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An estimated 1.8 million faces processed through DMV facial recognition

“You have a massive database of people that have done nothing wrong being searched for a tiny percentage who have” - ACLU Executive Director David Fidanque.

(PORTLAND Oregon Capitol News) - Smile, it confuses the cameras. No, really it does. That is why the next time you get your picture taken at the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), you will be instructed to do just the opposite.

In the fall of 2008, the Department of Motor Vehicles started using facial recognition software to tag biometric data to each person who is issued a DMV I.D.

CAIR Decries Santorum`s Call for Profiling of Muslims

"We remind Mr. Santorum that the Prophet Jesus (peace be upon him), a man of Middle Eastern heritage, would fit his 'profile.'..."

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the Republican Party to repudiate GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum's call for profiling of American Muslims.

In a debate aired on CNN last night, Santorum was asked if he would support ethnic and religious profiling. CNN's Wolf Blitzer, the debate's moderator, asked Santorum: "So just to be precise, is it ethnic profiling, religious profiling, who would be profiled?"

No-Fee Adoptions Offered On All Black Cats & Kittens

Every adoptable cat or kitten will be spayed or neutered, microchipped, and vaccinated.

(SALEM) - In honor of the busiest shopping day of the year, Willamette Humane Society is hosting a special Black Friday adoption event starting at noon on Friday, November 25.

Three Americans Arrested in Occupy Tahrir Square

The three American teens sympathized with the Egyptian protesters in their latest standoff with the police forces they decided to show some support and give them a hand to occupy Tahrir square!

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - The state television in Egypt aired pictures of three American students who, according to Egypt interior ministry sources, were arrested by the police last Monday on rioting charges.

The American students are facing accusations of participating in Cairo riots and throwing Rocks &Molotov cocktail bottles at the Egyptian police forces near Tahrir square in downtown Cairo.

Wyden, McGovern Statement on Release of Bahraini Human Rights Report

"We are heartened to hear that the King has agreed to make changes in response to the report. However, these changes must be lasting and significant."

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Reaffirming their opposition to the sale of arms to the Kingdom of Bahrain until sustaining human rights improvements are made, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and U.S. Representative Jim McGovern (D-Mass) released the following statement on the Bahrain Independent Commission’s report on human rights:

“The Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry’s (BICI) report confirms accounts from human rights groups and Bahrainis who have spoken out against the abuses of this year...

Texas. Iran. What is the theological difference?

Tried under Sharia law, she was sentenced to death by hanging, while Darabi got 95 lashes.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - I was sifting through some archived files today and two articles jumped off the screen, wanting to be together.

Although this may seem to be old news, it’s current because the overall cultural realities in both Texas and Iran, if they have changed at all, have only become more extreme through the intervening five years.

Seymour Hersh: Pre-War Propaganda Mounting on Iran

"They [JSOC] found nothing. Nothing. No evidence of any weaponization" - Seymour Hersh

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - While the United States, Britain and Canada are planning to announce a coordinated set of sanctions against Iran's oil and petrochemical industry, longtime investigative journalist Seymour Hersh questions the growing consensus on Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program.

International pressure has been mounting on Iran since the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency revealed in a report the "possible military dimensions" to Iran's nuclear activities...

The High Cost of Using War Criminals to Train U.S. Police

Anti-Defamation League is now funding 'anti-terrorism' efforts as apartheid Israel's Human Rights violations stack up.

(SALEM/ TEL AVIV) - American police are being trained in Israel, where Human Rights violations by police and Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) are a matter of policy.

Riot police at Occupy Wall Street protests have been observed using 'anti-terrorism' tactics employed by Israel's apartheid occupational forces.

Show Trials in Benghazi

Will the UN insist on Fair Trials for Ex-Regime Loyalists in Libya?

(BENGHAZI, Libya ) - An affable gentleman, “Mahmoud” ushered this observer into the Benghazi People’s Court and showed me the freshly painted courtroom where in 2006, the current NTC leader and long term CIA favorite, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, twice upheld death sentences.

Once, by firing squad against a Palestinian doctor, and once, in a case involving five Bulgarian nurses...

Journalist finds Penn State scandal `eerily `similar to child abuse networks in other states

Journalist Nick Bryant profiles child abuse scandals after years of research, and finds that the Penn State scandal is “eerily” similar to child abuse networks in Nebraska and Florida.

(WALTERVILLE, Ore.) - Nick Bryant, author of two books on the precarious status of America’s children, and an expert on child trafficking and sexual abuse, says the Penn State-Sandusky case bears the following parallels to other child abuse networks that are documented in his book THE FRANKLIN SCANDAL.

Bryant took seven years to research and write one of the few commercially published books on child abuse networks and trafficking, The Franklin Scandal...