Google-owned YouTube, which has been under fire for allowing kids programming to get out of control with violent and exploitative content, finally responded to public indignation and promises to implement filters to block violence and adult-themed material from videos targeting children and families – no date given for this move, however. YouTube did shut down the notorious Toy Freaks channel that had ten million subscribers. It features a father who played pranks on his daughters, which many people saw as the legitimization of abuse. There are many cartoon producers creating violent and sexually suggestive content aimed at children apparently for the sole purpose of traumatizing them and creating social attitudes that reject traditional values. -GEG
Offline is a documentary on the inevitability of the Earth being slammed by a mega solar flare – not the common type that interrupts communications and creates a light show in the Northern skies – but the big brothers thousands of times more powerful. These monsters deliver enough energy to blow apart the master transformers that supply the planet’s energy grids. When that happens, the lights go out for longer than anyone wants to think about. These X-Class solar storms hit the Earth every 150 years, on average. The last one arrived 156 years ago. We are overdue (
