Jorge Cervantes, l'expert en matière principal mondial en culture de cannabis, a observé et a influencé une culture secondaire entière qui a jailli d'une science relativement encore inconnue. En 1983 il a écrit le premier livre complet concernant la culture d'intérieur qui revolutionised la manière que les jardiniers ont produit la marijuana médicale, avec nouveau et la technologie accessible émergeant il était maintenant possible pour que les cultivateurs médicinaux utilisent la même chose…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - le Pentagone mercredi a cherché à jouer en bas du sérieux de la violence croissante en Afghanistan mais a refusé de dire que les Etats-Unis et l'OTAN gagnaient leur combat contre les insurgés talibans. Un jour quand le Président Bush a visité le Pentagone pour discuter l'Irak et l'Afghanistan avec les fonctionnaires supérieurs, le secrétaire de pression du Pentagone Geoff Morrell a dit que la question des forces additionnelles pour l'Afghanistan peut être laissée au successeur de Bush. « Il est…

KIRKUK, Irak (AFP) - le fils d'un journaliste à un journal hebdomadaire populaire en Irak nordique était les morts prétendument tirés par des troupes des USA quand sa voiture a semblé virer d'une manière extravagante, police locale dite jeudi. Les soldats américains ont tiré Al-Nuaimi mort d'Arkan Ali, 19, mercredi soirée pendant qu'il approchait un point de contrôle dans sa voiture dans la ville d'huile de Kirkuk, un fonctionnaire de police dit AFP. La police irakienne a dit le fils…

By Dana Hedgpeth | Auditors at a Pentagon oversight agency were pressured by supervisors to skew their reports on major defense contractors to make them look more favorable instead of exposing wrongdoing and charges of overbilling, according to an 80-page report released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office. The Defense Contract Audit Agency, which oversees contractors for the ...

State crime lab analyst Kathryn Troyer was running tests on Arizona's DNA database when she stumbled across two felons with remarkably similar genetic profiles. The men matched at nine of the 13 locations on chromosomes, or loci, commonly used to distinguish people. The FBI estimated the odds of unrelated people sharing those genetic markers to be as remote as 1 in 113 billion. But the mug shots of the two felons suggested ...

Real Women, Real Voices | Last week, leaders of the world’s richest countries, the Group of Eight (G8), met to chart the course of the global economy at the luxurious Windsor Hotel Toya Resort and Spa in Toyako, Japan. While President Bush and his colleagues discussed world hunger over a six-course lunch, women in Haiti were preparing cakes of dirt for their children’s dinner. Eating dirt, mixed with ...

The last several years have brought a parade of dark revelations about the George W. Bush administration, from the manipulation of intelligence to torture to extrajudicial spying inside the United States. But there are growing indications that these known abuses of power may only be the tip of the iceberg. Now, in the twilight of the Bush presidency, a movement is stirring in Washington for a sweeping new inquiry into ...

By Jeff Stein | Air Force Col. Morris D. Davis, who resigned last year after two years as chief prosecutor at Guantanamo, today described the military commissions system as fatally "tainted" by politics and designed to produce guilty verdicts, no matter what the costs.        The possibility of the system delivering "credible verdicts is doubtful," Davis said Tuesday in a remarkable interview on NPR's Diane Rehm Show....

By Robert Parry | A conservative-dominated U.S. Appeals Court has opened the door for President George W. Bush or a successor to throw American citizens - as well as non-citizens - into a legal black hole by designating them “enemy combatants,” even if they have engaged in no violent act and are living on U.S. soil. The federal Appeals Court in Richmond, Virginia, ruled ...

An American lawyer has offered to represent Iran in an international lawsuit against Israel and his own government in an effort to stop Washington and Tel Aviv from initiating further sanctions against Tehran. Francis A. Boyle says following Washington's latest ultimatum to Tehran to freeze uranium enrichment within two weeks or face further isolation, Iran needs to act quickly. At weekend talks in Geneva, the United States delivered what it describes as ...

Children of the current generation receive 24 mandatory vaccinations. A generation ago, only 10 were required. Through vaccinations, children receive 400x the amount of mercury deemed safe by the FDA. The Hep B routinely given to newborns contains so much mercury preservative that it would normally only be considered safe under standard medical guidelines to give to a 275 pound adult. Why is this going on? Politics and corruption. In the ...

A message from Congressman Dennis Kucinich. Will Congress listen? IMPEACH NOW! Bush is a Threat to Peace. http://kucinich.us to sign the petition.

By Heidi Stevenson | The great mystery of bee deaths has been solved. Colony Collapse Disorder is poisoning with a known insect neurotoxin. Clothianidin, a pesticide manufactured by Bayer, has been clearly linked to die offs in Germany and France. Although the bee die offs that have occurred recently are more severe, there have been many in the past from the same and similar products. In North Dakota, a lawsuit is ...

By Andy Worthington | Wake up, America! On July 15, the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled by 5 votes to 4 in the case of Al-Marri v. Pucciarelli (PDF) that the president can arrest US citizens and legal residents inside the United States and imprison them indefinitely, without charge or trial, based solely on his assertion that they are "enemy combatants." Have a little ...