Most of the world believes that Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ – which it isn’t. The truth about the holiday may surprise you.

Climate change can be a bitch and the weird weather of recent years will only get worse, much, much worse.

Saskatchewan residents are urged to take precautions to avoid infection with hantavirus, especially when cleaning up rodent infested barns, homes or other buildings in their communities, following a recent hantavirus fatality in West Central Saskatchewan.

What if a cure for cancer has been right here all along? What if the very agency charged with protecting your health is the one keeping you from that cure?

Another scientific study shows how fluoride can damage the brain and why it should be avoided.

World Watcher Lester Brown paints a bleak picture of the future but evades pointing a finger at the real causes and does not offer viable solutions. As usual, he takes up the shelf space to prevent saner voices from being heard.

Food tested in California is still showing harmful levels of radiation. The lack of testing in other regions does not mean the food grown there is safe.

The toxins produced by many genetically modified crops are now found in most all mothers and their fetuses.

Is it Sasquatch or isn’t it? The fuzzy images aren’t conclusive but are certainly intriguing and deserve further investigation.

Both radioactive Iodine and Cessium have been detected in the breast milk of Japanese mothers.

Ralph Nader’s straight talk on the real impact of Chernobyl (1 million dead) and what we should be learning from it.

The Families for Health & Safety Director will be presenting the case against water fluoridation to the Wakaw, Saskatchewan Town Council on May 10th.

Real nuclear experts discuss the real risks associated with the Fukushima fallout.

Venezuela’s efforts to evolve as a society includes better education. While greats strides have been made, more needs to be done.

Sea Shepherd has reached an agreement with the Republic of Palau to help defend the world’s first shark sanctuary.

A group representing family farmers is suing Monsatano preemptively to protect themselves from being accused of patent infringement should they ever become contaminated by Monsanto’s genetically modified seed, something Monsanto has done to others in the past.

Canada’s government recently collapsed in a vote of no confidence and the politicos are scrambling to get more of their own dogs back in the ring.

A task force commissioned to determine whether or not the city of Fairbanks, Alaska should end water fluoridation has made its recommendation: END fluoridation.

Can’t imagine life without a cell phone? Maybe you should, life can be good without one.

Facebook and MySpace are easy places for criminals to get personal info. used for identity theft.

What’s Good for Man may wreck the planet, and with the mushrooming expansion of humans numbers, increasingly seems likely to.

After much heated debate from both sides, the Calgary city council voted 10 – 3 to stop adding the hazardous chemical byproduct of the aluminum and phosphate fertilizer industries to the city’s drinking water.

The cell phone industry knew back in 1994 that their phones caused DNA damage, but chose to ignore the facts and continue to lie about cell phone hazards.

A research study conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found nursing facility residents with normal levels of zinc were about fifty percent less likely to develop pneumonia.

How many times have you heard or read that the key to losing weight lies in eating a solid breakfast? Well, a recent study found just the opposite.

Music can have profound effects on the brains of listeners.

Vending machines in Taiwan can tell you what to purchase based on your appearance and communications devices and then track what you purchase.

Nano-silver is showing up in hundreds of consumer products despite the fact that its safety has not been well researched and prior knowledge indicates that caution is the only sane approach.

This Thanksgiving, when the tartness of cranberry sauce smacks your tongue, consider the power of sour.

There’s good news for women with epilepsy. Breastfeeding your baby while taking your seizure medication may have no harmful effect on your child’s IQ later on.

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver spearheaded drive against controversial beef.

By many definitions, the U.S. is now a defacto Fascist police state with an illegitimate federal government that is in gross violation of the US Constitution.

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”

Iraq’s higher education system was utterly destroyed by the American invasion and occupation and may never recover.

Yoga is peaceful personal revolution in the age of industrialized self-destruction.

More must-read wise words from the man who has done so much for America yet is scorned for his honest and heart-felt efforts.

The FDA has declared walnuts to be an illegal drug as long as Diamond Foods informs consumers of their nuts’ health benefits.

The provisions in the agreement appear quite similar to – and more expansive than – anything we saw in SOPA.

In theory, these 5 food laws should have helped clean up our eating habits. In reality, they haven’t made much of a difference.

  The threat of human-made climate change and the urgency of reducing fossil fuel emissions have become increasingly clear to the scientific community during the past few years. Yet, at the same time, the public seems to have become less certain about the situation. Indeed, many people have begun to wonder whether the climate threat [...]

When it came to health, what was most surprising was how little President Obama had to say in his State of the Union address.

A bill was introduced in the Oklahoma state senate Friday that would ban the manufacture of food containing aborted human fetuses.

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that law enforcement authorities likely need a probable-cause warrant from a judge to affix a GPS device to a vehicle.

SOPA may be sneaking in to Canada.

Marijuana mouth spray derived from raw cannabis ready for FDA approval.

One-on-one interview with flu lead researcher Ron Fouchier.

An aging nuclear plant with a long history of leaks is being kept open by the Obama Administration against the wishes of the people of Vermont.

Behind most of the world’s worst dictators is the CIA who creates them, puts them in power and keeps in them power to terrorize their nation and make US corporations filthy rich.

The Obama administration on Friday ruled that religiously affiliated nonprofit organizations, including hospitals and universities, will have to offer birth-control coverage to women employees but gave the organizations an extra year to comply.

Tax credits, other financial incentives offered.

Researchers studying a potentially more lethal, airborne version of the bird flu virus have suspended their studies because of concerns the mutant virus they have created could be used as a devastating form of bioterrorism or accidentally escape the lab.

Dr. Daphne Miller focuses on nutrition to treat modern diseases.

Although a 2010 federal excise tax was meant to deter customers from using indoor tanning salons, only a minority of the businesses taking part in a new survey reported a drop in clients and most said their customers did not seem to care.

Opposition to the controversial Stop Online Piracy and Protect Internet Privacy Acts has caused a major stir among Republicans and Democrats alike, with 18 Senators – including seven co-sponsors – turning against the legislation.

Canadian health authorities detected dangerous levels of radiation in rainwater and water supplies from Fukushima fallout, lied about the radiation and continued to hide the information from the public.

Artisitic works in the public domain can now be re-copyrighted by the US Congress, according to the bozos in the US Supreme Court.

Sec 105 of SOPA threatens freedom of health speech, aligns with FDA Trilateral Cooperation Charter to potentially eliminate access to dietary supplements.

On January 18, 2012, thousands of websites from around the world came out in protest of two pieces of legislation that threaten to censor the internet as we know it.

US threatens nations against Monsanto products.

Rapidly expanding domestic use of unmanned aircraft calls for public disclosure. Network World journalist updates more.