A marketing stunt for the upcoming Ubisoft game "Watch Dogs" is inadvertently allowing users to check how well they've set up their Facebook privacy settings.The campaign called "Digital Shadow", which currently is available only in the US, requests … Read more »
A 9-year-old boy might have saved his own life by singing a gospel song. Willie Myrick was kidnapped from his Atlanta driveway earlier this month by an unknown man. According to police, the kidnapper dropped him off unharmed after driving him around… Read more »
Most people are not aware of the fact that kidney diseases can be silent killers. They may not show any symptoms for a long time till the situation becomes critical. (Why is it silent?) Even young people are now prone to it. It is important to recog… Read more »
“Aloha, Chair Yoshimoto and Members. On Nov. 19, 2013 the Hawaii County Council adopted Bill 113 Draft 3 adding a new article relating to Genetically Engineered Crops and Plants, and on Nov. 21, 2013 delivered the bill to me for my consideration. Aft… Read more »
The CDC has been shunning the correlations between thimerosal and neurological disorders for a very long time. Although the FDA gave a two year deadline to remove the mercury based preservative from vaccines after the neurotoxin was banned in 1999, i… Read more »
In the not too distant future, consumers will be able to run on-the-spot tests for environmental toxins, GMOs, pesticides, food safety and more with their smartphones and other hand-held devices.Every human being on every developed nation on Earth, w… Read more »
A study by the UK’s The Daily Mail found that ice from McDonald’s, Starbucks, Burger King and KFC (to name a few) is dirtier than toilet water. Most fast food restaurants don’t even offer real food, it’s usually riddled with a number of industrial to… Read more »
Former Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) director and now Google Executive, Regina E. Duncan, has unveiled a super small, ingestible microchip that we can all be expected to swallow by 2017. “A means of authentication,” she calls it, … Read more »
Myths and Misinformation About Fat and Cholesterol: How Bad Science and Big Business Created the Obesity Epidemicby David Diamond, Ph.D. - Departments of Psychology, Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, University of South Florida College of Arts … Read more »
With scheduled NATO war games to be held in countries like Moldova and Ukraine this summer, Putin’s hand is being forced. If Putin does not act and move against Ukraine, and he allows NATO to fortify his neighbors against a Russian invasion, Putin w… Read more »
he Vermont Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that would make the state the first in the United States to enact mandatory labeling of foods made with genetically modified crops."We are really excited that Vermont is going to be leading on this," said … Read more »
New York has instituted a new law that legalizes the Jewish ritual known as ’Metzitzah b’peh’, the act of a Jew mohel SUCKING ON A BLOODY BABY PENIS!But only if the Jew parents of the baby give their written consent. On Thursday, the health departme… Read more »
A US vaccine company has applied for permission to infect up to one thousand individuals, including children, with genetically modified live bacteria contained in an oral vaccine. PaxVax recently submitted their application for permission to begin th… Read more »
A chemical used on most non-organic American apples that preserves the fruit’s color after harvest was banned by the European Union in 2012 because its makers could not prove it did not put human health at risk, according to a new study.The US Depar… Read more »
McDonald‘s just announced it will be the first fast food restaurant in the United States to add lab-grown meat to its menu. Following the success of Sergey Brin’s lab-grown burger experiment in London last year, McDonald’s says they will ‘grow’ their… Read more »
The first two waves of US troops have arrived in Poland and Latvia to begin military drills “promoting peace and stability” across Eastern Europe. Tensions continue to mount in the region, as Ukraine teeters on the brink of a civil war. … Read more »
Muslims in Syria crucified two Christian teenagers for refusing to convert to Islam. The story was reported on a Croatian Catholic website. marketing ( function() { if (window.CHITIKA === undefined) { window.CHITIKA = { 'units' : [] }; }; … Read more »
2 handfuls of cashews is the therapeutic equivalent of a prescription dose of Prozac. Inside you, the essential amino acid L-tryptophan is broken down into anxiety-reducing, snooze-inducing niacin. Even more important, tryptophan is also made into se… Read more »
Water has long been known for its healing properties and is considered to be the elixir of youth and beauty… keeping our skin young, firm and radiant. Among many other amazing benefits of water – its ability to eliminate toxins, to regenerate and imp… Read more »
A new study published in the journal Atherosclerosis confirms that pomegranate extract may prevent and/or reverse the primary pathology associated with cardiac mortality: the progressive thickening of the coronary arteries caused by the accumulation … Read more »
In response to growing awareness about the dangers of artificial sweeteners, what does the manufacturer of one of the world’s most notable artificial sweeteners do? It renames it and begins marketing it as natural, of course. This is precisely the s… Read more »
McDonald’s Uses Worm Meat Fillers But Can Legally Call It 100% Beef. Large companies have been the subject of rumors that they substitute unusual or unethical substances in their products, usually to decrease costs. McDonald’s is not immune to such c… Read more »
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today called on U.S. regulatory agencies, including the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to ban the use of glyphosate bas… Read more »
I have to confess, I’m not a beer drinker, but there’s someone in my household that loves it, so I had to figure out the truth. Is beer really healthy? Why are the ingredients not listed on the label? Which brands can we trust? Which brands are tryin… Read more »
Windows Phone is still a distant third to Apple and Android in the smartphone market, but Microsoft is hoping to change that with the introduction of Windows Phone 8.1— and more importantly its personal digital assistant Cortana. Microsoft claims tha… Read more »
Agrochemicals, home bug sprays, and lawn treatments could be causing chronic illness in your family.Pesticides are designed to kill, although the mode of action they use to put the stranglehold on pests varies. Whether it’s nerve gas–like neurologic… Read more »
Gun-grabbing fever has finally reached the conservative stronghold of Oklahoma.An annual meet-and-greet at the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City turned sour when an anonymous senator demanded that the 40 sheriffs in attendance remove their fire… Read more »
Prior to World War I, nearly all psychiatrists worked in mental institutions, where they dealt with the committed and insane. But they were really just caretakers; they didn't cure anyone. In fact, in those institutions, the "inmates" were very often… Read more »
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Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said he called President Barack Obama to express frustration over the impact of the government’s spying operations.The Facebook chief said he was “confused and frustrated” with the U.S. gove… Read more »
Several months ago we were warned by ‘V the Guerrilla Economist’ that the bankers were sweeping house and to prepare for more dead bankers to show up. We now learn that another prominent banker has been ‘knocked off’ as a 37-year old Director from th… Read more »
If you currently don’t use much coconut oil in your cooking, here are a list of benefits that will likely make you want to start. All oils are not created equally, and many of them are not beneficial to the body. But others, like olive oil have been … Read more »
