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Senator Leahy Schedules Hearings on Marijuana, Calls for Federal Respect for State Laws

Attorney General Holder Invited to Hearing Scheduled for September 10.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Today Senator Patrick Leahy (D – VT) invited Attorney General Eric Holder to a September 10 hearing to clarify the federal response to states that have passed marijuana laws in conflict with federal policy.

Twenty states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana, and Colorado and Washington last year became the first places in the world to legalize and regulate marijuana for personal use.

Michael Francke Murder - Closing Arguments

The prosecution contends that Mike was stabbed at around 7pm. Obviously, the timeline would not permit that. Nor would the forensics.

(SALEM) - When one looks at the timeline (as presented by the prosecution) of this crime, the first thing you notice is the fact that, let me repeat, the fact that the pieces of the puzzle do not fit.

Let's start with the stuff that Yraguen noted in his 104 page decision way back in 2001. For simplicity, so you'll always know what document I reference, I always refer to Yraguen's pages as ER-1, ER-2, etc.

Constitution Avenue Will Remain Quiet Until you Sleep

Let us face the realities that haunt Pakistan in real time.

(ISLAMABAD) - The distribution is not absolutely equal among the whole population, thus, demarcate among various socioeconomic groups of a country.

One of the worst outcomes of income inequality is poverty, considered to be fatal for any nation’s development because poverty breeds more poverty which engulfs the whole nation.

Italian Politicians to Meet With Kevin Annett and ITCCS to Plan `Comprehensive Campaign to De-Secularize` the Vatican

"Spiritual Assembly" to convene on September 22 in Rome and twenty one countries.

(ROME) - The campaign for justice by victims of the Roman Catholic Church took a major step forward this past weekend when two political parties in Italy agreed to meet with ITCCS officials in September.

The meeting will plan what an internal statement calls "a comprehensive political and legal campaign to de-secularize the church and bring it under the rule of law and democratic control".

Israel Introduces Apartheid Kindergartens

Let’s hope that civilized society will respond to this new apartheid in the same way that it responded to apartheid of old: boycott, divestment, sanctions.

(LONDON Redress) - First came the apartheid hitchhiking and now there’s the apartheid kindergartens. No, we’re not talking about South Africa of yesteryear.

We’re talking about Israel in the year 2013. More precisely, we’re talking about Israel’s most liberal city, Tel Aviv.

`Coffee Strong` Near Joint Base Lewis-McChord - an Out of the Box Approach for Helping Vets

There are other outlets like Coffee Strong located near US military bases helping Vets in kind and creative ways, please watch the Operation Red Dragonfly interview with Andrew Wright.

(TACOMA) - I visited Coffee Strong in the Tacoma area Friday and was pleased to see a team organized to offer a strong outpouring of support for soldiers and other members of the military in the Joint Base Lewis-McChord area.

They offer valuable services to those traumatized by the military and war.

The Art of Deception

Israel has mastered the stolen Arabic carpet under which they sweep all intimidating truths.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Quite often I start to write an article about the travesty of injustices heaped on the Palestinians by Israel.

Almost as often, I stop at a point where I mumble to myself that I've said it all before, and others have said it better.

Physician Under U.S. Senate and D.E.A. Investigation for `Pain Clinic` Deaths Says Doctors Kill Thousands Due to `Death Tables`

Change of heart, Mr. Webster -- I mean Dr. Webster -- to quote Harry Truman -- is the kitchen getting hot? Or my version "Is the DEA getting hot for you?"

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - In 2012, Lynn M. Webster, MD, currently under U.S. Senate investigation as well as a D.E.A. investigation for up to two dozen deaths at his "pain clinic" in Utah stated that doctors killed up to two dozen due to "death tables".

My curiosity got the best of me. How could a doctor say that doctors kill thousands -- and two years later be under D.E.A. investigation for deaths at his Utah pain clinic?

Reverend Healer Carl Olsen, a True Cannabis Freedom Fighting Warrior

Cannabis has been used as a sacrament for thousands of years. Why would now be any different?

(COTTAGE GROVE, Ore.) - Many moons ago, you may have heard of the "Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church" - this reporter became a member back at the age of 14. It is a renown church formed in Jamaica but that began spreading it's membership throughout the US in the 1980's.

Reverend Carl Olsen is a priest of the church, and is the first minister to be sentenced to federal prison for the promotion of cannabis as sacrament in religion.

Christopher Lane Murdered By A Black Teen Younger Than Trayvon

Authorities allege Lane, a 22-year-old baseball player who had a scholarship with an Oklahoma college and was visiting his US girlfriend Sarah Harper in Duncan, was jogging along Country Club Road when he was shot in the back in a random drive-by shooting.

(CLEVELAND) - The harrowing last moments of Lane's life have been revealed on a 911 emergency call.

The seven-minute call, released by the District Attorney's office in Duncan, Oklahoma, begins with local Joyce Smith telling the operator she was driving her Toyota Corolla and spotted a bloodied man at the side of the road.