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Fascinating Facts from Jack Herer: Hemp History Week 2010

Jack Herer Discovers Hemp for Victory.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Things about hemp that were not taught to Jack in school, he tried to teach others. He was a steward of the plant and devoted his life to the support of cannabis as he believed it was the greatest gift the world has ever known.

Hemp for Victory was a 1942 documentary produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to encourage farmers to grow outlawed industrial hemp for the war effort as a way to stabilize America during World War II.

Israelis asked to Visit Passport Plant Here Before Dubai Killing

Three fraudulent Australian passports, four French, 12 British, one German and eight Irish passports were used in the killing.

(DUBLIN) - ISRAELI officials asked to inspect the Dublin plant where security-enhanced passports are made — just a month before a Middle East assassination by agents using forged Irish documents.

A serious diplomatic incident was looming last night after a top-level report concluded that an Israeli intelligence agency forged the Irish passports used in the murder of a Hamas operative in Dubai in January.

A Strategy of Liberation Requires Emancipation

The case for “Palestinian voice”
A critique through the eyes of an exiled Palestinian

(LONDON) - After almost one century of Zionist terrorism in Palestine, the world is gradually waking up to this racist and destructive ideology.

Salem-News.com Launches Fundraiser

Please take a moment to learn why helping us is a worthwhile idea.

(SALEM, Ore.) - It became clear over time that we have a real ability to help people, further otherwise ignored causes, and to get the word out about important developments in the nation, and throughout the world. There are people who tell us our stories totally changed their lives. They are Veterans, Domestic Abuse survivors, victims of injustice, sick people.

We have needs of many types and it seems that communicating them is stage one. We do not have big expenses, this should be something we can maintain. There is a great deal on the line, you could say.

FOX News: Racism 101 and John Stossel

FOX's Stossel has arguably gone beyond Beck, echoing segregationist arguments from the Jim Crow era; it's time for him to go.

(NEW YORK) - Last Wednesday, Rand Paul, the GOP’s US Senate candidate for Kentucky repeated his claim that a central piece of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was wrong, and that businesses should be free to discriminate against whomever they please[1].

Paul and his supporters don’t seem to care that without federal intervention, Black people might still be second-class citizens in many aspects of American life: where we eat, where we work, even where we live.

Arrests and Injuries at Al-Ma`sara

Politicians like Hilary Clinton bark that there will be 'more consequences for Iran and North Korea' - yet no consequences for the rogue state of Israel for countless violations of International law.

(AL-MA'SARA, Palestine) - In the news today, scientists were able for the first time to use genetic engineering to create a living organism, engineering genetic material using computers and chemically synthesized DNA. This is an amazing breakthrough.

But here in Palestine, the death and destruction machine is still in high gear.

Introducing the Heritage of Khayyam

The late American novelist Kurt Vonnegut refers to Khayyam's "moving finger writes" quatrain in his novel "Breakfast of Champions" when the protagonist Dwayne Hoover reveals that he had been forced to memorize it in high school.

(TEHRAN) - May 18 is dedicated to the commemoration of Omar Khayyam in the Iranian solar calendar; the calendar which Khayyam has invented himself.

To the Western world which has always been enchanted by the magnificence and glory of oriental culture, Omar Khayyam is a venerable and honored figure who brings to mind the delicacy and gracefulness of ancient Persian civilization.

The Karzai Rebirth

Tribal leaders see maturity & change in Karzai; though US drug policy, spending and corruption still major failures.

(KABUL / CINCINNATI) - “Gordon, Karzai finally quit smoking.” This was the call from Kabul last night, a city filled with journalists, intelligence analysts and the “best and brightest” of our government; military and civilian.

“Gordon, the man has changed, it may be too late, but he is reaching out to the Pashtuns, and sounding like someone worthy of trust, not like the Karzai we have known for so many years.”

Africa: Faces in Words

New weekly update on the breaking stories in the African nations.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Unseen, unheard; no one should be the bearer of these two words. Unfortunately, Africa is often in the forefront of this association.

Our common humanity should change this; we should never look away because it is too distant.

South Sudan`s Revolving Nightmare

Mounting problems need to be addressed.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - According to Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, the number of Sudanese displaced has reached 4.9 Million.

Yet, the US government watches in silence as Al-Bashir’s inauguration is scheduled for May 27, 2010.