From the Trenches World Report

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — With the death of Cleveland billionaire and philanthropist Peter B. Lewis, the push for relaxed U.S. marijuana laws lost its most generous supporter. That’s left supporters wondering what comes next.

Lewis, chairman of Progressive Insurance, died Saturday at age 80. Since the 1980s, he had donated an estimated $40 million to $60 million to marijuana law reform — including underwriting ballot campaigns, research, political polling and legal defense efforts.   Continue reading “Efforts to relax US marijuana laws lose benefactor”

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LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — Tucked away in one of northern New Mexico’s pristine mountain canyons is an old log cabin that was the birthplace not of a famous person, but a top-secret mission that forever changed the world.

Pond Cabin, along with a nearby small and stark building where the second person died while developing the nuclear bomb, are among a number of structures scattered in and around the modern day Los Alamos National Laboratory that are being proposed as sites for a new national park commemorating the Manhattan Project.   Continue reading “Los Alamos working to create national park”

Wake Up World – by Fox Chandler

“…..So let us not talk falsely now, the hour’s getting late” 

~ Jimi Hendrix / All along the watchtower

Travel back through the centuries to the Oak woods of France’s Brittany or the kraals of ancient Great Zimbabwe and the people one encounters would be less surprised by our dress, our electronics, our speech than they would by our sense of who we are.    Continue reading “To Find Freedom We Must First Choose Reality”

RT News

A wheelchair-bound Canadian woman was denied entry to the United States this week because she was previously diagnosed with clinical depression. Now she wants to know why the US Department of Homeland Security had her medical history on file.

The Toronto Star’s Valerie Haunch reported on Thursday that 50-year-old author Ellen Richardson was turned away from the city’s Pearson Airport three days earlier after DHS officials said she lacked the necessary medical clearance to cross into the US.   Continue reading “Canadian denied entry to the US after agent cites private medical records”

Lew Rockwell – by Eric Margolis

After all the gnashing of teeth, beating of breasts and tearing of hair coming from Israel and its American supporters, you’d think last week’s nuclear deal in Geneva has opened the way for Iran to become a mighty nuclear weapons power.

Nonsense.  Coolly examined,  Tehran came off with the short end of the stick at the so-called P5 + 1 big power talks in Geneva. Here’s why:   Continue reading “Not Such a Great Deal for Iran”

Independent – by THAIR SHAIKH

It sounds like a tale from a science fiction novel, but a team of Japanese engineers really is hoping to turn the moon into a giant solar panel.

Shimizu, a giant civil engineering and construction firm, plans to install a ‘solar belt’ around the moon’s equator.

To be built almost entirely by remote-controlled robots, the Luna Ring would run around the 6,800 mile lunar equator and be 248 miles in width.
Continue reading “Japanese firm plans 250-mile wide solar panel on the moon”

Huffington Post – by GILLIAN FLACCUS

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A former Marine who was awaiting trial in the deaths of six people, including four homeless men, died after ingesting Ajax in his jail cell, his lawyer said Friday.

Itzcoatl (ihts-KWAH’-tehl) Ocampo, 25, apparently accumulated the cleaning product over time while in custody, said his attorney, Michael Molfetta, who was briefed on the death. The incident raises serious questions about how well Orange County jail deputies were supervising Ocampo, who had mental health issues, Molfetta said.   Continue reading “Suspect In Homeless Serial Killings Was Killed By Ajax: Lawyer”

CBS New York

A 29-year-old shopper was pepper sprayed and arrested Thursday in a New Jersey Walmart after arguing with a store manager about a TV and attacking an officer, police said.

Richard Ramos of Newark was charged with disorderly conduct, aggravated assault on a police officer and resisting arrest, according to Garfield police.   Continue reading “Shopper Pepper Sprayed, Arrested in Argument Over TV at New Jersey Walmart”

Here we go….the MSM Communists are finally bringing the burning question to light and easing it in like they always do just like we knew they would. Hear we go talking about it. Can’t we just talk about it? Trying to make Obama the Communist dictator for life. Expect to see more of this from other news outlets as time goes on.

Yahoo News – by Chris Nichols

The time has come to end presidential term limits, because continuing the restrictions on how long one can serve in the country’s highest office is bad for the United States, a university professor argued this week.   Continue reading “Presidential term limits: necessary and right, or bad for democracy?”

Yahoo News – by CASSANDRA VINOGRAD

LONDON (AP) — A police helicopter crashed Friday night through the roof of a popular pub in Glasgow, sending injured revelers there to see a ska band fleeing through a cloud of dust in what witnesses called a scene of horror. Scotland’s leader warned that fatalities are likely.

Photos aired on local television showed what appeared to be the helicopter’s propeller sticking out of the top of the pub’s roof. Rescue workers swarmed the door of the pub and several fire trucks were on the scene.   Continue reading “Helicopter crashes into Glasgow pub roof”

Yahoo News

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A comet that gained an earthly following because of its bright tail visible from space was initially declared dead after grazing the sun. Now, there is a sliver of hope that Comet ISON may have survived.

New images being analyzed Friday showed a streak of light moving away from the sun that some said could indicate it wasn’t game over just yet.

“It certainly appears as if there is an object there that is emitting material,” said Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.   Continue reading “Did Comet ISON survive? Scientists see tiny hope”

AlterNet – by Jodie Gummow

Meet the eight inspiring souls who say cannabis saved their lives.

If there weren’t already enough good reasons to legalize pot, the discovery that marijuana may have the medical potential to cure people from debilitating illnesses, as the following inspirational stories suggest, may prove to be the most convincing argument yet. Weed Geek reveals the heart-felt triumphs of those who claim medical marijuana miraculously saved their lives.    Continue reading “8 Miraculous Medical Marijuana Survival Stories”

NOLA – by Juliet Linderman

Prosecutors celebrated when a jury in 2010 convicted three New Orleans police officers for their roles in the post-Hurricane Katrina killing of Henry Glover and the ensuing elaborate cover-up, which included burning his body in an attempt to mask what investigators said was a bad shot by a rookie cop.

Then-U.S. Attorney Jim Letten called the jury’s verdict “a positive moment for the city.” New Orleans’ top FBI agent at the time said he convictions were one of his proudest accomplishments.   Continue reading “Trial opens Monday for ex-NOPD officer charged with killing Henry Glover after Hurricane Katrina”

Times of Israel