A new study has found that consuming high levels of fructose (from added sugars) harms a whopping 940 brain genes. This is a nutrigenomic study, a study in which researchers specifically study how food effects gene expression. These types of studies show us exactly how food effects the way our bodies operate and are critical in Read More…
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GOP Lawmakers Capitalize on Zika Threat to Pass Bill Dubbed ‘Making Pesticides Great Again’ Act
House Democrats and Obama administration, meanwhile, criticize bill’s assault on Clean Water Act The Republican-controlled U.S. House on Tuesday passed legislation—newly rebranded with the word “Zika” in it—that Democrats say is in fact not at all about the addressing the threat of the virus but making it easier for pesticides to contaminate the nation’s waterways. Read More…
Police Now Using “Pre-Crime” Algorithm To Target And Label Innocent Citizens As Criminals
It was recently reported that the Chicago Police Department has implemented a new Orwellian program that targets innocent citizens based on indicators that they might be a person who has the potential to carry out a crime. Similar to dystopian films like Minority Report, a complex computer algorithm will track and catalog every citizen in Read More…
Is the NSA Manipulating the Stock Market?
The rise of the meta-criminal Is the NSA manipulating the stock market? Trevor Timm of the Electronic Freedom Frontier dug up a very interesting nugget. It was embedded in the heralded December 2013 White House task force report on spying and snooping. Under Recommendations, #31, section 2, he found this: “Governments should not use their offensive Read More…
Temporary Truce in Syria, Again
Several fatal terrorist attacks at the beginning of this week have caused Russia’s Ministry of Defense to request a temporary truce in the Syrian towns near where the attacks occurred. The bombings took place this past Monday, which ISIS took responsibility for, and over 150 people were killed. The attacks occurred in the northern Syrian cities Read More…
Greece Evacuates Thousands from Refugee Camps
A very large refugee camp in Greece, the Idomeni Camp on the border with Macedonia, is being evacuated this week. The migrants in the camp are being taken to specially designed facilities, and they must travel 50 miles south in order to get there. Riot police moved into the camp in order to begin evacuation, Read More…






