The WARNING! --economic collapse

The economic collapse we just went through in '08 will happen again because the derivatives market is still not regulated effectively. Here is the story of a brave woman who tried to prevent the '08 crash. It explains a little how dangerous the derivatives market is to the economy.



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Watch The Warning on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.

The History of Russian Art

Well done video of the History of Russian art

Mormanism: The Book of Abraham

Here is a pretty good documentary that show that Mormonism's "Book of Abraham" has no credibility. It is a shame that so many people who seem to be pretty nice are tricked by this fake book.

Christ has Risen!

The Eastern Tradition of the Church definitely celebrates the resurrection with profound beauty and energy here is one beautiful example:

Existence of God Debat : D'Souza vs, Singer

D'Souza does an admirable job.

I think D'Souza needs to link the Kalaam argument to the Big Bang. For anyone to say that the universe has always existed or even posing multi-universes begs the question.

The Klamaam argument in my simplified form would be : If time is change. Anything that changes could not always have existed.[more here]

Hydraulic Hybrids video

Low Tech Missionaries

Here is the kind of thing that Catholic missionaries should be training in, besides theology. Low tech answers to common problems (click here for a previous post,  a low tech idea  on  how to make bad soil good). It is  a Catholic tradition to have technology at the service of man. The Jesuit missionaries were the discovers of a treatment for malaria; French monks helped farmers to improve farming techniques, and  the Czech Abbot Gregor Mendel founded the new science of genetics, which was a big help to agriculture. The following is a practical idea to a problem that kills women and children in poor countries: 









Here is another low tech idea for lighting: