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TORONTO, Oct 15 (Reuters) – As Canadians prepare for the legalization of recreational cannabis this week, 24 students are becoming the first in the country to get formal credentials in growing pot.

Canada will become the first industrialized nation to legalize the recreational use of cannabis on Wednesday, fulfilling a campaign promise by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals who had argued the move would keep pot out of the hands of underage users and reduce related crime.   Continue reading “Cannabis college: Canadian students learn to grow pot”

Delaware Public Media – by Nick Ciolino

A Superior Court judge ruled against regulations on carrying guns in Delaware State Parks last week.

The Delaware Supreme Court declared a ban on non-hunting firearms in state parks and forests unconstitutional last year.   Continue reading “Judge overturns regulations on guns in Delaware State Parks”

Put eight hours in on it today.  Have to stop so I can look at it anew in the morning.  But after a slug of whiskey, a puff off my pipe, a circuit involuntarily kicked in, which caused me to wonder if there could be an epiphany afoot.

Guess what?  The voter rolls and voter registration cards have all the names in written capital letters.  That means every vote cast is cast by the straw man corporation.  Corporate consent does not equate to the consent of the governed, as the corporation is doing the governing.    Continue reading “Trencher Alert”

Boston.com

Boston Dynamics released a video Thursday of its humanoid robot tackling a stack of progressively higher boxes in a series of fluid jumps.

Atlas, the two-legged robot, has moved on from more traditional athletics like cross-country and gymnastics to doing parkour. (And, let’s face it, he does much better than Michael Scott.)   Continue reading “New video from Boston Dynamics shows robot doing ‘parkour’”

Riverfront Times – by Sarah Fenske

In July, 25-year-old Vanity Allen checked in to SSM Health DePaul Hospital in Bridgeton for stomach pain — only to be left bloodied by one of the hospital’s security guards. Now surveillance footage obtained by her lawyer shows the guard grappling with Allen, then tackling her.

You can see a video of the incident below. While the initial interaction takes place just outside the camera’s field of vision, Allen has said the guard struck her over her left eye with his fist, sending her falling into the sidewalk.    Continue reading “Video Shows SSM Hospital Security Guard Taking Down Patient”

Tech Dirt – by Karl Bode

For several years now cable and broadband providers have been using hidden fees to covertly jack up their advertised rates. These fees, which utilize a rotating crop of bullshit names, help these companies falsely advertise one rate, then sock the consumer with a significantly higher-rate post sale (often when locked into a long-term contract). The practice also allows the company to falsely claim they’re not raising rates on consumers. They omit that they’re talking about the above the line rate being charged, implying that anything below the line (where real fees like taxes are levied) is outside of their control.  Continue reading “Comcast Under Fire For Using Bullshit Fees To Covertly Raise Rates”

Newser – by John Johnson

A new Stephen Hawking book is out Tuesday, and the late physicist issues a warning in it that sounds straight out of a dystopian sci-fi movie. Hawking worries that genetic editing will allow the rich to turn themselves into “superhumans” who will eventually dominate the world and perhaps the universe, reports the Guardian. “Once such superhumans appear, there will be significant political problems with unimproved humans, who won’t be able to compete,” warns Hawking in Brief Answers to the Big Questions, as excerpted in London’s Sunday Times.   Continue reading “Stephen Hawking’s Last Warning for Humans Is Dire”

The Ottawa Sun

With marijuana legalization just days away, Ottawa police have not only stepped up training efforts for officers to detect drugged driving but are also warning that if you’ve consumed weed, do not drive.

No police force in the country has conducted any “green” workshops because they’ve been preparing for a new reality that just isn’t legalized yet.   Continue reading “Here’s how Ottawa police will test drugged drivers”

Daily Mail

A woman who claims to be the oldest person in the world has told of the brutality of her deportation into Soviet internal exile by tyrant Stalin during World War Two.

Koku Istambulova is 129 according to her Russian passport and pension papers which show her date of birth as 1 June 1889.   Continue reading “World’s oldest woman, 129, remembers time her people were deported by Stalin in World War Two”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Ecuador has partially restored Julian Assange’s communications in their London Embassy after UN officials met with Ecuador’s president, Lenin Moreno on Friday, reports the Belfast Telegraph.

Assange, who has lived in the embassy for over six years, had his phone and internet access taken away in March over political statements he made in violation of “a written commitment made to the government at the end of 2017 not to issue messages that might interfere with other states.” His visitor access was also limited to members of his legal team.    Continue reading “Ecuador Restores Julian Assange’s Internet, Phone And Visitation Privileges”

The Organic Prepper

Last week, Mark Zuckerberg made the media rounds to give a rather shady explanation of why Facebook suddenly closed hundreds of incredibly popular pages in what’s being called The Alternative Media Purge. Zuckerberg accused the closed pages, many of which had millions of fans, of spreading “political spam.”

Ironically, many of the pages that were shut down had absolutely nothing to do with politics or elections, unless you include the fact that they recommended skipping the entire circus. None of these pages were accused of being “the Russians,” who were the scapegoat of the last surprise presidential election results. A couple of the things that many of the pages did have in common, incidentally, were an anti-war outlook and a police watchdog mentality.   Continue reading “The People “Stopping Election Interference” Are the Ones Who Are Actually Rigging the Election”

Yahoo News

HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) – A 93-year-old great-grandmother was crowned “Miss Holocaust Survivor” on Sunday in an annual Israeli beauty pageant designed to put a smile on women who endured the horrors of the Nazi genocide.

A dozen contestants cautiously trod the catwalk – at times assisted – in the city of Haifa, with hair coiffed, make-up applied and sashes adorning their dresses.   Continue reading “Israel crowns 93-year-old as ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Galveston, TX — Isaac Walton, father of three, is fighting for his life in a battle against leukemia. Now, however, he is also fighting police after he says he was attacked by multiple officers, beaten, tasered, and then dumped at a hospital for no reason.

“They abused their authority, pretty much. Thinking they can do what they want with people,” said Walton, who says cops had no reason to even approach him that day.   Continue reading “Cops Attack Cancer Patient, Beat Him to a Pulp, Dump Him at the Hospital”

ABC News

The Trump administration is considering using West Coast military bases or other federal properties as transit points for shipments of U.S. coal and natural gas to Asia as officials seek to bolster the domestic energy industry and circumvent environmental opposition to fossil fuel exports, according to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and two Republican lawmakers.

The proposal would advance the administration’s agenda of establishing American “energy dominance” on the world stage and underscores a willingness to intervene in markets to make that happen. It’s tantamount to an end-run around West Coast officials who have rejected private-sector efforts to build new coal ports in their states.   Continue reading “US eyes West Coast military bases for coal, gas exports to Asia”