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Rivers Pass Flood Levels in Oregon

Includes video from Brightwood where logs are battering the local river bridge...

(BRIGHTWOOD, Ore.) - Residents near the Sandy River are frantically filling sandbags in an effort to save their properties from rising flood waters. Gary Randall with Precision Artists says there are reports that Lolo Pass has washed out, reminding us that this is not the first time.

Man Becomes `One With Snake` Survives Cobra Bites

"When I am bitten by a cobra it is nothing for I become one with the snake. That is why I do not die" - Snake man

(CHICAGO) - Of all the countries I've traveled, and all the people I've met, few experiences have been as intriguing, thought-provoking, and frankly, as disturbing, as my chance encounter in West Africa with a man I only knew as the "snake man."

While in West Africa during 1999 I spent three weeks in the country of Ghana. Ghana is what remains of what was once a great African empire known as the Ashanti.

Help Wanted: A Wacky Organization in Need of a Leader

Structure can make the difference between a bad organization and a good one. The difference between a good organization and great one is leadership - John Maxwell

(CHARLESTON, S.C.) - A compelling challenge within many companies is the ability to maintain a cohesive sense of organizational stability, an efficient structure, and a team that has a clear sense of purpose and direction.

Planning Panel to Approve 1,400 New East Jerusalem Homes

The plan includes 1,400 housing units on an area near Gilo and is expected to draw widespread international criticism.

(TEL AVIV Haaretz) - The Jerusalem planning commission's expected approval of a new large-scale construction project beyond the Green Line includes the construction of 1,400 housing units on an area between the neighborhood of Gilo toward the Cremisan Monastery, and the settlement of Har Gilo.

It is expected to draw widespread international criticism.

Tunisia- Up to the Minute Intelligence

Tunisia may be the first nation to be overthrown with Wikileaks playing an active part, this time in support of Israel, the CIA and a group claiming to be Al Qaeda.

(PARIS, France) - All the fingerprints point to Israel’s apparatus in Washington and Zionist networks in North Africa.

As brilliantly explained by Jeff Gates, Wikileaks Game Theory Warfare are serving multiples purposes and multiples target. Are Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, and Egypt ones of them in 2011?

Obama Needs His Own White House `Viziers With Moral Imaginations`

Signs of hope for peace in that reshaping have thus far been anything but encouraging.

(CHICAGO) - When President Obama spoke in Tucson Wednesday night, he called on Americans to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully.

He asked Americans to sharpen our instincts for empathy, and remind ourselves of all the ways our hopes and dreams are bound together.

Egypt: In Shadow of Fitna

Analysts revisit Israeli Spy Chief’s boasts...

(CAIRO, Egypt) - The New Year’s Eve church bombing in Alexandria, in which 23 Coptic Christians were killed, has reignited fears of sectarian conflict in majority-Muslim Egypt.

But while mainstream news media has been quick to pin the crime on “Al-Qaeda,” some Egyptian observers point the finger at Israel, citing an Israeli military-intelligence chief's explicitly boasts of Israeli prowess in sowing sectarian discord in Egypt.

What now for Lebanon?

Despite civil war still being talked about as a possibility here in Lebanon, it has proven impossible to ignite to date even though it would suit US-Israel political goals.

(SOUTH BEIRUT, Lebanon Al Manar) - Informed sources at the White House confirm will indict Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Wali al Faqui for issuing the order to assassinate Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

The US and Israel believe Iran’s motive was that PM Hariri was considered a serious threat to Tehran and Damascus because their intelligence agencies established that Hariri was conspiratorially linked to Saudi Arabia, France and the United States--and by extension, Israel.

Tunisia and Reshaping the Arab World

I think the empire's hold on the Arab World has begun to unravel...

(BETHLEHEM) - Here in Palestine, we face a relentless assault not only on us and our lands but on truth, on decency, on nature, on dignity, and, dare I say, on God.

Israeli authorities are working overtime to transform the Holy City of Jerusalem from a multi-ethnic and multi-religious city to a distorted vision of what Zionists think Judaism is about (supremacy, ethnic purity, tribalism etc).

Response from The White House RE: Mordechai Vanunu Via The New York Times

"Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.” - Dorothy Day

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - When President Obama took office, this activist reporter began phoning, faxing and emailing him and Secretary of State Clinton seeking a statement regarding the fact that Israel continues to deny the Nuclear Whistle Blower Mordechai Vanunu the right to leave the state ever since he emerged from a tomb sized windowless cell in April 2004.

This came after 18 years in jail for telling the world the truth and providing the photographic proof that Israel had manufactured upwards of 200 nuclear warheads in the Dimona's seven-story underground nuclear facility.