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Sex, Drugs and Rock-n-Roll Lead to Trouble in Paradise in Action/Adventure Novel

Wanderlust author finds new way to travel – writing

(SPRING, Texas) - The action/adventure novel Chateau Pacific (published by Trafford Publishing) is proof to author John McCraw that idle hands can lead to great rewards. “I spent 13 months living in Saudi Arabia with nothing to do outside of my medical job but read and write,” remembers McCraw.

“Robert Ludlum’s books inspired me to write a mystery/action/adventure, so upon my return to the U.S., I collected my notes and began writing.”

CBC and Pacifica Disgraced by Kay

Public Broadcasters Disgraced as Agents of the 9/11 Cover-Up.

(LETHRIDGE, Alberta) - Jonathan Kay was a featured guest highlighted in the network coverage of the tenth anniversary of 9/11 as broadcast by both Pacifica Radio in the United States and the English-language radio division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Kay wrote for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation a hate-inspired, tenth-anniversary text claiming that those engaged in seeking answers for the copious unanswered questions concerning 9/11 are engaged in “absolving” all Muslims collectively of a “terrible crime.”

Help Supporters of Vittorio Arrigoni Attend Murder Trial in Gaza

From The Freedom Flotilla Italia website...

(ROME) - Last April humanitarians around the world heard the worst news, that an activist larger than life itself, Vittorio Arrigoni, the founder of the International Solidarity Movement in Gaza (ISM) had been murdered.

The trial for the murderers of Vittorio Arrigoni began on 8 September in Gaza. Italian media naturally ignored the news with the exception of Il Manifesto newspaper.

A Story about the System

U.S. Special Forces at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, initially trained members of the Los Zeta’s Cartel - before they separated from the Mexican Army.

(SAN DIEGO) - Normal functioning humans, working for any government bureaucracy, often undergo a mystical transformation upon entering their workplace. They change into dysfunctional beings. “The system” makes this occur randomly or all the time.

Interview with Alexander Ahndoril, Swedish novelist

All of us are taking part of a mutual history.

(TEHRAN) - Alexander Ahndoril is a renowned Swedish playwright and novelist. His best-selling novel, Regissören (Stockholm: Bonnier, 2006), about the film maker Ingmar Bergman, was published in English translation as The Director in 2008. Ahndoril was longlisted for The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2009.

"The Director" which is Ahndoril's eighth novel is the most discussed and written-about novel in Sweden for 15 years.

OxyContin Smuggling Arrests - the Stamford Connection

"When a person cannot deceive himself -- the chances are against his being able to deceive other people." Mark Twain

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - So help answer this Assistant US Attorney Kale and US Attorney Fein:

"What's the difference" between the TSA agents and law enforcement officers accepting cash for illegal sale of OxyContin -- and a high ranking law enforcement officer being on the payroll of convicted felons, responsible for the Tsunami of OxyContin death and addiction throughout the country?

The Last Jewish Prophet

A review of Gilad Atzmon's new book, The Wandering Who?

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - Gilad Atzmon, Salem-News.com contributing writer, has just published a study of Jewish identity politics. The Wandering Who? chronicles his journey away from his Jewish identity, and by extension away from all exclusive identities, into an inclusive humanness. It's a painful journey, a brutally honest self exploration of these internalized tribal impulses.

He emerges from the struggle deracinated but emancipated, freed of a destructive load of cultural baggage.

`Occupy Wall Street` - Protests, Watch Live

We now have the masses gathering against the Wall Street Bankers.

(NEW YORK VT) - 50,000 protestors gathered in NYC are poised to clash with the police, ignoring orders to disperse, as they Occupy Wall Street.

As with the ongoing anti-banker protests in Greece, Spain and in fact throughout Europe, the protests here in the U.S. will be largely or entirely ignored by the corporate / M$M media.

Ex-FBI Interrogator `Gagged` Over 9/11 Backstory

“People in our government knew that 911 hijackers were here – we were not told” confirms a former FBI agent.

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt ) - A former FBI agent who worked at the heart of America’s battle against al-Qaeda has told the BBC he is being prevented from telling the truth as he challenges the back story of 9/11 and what has happened since.

Mr Soufan also argues against the effectiveness of interrogation techniques used by the CIA, such as water boarding.

Why most people believe in capitalism

No cheers for capitalism!

(CALGARY, Alberta) - Capitalism is fundamentally about the production, distribution and consumption of goods. By itself, this is a neutral and harmless reality.

The harm enters when production alone, becomes capitalism’s raison d’être Capitalism “works” because capitalists risk their capital in an enterprise in the hope/expectation they will receive an increased return (profit) on their investment. Again, this is not an unreasonable expectation.