Link: https://www.rt.com/news/397018-uruguay-legal-cannabis-sale/

Following a lengthy legal process, any Uruguayan citizen over the age of 18 can now purchase the drug, provided they register with the government. People are limited to 40 grams per month with the process being tracked via fingerprint technology. Sixteen pharmacies in the country are licensed to sell cannabis.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/art_living/201707161055590099-last-animal-survive-earth-apocalypse/?utm_source=adfox_flite_626004&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=2150670&utm_campaign=adfox_site-campaign_41917-63665&ues=1

Scientists have identified the creature that will survive on Earth the longest. It's able to withstand all the astrophysical catastrophes that would wipe out humans and the rest of Earth's animals. The creature is the "tardigrade," an eight-legged animal that is also known as a "water bear." Tardigrades measure less than 1mm in length and can only be seen under a microscope. The water-dwelling microbes have been discovered in the harshest regions of Earth, in Antarctica, Japanese hot springs, 5,546 m up a Himalayan mountain and on the ocean floor of the northern Gulf of Mexico; can endure extreme temperatures of up to 150 degrees centigrade, or down to absolute zero. They are capable of surviving up to 30 years without food or water – half their lifespan – and of withstanding huge doses of radiation.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/The_Feds_Just_Expanded_Civil_Asset_Forfeiture_%27Laws%27_Nationwide/59828/0/38/38/Y/M.html

U.S. Justice Department announced on Wednesday that the federal government will reinstate a program that helps local and state law enforcement seize cash and other assets they suspect have been earned from crimes. Local police will now be able to seize cash, often from those suspected of drug crimes, even in states that do not condone the policy. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told reporters that most seizures were warranted because the "vast majority" of people who have property taken by police do not contest it in court.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/Notorious_Banker_Found_Dead_with_Shotgun_Blast_to_the_Chest/59818/0/38/38/Y/M.html

The former chairman of one of Spain’s largest banks has been found dead with a shotgun blast to the chest in a private hunting estate in southern Spain, the country’s Civil Guard said Wednesday. According to AP, Miguel Blesa, the former head of the now defunct Caja Madrid savings bankwas awaiting the result of an appeal to a six-year prison sentence for misusing corporate credit cards issued by the infamous Bankia, another defunct bank.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/chemical-used-soften-plastics-found-boxed-mac-cheese/

According to a recent test conducted in a lab in Belgium, if you’re eating the powdered cheese that comes in the box, you’re probably also eating a group of chemicals called phthalates that are used to soften plastics. The Coalition for Safer Food Processing and Packaging bought 30 different cheese products from store shelves in the U.S. — 10 different kinds of mac and cheese with cheese powder, five different types of processed sliced cheeses, and 15 varieties of natural cheese — then shipped the package to the Flemish Institute for Technological Research; tested each sample and found significant levels of phthalates in all but one of the products.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/396872-trump-cia-arming-syria/

The White House and the Central Intelligence Agency have declined to comment on reports that president Donald Trump has decided to end the CIA’s covert program of arming the so-called moderate rebels in Syria. US officials told the Washington Post (WP) and Reuters that Trump has decided to put an end to the covert CIA plan which began arming and training the so-called moderate Syrian rebels in 2013. Authorized by President Barack Obama, the secret Timber Sycamore weapons supply and training initiative has served as the backbone of Washington’s strategy to topple the Syrian President Bashar Assad. Two US officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity with Reuters, said the covert CIA scheme has produced little results.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/396731-australia-usa-cop-shoots-woman/

The death of a 40-year-old Australian woman at the hands of a Minnesota Police Officer in an unexplained incident has triggered a flood of questions in her home country. Yoga instructor and life coach Justine Ruszczyk, who goes by Justine Damond in her professional life, was gunned down by police officer Mohamed Noor behind her house Saturday evening after she called in a possible assault.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/Bank_Of_Italy_Warns_Citizens_Against_%22Creating_Your_Own_Currency%22/59787/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Scriptural Euros are Euros issued by citizens under a “theory of the autonomous creation of scriptural currency” based on the idea of collective property of money that affirms the right of every citizen to autonomously create “scriptural” money (Euros) via their own accounting records. The theory of autonomous creation of scriptural currency holds that just as banks can conjure debt based money out of thin air, so can citizens.

Link: http://www.thecannabist.co/2017/07/17/massachusetts-court-medical-marijuana-lawsuit-workers-employers/83907/

Massachusetts’ highest court has ruled that a woman who says she was fired for using marijuana legally obtained to treat Crohn’s Disease can sue her former employer; ruling says employers can’t enforce blanket anti-marijuana policies against workers whose doctors have recommended medical marijuana to treat their illnesses.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/EU_limits_the_sale_of_inflatable_boats_to_Libya_in_a_bid_to_stop_the_flow_of_migrants_across_the_Mediterranean/59776/0/38/38/Y/M.html

The EU is limiting the sale of inflatable boats and outboard motors to Libya in an effort to stop migrant smuggling across the Mediterranean. Foreign ministers agreed to allow member countries to ban such export or supply 'where there are reasonable grounds to believe that they will be used by people smugglers and human traffickers'.The measure will also apply to boats and motors transiting through the EU - though not to fishermen or others with legitimate need for them.

Link: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/fukushima-plant-owner-decides-to-dump-777000-tons-of-nuclear-waste-into-ocean_072017

More than three-quarters of a million tons of radioactive water is about to be dumped into the Pacific Ocean if the chairmen of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) have their way, Japanese media reported over the weekend. All they require now is final government approval.“The decision has already been made,” TEPCO chairman Takashi Kawamura told the media, according to the Japan Times. As of July 6, about 777,000 tons of tritium-tainted water is being stored in about 580 tanks at the Fukushima nuclear plant.

Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/396598-sessions-forfeiture-drugs-crime/

Citing a spike in violent crime, Attorney General Jeff Sessions called for more proactive policing and a crackdown on gangs, guns, drugs and illegal immigration. He also endorsed the practice of asset forfeiture, slammed by critics as policing for profit.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/396594-italian-mayors-protest-migrants/

Desperate mayors across Italy are staging rallies and embarking on hunger strikes to protest what they say is an unequitable number of predominantly North African migrants being settled in their towns. “We have been invaded, over-run and overwhelmed by the migrant management system of these co-operatives, which know nothing about our communities,

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/07/16/528608/Italys-public-debt-hits-new-record-high

Nearly four years after going through its deepest and longest recession, Italy’s economic indicators show a worrying trend as public debt reaches 133 percent of the GDP. The debt burden makes the Eurozone’s third largest economy vulnerable to market turbulence.

Link: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-15/italy-plots-nuclear-option-give-200000-migrants-eu-visas-sending-them-north

Two weeks after Italy reacted with anger to Austria's deployment of troops and armored vehicles to the border between the two nations, while reactivating border controls at the Brenner Pass over concerns that Italy will be unable to handle the 85,000 migrants and refugees who have entered the country so far in 2017, the Italian government has threatened to retaliate in way that assures an imminent migrant crisis as well as an escalation of tensions between the two EU nations. According to The Times, an Italian minister and a senator have threatened to issue temporary EU visas to thousands of migrants in an effort to "resolve" Italy's escalating migrant and refugee crisis, which would then allow the refugees to travel north. The move, which has been described as a 'nuclear option,' would allow the nearly 200,000 migrants currently stranded in Italy, to travel across Europe using a Brussels directive loophole.

Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/us-and-australia-test-hypersonic-missiles-that-fly-at-a-mile-a-second-a7842961.html

The US has been testing hypersonic aircraft missiles that could fly at a mile per second. It has collaborated with Australia to research and pilot weapons able to fly at least five times faster than the speed of sound - anywhere from 3,836mph up to 7,700 mph. Its smooth and flat flight path is much harder to track than that of a ballistic missile. Russia and China are building hypersonic glide vehicles,

Link: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/630054/north-korea-war-jim-mattis-kim-jong-un-nuclear-united-states-army

Defence Secretary Jim Mattis told the US Congress that a full-blown conflict with North Korea must be avoided, saying it would only be won at a “great cost. The former Marine Commander called facing up to Kim Jong-un something "we don’t want”, adding a conflict to topple the regime would be worse than the Korean War that ended in 1953.”.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/politics/201707171055598678-us-russia-diplomatic-compounds/

The United States is going to give back Russia’s diplomatic properties, seized by Washington in 2016 over Russia’s alleged interference in the US election, only under the condition that it will receive something in return from Moscow, a senior official from the White House told Sputnik on Monday. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Moscow would take retaliatory measures against Washington if the situation with Russia's diplomatic property in the United States is not resolved.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/asia/201707171055598273-japan-fighters-missiles/

Japan’s newly developed hypersonic anti-ship missiles would be able to fly three times faster than the speed of sound and would replace previous transonic missiles.

Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2017/07/nevada-declares-state-emergency-weed-natural-blaze.html

Nevada’s Governor Brian Sandoval declared a state of emergency over recreational marijuana regulations after the Nevada Tax Commission reported a shortage of medical weed in its stores. The Nevada Tax Commission stated it will consider implementing emergency regulations July 13 to provide a stronger structure for marijuana distribution to retailers; would allow liquor wholesalers in the marijuana business. Marijuana sales far exceeding expectations at the state’s 47 licensed retail marijuana stores; many stores running out of inventory, the Department must address the lack of distributors immediately: The Nevada Tax Commission.“Some establishments report need for delivery within the next several days