The government’s sorta-kinda-maybe logic
By David Harsanyi
05/12/2008

It could be argued that the most useless job in Washington, D.C., is held by John Walters, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. He’s otherwise known as the country’s Drug Czar.

And when you consider the spectacular number of useless jobs in Washington, that’s quite an accomplishment.

No one is saying, of course, that it’s easy being a figurehead of a cost-inefficient organization charged with implementing the biggest domestic policy disaster since Prohibition. After all, it means advocating that thousands of non-violent offenders be sent to prison — quite often after paramilitary raids have reeled them in.

Study: Smoking Pot Doesn’t Cause Cancer–It May Prevent It!
The Greatest Story Never Told
By FRED GARDNER

Smoking Cannabis Does Not Cause Cancer
Of Lung or Upper Airways, Tashkin Finds;
Data Suggest Possible Protective Effect

The story summarized by that headline ran in O’Shaughnessy’s (Autumn 2005), CounterPunch, and the Anderson Valley Advertiser. Did we win Pulitzers, dude? No, the story was ignored or buried by the corporate media. It didn’t even make the “Project Censored” list of under-reported stories for 2005. “We were even censored by Project Censored,” said Tod Mikuriya, who liked his shot of wry.

Wannabe “Virus” Prince Philip Attacks Big Families
Nazi collaborator and racist advocate of mass genocide argues for global Chinese-style one child policy

Paul Joseph Watson & Steve Watson
Prison Planet
Monday, May 12, 2008
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Nazi collaborator and racist advocate of mass genocide Prince Philip, a man who has often expressed his desire to return to the earth as a “deadly virus” to thin the human population, says that there are too many people in the world as he attacked large families in a television interview set to air this week.

cloud causes panic in Kano
Written by Jaafar Jaafar, Kano
Saturday, 10 May 2008

Mixed feelings of surprise and confusion yesterday pervaded Kano metropolis as people gathered to peek at uneven strands of cloud that appeared in the sky, forming a strong likeness of the name of Allah and Prophet Muhammad in Arabic.

Kano metropolis was agog with bewilderment since Thursday last week as people gathered to catch the sight of the cloud formation, which according to the bewildered lot, formed the name of Allah and his Messenger, Muhammad (PBUH).

Europeans get drunk ‘to have sex’

Young adults in Europe deliberately binge on drink and drugs to improve their sex lives, research suggests.

The UK has one of the worst reputations for binge drinking and underage sex but there are striking similarities between countries, a study found.

A third of 16 to 35-year-old men and 23% of women questioned said they drank to increase their chance of sex.

The study - of 1,341 young people in nine countries including the UK - is published in BMC Public Health.

Riding Kenya’s aborted revolution

Written by Owei Lakemfa

Friday, 09 May 2008

A new Kenyan government is now in place. In spite of its unwieldy composition of 42 ministers and numerous assistant ministers, it is a welcome relief.

It had taken an inconclusive general election, 1,500 lives and 300,000 internally displaced people to get to this shaky stage.

Kenya had erupted like a latent volcano with the lava of anger and hate sprouting into the air and flowing freely in the streets.

The Black (First) Europeans: African Slavs, African Celts

Compiled and Edited by Ogu Eji Ofo Annu

April 14, 2008

Reconstructing the phylogeny of African
mitochondrial DNA lineages in Slavs

Kushites of Sumer and Akkad

By

Clyde Winters Ph.D

Controversy surrounding the Kushite/African/Black origins of the Elamites, Sumerians, Akkadians and “Assyrians” is simple and yet complicated. It involves both the racism exhibited toward the African slaves in the Western Hemisphere and Africans generally which led to the idea that Africans had no history ; and the need of Julius Oppert to make Semites white, to accommodate the “white” ancestry of European Jews.

Miracle of the Sun In Addis Abebe Ethiopia : Ring of Red Gold and Green around the Sun

By Jide Uwechia
Tuesday April 15 2008

According to newsreports, a halo of red gold and green colours hanging around the sun startled people in Ethiopia on April 13, 2008, with many seeing it as a miracle or a sign from God.

According to scientists, this unheard of ring of red, gold and green light was supposedly caused by sunlight refracted by ice crystals. It hung in the sky around the sun for almost an hour before it finally faded and disappeared.

Alicia Keys raps “Gun-sta” Rap - by The Lion!

Alicia Keys reportedly claimed that ‘gangsta rap’ was created and nutured by the Elites powers which control the music and entertainment industry to destroy the black community.

She’s quoted as telling Blender magazine recently: “‘Gangsta rap’ was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. ‘Gangsta rap’ didn’t exist.”

She is probably right! Rap and hip-hop began as off shoot of Black cultural empowerment movements that emphasized self respect, self determination, and self empowerment. Its link with Rastafarian’s reagge music is well known. Reggea originally was a musical genre associated with Pan-Africanist Rastafarians. It remains an inspiration to all lovers of freedom and truth the world over.