“It was one of the scummiest meetings I’ve ever been in,” said Rep. Thomas Massie of a proposal from a lobbyist to help place him in the powerful, influential House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees tax policy, among other things. “He pulled me and my chief of staff into a meeting,” Massie told the Cincinnati Read More…
Social Change
New Study Reveals What Added Sugars are Doing to the Brain
A new study has found that consuming high levels of fructose (from added sugars) harms a whopping 940 brain genes. This is a nutrigenomic study, a study in which researchers specifically study how food effects gene expression. These types of studies show us exactly how food effects the way our bodies operate and are critical in Read More…
Police Now Using “Pre-Crime” Algorithm To Target And Label Innocent Citizens As Criminals
It was recently reported that the Chicago Police Department has implemented a new Orwellian program that targets innocent citizens based on indicators that they might be a person who has the potential to carry out a crime. Similar to dystopian films like Minority Report, a complex computer algorithm will track and catalog every citizen in Read More…
Greece Evacuates Thousands from Refugee Camps
A very large refugee camp in Greece, the Idomeni Camp on the border with Macedonia, is being evacuated this week. The migrants in the camp are being taken to specially designed facilities, and they must travel 50 miles south in order to get there. Riot police moved into the camp in order to begin evacuation, Read More…
Elijah Wood Speaks Out About Hollywood Pedophilia Networks
Elijah Wood, the actor who played Frodo in Lord of the Rings, and someone who hardly needs an introduction, is currently sitting back in awe (with some likely anxiety) as he makes headlines this week for some seriously interesting claims. In an interview that was simply set to discuss an upcoming movie of Wood’s, a brief Read More…
Future Mode Of Transportation?
This past weekend at the China Beijing International High-Tech Expo, China revealed an exciting new form of public transportation called the Transit Elevated Bus (TEB). With a loading capacity of some 1,200 passengers, the bus is designed to hover above cars to maximize road space. With China having notoriously bad traffic jams in such congested cities, Read More…