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Off-duty Marion County Deputy Arrested Following Crash

Initial tests indicate that Parson's blood alcohol level was approximately .227

(SALEM, Oregon) - Police arrested an off-duty Marion County deputy on DUII charges after a crash that left a man trapped in his wrecked vehicle, requiring extrication.

Initial tests indicate that 61-year old Dennis Parson's blood alcohol level was approximately .227; nearly three times the legal blood alcohol limit.

Sandy Man Arrested Following Crash Into Power Pole on Highway 26 Near Welches

(WELCHES, Ore.) - A Sandy-area man was arrested Monday on several charges after the pickup he was driving on Highway 26 in the Welches area crashed through a guardrail and struck a power pole causing power lines to drop onto the highway leading to a one hour closure.

According to Oregon State Police (OSP) Trooper Tyler Bechtel, on October 18, 2010 at approximately 4:50 p.m. a 2006 Ford F150 pickup driven by Ronald Lewis Underwood, age 45, from Sandy, was eastbound on Highway 26 near milepost 39 in the right hand lane.

Social Security Outrage: Senior Citizens Are Being Cheated by Government

The government's latest scheme with social security...

(CHICAGO) - Former vice-president and presidential candidate Al Gore famously repeated that Social Security is in a "lock box." Actually nothing could be further from the truth.

From its inception under the Roosevelt Administration, the Social Security system has been nothing but a government sponsored Ponzi scheme. To work it relied on each successful generation being larger than the last. Eventually, like an illegal chain letter, it had to implode.

Calgary Elects Canada`s First Muslim Mayor

Nenshi’s election is apparently the result of a resurgent youth in the city.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - The political tectonic plates in Alberta shifted on Monday when Calgary, a city widely perceived to be the most conservative in the country, elected 38-year-old Naheed K. Nenshi to the post of Mayor.

I only first heard of Nenshi a few days ago when I saw some of his supporters wearing “Nenshi for Mayor” sweatshirts when I was downtown.

Border Activists Target Dollar Store Chain

An El Paso group is now reaching out to potential allies in other cities as it expands the campaign against Family Dollar’s labor policies.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - For more than an hour, business slowed to a trickle at the Family Dollar store in downtown El Paso.

Chanting slogans and hoisting signs, a few dozen picketers marched in disciplined, circular formation on the sidewalk in front of the popular discount store on Stanton Street.

Maidhc Ó Cathail: The United States Fights and Pays for Israel`s Wars

...to paraphrase the neocons, the road to Jerusalem leads through Washington. - Maidhc Ó Cathail

(TEHRAN / OSAKA) - Maidhc Ó Cathail is a widely published Irish author and journalist. He has been living in Japan since 1999. Ó Cathail’s articles and commentaries have appeared on a number of media outlets and newspapers worldwide.

Maidhc joined me in an exclusive interview and responded to my questions about the 9/11 attacks, the influence of the Israeli lobby over the U.S., prospects of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the prolonged controversy over Iran’s nuclear program and the freedom of press in the U.S.

Deadly Pandemic

In 2007, more than 33 million victims lived with the disease.

(MADRID) - According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) there will be a $ 25 million increase to continue and strengthen the fight against AIDS for 2010.

A study carried out by UNAIDS explains that what countries need, along serious actions, are serious investments in order to reach the goals set for 2010.

Everything is Connected and YouTube is telling the Vanunu Saga Now

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - People ask me all the time why I went to occupied Palestine-not just once-but 7 times since 2005 and why do I care so much about such a small plot of real estate.

I reply, that I went the first time to meet a little boy of Bethlehem who changed my life and to be the Christian delegate amongst the Palestinian and Jewish co-founders of the Olive Trees Foundation for Peace an interfaith non-profit dedicated to raising awareness and funds to purchase trees to replace those that have been destroyed by The Wall.

`Jews Brought About the Existence of the ENTIRE Creation` says Rebbe Meachem Schneerson!

This supremacist ideology is precisely the axiomatic nucleus of zionism; an ideology which tries to justify and authenticate to its followers the conquest of other people’s land and homes...

(LONDON) - Thank God I have listened to this before having my dinner, it left my stomach churning of sickness and disgust.

“Every Jew, men and even women and children, brings about the existence of the entire creation, they become masters over the world, and thus every single creation owes them recognition for this good."

Death Investigation in Tillamook

The 47-year old man was pronounced deceased at the scene. His name will be released Tuesday morning.

(TILLAMOOK, Ore.) - Oregon State Police (OSP) troopers, with the assistance of the Tillamook County Medical Examiner, will be continuing an investigation following the death of man found slumped in the driver's seat of his work vehicle at the entrance to the Tillamook Cheese Factory.

There is no indication of foul play.