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America`s growing isolation

It's bad news for the would-be presidents on the Republican side who are grovelling for Jewish campaign funds and votes.

(LONDON) - It was UK Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant who read the statement of the EU group.

“Israel's continuing announcements to accelerate the construction of settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, (1000 new housing units tendered for last week), send a devastating message. We believe that Israel's security and the realisation of the Palestinians' right to statehood are not opposing goals. On the contrary they are mutually reinforcing objectives. But they will not be achieved while settlement building and settler violence continues.”

Eight Soldiers Charged in the Death of Private Danny Chen

A private from New York's Chinatown's death happened after many incidents reportedly involving racism and hazing.

(SALEM) - The U.S. Army has charged eight of its own in the death of a 19-year old Chinese-American soldier in Afghanistan. Private Danny Chen wa found dead in a guard tower from a gunshot wound, it is not clear whether the young teenager killed himself or if he was Murdered, but either way it happened after a long period of hazing from his superiors.

While the death remains extremely disturbing, the Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA), applauds what they see as swift action by the Army, in conducting a full investigation in the case surrounding the death of Private Danny Chen.

Terrorists Kill People

This is a fundamental issue, it is time to examine the government's use of a killer buzz word that can strip you of your rights as an American.

(SALEM) - Strange title I know, but we're in strange times. Terrorism is the use of terror in attacking or controlling a perceived enemy. Terrorism is understood by some people on some levels, but by and large it has been used to describe anyone who refuses to accept oppression, and fights back.

Those who the developed nations brand "terrorist" are almost always poor; they generally are getting the hell blasted out of them by U.S. made weapons and they violently resist with whatever they can place their hands on.

2012: The Year the Bankers and Corporations Intend to Take Over the US

If ever there was a need for loyal US police, national guard and military, and an aware population, it is now.

(NEW YORK) - The US is on a schedule (video) to be ended as a constitutional country. Bush laid out 5 things that are to justify martial law here - the end of the Constitution. They are economic collapse, environmental disaster, civil unrest, an attack on the US and a pandemic emergency.

Do Not Give Fluoridated Water to Babies or Pregnant Mothers

There is still not one single prospective double blinded randomized controlled trial of fluoridation.

(WILSONVILLE, Ore.) - If you are upset with the lack of SEC (Securities Exchange Commission) oversight of Bernie Madoff, then fluoridation will break your heart.

The incompetent oversight of Health and Human Services, CDC, EPA, and FDA CDER dwarfs the Madoff scandal.
Those who have blind trust in all government regulators need not read further.

Oliver Goldsmith Look Out!

The song is an expression of Jamal’s wish to encourage others to join with him and the whole TJP movement to work to build a more truthful, more just, and more peaceful world. It is a big step for a man, an even bigger step for a boy.

(BOSTON) - Oliver Goldsmith! Look out! Jamal Belica’s latest song, World Citizen: Giving It My All, is articulating a new view of the world citizen: bold and aggressive; quite the opposite of the genteel Chinese traveler Lien Chi sojourning in London two and a half centuries ago whom Goldsmith used to satirize the follies and foibles of 18th-century British society in his The Citizen of the World.

Instead, Jamal’s world citizen has muscles and faces the unpleasant realities of the world we live in unflinchingly.

Global Movement to Create a Non-Violent World Launched

People who wish to join the movement are invited...

(BLACKBURN, Aust.) - On 11 November 2011, the 93rd anniversary of the armistice of World War 1, a new movement to end human violence was launched around the world. 'The People's Charter to Create a Nonviolent World' was launched simultaneously in Australia, Malaysia, the Philippines and the United States and has already gained signatories in twenty-one countries.

The aim of the Nonviolence Charter is to create a worldwide movement to end violence in all of its forms.

Hundreds of Oregonians Occupy Their Post Offices in Response to Threat of Rural Closures

“Deadwood wouldn’t exist in ten years without the post office” - Leslie Benscoter, retired schoolteacher and Occupy the Post Office organizer in Deadwood, Oregon

(Scappoose, Ore.) - Hundreds of Oregonians Occupied 23 post offices across the state on Monday in response to the United States Postal Service’s threat to close 21 rural post offices.

Occupiers carried Christmas cards, cookies and gifts of appreciation to their postal workers and collected over 1,000 petition signatures asking Congress to reform laws that have caused the unnecessary funding crisis within the Postal Service.

Questions Persist as to US Arms Treaty Compliance

Includes the complete text of Section 817 of the USA PATRIOT Act, with the questionable subsection underlined.

(GENEVA, Switzerland ) - Questions concerning the compliance of the United States with the international treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention, came to a head recently during the Seventh Review Conference of the Convention, which is being held now in Geneva, Switzerland at the United Nations.

The most recent compliance report, listed in the BWC catalogue as BWC/CONF.VII/INF.2/Add.1, has failed to quash concerns as to the reliability of statements made by the United States as to its compliance with obligations under the BWC.

Univ. of Oregon Male Students See Grades Dip During Winning Streaks

These gaps coincided with acknowledged student behaviors. Following a win, men reported drinking and partying more, studying less and missing more classes than when the team loses.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - College football bowl season is in prime time, and a new report card is in: Male grades drop relative to female grades when their college football team performs well during the regular season.

The study looked at students' grade data at the University of Oregon from 1999 through 2007, covering nine seasons when the football program was rising but inconsistent.