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Fannie Mae Launches WaysHome Interactive Video Tool to Help Struggling Homeowners

Industry-Leading Video Educates and Empowers Homeowners About Options to Avoid Foreclosure

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Fannie Mae (FNMA/OTC) today launched WaysHome, a free, interactive multi-media tool designed to educate homeowners about their options to avoid foreclosure, empower them to make informed decisions and motivate them to take action and seek help in 2011.

Steve Irwin `The Crocodile Hunter` (In Memorial)

You are gone but not forgotten...

(CLEVELAND) - Marlin Perkins of Wild Kingdom, Jack Hanna, Joan Embery from the San Diego Zoo were mainstays enlightening us to the mores of the animal kingdom.

Today the channels are overwhelmed with croc this, gator that, snake here, tiger there, so on and so forth. And with this flooding of the airwaves, a phrase comes to mind, “often imitated but never duplicated.”

Before Wikileaks Released: `Israel Deliberately Choked Gaza Economy` We Got the `Joke`

"We have seen the enemy and he is US." - Pogo

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - On 5 January 2010, the AFP reported "that Israel deliberately maintained the economy of the Gaza strip 'on the brink of collapse' without 'pushing it over the edge,' a leaked US diplomatic cable from 2008 showed Wednesday.

"According to a cable from the US embassy in Tel Aviv dated November 3, 2008 -- obtained by WikiLeaks and posted online by Norwegian daily Aftenposten -- Israeli officials told US diplomats of their intention to strangle the economy of Gaza.

Why Washington Hates Hugo Chavez

Recently released documents from Wikileaks show that the Obama administration has stepped up its meddling in Venezuela's internal affairs.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - In late November, Venezuela was hammered by torrential rains and flooding that left 35 people dead and roughly 130,000 homeless.

If George Bush had been president, instead of Hugo Chavez, the displaced people would have been shunted off at gunpoint to makeshift prison camps--like the Superdome--as they were following Hurricane Katrina. But that's not the way that Chavez works.

Oregon`s Medical Marijuana Doctor Reviews Up`s and Down`s of 2010

Americans are learning that cannabis poses no threat to their way of life, and in fact may enhance it, with their doctor's okay.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Dr. Phil Leveque and Bonnie King of Salem-News.com discuss the progress and development of medical marijuana.

Though it did not pass, California's Proposition 19 changed the way Americans, not just Californians, looked at the entire subject. Dr. Leveque comments that Proposition 19 and Oregon's Measure 74 brought the broader subject of medicinal use to a new group of people, and increased advocacy of the herb across the entire United States.

Rainier, Oregon Police Chief Dies in Shooting

Deadly shooting that began at a car stereo shop left Rainier's police chief dead.

(RAINIER, Ore.) - The Police Chief of Rainier, Oregon, Ralph Painter, 55, died in a shooting today.

The community in Rainier is shocked; Ralph Painter had many friends and associates in the NW and was highly respected in his role as the city's top lawman.

The Burzynski Witchhunt: Curing Cancer, Saving American Lives, and Dodging Political Bullets

Something about cancer that everyone should know.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Over the past Thanksgiving holiday I had the rare chance to visit family members in California, and my nephew, Chris King, told me the darnedest thing.

Unexplained UFO Mystery: Salem`s Flying Triangle

The craft quietly defied all rational explanations...

(SALEM, Ore.) - Our UFO sighting was in 1988, here in Salem, Oregon. In pursuit of an explanation for it, I formed the theory that having an open mind is the first prerequisite.

Black Panthers and Palestine

The original Black Panther party's position on Palestine's quest for freedom.

(SALEM, Ore.) - There seems to be a clear parallel today between the FBI's arrest of inert bomb suspects; alleged 'terrorists' with Muslim ties, and the extremely prejudiced persecution of the Black Panther Party in the 1960's and 1970's.

I sought to learn what this famous revolutionary group's position is in regard to the movement to free the people of Palestine from Israel's illegal occupation.

In God We Trust On Money? That`s Funny!

Are we losing the rat race?

(CLEVELAND) - We are living in an epic time on this planet; big things are taking place on every level and it is widely believed that we are very possibly entering the final chapter or chapters of life as we know it.