While some Wall Street analysts now think the probability of the U.S. economy going into recession are nearly 50 percent, Canada is already there. That bad news comes as Canada gears up for a general election in October and at a time when the slide in global oil prices could spell continuing trouble for Canada's energy-dependent economy.

During the past two weeks, a couple dozen residents of the Quincy Veterans home in Illinois have contracted Legionnaire’s disease and four have died. During this same period, six inmates at California’s San Quentin prison have been diagnosed with the infection, and several dozen more with suggestive symptoms are under observation.

Imagine everything that you have ever cared about being “eliminated” in a fiery carnage. This is entirely possible as the world right now has the capability of destroying itself many times over – in the event a nuclear war breaks out.

Governor Jerry Brown celebrated last week when a recently published study - from researchers affiliated with Columbia University, the University of Idaho, and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies - determined climate change is, in fact, a contributor to the state's drought.