John Moores University located in Liverpool, England will be using fifty college students as human guinea pigs to test the adverse effects of the popular drug Mephedrone. Mephedrone can be snorted or dabbed on the tongue and its users experience a high much like the one experienced with cocaine, or ecstasy. The public health department at JMU won “ethical approval” [...]
Harvard law Professor, Cass Sunstein, is President Barack Obama’s appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. In a published report from Harvard Sunstein claims that the United States government should infiltrate and discredit activists he calls conspiracy groups. Sunstein acknowledges that the US government has been involved in conspiracies in that past but believes that this is [...]
Net Neutrality, the term used to describe free use of the internet without censorship from internet service providers, is still very much underground. Net Neutrality, as stated in this short article on The Washington Post‘s website, is mostly covered by the Free Press and receives little to no mainstream media coverage. While this article is [...]
Based on an article written by Shanti Rangwani, it has been said that milk is unhealthy. Although the government has declared milk essential to human health, there are underlying health issues about milk that have not been covered by the mainstream media. Milk labels claim it to be high in calcium and TV commercials say [...]
Clean water is one of the most important needs of our bodies; so it is a sad fact that clean drinking water can no longer be a guarantee, if it ever was. Most tap water in the United States today is not safe for drinking, due to the high levels of pollution and/or toxic wastes. [...]
Oath Keepers is one of the fastest-growing “patriot” organizations on the right. Founded April 2009 by Yale-educated lawyer and ex-Ron Paul aide Stewart Rhodes, the group has established itself as a hub in the sprawling anti-Obama movement that includes Tea Partiers, Birthers, and 912ers. There are scores of patriot groups, but what makes Oath Keepers unique is [...]
In the article from The Electronic Intifada titled, Harvard Fellow Calls for Genocidal Measures to curb Palestinian Births. Harvard fellow,Martin Kramer called for ‘the West’ to take measures to curb Palestinian births. His statement seemed as a proposal to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide. Kramer, who is also a member of Washington Institute for Near [...]
In mid-January 2010, the National League of Cities released a report warning of severe budget shortfalls for city governments nationwide, ranging from $56 billion to $83 billion from 2010 to 2012. Antonio Vallaraigosa, Los Angeles mayor is ultimately avoiding the long-term consequences by attempting to solve this budget deficit with panic responses. The LA mayor proposed cutting 2,000 jobs from the city’s payroll [...]
In response to Iran’s supposed nuclear capabilities the US shipped “bunker-buster” bombs from California to Diego Garcia, a British island used by US for military purposes. These weapons of mass destruction are being set in place, if Iran cannot be persuaded out of producing nuclear weapons. Once again the US has built a military base at the sake of others, [...]
Recently a new city ordinance has taken place in Fresno, CA. This city ordinance is a ban on homeless people from standing on medians and asking for money. The Fresno City Council gave tentative approval to the measure at it’s meeting. Yet nonprofit communities can go and receive a permit which validates them to do the same. The Council passed a 6-1 vote that [...]
