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Jackson Browne Adds Balance

If only people who think like Jackson Browne were in charge...

(SALEM) - Celebrities and entertainers often enter politics, as we all well know. Some do it for personal reasons, and others only ended up in the positions they hold because their lives are dedicated to humanity.

It overwhelms me to know that as bad as things they are, they would be much worse if it weren't for key people of notoriety with Jackson Browne at the head of the list.

Nitty-Gritty on Creative Coping

Nuggets of distilled wisdom can guide each of us to conquer our fears and be determined to ultimately prevail.

(SALEM) - It happens that last Sunday night I attended a mens rap group hosted at the Salem Hospital. Our group was quite small which allowed us to get to know one another in depth. Since I was the "new guy on the block", the others were game to probe my mind and engage me in serious discussion.

Some neat insights emerged, well worth sharing with you and your close friends. Here goes:

Safe Access: LA`s 2nd District Court of Appeals Affirms Legality of Storefront Dispensaries

"...imposing the Attorney General’s requirement would, it seems to us, contravene the intent of [state law] by limiting patients’ access to medical marijuana and leading to inconsistent applications of the law..." - court

(LOS ANGELES) - The California Court of Appeal issued a landmark published decision last week affirming the legality of storefront dispensaries.

The court rejects the argument that every member of a collective or cooperative must participate in the cultivation.

Violence Batters Former Mexican Showcase

Once considered a showcase of modern Mexican capitalism, Monterrey and its surrounding area have been sunk in violence during the past five years.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - A retired Mexican general took charge of security this week in the troubled Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon, even as violent incidents continued to bloody the landscape.

On Monday, February 27, four men were reported slain in two gangland-style incidents in the state capital of Monterrey.

Syrian Opponent Mamoun Al-Homsi`s Israel Connection

The Arab Digest had previously reported on Syrian Opposition member, Mamoun Al-Homsi, and his call for ethnic cleansing of minorities in Syria. Well, new questions emerge on his politics and suspicious ties with Israel.

(ROME) - Mamoun Al-Homsi is pictured above at the Prague Security Conference (NeoCon) with the Israeli-Italian right wing politician and hardline Zionist, Fiamma Nirenstein.

Nirenstein who is a neocon Zionist has spent much of her life in an illegal East Jerusalem Settlement called Gilo where she still maintains a home.

ALEC-Process Prime Tool for Assault as Corporate Dollars Drown Democracy

Sponsors, Supporters Playing Irrational Assassin-Role.

(SEASIDE, OR) - The major measure of ALEC-process damage to our democracy is its own success in isolating and assaulting the legislative role in every state.

This is achieved through the complex protocol for preparing and passing many proposals into new binding laws.

Journalist Colvin Killed Trying to Retrieve Shoes

Britain summoned Syria's ambassador to London on Wednesday to demand that Syrian authorities facilitate "immediate arrangements for the repatriation of the journalists' bodies,"

(BEIRUT NOW News) - American war correspondent Marie Colvin was killed while trying to retrieve her shoes so she could flee an army bombardment in the Syrian city of Homs, her employer The Sunday Times said.

Colvin and a group of other journalists had all followed the local custom of removing their footwear before entering a building in the besieged city which was being used as a rebel press center, it said.

Pakistan Frees US Embassy Employee After Bullets Found in Luggage

Is US Foreign Policy that hard to sell that their “diplomats” need weapons to persuade or enforce it?

(MELBOURNE) - The CIA has a multitude of Ray Davises on the books and in the closets, and as long as they are not caught with smoking guns in hand and dead Pakistanis at their feet, they are impervious to and immune from Law of any sort except their own.

Just what kind of “diplomacy” it is that the USA is engaging in which requires that US Diplomatic Officers, those who qualify for “Diplomatic Immunity,” to carry arms

Announcing the Guardianship Convention Against Torture Project

Determine if your guardianship situation qualifies under the terms of the Convention.

(PROGRESO, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico) - While in Geneva, Switzerland recently I met with a number of disability rights oriented groups.

It was suggested to me at that time that the guardianship victims bundle together our complaints and submit under the United Nations Convention Against Torture. The U.S. has both signed and ratified this international treaty and thus is bound to its conditions.

Asia Times- Russia Wises Up... Good News for Syria

Warmongers may be crying in their soup if Russia says, Нет - 'Nyet'.

(SALEM) - If present trends continue, Russia will bring a voice of reason to the countries rallying for military action against Syria.

That, according to a brand new article in Asia Times, which yanks the facade from the western version of the story, shining a light into the cracks and crevices hiding true motives of geo-positioning for war.