Author: TruthOpener

Big Money, No Soda: How Big Sugar Plans To Donate Big Money To Fight The Soda Tax In Boulder, Colorado

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Big Money, No Soda: How Big Sugar Plans To Donate Big Money To Fight The Soda Tax In Boulder, Colorado
More Soda Taxes On The Way But Big Soda Isn’t Going Away Quietly: Boulder Colorado Next Battleground There’s a slightly obscene old aphorism that goes something like this: “If you run into an asshole in the morning, then you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day long, then you may in fact be the asshole.” It’s starting to look like something along these lines applies in the case of big soda.… Read the rest

Outback Cure: Cancer Remedy May Have Been Hiding In The Rainforests Of Australia All Along

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Outback Cure: Cancer Remedy May Have Been Hiding In The Rainforests Of Australia All Along
Cure For Cancer In The Outback: How A Rare Australian Plant May Hold The Key For anyone interested in biology and evolution, Australia is truly a land of unending wonders. A recent story about the possible sighting of a species that was long thought to be extinct, the marsupial predator known as a thylacine is a case in point. It is amazing to think about how much unique flora and fauna still exist there–and it is tragic to think about how much humans casually wiped out in their haste to conquer the continent.… Read the rest

Libertarians Line Up: Gary Johnson Is The Only Candidate To Clearly Take A Stand Against Mandatory Vaccines

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Libertarians Line Up: Gary Johnson Is The Only Candidate To Clearly Take A Stand Against Mandatory Vaccines
Libertarians Breathe A Sigh Of Relief As Gary Johnson Comes Out Unequivocally Against Mandatory Vaccines There must be some training facility for presidential candidates where they hone their skills at weaseling out of giving straight answers. They make it look so effortless: never before have so many words been said with so little substance underlying them as when we watch a presidential speech or debate.… Read the rest

Pro-GMO Forces Line Up Against Chipotle: Curious Timing From The MSM Hurling Accusations

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Pro-GMO Forces Line Up Against Chipotle: Curious Timing From The MSM Hurling Accusations
Retaliation For Trying To Go Non-GMO: Big Ag’s Many Friends In The MSM Take Potshots At Chipotle It was a first in an industry where the bottom line is always the most important thing, back in 2013 when Chipotle announced that it would be sourcing all its ingredients from growers who were certified to only grow non-genetically modified crops. For a fast food chain to make such an announcement was tantamount to heresy: don’t these hippies understand that if it is cheaper, it is better?… Read the rest

Naled Spraying In Miami: Chemical Warfare On U.S. Soil As Citizen Protests Avail NothingNaled Spraying In Miami: Chemical Warfare On U.S. Soil As Citizen Protests Avail Nothing

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Naled Spraying In Miami: Chemical Warfare On U.S. Soil As Citizen Protests Avail NothingNaled Spraying In Miami: Chemical Warfare On U.S. Soil As Citizen Protests Avail Nothing
Toxic Naled Spraying Over Miami: The Beginning Of Chemical Warfare Against U.S. Citizens Miami, Florida is now the epicenter of a new chemical war the U.S. government is waging against its own citizens, but you wouldn’t know it to read the daily newspaper there. Low-flying planes in the early morning pre-dawn light swooped over neighborhoods on Friday, spraying out a dusting of naled, an organophosphate pesticide that officials hope will wipe out the mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus.… Read the rest

Fish Farm Fugitives: Escapees Demonstrate How Dangerous Aquaculture Really Is

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Fish Farm Fugitives: Escapees Demonstrate How Dangerous Aquaculture Really Is
  Escape From The Alcatraz Of Aquaculture: How Fish Farm Escapees Are Changing The Ecosystem Permanently No matter how many times humanity is taught certain lessons we never really seem to learn. Our history abounds with examples where we tried to control or alter the delicate balance of nature to better benefit humankind, for example the introduction of the mongoose to the Hawaiian islands at the height of the plantation era in the mid 1800s, ostensibly to kill the native tree rats that threatened the sugarcane and the profits of the planter class.… Read the rest

Sinister Bedfellows: Amid Arizona Marijuana Legalization Fight, Major Opioid Maker Donates To Opponents

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Sinister Bedfellows: Amid Arizona Marijuana Legalization Fight, Major Opioid Maker Donates To Opponents
Strange Bedfellows: Maker Of Opioid That Has Killed Thousands Donates To Anti-Weed Lobbying Groups They say “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” but oh boy does that ever make for some weird friends when it comes to politics. And especially when it comes to the politics of marijuana legalization. The landscape around marijuana is already so topsy-turvy, so filled with Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka land mines that it is almost impossible to navigate without losing your mind; the insane things people have been propagandized with for so many decades have calcified brains.… Read the rest

We Spend Trillions Of Dollars Researching And Fighting Cancer. So Why Are Childhood Cancer Rates Going Up?

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We Spend Trillions Of Dollars Researching And Fighting Cancer. So Why Are Childhood Cancer Rates Going Up?
Childhood Cancer Rates Are Rising, And The Reason May Surprise You Cancer has always existed in humans, surely. Surely there were ancient cave-people who suffered from the scourge, even if they didn’t have a name for it or understand it like we do today. And understand much of it we do. To be sure there is a lot left to discover.… Read the rest

Is South Carolina trying to murder all its honeybees? Round Two Of Panic-Driven Zika Spraying

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Is South Carolina trying to murder all its honeybees? Round Two Of Panic-Driven Zika Spraying
Say Goodbye To Honeybees In South Carolina: Another County Goes Nuclear On Zika Panic When the last bird falls from the sky and the last tree loses its last leaf and the last poisoned stream dries up, you have to wonder if the last humans will understand the decisions we casually make today to poison our only atmosphere. You have to wonder if they will hate us or judge us or even if they will be able to comprehend the power we wielded–and the incredibly stupid ways we use it.… Read the rest

Nursing Home Makeover: Doctor Has Crazy Idea To Treat The Elderly As If They Were Human Beings

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Nursing Home Makeover: Doctor Has Crazy Idea To Treat The Elderly As If They Were Human Beings
How One Doc Broke The Law To Bring Dignity–And With It Better Health–To The Elderly Some things you just have to learn the hard way. Here’s a stumper that apparently we still haven’t figured out as a society: The elderly like to be treated like human beings, not patients in a psych ward. Who knew? But all kidding aside, it is hard to overstate the grimness with which most modern American nursing homes are infused–especially those for people of little means.… Read the rest