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Can’t stop checking your phone, even when you’re not expecting any important messages? Blame your brain.
A new study by researchers at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has found that information acts on the brain’s dopamine-producing reward system in the same way as money or food. Continue reading “Your Brain Reacts To Information Same As Money Or Drugs”
The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder
The U.S. trucking industry has not experienced a downturn of this magnitude since the last financial crisis, and this is one of the clearest signs yet that the U.S. economy is steamrolling into a severe economic downturn. When economic activity is increasing, the trucking industry sees rising demand for their services and freight rates tend to go up. That is precisely what we witnessed in 2018, and truckers were hoping for more of the same in 2019. But when economic activity is on the decline, the trucking industry sees decreasing demand for their services and freight rates tend to go down. Unfortunately, the numbers that the U.S. trucking industry is reporting right now are absolutely abysmal. Freight rates have now fallen for six months in a row on a year-over-year basis, and according to Business Insider during the month of May loads on the spot market fell “by a chilling 62.6%” compared to last year… Continue reading “They Are Calling This A “Bloodbath” For The $800 Billion Trucking Industry As U.S. Economic Activity Dramatically Declines”
Three more U.S. senators received a classified Pentagon briefing on Wednesday about a series of reported encounters by the Navy with unidentified aircraft, according to congressional and military officials — part of a growing number of requests from members of key oversight committees.
One of them was Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, whose office confirmed the briefing to POLITICO. Continue reading “Senators get classified briefing on UFO sightings”
Younger generations seem to be developing horns in the back of their skulls due to the extended use of technology like smartphones and tablets.
Two Australian researchers made the bizarre discovery while examining hundreds of X-rays of people aged between 18 and 30, finding almost half had developed bone growths. Continue reading “Younger generations are growing horns in the back of their head”
President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday that Iran may not have intentionally downed an unmanned U.S. surveillance drone. He said the public will “find out” about whether the U.S. intends to retaliate with a military strike.
“I find it hard to believe it was intentional,” Trump said during a White House meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Continue reading “Trump says Iranian downing of US drone may have been unintentional”
Center for Biological Diversity
WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency announced so-called “emergency” approvals today to spray sulfoxaflor — an insecticide it considers “very highly toxic” to bees — on nearly 14 million acres of crops known to attract bees.
The approval includes 2019 crops of cotton and sorghum in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Ten of the 11 states have been granted the approvals for at least four consecutive years for the same “emergency.” Five have been given approvals for at least six consecutive years. Continue reading “Trump EPA OKs ‘Emergency’ Use of Bee-killing Pesticide on 13.9 Million Acres”
U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.) has joined Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) to introduce a bill that would outlaw the online distribution of blueprints and instructions that allow for the 3D printing of firearms. Kaine has been pushing the Senate and Virginia’s General Assembly to pass gun safety legislation in the aftermath of the Virginia Beach shooting, including bills to close loopholes in the background check system. He recently held discussions on gun violence prevention in Springfield, Charlottesville, Richmond, and Fredericksburg. Continue reading “Kaine Bill Would Ban Distribution Of 3D Printed Gun Blueprints”
CHATSWORTH, Georgia (WTVC) – Defense attorneys for an 87-year-old Syrian refugee have released police bodycam video of an incident that made national headlines last August.
Chatsworth Police arrested Martha Al-Bishara after officers said she would not drop a knife that she was holding. Officers eventually used a stun gun on Al-Bishara, who did not speak English and was unable to understand the officer’s commands. Continue reading “Defense attorneys release video of Georgia officers using stun gun on 87-year-old woman”
The United Nations has released a new report focusing on water, sanitation and hygiene around the world. It has found that approximately 2.2 billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water, 4.2 billion have to go without safe sanitation services and three billion lack basic handwashing facilities. Continue reading “$hithole Countries? 673 Million People Still Defecate Outdoors”
A train carrying bombs, ammonium nitrate, and grenades has derailed in Elko County, Nevada, but all that spilled was vegetable oil.
Union Pacific Railroad, which was overseeing the train involved, said 22 cars derailed near Wells, Nevada, about 10:20 a.m. local time on Wednesday. Continue reading “A train carrying grenades and bombs has derailed in Nevada”
RICHMOND, Texas (KTRK) — A Fort Bend County family is demanding answers after they say a Texas state trooper punched the front windshield of their car during a traffic stop.
“To me, this here is totally unjustifiable for the trooper who did it,” said Marcie Creek, the couple’s daughter. Continue reading “‘F***ing go’: DPS trooper screams after allegedly punching elderly couple’s windshield”
SAN ANTONIO – Twenty-four Bexar County Sheriff’s Office staffers have now been arrested this year, more than double the total from 2017. And there are still four weeks left in the year..
With 1,374 deputies in the county, that is an arrest rate of 1.7 percent. Continue reading “Astounding Bexar County Sheriff’s deputy arrest rate continues to skyrocket”
Both sides of I-41/94 have been closed in Mount Pleasant in Racine County after an explosion of a semi-truck.
It happened around 11 a.m. Wednesday on the overpass at County Highway K.
There was no initial word on the severity of any injuries. Continue reading “Semi-truck explosion leads to closure of both directions of I-41/94 in Mount Pleasant”
Courthouse News – by Martin Macias Jr
(CN) – California lawmakers advanced a bill Tuesday to allow judges to restrict someone’s access to guns if they pose a danger to themselves or others, despite concerns from community groups that the bill may violate civil rights.
Under current law, police officers or the immediate family members of someone who poses a threat can petition a court to issue a gun violence restraining order which, if granted, requires the gun owner to surrender all weapons and ammunition for 21 days. Continue reading “Tougher Gun Violence Restraining Order Bill Advances in California”
American evangelicals, who revere Israel as the “Holy Land” and as the home of God’s Chosen, may want to reconsider their diseased theology. In fact, Israel is home to some of the world’s most energetic and active gays and lesbians—men and women who not only have same sex but regularly mock and despise our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Apostle Paul, who warned against sexual uncleanness, lewdness, and fornication, would be appalled if he were to return to Israel today. Continue reading “Homosexuals In Israel’s Armed Forces”
At the start of World Refugee Week, Sajid Javid confirmed the UK plans to resettle in the region of 5,000 of the world’s most vulnerable refugees in the first year of the new scheme, once the flagship Vulnerable Person’s Resettlement Scheme concludes next year.
The UK will aim to resettle refugees at current levels, adding to the nearly 16,000 refugees who have already found safety here since 2015 under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme and the many thousands resettled under other routes. Continue reading “New global resettlement scheme for the most vulnerable refugees announced”
Another Day in the Empire – by Kurt Nimmo
After a tsunami of skepticism swept over the media following the Pentagon’s release of a dubious video supposedly showing Iranians removing a mine from the hull of a tanker, the generals followed up with a color version of basically the same video. Like the first video, the second color video doesn’t show much of anything.
But no matter. It will serve as a catalyst for war, along with the Iranians declaring they will exceed a limit imposed on the production of enriched uranium. The limit is part of the 2015 nuclear deal trashed by Trump. Continue reading “Iran: The Technicolor War”
Of Two Minds – by Charles Hugh Smith
The system is broken, and the managerial elite will keep it broken because it serves their interests to keep it broken.
America’s managerial elite came to do good and stayed to do well–at the expense of everyone beneath them. Now that they’ve entrenched themselves at the top of the status quo, there’s no way to dislodge them, even as their failure to address what’s broken, much less actually fix what’s broken, insures systemic breakdown. Continue reading “America’s Managerial Elite Has Failed, But We Can’t Get Rid of Them”
Thousands of European activists plan to blockade a large German lignite mine this week, the latest protest of a growing “climate civil disobedience” movement.
While school students have held “Fridays for Future” rallies for months, protesters of the “Extinction Rebellion” group launched in Britain have risked arrest with more confrontational protests. Continue reading “Europe’s growing ‘climate civil disobedience’ movement”
Google on Tuesday pledged to commit more than $1 billion to help address the severe housing crisis it has been blamed for for years.
CEO Sundar Pichai announced the initiative, saying the internet colossus wants to be ‘a good neighbor’ in the area bursting with technology companies. Continue reading “Google vows to spend $1BILLION to fight Bay Area housing crisis by building at least 15,000 homes”