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President Kagame in Toronto

September 27 -28, 2013: President Kagame in Toronto or the promise of a distastefully hot weekend

(MONTREAL / TORONTO) - While the Syrian civil war remains on the front pages of the major world newspapers, the war in the African Great Lakes region continues unabated with its death toll since twenty years, and Western media outlets keep scrambling for hot stories, unmoved by the African bloodletting.

Taking advantage of that media passiveness, the perpetrators of the foolish massive human slaughter, which has already taken more than eight million lives, are touring Western capitals and cities with utmost delight, while their handy-men go on rampage, slaughtering entire families.

Another Victory Brings Hope to Rev. Roger & Share Christie of THC Ministry

Roger & Share Christie are the founding Reverends of "The Hawaii Cannabis Ministry".

(COTTAGE GROVE, Ore.) - The THC Ministry in Hawaii was raided more than 3 1/2 years ago by federal authorities. Both Roger & Share Christie and a dozen congregation members were arrested. Most were released within hours, including Reverend Christie's wife Share, but the Reverend Roger Christie has been federally detained since the arrest.

The allegation is that, as a promoter of "marijuana sacrament" and his religious teaching that include cannabis as sacrament, Christie himself is a threat to Hawaiian society.

31 Years on Sabra-Shatila Massacre: Justice Delayed but Gaining Ground

“If you don’t want the Lebanese to kill them, we will kill them.” - Ariel Sharon

(SHATILA CAMP, Beirut) - Each year, during the third week of September, Lebanon and this region, as well as international supporters, pause to reflect upon and commemorate the victims one of the twentieth century’s most horrific and cynical crimes perpetrated by a member state of the United Nations.

The Sabra-Shatila massacre took place September 16-19th in Beirut, a well-documented 48 hours of slaughter that saw the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp surrounded and sealed off by the occupying Israeli army, whose intent was to block and force back inside the killing field anyone seeking to escape...

Human Rights Tyranny

In the nearly four decades that have passed since my presentation with Five Minutes To Midnight of the everyday reality of global poverty, there has been some progress in addressing it, but not nearly enough.

(GENEVA ) - The title of my contribution to this conference is taken from paragraph three of the Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. QUOTE “It is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law” UNQUOTE

The problem, I say, is that there is no universal enforcement of the rule of law to ensure and protect human rights. Why not?

Spiritual Reclamations Across the World Inaugurate New `Jubilee Revolution` - Debts, Laws Nullified

In Ireland, Canada and America, catholic clergy have already announced their plan to disaffiliate from Rome and establish their own national, congregationally-based churches, according to Not in Our Name (NON), a Dublin based group.

(ROME) - Traditional elders, shamans and clergy gathered near the Vatican today and in at least six other countries to inaugurate a new spiritual regime that nullifies and replaces the Church of Rome, as well as "ungodly laws and economies".

Invoking divine authority, the closed ceremonies culminated twenty one days of global prayer and fasting on behalf of "all of the victims of a false church and its spirit of lies and murder".

Diabetic Neuropathy: Marijuana Gives Good Relief

Many medical reports say it really works.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - On Sept 16 2013, I wrote and posted Marijuana: The Next Diabetes Drug, with the subtitle, Is Marijuana good for Diabetic Neuropathy Pain? Here is the answer.

Patient comments were that: "Marijuana alleviates my pain," and "I started smoking marijuana to help my pain and it cured my Diabetes". With these two comments, I decided that I must browse the web to see if anybody else found that marijuana really did alleviate the Diabetes neuropathy pain.

`Pain Drug Champion` Under Senate Investigation for Financial Ties to the Pharmaceutical Industry

Part 2 in a series...

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - In December 2012 the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) wrote an article about Russell K. Portenoy, MD "appearing" to have second thoughts about pushing opioids for chronic pain.

Since Portenoy is under U.S. Senate investigation for financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry to potentially benefit financially in encouraging the medical profession to prescribe opioids disregarding the dangers of addiction, death and abuse - are his second thoughts "the fire is raging and my hose is out of water?"

Dangerous Exceptionalism

Anyone who’s been following the fate of whistleblowers Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden has surely become frightfully aware of how deceptive the NSA (National Security Agency) has been spying on people, companies and governments around the world.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Paul Schied, commenting in the Harvard Political Review writes, "American Exceptionalism argues that the United States is the best at everything. This isn’t true. Therefore, American Exceptionalism is bunk"

Many Americans express pride in American exceptionalism; but much of that is nothing to be proud of. We’re ignorant and indifferent, deceived and deceptive, warmongers and empire builders.

Navy Yard Mass Shooting: Deja` Vu All Over Again

Already victims' relatives and relatives of other mass shootings are again calling for federal gun control legislation.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - On September 16, 2013, Aaron Alexis, a former Navy reservist, killed 13 people at the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard. Alexis was shot to death by police. Already there are renewed calls for gun control legislation, which will fall on deaf ears.

The Navy Yard killings is the latest mass shooting in the United States.

`Damning Evidence` Becomes `No Clear Evidence`: Much-Delayed Report On Congenital Birth Defects In Iraq

"All studies done by the Ministry of Health prove with damning evidence that there has been a rise in birth defects and cancer, since the substances in question cause birth defects if the mother was exposed to them, or cancer, or in some cases, both." - senior MOH official in Baghdad

(LONDON) - In a 2010 alert, 'Beyond Hiroshima – The Non-Reporting Of Fallujah's Cancer Catastrophe', we noted the almost non-existent media response to the publication of a new study that had found high rates of infant mortality, cancer and leukemia in the Iraqi city.

The dramatic increases in these rates exceeded even those found in survivors of the atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.