Hard Times in a Boom Town: Pennsylvanians Describe Costs of Fracking
Sharon Kelly – “If you’re looking for the shale gas boom, northeastern Pennsylvania is the place to start.”
Money
The Gods of Money
Richard K. Moore – “Perhaps the single most important thing to know about power in the world today is that most nations do not have control over their own currencies.”
Dollar Collapse? World Bank Whistleblower Predicts Global Currency
Gregg Prescott – World Bank whistleblower, Karen Hudes made some interesting claims about the future of the world’s currency crisis…
Is it Time for a New Monetary System?
Rod Morin – Getting a loan is like getting the “blessing” of the Bank to go and purchase something. Is it time for a new monetary system?
Dodging the Tuition Debt Bullet
Anna Hunt – Student tuition debt is astronomical in the US, and Germany announces free higher ed for all…
Money and the Myth of Freedom
Gregg Prescott –
7 Ways Cannabis Legalization Has Already Benefited Colorado
Jeff Roberts, Collective-Evolution Waking Times January 1st 2014 saw the opening of the very first cannabis shop in Colorado as the cultivation, manufacture and sale of the controversial plant became fully legalized. Since then, the state has seen a lot of promising results. Laura Pegram of Drugpolicy.org wrote in her article, Six Months of Marijuana Sales: Positive Trends …
Why You Should Never Buy Seafood From Big-Box Stores
April McCarthy, Prevent Disease Waking Times Big-Box stores and their subsidiaries are generically the worst places to buy seafood from. They typically are the first to accept genetically modified foods and compromise the integrity and safety of their seafood supply. In 2009, Americans spent over $75 billion on seafood. Truly, when that kind of money …
6 of the Biotech Industry’s Biggest Marketing Lies to Convince You GMOs Are Great
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet Waking Times By now, you’ve likely heard of Big Agriculture and Big Pharma, the huge industries behind the food we eat and drugs we take that quite ably tend to avoid government regulation. Less well known is Big Biotech, genetic engineering companies like Monsanto, Novartis and DuPont that work closely with Big …
The Bitcoin Novelty – A Revolutionary Idea
Kevin Sterne, Contributor Waking Times Even though the crypto currency, Bitcoin, isn’t exactly new, it still hasn’t infiltrated the mainstream ethos. But it’s getting there. You may have heard the term outside the fringe Internet message boards, or dark bar alleyways—that seemingly hacker-fancied geekdom thing that probably sprang from 4chan or Anonymous—but you probably didn’t …
Why Should I Care About GMOs?
Valerie Burke, GreenMedInfo Waking Times What if you found out that your child was being slipped a dangerous drug in his school lunches, without your consent? What if you discovered that this drug never underwent the usual safety testing, as the government turned a bind eye? Would you be shocked? Outraged? Or perhaps in a …
Could This be the First News Channel Run by Teens?
Heather Callaghan, Contributor Waking Times Politics affects everyone, so everyone deserves a voice; especially the youth… It seems like everywhere I go online, I am met with the diligence of Andrew Demeter. I wrote about his award-winning mini-documentary “We The People, Genetically Modified.” Expertly produced, it encompassed a lot of information for a short video …
Research: Ginger Selectively Kills Breast Cancer Cells
Sayer Ji, GreenMedInfo Waking Times New research published in the Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology found that “ginger may be a promising candidate for the treatment of breast carcinomas.”[i] This is a timely finding, insofar asbreast cancer awareness month is only days away, and one of the primary fund-raising justifications is the false concept that a low-cost, safe …
The Seven Pillars of the Matrix
Robert Bonomo, Contributor Waking Times “No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Contemporary baptized, corporatized and sanitized man rarely has the occasion to question his identity, and when he does a typical response might be, “I am product manager for a large …
Selling Illusions and the Dark Side of Politics
Julian Wash, Contributor Waking Times Today I would like to return to your awareness an aspect of the Human condition that can be persuaded into believing in something that isn’t real. The magician with his iconic hat and cloak is far from being the master of such illusions. This dubious distinction belongs to the politician. …
How Palm Oil Ravages Rainforests, Endangers Wildlife and Destroys Communities
Travis McKnight, EcoWatch Waking Times Agriculture plays a massive role in today’s global economy. It’s easy to not realize that your salad’s fresh tomatoes are likely flown in from the Netherlands, its asparagus is picked by a Peruvian farmer and the dressing has palm oil harvested in Indonesia. Our complicity in an agricultural system that ships food …
Consume, Consume, Consume With The False Promise Of Happiness!
Andrew Martin, Collective-Evolution Waking Times Victor Lebow an economist, retail analyst and author, wrote a very pertinent account of modern consumerism in his 1955 paper, “Price Competition in 1955,” which was published in the Spring issue of the “Journal of Retailing.” “Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that …
Ayahuasca – State of the Vine: 2014
Rak Razam, Guest Waking Times What IS ayahuasca, and why is it peaking in Western use now? Is ayahuasca being commoditized by the tourist industry and people making money off this sacred indigenous medicine? Are the plants grooming us for a return to energetic balance (health) within ourselves and with the planet? Can this spiritual …
The United States is a Private Corporation Not a Public Government
Jamie Lee, Contributor Waking Times Dear Fellow Country Men, Women and Children, We all have been lied to, deceived and mentally manipulated for over two centuries in this country. It is imperative that we all must learn, then educate others, the true meaning behind who and what the Federal government that rules us really is …
US Food Manufacturing – Science Based or Reckless?
Dr. Mercola Waking Times Historically, the European Union (EU) has taken a far stricter, more cautious stance with regards to genetically engineered (GE) crops and foods. Not only must GE foods be labeled in the EU, but resistance to growing GE crops is high in general. As reported two years ago, an estimated 75 percent …