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Oregon: Vote Ellen Rosenblum - Candidate to Become Oregon`s First Female Attorney General

"The Attorney General is the people's lawyer, and I have the depth and the range of experience to be a strong advocate for the people of Oregon." Ellen Rosenblum

(PORTLAND, OR Hemp News) - The race for Attorney General between Ellen Rosenblum and Dwight Holton is crucial to the future of cannabis legalization initiatives.

Rosenblum supports the state medical marijuana law as one that "provides vulnerable citizens with the medicine they needed to cope with their diagnoses."

Lies Taking us to War

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. --Mark Twain

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - A January 12th headline in the Wall Street Journal: "Humanitarian gestures and covert actions won't stop Iran's bomb."

They lie and they know it! Show them the wisdom of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: "The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted."

Time to Grow for it- Homegrown on Your Own

Plan it properly, and you can enjoy a healthy, homegrown harvest from the fruits of your labor -- without having to spend hours tending it.

(FAIRFIELD, CT.) - Who would have thought getting dirt under your fingernails would ever be considered one of the hottest trends going?

According to Doug Jimerson, Garden Core Director for Better Homes and Gardens, “growing your own fruits, veggies and herbs is something Americans are doing in record numbers this season”.

Mother`s Wish to see Son Exonerated Not Granted Before her Death

Sandra Gayton, 57, stood by her son to the end, but Terrence Kimble's quest for justice continues.

(SALEM) - Oregon's renegade legal system tossed Terrence Kimble behind bars for a crime virtually impossible for him to have committed.

Terrence Kimble says he has been the focus of an ongoing retaliation effort by the Oregon Department of Corrections in the years following his support of a prison guard who filed a federal Whistleblower complaint over racism and civil rights violations.

US-NATO subversion in Syria

Saudi Arabia Is Arming Syrian "Opposition" As Twin Car Bombs Kill 27 In Damascus

(WASHINGTON DC) - Within hours of a twin car-bomb attack in the Syrian capital that left at least 27 dead and 100 injured, a senior Arab diplomatic source has confirmed that Saudi Arabia is arming anti-government factions.

It has been long suspected that Saudi Arabia and other pro-Western Gulf Arab states, including Qatar, are actively fueling the conflict in Syria over the past year.

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair, 1903-1950) was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century,

(Calgary, Alberta) - The title of his best known book, 1984, has become a cultural reference in itself, like catch-22.

Some of the terms from that book have become part of our language: Orwellian an attitude and policy of control by propaganda; newspeak a simplified and obfuscatory language designed to make independent thought impossible; doublethink holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously.

Mehran Baluch on Pakistan Occupied Baluchistan

More than 95 percent of people in Balochistan still use cow dung and wood to cook their food while Balochistan natural gas is supplied hundreds of miles away to the Punjab.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Addressing the UN Human Rights Council last year about severe human rights issues in Baluchistan, Mehran Baluch, the Baluch representative at the UNHRC, Baluch addressed struggle for liberation from Pakistan.

Baluch's communicated the need to promote and protect all Human Rights and Civil Civil Rights, addressing key issues involving political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right of development.

Mr. Ego Meets Elusive Truth

Belief can be an illusion on the road to confusion.

(SALEM) - Forsooth, what is meant by truth? This was the focus of a lively discussion held recently by a group of armchair philosophers here at Salem's Ike Box Coffeehouse.
It bears repetition to our general public.

We determined that many people are inclined to blindly use the term "truth" in order to try to authenticate what merely are subjective opinions.

Syria: When Playgrounds Turn into Graveyards

A Human life is not a matter of debate or compromises. In my country Syria, time is blood.

(VICTORIA BC) - “Down with the regime and the opposition! Down with the Arabic and Islamic countries, down with United Nations! Down with the world, down with everything!” — a hopeless sign, just like this, lifts in the sky in one of Syrian’s endless protests.

Syrians know that they are alone; disappointed and bewildered, they feel traumatized and abandoned.

America Today

Between media, politics and religion, the place is getting hard to recognize...

(PASO ROBLES, CA) - In the state of Washington, a woman who lived in a million dollar mansion overlooking Lake Washington received welfare at the same time.

In Michigan a 24 year old woman who won a million dollars in a lottery continued to receive $200.00 a month in foods stamps because, she said, she had no job and had bills to pay; she owns two houses and drives a new car.