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A Massive Protest Against An Oil Pipeline Has Been Going On In North Dakota Since April–Where’s The Media?

August 31, 2016TruthOpener 0

Why Aren’t The Media Covering The Massive Protest In North Dakota Stopping A Billion Dollar Oil Pipeline? “If it bleeds, it leads.” That’s an old newspaper truism, illustrating the stark economy of the news business: nobody wants to read about boring legislative actions, but hit them with a juicy murder-suicide and you will almost certainly sell more papers. Which is why it perhaps isn’t so surprising that there has been scant coverage of the standoff between a Native American tribe and a company that is attempting to build a $3.8 billion oil pipeline through their ancestral lands that would eventually reach Illinois.… Read the rest

Your Tax Dollars At Work: 18 TSA Agents Take Down One 9-Year-Old Boy With A Pacemaker

August 29, 2016TruthOpener 0

Security Theater At Its Most Farcical: 9-Year-Old Boy Taken Down By 18 TSA Agents–Due To His Pacemaker The great thing about theater as opposed to movies is that you can watch other people just like you, only a few feet away, living out fictional scenes of fictional lives. There’s something visceral and alive and on edge about these actors performing these roles without the safety net and distance of cameras and multiple takes and editing and airbrushing to cover their flaws.… Read the rest

Anti-Aging Pill Clamed To Be The Fountain Of Youth: MIT Researcher Claims

August 29, 2016TruthOpener 0

If I Could Save Time In A Bottle: MIT Researcher Claims To Have Hit Upon Formula For Fountain Of Youth–In Pill Form Aging and youth have long been the bugaboo of humankind. It seems like almost since the first moment we could feel secure in our ability to generally feed ourselves and protect ourselves from predators, we have sought the secret to a longer–if not eternal–life.… Read the rest

Water To Sell, But None To Drink: Ontario Town Cries Foul Over Gov’t Renewing Nestlé Waters Permit Without Public Comment

August 25, 2016TruthOpener 0

Water As Commodity: The Battle Lines Are Drawn In Canada As Town Cries Foul Over Gov’t Handing Nestlé Millions Environmental groups in Ontario, Canada are crying foul over government plans to reissue Nestlé’s water extraction unit new permits without allowing for public comment. Nestlé’s water-taking permits near the towns of Guelph and Aberfoyle in southwestern Ontario expired on July 31, but the company has been allowed to continue extracting water from local wells despite the fact that the region is in the midst of a severe drought.… Read the rest

They Say Everything Is Bigger In Texas: Even The Maternal Mortality Rate–Highest Not Only In U.S., But In Developed World

August 24, 2016TruthOpener 0

Shameful Record Of Politically-Motivated Neglect: Texas Leads The Developed World In Maternal Mortality Rates Texas is just different: ask anyone from the U.S. who has ever been there. Hell, even people from Texas will tell you it’s different. For one thing, many people from the state still consider it a country of its own, separate from the U.S. Yet it is still is on the receiving end of hundreds of billions of dollars in federal taxpayer largesse every year.… Read the rest

Your Government At Work: How The DEA Targets Travelers For Civil Forfeiture Using Data Mining Techniques

August 24, 2016TruthOpener 0

DEA Data Mining And Civil Forfeiture: Agency Uses Travel Data To Harass And Rob Americans Who Have Done No Wrong If you are traveling in the U.S.–whether you’re a citizen or not–there is a phrase you should familiarize yourself with: civil asset forfeiture. This is the means by which government agencies from local police departments on up to the Drug Enforcement Agency legally rob people of their assets–even if they aren’t being charged with a crime.… Read the rest

Aspartame: A Secret History Of A Secret Killer And How It Is Still Being Used Today

August 24, 2016TruthOpener 0

Aspartame Is Still In Your Soft Drinks: The Troubling History Of A Proven Carcinogen Diet Coke has it. So does Coke Zero. Diet Pepsi just stopped using it following plummeting sales and consumer concern with it, but they’re talking about bringing it back. They still use it in Canada and other countries outside the U.S. as a product called Pepsi Max.… Read the rest

It’s The Little Things: Small Changes That Can Make All The Difference In The Fight Against Expanding Waistlines

August 22, 2016TruthOpener 0

Small Changes Make For Big Outcomes: Easy Changes You Make In Your Life That Will Help You Take Off Those Extra Pounds It seems like as soon as humans developed the technology necessary to feed ourselves we have sought ways to lose weight. And with the obesity epidemic in developed nations spreading across the globe, the problem only seems to be getting worse.… Read the rest

This One Change Could Mean Life Or Death: The One Thing You Are Doing That May Be Increasing Your Chances Of Heart Disease

August 19, 2016August 18, 2016TruthOpener 0

The One Work Habit That Could Kill You: How Changing One Thing Could Mean Life Or Death The culture of work is different in different parts of the world. In Spain and some Latin American cultures the afternoon break of two to three hours is still hanging on tenaciously, despite international capital’s loathing of what it sees as such frivolous downtime.… Read the rest

Texas Social Services Kidnapping: California Family Traumatized Further After Autistic Daughter Drowns, State Takes Other Children

August 19, 2016August 18, 2016TruthOpener 0

Social Services Kidnapping: Autistic Daughter Of California Family Wanders Off And Drowns As They Travel Through Texas, State Immediately Seizes Other Children It seems like you can’t pick up a newspaper or turn on the television news without being assaulted by yet another story about some overzealous officials taking a family’s children away from them on the flimsiest of evidence that they might come to harm.… Read the rest