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Marijuana Health Concerns
There Aren`t Many

"Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest, therapeutically active substances known to man."
- DEA Judge Francis L. Young

(PORTLAND, OR) - For whatever reason which is certainly not clear, The New York Times Jan 8 2013 continues to print ridiculous stories implying that marijuana use is somehow dangerous.

Reactor Reax Top Stories - Some Nuclear Plants Could Face Early Retirement: UBS

"Reactor Reax" is a weekly feature produced by Physicians for Social Responsibility.

(WASHINGTON DC) - This week in Reactor Reax, some merchant nuclear plants could face early retirement, enhanced firepower sought to fend off 'radiological sabotage' at nuclear sites, and U.S. nuclear regulators are divided on costly Fukushima Rule.

Also, a New York court seeks more public input on nuclear safety, and there will be no agreement yet over who pays for the Crystal River nuclear plant repairs.

Why Dead Children Don`t Matter, and How they Can: What Billie Combes and Moloch Still Teach Us

Does it matter to you? Do you too hear the screams that never stop?

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - I don't remember a lot of my dreams, but last night's was stark and unforgettable. My murdered friend Billie Combes came and spoke to me.

He looked as sad as ever, but his eyes were sharp, like his tone. Billie barked at me, "You're forgetting about all the children, Kev! They're still waiting for you. They're waiting to come home. They want to speak. Don't fail them! Don't!"

US: Exposing the Hypocrisy of a Nation

For its revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, like slavery itself, the doom of the United States of America is certain.

(DENVER) - Abolitionist, former slave and gifted Black orator Fredrick Douglass, offered what was perhaps the most caustic speech ever on July 4 1852.

He spelled out in no uncertain terms what the American Independence day meant to slaves ensnared in the so-called empire of liberty.

What MLK Might Say Today about Israel Palestine and US

Too long has The Peace Process been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue rather than dialogue.

(CLERMONT, FL) - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this year coincides with the inauguration of President Barack Obama’s second term.

To bring attention to the urgent need for action on climate change, leaders and individuals from Buddhist, Christian [Catholic, Evangelical and Protestant], Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and other faith traditions will unite with the Interfaith Moral Action on Climate for “A Pray-in for the Climate”

Christians Were Not Mass Murdered in Nigeria During 2012

Salem-News takes one in the chops.

(SALEM) - This article initially stated that Muslims in Nigeria had burned Christians alive.

JFK, MLK Milestones Set to be Marked in 2013

Both men are dead, deliberately murdered. Yet the streak of violence goes on and on ad nauseum.

(SALEM) - Two icons of recent US History are more than likely to be commemorated this year, 2013. Both are familiar household names: John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Their lives actually overlapped and both died violent deaths.

US has Serious Concerns Over Lankan CJ Impeachment

Sri Lankan Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake was found guilty on three of 14 charges.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The US on Thursday expressed serious concern over the impeachment proceedings against Sri Lanka's first woman Chief Justice

She says she will not be given a fair trial and also claimed verbal abuse by the government members of the parliamentary committee.

A Significant Defeat for the Zionist Lobby?

There are some who believe that Obama sees in Hagel a man who will assist him to put America’s own best interests first by ending the Zionist lobby’s control of policy for Israel-Palestine.

(LONDON) - I would like the headline to be a statement but it has to be a question.

As I write it looks as though the Zionist lobby realises that it overplayed its hand in smearing Chuck Hagel in the hope of causing President Obama to back off nominating him for the post defense secretary.

The Death of the Party

Did Shelly Yachimovich, by avoiding matters of national security, kill Israel’s Labor Party?

(ARLINGTON, VA) - “Shelly Yachimovich is a traitor.”

“She is a horrible person.”

“She is deeply cynical.”

“She is full of shit. She is the shallowest party leader that Labor has ever had.”