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Cold Case Team Solves 23-Year Old Homicide Case

This case was a collaborative effort between the Cold Case Unit, the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office and the Oregon State Police Forensic Laboratory.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Cold case investigators in Portland have brought an end to a case more than two decades ole. The Portland Police Bureau reports that on Friday, June 11, 2010, 67-year-old James Samuel Owens was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of 42-year old Nancy Eileen Converse.

Shocking Testimonials from the Mavi Marmara Survivors, & one Israeli Fembot

Shocking Testimonials from the Mavi Marmara survivors. And one Israeli fembot.

(LONDON) - One of the most striking trends following the flotilla attack has been how quickly Israeli hasbara is being exposed by internet journalists.

The doctored IOF audio clips, where amateurs with mock Arab accents hiss ‘Go back to Aushwitz’ to Israeli naval officers.

Arizona`s Illegal Immigration Problem

The history of illegal immigration and illegal war in the South-Western states is an interesting and informative one.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Arizona Senate Bill 1070 has gained the State a great deal of attention recently. Typically, no one would care about the pronouncements of the so called government of that backwater hell hole, but the sheer Nazism of the law was enough to perk even international interest.

The normally subdued Economist led with the headline “Hysterical Nativism.”

Israeli Forces Release Distinguished Educator Under Threat of Future Harm

Low to mid-ranking Israel police allowed to treat American professors in degrading ways.

(BETHLEHEM) - I was released from detention after investigation only with minor bruises, threats and warnings but both Israeli activists.

Schneider Trial Week 7

"Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals" - Napoleon Bonaparte

(WICHITA, Kansas) - U.S. District Judge Monti Belot expects to send the Schneider case to the jury next Tuesday.

The jury is down to 11 people after another juror was discharged this week. Both the prosecution and defense have agreed that 11 jurors can decide the fate of the Schneiders.

BP Oil Spill - A Poem

Sure, free access said the BP executives yet the media is denied,

(LOS ANGELES) - For many the BP Oil Spill scandal has become something too large to grasp or properly react to. There is little progress, regardless of what they say, and there is the knowledge of it being an expression of greed, pushing Mother Nature's boundaries.

The lack of containment places wildlife in serious jeopardy, and an endless series of lies are an attempt to offer lame excuses by oil conglomerate BP.

Require US Businesses to Hire Wounded Warriors

It does not matter whether you consider the wars these young men and women were injured in as just or unjust. You must realize that each of them believed that they were serving our country.

( Harrisville, N.H.) - The Wounded Warrior Mentor Program was initially organized to match volunteer mentors to wounded warriors. Several members of the West Point class of 1958 founded the program when it became apparent that many wounded warriors needed more attention than the Army could provide.

The program includes Walter Reed, Bethesda Naval Hospital, Ft. Meade, Ft. Belvoir, Ft. Gordon and other areas.

Clean Water Whenever

Dispersants Create Unabated Toxic Soup Everywhere, America’s Streams, Lakes and Coasts Under Stress.

(LAGUNA BEACH) - America and the rest of the literate world is getting up to speed regarding the potential long-term negative impacts of oil dispersion compounds. If ignorance is bliss, we’re no longer happy-idiot, blind petroleum idolaters.

In fact, ALL of our fragile watery ecosystems are going going gone, and the basic health of the people who are trying to clean up the Gulf mess is becoming a point of contention and distress.

Les Paul Foundation Launches Interactive Website and Community Outreach Programs

Guitar legend Jeff Beck will mark Les Paul's 95th birthday by performing at The Iridium Jazz Club in New York City on June 8th and 9th.

(NEW YORK) - Today would have been Les Paul's 95th birthday. To mark the occasion of the late guitar great, the Les Paul Foundation debuts a new, interactive website lespaulfoundation.org and announces the nonprofit organization's newly formed community programs.

"Les was such a people person that this intersection of community outreach and interactive website is very much his persona," says Les Paul Foundation trustee Jeff Salmon.

Urgent appeal: Bring back the Israeli Foreign Ministry Website!

As for more romantic labels applied to Gaza-related fatalities, Operation Summer Rains of 2006 has recently been joined by Operation Sea Breeze, the euphemism for the flotilla attack.

(ISTANBUL) - For over a week here in Turkey, I have been unable to access the website of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At first I assumed the site was down for routine maintenance purposes and to allow experts time to craft an explanation—possibly with accompanying video—of how the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were merely trying to engage humanitarian activists on board the Mavi Marmara in a friendly game of paintball.