The owner of a Colorado chain of hydroponic gardening stores has been charged in federal court with marijuana distribution and has indicated he intends to plead guilty.

All French combat forces will pull out of Afghanistan by the end of the year, France's new president said in Kabul Friday

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will require "significant firepower" in Afghanistan in 2013-14, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces there said, but decisions about further U.S. troop reductions will only be made after this fall at the earliest.

Here Are the 15 Senators Who Voted to Stop Armed FDA Agents From Conducting Warrantless Raids on America's Farmers (Not One of Them is a Democrat)

Children attending school in Texas are required to have been vaccinated for nine communicable diseases before entering grades kindergarten through twelfth.

45 Signs That China Is Colonizing America

Cops blocked off an entire neighborhood to search for people with warrants.

Mark Zuckerberg Is Grandson Of David Rockefeller. Real name. Jacob Greenberg.

Iran's navy said Thursday it saved an American-flagged cargo ship that was being attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Oman.

Colorado is hoping to accomodate suborbital space planes and to serve as a hub in a worldwide network of suborbital point-to-point travel as a Spaceport

Denver police "train" for homeless camping ban

Tommy Chong Turns 74

Bob Dylan Turns 71

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. -- Tranquilized black bear stuck in a tree.

A Winnipeg man is recovering from his injuries after a black bear dragged him from an outhouse and attacked him, near Sioux Lookout, Ontario.
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State and federal wildlife officials have put up a $10,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the shooter of a Grizzly bear and her nursing cub in the wilderness of northern Idaho.

Texas police agency now wants armed domestic drones.

 FAA: Look For 30,000 Drones To Fill American Skies By The End Of The Decade
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RETANK- 2008: Packs of robots will hunt down uncooperative humans

Ted Kaczynski Tells Harvard Alums He'll Miss 50th Class Reunion Because He's Serving 'Eight Life Sentences'

Over at The Technium, Kevin Kelly has written a long, fascinating essay titled "The Unabomber Was Right."

Fans of the Nashville Predators Hockey team threw a live catfish onto the ice during Friday’s game.

via Hockey Fans Throwing Weird Crap on the Ice

Grandfather battling flesh-eating bacteria after accident

quote--"Over the last three decades, only about 200 cases nationwide and then all of a sudden we've got four in the last month," said Mike Bales.
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 Ga. man becomes third high-profile case of necrotizing fasciitis
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update  A cafeteria worker at Pittsburgh’s federal office building is being treated for possible flesh-eating bacteria, but health officials say those who also work or eat at the facility face no threat.

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) - Pueblo schools are getting more drug-sniffing dogs after a test program helped curb crime.

Students will be tracked via chips in IDs

Someone changed the electronic construction sign along Arapahoe Road in Boulder to read "WARNING DALEKS AHEAD," Tuesday night.

The Peace dollar is a United States dollar coin minted from 1921 to 1928, and again in 1934 and 1935.

The Real Lords of Afghan Poppy Fields & Heroin Distribution Hubs

Israel-US Dual Citizenship Holders to be Fast-Tracked through Airports

Obama calls in to Colorado-based Spanish-language radio show

Gerald Celente on The Gary Null Show -- Its Apocalypse Now - May 18, 2012

Ezekiel Emanuel, adviser to Obama and Rahm's brother, wants to scrap Medicare and Social Security.

NYPD Cop Caught on Video Threatening to Ram P**** in Suspect's Mouth

Rock-wielding robber takes $8 from drive-through customer in Wichita

Colorado Springs police have identified a suspect accused of brandishing a rock while threatening store clerks in a string of robberies.

Zuckerberg loses $2 billion on second day of Facebook trading

Google and Facebook are CIA/NSA

Penn Jillette goes OFF on Obama Drug War Hypocrisy (video)

Obama is the first US President to admit trying cocaine
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A User's Guide To Smoking Pot With Barack Obama
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Ron Paul would pardon all non-violent drug offenders

A mountain lion discovered in the courtyard of a downtown Santa Monica office building was shot and killed

US Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta ruled out paying Pakistan $5,000 for each truck carrying supplies across its territory for Nato troops waging the Afghanistan War

Jack Andraka, 15, won top prize at this year's Intel International Science and Engineering fair for his new method to detect pancreatic cancer.

The Secret Meeting: Connection Between Rap Music and Private Prison Population Increase?

Listening to loud music linked with pot use, unsafe sex, study says

Wall Street banks have secretly taken over US firearms and ammunition manufacturers and the world’s largest mercenary firms in a stealth build up private military force.

CrossTalk: Banking Mafia

In the US the police have proven themselves to be a greater threat to public safety than private sector criminals.

 Bad_Cop_No_Donut

This week science fiction writer Elizabeth Moon argues that everyone should be given a barcode at birth.

WCPGW?

 That way you will never be able to hide from the killer drones

Counterfeit Chinese electronic parts are being used in US military equipment, a key Senate committee investigation finds

DEA Wants To Install License Plate Scanners in Utah and Retain Data for Two Years

"The new 'six strikes' anti-piracy policy soon to be implemented by a number of major Internet service providers in the United States will reportedly stumble out of the gate.

Montreal Martial Law Bill 78 Passes - Backlash was Immediate; Massive Civil Disobedience

Hoax of The Century

Chris Hedges "Brace Yourself! The American Empire Is Over & The Descent Is Going To Be Horrifying!"

Nurses lead thousands in Chicago anti-NATO march (PHOTOS)

 American protestors in Chicago held on terrorism charges.
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 Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died (Live)

Authorities say three and a half tons of marijuana have been found floating in the ocean off Southern California.

Words that Tony Blair spoke over the phone to George Bush on the eve of the Iraq war are to be made public, a tribunal ordered today.

Wake Up Series about the N.W.O.

This map demonstrates how much fish we're pulling out of the ocean today compared to the middle of the previous century.

Scientists have found a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea in Japan they say could transform a once easily treatable infection into a global public health threat

A Chinese conglomerate announced Monday it will buy a major U.S. cinema chain, AMC Entertainment Holdings, for $2.6 billion in China's biggest corporate takeover in the United States to date.

China can now bypass Wall Street when buying U.S. government debt and go straight to the U.S. Treasury, in what is the Treasury's first-ever direct relationship with a foreign government
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Fed clears China's first US bank takeover

One of the things to think about in respect the current political campaign is that Benjamin Netanyahu and Mitt Romney are old friends

Almost ignored by some media outlets, a major strategic theater cooperation exercise including 19 countries and more than 12,000 participants is currently taking place in Jordan

Fisherman Stumbles upon Alligator Feeding Frenzy In Georgia Swamp

Eric Boa & Jodie Woodward - The Zephyr Lounge - 5-19-2012

Former LA Police Officer Mike Ruppert Confronts CIA Director John Deutch on Drug Trafficking

Moody Blues: Reflective Smile~Veteran Cosmic Rocker

The Grateful Dead at Telluride

I was walking down the sidewalk smoking a joint. A lady Telluride cop came up to me and said what is that in your hand?
I dropped it behind me and said "It ain't nothin but a little ol' cigarette".
She picked it up and said we won't have no pot smoking on the sidewalks in Telluride.
I replied, "I'm just trying to promote the peace."
She let me go.

Freddie Mercury ‘Hologram’ To Join Queen For 10th Anniversary Of ‘We Will Rock You’ Musical

Rarely seen footage of The Doors during ‘L.A. Woman’ recording session

DEA is trying to initiate a blanket sweep of all license plates traveling along Interstate 15 in Utah, with the intent to store the information in a centralized database.

Gulf oil spill pollutants found in pelicans migrating to Minnesota

FBI Agent Fleeing Massive Manhunt Warns “They’re All Insane”

Two Days Ago - RETANK: Missing FBI agent was "dazed and out of it," neighbor reports. - Just like former Air Force official John Wheeler before he was found dead in a trash dump.

Johnny Paycheck - Colorado Kool-Aid

Howcast is a website of videos on how to do stuff.

How Deadly Charcoal is Bought and Sold in an African Market

RETANK: Port Harcourt meat market in Nigeria.

The Coors Mansion nestled within the Coors Brewery

Recovered History: 7,000 May Day Protesters Herded Into D.C. Stadium Prison In 1971

THE FIX IS IN: The Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and NASCAR

Antibiotics Illegal in the US Found in Samples of Foreign Shrimp

Pigeon Eaten Alive By A Hawk On The Street

TRINIDAD, Colo. -- The Las Animas County Sheriff's Office said it fatally shot a bear after it attacked a woman.

Swarm Of Bees Halts Rockies Game At Coors Field

Why 'Kill it with Fire' Should Not be Your Reaction to a Honeybee Swarm

Listen to Donna Summer's "Denver Dream"

Living In A Box performing Living In A Box

DENVER AND WARS

It was in 1986 when GW Bush supposedly quit drinking in Colorado Springs. I suspect that was when he was first approached with propositions to the presidency

Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States.

How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing 'Terrorists' - and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook

Missing FBI agent was "dazed and out of it," neighbor reports. - Just like former Air Force official John Wheeler before he was found dead in a trash dump.

A shocking report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Foreign Military Intelligence Directorate (GRU) states that one of the United States top experts in biological and chemical weapons, John Wheeler, was brutally murdered after he threatened to expose a US Military test of poison gas that killed hundreds of thousands of animals in Arkansas

REM and Dan Rather: "What's the frequency, Kenneth?"

Police officers and deputies from across Minnesota have been picking up young people for a training program to recognize drug-impaired drivers. Multiple participants say officers gave them illicit drugs and provided other incentives to take the drugs.

Grandmothers' Social Security Garnished for Student Loans

Johnny Cash's last interview

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has approved legislation making it easier for debt collectors to go after defaulting consumers and small businesses.

Pakistan's price: US to pay $365 million more a year to reopen supply lines

More than a dozen states are plugging gaps in their budgets with hundreds of millions of dollars won from banks in mortgage and foreclosure settlements and intended to provide help to struggling homeowners

Carlton Tunnel - Leadville, CO - Abandoned Train Tunnels

Here I am climbing down in to it years ago. It is so high elevation there is ice in it year round
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The story of Clifford Griffin, who has also become known as the “ghost of Silver Plume”

A journalistic narrative about twenty-six Mexicans who tried to cross the southern Arizona desert into the United States, The Devil's Highway is a compelling tale of greed, simplicity, and the physiology of extreme environments

The Devils Highway Interactive Map

Mental Ills Top Reason U.S. Troops Now Hospitalized

A woman paralysed for the past 15 years has learned to use a Mind-Controlled Robotic Arm to serve herself coffee(Video)

The peripheral nervous system (motor/sensory neurons not located in the spinal cord or brain) is unique because it can actually regenerate after a severed link. Schwann cells form a tube that allows peripheral neurons to grow through and find their severed half. The central nervous system (spinal cord/brain) is different because instead of Schwann cells, they use astrocytes that form a scar instead of a tube- this prevents neurons from growing back and re-connecting with its severed partner.

A mysterious object flying over Denver around 5:17 p.m. Monday nearly caused a mid-air collision Monday evening

Surveillance Drone Spotted Near Chicago
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FAA To Ease Rules For Police Agencies To Fly Unmanned Drones
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Israeli Company Has FAA Permission to Fly Drones in U.S. Airspace

The state of Utah will be spending over $1 million on coyote control over there — $50 for a bounty.

More Gross Ingredients In Processed Foods

InspectAPedia.com - free online encyclopedia of building & environmental inspection, testing, diagnosis, repair, & problem prevention advice

The Denver Police Department reports that as part of a federal disaster response exercise, Black helicopters will be landing at Denver Health Medical Center on Wednesday.

A US Army Apache helicopter accidentally dropped an inactive missile over central Texas, forcing dozens of homes to be evacuated.

Slab City is referred to by its residents as the last free place in America.

Kansas City’s underground history includes long forgotten tunnel

Colorado Republicans vote to fund fed war on medical marijuana

Kansas House moves to ease penalties for small-time drug offenders

Video of a when a cop seized $20k from motorist for no reason

A meteorite wedding ring

Astronomical fidget ring made from a meteorite - Boing Boing

James Randi Debunks Peter Popoff Faith Healer

A Pastor in Hell

Nato must investigate the civilian casualties of its Libyan campaign

NATO Defends Civilian Deaths in Libya War