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Seattleites aren't going to pot — or jail — since voters passed I-75, the initiative that made marijuana the city's lowest law-enforcement priority. The number of people prosecuted for pot possession has plummeted, and despite predictions of naysayers, there is no evidence of widespread public pot consumption as a result of the measure, which voters approved last year. To Dominic Holden, spokesman for the I-75 campaign, that means Hempfest this weekend will likely be more fragrant than last year, as attendees at the annual pro-pot event will have yet another reason to whoop it up — and light up. Approved...

E-mail Author Send to a Friend <% printurl = Request.ServerVariables("URL")%> Print Version August 09, 2004, 8:32 a.m. When in Rome...Doubts & the benefit of the doubt in war. By Lee A. Casey & David B. Rivkin Jr. The stories now surfacing about Senator John Kerry's service in Vietnam show, far better than any hypotheticals lawyers could contrive, why the United States should never join the Rome Treaty of the International Criminal Court, subjecting itself to that institution's authority to punish violations of the laws of war. Did John Kerry commit "war crimes" in Southeast Asia? It all depends on...

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CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Police will conduct an internal investigation into a raid at a home that was searched for marijuana because of a high electricity bill. No drugs were found. Police Chief Thomas Zoll said Tuesday the department will review procedures that led to the March 19 to ensure similar incidents don't occur again. Officers raided the home of Dina Dagy and her family because records indicated the family used three times more electricity than their neighbors. Dagy attributed her high power bill to her three children, four ceiling fans, three computers, two to three daily loads of laundry and...

Mr. Kerry, if elected what will be your stance on the war on terrorism?I SURRENDER!

Superbug 'carried by pets' Health officials say the hospital superbug MRSA is now being carried by pets in Britain. The deadly bacteria has been discovered in a dozen animals from across the country, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has confirmed. The development could make it harder to limit the spread of MRSA, which kills around 5,000 patients a year. However, vets urged owners not to ditch their pets following the discovery. It is carried harmlessly by one in three people but can prove fatal in babies, the elderly, those recovering from surgery or with a weakened immune system. The Observer...

Coalition Educates on PSM While PSM Obfuscates By Andrew L. Jaffee, November 7, 2003 Home   Search   Forum   Terms A broad coalition of conscientious, peace-loving individuals and organizations has done great work in exposing the Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM) and International Solidarity Movements (ISM) for what they are: racist, hateful terrorism supporters and enablers. Yesterday, Representative Dixie Allen (Democrat - Dayton), Rabbi Hillel Fox of Congregation Beth Jacob, Dayton, and myself, publisher of netWMD.com, LLC, held a press conference at Ohio's State House at 4 PM, trying to draw public attention to the PSM conference at OSU. We then presented a petition with...

Anti-Semitism in Solidarity Movement Conference at Ohio State By Diana Appelbaum, Guest Columnist, October 27, 2003 Home   Search   Forum   Terms A plan to eliminate a population of five million Jews, by murdering some and, presumably, so terrifying the rest that they flee in fear of their lives, is properly called anti-Semitic.   But what if a Jew proposes such a plan?  And not an apostate Jew.  What if a professing Jew proposes such a plan?  Is it still anti-Semitic?   This is neither an historical nor a hypothetical question.    The International Solidarity Movement, its American, student affiliate the Palestinian Solidarity Movement,...

Please read text below and TAKE ACTION: Take direct action opposing the conference (http://netwmd.com/anti-ism/). Ohio residents: sign petition opposing the conference (http://www.petitiononline.com/amcha803/petition.html). OSU alumni: sign petition opposing the conference (http://www.petitiononline.com/stopISM/petition.html). Download and distribute press release providing extensive info on opposing the conference (http://netwmd.com/anti-ism/press/netWMD_PressRelease.doc). View press coverage regarding conference (http://netwmd.com/anti-ism/press/). This November 7th - 9th, OSU will permit a conference to be held by the Palestinian Solidarity Movement (PSM), the American student arm of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). PSM/ISM claims to be a peace activist organization in support of the Palestinian people, but it has a record of voicing hate-speech,...

Status Update: Opposing Terror Supporters' Meeting at OSU By Andrew L. Jaffee, October 21, 2003 Home   Search   Forum   Terms The coalition working to oppose the Palestinian Solidarity Movement's (PSM) November 7th - 9th planned conference at Ohio State University (OSU) has made some great strides. Approximately 9,200 emails have been sent to OSU and Ohio officials voicing opposition to the conference. Over 1,000 OSU alumni have signed a petition asking the university to cancel the conference. Over 10,000 Ohio residents have signed a petition asking the Ohio Governor Taft to cancel the conference.Our efforts have led many newspapers to cover the planned...

Contents IntroductionWhat is the PSM/ISM?ISM Rewriting History ACT NOW! Automatically send emails opposing the conference (APPROX 5340 EMAILS SENT TO DATE!)Ohio residents: sign the petitionOSU alumni: sign the petitionSee responses from Ohio officials NOTE: All references/links/articles documenting ISM/PSM activities have been permanently archived by netWMD. Copies available on request. IntroductionThe Palestinian Solidarity Movement (PSM), the American, student arm of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), will hold its three-day National Conference at The Ohio State University this November 7th through the 9th. This group was denied by Rutgers University to hold the same conference on its campus. It is the...

Please Oppose the International Solidarity Movement's Planned Conference at Ohio State University Home   Search   Forum   Terms Contents IntroductionWhat is the ISM?ISM Rewriting History ACT NOW! Automatically send emails opposing the conferenceOhio residents: sign the petitionOSU alumni: sign the petition IntroductionThe International Solidarity Movement (ISM), will hold a three-day conference at The Ohio State University this November 7th through the 9th. This group was denied by Rutgers University to hold the same conference on its campus. It is the objective of War To Mobilize Democracy (netWMD) that this conference also not take place on The Ohio State University campus because ISM is an...

SAN DIEGO (Sept. 5) - A 14-year-old boy jogging with his high school cross-country team was shot and killed in an ambush by his father, who later killed himself after a standoff with police, authorities said. The shooter stepped out from behind a parked van Thursday afternoon to fire the first several shots at the boy, then reloaded his pistol and fired again as pedestrians and the running team fled, witnesses and police said. No one else was injured, but the gunman, identified by police as the boy's father, fled by car into a home about a mile away where...

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Three Indianapolis children were forced to drink vinegar, eat peppers and take cold showers as a form of discipline, sheriff's deputies said. Marion County sheriff's deputies found the malnourished children ages 10, 8 and 6 with rashes Sunday after a neighbor reported "banging and howling" from the apartment. Deputies said one boy told them that he had been kept in the bathtub all day. Police said the mother and two other women gave the children acid-reducing gum to offset the effects of the vinegar and peppers. Mary Corrigan, 33, and her friends, Edee Mowrer, 36,...

<p>Sacramento federal prosecutors lied and misled three judges to conceal dealings between the U.S. attorney's office and a Placer County narcotics detective, a defense attorney alleges in a sealed court document. The charge arises in a marijuana case against a former Rio Linda couple and grew out of attorney William Panzer's four-year quest for information about a federal grand jury subpoena.</p>

Looking for Signposts on the Roadmap to Peace By Andrew L. Jaffee, August 10, 2003 Home   Search   Forum   Terms Hamas supporters are upset because Israelis are defending themselves. The Associated Press (AP) reported today that: Clamoring for revenge, thousands of Hamas supporters Saturday buried two militants killed in an Israeli raid, and a senior Palestinian official urged the United States to intervene to prevent the unraveling of a six-week-old truce. The militants and an Israeli soldier were killed Friday when troops raided a bomb lab in a West Bank refugee camp, sparking a gunbattle. A Palestinian stone-thrower also was killed by troops....

There's a crime being committed in America. It's not murder -- although one murder is committed every 33.9 minutes, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report. It's not rape -- although one forcible rape occurs every 5.8 minutes. It's not robbery -- although one robbery is perpetrated every 1.3 minutes. No, the real crime is that so many of those murderers, rapists, and robbers get away with their crimes. According to FBI figures for 2001, only 62.4% of murders were "cleared" -- that is, a suspect was arrested and charged with the crime. Only 44.3% of rapes were cleared. And...

How man jailed by a tyrant repaid him - by leading US troops to his sons and earning a $30m bounty By David Usborne 24 July 2003 Only two things seemed clear yesterday. The American military confirmed that they had in their custody an Iraqi man who had tipped them off to the presence of Saddam Hussein's sons in the mansion of Nawaf al-Zaydan. And Mr Zaydan was nowhere to be seen. The raid on Tuesday that ended with the killing of Uday and Qusay and two others wrecked the imposing villa, fronted by ornate columns. Mr Zaydan has lost...

Nation-building begins at home. Earlier this month, a reporter for The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C., asked students from two local elementary schools why we celebrate the Fourth of July. Kids from one school said what you would expect kids to say. Fireworks, food and lots of fun figured prominently in the answers. But kids from the other school – Nursery Road Elementary – had a very different take on the holiday. Fireworks were barely mentioned. Instead, every single response included the words “freedom” or “independence” – and sometimes both. My personal favorite (from fifth-grader Vante Lee): “We celebrate the...

Editor's note: This week marks the seventh anniversary of the downing of TWA Flight 800. Author Jack Cashill, whose book with James Sanders, "First Strike," presents a compelling case for terrorist involvement in the tragedy, today presents an index of facts surrounding the event and its aftermath. © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com 7 Come July 17, the number of years this crime has gone unsolved. 270 The number of eyewitnesses that the FBI admitted saw what appeared to be ascending streaks of light. 34 The number of eyewitnesses interviewed by analysts from the Defense Intelligence Agency's Missile and Space Intelligence Center whose...