Health Impact News – by Paul Fassa

Since 2015 there have been a few pharmaceutical companies working on a new cholesterol-lowering drug type as a replacement for the older class of statin drugs, such as Lipitor. Lipitor was the best-selling drug of all time, but its patent expired a few years ago.

The new mantra is getting LDL cholesterol levels lower than statin drugs. The drug class of these new cholesterol-lowering drugs is a PCSK9 inhibitor.   Continue reading “New Cholesterol-Lowering Drug Tests Fail: Should You Even Lower Your Cholesterol with Drugs?”

MassPrivateI

Fight For The Future warns, by using the CRA to gut the FCC broadband privacy rules, lawmakers voted to allow ISPs to:

  • Monitor and sell customer’s location data, search history, app usage, and browsing habits to advertisers without your permission
  • Hijack customer’s search results, redirecting their traffic to paying third parties
  • Insert ads into web pages that would otherwise not have them

Continue reading “Big Brother to spy on our internet history and ISP address without a warrant”

Russia Insider – by Paul Kaiser

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov always finds the most diplomatic ways to point out Washington’s innumerable international crimes.

During a discussion with Russian military officers last week in Moscow, Lavrov pointed to Afghanistan as an example of Washington’s longstanding policy of “managed chaos” in the Middle East. In the process, he also blew the whistle on NATO’s extremely high tolerance for drug trafficking:   Continue reading “Lavrov Calls Out NATO’s Role in Afghan Drug Trafficking”

Zero Hedge – by ZeroPointNow

Former Obama Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Evelyn Farkas, made some stunning admissions during an interview with MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski.

While discussing the mad scramble by the Obama administration to collect and preserve intelligence on alleged Russian election hacking before Obama left office, it appears that Farkas accidentally implicated the Obama White House in the surveillance of Trump’s campaign staff:  Continue reading “SMOKING GUN? Obama Defense Deputy Slips Up On Live TV – Reveals Spying On Trump Team And Leaking Of Intel”

AccuWeather

A fatal car crash occurred on Tuesday afternoon near Spur, Texas, involving three storm chasers amid a severe weather outbreak.

Kelley Williamson, 57, Randy Yarnall, 55, and Corbin Jaeger, 25, were killed upon impact, according to police. Williamson and Yarnall, both of Cassville, Missouri, were contractors for The Weather Channel, featured in the network’s special program Storm Wranglers.  Continue reading “3 storm chasers die in car wreck”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

An international investigation has begun after Coca-Cola cans were found to contain what appeared to be human waste. In case you needed another reason not to drink Coke, this is it.

A factory in Lisburn, Ireland was shut down last week when machines became clogged with the waste. According to BBC, police are now investigating reports that a consignment shipment may have been contaminated.   Continue reading “Factory Shut Down, Police Investigating As ‘Human Waste’ Found in Coke Cans”

The Weather Network – by Scott Sutherland

Thursday, March 23, 2017, 6:22 PM – Asperitus?! Flammagenitus?! Fluctus?! No, those aren’t new spells from the world of Harry Potter. They’re three of the dozen new cloud types added to the WMO Cloud Atlas, in its first update in over 30 years!

Cloud Atlas may be best known as a big-budget 2012 movie, staring Tom Hanks, but the International Cloud Atlas is a guide that every meteorologist in the world can turn to when looking at the clouds we see in the sky. Established in 1939 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and last updated in 1986, this invaluable resource has now been moved into the digital realm, so that it is available to us all, and it adds a dozen new cloud types – both naturally-occurring and human-caused – to its lexicon of weather terms.   Continue reading “Cloud Atlas leaps into 21st century with 12 new cloud types”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In the latest installment of our “Dear Bernie” series, posts intended to inform the Vermont Senator about the unintended, negative consequences of minimum wage hikes, we present SAM (Semi-Automated Mason), a brick laying robot designed and engineered by Construction Robotics out of New York.  While SAM can do the work of 6 unionized masons each day, he never requires a break, benefits or a paycheck.   Continue reading “Meet SAM, Brick Laying Robot That Does The Work Of 6 Humans”