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One Marijuana Arrest Every 42 Seconds in U.S.

New FBI Numbers Reveal Failure of "War on Drugs"

(WASHINGTON DC) - Just over one week before voters in three states will decide on ballot measures to legalize and regulate marijuana, the FBI has released a new report today.

Police in the U.S. arrest someone for marijuana every 42 seconds and that 87% of those arrests are for possession alone.

Myanmar is Behaving Inhumanly Toward the Rohingya Muslims

Buddhist monks are supporting the plan of exterminating the whole Rohingya ethnic community from Arakan.

(FRANKFURT) - I do not agree with the views of international media and their various news articles, for the last few months, on the conflicts between Rakhine Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims.

It is true that Rohingyas are majority in Maungdaw and Buthidaung while they are not more than 10% in Mrauk Oo , Minbya, Kyauk Phyu, Myae Bon and Pauk Taw.

Sandy: Northeast Catastrophe Unfolding

Storm surge flooding will occur over a much larger area, when compared to a hurricane and more severe than a typical nor'easter.

(STATE COLLEGE, PA Accuweathter.com) - AccuWeather.com reports an extremely rare and dangerous storm, "Sandy," is moving in from the Atlantic. Inundations have already occurred and will get worse into Monday night.

According to Expert Senior Meteorologist Steve Wistar, "Sandy is unfolding as the Northeast's Katrina in terms of impact."

Foreign Secretary Comments on Continued Violence in Rakhine State, Burma‏

Hague: "We deplore the latest spate of attacks which has caused many casualties and left tens of thousands of people displaced."

(LONDON) - Following renewed outbreaks of violence in Rakhine state in recent days, the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, said:

"I am deeply concerned about reports from Burma this weekend on the continued violence in Rakhine state..."

Mahmoud Sarsak and the End of Oslo-era Normalization

Sarsak is a sobering reminder of the unshakeable steadfastness of Palestinian liberation.

(GAZA Mondoweiss) - A huge debate across Palestine went right to the core of the Palestinian resistance strategy against Israeli colonisation and apartheid.

On thw 1st of October Mahmoud Sarsak called a press conference, accompanied by BDS activists, at the weekly demonstrations by prisoners’ families outside the Red Cross Offices.

Hurray for Gurdon and Yamanaka, Nobel Prize Winners for Pro-life Medicine

Yamanaka created four types of genes that supply cells with their pluripotentiality, in other words, the same capacity that embryonic stem cells have.

(MADRID) - The research studies carried out by John B. Gurdon (Anglo-Saxon) and Shinya Yamanaka (Japanese) were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine. These two scientists are considered of being the fathers of cellular reprogramming.

They have achieved to create cells that behave identically to embryonic cells, however, without having to destroy human embryos.

Still Raising The Bars (Instead Of Being Behind Them)

Mirror, mirror on the wall...
Serial rapist or Mafia Dom,
Tell me who is the greatest con.

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Neither.

And I'll tell you why. But first, here's a little story from the annals of Canadiana, an illustration of what passes for justice in that red Mercatorian blob to the North of us, which the average American thinks consists of nothing but Mounties, Eskimos and Montreal night clubs.

ANARCHISM

We cannot blame the ‘government’ alone, for selling us ‘flamboyant dreams’, by shrewdly disguising their ‘shady deals’ deep within.

(LOS ANGELES) - You are the ‘best judge’ in terms of how you should live, or how you may want to live your life on earth. No so-called ‘title baring interloper’ is qualified to ‘dictate terms’ on how you should be living life.

This earth has no ‘superior possession’ to any other ‘designated creature’, anymore than it has to you.

Breaking: Sandy Prompts NYC, Other Coastal Evacuations

Many updates...

(STATE COLLEGE, PA Accuweathter.com) - Hurricane Sandy remains on track to become a historical storm for the mid-Atlantic and southern New England with New Jersey and New York City bracing for very dangerous conditions and catastrophic damage.

Save the Arakan Muslim Population from Genocide in Arakan-Burma

Hundreds of Muslim girls and women were attacked by rogue Buddhist mobs who also burned villages.

(LONDON) - Members of the Rohingya Diaspora strongly denounce and condemn and we express our serious concern over the current news that Buddhist Rakhine extremists started mass killings again.

They're targeting th Muslim population of Arakan and burning and destroying Muslims villages and houses...