Tag: alaska
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Marijuana Is Officially Legal In Alaska
from huffingtonpost.com: Marijuana is now legal for adults in Alaska. Alaska on Tuesday becomes the third U.S. state to end prohibition of marijuana, officially putting into effect Ballot Measure 2, approved by 53 percent of state voters in November. Alaskans age 21 and older may now legally possess up to one ounce of marijuana, grow…
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Why Every World Map You’re Looking at Is Wrong
Africa, China, India Distorted Despite Access to Accurate Satellite Data* from dailymail.co.uk: Take a look at a map today, and you’re likely to see that North America is larger than Africa, Alaska is larger than Mexico and China is smaller than Greenland. But in reality China is four times bigger than Greenland, Africa is three…
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Oregon Seen as Key State in Debate Over Legalizing Marijuana
from oregonlive.com: It’s shaping up to be a pivotal year in marijuana policy with Oregon playing a key role in the debate over legalizing the drug, The New York Times reports. More than half of the states are considering liberalizing their marijuana laws, reports New York Times writer Rick Lyman. Oregon and Alaska are two…
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Alaska Renews Push to Amass Emergency Food Stocks
from abcnews.go.com: Alaska is renewing an effort to secure a massive stockpile of emergency food supplies to be ready in case a major disaster cuts the state off from supply lines. Gov. Sean Parnell has promoted emergency preparations — including urging individuals and families to make plans of their own — as part of a…
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Fukushima Meltdown Correlates to Hypothyroidism In American Infants
Children born in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington were 28 percent more likely to suffer from congenital hypothyroidism.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode138 – Fiscal False Flag, Space Oil, Healthy Trends
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode138 – Fiscal False Flag, Space Oil, Healthy Trends Welcome back to another great year of New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Congress’s Manufactured Non-Solution To Its Manufactured Fiscal…
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#BingeAndPurge: Celebrity, Security, Scandal and more
Video: Actor Rob Schneider on Vaccines, Corporate Greed* Food industry reacts to Supreme Court decision* Video: #Obamacare – The ‘Cut, Burn, and Drug’ School of Medicine* GMO food labels are costly and unnecessary* ‘Unauthorized’ Stroll Past ‘Lax’ Security at CDC Bioterror Lab* Video: Monsanto – So Many Scandals, Just One Company* Taco Bell Choppers 10k…
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Greenhouse Gas Levels Pass Symbolic 400PPM CO2 Milestone
“The news today, that some stations have measured concentrations above 400ppm in the atmosphere, is further evidence that the world’s political leaders – with a few honourable exceptions – are failing catastrophically to address the climate crisis…”
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alaska senator @lisamurkowski to push ban on frankenfish
from newsminer: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski plans to offer an amendment that would ban genetically modified fish. Murkowski’s office says the issue of so-called “frankenfish” came up during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing Wednesday. Murkowski urged the committee to impose a ban on genetically modified fish when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s budget came…
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as nuclear plants face floods, are we inches away from ‘fukushima USA’?
nuke plant close to being totally flooded, but saved – for now from raw replay: Two U.S. nuclear electricity facilities, the Fort Calhoun and Cooper nuclear plants in Nebraska, are facing the threat of rising flood waters from the Missouri river. Though safety regulators insist the plants were designed to withstand flooding and no risk…
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4/21 Pop Occulture: Royally Cursed Rapture
Tabloid astrology prediction spells doom for royals // Terrorist threat possible at royal wedding // UK man gets 70 days for burning Quran // Bachmann: US ‘cursed if we reject Israel’ // Pregnant Kate Hudson dabbles in light-witchcraft to predict baby’s sex
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Wash. Woman Says Jesuit Priest Abuse Happened ‘Every Single Day’
For 40 years, Katherine Mendez kept the story of her abuse at the hands of a Jesuit priest to herself.
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outbreak of typhoid fever in US linked to fruit smoothies
from ap: A rare U.S. outbreak of typhoid fever has been linked to a frozen tropical fruit product used to make smoothies, health officials reported Thursday. Seven cases have been confirmed – three in California and four in Nevada. Two more California cases are being investigated. Five people were hospitalized, according to the Centers for…
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former alaska sen. ted stevens dies in plane crash
from ap: A plane carrying former Sen. Ted Stevens and ex-NASA chief Sean O’Keefe crashed near a remote fishing village in Alaska, killing the longtime senator and at least four others, authorities said Tuesday. The crash was a stunning event in a state where Stevens became the most beloved political figure in Alaska history during…
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biowars/envirohealth: oil spill, media spill, political spill
bp-owned alaska oil pipeline shut after spill from reuters: The Trans-Alaska Pipeline, partly owned by BP, shut down on Tuesday after spilling several thousand barrels of crude oil into backup containers, drastically cutting supply down the main artery between refineries and Alaska’s oilfields. The accident comes at a difficult time for BP – the largest…