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Pat Robertson: Pot should be legal like alcohol
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says marijuana should be legalized and treated like alcohol because the government’s war on drugs has failed. The outspoken evangelical Christian and host of “The 700 Club” on the Virginia Beach-based Christian Broadcasting Network he founded said the war on drugs is costing taxpayers billions of dollars. [...]
Arabs Are Beginning to Miss the Dictators “Freedom of speech, instead of growing, has died.”
Arabs Are Beginning to Miss the Dictators by Khaled Abu Toameh March 7, 2012 at 5:00 am Freedom of speech, instead of growing, has died. “We are not with this Spring of violence, war, destruction and killing.” — Patriarch Beshara al-Rai, head of Lebanon’s Maronite Church. On the first anniversary of the “Arab Spring,” many [...]
President Gül objects to foreign military intervention in Syria
Turkish President Abdullah Gül raised his objection to an outright military intervention by foreign powers in Syria, warning that such a move might easily be misconstrued. During a working visit to Tunisia on Thursday, he said, “Such an [outside] intervention, if it happens, could risk being exploited,” without further elaborating. Expressing his satisfaction with the [...]
Report Exposes Banks that Finance Nuclear Weapons
Don’t Bank on the Bomb is the first major global report on the financing of companies that manufacture, modernize and maintain nuclear weapons and their delivery vehicles. It identifies more than 300 banks, insurance companies, pension funds and asset managers from 30 countries that invest significantly in 20 major nuclear weapons producers. With the information [...]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at SDSU: Crony Capitalism is a Threat to Democracy
Warning about the “milestones of tyranny,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned over the weekend that crony capitalism can undermine democracy and lead corporations to see U.S. workers and the environment as mere commodities. Speaking at a “Forging a Sustainable Future” conference on Saturday at San Diego State University, Kennedy cited mining activities in West Virginia: [...]
Parent trigger: School tests California law that allows takeover via petition
Lyndsey Layton Washington Post March 6, 2012 ADELANTO, Calif. — The national battle over the best way to fix failing schools is ripping through this desert town like a sandstorm, tearing apart a community that is testing a radical new approach: the parent takeover. Parents here are trying to become the first in the country [...]
APPLES TO TWINKIES Comparing Federal Subsidies of Fresh Produce and Junk Food
America is facing an obesity epidemic – one that’s hitting children especially hard. Childhood obesity rates have tripled over the last three decades, with one in five kids aged 6 to 11 now obese. These increases in obesity rates will translate into kids who are at greater risk for heart disease and diabetes, undermining the [...]
In US, Prescription Drug Overdoses More Deadly Than Car Crashes
A government health agency says the United States is in the grip of an epidemic of prescription drug overdoses. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that more people die from such overdoses than from all illegal drugs combined. And accidental prescription drug deaths in the United States each year outnumber highway traffic fatalities. [...]
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