Jim Hightower, Op-Ed: “Innocent little poppies are the raw material for producing opium — and the poppy crop in just one Afghanistan province supplies more than 40 percent of the world’s opium trade. In turn, that illicit flower power fuels the Taliban with tens of millions of dollars a year to buy weapons, recruit and train fighters, make bombs, bribe Afghan officials and otherwise make war.
So, the West’s strategy has included an all-out effort to eradicate poppy production in the province.”
News Report: The Center for Constitutional Rights has led the legal battle over Guantanamo for the last 10 years – representing clients in two Supreme Court cases and organizing and coordinating hundreds of pro bono lawyers across the country to represent the men at Guantanamo, ensuring that nearly all have the option of legal representation. Among other Guantánamo cases, the Center represents the families of men who died at Guantánamo, and men who have been released and are seeking justice in international courts.
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The above 4 teenager’s have been arrested by Desert Hot Springs Police Department and the Coachella Valley Gang Task Force in this first reported homicide this year in the City of Desert Hot Springs.
Anyone with any information regarding this crime should also contact the Desert Hot Springs Police Department and ask to speak with Detective Sergeant Ken PeQly.
Dispatch Tel: (760) 329-2904 Ext. 330.
Another wonderful project from Hanuman Media & PowerSource Productions. “In Transit: is based on a true story that producer/writer/actor Sunil Sadarangani experienced at a bus-stop in Los Angeles . The meeting of the character Maria happened on Mother’s Day in Los Angeles 2008. The interaction of the two characters coupled with the fact that it occurred on Mother’s Day motivated Suniil to write the script and bring it to life on the screen.
Lilliana Arriaga, famed La Chupito’s character and star from Mexico makes her film debut with In Transit and the charisma between her and Sadarangani is very sweet. The vastness of the metropolitan, impersonal relationships language and cultural barriers can all contribute to the isolation of the individual in the 21st century. “In Transit” offers the hope of connection and empathy, along with a colorful dose of humor while offering up the bus stop as the new location for finding common ground and shared humanity.
Directed by the multiple award winning Stev Elam, produced by Suniil Sadarangani and Saba Moor-Doucette, executive produced by Beena Sadarangani and Meera Gandhi, this short film offers heart felt smiles.
Festivals :
Official Selection – The Golden Door International Film Festival, Oct 13th-16th, 2011, The Angeleno Film Festival, Jan 2012, 15 Minutes Of Fame International Film Festival, July 2011. In Transit has been nominated for 5 awards at the Angeleno Film Festival for Best Short Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director & Best Concept For a New Theme.
Just in – In Transit has been accepted into the 2012 Idyllwild International Film Festival, California, in the competition section. This festival has been touted as the Sundance of California and attracts major players from Hollywood. This year two big independent distribution companies will be present – Open Road Films/Miramax and Osiris Entertainment. Also this year the focus will be on short films and new inspiring themes, which is what In Transit is all about.
Palm Desert, CA – Patiells Boutique, located in Palm Desert recently held an in-store event featuring a Joseph Ribkoff trunk show benefiting Angel View Crippled Children’s Foundation.
As a result, by the end of the day, proceeds from the fund-raiser netted Angel View $1000.00.
Angel View board president, Mel Haber, was thrilled to receive the check from the owners of Patiells, Gabriele Luetke and Pattie Pandolfo at a recent private ceremony.
“Angel View is extremely grateful to these lovely ladies for their kindness and generosity to our non-profit that has been caring for hundreds of children and adults with mental and physical disabilities in the low and upper desert region of the Coachella Valley since 1956,” said Angel View board president Mel Haber.
Angel View will be honoring icon actress, Ruta Lee, at its annual luncheon held on President’s Day, February 20, 2012. This celebrity packed event will be a zany, fun, and entertaining event for everyone in attendance. For more information call Michelle at 760-329-6471.
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Mitt Romney’s declaration that “I like being able to fire people” set off a tempest on the eve of the New Hampshire Republican primary as his rivals seized a chance to rough up his presidential prospects beyond the race he’s expected to win Tuesday.
Never mind that Romney was talking about American consumers being able to “fire” their health insurance companies, not about a boss laying off workers. His off-the-cuff comments Monday played into growing questions about whether his drive for profits at a private equity firm came at the expense of workers.
“Gov. Romney enjoys firing people, I enjoy creating jobs,” GOP rival Jon Huntsman told reporters at a Concord, N.H., rally. “It may be that he’s slightly out of touch with the economic reality playing out in America, and that’s a dangerous place for someone to be.”
Newt Gingrich said Romney’s firm “apparently looted” the companies it took over, and he promised a clamorous challenge ahead, no matter what happens in New Hampshire.
“I spent three weeks with Gov. Romney saying a variety of foolish things like, you need broad shoulders, and, you need to stand the heat,” Gingrich said. “I mean, fine, OK, I’ve got broad shoulders, I can stand the heat. Now, we’ll see if he has broad shoulders and he can stand the heat.”
The former Massachusetts governor, who had practically adopted New Hampshire as his home, has held a comfortable lead in pre-primary polls, leaving his opponents essentially vying for second place while hoping New Hampshire’s capacity to spring a surprise might yet break their way.
Rivals quickened their drumbeat of criticism against him. Much of it is centered on his tenure at Bain Capital when it was taking over a host of companies, growing some of them, closing others.
Romney has never substantiated his claim that he helped create more than 100,000 jobs at Bain, an assertion key to his economically centered candidacy. That has left him vulnerable to charges by Democrats, and increasingly his GOP opponents, that he was merely a corporate takeover artist who put profits ahead of workers.
Declaring “I don’t believe in unilateral disarmament,” Gingrich promised a tougher tone in the race, which he had previewed in weekend debates. “Mitt Romney cannot campaign with a straight face as a conservative,” said the former House speaker, soon to be aided by an ad campaign in South Carolina assailing Romney and his Bain record.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, rocked by a poor showing in the Iowa caucuses, echoed Gingrich’s line of attack from South Carolina, having passed up the New Hampshire race.
“I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips — whether he’d have enough of them to hand out,” Perry told several dozen breakfast patrons in Anderson, S.C. That was a slap at Romney’s recent comment that he worried about getting a pink slip during his executive career.
Perry cited South Carolina companies that downsized under Bain’s control, and said it would be an “insult” for Romney to come to the state and ask for voters’ support in easing economic pain.
“He caused it,” Perry said, describing himself as best positioned to untangle the “unholy alliance between Washington and Wall Street.”
Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, a prominent Romney supporter, shot back that Gingrich and Perry are talking not just like Democrats, but socialists.
“Sometimes the socialists are Republicans,” Sununu said at Romney’s Manchester, N.H., headquarters, where the candidate stopped to make a few calls to voters. “I would not be using comments that sound like they could have been written in the White House.”
Despite the swirling questions about workers who lost their jobs at Bain-owned companies, Romney chose to liken consumers in the health care market to employers who get to lay people off. “I like being able to fire people who provide services to me,” he said, looking weary, at a Nashua Chamber of Commerce breakfast.
“If someone doesn’t give me the good service I need, I want to say, you know, ‘I’m going to get somebody else to provide that service to me.'”
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