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You toured the home. You loved it. You bought it. The neighborhood looked pristine, the sales agent was friendly, and nothing about the closing table suggested what was coming next. Then the first property tax bill arrived. Buried inside was a charge that had nothing to do with schools, county services, police, or fire protection.…Continue reading Built on Your Dime: The Special District Scheme Sweeping the Nation
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James Welsch teaches American politics at a high school in Maine. His classroom runs almost entirely on screens — students write blog posts, trade articles, pull up videos mid-discussion. A few years ago, he noticed something wrong with the writing. Essays submitted digitally had grown choppy. Whole passages looked copied. The fluency he expected wasn’t…Continue reading The $30 Billion Screen Experiment That Failed Our Children
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Del Bigtree’s recent trip to Italy, he witnessed something that instantly caught his attention. Farmers treating seeds with electricity before planting—no chemicals, no sprays, nothing synthetic—then watching those seeds outperform untreated ones planted side by side under identical conditions. Higher yields. Cleaner food. No inputs. “I had never heard of electrofarming before this trip,” he…Continue reading Nature Figured It Out Centuries Ago. Corporate America Spent Five Times the Electricity Getting it Wrong.
By Jefferey Jaxen About 1 in 10 patients experience some kind of harm while receiving medical care and in about half of those cases — 1 in 20 — the harm is preventable, according to a recent study published in the BMJ. The study, a large systematic review of existing scientific literature on the topic, examined data from…Continue reading Epidemic Number of Medical Errors Scarring Healthcare
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#1 HHS Incriminates itself if it publishes or admits a vaccine can cause a harm. If HHS publishes any study supporting that a vaccine causes a harm, that study will then be used against HHS in Vaccine Court. This greatly limits HHS’s incentive to publish safety studies. #2 HHS has failed to preform even basic…Continue reading 6 Things You Didn’t Know About The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Attempts at justice for the long list of those who caused, directed and amplified the opioid epidemic is unfolding across America. The public is getting an education on who the many pharmaceutical companies, distributors, opium growers and individuals are who have created the deadly wave which has ruined countless lives. Despite facing stiff opposition by…Continue reading In Their Own Words: Big Pharma During the Opioid Epidemic
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AP is reporting: “CLEVELAND (AP) — Newly released federal data shows how drugmakers and distributors increased shipments of opioid painkillers across the U.S. as the nation’s addiction crisis accelerated from 2006 to 2012. The data, released this week by a federal court in Ohio as part of a far-reaching opioids case, shows that companies distributed…Continue reading 76 billion Opioid Pills Flooded US As Epidemic Raged
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by Carey Gillam A 12-year-old boy suffering from cancer is among the newest plaintiffs taking on Monsanto and its German owner Bayer AG in growing litigation over the safety of Roundup herbicides and Monsanto’s handling of scientific concerns about the products. Lawyers for Jake Bellah were in court Monday in Lake County Superior Court in Lakeport,…Continue reading Sick Children Among Cancer Victims Suing Monsanto Over Roundup
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By Jefferey Jaxen Imagine for a moment if drug manufacturers can act unethically when record profits are on the line – perhaps not a stretch. What if those unethical practices and manipulative methods were no longer working on the general public? What if an easier option presented itself? What if unethical pharmaceutical companies could magically…Continue reading Are Statin Makers Eyeing the ‘Anti-Vaxxer’ Censorship Model?
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