The Greens in the European Parliament have blocked an amendment calling for the ban of Monsanto’s controversial weedkiller, as part of a broader political deal with the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) to back a report calling for a rethink of the EU’s pesticide approval system. The European Parliament approved on Wednesday (16 January) a list …[continue reading]
IN BRIEF The Facts: Another factory farm, that supplies milk to one of Coca Cola’s companies has been exposed in the form of graphic video footage for extreme animal cruelty. Reflect On: How have we become so desensitized as to where our food comes from? Are animal products actually healthy, or has this simply been …[continue reading]
When researcher Curtis Waltman of the website Muckrock received files resulting from his Freedom of Information Act request on Antifa and white supremacist groups from the Washington State Fusion Center, he got a little more than he had bargained for: an unrelated zip file entitled “EM effects on human body.” advertisement – learn more Within the file were …[continue reading]
CATALAN independence leader Carles Puigdemont was blocked entering the European Parliament despite being elected as an MEP last weekend. Mr Puigdemont, who fled Spain in 2017 to escape charges related to the Catalonian independence referendum deemed illegal by Spanish courts, complained he was being prevented from entering the Brussels-based institution yesterday. The MEP-elect has been …[continue reading]
The EU wants to save our climate with supposedly green biofuels and has deemed palm oil “sustainable”. Yet on the other side of the globe, rainforests are being clear-cut to produce the 1.9 million tons of palm oil that end up in European fuel tanks every year. Tell EU legislators to put an end to …[continue reading]
France just took an unprecedented step to protect bees by passing a total ban on bee-killing neonics. But a new harmful insecticide is being shoved into EU states and it could prove just as toxic as neonics. Developed by Bayer, “flupyradifurone” is a chemical cousin to the neonics linked to the mass die-off of …[continue reading]
A DECISION BY the Information Commissioner ordering University College Cork (UCC) to release records under Freedom of Information has been overturned by the High Court. The judgement was made after UCC challenged a decision by the Commissioner in 2018 that the university must disclose details of a loan provided to it by the European Investment Bank (EIB) …[continue reading]
Australian journalist Shane Dowling has been jailed for publishing articles exposing paedophile judges and judges taking bribes. The exact charge against Mr Dowling is contempt of court because he repeated in court on the 3rd of February 2017 part of an article he had published and also for publishing an article about the contempt proceedings …[continue reading]
Generally speaking, when we see lawsuits filed and court cases active, we expect them to be for relatively recent issues fresh on people’s minds – or at least, issues that are recollectable to individuals living today and not something that occurred well over 70 years ago. That being said, the Rockefeller Foundation is currently facing …[continue reading]
The Truth Factory suspects that something deeper is afoot with the recent de-platforming and demonetization of numerous accounts belonging to Conservative pundits on Facebook. She takes a look at the history of Facebook to find out what is going on. She reminds us of a DARPA project called LifeLog, which tracked users’ browsing, chat and banking histories – plus the …[continue reading]
