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(Reuters) U.S. growers produce nearly $35 billion (18 billion pounds) worth of marijuana annually, making the illegal drug the country’s largest cash crop, bigger than corn and wheat combined, an advocate of medical marijuana...
(Cosmos) For years ‘lost’ tapes recording data from the Apollo 11 Moon landing have been stored underneath the seats of Australian physics students. A recent search has uncovered them. They were nearly thrown out...
You think your country’s border security is rough, try being a Tibetan. Monstrous patrols like this aren’t slated in the US until 2017 but its a good preview. The group of refugees included a...
(New Scientist) Around 655,000 people have died in Iraq as a result of the US-led coalition invasion, according to the largest scientific analysis yet. That is 2.5{a31f233dcfb9a68fbfb0fafc3ce96f3dbf18fa49e3f406b8ddf4c360aa321eb6} of the country’s entire population. The study...
(CommonDreams.org) It barely made news last week when Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne called for the testing of nonlethal weaponry on US citizens in crowd-control situations. According to Wynne, “If we’re not willing to...
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| Location: | Palestine, Bethlehem- West Bank |
| Activity: | Electrician |
