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Moroccan Journalists Held in Algeria

"This situation must end." - Younes Mjahed, IFJ Senior Vice President

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Two Moroccan journalists are being denied permission to leave their hotel, subjected to hours of interrogation and their documents withheld, according to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).

"Algerian authorities must respect journalists' right to freedom of movement across the country, especially free access to conflict zones so the public can be properly informed," said Younes Mjahed, IFJ Senior Vice President.

`Red Alert! Red Alert!`

Words our children should never hear over a loudspeaker while in the safety of their school.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - This past Tuesday at approximately 2:30 pm, I received a telephone call from my 15 year old grandson, Brian. "Nonie are you watching the news?"

"No Brian - should I be?" Very calmly and with such maturity, he replied "There has been a shooting at our school -- don't worry we are all fine and in the bleachers in the football field."

Obama Speaks at the UN... Goodbye to Peace

Perhaps most depressing of all was Obama’s statement about the need for an independent Palestinian state. It is required, he said, to provide Israel with “true security”.

(LONDON) - On marks out of ten for his speech to the UN on the subject of ending the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel, I’d give President Obama minus five.

Earlier this month (on 4 September) I wrote a piece with the headline Obama has signalled his coming complete surrender to Zionism and its lobby. That surrender, it seems to me, is now effectively a fait accompli.

Israeli Action Against Gaza Flotilla `Unlawful` -UN Human Rights Council Panel

“It betrayed an unacceptable level of brutality. Such conduct cannot be justified or condoned on security or any other grounds. It constituted grave violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law.”

(GENEVA) - Israeli forces violated human rights and international humanitarian law during the 31 May incident involving a convoy of aid ships bound for Gaza, the United Nations Human Rights Council’s international, independent fact-finding mission has concluded.

In a 56-page report, the fact-finding mission, which is separate from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s four-member panel of inquiry into the same incident, found that the action of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in intercepting one of the ships, the Mavi Marmara, on the high sea was “clearly unlawful.”

The Nature Conservancy Pledges $20 Million to Expand Water Funds

President and CEO Mark Tercek: “By protecting these water resources today, local communities are ensuring there will be clean drinking water and healthy natural systems for future generations”

(New York, NY ) - Today at the Clinton Global Initiative, Mark Tercek, The Nature Conservancy’s President and CEO, announced a $20 million pledge to help protect drinking water for 12 million people in Latin America and more than 80 thousand hectares of natural areas. Five million of the amount has been awarded to the Conservancy by the Global Environment Facility’s Earth Fund through the Inter-American Development Bank. The Conservancy will raise the remaining $15 million primarily from local investors, including municipalities, water utilities and corporations.

Global warming, deforestation, pollution and other environmental pressures are shrinking the planet’s clean water supply. The Nature Conservancy is working hard to find innovative solutions, such as launching water funds across Latin America that pay to protect the parks, trees and grass surrounding key waterways — thereby helping to provide fresh water today and into the future.

Champlain CBP Officers Thwart Major Ecstasy Smuggling Attempt

The Ecstasy seized by CBP has a street value of approximately $2.1 million

(Champlain, N.Y.) - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Field Operations today announced the seizure of approximately 62 pounds of methylene-dioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), better known as the club-drug “Ecstasy.” The seizure resulted in the arrest of two Canadian citizens.

CBP Sizes more than 1.1 million worth of hard narcotics

(Calexico, Calif.) - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Calexico ports of entry made three significant hard narcotics seizures over the weekend worth over $1.1 million dollars.

The first seizure occurred on Friday, Sept. 17, at about 4 a.m. at the Calexico downtown port when a CBP officer conducting inspections of travelers entering the United States referred the driver of a 1997 Dodge Caravan and his passenger, both 23-year-old males, to the secondary area for further investigation

Protection of Civilians and IDP`s Must Take Priority in DRC

An example of this was seen last month when over 200 women were gang raped within 20 miles of a UN stronghold.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Human Rights Watch is calling on the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the UN peacekeeping mission to provide greater emphasis to the protection of the nearly two million people displaced in the conflict-ridden eastern part of the country.

PTSD and Anti-Depressant Drugs: the Worst Notorious Modern Medical Fraud

A side comment is that the drug companies have sold the idea to the Veterans Administration and they prescribe these drugs by the ton to PTSD Veterans.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I’m sure some people will take umbrage at my title. Keep on reading. First of all there are about 30 of them – why? It’s easy, most don’t work. In fact placebos (fake sugar pills) frequently work better.

Irvine Great Park Inherits Contaminants Part II

Irvine City Council Great Park Update: Questions Outnumber Answers
“Nature, red in tooth and claw…Dragons of the prime that tare each other in their slime.” - Lord Tennyson

(IRVINE, Calif.) - Well folks, there was tooth, fang and claw aplenty at the September 14, 2010 Irvine City Council meeting, a hearing that more closely resembled the jostling of a mud-infused mosh pit than civil discourse.

All I got out of it was that the rehab continues to reflect guesses about the volumes, persistence and vague timelines and strategies of contaminant remediation.