Taken from a post on SocietySucks.com

When oil prices reached $147 per barrel, people were saying that oil would reach $200 per barrel, there was talks of hybrid cars, using alternative methods for fuel, etc. etc.  But then prices crashed below $40 per barrel and the $4 gallon (in the US at least) was gone.  So is this crisis over? unfortunately not, but it seems that people have already forgotten the high price of a gallon of fuel and US oil consumption is on the rise again.  Demand for gasoline in the US is already up 6% since last September and many of the projects that were viable when oil prices were high have been scrapped or put on the back burner.  One alternative fuel, Ethanol, uses more energy to produce it than it can actually provide and also has other non-desirable side effects of using a food to make a fuel.

Americas account for 4.3% of the world population, yet they consume 26% of the world oil consumption, in contrast Europe makes up 6.8% of the world’s population and consumes 11%.  High tax on oil in Europe has made people use more economic cars, with fuel economy being double that of the average American car.

If you now add China, India and Asia to the equation, with the introduction of $2500 cars.  Car ownership in these areas is soaring.  Just a 3% increase in demand for oil will mean demand will once again outstrip supply.

So how long before part 2 of the energy crisis?  12 months, 6 months, 3 months???  Everyone is so wrapped up in the financial crisis that once again they won’t see this coming, even if they do, it is pretty much too late to do anything about.  The US may hold off the $10/gallon for a little while, but $5/gallon will soon be a reality.

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Adam & The Ants - Probably one of the first bands and songs that I really liked as a child was Stand and deliver by Adam & the Ants. Im not quite sure what it was about it, perhaps the White tape across his nose or when he smashed through the window, who knows. I still on occassion listen to some of there music.

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We hear pretty nasty things happening all the time, but my daughter came across the above story while browsing the Internet for the usual random thing.

Its an extremely disturbing article about a mother would chained up her two sons and allowed some horrendous abuse in the name of a religious cult. below are some excerpts from the article itself.

The abuse – involving members of a religious cult – was uncovered by chance last May when a neighbour’s television baby monitor picked up graphic pictures of what was happening next door.

Ondrej and his nine-year-old brother Jakub were locked and chained in the cellar for months by their mother Klara, 31 – a member of a group called the Grail Movement.

He was caged, beaten and gagged to stop him screaming, according to reports.

Mauerova had the monitor installed so that she could watch the abuse from her kitchen but the images were picked up by a neighbour who used an identical system to monitor a newborn baby, the regional court in Brno has heard.

Police were called and the two boys as well as what appeared to be a 13-year-old girl were freed.

But the girl later turned out to have been one of the alleged abusers, 34-year-old Barbora Skrlova.

You can read the full article here ‘Cannibal relatives ate boy alive’ By John Bingham

There have been many attempts to surpress the need for sleep. 70 years ago a chemical called dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) was introduced by the pharmaceutical company Smith, Kline, and French. It was used in the the 2nd World War and appeared to have few side effects. But by the 60’s it was discovered that higher and higher doses were needed and giving up the drug was another problem causing disturbed sleep to violent outbursts. Not to be detered by this, the latest solution is Modafinil, researchers found that troops could perform effectively 40 hours at a time and then get a normal nights sleep without needed sleeping pills. The US Airforce has approved its use and the French Foreign Legion gave it to soldiers in the first Gulf war. So is this the solution, developed further could we live in a sleep free society? being able to operate productively days at a time without getting fatigued or imparing our judgement?

Looking further into this shows more worrying facts. Firstly no one really knows the true purpose of sleep. Is it true we sleep to stop feeling tired? is it also true that we eat to stop feeling hungry? Scientists are now starting to discover links between life-threatening illnesses and sleep deprivation, including Breast cancer (especially women involved in shift work) and heart disease. Even reducing your sleep by one hour a day could have a significant impact. A major study showed that reducing your sleep by 2 hours from 7 hours a night to 5 hours a night increases our chance of premature death by up to 70%. So by gaining a few extra hours a night by not sleeping are we in fact risking losing this time later on.

Perhaps instead of finding ways to get more hours in the day and get more out of our lives, we should be looking at ways of having better nights sleep. If you don’t get some sleep now, the saying ‘We can sleep when we are dead’ might happen sooner than you realise.

Thats all from me, now get some sleep

It was announced today that the spanish police has arrest five members of the hacking team know as D.O.M team.  D.O.M is ranked number 26 for all types of attacks with nearly 22,000 credited to them.  For defacements they are the 5th most prevalent.  The name D.O.M means Dark Owned Mafia.

You can read the full story here.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/17/spain.hackers.ap/index.html

Check out the new blog CyberHacking.com for the latest information on security updates and issues.

Secondly, coming soon I am doing a competition titled ‘Become a millionaire - Win a Million’ -  Yes, thats right, im giving a million away in a competition.   Yes okay there is a twist, but you will find out soon

Anyway, watch this space for the next update in the next day or so

So where did Chocolate Easter Eggs come from? It seem the the first chocolate eggs appeared around the early 1800’s, starting in France and Germany before spreading across the rest of Europe. At first they were solid because chocolate as it is now didn’t exist and making hollow eggs was a far more difficult process involving making a paste from ground roasted Cacao beans. With the discovery of modern chocolate making processes and mass products methods, chocolate eggs soon became the easter gift of choice in the UK and by the 60’s this had spread worldwide.

Thanks for taking the time to reading my blog, hope everyone has a great easter break

The prizes range from 10 Entrecard Credits, all the way up to 1000 Entrecard Credits. To enter all you need is to write your name and your email address (so I can contact you if you win, don’t worry, I wont send you spam ). To make things easier, if you use your Entrecard number for your name then I can easily find you to pay your winnings

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3. Last but not least.. Politics People and Pot… Because You have to be HIGH to believe some of this stuff. Some really interesting posts on this blog, and unlike most blogs you do know what this bloggers been smoking before he posted. Seriously though, a lot of stuff to make you think. Great blog, thanks

I was going to post about the worst three blogs I found on the internet, but decided that was probably too mean (Maybe thats an idea for another post), also I didn’t really want to give these blogs any extra links or traffic.

Thanks for reading