Utah To Become First State To Ban Fluoride In Drinking Water
March 17th, 2025Via: Cowboy State Daily:
Utah is set to become the first U.S. state to ban fluoride in public water systems, while also making it easier for residents to obtain fluoride supplements if they choose to ingest this chemical element known for fighting tooth decay.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced his intention to sign legislation that would prohibit the addition of fluoride to municipal water supplies. The new law will impact two of the state’s largest counties — Davis and Salt Lake — which stand out as the only two places where fluoride is added to public drinking water.
While Wyoming hasn’t passed a statewide ban, some cities and towns have enacted their own bans, barring the addition of fluoride in drinking water.
Romania Bars Another Nationalist From Presidential Race For Opposing EU, NATO Membership
March 17th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge:
Not long after sparking outrage inside and outside the country by barring right-wing frontrunner Calin Georgescu from running in May’s presidential election, Romania has barred another populist from the contest, attributing the decision to the candidate’s supposedly unacceptable policy stances and “making declarations “contrary to democratic values.”
Romania’s electoral commission on Saturday announced that Diana Sosoaca would be banned from competing for the country’s presidency. That news is troubling enough on its face, but the Central Election Bureau’s rationale makes the development all the more chilling: Sosoaca is unfit for office because she has publicly voiced opposition to Romania’s memberships in the European Union and NATO.
Trump Orders New Large Scale Strikes On Iran-Backed Houthis In Yemen
March 15th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge:
Days ago Yemen’s Houthis announced they are resuming attacks on Red Sea shipping over Israel’s failure to fully open humanitarian aid corridors into the Gaza Strip.
But President Trump has responded preemptively by on Saturday ordering a series of new airstrikes on Yemen’s capital, Sanaa. The US commander-in-chief was warned he’ll continuing using “overwhelming lethal force” until the Iranian-backed Houthi completely halt their attacks.
And That’s The Truth
March 15th, 2025Via: Truthstream Media:
VR Headsets for Inmates in Solitary Confinement
March 15th, 2025Via: Futurism:
Right now in the US, the total population held in prison is nearly 2 million people, which is over 20 percent of the world’s prisoners. Of that massive number, over 122,000 US citizens are forced to endure solitary confinement for at least 22 hours a day.
Solitary confinement is the brutal practice of stuffing people into closet-sized rooms without sunlight, stimulation, or human contact for hours, days, weeks, and sometimes years or decades at a time. It’s a practice that amounts to torture, according to the United Nations and the Geneva Convention.
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Now take that grim situation and add a “Black Mirror”-esque wrinkle: prison officials in California are now offering some people held in solitary confinement an escape via virtual reality.
Gold Soars To Record High As Tariff Tensions Rise
March 13th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge:
Gold prices broke out to a new record high this morning following President Trump’s latest threat to ratchet up tariffs against European imports.
Spot prices hit $2974 this morning…
U.S. Deficit Hits Record $1.1 Trillion In First 5 Months Of 2025 As February Taxes Failed To Cover Even Half Of Spending
March 13th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge:
First the good news: Elon Musk’s DOGE is going through government spending with a fine-toothed comb, slashing a million here, a billion there.
The bad news: at the rate it is going, DOGE will need a few hundred years to make a tangible impact, because as the Treasury just reported, in February the US government spent a staggering $603 billion, a 6% increase from the $567 billion a year ago…
Mexico: Extermination Center in Jalisco Was Used For Organ Trafficking, “Cremation Furnaces Have Been Operating for More than 10 Years”
March 13th, 2025Via: Latin Times:
A small rural community in the state of Jalisco has been the center of attention in Mexico after a group of volunteers found a property allegedly used by the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) as a confinement, training and extermination center.
Members of Colectivo Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco, a private nonprofit that helps find missing persons, alerted Mexican authorities of a ranch located in Teuchitlán after they found burnt human remains hidden underground.
More: Hidden Graves of at Least 200 People Found at ‘Extermination Site’
COP30: The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference
March 13th, 2025Via: Paul Watson:
In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying
March 12th, 2025Via: EFF:
EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans.
Mark didn’t set out to change the world. For 22 years, he was a telecommunications technician for AT&T, most of that in San Francisco. But he always had a strong sense of right and wrong and a commitment to privacy.
When the New York Times reported in late 2005 that the NSA was engaging in spying inside the U.S., Mark realized that he had witnessed how it was happening. He also realized that the President was not telling Americans the truth about the program. And, though newly retired, he knew that he had to do something. He showed up at EFF’s front door in early 2006 with a simple question: “Do you folks care about privacy?”
We did. And what Mark told us changed everything. Through his work, Mark had learned that the National Security Agency (NSA) had installed a secret, secure room at AT&T’s central office in San Francisco, called Room 641A. Mark was assigned to connect circuits carrying Internet data to optical “splitters” that sat just outside of the secret NSA room but were hardwired into it. Those splitters—as well as similar ones in cities around the U.S.—made a copy of all data going through those circuits and delivered it into the secret room.
Book: Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine…And Fighting It by Mark Klein
