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A Bunch of Chickens in Salem

"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house, as to build a cathedral" - Frank Lloyd Wright

(SALEM, Ore.) - Salem once again stands at the crossroads, with a chance to make a good decision for its residents. The city council is faced with a choice to help people in a poor economy; folks who want to keep a few chickens on their property so their families can have fresh eggs, while keeping their gardens free of pests.

Apparently that is a lot to ask for. Good clucking luck. Depending on their decision, the council might come out of this one with egg on their face.

Fascinating Facts from Jack Herer: Hemp History Week 2010

Jack Herer Discovers Hemp for Victory.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Things about hemp that were not taught to Jack in school, he tried to teach others. He was a steward of the plant and devoted his life to the support of cannabis as he believed it was the greatest gift the world has ever known.

Hemp for Victory was a 1942 documentary produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to encourage farmers to grow outlawed industrial hemp for the war effort as a way to stabilize America during World War II.

Israelis asked to Visit Passport Plant Here Before Dubai Killing

Three fraudulent Australian passports, four French, 12 British, one German and eight Irish passports were used in the killing.

(DUBLIN) - ISRAELI officials asked to inspect the Dublin plant where security-enhanced passports are made — just a month before a Middle East assassination by agents using forged Irish documents.

A serious diplomatic incident was looming last night after a top-level report concluded that an Israeli intelligence agency forged the Irish passports used in the murder of a Hamas operative in Dubai in January.

Alan Hart`s Speech at Nakba Remembrance

A veteran journalist visits from the UK to talk about the Palestinian tragedy.

(DEARBORN, Mich.) - Veteran British reporter Alan Hart, is on the road in the U.S. sharing a message based on a life of work with the highest level world officials.

A Strategy of Liberation Requires Emancipation

The case for “Palestinian voice”
A critique through the eyes of an exiled Palestinian

(LONDON) - After almost one century of Zionist terrorism in Palestine, the world is gradually waking up to this racist and destructive ideology.

The Family and Uganda`s Anti-Gay Legislation

The United States Government must investigate the abuses of human rights and to re-evaluate the continued United States support of the Musevene regime, especially in light of this proposed anti-gay legislation.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - A secretive, privately-funded group known as “The Family” or "The Fellowship," one of the most powerful, well-connected Christian fundamentalist movements in the U.S., used its influence and funds through The Family’s African outreach programs to support a proposed Ugandan law to impose the death penalty on "repeat offenders" engaging in gay sex.

Racism In America? Or Good Versus Evil?

One might even argue America’s past history of racial divide,
I see a final battle of good versus evil & you are on which side?

(LOS ANGELES) - Americans frequently dismiss the realities of our existence; our unmistakable footprint on the earth. It is what it is, and there is no way around it.

We are a nation founded in slavery and the ownership of human beings, and regardless of how widespread this problem was in history, throughout the world, the U.S. was the last western nation, to abolish it.

Khalil Nouri: Afghanistan: - The West is Caught in a `Tribal Civil War` Propped Up by Karzai et al

If there is no shift away from the paradigm of Muslim radicalism, certainly a re-emergence of the old bitter civil war between the two powerful Pashtun tribal groups—“Durranis” and “Ghelzais”— will explode upon us today.

(KANDAHAR) - The United States is on a trajectory to lose the war in Afghanistan because its foreign policy has become entangled with President Hamid Karzai’s reprobate regime.

Now, U.S. objectives are contingent upon Karzai’s willingness and ability to rid the endemic corruption within his administration, and – more importantly – within his own family.

Schneider Trial - Week 4

"The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business" - Clarence Darrow

(WICHITA, Kansas) - The trial of Stephen Schneider, former doctor, whose pain clinic has been linked to 68 deaths and who was known in the medical community as the "candy man" for his prescribing habits had some dramatic moments in the courtroom this past week.

The jury heard Brent Rody, MD and former chief medical officer for Via Christi Hospital in Wichita, testify at the trial of Schneider and his wife, Linda, a nurse at the clinic.

The Power of a Sacrificial Leader

"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich" - Henry Ward Beecher

(CHARLESTON, S.C.) - In his book Life Lessons from the Game of Golf, Steve Riach shares a story about golf legend Jack Nicklaus. Considered by many to be the greatest golfer ever, Nicklaus won seventy tournaments.