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Absurdity Today!: Guess where we FOUND JP Morgan Chase's LOST BILLIONS?!

Comedian and Professor Julianna Forlano hits the headlines! Progressive Satire for... more

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It’s Time to Stop the Crackdown on Medical Marijuana Clinics

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In my humble opinion! Prohibition has been a dismal failure

The so-called war on drugs is a sham. It has cost billions of dollars and thousands of... more

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DEA Arrests, Forgets College Student for Five Days

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College Student Daniel Chong Attempted Suicide After DEA Agents Locked Him in a Small Cell Without Food or Water for Five Days

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Every hour a Baby is born an Addict

"About one baby is born every hour addicted to opiate drugs in the United States,... more

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Obama: End Drugwar; Surrender to Reality - Its Failed and Ron Paul is right

Barack Obama on the failure of the war on drugs. A discussion with NYT Charles M Blow... more

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Obama: Legalizing drugs not the answer to trafficking in illegal narcotics in the Americas

CARTAGENA, Colombia — President Barack Obama says legalizing drug use is not the... more

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Left VS Right - The Distraction

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Standing Up for Peace

Monday 19 March 2012
by: Jim Hightower, OtherWords | Op-Ed

Keene, New Hampshire has no crime that would warrant rolling out a tank.

During a recent city council meeting, the mayor of Keene, New Hampshire leaned over to a council member and whispered excitedly: "We're going to have our own tank."

Yes, the tank (or, more specifically, the "armored personnel vehicle") is the latest must-have toy for mayors and police departments. Even in this picture-perfect and tranquil New England town of about 23,000 residents, officials hurl common sense to the wind at the very thought of having such a cool ride parked in front of town hall. Maybe they'll even get to drive it in the next 4th of July parade! Never mind that Keene has no crime that would warrant rolling out a tank.

Nonetheless, thanks to such richly funded boondoggles as the "war on drugs" and the "war on terrorism," the federal government is throwing money at cities and states to militarize their various police forces. Thus, Keene was granted $285,000 by the Department of Homeland Security to buy its very own "Bearcat," an eight-ton combat vehicle.

Of course, corporations that peddle such pricey hardware testily insist that Keene needs a tank. A sales executive for Lenco Industries, which makes the Bearcat, snapped to an inquiring reporter: "I don't think there's any place in the country where you can say, 'That isn't a likely terrorist target.' Wouldn't you rather be prepared?"

The sensible people of Keene, however, aren't swallowing the fearmonger pill, and they've forced the town council to reconsider. Local businesswomen Dorrie O'Meara says she hasn't met a single person who's in favor of having "this militaristic thing in Keene." She calls the tank "completely unnecessary. But it's more than that," she adds. "It's just not who we are. It's about what kind of town we want to be."

Wherever you live, take heart in the Keene example. Reject the corporate nonsense and insist on being the town you want to be.

http://www.truth-out.org/standing-common-sense/1332163389Monday 19 March 2012 by: Jim Hightower, OtherWords | Op-Ed Keene, New Hampshire... more

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Mitch McConnell: Smoking Pot Leads to Death

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Hippie Health Digest

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War on drugs is a joke, Central American countries tired of it and moving towards legalization

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Super Frat: If the War Continues You Haven’t Lost It

Mistah Shit gets the latest update on the drug war.

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Marijuana generates billions of dollars in revenues each year for Mexican cartels.

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How Ron Paul Attracts the Young

Claire Thompson thinks the principal driver is disappointment with the political system:

Youth disillusionment with politics is nothing new. But for the generation that propelled Obama to victory, the hope-filled high of his campaign and election has had a particularly rough comedown. A Harvard Institute of Politics survey [PDF] found, in December of last year, that young Americans aged 18-29 believe, by a 4-to-1 ratio, that the country is headed in the wrong direction. That’s up from a 2-to-1 ratio in March 2011. As the blogosphere relentlessly warns, this increasingly bleak outlook could have consequences for Obama: The Harvard survey reported an 11-percent drop from late 2007 in the number of 18- to 24-year-old voters who said they’d “definitely” be voting in this election (61 percent to 50 percent). As if to fulfill the prophecy of their inaction, more young voters believe Obama will lose reelection than win (36 percent to 30 percent; 32 percent are not sure).

I don't agree. I think Paul's attraction is his obvious sincerity, his seeming so unlike the other opportunists surrounding him. But above all, I think it's his foreign policy. The post-9/11 generation has seen what war has achieved - virtually nothing but the death of a hundred thousand Iraqis, 5,000 Americans and tens of thousands of maimed and injured vets - and believe the wars were huge errors. They also rightly understand that the world has changed thanks to globalization of capitalism, and see the Cold War mentality of America policing the planet to be at least condescending, and at worst utterly counter-productive and unaffordable. They see their retirement savings disappearing to fuel neocon fantasies of permanent war.

Then there's the insane war on drugs. Paul is the only person, including the cowardly Obama, to take this issue on. The young know it's failed, and that it's racist, punitive and irrational.

That's why Paul does so well with the young. It's not the Fed. It's the war on Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on drugs.

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/02/how-paul-attracts-the-young.htmlClaire Thompson thinks the principal driver is disappointment with the political... more

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Ron Paul: Cut Spending Overseas! Don’t Punish Innocent People at Home

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12 Reasons Why SOPA is Worse Than You Think

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NYPD Threatens To Shut Down Times Square On New Year's Eve

Police in New York have announced a plan to block the city’s New Year’s Eve celebration, contending that its crowd control responsibilities in Times Square interfere with a more essential duty.

“The public forgets that New York is one of the world’s leading drug trafficking centers, creating an industry here worth billions of dollars,” a department spokesman said. “The NYPD provides the open playing field on which this industry can thrive.

“Due to recent staffing cuts, we no longer have the manpower to do that and baby sit an overflow of tourists in Times Square at the same time.”

Jack Clavic, president of the city’s police patrolmen’s union, agreed, pointing out that police corruption has become much more task intensive in recent years.

“Getting your cut of the drug money these days involves more than turning your back and keeping your mouth shut,” he said. “We’ve got to provide security for shipments, run errands for the big drug dealers, and still stage the occasional ‘bust’ for the news media.”

A spokesperson for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is spending the holidays in his Bermuda vacation complex, expressed outrage at the Police Department’s support of the drug trade.

“New York already has Wall Street,” the spokesperson said. “There is no need for a second racket. The mayor urges the NYPD to get off the drugs and get on the tourists. But none of that pepper spray crap, okay?

“And by the way, the Mayor also would like to remind the police commissioner that his envelope has yet to arrive this month.”

The NYPD, meanwhile, plans to take a page from the Occupy Wall Street movement and use its shutdown of Times Square as a publicity opportunity.

“The general public doesn’t realize that tons and tons of narcotics and hallucinogens smoothly pass through New York City and many of its residents every day,” he said. “That doesn’t happen without the assistance and cooperation of a dedicated police force.”

The NYPD’s Times Square protest will publicize that position with the new slogan: “At War With Drugs. At Peace With Corruption.”Police in New York have announced a plan to block the city’s New Year’s... more

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NYPD SETS OUT TO PROVE DRUG LAWS APPLY TO EVERYONE, BUT PROVES THEY JUST APPLY TO POOR PEOPLE

One year ago the NYPD carried out "Operation Ivy League", arresting some... more

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