Californians line up to legally buy legal weed
California began selling recreational marijuana Monday in what’s seen as a milestone in the mainstreaming of the weed, and hundreds lined up to buy it. Lines formed outside stores licensed to sell the drug long before opening hours, and store owners said they had stocked…
Apple CEO Tim Cook Earned $102 Million in 2017
In fiscal 2017, Apple CEO Tim Cook received a salary of $3.06 million plus $9.33 million in bonuses and stock worth $89.2 million for a total compensation package of approximately $102 million, reports Bloomberg. The data was shared today by Apple in a proxy statement filed with the…
The world’s 500 wealthiest people got $1 trillion richer in 2017
The world’s richest people got a whopping $1 trillion richer in 2017, according to a new report from Bloomberg News. That’s about four times the gains they made last year. That data comes courtesy of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which tracks and ranks the world’s 500 richest people….
Priest Feeds Congregation Rat Poison Says “They’re Above Death” – They All Die
Priest Light Monyeki from Soshanguve, South Africa, took it upon himself to prove his followers were both ‘superhuman’ and ‘immortal’, with a seriously dangerous stunt. The priest declared to his congregation they should not fear death, as they will not die, before proceeding to…
UFO Seen Flying Over Los Angeles
Blurred Culture has received numerous phone calls about a mysterious flash of light over Southern California skies around the same time SpaceX announced it was launching a Falcon 9 at Vandenberg Air Force base along the state’s Central Coast region Friday evening. Our reporter in…
U.S. Preparing Preemptive Strike On North Korea
A total of four E-6B mercury planes are airborne over the East and West coast, according to a website that monitors air traffic. The powerful jet is a flying command centre used in the event of a nuclear war. It can launch nuclear weapons anywhere…
Former Pentagon UFO official: ‘We may not be alone’
For most of his 18-year career as a U.S. Navy pilot, Cmdr. David Fravor said his mother-in-law used to ask him a question: Had he seen a UFO? For 15 years, the answer was no. But one clear afternoon off the coast of California in 2004, he says,…
Posting Selfies Is An Actual Mental Disorder
Selfies are the most commonplace photos on social media. People have made entire careers based on the ‘art’. The front-facing camera phenomenon has had such an impact on society that research has been done into whether it can be considered a disorder. ‘Selfitis’ is considered…
F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to dismantle landmark rules regulating the businesses that connect consumers to the internet, granting broadband companies the power to potentially reshape Americans’ online experiences. The agency scrapped the so-called net neutrality regulations that prohibited broadband providers from blocking…
ALABAMA HAS THE WORST POVERTY IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD, U.N. OFFICIAL SAYS
A United Nations official investigating poverty in the United States was shocked at the level of environmental degradation in some areas of rural Alabama, saying he had never seen anything like it in the developed world. “I think it’s very uncommon in the First World. This…