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Forestry Groups Express Continued Concern Over Spotted Owl Plan

The Service should utilize the latest scientific modeling as a basis for policy changes.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announced the opening of a 30-day public comment period limited to a technical appendix to the Northern Spotted Owl Draft Revised Recovery Plan released last fall.

Forest landowners and mill owners expressed disappointment at the Service’s failure to release other aspects of the current draft plan and skepticism about the time allowed.

Child Pornography Bill Closes Loophole, Sets Absolute Ban on Viewing

SB 803 addresses Supreme Court ruling that raised serious concerns.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Oregon's Senate approved legislation to midofy the definition of “visual depiction” in crimes relating to child pornography to include accessing photos on the Internet.

Senate Bill 803 was introduced in response to an Oregon Supreme Court ruling in January that said it isn’t a crime to look at child pornography on the Internet if the viewer doesn’t purposely download images, print them out, or pay for them.

Gaddafi - Bribery, Blackmail and Bluster

On every side and yet no side; everyone's friend and enemy.

(CINCINNATI ) - When Egypt’s Mubarak felt his grip on Egypt loosening, he called his friends in Tel Aviv. Three planeloads of riot gear and ‘other materials’ arrived almost immediately. When Gaddafi felt his grip on Libya loosening, he called his friends in Tel Aviv.

Unlike Mubarak, publicly friendly with Israel, Gaddafi has publicly bashed Israel for decades.

What About All of Those Campaign Promises?

Our street corners have so many homeless with cardboard signs that many cities are now taking reservations...

(SISTERS, Ore.) - It is amazing how our legislature including all of our State government accomplishes and tackles the issues that are not really important.

What happen to all the campaign promises about creating employment, affordable health care and balancing the budget?

Gilad Atzmon: The Israeli So-Called `Left`

What we saw in Tel Aviv today is an exercise in Jewish identity politics.

(LONDON) - We learned today that some 300 prominent Israeli left-wingers, including some cultural leaders, gathered in Tel Aviv to call for the Jewish state to embrace the creation of a Palestinian State.

Among the petition's signatories were 17 winners of the Israel Prize and other leading intellectuals and artists.

SECURITY`S Vendetta Against Vanunu Mordechai and This Day in History

Vanunu spent 18 years in a windowless tomb sized cell because he told the world about Israel's illegal nuclear warheads.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - This third Thursday of April begins the 8th year after 18 years in prison that Mordechai Vanunu has been under 24/7 surveillance by Israel’s version of America's CIA-FBI: Mossad-Shabbak.

They have had a vendetta against Vanunu ever since he exposed their lax SECURITY in Israel's 7-story underground WMD Facility in 1986.

Bella Ciao!!! - Vittorio Arrigoni`s Remains Reach Rome- and a Hero`s Welcome

Vittorio Arrigoni's legacy will never die, he is not dead. His spirit and courage matter now more than ever.

(ROME / SALEM) - The memorial for Vittorio Arrigoni in Gaza just happened, and now we see a solemn yet glorious reception in Vik's home country.

His remains arrived at the Fiumicino Airport with many in attendance.

Israeli Ambassador Leaves Cairo Amid Speculations of Opening Egypt`s Gaza Border

“Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel should not be taken for granted” says Egypt’s foreign minister.

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - When asked to comment about the terrorist attacks that hit New York on 9/11, Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu told an audience that the terror attacks would be beneficial for Israel.

And the years that followed 9/11 proved that Netanyahu was right.

Children Make a Human Chain Spelling `NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE`

"Every single time another Israeli bomb drops on the innocents of Palestine, this picture shall be put forward as the demand of a truly sane and humane international community."
(PHOTO of the actual human chain BELOW)

(GAZA) - We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power on a regular basis.

We intend to tell the story of how the people of Gaza suffer the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder from the horrific bombardment of Gaza during Operation Cast Lead.

The Demon Highways of Tamaulipas

Despite a deluge of media coverage, the precise motives behind the mass killings are still unclear.

(TAMAULIPAS, Mexico) - In widely separated parts of Mexico, many people ask the same troubling question: Are our loved ones among the 145 dead found in the mass graves near San Fernando, Tamaulipas?

That’s been the question tearing at families in San Pedro Pochutla, a town in the southern state of Oaxaca. Last summer, ten townspeople set off on a long journey to the northern border state of Tamaulipas.