July 13, 2017

July 9, 2017

Accelerating world oil demand and reduced supply from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could push crude prices up to $60 a barrel before the end of the year, according to a report from Barron's.

The report cites research from Citigroup senior energy analyst Eric Lee, who previously called for a bear market in oil when the…

July 4, 2017

June 28, 2017 

JUNE 15, 2017

Just as the War on Drugs was never actually about slowing down or stopping the import and use of illegal narcotics, so too was the spurious War on Terror not about stopping individuals or groups from inciting violence for political means. In fact, we already know that U.S. agencies have funded,…

May 27, 2017

May 20, 2017

The price of bitcoin surpassed $2,000 for the first time in history today, pushing the cryptocurrency to a fresh, new record amid rising trader interest.

The currency's price rose as much as 2.62% during the session, according to CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index (BPI) to hit a press time high of…

Thieves Vinegar, Four Thieves Vinegar, Vinegar of the Four Thieves or Forthave's Vinegar

No matter what you call it, thieves vinegar has a long history of use. From Scientific American's 1910 reference to “…

May 19, 2017 

May 18, 2017

The total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies reached an all-time high today, passing $60bn as the innovative assets continued to draw robust inflows.

This figure reached $63.6bn at one point during the day's trading, according to online data service …

April 13, 2017

The U.S. military dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb on an ISIS tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, a U.S. defense official confirmed to Fox News. The GBU-43B, a 21,000-pound conventional bomb, was deployed in Nangarhar Province close to the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. By comparison, each Tomahawk cruise missile launched at a…

April 3, 2017

The idea that cannabis kills cancer cells seems to no longer be a conspiracy theory in the United States. With this information, can any state legitimately say no to medicinal marijuana?

Or could it even be considered a preventative herb to avoid getting cancer?

Amy Willis with Metro says that the US government has added a page on the use of…

April 8, 2017

The US has reportedly begun an investigation into whether Russia is linked to the suspected chemical attack in Syria’s Idlib, which Washington claims was carried out by Damascus. It comes after Russia condemned the US strike on a Syrian air base, which killed six people. An unidentified drone, allegedly Russian or Syrian, has…

Cinnamon: Background and History

The history of cinnamon is a long and rich one fraught with intrigues, lies, betrayals, excesses, and folly. This once highly prized (and, in some cases still highly prized) spice has been known since antiquity and was once attributed to mythical sources - prior to the eventual discovery of its true places of…

March 20, 2017

David Rockefeller Sr., the heir to a vast and storied family fortune who, as president, chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Bank transformed a listless business into one of the world’s largest financial institutions, died March 20 at his home in Pocantico Hills, N.Y. He was 101.

A spokesman, Fraser P. Seitel, said the cause was…

March 20, 2017

The U.S. banker, philanthropist, presidential adviser, and heir to one of history’s most fabled fortunes was the world’s oldest billionaire. David Rockefeller a billionaire philanthropist, who was the oldest member of the vaunted Rockefeller family, has died at the age of 101.

Rockefeller’s spokesman, Fraser P. Seitel, said he died peacefully in his…

With reports of contaminated, toxic turmeric products flooding store shelves, there is no better time to start growing your own. Turmeric is one of the healthiest, nutrient rich herbs you can eat. Learn how to grow your own turmeric at home.

Turmeric can help prevent cancer, it eases arthritis symptoms, it…

March 10, 2017 

Feb. 16, 2017

President Trump on Thursday signed legislation ending a key Obama administration coal mining rule. 

The bill quashes the Office of Surface Mining's Stream Protection Rule, a regulation to protect waterways from coal mining waste that officials finalized in December.

The legislation is the second Trump has signed into law ending an Obama-era…

Millions of Americans have made the switch from chemical salt to sea salt in recent years. Sea salt is derived naturally from seawater, rather than mines and processed with chemicals like common table salt, making it a more desirable product for health seekers. But new research points to serious dangers in sea salt: microplastics.

According to the research, published in…