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In a world where digital technology advances at a rapid rate, increasingly fewer people can seemingly resist the allure of looking at their phone or other digital devices, often to the detriment of being truly present in the moment.
It’s not uncommon, when walking down a busy street filled with people, to see more people looking at their phones than actually acknowledging the existence of the other people with a friendly “hello,” sharing a pleasant smile or even simply making eye contact.
Photographer Eric Pickersgill has captured this digital disconnect between people with a stunning series of photos. The images reveal …read more

Something I’ve been happy to promote on my podcast–Sovryn Tech–and have been even more pleased to see come into fruition, is the “crypto-economy”. Now, I don’t necessarily mean cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, but I more mean how software and devices with security, anonymity, and privacy (or DAPS) that are baked-in from the beginning are being developed en masse. And certainly there are plenty of products to look at. Silent Circle’s Blackphone and Blackphone 2. The Turing Phone. The Quasar IV. Even more mainstream companies like FreedomPop have gotten in on the game when it comes to devices, in particular.
And now …read more

Upon arriving on the white sands of Guanahani Island, Christopher Columbus performed a ceremony to “take possession” of the land for his benefactors, the king and queen of Spain. His actions were legitimized under the international laws of Western Christendom.
Virtually all American school children are taught about Columbus’s “discovery” as some type of mythical adventure. However, few are aware of the religious doctrine that underpins his taking “possession” of the newly arrived upon land, which has come to be known as the Doctrine of Discovery.
Fewer yet are aware that currently – over five hundred years later – the U.S. government …read more

Washington DC – According to a report recently published by the watchdog group “Open the Books,” the US Environmental Protection Agency has been spending millions of dollars on military-style weapons.
The report indicated that over the past decade, the government agency has equipped hundreds of “special agents with anything from guns, body armor, weaponized drones, amphibious assault ships, night-vision gear and other military-style weapons.” The agency reportedly has a “criminal enforcement” budget of $75 million per year.
Adam Andrzejewski of Open the Books told the Washington Post, “Protecting the environment just got real. With millions of dollars spent on military-style weaponry, the …read more

So the New York Times is making the broad stroke of a claim that the Blight House…err…White House…is no longer interested in weakening encryption standards throughout Silicon Valley and abroad.
This comes in direct contradiction to statements by Full-Blooded Italians director–James Comey…wait…that doesn’t sound like an Italian last name…oh…sorry…wrong “FBI”. Federal Bureau of Investigations Director, James Comey, has made claims for years that easy-to-use encryption (really, he meant all encryption) was just far too dangerous to have in the wild–unless tech companies put backdoors into that encryption for the Department of Homeland Slavery…I mean…Security (really, when it comes to government, those …read more

On October 11, CBS News released a Republican presidential poll, showing only two candidates above 9%. They are Donald Trump at 27%, and Ben Carson at 21%. See here for the entire poll. The next Republican presidential debate is October 28 in Boulder, Colorado. If the next Republican debate used the criteria of the Commission on Presidential Debates, that debate would only include Trump and Carson. …read more

The Huffington Post has reprinted Professor Marjorie Cohn’s Truthout piece in support of Jill Stein, the leading contender for the 2016 Green Party presidential nomination. …read more

A shocking statistic has come out of Tennessee which further demonstrates the ludicrous nature of the U.S. approach to drugs.
“Legal” opioid drugs in the form of prescription pills killed more people in 2014 than did vehicle accidents or gunshots. At least 1,263 Tennesseans died from opioid overdose, continuing a steady increase over the years—figures that doctors are calling epidemic proportions.
Dubbed “hillbilly heroin,” the government-sanctioned big Pharma products are easily available on the street, from $5 a pill for Hydrocodone $80 a pill for OxyContin. One doctor described how people would get prescribed painkillers after visiting the emergency room and then …read more

Pharmanation, USA — Suicide, birth defects, heart problems, hostility, violence, aggression, hallucinations, self-harm, delusional thinking, homicidal ideation, and death are just a few of the side effects caused by psychiatric medication.
There have been 150 studies in seventeen countries on antidepressant-induced side effects. There have been 134 drug regulatory agency warnings from eleven countries and the EU warning about the dangerous side effects of antidepressants.
Despite this deadly laundry list of potential reactions to these medications, the use of antidepressants has skyrocketed by 400% since 1988.
Currently, 11 percent of all Americans 12 years of age and over take antidepressant medication, this …read more