ABSOLUTELY HEARTBREAKING: THE HEARTLESS, SENSELESS WORK OF MY GOVERNMENT

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August 21, 2012 

Broken Anvil: Victims Fight for Justice After DEA Operation Leaves Four Dead in Honduras. 

Soldiers opened fire from U.S. government helicopters, killing four people, including two pregnant women

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The remote community of Ahuas, Honduras is located deep inside the country’s Miskitu coast, a tightly-woven indigenous community long forgotten by government help but also by crime. In contrast to the rest of the country, which boasts the highest murder rate per capita in the world, Ahuas is a peaceful place with deep family ties. But that changed in the early morning hours of May 11, when soldiers opened fire from U.S. government helicopters, killing four people, including two pregnant women, a child and a young father. Now Ahuas and the Moskitia have become ground zero in the Drug Enforcement Administration (D.E.A.)’s Operation Anvil and the broader U.S. war on drugs—changing the lives of the gente del Rio—River People—forever. Produced by Kaelyn Forde and Craig Stubing.

IF YOUR BUSINESS SHOULD BE RUNNING PRIVATE PRISONS, YOU HAVE NO SCRUPLES, AND YOUR COUNTRY CHOOSES TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY, YOU'D BE FEEDING GRADE SCHOOL CHILDREN HEROIN. PERSONALLY, I WOULD FIND THIS TOTALLY APPALLING WHEN AND WHEREVER IT IS DONE, BUT I AM REALLY REALLY PISSED TO FIND THAT IT IS *MY* GRADE SCHOOL THAT RECENTLY MADE THE EVENING NEWS. SEE ME CIRCLED BELOW IN OUR 5TH GRADE CLASS PICTURE ON THE FRONT STEPS OF TURNER SCHOOL:

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Opium Wonderland Afghan Style

Uploaded by PigMine3 on Jul 11, 2010

SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND MEXICO LEANING TOWARD BAILING OUT OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES AND ADMITTING CUBA, THUS LEAVING OUT THE U.S. AND CANADA. OBAMA'S RECENT REMARKS AT THE SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS WILL LIKELY HARDEN THEIR INTENTIONS TO DO SO.

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April 17, 2012

US Isolated at Summit of Americas

Alex Main: From Cuba to the war on drugs, only Canada supports US policy



Bio

In his work at CEPR, Alexander Main focuses on U.S. foreign policy in Latin America and the Caribbean and regularly engages with U.S. policy makers and civil society groups to inform the public debate. He is frequently interviewed by media in the U.S. and Latin American and his analyses on U.S. policy in the Americas have been published in a variety of domestic and international media outlets including Foreign Policy, NACLA and the Monde diplomatique. Prior to CEPR, Alexander spent more than six years in Latin America working as an international relations analyst. He has a degree in history and political science from the Sorbonne University in Paris, France.

INSANE ILLEGALIZATION OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

Blogger's Note. Back in February, I was one of 175 concerned friends of Bernie Ellis to write to President Obama a letter supporting Bernie's request for a pardon of his "crime" of growing about 100 cannabis plants for his own use and to treat four terminally ill neighbors. He is presently free after serving a sentence of two years in a halfway house, but despite being one of the top epidemiologists in the the state of Tennessee, he can no no longer work in this field due to his felony conviction. Consequently, he has lost over $1 million in lost income, legal fees, and the confiscation of part of his farm ...while those in need of an epidemiologist are denied the services of one of the best. Enough said!

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Rense & Dr Chris Fichtner - Time To Put Marijuana In Every Home

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Uploaded by JRense on May 16, 2011

Bio

Dr Christopher Fichtner MD is a psychiatrist and the former mental health director for the state of Illinois. In his new book, Cannabinomics: The Marijuana Policy Tipping Point www.cannabinomics.com, Fichtner predicts that marijuana policy is about to change radically.
Dr Fichtner points out three public policy trajectories converging; The medical marijuana movement is gaining momentum. People are increasingly waking up to the fact that drug prohibition creates more public health problems than it solves. And, in the same way that the Great Depression caused people to reprioritize how we spend our public dollars, the current economic crisis has got people thinking that bringing the biggest cash crop in the US back into the open might not be such a bad idea.

Scared to visit Mexico by all the horror stories the U.S. "mainstream media" constantly blitzes you with? Well, listen to this interview with former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castan&eda on the drug war, legalization, immigration, and free trade