Business & Economy

WHO Report: 95% of World Population Reside in Regions Contaminated By Life-Threatening Air Pollution

April 24, 2018 staff 0

Most of the world’s population reside in regions where air quality contains life-threatening pollutants, with 95% breathing in unhealthy air, a World Health Organization (WHO) study has determined. This health crisis has already claimed 7 million lives since the Syrian War began, many whose surroundings exceed toxic levels, causing asthma, stroke, emphysema, heart disease, hypertension, and serious breathing difficulties.

Swaziland King Officially Renames Country “Kingdom of eSwatini” to Mark 50th Anniversary of Independence

April 21, 2018 Syndicated 0

Swaziland’s king has officially renamed the struggling African nation the “Kingdom of eSwatini,” to commemorate 50 years since winning independence from British rule.

75 For and 80,945 Against: Nestle Allowed to Pump More Water in Michigan Despite Public Outcry (VIDEO)

April 5, 2018 Syndicated 0

Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has given Nestle permission to extract 400 gallons (1,500 liters) of water per minute for its Stanwood bottling plant, in the face of a sustained protest campaign.

Russian Post’s First Drone Mail Delivery Fails Spectacularly (VIDEO)

April 3, 2018 staff 0

It went up, then it went down.

Google Admits to Collaboration With U.S. Military On Its Illegal Drone Assassination Program

March 18, 2018 staff 0

Google’s TensorFlow AI systems are being used by the US Department of Defense’s Project Maven, which was established in July last year to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to identify and analyze objects in the vast amount of footage captured by US drones.

Millions of Students Are Being Quietly Brainwashed By The Koch Brothers’ Sociopathic Free Market Ideology and A Whitewashed, Right-Wing Distortion of Black History

March 17, 2018 staff 0

Egregiously underfunded social studies and civics teachers across the United States have discovered an exciting, shiny new resource that conveniently provides lesson plans, study materials, and even educational seminars geared Read More…

New Report: The US is World’s 2nd Biggest Tax Haven, Surpassing Cayman Islands

February 6, 2018 staff 0

The United States is the world’s second-largest tax haven, behind Switzerland and just ahead of the Cayman Islands, according to a new report published Tuesday by the Tax Justice Network. Read More…

Large Pentagon Agency Casually Lost $800 Million Dollars

February 5, 2018 staff 0

A Pentagon agency failed to properly keep track of more than $800 million in construction projects, according to Politico.

Cape Town Will Run Out of Water As Soon As April

February 4, 2018 staff 0

Officials in Cape Town, South Africa, recently announced that the city will run out of water, possibly as soon as April. Population growth and a record drought, perhaps exacerbated by Read More…

Nestlé Has Been Stealing Water From California, Illegally Bottling Millions of Gallons During Drought

January 13, 2018 staff 0

The Swiss food giant has been bottling millions of gallons of water from Southern California mountains, despite lacking the rights to it, the state claims.

The FCC’s Next Attack: Reclassifying Mobile Data As “Broadband Internet”

January 3, 2018 staff 0

The Federal Communications Commission’s corrupt and undemocratic move to repeal net neutrality dealt a major, shattering blow to internet freedom, but it’s only the first in a series of actions leading to the end goal of complete blind deregulation of federal and state oversight of Big Telecom. Next step: expanding the definition of high-speed broadband internet to include mobile phone service, which the FCC will use disingenuously to portray America’s broadband situation as being better than it actually is.