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the vans window and saw a substantial amount of marijuana in the vehicle the driver had been asleep officers from the narcotics task force and c p d assisted soon there were three squad cars and the sheriff's department as you want forstmann officials laid the marijuana plants on the ground next to the van and took pictures of them and loaded them into their squad cars early morning hours according to the dispatch report at the sheriff's office never a dull moment around here price added then another story the food bank of nevada county is in dire need of reinforcements with the recent increase in the number of families and local nonprofits it it is serving our shelves are empty said blog flanagan member of the board and director and former president of the food bank i think it's the economy with the housing market down we've got a lot of people who work in this time of year who aren't corner the food bank is facing a greater crisis according to plan starting today barrels will be placed near the entrances and exits of local grocery stores so it's pretty safe ways save mart and will discuss ways to get enough food to make it through the year every month the bank distributes food to families in grass valley penn valley north san juan and washington in addition those who come to the warehouse and say they've run out of food get emergency food so i would hope that in a county that has a large amount of money in the banks we can help those people wonderful opportunity to bring people together to rejuvenate our kinship with the natural world of the americas and colonies colonized inhabitants said or as one of the coordinator so the ceremony this celebration is a response to the cologne colonise aging process has brought to the new world by columbus it's also an opportunity to respond to the atrocities of columbus was the ultimate positive vibrations and chills our land in our soul indigenous peoples day is not just a celebration of american indian culture but every culture that has been oppressed by colonial powers incidentally sunday's event included a hawaiian dance as well as a a consolidated tribe and we say indigenous and talk about people who are very much connected to the land they live on and they love and respect it said joan buffington another event as an american of european descent hoping in cordon it in indigenous peoples day as a way for buffington to apologize to american indians for the tribulations they had to undergo in the hands of the early european settlers she said another goal of this ceremony is to instill the age old culture and younger generations of the american indians we are a very very conscious of how important it is to actively involve us to help create world news today and official iraqi government investigation has accused forces from the private military company blackwater of committing deliberate murders when it shot and killed seventeen iraqis last month in baghdad iraq says the blackwater guard must be punished accordingly meanwhile the state department has announced it will continue to use blackwater guards in iraq to private soldiers will be put under tighter controls cameras will be placed in their convoys and diplomatic security agents will accompany convoys protected by blackwater blackwater is also coming under pressure here in the united states over three hundred people rallied on sunday to protest blackwater's plan to open an eight hundred acre military training base east of san diego it has been revealed to blackwater recently hired a public the commander of u s forces in iraq general david petraeus has stepped up accusations that iran is inciting violence in iraq over the weekend patris accuse the arena and them bastard there in iraq of being a member of the iran's revolutionary guard the trails provided no evidence to support his claim that there should be no question about them aligned resoled involvement and activities of the courts force in this country report empty propaganda and baseless but he didn't rule out a u s strike he said i said all options are on the table but i made a pledge to the american people that we will work diplomatically to solve the problem and that's why you see a united nations working with the e u countries and china and russia to send a clear message that we are going to continue to impose sanctions and make it harder for iranian government to operate in the world until they change their mind in other news from iraq more than one thousand iraqis marched in west baghdad to protest a u s military decision to build a concrete wall around their neighborhood s plans to wall off at least five neighborhoods in baghdad in order to separate sunni and shiites and you can also see a story about this on grass valley television site if you go and look at a live in baghdad this comes as washington post they rushed out to help those hurt in the initial bombing news from afghanistan one u s soldier and four afghan civilians died in saturday when a suicide car bomber attacked an american military convoy or convoy in dozens of shops were damaged in afghanistan over five thousand people have been killed so far in two thousand and seven this year is also on pace to be the deadliest year of the war for the u s troops eighty seven american soldiers have died so far in record fifty thousand troops now in afghanistan it appears the u s is planning for a long stay so u s military recently began expanding the american base at bag graham barracks are being built to help accommodate the record number of u s troops in the country colonel jonathan ive said this is going to become long base long term base for us whether that means five years ten years we don't know meanwhile opium production has r high in afghanistan the new york times reports u s officials are trying to persuade the afghan government to begin sprain herbicides the opium pop bush administration is continuing to reject calls by congress congress congress you know democrats to release a series of secret legal opinions effectively sanctioning the use of torture on friday president bush defended his administration's interrogation policies he said when we find somebody who may have information you regarding in a potential attack on america we're going to detain  them we're going to question them because the american people expect us to find out information actionable intelligence so we can help protect them that's our job this government does not torture people you know we stick to the u s law and our international obligations and that's what meanwhile the washington post reports  group of world war two interrogators gathered in fort hood to critique is the bush administration's interior gratian practices the new year old henry cole said we've got more information out of a german general with a game of chess or ping pong than they do today with torture one of the world war two veterans refused to accept honors from the army's freedom to salute citing his opposition to what has happened  elements particularly at night during curfew including raids on private homes radians arbitrary arrests and disappearances on saturday demonstrations were held across the globe and all the time seeking for a negotiated political settlement through the dialogue under the leadership of song why but now because of the brutal crackdown against the police the ranks in the student leadership people are outrage across the nation and across the world not only burmese people all across the world in defense of burma ask the military dictator to stop now and in egypt twenty three independent opposition daily newspapers refused to publish on sunday to protest a government clampdown on journalist seven journalists were recently sentenced to up to two years in prison for criticizing  polls on sunday to do side whether costa rica should sign the central american free trade agreement once the united states was returned in from ninety five percent of the polling stations the trade deal appears to have been passed by a narrow enough of the reefer madness already i know a friend of a friend of a friend who smoked pot once or a thousand times and he never once put a cat in a microwave or shot heroin into his big toe in fact only way you'd ever know he enjoys his pot  park had i know it's semi retired has no white hair and goes to bed by nine pm mostly i suspect because he eats too much and gets tired just so you know there's a big difference between pot it's not true that's the pot heads have never tried crank and lots of crickets have never tried pot the government want us to believe that because it allows them to continue to trade part for oil that's right americans grind it up in a boat load of brownies and ship it to saudi in exchange for a few barrels of oil as you know it's hard to grow pot in the desert even with all the heat and those like to kick back on those giant guards one hundred thousand dollars per year with medical benefits an unlimited supply of rubber gloves according to one else the state spends on hundred sixty million dollars per year to arrest prosecute and imprison one offenders our prison house around one hundred seventy three thousand people today and seven of every ten of them on release eventually wind up back behind bars to give what the state is about to spend seven billion dollars or so to build new prisons and add new beds this at a time when our schools could use some money and our medical care costs are out of reach for many families what's wrong with this picture they also estimate taxes from pot sales could generate as much as three billion dollars per year yes but won't that lead to part use were asked once again legal today one guy would probably still be alive and another would probably not be in the hospital with bullet holes in his skin that's it for today thanks a lot for watching and