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Catholic Church Faces Disruption and Banishment as Irish Cardinal Set to Resign

Breaking News for Global Release: A Communiqué from ITCCS International.

(BRUSSELS AND DUBLIN) - The Roman Catholic Church faces permanent disruption and banishment in at least five countries if it does not comply with ten “non-negotiable measures” by September 15, 2012.

The list was issued today at a meeting in Dublin between church officials, activists, survivors, and the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State – Ireland.

Dying Prisoner with Hepatitis C Calls Oregon Out for Denying Medical Treatment

Oregon's DOC announced it has no obligation to report prisoner deaths; here's a story about a death in the making.

(SALEM) - We have been contacted by multiple sources over an Oregon inmate, Shawn Michael Martin, who has Hepatitis-C and is being refused medical treatment.

According to Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) records, Martin entered custody in March 2008, weighing 160 pounds, he's down to 90 pounds.

Blog, Blog, Blog Eat Blog

Are blogs online killing fields or internet wildernesses sprouting free speech?

(LAGUNA BEACH, CA) - What with all of the social media possibilities, it’s pretty much impossible to find anyone you know that doesn’t have and/or browse some type of online communication venue.

There are those who not only have their own interface (blog sites), ones they control, but post comments at the sites of others.

Afghanistan: U.S. Departing Without Foreseeable Success

The international community can see the chance of Afghanistan becoming a failed sate and haven for terrorists are increased by this game plan.

(SEATTLE) - The momentous encroachment in Afghanistan last Tuesday was not President Obama’s speech but the accord for ongoing co-operation between the United States and the Karzai government.

Methodists Boycott Settlement Products

The boycott resolution passed, while the divestment resolution lost.

(CHICAGO) - A strong majority of lay and clerical delegates to the United Methodist General Conference called this week for a boycott of Israeli companies operating in Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).

The resolution denounces the Israeli occupation and the settlements in a sweeping indictment.

Guns

Shots are heard around the nation!

(CALGARY, Alberta) - Guns exist for one reason and one reason only—to kill other living creatures. The killing of animals for food and furs has always been necessary and justifiable. But the killing of other human beings is not.

Yet to hear many Americans boast, the Second Amendment is equivalent to the Eleventh Commandment, giving them freedoms that no one else on earth has. The one freedom it gives them is the freedom to be the most violent of the industrialized nations and if only other countries would adopt such craziness then they, too, can be free like Americans.

DEA Jailed San Diego Student and Left Him Unattended for 5 Days

Boxer Calls for DOJ Investigation into Detention of U San Diego Student

(WASHINGTON DC) - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today sent a letter urging Attorney General Eric Holder to order an immediate and thorough investigation into why a college student was reportedly forgotten while in Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) custody for nearly five days.

According to reports, he was given no food or water, and his cries for help went unanswered.

INDONESIA: Police Used Excessive Force Towards Protesters in Jakarta

William Gomes contacts Indonesia's president over a police attack on student demonstrators in Jakarta.

(HONG KONG) - Ransacked student buildings; damaged classrooms stained with the blood of protesting students who were naked and beaten and hiding from authorities; this is Jakarta today.

Oversight Committee Outlines Case Against Eric Holder, for Contempt over Fast and Furious

Darryl Issa briefing discusses Retaliation against ATF agents who blew the whistle on Holder's 'Fast and Furious' fueling violence in Mexico.

(WASHINGTON DC) - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) has distributed a staff briefing paper and draft of the contempt of Congress resolution against Attorney General Eric Holder to Members of the Oversight Committee.

The briefing paper explains what happened in Operation Fast and Furious, and the hardships faced by the family of fallen Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in getting truthful answers about his death...

Not In Our Name: Against Religious Extremism in Sri Lanka

Close to 1,000 signatures on Not In Our Name: Against religious extremism in Sri Lanka

(COLOMBO Sri Lanka Groundviews) - The mosque attack at Dambulla by angry Buddhist monks is soiling the reputations of Buddhists everywhere.

It is renewing suspicions that this is a dangerous government that fails to speak out over ethnic strife without exception, when it isn't solely responsible for the suffering due to its own policies.