Technology has always been a double-edged sword, and as the 21st century progresses, not much has changed in the realm. Just over the horizon, for instance, await self-driving cars that are liable to take much of the guesswork, inattention, lack of experience and other factors that cause tens of thousands of crashes a day out […]

Just over thirty years ago, there were more than 7000 seed companies. Most of them were owned by families, and even the largest didn’t control over 1% of the seed market. Boy, has the world changed since then. Counter Punch reports, “Nowadays, six transnational corporations own 63% of the global seed market and 75% of the […]

DAREDEVIL billionaire Richard Branson has told of the horror moment he feared he would die after smashing head-first onto the road during a high speed bike crash. Article by Jon Lockett The adventurous  tycoon was on a training cycle run with his two grown up children on the British Virgin Islands when disaster struck. Richard revealed: […]

Mysterious deaths surrounding those who attempt to expose corruption within the United States government are not a new occurrence. There are numerous instances of potential whistleblowers committing suicide or dying in unusual ways shortly after it is announced that they could implicate government officials in criminal activity. 61-year-old John Ashe — the former head of the […]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Zaevion Dobson, a high school football player who was shot to death while shielding two girls from gunfire, will receive the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs. The 15-year-old Dobson will be the youngest person ever to win the award, which has been given annually since 1993. The award recognizes […]

Researchers from MIT have created a small, swallowable robot to help fix internal wounds, administer medicine and remove objects from the stomach that have been accidentally ingested by children. The researchers presented their work at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, which follows  in the foot trails of a string of papers on origami […]

Toxic sludge continues to spew from the Fukushima power plant more than five years after the catastrophe, but it’s not just radiation that is haunting the Prefecture. Taxi drivers working in towns in north-east Japan have reported encounters with ghostly victims of the Fukushima debacle. An estimated 16,000 people died in Fukushima disaster, after a […]

This story is supposed to be about a women flying down the highway over 100 miles per hour and plowing into another vehicle, whose driver is now brain damaged. Even more egregious, the driver that caused the crash was allegedly grabbing a photo via her Snapchat app. But maybe she wasn’t, according to WFSB.com: “A lawsuit filed in Spalding County claims Snapchat tempted a woman […]

In light of the economic downturn, the rise of ISIS and corrosion of civil liberties, it feels like America is teetering on the brink of collapse. Do you know where to go if all hell breaks loose? If not, consider these American prepper paradises for weathering the apocalypse. The Greenbrier Resort The Greenbrier is a […]

Americans are divided on practically every issue, both big and small. While the nation has been enthralled over whether transgender people should be able to use their bathroom of choice, three nuclear disasters brewing in America’s background have gone virtually unnoticed by the mainstream media. One nuclear disaster awaiting to make national headlines is a […]

After decades of denial, the Department of Veteran Affairs finally acknowledged that Monsanto’s Agent Orange, a herbicide sprayed across Vietnam during the war, was responsible for the health ailments of over 2,100 Air Force servicemen. Federal officials have agreed to release over $45 million in disability benefits to Air Force active duty personnel and reservists […]

With cannabis prohibition reaching its final days nationwide, Big Brother is looking for new ways to rape and pillage the populace under the guise of “law.” And it appears that the new target is really just an old target, the predecessor to cannabis as far as prohibition is concerned: alcohol. The National Transportation Safety Board […]

March 11th marked the fifth year anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, and authorities are just now beginning to pick up the pieces of the decimated power plant. Nevertheless, the Japanese government has continued to undermine the severity of the disaster and the mainstream media has been practically silent in its coverage of the unfolding debacle. […]

Renault-Nissan has confirmed plans to release more than 10 autonomous cars by 2020. The vehicles will be equipped with cutting edge technology that is “ installed on mainstream, mass-market cars at affordable prices,” reads the Renault-Nissan statement. According to the Franco-Japanese company’s official statement, all ten vehicles will be launched in markets like the United […]

The conservation group Greenpeace issued a warning Friday that the havoc the Fukushima disaster has wreaked on the environment is beginning to become manifest and will persist for years. Nearly five years ago, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake launched a tsunami off the coast of Japan, which crippled three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power […]