Hunters for the Hungry Fred has been working with an agency called Hunters for the Hungry for five years. During that time, his food bank has received thousands of pounds of venison to feed the poor. This year, however, when Fred received no call from the agency saying it was ready to deliver the meat, he called the organization himself. The answering machine […]
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As a way to help the street children of India Rita Panicker founded Butterflies, a non-governmental organization back in 2001. She believes that if children who can help themselves become more independent and self-supporting have a better sense of pride in themselves. Some of the children had jobs from rag picking to sweeping floors, but they didn’t have the help […]
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Clintonville, Wis. A series of underground booms and explosions rattled the nerves of residents in this small city this week, sending police and public officials searching for a cause. Resident Al Miller likened the sounds to “a heavy-duty thunderstorm,” while a neighbor said it “sounded like a bomb had gone off.” On three successive nights, loud sonic disturbances roused people […]
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After Chen Quanguo was appointed Communist Party secretary, he went to Tibet where he saw that they started arresting Uighurs and sending them to torture camps. The people were told that they were going to reeducation camps. The police took them from their homes at night and took their children to orphanages. Most of the people were sent to hospitals, […]
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Cremation has become increasingly popular among current generations. One of the most common questions people seem to consider regarding the choice is Does it cost more to be cremated or buried? The not so surprising answer is “burial” of course. Because of this, the traditional burial, once so important in the grieving process, is becoming a thing of the past. […]
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Deputy Accidentally Shoots His Mother In Church You would think that police officers would be the most responsible gun owners… No? After all, they are experts, having received training in how to properly handle firearms — or so we would think! If that were entirely true, then we wouldn’t be left wondering how a McCracken County deputy sheriff shot his […]
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According to a report from the foundation Walk Free there are over 14 million people are living in slavery. The foundation reported that this number includes adults and children. Which is about 40% of the global amount. The highest numbers of slavery are in the countries of Mauritania, Uzbekistan, Qatar, China, Pakistan, and Haiti. Some believe that slave trade is […]
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That’s right… NASA paid people to lay in bed! NASA asked for volunteers who’d like to lie in bed for 24 hours a day for 10 weeks to volunteer for a program to study prolonged idleness. The test subjects, had access to TVs, books, and computers, and even had to wash up in bed. Volunteers were paid $12,000, but NASA […]
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For showing a picture of a tube of toothpaste with the words “Squeeze Russia out of yourself” Andrei Bubeyev was arrested and sentenced to over two years in prison. He showed this to twelve of his friends on social media under his private setting and didn’t know that others besides his friends could see the post. Since 2010 there has […]
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Meiktila, Myanmar Muslims massacred: Newly released satellite photographs have revealed the extent of the sectarian violence in central Myanmar last month, in which Buddhist mobs torched hundreds of Muslim homes, killing at least 43 people. According to Human Rights Watch, the group that released the images, more than 860 buildings in the town of Meiktila were destroyed damaged or incinerated […]
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