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Not Advertising as Usual

Empowered Energy Solutions Enters San Diego Ad Club “Addy” Competition with “Climate Change: Not Business as Usual” Campaign

(SOLANA, BEACH, Calif.) - On a January day with temperatures pushing into the 80's in San Diego County, a white van circles the block in San Diego’s Hillcrest district for a last minute drop-off of creative “boards,” panels displaying images of websites and short films.

Our destination: The San Diego Ad Club. This is an entry for the Addy Awards. I'm getting a creepy feeling as I'm driving--as I get closer to the deadline and as the temperatures keep rising on a hot afternoon.

Florida: The Silver Tour To Bring Awareness About Medical Cannabis

"We have a lot of seniors in our community and people with terminal illnesses that truly believe they derive relief from medical marijuana," - State Rep. Jeff Clemens, D-Lake Worth

(BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.) - Many proponents of the global cannabis movement believe legendary pitchman and author of The Black Tuna Diaries, Robert Platshorn, holds the key to cannabis legalization in the United States.

Platshorn has shown he can sway senior audiences to support medical cannabis.

Death Squads in America?

The soil for death squads to form and operate within the United States is fertile and very real.

(Calgary, Alberta) - Anyone who has followed events outside the U.S. over the last few decades has heard of the death squads.

They have been active as extrajudicial killing forces in countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Peru, Venezuela, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and others elsewhere in the world.

`Israeli Mossad agents posed as CIA spies to recruit terrorists to fight against Iran`

The U.S. was reportedly furious with Israel and moved to limit joint intelligence programs.

(TEL AVIV Ha'aretz) - Israeli Mossad agents posed as CIA officers in order to recruit members of a Pakistani terror group to carry out assassinations and attacks against the regime in Iran, Foreign Policy revealed on Friday, quoting U.S. intelligence memos.

Foreign Policy's Mark Perry reported that the Mossad operation was carried out in 2007-2008, behind the back of the U.S. government, and infuriated then U.S. President George W. Bush.

Restiamo Umani- Stay Human

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.

(BETHLEHEM) - Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. once stated: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter."

It does matter that a mother died this week who has not seen her two sons for years (one for 9 and the other 18 years) because they are in Israeli jails and the jailers refused family visits.

Roy Bard: Glad not to be... in the PSC

Cohen's angle is that as the victim of anti-semitism, Jews should be able to decide what anti-semitism is, -and that that decision should not be challenged.

(LONDON) - Dr. Elias Akleh is a Palestinian. In 1948 and again in 1967 his family were displaced, and like millions of other Palestinians, he now finds himself living outside of his homeland.

It is perhaps fortunate that he did not move to the UK and join the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, because after their AGM on Saturday, he would most likely by now be facing moves to expel him from the same campaign that seeks to liberate him.

Changes in DSM-5 Autism Definition Could Negatively Impact Millions

"The autism community strongly recommends that the proposed DSM-5 autism spectrum disorder diagnostic criteria be revisited with these concerns in mind," - Sallie Bernard, President of SafeMinds

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Proposed changes to the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorders in the will potentially disrupt appropriate and necessary services to hundreds of thousands of individuals in the US.

Advocates believe the changes would hamper the ability to track the numbers of people with autism, and interfere with efforts to establish biological causes of autism.

Jewish Imperial News

On Saturday the Islamophobic blog Harry’s Place and the Zionist mouthpiece Jewish Chronicle completed their takeover of UK Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC).

(LONDON) - This last weekend brought with it some vile manifestations of Jewish politics in its most horrific forms.

In the USA, the owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu should consider ordering a Mossad hit team to assassinate U.S. President Barack Obama so that his successor will defend Israel against Iran.

On Its First Anniversary: Egypt Revolution Continues

“The revolutionary public opinion and demands that were created in Tahrir square needed to be politically purused by revolutionary cadres and leadership.”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - "Mubarak is neither a tyrant nor a bloodthirsty man...

"He is a clean man, who could say no wrong. Mubarak has seriously and faithfully worked to the best of his abilities and energy for Egypt and its people and lived a life burdened by his nation’s problems” Said Fareed El-Deeb, Mubarak’s lawyer at a hearing just days prior to the first anniversary of the Egyptian revolution...”

Circumcision: Incest and the GAIA COMPLEX as the Opposite Side of the Oedipal Coin

The origin of neuroses is to be found in trauma occurred in childhood- Freud

(MONTEREY, Calif.) - Freud was his own first patient. He may have been conditioned from Maternal Emotional Incest. The condition lies in the mother and from experience transferred into the child’s psyche.

Freud’s mother’s condition may be termed the Gaia Complex. Gaia was the pre-Olympiad Great Mother Earth goddess. Gaia created Uranus by herself. Uranus became her son/mate and they begat Titans.