Environment

The ‘bride of frankenfood’ has just got an endorsement from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for supporting genetically modified food. Hillary Clinton is coming under increasing pressure following a series of revelations regarding her ties to the Biotech industry and Monsanto. Natural Society reports: Clinton’s unyielding support was once again revealed recently when she was quoted on the Cornell Alliance for Science (funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) website saying: “I stand in favor of using seeds and products that have a proven track record.

Submitted by Claire Bernish via TheAntiMedia.org,

Though fracking industry proponents scoff at any intimation their so-called vital industry poses even scant risks to the public, a new study published in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology just proved those critics right — fracking wastewater causes cancer.

Using human bronchial epithelial cells, which are commonly used to measure the carcinogenesis of toxicants, researchers confirmed fracking flowback water from the Marcellus Shale caused the formation of malignancies.

Scientists studying the remains of a human-like species nicknamed the “hobbits“, say that they were not Home sapiens. The mysterious human-like species died out on the Indonesian island of Flores over 15,000 years ago.

Seen at a Moscow bus stop: "Smoking Kills more people than Obama"

h/t @adagamov and @olliecarroll

Current sales and buyer traffic tumbled in February for homebuilders who downgraded their confidence index to 58 (from 61) missing expctations and at its worst level since May 2015. While futures sales hope rose very modestly, NAHB shows buyer traffic plunged to its lowest since March 2015 with every region seeing weakness (most notably The West).

All this is odd given the surge in new and existing home sales...

Once again - hope appears not to be a strategy after all.