Heading into the Christmas shopping season, the Cass Freight Index shows shipments sank 0.4% for the month and are down 3.1% from shipments a year ago.
Since they can't sell people on electric cars, the next best thing is to outlaw internal combustion-engined cars. In order to force people into electric cars.
Alexa can already order you an Uber, control your smart home devices, and keep you company. She's about to learn much better DJ skills, save you six bucks a month on streaming music, and possibly even change the way you listen to music in your hous
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Another intensive hand-crafted industry is about to be taken over by robot automation. No national or global dialogue has yet taken place to discuss the desirability of destroying labor markets, or what to do when they are destroyed. Technocrats focu
Online retail giant Amazon was forced to remove a skimpy low-cut black dress, complete with veil, advertised on its website as a "ladies sexy Saudi burka Islamic costume," after scores of infuriated users labeled it "racist" and "disgustin
Australia -- For years, Harry Kunz fielded various unsavory but lucrative offers for the use of his remote and strikingly scenic wildlife sanctuary in north Queensland -- which visitors frequently call a "paradise" -- but none of the propositi
Oakland nonprofit the Seasteading Institute, a group devoted to the development of floating colonies adrift from the oppressive moorings of society, has announced its dreams are closer than ever to reality. As soon as 2017, the institute hopes to bre
HOUSTON -- Global oil markets are flooded with cheap crude, and concerns about climate change are growing louder. The last thing the world seems to be craving is the discovery of new large oil and natural gas fields.
(NaturalNews) There are plenty of questions surrounding the proposed mega-merger of Bayer and Monsanto, which (if approved) may mean the creation of the world's biggest agribusiness, but one thing seems certain: The merger will mean higher food price
Last month, Uber began a self-driving car pilot project, taking passengers around Pittsburgh in autonomous mode. But it appears that the programme may have got off to a bumpy start, with reports of multiple problems. Witnesses have revealed that th
Oil and gas companies are dumping unlimited amounts of fracking wastewater and chemicals directly into the Gulf of Mexico with the full approval of the EPA.
Almost exactly one year ago, we reported that as a result of the commodity crash of 2015, more than half of Chinese companies in the commodity sector did not generate enough cash flow to pay the interest on their debt.
Companies became more resistant to the FBI's collection of their customers' information following revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, according to a Department of Justice Inspector General report released Thursday.
By: Claire Bernish / (The Free Thought Project) On Saturday, the United States ceded oversight of one of the Internet's most basic and fundamental functions -- the so-called "root zone," which governs new domain names and addresses -- handing
(NaturalNews) This is a preview to the Era of Wisdom documentary "Toddlers on Adderall: History of "Big Pharma" and the Major Players," to be released December 28, 2016.
"Anybody that drives around Southern California can tell you the infrastructure is falling apart," says Joel Kotkin, a fellow of urban studies at Chapman University and author of the book The New Class Conflict.