outbreak President Obama has called "a threat to global security," health authorities remind AMericans that other disease that threatened to spread even more easily have been kept in check in the recent past. Massive investments in public health funding, medical research, and containment strategies have played a major role in keeping diseases including SARS, avian flue, H1N1, and Ebola from gaining serious footholds in human populations, especially in the West."
Four US health care workers diagnosed with Ebola all survived after receiving treatment in the US as well.

If we can curable, why is it such a problem. Where is the action. I understand the fact that there are a lot of patients, but if we can cure it, the death number should be reduced significantly. Actions should be taken while a prevention effort is devised. The fact that it seems like a giant game of Plague Inc. is being played with the human race right now is sickening. We have kept other disease in check, as stated above, but this is a little frustrating. You'd think we would have gotten better at this by now, and maybe taken some initiative to prevent these things from happening in lesser developed countries, instead of relying on the West to be a stronghold and pray that nothing can get past the fortress, because eventually, something will.

Half of the World's animals - GONE?!

Scientists have devised a way to accurately monitor the number of living animals on the planet right now. This new tool has been dubbed the "Living Planet Index," or LPI. It reflects the state of all 45,000 known vertebrates by analyzing 10,000 different populations, covering 3,000 species in total. The number of wild animals on Earth has halved in the past 40 years, according to this new analysis. These creatures across land, rivers and the seas are being annihilated as humans hunt them to extreme degrees, and pollute or destroy their habitats. The Zoological Society of London's director of science Ken Norris as said, "If half the animals died in London zoo next week it would be front page news, but that is happening in the great outdoors. This damage is not inevitable but a consequence of the way we choose to live." Nature was essential for human well-being. We have lost one half of the animal population and knowing this is driven by human consumption, is clearing a call to arms and humans must act, according to Mike Barratt, director of science and policy at WWF. More of earth needs to be protected from development and deforestation, while food and evergy has to be produced in a sustainable manner.

There is a lot more to this article in the later 3/4, but this is a good section that I'd like to share my thoughts on. I'm not trying to sound like one of those people that just complain about how humans are destroying nature and how we have to do something about it right this instant. That's not going to happen with how humans are, at least not on a large scale. Governments are not going to dedicate any amount of money or time to preventing ecological problems, unless it's to one-up an opposing country, or that country has no pressing matters and is fairly well off in a political and economical sense. They're too focused on war and being the best, and trying to deal with human ethics, rather than the basic "Hey, why don't we all just stop killing our planet first, then deal with trying to kill each other with nuclear weapons." While I am in no way trying to say that we should just ignore this problem, people need to realize that they can't wait for a law that says you can't throw away [insert miscellaneous item here] and then follow the rules. Humans have to take this into their own hands, spread the word and hope that their acquaintances, friends and family have the heart, and/or time to help the cause. It has to start small, and off the radar. Kind of like a revolution.

WWW in trouble?

The British inventor of the World Wide Web warned on Saturday that the freedom of the internet is under threat by governments and corporations interested in controlling the web. Tim Berners-Lee, a computer scientist who invented the web 25 years ago, called for a bill of rights that would guarantee the independence of the internet and ensure the all user's privacy. Berners-Lee said at the London "Web We Want" festival on the future of the internet: "If a company can control your access to the internet, if they can control which websites they go to, then they have tremendous control over your life." He poses a question to his audience: If a government can block you going to, for example, the opposition's political pages, then they can give you a blinkered view of reality to keep themselves in power. Governments and big companies have become aware of the temptation that controlling the internet has. Berners-Lee has called for an "internet version of the Magna Carta," in reference to basic rights and freedoms being guaranteed. 

I am so glad that the creator of the WWW has spoken to this issue. A lot of people joke constantly about how the NSA is monitoring everything we say, and comments towards them like they were reading it themselves, but the fact that the USA government actually tried to put that system in place is wrong on so many levels. The internet should not be controlled in anyway shape or form, but as Berner-Lee put it himself "some things are of course just illegal, child pornography, fraud, telling someone how to rob a bank, that's illegal before the web and it's illegal after the web." These things will always be wrong, and can be removed/punished justly. That said, in no way shape or form should anybody have any control over the internet.

A "small" rant

A 37 year old man was hung in Iran for heresy. I can't even explain how frustrated I am by this. Mohsen Amir-Aslani was found guilty of heresy and insulting prophet Jonah. According to his family he was arrested 9 years ago after having psychotherapy and also recited and gave his own interpretation of Qur'an. Authorities found his activities guilty of heresy. He was executed last week by hanging after his actions were described as 'new innovations in the religion and spreading corruption on the earth." Not only that, but he faced accusations of having sex outside marriage.

I am so upset with this, it's nearly unfathomable. A man was executed based off of his religious views. A lot of countries in the Middle East need to wake up. Religious views. Beliefs about something that nobody can even come close to proving, and they kill a man. They are impending on human rights because they don't believe in the same things. It's not like they can leave either, even if they wanted to. This is equivalent to me killing a man because he doesn't like peanut butter. Actually no, that doesn't compare equally, the man could just vomit after eating peanut butter if he dislikes it that much. That has a way to be proven and none of this does. I understand the speaking out against "prophet Jonah," but that should be a basic human right, to speak out against something they disbelieve. This would be a whole different story if this man had actually done something disorderly in honor of his beliefs, but no. This man just had some religious views and they hung him. It also makes me mad that we can't stop this without being unethical. So what are we supposed to do? Let people be killed for following basic human rights, or be unethical and try to do something about it? And can we?

China, the World, and Coal.

Since you were little, your parents or guardians have been talking about gas prices. Gas is always getting more expensive, and is one of the more popular forms of energy used today. Less people think about coal versus gasoline, but what’s been happening with coal lately? Well the UN has stated that there is no future in the world’s mixture of energy sources for coal. Many say that this is true, but because they believe that coal will run to a substantially smaller portion, in comparison to the amount of it today. According to the UN, neither of those is correct. China has substantially increased their production of renewable energy sources, especially wind.  The Chinese went from 70 to 200 gigawatts of wind, rivaling 2 times the amount of the entire European Union. Not only has China massively increased their renewable energy, they’re about to limit coal! China is going to ban the sale of coal in 2015. What does this mean? Well Australia has recognized China’s new leaf, and are aware of the fact that in order for anything to change in the world’s system right now, the US and India must be on board with the same ideals of significantly reducing the amount of non-renewable energy used in the world. India is already working on this, and a very large summit is being held, with more than 120 world leaders attending, in order to address just this. The UN has told the coal industry that the world’s coal reserves should be left in the ground to prevent catastrophic global warming. China has taken the largest leap of faith in their industries.

 A report says that AIR POLLUTION ALONE kills 750,000 people in china ANNUALLY. If China is willing to ban their imports, by 50 million tons, there is absolutely no reason that the US can’t do that. China has such a vice grip over this situation, it’s unbelievable. The fact we even need a summit for this is ridiculous. Some say that we will lose a lot of jobs and the economy won’t improve as much as proposed by the complete switch to renewable energy, and to that I say you have valid point. Though you have to realize, that transportation people will only have to relearn the new technology. So therefore they can still keep their jobs. More jobs will be needed for upkeep, and more of our countries money may also be put into the economy to improve it. That is, if our government can think properly. That’s for another time. Although this is an insane concept, for the worlds benefit it’s extremely smart that China has made this leap. We just have to wait and see how it plays out.