A judge is blocking parts of Montana’s medical marijuana use law, not because of the marijuana, but because of too many restrictions.
The Montana marijuana law bans commercial for profit sales of marijuana. Under the law marijuana is to be sold as a not for profit product, among many other restrictions.
Judge James Reynolds argued that […] Continue Reading…
The Chinese government announced that they must revise their income tax laws, to account for the huge increase in poor people. Their experiment with capitalism only created more poor people while a minority of people got rich.
Beginning in September the minimum income level for exemption from paying income tax will be raised, to the […] Continue Reading…
Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies “Costs of War” study says the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could hit $4.4 trillion and could last until 2020.
And for those that think war is good for the economy, the study said war spending makes up only a half a percent, per year of total GDP […] Continue Reading…
Former First Lady of Argentina, Evita Peron, died in 1952. The Dutch Royal family gave Evita the jewels as a gift. They’re worth about $9 million.
In 2009 her ‘crown jewels’ were sent to a Spanish jeweler, but were stolen by a Serbian base criminal organization.
Spanish and Italian police found the jewels in a Milan […] Continue Reading…
“The measures that have been adopted are not to avoid the default, the default already took place, but it was not declared.”-Paolo Raffone, Secretary General of CIPI Foundation
Greece has cut even more social services and programs, and has jacked up taxes, in an effort to get more bailout loans approved. The problem is […] Continue Reading…
“This is the first counter-terrorism strategy that designates the homeland as a primary area of emphasis in our counter-terrorism efforts.”-John Brennan, White House counter terrorism adviser
The Obama administration announced its new anti-terror policy. Some confusing statements were made by Brennan, such as saying that the new policy will principally focus on […] Continue Reading…
Mazda announced that their latest generation Demio (aka Mazda 2) gets much better fuel economy than hybrids. That mean no more expensive batteries to replace.
The Demio’s engine has uniquely shaped pistons to increase combustion efficiency, and, it has a computer that will shut off the engine when it’s idling beyond a certain time limit.
The […] Continue Reading…
A group of concerned parents, not happy with government response, formed an organization called The Fukushima Network for Saving Children from Radiation. They took urine samples from 10 kids, from elementary to high school age, and had a French company test them.
The result showed that all the kids are internally contaminated with cesium 134. […] Continue Reading…
“As far as we know, Hezbollah has now accumulated around 45,000 missiles of various ranges. There is one of them with a range which goes beyond 350 kilometers, which, according to them at least, can reach all of Israel till Eilat in the south of the country.”-Dr. Yoram Kahati, Israel’s International […] Continue Reading…
A Kuwaiti newspaper reports that Israel has threatened to kill Syrian President Bashar Assad. The threat was delivered via Turkish officials to Syria.
Israelis are concerned over the mass movements of Syrian military forces, including ballistic missiles aimed at Israel. Israeli officials fear President Assad might attack Israel as a diversion for the internal fighting […] Continue Reading…