Year: 2019

The Mind Unleashed – by Amanda Froelich

Everyone needs water to survive. But in the United States of America, more than 170 million people are drinking radioactive water, according to a new study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG). The consumption of radioactive elements may increase the risk of cancer, which is why this revelation is so concerning. Fortunately, a new interactive map reveals the locations the radioactive water has been found. This may enable citizens to find an alternate source of aqua until the public health crisis is fixed.   Continue reading “170 Million Americans are Drinking Radioactive Water. This Interactive Map Shows If You Are, Too”

Jamestown Sun – by Blair Emerson

BISMARCK — A bill has been introduced that would update an antiquated state law that allows nursing homes to sue children for their parents’ unpaid bills.

Sen. Dick Dever, R-Bismarck, is the chief sponsor of Senate Bill 2225, which would revise language of the state law, called the filial support law, which requires children to support their indigent parents. The bill had a hearing on Tuesday before the Senate Human Services Committee.    Continue reading “Bill would revise law that allows North Dakota nursing homes to sue children for parents’ bills”

Science Daily – Princeton University

Princeton molecular biologist Bonnie Bassler and graduate student Justin Silpe have identified a virus, VP882, that can listen in on bacterial conversations — and then, in a twist like something out of a spy novel, they found a way to use that to make it attack bacterial diseases like E. coli and cholera.   Continue reading “Biologists turn eavesdropping viruses into bacterial assassins”

Press TV

The US embassy in Switzerland has issued a security alert after reports of an explosion near its consular agency in the Swiss city of Geneva.

The US alert issued on Wednesday afternoon read, “There are reports of an explosion in the area around the Consular Agency. Avoid the area and seek shelter if in vicinity. Follow advice of security personnel.”   Continue reading “Explosion hits US diplomatic mission in Geneva”

Big Island Now

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, welcomed a 3D-printed statue of Joaquin “Guac” Oliver, a 17-year-old Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School senior who was killed in the shooting at the Parkland, Florida high school on Valentine’s Day last year. The life size 3D sculpture of Joaquin is a tribute to his memory and has been used to support efforts for common-sense gun reforms, like universal background checks, across the country. The congresswoman is the first Member of Congress to host the statue, which will be hosted by other lawmakers who support similar gun reform efforts to protect American communities and save lives.   Continue reading “Rep. Gabbard Hosts Parkland Shooting Victim 3D Sculpture”

Activist Post – by Brandon Turbeville

For the abundance of evidence pointing to the fact that the United States and its “allies” control the terror group al-Qaeda and use it for their own purposes both at home and abroad, it seems many observers have a hard time swallowing such a bitter pill. There was a time, however, when, in internal emails, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Chief of Staff and Director of Policy Planning, Jake Sullivan, admitted to the Secretary that “AQ is on our side in Syria.”   Continue reading “U.S. State Department Email From 2012 States “al-Qaeda Is On Our Side In Syria””

The Mind Unleashed – by Elias Marat

As more and more people shake themselves free from the taboo against the medical and recreational use of cannabis, one would think that the mainstream media would similarly shift with the cultural winds and begin to show more flexibility toward the plant.

In the case of CBS, this doesn’t seem to be an option.  Continue reading “Booze Good, Weed Bad: CBS Refuses to Air Medical Marijuana Super Bowl Commercial”

Texas Monthly – by Loren Stuffy

In the fall of 2017, Sean Mitchell and John Daniel thought it would be fun to invite some of their investment banking clients to Midland so they could see the fracking boom up close. As part of the gathering, Mitchell and Daniel, managing directors at Houston-based Simmons Energy, planned to fire up the smoker and host a barbecue. They expected that about fifty people would show up. But this was the Permian Basin, the hottest oil and gas play in the world, and nothing happens on a small scale. Two hundred and fifty people turned out.   Continue reading “How West Texas Became Woodstock for Frackers”

Zero Hedge – Tyler Durden

Jared Kushner is pushing a novel idea to break the Congressional deadlock and end the government shutdown according to Axios: Put green cards for DACA recipients on the table.

A new immigration idea has been circulating over the past 24 hours at senior levels inside the White House and on Capitol Hill: Give a path to green cards to the 700,000 current DACA recipients, three sources familiar with the conversations tell Axios.

Continue reading “Jared Kushner Pushing “Big Idea” To End Shutdown: Green Cards For DACA Recipients”

AZ Mirror – by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy

A GOP lawmaker has a novel idea for how a border wall with Mexico should be funded: Force every Arizonan who wants to access pornographic material on an electronic device to pay $20.

Republican Rep. Gail Griffin, R-Hereford, has introduced House Bill 2444, which would make “distributors” of devices that allow access to the internet install software to make the offending material not viewable. To remove the blocking software, a person would have to pay the state $20.   Continue reading “Lawmaker wants to tax porn users to help fund the border wall”

WMD

A man who entered the United States illegally has been taken into custody while authorities investigate the possibility he’s linked to at least four murders.

Authorities in Nevada say Ernesto Martinez Guzman, either 19 or 20 years old, was being held in the Carson City Detention Center.   Continue reading “Illegal alien arrested for ‘4 homicides’ in U.S.”

Wall Street Journal

Democrats in Congress are making election reform their top legislative priority, and we’ve criticized it as a majority protection act. To understand why, consider that Democrats are trying to do for the country what they’ve done with election laws in California.

The Golden State is where Republican candidates went to bed on election night in November with leads in most of their competitive House races, only to lose in the ensuing weeks of vote counting. In Orange County, Young Kim was poised to become the first Korean-American woman in Congress, with a sizable lead on Election Day over her Democratic opponent. She lost by three percentage points. Republican Rep. Mimi Walters’s 6,074-vote lead on Nov. 6 turned into an 11,866-vote loss to Democrat Katie Porter.   Continue reading “Harvesting Democratic Votes – Liberals want to impose the California voting model on all 50 states.”

Breitbart – by John Binder

President Trump’s compromise legislation to reopen the federal government funds border security measures in Pakistan, Lebanon, Egypt, and Libya.

The legislation known as the “End the Shutdown and Secure the Border Act” by Trump and the Senate GOP Leadership includes American tax dollars funding border security in North Africa, and the southern and western regions of Asia.   Continue reading “Trump’s Compromise Bill Includes $15M for Border Security–in Pakistan”

Reason – by J.D. Tuccille

There’s no better sign of success than an escalation in attacks by your enemies. Based on such evidence, homeschooling is enjoying a boom, as growing numbers of families with diverse backgrounds, philosophies, and approaches abandon government-controlled schools in favor of taking responsibility for their own children’s education. As they do so, they’re coming under assault from officials panicking over the number of people slipping from their grasp.   Continue reading “Homeschooling Produces Better-Educated, More-Tolerant Kids. Politicians Hate That”

The Hill – by Michael Burke

The University of Notre Dame plans to cover up murals on its campus that depict Christopher Columbus, according to an announcement from the university’s president, Rev. John Jenkins.

Jenkins wrote in a letter to the university community that “many have come to see the murals as at best blind to the consequences of Columbus’s voyage” for indigenous people.  Continue reading “Notre Dame to cover up murals of Columbus”

Health Impact News – by Eileen Iorio

In the summer of 2017, a malware virus mainly affecting the Ukraine, found its way onto the mainframe computer systems of Merck wreaking havoc for the company.

The malware was called “NotPetya,” referring to the ransomeware family Petya, which disables computer systems and demands a ransom to be paid in bitcoin before it will restore access to a company’s files.   Continue reading “Merck’s Hepatitis B Vaccine Shortage Linked to Reduced Deaths In Babies”