“Assuming a fully functioning marijuana market and the assumptions following in this summary, estimated total revenue generated to the state could be as high as $1,943,936,000 over five fiscal years.”-Washington OFM Fiscal Impact Statement (I-502)
On 06 November 2012, voters in the U.S. states of Washington and Colorado legalized the recreational use of marijuana for […] Continue Reading…
“…a catastrophe and very bad news….We have a huge problem in the rest of the euro area that now seems to be reaching Germany and its labor market. For the coming quarters, the economic outlook is quite gloomy.”-Thomas Harjes, economist at Barclays
On 06 November 2012, Deutsche Bundesbank revealed that there is no let up […] Continue Reading…
“These are party loyalists. We don’t get into the ‘faithless electors’ scenario.”-Ben Ysursa, Idaho’s Secretary of State, referring to Idaho’s Electors
The evening of 06 November 2012, with some people still voting in Idaho, and 0% of “polls” reporting, the U.S. main stream media confidently “projected” that Mitt Romney won the Gem State!
Could it be […] Continue Reading…
Just a few days before the 06 November 2012 elections, officials in Oregon revealed that a Clackamas County ballot counter was altering submitted ballots!
On 05 November, the Willamette Week published an article in which the accused Oregon City woman admitted to them that she changed at least two ballots.
However, government officials say they’re not […] Continue Reading…
“I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don’t vote. On Election Day, I stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain. Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, ‘If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain,’ but […] Continue Reading…
06 November 2012, researchers in Japan claim they have found traces of a massive meteorite impact. The impact took place in Canada more than 215 million years ago!
Researchers from Kagoshima University are investigating soil from the bed of the Kiso River in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan. They found unusually huge amounts of metal from […] Continue Reading…
06 November 2012, the Japanese Health Ministry decided to ease restrictions on U.S. beef imports. Seven years ago Japan banned U.S. beef from cows older than 20 months, because of the Mad Cow disease.
They will now take beef from cows as old as 30 months. There is one condition, the brain and spinal column […] Continue Reading…
“There is no Constitutional provision or Federal law that requires Electors to vote according to the results of the popular vote in their States.”-U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
When I was a kid in the 1970s it always amazed me that the U.S. media would call the winner of a Presidential election before all […] Continue Reading…
“We’ve learned a lot about Democracy in Latin America, and they have made a lot of progress….The elections in Venezuela, although some people have criticized the result….there’s no doubt in our mind….that he [Hugo Chavez] won fairly and squarely…As a matter a fact, of the 92 elections we’ve monitored, I would say the election […] Continue Reading…
05 November 2012, two nuclear power reactors in Korea, south, have been shut down due to the discovery of thousands of potentially faulty parts.
Government officials (Knowledge Economy Ministry) say they discovered that at least eight parts suppliers have been lying about the reliability of those parts. Officials suspect that at least 5,233 bad parts […] Continue Reading…