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Bill Gates and 47,500 Cases of Paralysis

Mimicking Monsanto’s PR, Gates used Bollywood actors to strongly promote his vaccine campaign to ‘eradicate polio’ across India. Vaccines ware given to Indian children. Have they brought health?

(NEW DELHI) - In India, Monsanto hired Bollywood actors to promote genetically engineered cotton seed to illiterate farmers.

Nana Petakar became a brand ambassador for Monsanto. The advertising has been called “aggressive, unscrupulous and false.”

No War on Iran: Occupy AIPAC

Israel denies Palestinians the right to vote or to exercise their right to self-determination.

(PORTLAND, OR) - A coalition of peace, human rights, and Palestine solidarity organizations announced today that they would hold a demonstration outside the annual Oregon fund-raising dinner of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Sunday, April 29.

The Toughest Element in Fitness is Motivation

In reality, it doesn’t matter how much weight you can lift, how many supplements you take, six-pack or no six-pack, motivation affects us all and is the key element in every fitness program.

(GUELPH, Ontario) - If you are like most of us you have your hands full with life’s daily routine and frequently that routine does not include fitness!

Ethiopian Siblings Heading for a Home with a Local Family

Family is now in the process of adopting two more children.

(SILVERTON, OR) - Adam and Amber Stutzman have six adorable children. Amber is a nurse and Adam is a Lab Technician for ODOT and a volunteer Fireman and policeman for City of Silverton.

You’d think they would be overwhelmed with their jobs plus six kids.

Rabbis For Violence, Brutality and Abuse

Sooner or later, Israel and its Rabbis will have to face the horrific moral and ethical consequences of maintaining a racist, nationalist and expansionist Jewish State.

(LONDON) - In recent years we have learned about a few sporadic Rabbis who promote peace, justice and humanism.

But more often it seems, Israel’s prominent Rabbis are more openly enthusiastic about violence, brutality and abuse.

Getting Away With Murder

CPJ’s 2012 Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and killers go free.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Deadly, unpunished violence against the press rose sharply in Pakistan and Mexico, continuing a dark, years-long trend in both nations, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found in its newly updated Impunity Index.

The global index calculates unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of each country's population.

Last Week: 84 US Afghan War Casualties

US media divert attention from the actual cost in American life and limb by reporting only those killed, but rarely mentioning those wounded in action.

(PORTLAND, OR) - US military occupation forces in Afghanistan and Iraq under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 84 casualties in the period ending April 17.

The total includes 79,493 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations "Iraqi Freedom" and "New Dawn"), and 33,574 since the US invaded Afghanistan in November, 2001.

Top Gun Screening Will Benefit USS Ranger Project

The USS Ranger Foundation is working to place a retired supercarrier Ranger, in Fairview, Oregon on the Columbia River as a Community Heritage Center.

(MT HOOD, OR) - An event to celebrate the anniversary of the releases of Top Gun, which was filmed aboard the USS Ranger, will be held Sunday, the 6th of May 2012, from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Mount Hood Theatre, 401 E. Powell Blvd, in Gresham, Oregon.

The event includes a raffle, silent auction, the screening of the movie, special guests and more.

T-Junction in the Road

Two years later the T-word is back.

(CHENNAI, India Hindustan Times) - At one point in May, four years ago, it seemed a golden age in India-Sri Lanka relations was imminent.

Tamil Tiger supremo V Prabhakaran had been killed and the 26-year-old Lankan civil war had come to an end. India was pleased. Both sides were one the need to defeat the LTTE.

Portland`s World Famous Cannabis Cafe` Celebrates the 420 High Holiday

A special holiday for a community at large.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Everybody's heard of it, but have they actually been there? If you are an Oregon medical marijuana patient, this Friday is the perfect opportunity for you to see the inside of what has become a rather mythical place.