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Build interactive charts and visualizations] - StumbleUpon. Corporate Wars-Alternative News Links. 12 Insane Animal Stories That Are Completely True. Nature: when it’s not trying to kill us with tornadoes, fires, mudslides, hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes, it can really captivate us with its crazy animals.

12 Insane Animal Stories That Are Completely True

Below are 12 insane stories about nature’s creatures that are totally, 100% true. So sit back and enjoy—just don’t take your guard down, because that’s precisely when nature likes to strike. 12. Adventures of the Honey Badger The supreme authority on awesomeness, The Guinness Book of World Records, has declared the Mellivora capensis, or Honey Badger, the most fearless animal in the world. 11. Check out this pissed-off duck. 10. Sometimes a bear just needs a sandwich. 9. These pooches from Quezon City, Philippines are named “Cute” and “Bambi,” and both were born without their front pair of legs. Source: 8. Honestly, it’s hard to feel too sorry for middle-aged people who have the time and money to take sailing lessons. 7. 6.

I have nothing against Jaden Smith. Fat German Rabbits to Feed Poor: Monster Bunnies For North Korea - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International. It all started when Karl Szmolinsky won a prize for breeding Germany's largest rabbit, a friendly-looking 10.5 kilogram "German Gray Giant" called Robert, in February 2006.

Fat German Rabbits to Feed Poor: Monster Bunnies For North Korea - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Images of the chubby monster went around the world and reached the reclusive communist state of North Korea, a country of 23 million which according to the United Nations Food Programme suffers widespread food shortages and where many people "struggle to feed themselves on a diet critically deficient in protein, fats and micronutrients. " Szmolinsky, 67, from the eastern town of Eberswalde near Berlin, recalls how the North Korean embassy approached his regional breeding federation and enquired whether it might be willing to sell some rabbits to set up a breeding farm in North Korea. He was the natural choice for the job. "They'll be used to help feed the population," Szmolinsky told SPIEGEL ONLINE.

"I've sent them 12 rabbits so far, they're in a petting zoo for now. Greedy Rabbits Keep track of the news. For those who want to know: Reliable information on health, energy, media,... Down To Business: Dont Dismiss The iPad And Other Tablets As Just Hype. There's no ignoring the iPad's market momentum, and if you think these devices aren't going corporate already, you haven't been paying attention Depending on whom you talk to, the iPad and its emerging tablet rivals are either the end of the PC as we know it or just nice little marginal gadgets.

Down To Business: Dont Dismiss The iPad And Other Tablets As Just Hype

They'll either transform how business people consume, share, and process information, or they'll end up with the Newton and the Network Computer among the glorified technology devices whose time, at least in the enterprise, never came. Digg - All Topics - The Latest News Headlines, Videos and Images. 5 Absurd Ways Comic Books Have Resurrected Dead Superheroes. Superhero comics have an inherent problem.

5 Absurd Ways Comic Books Have Resurrected Dead Superheroes

They are intended to run indefinitely, so you can't really kill off characters. Yet we the reader need to fear for the character's lives when danger is about. They deal with this by repeatedly killing off the good guys, and bringing them back ... often in the most absurd and/or insane way possible... Spider-Man Gives Birth to Himself In a storyline titled "Changes," Spider-Man has to fight The Queen, a ridiculously powerful villainess no one has ever heard of before.

The Queen eventually lets Spider-Man escape, having accomplished her goal. The Queen then tracks Spider-Spider-Man down and takes him to her lair, where he can finish his transformation into Frodo's worst nightmare. So even though Spider-Spider-Man is still male, and The Queen never boned him as promised (tease!) "Oh well. But The Queen leaves just in time to miss ... ...

Organic webslingers. Also, he discovers that he can also talk to bugs now. WikiLeaks. Business & Financial News, Breaking US & International News. 15 of the Deadliest U.S. Corporations. These corporations, if they were individual human beings, would be locked up for life.

15 of the Deadliest U.S. Corporations

Instead, they continue raking in the big bucks. Human rights abuses, murder, war, eco disasters, and animal exploitation keep these evil companies raking in the green. Prepare to be disgusted. Chevron Image Source Several big oil companies make this list, but Chevron deserves a special place in Hell. DeBeers Image Source Diamonds are a girl's best friend -- unless she lives in the Ivory Coast. Tyson Even if you don't care about the horrendous animal abuse that has been documented in Tyson's factory farms, you have to flinch at Tyson's appalling environmental abuses and workers' rights violations, as well as the fact that on several occasions, Tyson has allowed e coli tainted beef to enter the food supply.

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