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LLRC Recommendations Highly Credible EU Delegation

Many of us in the EU Parliament and in our own Resolution felt that well there are issues to be dealt with and I think it is important that we do not let things slide from the agenda. - Jean Lambert

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Sunday Leader) - A parliamentary delegation from the EU visited Sri Lanka last week, its second mission to the country over the past two years.

The delegation headed by EU Parliament MP Jean Lambert comes just weeks after the EU supported a Resolution on Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council.

Agent Orange Dump Site Is Oregon Desert`s Toxic Legacy

Back in '76, Oregon’s DEQ pushed 25-thousand crushed barrels of chemicals – the prime ingredients of Agent Orange – notorious for its use during the Vietnam War, into unlined trenches, then shoved dirt on top.

(PORTLAND, OR) - One of the most toxic dumps in Oregon remains in legal limbo.

Biotech 2, Vermont 0

The biotech industry has had to use corruption and threats to keep secret what they continue to claim is safe and "substantially equivalent" to normal food.

(MONTPELIER, VT) - Vermonters was slammed by the biotech industry twice this month.

They were hit the first time when 90% of the population wanted GMOs in their food labeled but the governor would not sign a bill requiring this because the biotech giant Monsanto threatened to sue the state.

Portland Man Claims He Was Victim of Poison Plot

Includes link to several pages of documents.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Terry Wagar has been trying desperately to have his story publicized and now he has produced visual evidence backing his allegations of having been poisoned while his wife carried on in an affair with a police officer.

This is Terry Wagar's allegation, it is serious.

Sri Lanka: Flogging The Tamil Eelam Issue - OpEd

Tamil Nadu leaders have to adopt suitable strategies if they genuinely want to help Sri Lanka Tamils.

(CHENNAI, India Eurasia Review) - May Day celebrations in Sri Lanka this year saw an unusual sight.

R Sampanthan, the septuagenarian leader fighting for Sri Lanka Tamil rights and president of the Tamil National Alliance, standing shoulder to shoulder with the United National Party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, waved a Sri Lanka flag to the cheers of a massive crowd in Jaffna celebrating the May Day.

Rwanda Peoples Party Congratulates President-Elect Hollande of France

Mr. Hollande, my congratulations and the assurances of my highest consideration. Yours faithfully" - John V Karuranga, President, Rwanda People’s Party

(WASHINGTON DC) - After a five year term in office former President Sarkozy of France has conceded defeat to President Elect Mr. Francois Hollade.

France and Rwanda have had a complex relationship for many decades with attempted amends being made when President Paul Kagame of Rwanda visited former President Sarkozy in 2011 to mend relations between the two countries.

Sri Lankan Buddhist Mobs Call for Mosque Demolition

Sri Lanka's ethnic cleansing program calls for demolition of another mosque that suddenly is determined to be 'in the wrong place'.

(SALEM / KALUTARA, Sri Lanka) - Dozens of Buddhists held a demonstration today urging Sri Lanka's government to dismantle a mosque located in a Buddhist area. This, after mobs of Buddhist monks stormed the mosque at Dambulla last month.

Critics say it is simply another example of Sri Lanka's perpetual ethnic cleansing program that began with national independence in 1948.

Without Humanizing Sexuality, AIDS Will Continue to be a Threat

Pope Benedict XVI believes that the AIDS problem requires both a medical and pharmaceutical solution.

(MADRID, Spain) - In 2006 at a meeting of the British Labour Party, Bob Geldof, singer and political activist, publicly praised the policy to fight AIDS.

Fukushima Daiichi Site: Cesium-137 Is 200 Times Greater Than At Chernobyl Accident

Begins with Urgent Request on UN Intervention to Stabilize the Fukushima Unit 4 Spent Nuclear Fuel

(WASHINGTON DC) - I believe the team at NaturalNews said it well: "The news you are about to read puts everything else in the category of 'insignificant' by comparison".

A Modest Proposal... America`s Penal Problem and The Vatican Solution

Give a man a spade and he'll plant a seed. Give him a horse and plow, and he'll plant a crop. Give him a tractor and he'll drive to the nearest liquor store
- Ancient Peace Corps rubric.

(SASKATCHEWAN) - I'm not saying we're the worst people in the world, but it sure looks like we're the most judgmental. America has more people per capita in jail than any other country, 750 cons for every 100,000 of our population.

Compare that with the Japanese, who are apparently the best people in the world – 75 out of 100,000 Japanese are incarcerated.