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Swarm Of Biting Fish Injure More Than 70 Bathers

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Swarm Of Biting Fish Injure More Than 70 Bathers Near Rosario, Argentina

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"This is not normal," Cornier said on television. "It's normal for there to be an isolated bite or injury, but the magnitude in this case was great ... this is an exceptional event."

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America’s first recreational pot licenses issued in Colorado

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(FILES) Young men smoke a marijuana cigarette during a "smoke out" with thousands of others at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. (AFP Photo / Chris Hondros)

Colorado made history on Monday, becoming the first state in the US to issue hundreds of licenses for recreational marijuana businesses.

Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division approved 348 licenses: 136 to pot shops, 31 to marijuana-infused products companies, 178 to growing facilities, and three to marijuana-testing laboratories. All businesses had to apply by the end of October in order to receive their licenses by New Year’s Eve and begin operating on January 1. As RT reported earlier, Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize the recreational use of marijuana after voters approved the measures in referendums.

Natural Society – Elizabeth Renter: Voters Support Marijuana While Feds Continue Costly Raids

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marijuana raid leaf 263x164 Voters Support Marijuana While Feds Continue Costly RaidsThanks: TheAquariusParadigm.com

Less than a month ago, citizens in several cities voted to legalize recreational marijuana possession. The voting results stand in sharp contrast to the raids carried out by federal agents in Colorado in recent weeks, however. Though the Obama Administration said it would be more hands-off in regards to marijuana policy just a few short months ago, their raids are a stark reminder that they want nothing to do with freeing up pot.

Portland, Maine and three cities in Michigan (Ferndale, Jackson, and Lansing) all voted to legalize recreational marijuana. In Portland, those over the age of 21 can possess 2.5 ounces, but are interestingly barred from the recreational purchasing of it. In the three Michigan cities, similar legislation was passed by voters.

These locales become the latest in shifting tides on marijuana policy. Nineteen states have approved medical marijuana and two (CO and WA) have approved recreational marijuana.

Tar Sands, Natural Gas Fracking, Pipelines: The Fossil Fuel Wars in British Columbia and Canada

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By: Roger Annis, 12/23/2013

The fossil fuel industry offensive in British Columbia and across Canada is proceeding relentlessly. This is a report from some of the key fronts of the fossil fuel wars. On December 16, Kinder Morgan company made its official application to the National Energy Board for approval to build a $5.4-billion tar sands  pipeline from Alberta to Vancouver harbour. The new line will use the path of its existing Trans Mountain Pipeline for part of the route, but it will diverge from that significantly in places, including in the final leg of the line into metropolitan Vancouver.

 

For more on this story visit www.globalresearch.ca

Snowden's 'Alternative' Christmas Message: 'Together We Can End Mass Surveillance'

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- Andrea Germanos, staff writer

 

Edward Snowden delivering an “Alternative Christmas Message” on Channel 4. (Screenshot)

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has delivered an “alternative Christmas message” on the UK’s Channel 4 in which he says that “a child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all,” and that the kinds of surveillance outlined in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four “are nothing compared to what we have available today.”

Channel 4 has broadcast an annual alternative to the Queen’s Christmas Day address to the UK since 1993.

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/25-0

Police from Huaihua city in Central China’s Hunan province, have busted a suspected GM corn seeds smuggling ring

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By: Sustainable Pulse, 12/22/2013

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The seeds of “US golden corn”, allegedly smuggled since 2003 from Hong Kong and Thailand, caused 200 acres of corn to fail last year in the Tongdao county of Huaihua according to local officials. The smuggled corn seeds were reported to be from Monsanto and Syngenta varieties. Police apprehended one of the main smugglers, Luo Haihong, who has allegedly imported over 500,000 tons of corn seeds since 2003, without permission.

 

For more on this story visit www.sustainablepulse.com

Edward Snowden declares 'mission accomplished' in Moscow interview

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Theguardian.com, By: Bridie Jabour, 12/24/2013

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The whistleblower Edward Snowden has declared “mission accomplished”, seven months after revelations were first published from his mass leak of National Security Agency documents. The documents, which were passed to the Guardian, as well the Washington Post and other publications, revealed how technological developments were used by the US surveillance agency to spy on its own citizens and others abroad, and also to spy on allies, such as the US on Germany and Australia on Indonesia. In 14 hours of interviews with Washington Post journalist Barton Gellman, Snowden said: “For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished.”

 

For more on this story visit www.theguardian.com

Follow Romania’s Rise Against Fracking

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News Beacon Ireland, By: R. Teichmann, 12/21/2013

Largely unreported by the mainstream media, something remarkable is happening in the small village of Pungesti in Romania. People are standing up for Life. But the protest against fracking and the US Giant Chevron is not only local. For today a day of national mobilisation has been announced. You can follow the unfolding events in Romania, which may hold many lessons for us in Ireland by going to the website.

 

For more information visit www.zengardner.com

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