Employers in Washington state are allowed to fire employees who fail a drug test, even if they have valid medical-marijuana authorization, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

By J.B. Wogan

Seattle Times staff reporter

It turns out that you can be fired for legally using medical marijuana in Washington state.

The Washington…

• June 9th, 2011 7:17 pm CT

Sharon…

Bilderberg: The Uber-Powerful Global Elite Meet Behind Closed Doors in St. Moritz

By ANNE FOURNIER / LE TEMPS / WORLDCRUNCH Thursday, June 09, 2011



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General view shows Hotel Suvretta, the venue of the Bilderberg Club annual meeting according to local media, in St. Moritz, June 9, 2011.

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You have to have laws to keep the worst in men under control, but at the same time the people have to have guns, too, in order to keep the government itself under control.



In our country, the people were supposed to be the final authority of the law, but that was a long time ago. Once the guns were gone, there was no…

German Ratings Agency Feri Downgrades the US from AAA to AA!

German Ratings Agency Feri today downgraded the US from AAA to AA!  This is a HUGE event (don't expect anything more than downgrade "outlooks" from US ratings agencies until after the dollar has collapsed or the US has officially defaulted), yet we have yet to see this reported by any major US media…

I have concocted the granddaddy of all get rich quick schemes and I'm going to share it with you ABSOLUTELY FREE! It works like this:

1) Invent a new illness and a treatment for the illness.

2) Give the illness to millions of people without their knowledge (or convince them they have the illness when they really don't).

3) Sell them the…

Hopes that Opec would bring relief to motorists and wider western economies from soaring energy prices were today dashed when a crunch meeting of the oil cartel broke up in disarray without the expected agreement to increase crude output.

Political turbulence in North Africa and the Middle East undermined the usual consensus at the meeting in Vienna and led to speculation that new internal…

By Anna Mulrine, Staff writer / June 9, 2011 Washington



The next great battle America faces is likely to involve cyberwarfare, Leon Panetta, the Central Intelligence Agency director, warned senators Thursday, predicting that “the next Pearl…

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at

militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to

American officials.



The acceleration of the American campaign in recent weeks comes amid a violent conflict in Yemen that has left the

government in…

By Meg White – BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

At the intersection of cocaine and Roundup in rural South America, Monsanto and the U.S. government are struggling to keep up appearances. That’s becoming more and more difficult as the unanticipated hazards of genetic modification become clearer.

Back in April, Argentinean embryologist Andrés Carrasco gave an interview with a Buenos Aires newspaper describing his recent…

By Tara Green - Natural News

Genetically modified foods have become so ubiquitous in the US that even the grocery store ‘Whole Foods’ now admits it cannot keep biotech foods off its shelves. A representative for the corporation acknowledged in May of 2011 that the realities of the marketplace have forced a shift in the company’s previous no-GMO’s policy.

Joe Dickson, quality…