Carbon Eating Plant! Can It Stop Climate Change?

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 From the article:

The Kenfa plant could be used to gobble up CO2 from the atmosphere which would then be stored permanently in a type of fireproof concrete that uses fiber from the kenfa plant as filler. Plus kenfa can be fed to chickens and fashioned to make fibers used in ropes and clothing.

http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/can-1-miracle-plant-solve-the-worlds-3-greatest-problems

5 Ways Video Games Keep You Addicted

http://www.cracked.com/article_18461_5-creepy-ways-video-games-are-trying-to-get-you-addicted_p2.html

6 Food Industry Lies

http://www.cracked.com/article_19433_the-6-most-horrifying-lies-food-industry-feeding-you.html

Wal-Mart Spends a Little Gains A Lot

http://www.grist.org/food/2011-09-19-walmart-spends-a-little-gains-a-lot

Is It Local (Parody)

Ali G Interviews Noam Chomsky

Fiscal reform: Why we're hosed (Short Article)

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From the article:

For many years it has been painfully apparent to anyone who cares to face facts that entitlement spending, especially on health care, is on a growth path that will eventually require enormous tax increases to sustain. Yet thus far, any efforts to either restructure entitlements or raise the taxes needed to pay for them have run into a buzz saw of hostility from the electorate.

There seems to be some kind of widespread delusion that a small tax increase on the rich, combined with cuts in not-very-important spending categories will somehow deliver us from fiscal ruin. There is little appetite for the cuts in military and entitlement spending necessary to bring America's books toward balance.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/08/fiscal-reform?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/whywerehosed