A New Beginning

The new year is approaching. As it does most of us hold high expectations; particularly that there won't be a year 2013. True, the doom of the human race is a lingering possibility. Massive disease and storms could lead us all to fall to the wrath of the earth. A wide reaching zombie apocalypse could slaughter the remaining survivors. As dramatic as this all sounds, it won't be "The End of the World". And even though it's a satisfying accusation, these zombies aren't "ruining your life". Nay, humans are natural born entrepreneurs. We have learned to survive by coping with our environment and modifying what we are given. Once we've all been transformed to flesh eating monsters, there will be no flesh left to be eaten. So what  will we do? We shall go forward! We will continue to build our civilization in our newly formed zombie society. And given that we're already dead, we will be less vulnerable than ever before. Death will not exist. There will be no use of war or violence. Instead we will all coexist as successful and high achieving dead, in a very much lively way. As ironic as it sounds, the zombie apocalypse will be the calling of world peace. Surely the world won't end. in fact, this is the beginning of something great.

Baby Snatchers

An illegal baby scandal has been coming to light in Spain. Thousands of newborn babies have been stolen directly from the hospital and sold to families apparently desperate for children. There are now groups working with adult adoptees, called Ninos Robados, who were stolen from their birth mothers during infancy. At least 2,000 cases have been filed with Spanish prosecutors, and there are an estimated tens of thousands more dating from the 1950's to 1990's. Many adopted children will forever be unaware of their families and disrupted past. 
Sister Maria Gomez, an 89 year old nun, has become the face of this ongoing crime. She is accused of stealing a baby from their birth mother in 1989 and putting it up for illegal adoption.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/25/world/europe/wus-spain-stolen-babies/index.html?hpt=hp_bn2

Invisible Island Mystery Solved

Sandy Island has been drawn on maps of the southeast Pacific for over a century, but there is nothing but open water where the supposed landmass is located. It has been drawn on most navigational charts and even appeared on Google maps. Australian researches investigated the area last month and found nothing near the coordinates. Now a librarian has unraveled the mystery. The island is a mapping error that has developed over time from a marking drawn on the island's coordinates by whalers in 1876. The crew of the whaling ship The Voyager noticed that the area was a hazard to many ships so took note of the area. Since then, map illustrators have misinterpreted the area as a land mass, deceiving and disappointing map readers worldwide. Even Google believed it. 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/04/sandy-island-maps-whalers_n_2237170.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news