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Protecting Americans, FDA Style

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." Martin Luther King, Jr.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - Is the FDA protecting the American consumer from a "major public health crisis" with serious harm from opioids -- or are they allowing the pharmaceutical companies such as Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin -- to continue the addiction, misuse, abuse, overdose and death throughout the US and Canada?

Police Threaten Public Assembly at Occupy Portland

The crowd gathered in Portland was estimated to be six thousand at midnight.

(PORTLAND, ORE.) - The Portland media is creating an environment that aids the city in its ambition to shut down the Occupy Movement. Police say they will do it at midnight, protestors say they aren't going to vacate.

Even though public officials are crying out about costs associated with the grass roots movement, donors in the city of Portland have offered to cover any costs incurred by the movement, which was self supporting and legal.

If Rosa Parks were Palestinian, she couldn`t even get on the bus!

'End Israel's Occupation of Palestine' - event sponsored by: Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights, Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights and Jewish Voice for Peace.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - 50 years ago in the U.S. South, Freedom Riders boarded segregated buses to non-violently protest the injustice of racism.

Today, in the same spirit of non-violent resistance, in Occupied Palestine, Palestinian and Israeli Freedom Riders will be boarding Jewish-only buses to protest the brutality of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands.

This is what supporting NATO Looks Like

War is a crime and the aggression against Libya is criminal.

(ROME) - I was just contacted by someone saying that yet another prominent Libyan —a nice man whom I met— had been tortured and killed by the "rebels" who are now recognized by the US and other governments as the legitimate government of Libya.

Dennis Ross Resigns As Middle East Advisor

Since the Reagan administration, Dennis Ross has played a crucial role in crafting Middle East policies that never served peace...

(CHICAGO) - After working for five US presidents, Dennis Ross has resigned his position as President Obama’s chief Middle East advisor.

Presidents Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama, all arrived at the White House determined to recast the nation’s role in finding a permanent peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

INTACH to focus on Salem`s landmarks

“Our efforts will aim at making the younger generation visit the pages of history to know about the significance of such importance landmarks and places around them” - INTACH's co-convener S. Sharavanan

(SALEM, India The Hindu) - The Salem Chapter of Indian National Trust for Arts and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) has initiated an innovative exercise to provide “better visibility” to the landmarks and signposts of historical and national importance in Salem city.

The exercise began on ‘Salem Day' (Nov. 1) since it was on this day in 1866 the Salem Municipality was formed.

Jabez Prayer Or An Eagle In A Chicken Yard

The original book's popularity led its publisher to extend the line to a number of derivative works targeted at niche audiences.

(CLEVELAND) - The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life is an inspirational (and, in some circles, highly controversial) book written by Bruce Wilkinson published in 2000 by Multnomah Books as the first book in the "BreakThrough" book series.

It is based on the Old Testament passage 1 Chronicles 4:9-10

Exeter University-Gilad Atzmon-The Wandering Who, and Where?

Very interesting Q&A session-elaborating on peace, shalom, Holocaust, pre traumatic stress disorder, the Holocaust, Jewish Marxistss & Jewish anti Zionist, Marxism, Israel and Zionism being Nazi-like ideolgies, Khazar and much more.

(LONDON) - A talk given in Exeter University on 8.11.2011. I elaborate on different issues that led me to write The Wandering Who: Jewish Identity, Israeli Lobby, Jewish Power, the Talmud vs Jewish secularism, Israeli institutional barbarism and so on.

Mexicos` Los Zetas Cartel Buying Heavy Weapons in Central America

Latin America Herald Tribune reports that according to the same sources, Mexican organized crime gangs still lack the training to use the heavy weapons in clashes with security forces.

(MONTERREY, Mexico ) - Los Zetas, Mexico’s most violent criminal organization, is purchasing heavy weapons in Central America for use in clashes with army soldiers, the Defense Secretariat says.

Sources from the 4th Military Region told Efe Thursday that Los Zetas and other criminal gangs are purchasing “anti-armored-vehicle rockets and armaments.”

CAIR: Tenn. Legislator Says Remove All Muslims From Military

Muslim civil rights group asks Tennessee General Assembly to rebuke Rick Womick for 'un-American' remarks.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today called on the Tennessee General Assembly to formally rebuke one of its members who yesterday –- Veterans Day –- called for the removal of all Muslims serving in the military.

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said Republican State Rep. Rick Womick made those "un-American" remarks at an "anti-Sharia" conference yesterday at which another speaker said American Mosques should not have First Amendment protections and have no right to exist.