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CIRCUMCISION: Culture-Bound and Culture-Specific Syndromes with Shared Psychotic Disorder

Imagination is more important than knowledge - Einstein

(MONTEREY, CA) - Circumcision is a Basic Social Act, affects all levels of societ and allows everyone to participate with their own particular quirk.

Social rituals are insulated acts of violence or representations of violence. Basic Social Acts give coherent meanings for group unity. Actions are repeated on successive generations with observable experiences.

Treatments for Nuclear Contamination

Dr. Mark Sircus, says it is unclear how far the impact of a meltdown might reach. In the US, communities plan for evacuation typically within 10 miles of a nuclear plant.

(TASMANIA, Aust) - It is too early to call everyone in North America to prepare for a radiation cloud streaming down radioactive particles from the accident in Japan.

According to the media and government, America is not at risk due to radioactive fallout from the recent Japanese nuclear accidents in several reactors but that could change in a heartbeat as authorities race to combat the threat of multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns.

The Wall, 10 Years on / Part 4: Trapped on the Wrong Side

We live in something that is part jail, part hell,” Qasab Sha’ur says bitterly. Sha’ur is a resident of Arab a-Ramadin, and has to go through the fence at least once or twice a day.

(TEL AVIV +972Mag) - This is exactly the kind of thing that planners of the route hoped to avoid: having Palestinians who are barred from entering Israel trapped on the “Israeli” side of the fence.

`Throw Their Dirty, Filthy Ships Out of the Water!`

It is well past time to “throw this dirty, filthy Occupation out of United Methodist waters”.

(CHICAGO) - In the 2006 movie, Amazing Grace, John Newton shouts these words at William Wilberforce, a member of Parliament who was the leader of a 19th century fight to force the British government to bar British ships and ports from participating in the slave trade.

The “dirty, filthy ships” to which Newton refers are slave ships which sailed from England to Africa and then to the New World.

US Veterans Want to Deal with Vietnam War Aftermath

VietNamNet Bridge – A 15-member delegation of the Veterans for Peace (VFP) led by chairman of its chapter 160, Suel D.Jone, is visiting Vietnam from April 17 to May 1.

(DA NANG Vietnam) - The vice chairman of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO), Nguyen Van Kien expressed his hope that the VFP will further cooperate with the VUFO and the Vietnam-US Association.

Marijuana Therapy: The Oregonian April 22 Blesses with Full-Page Ad

Is marijuana vilification finally over?

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Oregon's premiere newspaper, The Oregonian, up till this Sunday edition, has been vilifying marijuana and all of its aspects for about twelve years. This, in spite of the fact that it has been known as a highly safe, highly effective medicine for about four thousand years- and there are currently some 55,000 medical patients in Oregon.

For years, all of us advocates have been asking whoever we could ask for some sort of legislation which would take marijuana out of the grasp of the Mexican marijuana cartels.

`The Deadly Connection: Endless War and Economic Crisis` - Bruce Gagnon speaks in Washington state

The Washington speaking engagements are part of Gagnon’s West Coast speaking tour that began in Los Angeles in April.

(POULSBO, WA) - “The Deadly Connection: Endless War and Economic Crisis” is the subject of Bruce Gagnon's six-city tour of Washington State.

Gagnon is the Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, and long-time member of Veterans For Peace.

Stopping Those Irritating Robocalls

Oregon prohibits political candidates and businesses from making robocalls. Washington state prohibits robocalls for commercial purposes.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Thousand of people receive calls from telemarketers selling debt reduction services or credit cards with promised lower interest rates.

They also sell extended auto service contracts after claiming warranties were about to expire; or telling consumers that they have won or are specially selected to receive a vacation package.

New Occupy Crackdown Documents Just Obtained by the PCJF

Revelations Show Brookfield's Security National Coordination.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Two days before the NYPD’s eviction of the Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, Brookfield Properties' security was in direct communications and sharing information with federal Police in DC, and communicating with other cities.

This, according to newly released internal documents from the National Park Service.

Disempowerment and Suppression of Freedoms in Ethiopia

Meles’s ruling party, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), is in fact a dictatorship masquerading under the guise of a democracy.

(LONDON) - Democracy sits firmly upon principles of freedom, justice, social inclusion and participation in civil society. Where these qualities of fairness are absent so too is democracy.