Cop shop: Crisis-hit Greece rents police for €30 per hour

(RT)   Greece is offering a ‘cop-for-hire’ service, renting out policemen for €30 per hour, plus €10 if you want a police car too. It triggered fears that security of people who cannot afford a policeman for hire may be affected in favor of those who can. This new way for the cash-strapped Greek state to [...]

IRS Hits Pot Shop With $2.4M Tax Bill

By AP, MyFOXNY SAN FRANCISCO – The federal government has found a new weapon in its war on marijuana — the tax man. A San Francisco Bay area medical marijuana dispensary that promotes itself as the world’s largest has been hit with a $ 2.4 million tax bill following an audit by the Internal Revenue [...]

How Whole Foods Market “Primes” Customers to Shop

Attention sheeple … er, shoppers! You may not know it, but if you’ve ever entered a Whole Foods Market, you’ve actually been “primed” to shop. Martin Lindstrom, author of Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy, wrote an interesting article at FastCompany about how the popular market subtly persuades [...]

The Chemicals In Your Cosmetics

Sodium lauryl sulfate is an effective degreaser used to clean oil stains from the floor of my mechanic’s repair shop; what’s it doing in my toothpaste and my daughter’s bubble bath? And, why is the long-known carcinogen nitrosamine, banned in Canada and the European Union, still a common ingredient in my mascara, concealer, sunless tanning [...]