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Occupy Portland: Columbus Day `Celebration` & Convergence Monday

Notes from the organizers; events take place from 12:00 noon to 6:00 p.m.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - A number of events are scheduled in conjunction with the Occupy Portland rally Monday.

Events start at Noon at NE 8th & Oregon -site of Earl Bloomies office & Native Fisheries Program & State Building, which is the location of the highest concentration of state employees in Portland.

`Undertreatment of Pain` vs. Prescription Drug Addiction and Death

"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice" Confucius

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - Why is Congress, the FDA, the FTC and the DEA allowing the American Pain Foundation to be kept fat and well financed by pharma in marketing the bogus "undertreatment of pain" in the U.S. while we fight an epidemic of prescription drug addiction and death?

The United States makes up only 4.6 percent of the world’s population, but consumes 80 percent of its opioids — and 99 percent of the world’s hydrocodone, the opiate that is in Vicodin.

Deadly Attack Against Christian Demonstrators in Cairo-Egypt

We urge and call upon the international community to call for an immediate investigation into the occurrences of 9 October 2011.

(LONDON Presswire) - Over the past thirty years more than four hundred innocent Christians have been killed in cold blood with repeated government failures to prosecute the perpetrators and apply the rule of law.

Second-Hand Cannabis Smoke Not a Positive Test Excuse

"Will I fail my drug test if I was around pot smoking?" The results are in.

(SALEM, Ore.) - With jobs harder and harder to come by, many people have had to redirect their personal convictions and cave in to the demand for pre-employment drug testing.

Rally with One Voice for Reforming Guardianship

It is time for Washington to step in and stop the Probate Courts and the Attorneys, Banks and Trustees from using the Disabled and Elderly's money to fund their personal piggy banks.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - On 9/22/2011, Senator Amy Klobuchar chaired a Senate Judiciary committee hearing on reforming Guardianship proceedings. We need to act now to show the Judiciary committee that we support this effort, and are not afraid to speak with one clear voice on the issue of legislative reform of abusive practices in guardianship proceedings.

Even though we are a diverse group of victims - the net result of the abuse shows a similar pattern - denial of civil rights and devastating financial exploitation.

An Iranian rival for the Guinness Book of World Records

What doesn't have the one who has spirituality? And what does have the one who doesn't have spirituality, even if he is the most famous, wealthiest and most powerful person in the world? - Sayyed Mortaza Mirseradji

(TEHRAN) - The Guinness Book of World Records is being challenged with the efforts of a determined Iranian journalist.

A new rival is slated to take the place of Guinness World Records in the near future. Sayyed Mortaza Mirseradji, Iranian researcher, journalist and essayist has registered a plan in the Islamic Republic of Iran Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance to publish a book containing cultural, spiritual and moral records called "Al-Khayrat."

Suppressing the Truth

There are some scandals that refuse to die, either because they are never fully investigated or because those responsible for them never paid the price they should have. --Gideon Levy

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Issues that should concern everyone, but especially in America, have been subverted, degraded, perverted, retracted, eradicated, expunged, obscured, obliterated, squashed or (simply) zapped!

Cover-ups have kept these issues under wraps for all but those whose concern for the truth provokes them to do serious research, primarily on the internet.

Will Oregon `Fly With Own Wings`?
Will State Agencies Overlook Now-Demanded Duty To Seek Out Corporate Influence as Claim

Rep. Whisnant's Own ALEC-article states he followed ALEC-Model for Oregon-budget "reform", for other proposed legislation. Part 6 in a continuing series.

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - SO NOW --after national full exploration and combined national organization exposure of "undue influence" by corporate cash-expenditure for "chairs at the table" and for "entertaining" Oregon's ALEC-member legislators-- can we any longer claim "She Flies With Her Own Wings" ?

We DO NOT know how much --if any-- of recent-session Oregon law has been "very closely modeled" on legislative-drafts proposed by Alec-member legislators .

You Can`t Fix Stupid

WARNING: This column offers no fixes or solutions for the world’s emerging environmental or economic crises. It only offers depressingly morbid caveats.

(LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.) - To better understand my view, either put Pink Floyd’s “MONEY” (DARK SIDE OF THE MOON 1973) on while reading this or go to the link below and listen while reading it.

Who knows, might help but then again maybe you’ll just get morose and ask yourself: “WTF, why am I browsing for more bad news on the web?” Whatever. Color me comfortably numb.

`Panetta to Netanyahu:` Israel may not survive the current Arab/Islamic awakening`

In Next War, Only Fleeing Israelis Will Be Safe.

(BEIRUT) - Three weeks after being named by President Obama in January 2009 as the 19th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and during his first day on the job which was February 12, 2009, Leon Panetta, now US Secretary of Defense, signed off on a March 2009 “eyes only” CIA Report that had just been completed by his new agency.

As reported at the time, the CIA Report predicted the demise of Israel within 20 years, if present political trends in the region continued.