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Alzheimer`s: Promising New Therapy in Oregon

Oregon's Medical Marijuana Program is at the forefront of treating Alzheimer's compassionately.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - The Oregonian Newspaper had a story from The New York Times about new collaboratory research for Alzheimer’s. This makes good sense because Alzheimer’s is a very cruel disease which is slow and its victims know they are falling apart over years as their brains turn to mush.

Most have found they can fake it up to a point then all the mushy bricks fall on their heads. Almost none of the heavily advertised drugs really work but big Pharma heavily lauds them anyway. Making lots of money is their business not necessarily helping the sick.

Public Enemy Number One: the American Press

Stealing America's freedoms like a thief in the night...

(CINCINNATI) - It’s 2010 and a few members of congress have noted that we have a corruption problem in Afghanistan. Over a period of 9 years. $2.4 trillion dollars has been stolen with a dozen enquiries, dozens of reports, audits, all saying the same thing.

The “war on terror” was more “pickpocketing” and not so much “Osama bin Waldo.” It’s 2010 and reports are trickling in that, just maybe, terrorist mastermind Osama has been dead for years and years.

Front Row of a Drug War

If current policies and trends continue, the Mexican refugee situation could become an issue for the United Nations.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - They could have been videos from the Middle East or Central Asia. But the images flashed to the crowd at Texas Congressman Silvestre Reyes’ annual border security conference at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) showed graphic scenes from the so-called narco war in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.

After giving a content advisory, the presenter, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official Alonzo Pena, started the show.

Off Duty Salem Cop Doubles as Hero at Detroit Lake

Three individuals worked together to rescue a drowning victim, one was a local Salem school resources officer.

(DETROIT LAKE) - A 15-year old Portland youth was evacuated from Detroit Lake Sunday afternoon, following a near-drowning incident. Deputies from Marion County Sheriff's Marine Patrol, along with Detroit- Lyons Medics, responded to the Hoover boat ramp at about 2:45 p.m.

Don Thomson with the Marion County Sheriff's Office says as it turns out, one of the man's rescuers was an off-duty Salem Police officer.

Bin Laden is Dead; Long Live `Bin Laden`

Who’s keeping the terror myth alive?

(OSAKA, Japan) - In the trigger-happy post-9/11 world, the favoured way to instigate a war is to demand that the designated “evildoer” prove a negative.

Iraq was invaded because it couldn’t prove that it didn’t have WMDs. Iran is under constant threat of attack unless it can demonstrate that it’s not seeking nuclear weapons. And now Pakistan is being chastised for allegedly harbouring Osama bin Laden—who in all probability has been dead and buried for eight years.

Amnesty International Condemns First Taleban Executions by Stoning in Afghanistan Since 2001

So much for justice in Afghanistan.

(KABUL, Afghanistan) - A couple were stoned to death on Sunday for ‘eloping’, in a Taleban-controlled village in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, Amnesty International confirmed today.

“The stoning of this couple is a heinous crime. The Taleban and other insurgent groups are growing increasingly brutal in their abuses against Afghans” said Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific Director.

Social Security: If It Ain`t Broke, Don`t Fix It

We may need to strengthen an already solid Social Security program but one thing we must not do is privatize it.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Privatization of the Social Security program (Program) raised its ugly head again. The annual report of the trustees of Social Security (Report) states that, because of high unemployment, the Program will pay out more this year than it collects in payroll revenues.

History Mysteries: The Legendary Yacumama, Mysterious Monster of the Amazon

The Yacumama real are real. They may even be a previously undiscovered species.

(CHICAGO) - The world is filled with secrets. Many of them it does not give up easily. Empires have risen and empires have fallen in the midst of mysteries-riddles that remained unsolved through the centuries.

One such mystery has haunted the darker, steamier regions of the fabled land of the Amazon. The Amazon, that dark, forbidding river sluggishly twisting its way through Brazil and eight other South American countries. It is a river second in size only to the mighty Nile and it's so wide that no bridge passes over it.

El Toro`s Base Wells, Putting Together the Puzzle

The Navy denies any contamination of the base water supply, despite evidence of contamination in at least two wells.

(IRVINE, Calif.) - The death knell for MCAS El Toro, California, once the premier Marine Corps air station, was sounded in 1985 when trichloroethylene (TCE) was found in three wells during a routine well inspection.

Misplacement of well screens in the shallow contaminated aquifer allowed corrosive salts into the wells and water supply system and increasing the risk of organic solvents like TCE, PCE, vinyl chloride, and benzene entering the base water supply.

Lebanon in Danger of Becoming Hizbullah`s Next Terror Capital

This article was first published on the official website of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon.

(BEIRUT) - Shortly after the termination of the July War four years ago, I visited the south Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil—largely destroyed by Israel—and was invited into the home of a family that had only recently returned to south Lebanon after residing in the United States for a number of years.

The family’s 13-year-old daughter Maryam summarized their wartime experience, which had involved spending approximately 10 days in a basement with dozens of relatives and neighbors and attempting to reconcile themselves to the idea of impending liquidation by Israeli surgical precision.