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Marijuana Vs. Methadone

Cannabis/marijuana had never killed anybody in the probable 5,000 years of its use in medicine.

(MOLALLA, OR) - The New York Times published on July 10, 2012 that Methadone accounted for about 1/3 of deaths caused by opiate and opioids pain relievers in 2009 but they didn’t give the actual figure.

The opiate, Oxycodone, causes the most deaths followed by hydrocodone, (Vicodin) and Morphine but the opioid Methadone which had been used mostly to get addicts off heroin is now widely used as a pain killer.

Barack Obama is on the Ground in Portland

The President visited with Oregon Vets about healthcare.

(PORTLAND, OR) - U.S. President Barack Obama arrived at air guard base at 11:35 a.m. and emerged quickly thereafter.

Fabric of Space

Einstein was a commendable physicist and mathematician but his concept of “The fabric of space” has resulted in a major detraction and the failure of the scientists to determine the true nature of magnetic field energy in the universe.

(SAN DIEGO) - In a July 21, 2012 Nova program titled “What Is Space”, physicist Alex Filippenko, U.C. Berkeley said: “What is space. We still don’t really know.”

And, physicist S. James Gates, Jr, U. of Maryland, said: “It is one of the deepest mysteries in physics.”

Israeli Video Insults New President of Egypt

For this “temple mount” to be built, Al-Aqsa mosque has to be demolished. It is as simple as that.

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Israeli TV has lately screened one of a new series of ads, sponsored by The Temple Institute, which promote the so called “rebuilding of the temple mount.

The video titled ‘The Children are Ready’ is causing a lot of controversy amongst Egyptians, especially users of Twitter, facebook and YouTube who saw the video as an insult to their president.

President John Atta Mills of Ghana at age 68

In apparent anticipation of a long period of incapacitation, the President had written to the members of Parliament with his last wishes.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Ghana’s President John Atta Mills, who was most recently treated in the U.S. for an unspecified condition, has reportedly passed away.

His replacement will be sworn in Tonight. Questions about the President’s health had been swirling for almost a year.

Hillary Clinton--The Mouth that Roared

Mr. Obama should immediately dismiss her for ignorance and language unbecoming a Secretary of State.

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - The main duty of the Secretary of State is to insure peace through the use of diplomacy.

Secretaries of State are known to be artful and diplomatic in their conduct with other nations in an attempt to insure that cooler heads prevail and confrontation is avoided...

Sublimity Harvest Festival to Celebrate 40 Years

September Festival is “40 and Pullin’ Strong”

(SUBLIMITY, OR) - The second weekend in September will mark the 40th annual Sublimity Harvest Festival, a destination family event that started as a local truck and tractor pull competition and has evolved into a three-day outdoor weekend festival that includes monster trucks, multi-engine and modified tractors, ATVs, horses, modified trucks and farm tractors.

The Festival opens on Friday, Sept. 7 at 5 p.m. with a Pit Party to meet the drivers and their vehicles. The event is held on the Harvest Festival Grounds at Highway 22 and Golf Club Road in Sublimity.

People Keep Disappearing in Sindh, Pakistan

Where can people of this Pakistani province turn?

(KARACHI) - A Supreme Court judicial commission had recently concluded that a large number of people have been victims of forced disappearances (people arrested unannounced by govt. agencies) in Sindh.

In some cases their tortured dead bodies are found after a few months or years of their abduction/arrest. Such was the case of Muzzafar Bhutto a JSMM leader recently.

Indicting Wayne LaPierre et al at the NRA

Since the gun assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King in 1968, more than a million Americans have been killed by guns.

(Calgary, Alberta) - The NRA is an accessory to crimes against humanity within the United States itself. The New York Times, in an editorial two days after the Colorado movie theater murders, said, in part,

“Politicians are far too fearful of the gun lobby to address gun violence, and, as a society, we keep getting stuck on a theoretical debate about the Second Amendment..”

Knesset Bill Would Deny Migrants Right to Appeal Deportation

Interior Ministry: Migrants who are denied residency would be forced to leave country before appealing the government's decision to deport them.

(TEL AVIV Ha'aretz) - Migrants who are denied residency in Israel would be forced to leave the country before appealing the government's decision to deport them, according to an Interior Ministry-sponsored bill put out yesterday.

In an explanatory note, the ministry acknowledged it was seeking to reduce the number of appeals.