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`Camp Lejeune A Hearing`

The few, the proud, the Disenfranchised...

(CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.) - On 16th September Congressman Brad Miller, Chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology’s Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight held a hearing about Camp Lejeune water contamination.

A live webcast was available and I watched most of the transmission in real time. The press releases on what occurred are very much a matter of record.

An Open Letter to Kings, Presidents and Prime Ministers of Islamic Countries

Written and suppressed in 2003; read it now...

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - As you all are aware that presently the entire Muslim world is under going a tremendous pressure seldom witnessed in history. Like most, I am sure you all must also be worried over the situation.

We all jointly but you the leaders in particular have a great responsibility to discharge. The anti Islamic forces over the ages have been very active and aggressive in their aims and goals.

Demands of Independent Investigation into Death of Cameroonian Journalist

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is calling on the Cameroonian government to quickly open an independent investigation into the death of journalist Cyrille Germain Ngota Ngota alias Bibi Ngota.

“We are surprised by the bias in the report presented by the Cameroonian authorities which purports to validate simply the official version conveyed shortly after the tragic incident,” declared Gabriel Baglo , Director of IFJ Africa office.

A Retrospective Analysis of the `Wikileaks Crisis`

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - On 25 July 2010, the New York Times carried an explosive story by Mark Mazzetti, Jane Perlez, Eric Schmitt and Andrew W. Lehren about some 92,000 classified Pentagon documents which had passed into the hands of Wikileaks, a Sweden-based whistleblower website headed by Julian Assange.

Ostensibly, the leak sent shock waves through the US Administration – not just for the sheer volume of the leaked material but also because the revelations could significantly affect the course of the war in Afghanistan.

Behind Federal Government`s Lies: Real Economic Numbers Prove US in Great Depression

They're using skewed numbers based on a purposefully misleading method of calculating the number. At best they're liars, at worst, criminals.

(CHICAGO) - The US government has been playing with the economic numbers for years and now the statistics have become nothing more than a carnival shell game.

Amber Alert Canceled for 10 Year Old North Carolina Girl

If anyone has any information that will assist investigators in finding Zahra, please call the Hickory Police Department at 828-328-5551, or 911.

(HICKORY, N.C.) - Hickory Police, N.C. Police investigators say they are working several leads that specifically address missing girl Zahra Clare Baker's life before she disappeared.

Investigators will interview her former teachers at schools in Caldwell County, NC. The family also lived at several different addresses recently, and investigators will interview those neighbors who may have known the family and Zahra.

UN Hones in on Female Genital Mutilation

(VICTORIA, B.C.) - Gender justice was a focus at the UN Summit on the progress of the Millennium Development Goals in New York.

United States War Veterans Gain Access to Medicinal Marijuana

For the US, it’s part of a slow, broad shift away from the old cultural ramparts erected in the 1960s and 1970s by the conservative "silent majority" and the tie-dyed, antiwar masses on the left.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The military culture and the counterculture once stood apart across a great divide in the United States, one side waving red, white and blue, the other side letting its freak flag fly — often through a cloud of cannabis.

Times change...

What Not to Bring to a Lie Detector Test

(OLYMPIA, Wash.) - Background investigators for the Washington State Patrol “threw the book” at a prospective employee last week. The book, in this case, was owned by the applicant himself.
The incident played out as Criminal Records Manager Heather Anderson was arriving for a meeting at State Patrol headquarters. She happened to look in the car parked next to hers. On the seat was a book titled “How to Beat the Lie Detector.”

The State Patrol is hiring, so Anderson contacted the Human Resources division. “Running any candidates through the process today?” she asked. “Why, yes,” replied Captain Jay Cabezuela. “There’s a fellow taking his polygraph exam right now.”

ODFW Seeks Comments on Plan to Restore Upper Willamette Salmon and Steelhead

(SALEM, Ore.) - Three state and federal agencies are hosting a series of four public meetings on the soon-to-be released plan to restore spring chinook and winter steelhead populations in the upper Willamette River Basin. The meetings are sponsored by the State of Oregon’s Governors Natural Resources Office, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Marine Fisheries Service.

The Upper Willamette River Salmon and Steelhead Conservation and Recovery Plan is a roadmap to help rebuild spring chinook salmon and steelhead populations in the Willamette Basin.