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Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter: Mental Health and Insane Lawsuits

Frivolous lawsuits are not just a waste of time and money, they are slanderous and insane-meaning legally incompetent and irresponsible!

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Having been to Israel Palestine seven times since 2005 and possessing a functioning brain, I comprehend that the lawsuit is not just frivolous, without merit, a chilling attack on free speech, it is also insane!

While President Carter does not need me for his Defense, I claim the only mistake he made was not going far enough.

Global Intifada Weekly Report

The global campaign is gaining speed and you should find and join events in your city.

(BETHLEHEM) - 6 reporters and 36 Palestinians were injured in the demonstration in Jerusalem Friday.

In Bil'in and Wad Rahhal and other localities, Palestinian demonstrators and international supporters voiced strong support for the people's revolution in Egypt.

Camp Lejeune Lawsuit Goes Forward

The complaint was filed in Federal court in the Eastern District of North Carolina.

(JACKSONVILLE, N.C.) - A federal judge has denied a motion by the government to reconsider requests to dismiss the $10,000 injury lawsuit of Marine spouse Laura Jones, who contracted non-Hodgkins lymphoma after living aboard Lejeune.

A judge previously rejected two motions to dismiss the case; one on the grounds that there were no standards for Lejeune’s TCE and PCE contaminants, the other because Jones’ cancer, diagnosed in 2003, fell outside the state’s 10-year statute of repose for injury claims.

Civil Unions vs. Marriage

Finally, if sexual preferences were not so obviously displayed in public, chances are straight people would never know or complain as they do.

(PASO ROBLES, Calif.) - I believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman for obvious reasons.

I believe in Civil Unions for persons of the same sex who do not fit the definition of marriage; nor can I understand why those who qualify for Civil Union insist they be considered “married,” in contradiction to the definition of “marriage.”

Say `No`! to Female Genital Mutilation

International Day on Zero Tolerance...

(VICTORIA, B.C.) - Female Genital Mutilation is a heinous crime still perpetrated against girls. On February 6 2011 throughout the day, the entire world community is being asked to chant together a resounding “No!” in unison with all activists against female genital mutilation.

As this is the date marking the 8th International Day on Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation, collectively, we can honour the global concerted efforts which rarely get the media attention, but which represent, both practical and existential struggles, against FGM tradition practice.

How Smart Are Smartphones?

The public at large thinks that they can’t live without these devices.

(SALEM, Ore.) - A strange epidemic has taken hold, spreading to the farthest corners of the globe. It threatens to alter the course of history by turning previously productive members of society into mindless droids.

You’ve seen them zigzagging down the sidewalk, walking into objects, stepping off into traffic as if blind, or uncaring, perhaps suicidal.

17-Years in Jail for One Woman Journalist, Seven Years for Another

The two women have been detained since last July.

(RWANDA) - Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the pigheadedness and cruelty of the Rwandan judicial system.

An extremely long jail sentences was just handed down to two women journalists, Agnes Uwimana Nkusi, the editor of the privately-owned bimonthly Umurabyo, and Saidath Mukakibibi, one of her reporters.

Obama` Lost Moment and Failure in Egypt

A game changing moment in history was lost by Obama’s unwillingness to get behind the movement for democracy, as he had done in places such as Iran.

(JAMESTOWN, R.I.) - This will be very difficult for Obama supporters to accept, but the violence in Egypt is due in part to disastrous American foreign policy.

Recent administrations have little if any sense of what the feeling of the street has been in Egypt; and because Mr. Mubarak was happy with his 1.3 billion dollar bribe each year, the administration naively assumed the street was happy.

Koch Industries

“...I’ve never seen anything like it. They are the Standard Oil of our times.” - Charles Lewis, founder of the Center for Public Integrity

(CLEVELAND ) - The Koch Brothers, Charles Koch and David Koch, own and operate Koch Industries, the largest private company in the United States.

Together the brothers have a combined net worth of over $40 billion and they are the die hard allies of big business and far right wing politics.

Magnetic Polar Shifts Causing Massive Global Superstorms

Superstorms can also cause certain societies, cultures or whole countries to collapse. Others may go to war with each other.

(CHICAGO) - NASA has been warning about it…scientific papers have been written about it… geologists have seen its traces in rock strata and ice core samples…

Now "it" is here: an unstoppable magnetic pole shift that has sped up and is causing life-threatening havoc with the world's weather.