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The War On Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues
2008-08-24 22:39:00 The major label debut from The War On Drugs is a full bodied and healthy dose of nostalgia and longing that is usually reserved for country singers. The Philadelphia quintet, led by guitarist/vocalist Adam Granduciel, sounds more at home playing in a small bar surrounded by pasture and rolling hills than the city that Rocky ...
Bob Barr on the war on Drugs
2008-06-10 16:34:00 This is on the www.Huffingtonpost.comBob Barr I Was Wrong About The War On Drugs -- It's A Failure. I'll admit it, just five years ago I was "Public Enemy Number 1" in the eyes of the Libertarian Party. In my 2002 congressional race for Georgia's Seventh District, the Libertarian Party ran scathing attack ads against my stand on Medical Marijuana. Today, I am their presidential nominee and will represent libertarians at the top of the ticket on November 4th. Huh? That's right, Bob Barr, formerly the War on Drugs loving, Wiccan mocking, Clinton impeaching Republican is the presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party. Now, you may be asking how this happened and my answer is simple: "The libertarians won." For more than three decades, the Libertarian Party and small "l" libertarians have done their part to prove to America that liberty is the answer to most of the problems that we face today. Over the past several years, I was one of the many p...
The War on Drugs Has Failed - Should America Legalize Drugs?
2008-06-10 11:48:00 The war on drugs has failed;We must make peace, heal our wounds, and change our laws. Richard Burton,Chair, NAACP Prisoner Rights Sub-committee In 2005, International Activist Cliff Thornton invited me as Chairman of the NAACP Prisoner Rights Sub-committee, to participate in a drug conference in Hartford, Conn and after several years of research as it relates to drugs and its side effects, I offer these thoughts.The drug war can't be won, and we have lost. We merely repeat the mistake of Prohibition. The harder we try to stop this evil, the more lucrative we make it, and the more it spread. The war on drugs cannot be eradicated by making it more profitable and at the same time creating more jails/prisons, disparities, casualties and tax burdens. This view is shared by activists like Jack Cole a conference participant, a retired police lieutenant who worked on the front lines of the war on drugs, and who feels that prohibition causes more damage than the drugs themselves do.Accordin...
What The "War On Drugs" Hath Wrought. . . .
2008-04-30 15:56:00 The United States leads the world in imprisoning its people. We have 2.3 million people behind bars. China?s population quadruples ours yet they have merely 1.6 million in jail. Granted in China they probably off more people then we want to know. The United States has 738 people in jail for every 1000 people. Our closest competitor is Russia with 611. The global average is 125. The... Click the Headline Link to Visit Copious Dissent and Read the Full Story.
The War on Drugs - Barrel of Batteries EP (download gratis)
2008-04-07 19:23:00 I War on Drugs sono una band folk rock emergente, di Philadelphia. Da poco hanno firmato un contratto con l'etichetta Secretly Canadian, per la quale uscirà tra qualche mese il loro album d'esordio, "Wagonwheel Blues". Ma in attesa di questa uscita i War on Drugs ci deliziano con un eccezionale EP, "Barrel of Batteries", offerto gratuitamente. In tutto sono 6 brani, anche se, in realtà, tre sono vere e proprie canzoni mentre le restanti sono delle brevi registrazioni (meno di un minuto). La mia preferita è "Arms Like Boulders", un piccolo capolavoro. Ha un ritmo coinvolgente e una melodia splendida dettata sia dalle chitarre che dalla voce del cantante (ad un certo punto interviene anche l'armonica). E poi quel senso di malinconica felicità che tanto mi piace. Mi ha subito colpito. Perfetta per uno di quei viaggi in auto, in silenzio, con la sola compagnia della musica e la visione del meraviglioso paesaggio che si attraversa. Con la malinconia per quello che ci lasciamo alle spa...
By: nuovamusica
OCCRP reports on Eastern European/Eurasian organized crime
2008-03-21 19:03:00 (Photo courtesy of the OCCRP site) Eastern European/Eurasian organized groups seem to have their hands in a wide variety of organized criminal activity. They are often mentioned when referring to anything from auction fraud to payment (credit/debit) card skimming and computer crimes. eBay claims there are entire towns in Romania making a living via auction fraud on ...
Civil disobedience against the war on drugs
2008-03-08 00:00:00 The U.S. government has used the bogus war on drugs as an excuse to lock up millions of America's poor in for-profit prisons. The writers of the HBO show The Wire suggest a good old-fashioned American civil disobedience tactic to...
The war on drugs whack-a-mole: from just cocaine to cocaine and meth
2008-03-05 00:00:00 One of the many interesting points made in "How America Lost the War on Drugs" is that the so-called war on drugs is responsible for America's meth epidemic. To summarize: After the U.S. killed Pablo Escovar in 1993, [t]he remaining...
The War On Drugs: Street Level
2008-02-26 18:42:00 Watch this video at YouTube So how is the War on Drugs going these days? Is it going as awesomely well as the War on Terror? Probably. This video is a good look at what is really keeping the kids off the drugs these days; stay till the end, the punch line’s pretty good. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The War On Drugs: Street Level", url: "http://mint.theavclub.tv/feede-r/?FeederAction=clicked&fee-d=Articles+%28rss2%29&seed=-http%3A%2F%2Fblog.theavclub.tv%-2Fpost%2Fthe-war-on-drugs-stree-t-level&seed_title=The+War+-On+Drugs%3A+Street+Level" });
By: The AV Club Blog
Collateral damage in the War on Drugs.Most of us c...
2008-02-18 16:37:00 Collateral damage in the War on Drugs.Most of us couldn't get away with killing someone on the basis of a radio call and a wristwatch.
By: Daisy's Dead Air
Huge Anti FARC demonstration protests NarcoTerrorism
2008-02-05 04:15:00 According to the BBC, over a million people in Bogata protested FARC’s terrorist war against the Colombian people. On the streets of Bogota, the message was blunter. “No more Farc, we don’t want any more Farc, young people have to say no to the Farc and tell them to stop their violence,” student Jaime Martinez said. Former hostage ...
Facebook Versus FARC
2008-02-04 02:27:00 In Colombia, FARC continues to tease by again claiming they will release two hostages (out of 3000 civilian and military hostages, of which a couple hundred are high profile hostages). This is a game, of course, allowing nearby Venezuela President Chavez to bask in the limelight pretending he is Castro’s heir in promoting socialist utopias in ...
Cloned business and law enforcement vehicles used as a smuggling tool
2008-01-27 19:44:00 (Picture of “toy” Border Patrol vehicle courtesy of SpongeBob22 at Flickr) It appears that the criminals exploiting our notoriously “not very secure” Southern border have a new tool in their arsenal. Vehicles bearing fake logos of the Border Patrol, Fedex, DirecTV and everyone’s favorite source of outsourced goods, “Walmart” are being used to smuggle illicit merchandise and ...
The War on Drugs and on Terror the cure is the same. in Liberals Versus Con
2008-01-12 00:00:00 exton, 12/01/08 (16 Replies)
Dutch Drug Police Fight for Right to Smoke Pot
2008-01-03 11:57:00 New Code of Behavior Has Amsterdam Police Ready for Court “Has to be Scope for Soft Drugs” Dutch Cops Just Want to Have Fun Drug police in Amsterdam are going to fight for their right to party. The men in blue (or whatever color Dutch police wear) in Amsterdam, the largest city in the Netherlands, are up in ...
Will you be the next person arrested after a criminal borrows your identity
2007-12-31 16:38:00 With new Social Security verification laws on the horizon, up to 20 million illegal aliens are probably will have to come up with a legitimate identity in order to remain employed. Up until now, anyone has been able to make up a number and pass it off with false identification. DHS (Department of Homeland Security) was ...
DEA?s Deadly Decision
2007-12-28 15:34:00 DEA?s Deadly Decision As Prescription Drug Deaths Increase ? DEA Reduces Restrictions on Schedule II Drugs On Wednesday December 19th 2007, the DEA announced physicians? are now allowed to write a prescription for a 90 day supply of schedule II drugs. Schedule II drugs are controlled and classified as legal narcotic and stimulant drugs with high potential ...
Supreme Court: Judges Can Slash Crack Sentences
2007-12-10 18:57:00 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal judges have the discretion to give “reasonably” shorter prison terms for crack-cocaine crimes to reduce the disparity with crimes involving cocaine powder. The 7-2 ruling represents a victory for lawyers who argued that crack-cocaine offenders were unfairly targeted under U.S. sentencing guidelines. Current federal penalties for selling 5 grams ...
Christians Should Be Glad that America Has Lost the War on Drugs
2007-12-04 16:24:00 Everyone needs to read this article in Rolling Stone. A true masterpiece of journalism. Also a true shame, and testament to the decrepit state of our mainstream media, that other venues have not run similar exposes. It actually begins as a very common tale of tyranny. In order to get something done, government ...
Top 7 myths of the War on Drugs
2007-11-15 00:00:00 Foreign Policy breaks down the top 7 myths of the War on Drugs. Warning: This substance has been shown to make Republican bullshit seem even more ridiculous than it already is.
The War on Drugs
2007-10-26 10:02:00 The war on drugs and cartels used to be staples of nightly news and newspaper columns. Despite persistent drug abuse and trafficking, the status of the once touted War on Drugs goes largely unreported. Death and smuggling are exploding along the Texan border and America continues to help train and fund the Colombian army.
Ecuador Wants Military Base in Miami
2007-10-25 14:50:00 Ecuador wants a swap: the U.S. base at Manta, Ecuador for a base in Miami, Florida. Is Ecuador making a military or political point? Ecuador’s leftist President Rafael Correa said Washington must let him open a military base in Miami if the United States wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador’s Pacific coast. Correa has ...
Why Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might not want transparency in Iran?s financial dea
2007-10-16 16:57:00 Over the weekend, the press has been awash with a story that Iran is refusing to adhere with International money laundering standards. It appears Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his motley crew of religious extremists don’t want anyone looking at their money flow “too closely.” My guess is that it might reveal that some of the money is ...
Mayor of San Francisco disses the war on drugs
2007-10-05 23:46:00 Mayor Gavin Newsom, the youngest mayor in San Francisco in 100 years, has a fresh pair of eyes about crime. He's not afraid to speak out - we've got to respect that. At City Hall yesterday, he told reporters that the national war on drugs in the U.S. is a total failure. Thank you, the cat is out of the bag!
CSI: Bogata
2007-09-11 10:21:00 Here’s a case for the CSI. A group of nasty kidnappers/drug runners/leftist “insurgents” are under alot of pressure. Then they run into problems when they murder eleven VIP’s. Was it in cold blood, or was it to send a message to the government, or did someone hire a private army to rescue them, and they were murdered ...
Corruption in the Military
2007-09-07 03:36:00 Well if you haven't already heard about it several members of the armed forces are now among the unemployed for helping the enemy avoid detection. read more
By: Communati.com
Your Politician’s Solution to the War on Drugs
2007-07-23 01:30:00 This is your government addicted to the War on Drugs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TRPxN7DGy5c Any questions? NOTE: This ad courtesy was courtesy of the Drug Policy Alliance. My thanks to Radley Balko and Jacob Sullum for the link. Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-themoderatevoice/~3/136369839/-
Hundreds of thousands demonstrate against ?insurgents? in Colombia
2007-07-06 05:43:00 In Colombia, a nasty “insurgency” has been going on for 40 years, and has had thousands of casualties. Usually “elites” in the US press and universities see “peasant insurgencies” as the good guys, but few even in the left wing US press think good of FARC, a murderous group that not only kills judges and local ...
?Insurgents? execute eleven politicians and blame rescue attempt in Colombi
2007-06-30 05:20:00 No, not in Iraq…Colombia… The “insurgency” in Colombia has been going on since the 1950’s, and has killed over a hundred thousand people. The war predates Bush, predates Clinton, and even predates the war on drugs (although this hasn’t stopped commentators on all sides from using it to bash their favorite targets). It’s still alive for ...
Inaction as Methadone Toll Rises
2007-06-07 22:58:00 ?Methadone related deaths continue their upward trend in many areas across the Country. Currently Methadone is the #2 Killer Drug in the United States?, say HARMD, Inc. (Helping America Reduce Methadone Deaths). ?We’re most concerned that Methadone deaths in United States have risen 389.7% from 1999 to 2004, and that this epidemic is ongoing?, as heard from members ...
Reporting the template instead of the news
2007-05-14 03:43:00 In the last few days I have written several essays on BNN, but there is a common theme in them: that objectivity means honesty, and means that to evaluate anything honestly, you need to have some knowledge of history and philosophy and be aware of how bias can distort your findings. That is why I pointed ...
Politics: The War on Drugs - 21st Century Version of Prohibition
2007-05-08 16:48:00 This war on drugs is built on hypocrisy and disinformation. Our communities are keen on enforcing policies that restrict us from consuming nearly every drug available, especially psychedelics. However, we are reluctant in limiting the usage and distribution of more hazardous substances such as nicotine and alcohol. Put a gun to my head and paint ...
By: What a Weenie!
Economic Consequences of the War on Drugs
2007-04-26 21:09:00 How much does the drug war cost American taxpayers? $40 billion per year and climbing. In 2000, the National Drug Control budget exceeds $18 billion and the states will spend upwards of $20 billion more. This is a dramatic increase since 1980, when federal spending was roughly $1 billion and state spending just a few times ...
America: Winning the War on Drugs
2006-12-06 06:44:01 Friends, We Republicans are no stranger to winning wars. The great American President won the “cold war” against Communism, and George W. Bush is winning the war on terrorism, but before both of those wars was another even more important war: The War on Drugs. Nixon: A much maligned man of vision and courage. Would President Carter have had the courage to start a war on drugs? Would Clinton have taken the time from raping his interns to make America drug free? Hell no, it takes Republican courage to do the right thing. It’s hard to believe, but back in the easy-going days of 1960s liberalism most drugs were perfectly legal in America. Gangs of stoned youths roamed the streets beating up old folks just to be able to afford their next “hit” of cannabis. When Republican President Nixon took office, one of the first things he did was declare war on drugs. Today every single American owes this great Republican a debt of gratitude. If it were not for the wa...
End the War on Drugs
2006-08-29 18:48:02 End the War on Drugs Radley Balko posted this video over on The Agitator. It is produced by Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). You may have noticed a similar theme from Penn and Teller. From the LEAP website:After nearly four decades of fueling the U.S. policy of a war on drugs with over a trillion tax dollars and increasingly punitive policies, our confined population has quadrupled
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