Month: June 2014

Natural Society – by Christina Sarich

Growing hemp without a federal permit has been banned since the 1970s, but regulations and restrictions on the sale of Cannabis sativa as a drug began as early as 1619. It is currently classified as a controlled substance on Schedule I, just like marijuana and heroin, even though you couldn’t get high off of hemp if you smoked a truckload of it. Hemp cultivation is currently only allowed in pilot studies in a few states as part of the latest federal farm bill, but its widespread cultivation in still illegal. Why?   Continue reading “Successfully Overturning the Fed’s Hemp Ban: 4 Uses for Hemp”

RT News

Long-suffering State Dept. spokesperson Jen Psaki endured another torrid press briefing as she was forced to defend some distinctly unsavory remarks by Ukrainian politicians and struggled with the differences between Iraq and Iran, as well as oil and gas.

As usual, AP’s Matt Lee served as Psaki’s chief tormentor, bringing up last week’s protests outside the Russian embassy in Kiev, in which Ukraine’s acting Foreign Minister Andrey Deshchitsa addressed the anti-Russian mob by telling them that “Putin is a f**ker.”   Continue reading “Psaki defends Ukraine FM over ‘Putin f**ker’ remark, confuses Iraq and Iran”

Hispanically Speaking News

A group led by New York state Sen. Gustavo Rivera launched Monday a campaign that proposes awarding state “citizenship” to the estimated 2.7 million immigrants who live in the Empire State, regardless of their immigration status.

“We have failed with immigration reform nationally and what we want is to provide an opportunity for the almost 3 million people who live and contribute to the public treasury in our state to take part in its political, civic and economic life,” Rivera told Efe Monday before introducing the bill.   Continue reading “Proposed Legislation Would Grant New York’s Immigrants State “Citizenship””

CIDRAP

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first US facility that can make cell-culture influenza vaccines, a Novartis plant in Holly Springs, N.C., that has been part of federal government efforts to prepare for a pandemic and to sidestep some limits of egg-based flu vaccine technology.

Novartis said in a press release today that the approval clears the way for commercial production to begin at the site and for Flucelvax, its seasonal flu vaccine, to be made in the United States for the first time. The vaccine, approved in November 2012, was the first cell-based flu vaccine to receive FDA clearance, and the first doses—made in the company’s German production facility—entered the US market during the 2013-14 flu season.   Continue reading “FDA OKs Novartis’s US cell-based flu vaccine facility”

Site Pro News

The U.S. Department of Transportation is seeking the power to regulate navigation apps such as Google Maps and Apple Maps in a bid to reduce the number of distracted drivers on the road.

The agency is seeking Congressional approval to obtain regulatory control over mapping apps under President Barack Obama’s proposed transportation bill, the Grow America Act.

Under the proposed legislation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration would be handed the authority to implement restrictions on mapping apps and order they be changed if they are found to be dangerous.   Continue reading “Government Wants to Regulate Navigation Apps”

Common Dreams – by Harvey Wasserman

Some 39 months after the multiple explosions at Fukushima, thyroid cancer rates among nearby children have skyrocketed to more than forty times (40x) normal.

More than 48 percent of some 375,000 young people—nearly 200,000 kids—tested by the Fukushima Medical University near the smoldering reactors now suffer from pre-cancerous thyroid abnormalities, primarily nodules and cysts. The rate is accelerating.   Continue reading “Fukushima’s Children are Dying”

Kurion Press Release

Originally Published on 06/09/2014

Company Delivering a Mobile, At-Tank Isotope Removal System to Accelerate Site Safety Improvements

Kurion, Inc., an innovator in nuclear and hazardous waste management, announced it has been awarded a contract by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) to deliver a first-of-a-kind, at-tank mobile system to remove strontium from tank water at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Kurion has already delivered the first set of equipment to the plant’s staging area for inspection and plans to ship the balance of equipment in the coming weeks. Kurion expects that the system will be operational this summer. Continue reading “Kurion Awarded Contract to Treat Tank Water at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant”

Press TV

“The Jewish state is a racist, nationalist, expansionist state and…its political philosophy is consistent with the Nazi ideology,” said political activist and writer, Gilad Atzmon, in a Monday interview with Press TV.   Continue reading “Israel’s policies consistent with Nazi tenets: Analyst”

Breitbart – by Sylvia Longmire

TUCSON, Arizona–As more and more unaccompanied alien children (UACs) from Central America have poured into south Texas—and subsequently transferred to Border Patrol facilities elsewhere along the border—US government officials are scrambling to find places to put them. However, based on current immigration and asylum laws, the vast majority of those children could be legally staying right here in the United States before long.    Continue reading “Pro-Bono Lawyers: Most Unaccompanied Border Children Eligible for Amnesty”

AOL – by Megha Rajagopalan and Ben Blanchard

(Reuters) – China executed 13 people on Monday for “terrorist attacks” in the far western region of Xinjiang, state media said, while another three were sentenced to death for a lethal attack at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

“The 13 criminals had planned violent terrorist attacks and ruthlessly killed police officers, government officials and civilians, which took innocent lives, caused huge property losses and seriously endangered public security,” the official news agency Xinhua said.   Continue reading “China executes 13 people for ‘terrorist’ attacks in Xinjiang”

Jon Rappoport

In a minute, I’m going to print a stunning 1978 conversation between a US reporter and two members of the Trilateral Commission.

I discovered the conversation in the late 1980s, and ever since then, I’ve been looking at it from various angles, finding new implications. Here, I want to point out that the conversation was public knowledge at the time.

Anyone who was anyone in Washington politics, in media, in think-tanks, had access to it. Understood its meaning.   Continue reading “When The Elite showed its hand”

The Moscow Times

Fighting in eastern Ukraine threatens water supplies to the city of Donetsk and could have serious consequences for 4 million people, monitors for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said Monday.

The OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission in eastern Ukraine quoted local officials as saying a water pumping station and a section of pipeline near the town of Semyonovka, close to the bitterly contested city of Slovyansk, had been damaged in fighting between government forces and separatists.   Continue reading “Ukraine Conflict Threatens Water Supply to 4 Million”

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — First there was West Nile virus. Now health experts are warning about another virus carried by mosquitoes.

The chikungunya virus — or “chik-v” — has sickened tens of thousands of people throughout the Caribbean with high fever and severe pain. Now Americans are coming down with it, too, and there’s fear that it will spread, CBS 2′s Kristine Johnson reported.   Continue reading “U.S. Officials Keep Close Eye On ‘Miserable’ Mosquito-Borne Chikungunya Virus”

Classroom Help

Andrew Jackson was the first president that was assaulted and had someone try to assassinate him. The first assault happened on May 6, 1833. Robert B. Randolf hit the president and fled the scene. Randolf had been fired from the Navy by Jackson for embezzlement. He was chase by people who were with Jackson. One of the people chasing Randolf was Washington Irving a well know writer. Jackson did not press charges.   Continue reading “Andrew Jackson – Assassination Attempt”