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London Izabella-Ryén Gadd was just 12 years old when she died. She was a bright, empathetic, and deeply loved young girl who locked arms with her mom when they walked together and felt everything more deeply than most. Looking back at her life, it is clear that London was not a broken child. When she…Continue reading Not Broken, Betrayed: How the System Killed 12-Year-Old London Gadd
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Nobody in their right mind would seriously defend the puppy mill operations that exist in the United States. Yet, like so many other seemingly well-intentioned causes captured by the nonprofit industrial complex (which, let’s not forget, often profits from a problem rather than solving it), the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals…Continue reading The Puppy Mill Industrial Complex
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As of 2022, one in four emergency departments in the United States was staffed by a private equity-owned physician group. That figure is likely higher today, given the rapid pace of acquisitions since then. Here is an example. When ER physicians arrived for work at Valley Health in Winchester, VA, on April 2nd, they had…Continue reading The Private Equity Takeover of America’s Emergency Rooms
For the first time, microplastics have been found in the human brain. Specifically, researchers have discovered that these toxic, degraded plastic leftovers have reached the olfactory bulb—a part of the brain responsible for processing neural signals about smells detected by cells in the nasal cavity. This discovery amplifies our previous reporting on existing concerns about…Continue reading Ticking Time Bomb: Microplastics Cross the Blood Brain Barrier
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“The risk at issue [is] unreasonable; the exposure is continuous, and nearly all Americans are affected.” “The scientific literature in the record provides a high level of certainty that a hazard is present; fluoride is associated with reduced IQ.” “…there is a robust body of evidence finding a statistically significant adverse association between fluoride and…Continue reading LANDMARK: Court Rules Fluoride Poses “unreasonable risk of injury to health of the public”
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While the headlines have returned to the pre-pandemic propaganda-fueled norm—ignoring “the massive scale and enduring persistence of COVID-19 impact in education”—studies consistently warn that the pandemic’s negative impact on schools and children remains a harsh daily reality. Numerous reports in both the United States and abroad confirm that the damaging effects of the tyranny shrouding…Continue reading Were Billions Wasted to Fuel Intentional Merging of Students and Technology?
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Society faces a surging resistance to leading antibiotics, antivirals, and antiparasitic drugs, collectively called antimicrobials. According to the CDC, every fifteen minutes, another person in the United States dies from a drug-resistant infection, often called superbugs. Many individuals have taken antibiotics and such, but, incredibly, more antimicrobials are sold each year for use in farm…Continue reading Overuse of Antibiotics in US Livestock Fuels Antimicrobial Resistance
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None of the vaccine doses recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for routine injection into our nation’s children were licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) based on a long-term placebo-controlled trial. This troubling fact, which has been consistently pointed out by The Highwire host Del Bigtree, is…Continue reading The Steady Poisoning of Our Children
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Obesity in the United States Armed Forces costs the Pentagon more than $1 billion per year, with nearly 70 percent of U.S. troops being overweight or obese. And, across all armed services, that number is rising. A new study explains how our military faces an unprecedented challenge, with active-duty manpower at an all-time low. Obesity…Continue reading 70% of U.S. Troops Suffer from Obesity
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