LA city council calls DEA to enforce repealed ban on marijuana dispensaries
Activist Post Medical marijuana has been legal in California for 16 years, but a few weeks ago the Los Angeles city council voted to ban marijuana dispensaries from the city, citing that too many existed. The ban still allowed patients to group together and grow marijuana in their homes, but many patients said they don’t [...]
Read More →Thousands forced to evacuate as wildfire rages near Spanish tourist hotspot (PHOTOS)
RT Members of the Civil Protection service run as they look for people inside a chalet during a general evacuation at a residential area, as a forest fire rages in Elviria, near Malaga, southern Spain, early August 31, 2012 Spanish authorities have evacuated thousands of people from their homes as a massive uncontrolled wildfire continues [...]
Read More →Isaac kills four; cities still underwater after storm hits US (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
RT The degree of damage handed out by Isaac has thankfully been but a sliver of what Katrina caused seven years earlier, but the latest storm has managed to be impressively ravaging still. Isaac has so far taken at least four lives. Now with the worst of the storm behind the state of Louisiana, residents [...]
Read More →Crater wall on moon surface holds ice
AsianAge Scientists have found that small patches of ice could make up five to 10 per cent of material inside a permanently shadowed lunar crater located near the moon’s south pole. The small tilt of the lunar spin axis means Shackleton’s interior is permanently dark and very cold. Researchers have long thought that ice might collect [...]
Read More →Iran: Bushehr nuclear power plant starts working at full capacity
Vestnik Kavkaza Today the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran started working at full capacity, the report of NIAEP (the company managing the construction of the station) reads. In the next one and a half or two months the plant will be tested and then an act of provisional acceptance of the commission will be signed. After that it [...]
Read More →Poverty returns to Europe by leaps and bounds
By Sergei Vasilenkov | Pravda.ru The news about the economic situation in the EU reminds frontline reports. Head of Unilever in Western Europe, Ian Zeyderveld, from the pages of the Financial Times Deutschland said that poverty is returning to Europe. The main reason for the increasingly lower income of the residents of the Old World is a full-blown crisis [...]
Read More →Bolton to Israel: Attack, It’s Your Right
Former U.S. Ambassador to UN says Obama will not attack Iran, so Israel has to do it.
Read More →Over 5 Million Jobless Youths in EU; Greece, Spain at the Top
By A. Papapostolou | Greek Reporter A new level of record unemployment was reached in the eurozone in July at 11.3%, the highest since the creation of the 17-member single European currency, while the percentage registered in the 27-member EU is 10.4%. The highest rate was registered among youths under 25 where unemployment touched 22.6 percent [...]
Read More →US Closes CIA Abuse Probe without Charges
Xinhua | CRI The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it has closed a criminal investigation into the death of two detainees in the custody of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) at overseas locations without charges. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement that U.S. Attorney John Durham completed the investigation and the department [...]
Read More →7.6-quake off Philippines triggers tsunami alert
IBN An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter Scale rocked the coast of Philippines on Friday. Following the earthquake, tsunami warnings were issued for Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan and Japan. Tsunami alerts were also issued for Papua New Guinea and other islands in the Pacific, including the US state of Hawaii. The NOAA Tsunami Center later [...]
Read More →Hong Kong Discovers 140 Million Year-Old Supervolcano
By Te-Ping Chen | WSJ Some 140 million years after it erupted and then toppled into the sea, an ancient supervolcano in Hong Kong is making headlines. The government announced Thursday that it had located the supervolcano—the first discovery of its kind in southeastern China—while surveying in the area in southeastern Hong Kong. The volcano is [...]
Read More →Experts say M9 Nankai Trough earthquake would kill hundreds of thousands
AjwAsahi An offshore Pacific earthquake of the scale that hit Japan last year would trigger 34-meter tsunami, resulting in at least 323,000 deaths and devastating much of the coastline from Honshu to Kyushu, experts say. This grim scenario is the result of a radical reappraisal of a possible magnitude-9.1 earthquake in the Nankai Trough in [...]
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