12Apr2012
Why the World's Most Useful Plant is Illegal
NaturalNews
It's all about corporate greed and government-control of the population. Hemp - one of the world's most useful plants - has been used to create fuel, paper, clothing, food and natural medicine. So why has the United States (plus other countries) criminalized the production of this valuable commodity?

12Apr2012
Study: It Costs To Build Social Networks
TheNonProfitTimes
The fourth annual Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report, which includes survey results from more than 3,500 respondents about how nonprofits use social media, indicates a self-reported value on the cost to acquire a member on the two most popular social networks.

12Apr2012
Time to End Our Unwinnable Drug War
Independent Institute
Even if legalizing drugs requires setting up a costly new bureaucracy, drug legalization would almost certainly save taxpayers billions of dollars a year, because legalizing drugs would mean scrapping the government's $44 billion annual drug enforcement budget and raising an estimated $33 billion in annual tax revenue.

12Apr2012
Panal's Quadri Urges to Stop 'Dirty War'
Rumbo de Mexico
New Alliance Party (Panal) presidential candidate Gabriel Quadri called on his competitors Enrique Pena Nieto and Josefina Vazquez Mota to put aside their "dirty war," so that the electoral campaigns are not stained and sullied.

12Apr2012
Diabetic Eye Disease Rate Is Rising Rapidly in Mexico
COMTEX
New research into the causes of preventable blindness in Chiapas, Mexico found a surprisingly high rate of diabetic retinopathy in people with diabetes aged 50 and older.

12Apr2012
Mexico Gov't Expects Economy to Grow 3.8% in 2013
EFE
Mexico's gross domestic product is expected to grow 3.8 percent in 2013, with inflation running at 3 percent, the budget deficit at 2 percent and a negative balance of payments, the Senate said, citing a report from the Finance and Public Credit Secretariat.

12Apr2012
Earthquake Measuring 7.0 Hits Off Mexico Coast
Bloomberg News
A temblor hit 42 miles northwest of Lazaro Cardenas, in Michoacan state, at 5:55 p.m. local time, the U.S. Geological Survey said in a statement on its website. Several aftershocks were felt shortly afterward.

11Apr2012
Leaked Cable Suggests 'Kony 2012' Group Aided Ugandan Military
Chronicle of Philanthropy
A U.S. diplomatic cables released last year by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks suggests that Invisible Children, the nonprofit group behind the viral "Kony 2012" video, helped the Ugandan military arrest an opposition figure.


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