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Environment News: Mexico Goes for Gulf Oil

The Mexican navy has announced it is on alert and ready to participate in any actions needed to counter the oil slick.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - A Delaware-sized oil slick contaminating the Gulf of Mexico hasn’t stopped Mexican plans to extract more of the black gold from ocean waters.

Even as the U.S. grapples with the environmental disaster spawned from last month’s oil spill, Mexico's Pemex announces plans to outsource as many as 14 new oil exploitation contracts in the Gulf of Mexico.

Israeli Troops Open Fire on Unarmed Palestinian Men

A new "law" allows Israel to enhance its apartheid government's racist policies, and they keep shooting unarmed people.

(SALEM / GAZA STRIP ) - Israeli troops inured two Palestinian men while they were protesting at the Erez crossing on Tuesday, the International Middle East Media Center reports (IMEMC).

Ahmad Abu Salaf and Mahmoud Sha’baan were deported to the Gaza Strip last month after Israel enforced law #1650 on them. Both are married to Palestinian women that hold Israeli citizenship.

Liberty Radio Hour Features Interview with Salem-News.com`s Tim King

A program about one of America's darkest stories.

(COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho) - One of the most disturbing stories in contemporary military history is the 1967 Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty.

This is one of several subjects discussed by our Tim King, in the latest edition of the The Liberty Hour Radio Program.

National Center for Disaster Fraud to Coordinate Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Fraud Complaints

Beware of individuals posing as government officials who require a processing fee to provide government services.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced today that an existing fraud tip line is now accepting information from the public about suspected fraud associated with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Tips should be reported to the National Center for Disaster Fraud, (866) 720-5721. The line is staffed by a live operator 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

U.S. Consulate Worker in Juarez was Targeted for Assassination

Hit ordered because she refused to commit a fraud, law enforcement sources claim.

(JUAREZ) - The U.S. consulate worker murdered in Juarez in mid-March was approached in the days prior to her death by a man seeking to get her to sign off on an official document absent the proper paperwork.

Her refusal to cooperate with the man led to an order for her assassination from the top level of the Sinaloa drug trafficking organization.

Climate Change Smoke and Mirrors

Sustainability and our current society are incompatible.

(GOLD RIVER, B.C.) - The climate surely is changing, and records do indicate we are having warmer years.

The real area of debate is about cause, more specifically about whether or how much the change is the result of human activity.

Al-Bashir Executes Martial Law to Silence El Fasher Unity: US and UN Unspoken

"I know there are many good, compassionate people in this world, who will listen to us and help us" -Mohammed Yahya

(EL FASHER / PORTLAND) - The last several days have seen the tensions and terror increase inside the state of Darfur; bombings, clashes and protests have left many dead, injured or displaced.

Medical Marijuana Malicious Information: The Oregonian & Portland Tribune
Wrong, Wrong & Wrong Again

Get the Legislature to Legalize the use of marijuana; bankrupt the Mexican Mafia and run them out.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I am repeatedly astonished by the Reefer Madness articles in the newspapers by reporters who are using ignorant scare tactics to reduce or block the use of one of the safest medicines ever found.

The Oregonian almost always has some snide remarks to make about me & marijuana in general based on the Reefer Madness diatribe.

Washington D.C. Council Approves Medical Marijuana Law

Measure Finally Implements 1998 Initiative Supported by 69 Percent of District Voters; Adds D.C. to List of Medical Marijuana Jurisdictions.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Today, by a unanimous vote, the D.C. Council approved amendments to a medical marijuana law first passed in 1998 by 69 percent of District voters.

Congress had blocked implementation of Initiative 59 for more than a decade, until it lifted its ban last year.

The Global Crisis of Legitimacy

The crisis is not just financial or economic, it becomes political.

(WASHINGTON D.C. STRATFOR) - Financial panics are an integral part of capitalism. So are economic recessions. The system generates them and it becomes stronger because of them.

Like forest fires, they are painful when they occur, yet without them, the forest could not survive. They impose discipline, punishing the reckless, rewarding the cautious.