Environmental Working Group released it’s 2018 Dirty Dozen produce list and it serves as a solid reminder that we still have a lot of work to do when it comes to cleaning up the food system. This year, the report found that almost 70 percent of non-organic samples tested positive for at least one pesticide. (In many cases, the numbers were much higher.) And get this: A single strawberry sample harbored 22 different pesticide and pesticide breakdown residues.

Ganesh is the Hindu god who represents the remover of obstacles, the gatekeeper between the earthly world and the spiritual world. Understanding the his origin story gives us insight in balancing the realms of physical and spiritual. Here is one version of his story . . . . The Beginning of the Universe The story […]

Plantar Fasciitis is the main cause of heel pain. Running can aggravate not only the pain, but also the injury itself. In fact, running can be the initial trigger for the development of Plantar Fasciitis. But you don’t have to give up running to avoid (or manage) Plantar Fasciitis. Let’s go over a few of the best ways for a runner to prevent Plantar Fasciitis or to minimize the impact of running on an existing injury.

This may indicate that the present-day epidemic of gluten sensitivities/allergies stem from man-manipulated grains.  These gluten-containing, allergic causing, grain clones are being used to create foods that we eat every day; bread, cereals, crackers, pastry, seasonings, even some chips contain wheat.  As I developed the BioAcoustic correlations I was aghast with the realization of how thoroughly our health is being negatively influenced by these genetically modified foods.

Granting human rights to a computer would degrade human dignity. For instance, when Saudi Arabia granted citizenship to a robot called Sophia, human women, including feminist scholars, objected, noting that the robot was given more rights than many Saudi women have.

The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) in Antarctic detected never before seen “upward-pointing cosmic-ray-like events.” Last week, a group of researchers posted a new theory about the rays measured by ANITA. The group, led by Pennsylvania State University physicist Derek Fox, suggests ANITA may have found evidence of a particle that lies completely outside of the Standard Model of physics.

Earlier this year, scientists from New York and Sweden published the results of their sweeping study of 5 million DNA barcodes from about 100,000 different animal species. As reported by phys.org, the results are “sure to jostle, if not overturn, more than one settled idea about how evolution unfolds.” In addition to a shocking absence of genetic diversity, the authors were stunned to conclude that about 9 out of every 10 species on Earth appear to have come into being at about the same time, apparently sometime between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago. Study co-author David Thaler said of the findings, “This conclusion is very surprising, and I fought against it as hard as I could.” One unavoidable possibility these results raise is articulated in the phys.org report, which asks, “Was there some catastrophic event 200,000 years ago that nearly wiped the slate clean?”

 New research sheds light on how people decide whether behavior is good or bad, moral or immoral. The findings could serve as a framework for informing the development of artificial intelligence and other technologies.

By Jake Johnson | Common Dreams The massive shutdown affected many sites devoted to covering war, police brutality, and other issues neglected by the corporate media. After Facebook announced on Thursday that it shut down and removed hundreds of pages and accounts that it vaguely accused of spreading “spam” and engaging in “inauthentic behavior,” some of the […]

The Press For Truth Facebook page with over 300,000 followers, and the Anti-Media page of over two million Facebook followers were unpublished on October 11 without warning, as well as hundreds of other indy/alternative news Facebook pages.

John Lennon never shied away from telling it like it is, and neither should we. In honor of what would have been Lennon’s 78th birthday, here are some uncomfortable truths about life in the American police state..

“The crisis for democracy posed by digital disinformation demands a new social contract for the internet rooted in transparency, privacy, and competition,” declares a new report that challenges the overwhelming power wielded by large tech firms and the online platforms they now control. Published by the Washington, D.C.-based think tank New America—and building on a previous paper titled Digital Deceit—the new report by Dipayan Ghosh of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and Ben Scott of the Omidyar Network argues that “as a democratic society, we must intervene to steer the power and promise of technology to benefit the many rather than the few.”

Warnings from the mainstream media of a new crisis on Wall Street continue to become even more dramatic.  For example, the following comes from a Bloomberg article entitled “The Next Financial Crisis Is Staring Us in the Face”…

What does it look and sound like when thousands of Amazon workers learn that CEO and world’s richest man Jeff Bezos has finally relented to widespread grassroots pressure and raised the company’s minimum wage to $15 an hour? In a video posted to Twitter on Tuesday, Dave Clark—Amazon’s senior vice president for worldwide operations and customer service—captured the moment he announced to California warehouse workers early Tuesday that Amazon has decided, in the face of intensifying political scrutiny, to raise its entry-level wage to $15 an hour for all of its 350,000 U.S. workers.

After months of intense public pressure from lawmakers like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and company employees who shared their harrowing stories of low pay, long hours, and brutal warehouse conditions, Amazon announced on Tuesday that it is raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour for all of its U.S. workers by next month.

UK House of Commons Library predicts that the wealth of the 1% will rise to two-thirds of total world wealth by 2030.