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Virginia House unanimously decides industrial hemp will be legal ignoring federal prohibition

Erin Elizabeth
Health Nut News
Fri, 19 Aug 2016 02:14 UTC
Hemp

The Virginia state House of Delegates has passed a bill that will make industrial hemp completely legal throughout the state, overriding any federal interference.
Passed 98-0, every delegate jumped on board to seize their right, as a state, to lead their own destiny. Hemp is one of the most valuable commodities on the planet, functioning as food, fiber and, of course, one of the most amazing recreational drugs known to man.

Introduced by Del. Brenda Pogge (R-Norge), House Bill 699 (HB699) would change state law and remove a provision forcing hemp farmers to get federal approval before licensing their farm. It also requires the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services to "adopt regulations as necessary to license persons to grow and process industrial hemp for any purpose."

If passed through the senate, Virginia would join a host of states that have already taken the reigns to grow industrial hemp. The states of Colorado, Oregon, South Carolina, Connecticut, Maine, North Dakota and Vermont have ignored federal prohibition and legalized the production and manufacturing of hemp.

Comment: See also: Industrial hemp sure to become NC's newest legal crop

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Pipeline terrorist act thwarted, Georgia


Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 00:00 UTC
oil pipeline
© oilprice.com
Georgian authorities say they have thwarted a "terrorist act" on a gas pipeline that supplies natural gas from Russia to Armenia.

Georgia's State Security Service said in a statement on August 22 that seven individuals had been detained two days earlier. Five of the suspects, all of whom are Georgian citizens, are facing charges of illegal purchase and storage of firearms, ammunition, and explosives "with the goal of carrying out a terrorist attack," the statement said.

According to the security service, the suspects allegedly planned to blow up a gas pipeline near the village of Saguramo, some 20 kilometers from the capital, Tbilisi.

A police officer, Levan Mamporia, was also detained and is suspected of abuse of power. A seventh suspect is accused of failing to "report a crime on the stage of its preparation."
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Iranian police arrest international drug trafficker, seize 800 tons of narcotics


FARS News Agency
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 19:15 UTC
Iran drug bust
The drug combat squads of Iran's Law Enforcement troops have arrested an international drug trafficker in Sistan and Balouchestan province, and seized more than 800,000 kilograms of illicit drugs from his network, Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli announced on Monday.

"An international drug trafficker is now in the custody of Iran's police; 800 tons of narcotics have been retrieved from him," Rahmani Fazli said, addressing a ceremony in Tehran on Monday.

He, meantime, said that the discovery of narcotics has increased by over 25 percent in the past five months compared to the same period last year.

Pakistan and Afghanistan are two origins of producing and trafficking various types of narcotic in the region.
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Thirteen wounded in Connecticut house party shooting

Chris Prentice
Reuters
Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:09 UTC
Plymouth Street house in Bridgeport
© Via Google Maps
Thirteen people were shot and wounded when at least two shooters fired into a house party from a neighboring backyard in Bridgeport, Connecticut, early on Sunday, local police said.

Police in the state's most populous city were called to the house just before 1:30 a.m. ET and arrived to find 11 men and two women with gunshot wounds, Captain Brian Fitzgerald said in an emailed statement.

One of the casualties remains in critical condition after being hit in the face.

Police think at least two shooters fired through the hedges from the backyard into a "large house party," according to the statement. An investigation is ongoing and there was no immediate word on arrests or the possible motive.
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Masters and slaves: Most unequal city in Western world is London, England - Gap between rich and poor widest in 200 years

Steve Doughty
Daily Mail, UK
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:47 UTC
london poverty
The gap between the richest and the poorest in London is wider than it has been since the days of slavery, a leading academic said today.

The City elite and the wealthy in the capital enjoy the greatest advantage over the poorest that has been known in 200 years, Professor Danny Dorling said.

And in the rest of the country the difference between the best and worst off is as big as it was in the slump years of the 1920s when mass unemployment led to poverty without a welfare state safety net.

The analysis from Professor Dorling is the latest evidence that the rich have grown rich under Labour compared to the working people whom the party was founded to help.

In a new book, Injustice, Why Social Inequality Persists, he charged that a new orthodoxy which accepts that greed is good has encouraged the widening of the gap between rich and poor.

Comment: This is why Jeremy Corbyn is currently very popular in the UK, and why he would probably win a snap election by a landslide.

Isn't it interesting, in light of the incessant flak Rio de Janerio took for hosting the 2016 Olympics, that no such complaints were made in 2012 when the city with the worst wealth disparity in the West hosted the Olympics?

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Woman goes berserk in Brussels, Belgium - Stabs and injures 3


RT
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:21 UTC
Belgian police
© Francois Lenoir / Reuters
Police shot and wounded a woman in a Brussels suburb after she attempted to stab three people, according to local media reports.

The attack took place as passengers were disembarking a bus in the municipality of Uccle in the Belgian capital at around 5pm on Monday.

National broadcaster RTBF said that two of the victims have been taken to hospital with serious injuries, and one suffered a minor cut.

Police reportedly warned the attacker, who refused to comply, before shooting her in the arm.

Comment: Thanks, RT, for the 'wrap' on ' terror' incidents in Belgium, but as you yourselves noted, this was not 'terror-related' .

Anyways, yet more people going postal, ho-hum...

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For the second time this year, crowd stricken by mystery illness in downtown Los Angeles


Hollywood Patch
Fri, 19 Aug 2016 18:52 UTC
200 Block of East Fifth, LA
© Fox11
For the second time this year, a crowd of people in the Skid Row were sickened today, and it's unclear if a substance is making people sick

At least 18 people became ill today in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles, but it was not immediately clear what sickened them.

Firefighters and paramedics were sent to the 200 block of East Fifth Street shortly before 1 p.m., according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Eighteen people were evaluated at the scene and taken to hospitals after reporting that they felt ill, LAFD spokesman Brian Humphrey said.

It was not immediately known what caused the people to feel ill, Humphrey said, explaining that department personnel had "not identified (a) reason for (the victims') illness, including the identification of any related substance or intoxicant."

Within a 24-hour span in April, about 10 people, including a police bicycle officer, were sickened in the area of San Pedro and Fifth streets, not far from today's incident, by an unknown substance or intoxicant.
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Defying the odds: Russian Olympians show their resilience in the face of appalling bullying and pressure

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 00:00 UTC
russian gold medalists rio

Russia's Ishchenko, Romashina to Carry National Flag at Rio Closing Ceremony
Despite extraordinary pressure and the exclusion of the entire track and field team, the Russian athletes competed successfully at the Rio Olympics, whilst the fact that not a single Russian athlete has come forward to corroborate the claims made by McLaren and WADA cast doubt on their truth.

Russia has finished fourth in the medals table.

This is an astonishing result given that the entire Russian track and field team was excluded from the Olympics and given that so many of Russia's other athletes also were.

Moreover after the McLaren report was published every single Russian athlete would have been unsure right up to almost the last moment whether or not they would be entitled to compete in Rio.

Not only did Russia have to fend off attempts by McLaren and WADA backed by a shrill media campaign to have the entire Russian Olympic team collectively banned from Rio.

Every single Russian athlete previously eligible to compete in Rio would have had the nerve wracking worry right up to the moment of the start of the Games that they might be individually banned from competing in Rio simply because they had been mentioned by McLaren in his report.
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People power: 2,500 Native Americans successfully block oil pipeline construction — state of emergency declared

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Sun, 21 Aug 2016 15:51 UTC
The Camp of the Sacred Stones
© Little Redfeather Design/Honor the Earth

The Camp of the Sacred Stones has swelled from a few dozen to more than 2,500, according to Standing Rock Sioux Tribe officials. They are calling for further review of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the end of July without a full environmental assessment. Source: Indian Country Today

Last week, a few dozen Native Americans showed up to protest the $3.8 billion, 1,172-mile-long pipeline that would cross right through their sacred land. As word spread, however, the few dozen turned into more than 2,500 native Americans. Because of the large turnout, a brief victory ensued for the people after the developers of the four-state oil pipeline agreed to halt construction until after a federal hearing in the coming week.

In spite of both the company building the pipeline, Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, and the federal government applying pressure, the Native Americans from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe have remained resilient.

On Tuesday, the government placed a restraining order on the protesters prohibiting them "from interfering with its (Energy Transfer Partners') right to construct the Dakota Access Pipeline (the "Pipeline") in accordance with all local, state, and federal approvals it has obtained."

However, the protestors remained steadfast — and peaceful.
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Free speech anyone? Serial Trump sign thief leaves note: 'Not even a great wall will stop me'


CBS Boston
Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:45 UTC
Trump campaigne yard sign
© Scott Olson/Getty Images
A thief who climbed a tree to steal a Donald Trump campaign sign from the front yard of a home allegedly left a note insulting the homeowner for their support of the GOP candidate, saying they'd continue taking the signs if they replaced them.

Victor Scena, chairman of Walpole Republican Committee, said the sign was stolen from a home on Bullard Street in Walpole.

"As you may have noticed, I have stolen your sign for a third time," the note reads.

Comment: Wow, what an anti-Trump fascist! Does the thief really believe trespassing, stealing signs and leaving insulting letters will change anything?

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