Browse All News Articles on Salem-News Page 1269

Crystal Mountain Snowboarding- a Great Father and Son Experience

No stress, except for trying to keep up with the little guy who just wants to conquer the world. Like father, like son!

(CRYSTAL MOUNTAINS, Wash.) - I have been a surfer for over 42 years and my son Evan who is now 11, never caught on to the one love of my life. Instead, he chose to be a skater dude and he is a pretty good one at that.

However, we moved to Washington from California a little over a year ago and his skating time has been declining due to poor weather and logistics of indoor parks.

Comparing Evils

From the Book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - Jamal Khan is an Afghan journalist who fled his country because of Taliban persecution and now lives in Germany.

The BOD is in a Constant Tantrum

It seems as if the BOD insists to control the content of the UK Palestinian Delegation’s site.

(LONDON) - Last week the Zionist Board of Deputies of British Jews (BOD) was desperate to expel me from a Marxist music festival. They obviously failed. This week the BOD attempts to control the Palestinian Delegation’s web site.

Occupy Eureka Arrests Might be Most Shocking and Flagrant in California so far

Occupy Eureka protestors arrested.

(EUREKA, Calif.) - It might possibly be the most boldface example of overrunning people's civil rights yet by Humboldt county government and their enforcement agencies.

More than 20 Eureka police, CHP and county deputies descended upon the protest, rounding up, arresting and handcuffing 15 people.

American Doctors Imprisoned in the Conventional Medical System

The pharmaceutical industry controlled research and medical journals, to the point that the Lancet reported that in 40% of articles on cancer researchers are funded by pharma, the AMA and other groups.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Doctors were once independent practitioners who could get their medical education from a range of medical schools and who attended at homeopathic or other kinds of hospitals.

Spoiling for a fight

Iran is being put under relentless siege with all that that implies. Millions could die because a handful of brainwashed politicians here and in the EU and US hold a childish grudge.

(LONDON) - he gung-ho leadership of the British government, fresh from their heroic "liberation" of Libya (and never mind the mega-deaths and wholesale destruction), are now itching for a fight with Iran, it seems. Of course they won't be spilling any blood or guts of their own. They'll watch from a safe distance and make Churchillian speeches.

Merkley Demands Changes to Help Oregon Timber Workers Get Jobs

Merkley says proposed changes would bring more accountability.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Though Oregon’s timber counties have among the highest unemployment rates in the Northwest, a recent report from the Department of Labor’s Inspector General revealed that millions of dollars in stimulus funds were used by contractors employing foreign workers to perform forest thinning work.

Today, Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley sent a letter to Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew proposing changes to the H-2B foreign worker visa program that would help prevent similar incidents in the future.

The International: Sri Lankan government gave orders to commit war crimes, new evidence shows

The source alleges that extra-judicial killings of surrendering or captured members of the rebel Tamil Tiger group were committed as "standard operating procedure" during the last months of the war.

(COLOMBO The International) - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, Australia, on October 28, 2011.

The Sri Lankan army ordered extra-judicial killings and assassinations during the final days of the country’s civil war, according to allegations made by a former member of the army.

Who is Julie Kramer and why is she contacting Veterans For Peace?

We are finding ourselves at the center of a historic movement, able to make a critical contribution.

(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) - My name is Julie Kramer and I have been at Occupy San Diego for almost a month. I would like to first thank you very much for your support of the Occupy Movement. It means the world to us when we see veterans in our marches and at our rallies…

Who, indeed, is this Julie Kramer? After a thorough background check, VFP’s counter-intel unit determined she belongs to a growing number of people electronically communicating people electronically communicating with VFP -------- to thank us for participating in the Occupy encampments.

Uh-Oh: Henry Kissinger and The Whopping Vaccine Booby Trap

Pandemic laws offer the structure for an emergency- which doesn't have to be proven.

(CHICAGO) - The Pandemic laws put in place by Bush include the ability to seize all communication, transportation, utilities, resources, any land and assets, all farms and all food, and even use human labor for free (slavery), and includes mandatory vaccines (chemicals, drugs, and any diagnostic tests and taking of any samples - a description of forced medical experiments).