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A Family`s Struggle for Justice!

An army of advocates exist, ready to help patients, get their story out to the media and newspapers. Like Daisy... never stop pushing for justice.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - These past few years have been very tough for medical marijuana patients in California. Some Cities and Counties have attempted to ban or restrict growing that is clearly allowed under state law.

Nothing however compares to what one tragedy a family in Butte County has been facing. Jayme Walsh and Daisy Bram along with their two young sons, Thor and Zeus, were raising their family in a quite outskirt of Butte County, within the serene mountain area know as Concow.

California Woman Asks Obama to Drop Federal Marijuana Charges Against Her Husband

Conflict in state and federal marijuana law threatens family; wife doesn't want kids to grow up fatherless.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - "What has my husband done that would justify the federal government forcing my young daughters to grow up without a father?"

Pakistan: Rimsha`s Blasphemy Case Challenged in Supreme Court

Everyone thought Pakistan was moving towards justice, now again the blasphemy case against Rimsha Masih is challenged in the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

(ISLAMABAD) - A teen girl named Rimsha was arrested from a slum in Islamabad on 16 August, 2012 after a neighbour accused her of burning pages of Norani Qaida bearing verses from the Quran, which is a violation of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws under section 295B PPC.

She suffered after being remanded to custody for three weeks in an adult jail in a case that prompted worldwide condemnation.

Barack Obama: It`s been a busy and productive four years

News conference by the President from the East Room of the White House.

(WASHINGTON DC) - THE PRESIDENT: Please have a seat, everybody. Good morning. I thought it might make sense to take some questions this week, as my first term comes to an end.

It’s been a busy and productive four years. And I expect the same for the next four years. I intend to carry out the agenda that I campaigned on -- an agenda for new jobs, new opportunity, and new security for the middle class.

What Waterfront Sportsman is all About

Waterfront Sportsman is pursuing TARP Funds to put people to work through the support of the VA,NC, SC, & Tenn.

(RALEIGH, NC) - Water quality, environmental justice and putting unemployed people to work in the areas with the Greatest Needs.

Causa to Launch National Campaign for Immigration Reform in Oregon

During the Press Conference, Causa will also announce next actions to be taken on state issues such as Drivers Licenses and In-State Tuition.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Causa has partnered with immigrant activists, advocates and champions from across the nation in the Keeping Families Together Campaign.

The campaign brings together individuals, community organizations and leaders, and elected officials who support humane immigration reform and policies to keep families together.

Harvard Researchers: Embryonic Cells Can Cause Cancer

The UNESCO's Dictionary of Bioethics, asserts that "the use of embryonic stem cells for therapeutic purposes is gravely illicit”.

(MADRID) - The research carried out by Britian's Sir John B. Gurdon and Japan's Shinya Yamanaka, both awarded with the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2012, gave birth to cellular reprogramming.

The conquest achieved, revealed that the efforts put in the investigations with embryonic cells for clinic purposes are useless and completely sterile.

Justice Not Mourning Or Doles, Is What The Victims Want

The muted response of Mr. Ban on the Tamil issue makes many to believe that there are ulterior motives in his and the UN inaction.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Colombo Telegraph) - As the dust settles down over the fortnight long protests against the barbaric gang rape of a 23 year old girl in Delhi, the world reacted strongly, a number of world leaders commented on the need to protect women.

Gun Violence Isn`t a 21st Century Phenomenon

People get amnesia and forget that gun violence is in the very fabric of the existence of this country.

(OKINAWA) - The spokesman for the NRA tried desperately to make the case.

He says the nation's gun problems can be solved by more people arming themselves.

General Powell: `But there is an Israeli lobby`

“I think he's had a very, very distinguished public service record that he can stand on.”

(PORTLAND, OR) - By contrast [to Senators Corker and McCain, the only opponent’s cited] former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Gulf War, called Hagel “superbly qualified,” in an appearance Sunday NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I think he's had a very, very distinguished public service record that he can stand on.”

A maverick in an era of gridlock, Hagel riled many of his GOP colleagues for not supporting President Bush's conduct of the Iraq war. He alarmed senators on both sides of the aisle with his views on Iran and criticism of the power of the “Jewish lobby” in Washington.