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El Toro, Hell Toro, or El Toxic ??
Irvine`s Beast of Burden Can`t Hide

The El Toro Marine Base is unfit for habitation; dead Marines do tell tales.

(IRVINE, Calif.) - The ruins of a Marine base in Southern California are a silent reminder of the dishonest tactics of Irvine, Lennar Corp., and the Great Parks Corp.

Their unrealistic plans to build a subdivision on the extremely contaminated MCAS El Toro, will never come to pass.

Amazing Home Birth With the Help of a 911 Dispatcher

At 9:04 this morning, a Salem-area couple delivered their baby, only it wasn't in the hospital, it was in their home.

(SALEM, Ore.) - A dispatcher-in-training helped deliver a healthy baby by proxy today through a 911 call. Kathryn Wheeler had been on the clock for three hours and four minutes when a dad-to-be dialed 911 with the type of call dispatchers can go years without receiving.

Hard Talk: Zionists Occupiers...Heed my call

An Earth Day message from the most politically oppressed place on earth.

(JERUSALEM) - Like most people, I do believe in dialogue and civilized coexistence; like most people, I long to live in dignity and freedom in my homeland; like most people, I yearn for peace and justice for every human.

Like most people, I like to foster loving and trusting relationships with all decent individuals...

Goldman Sachs: Scapegoat for SEC and U.S. Government Shortcomings

Why now? What is the motive to charge Goldman Sachs with fraud?

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Goldman Sachs is one of the oldest and most successful banks on Wall Street, so why two years after the collapse of the financial industry are they now being sought for fraud?

This seems a bit curious that the SEC and U.S. government oversight would wait so long to divulge such a strong impact on investors, not to mention the gearing of another round of financial industry breakdown.

Italian Doctor Believes Reducing Domestic Violence in Afghanistan is Possible

Psychology Professor Dr. Anna Baldry with the NMT-A team, knows they have a big job on their hands.

(SALEM / KABUL / NAPLES) - Tackling domestic violence in Afghanistan - what a daunting task, a nearly impossible proposition in a land so ridden with violence and decades of war.

Jack Herer, Patron Saint of Global Cannabis Movement IN EULOGY

Center stage is exactly where Jack Herer belonged. A talented, “bombastic” man, Jack’s energy was contagious and his legacy is alive and well.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Jack Herer was born June 18th, 1939, in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. In 1940 his family moved to Buffalo, where he was raised, the son of a collection agency manager.

A “normal American nerd”, he grew into a respectable young man, joining the military, getting married and starting a family.

Reefer Madness in District Attorneys & Judges
This Virus is Vicious & Infectious

Part of Reefer Madness virus infection is the thought like Chicken Little – remember him – “the sky is falling, the sky is falling”.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - About 1937 The U.S. Government and Hearst Newspapers produced the moving picture REEFER MADNESS which has become the most grotesque but hilarious movies ever made.

California and Oregon Nurseries Prevail in South Carolina Trade-Restraint Lawsuit

"If the principle of federal preemption had been undermined, then the door would swing open to a patchwork of regulation among the states and marketplace chaos would ensue" - OAN executive director John Aguirre

(SACRAMENTO) - The California Association of Nurseries and Garden Centers and the Oregon Association of Nurseries successfully resolved a federal lawsuit against South Carolina today.

The two associations filed their lawsuit on March 10 challenging a regulation that disrupted shipments of plant material from California and Oregon growers.

Some Things You Just Can`t Google

No doubt, technology can assist in making government more transparent. But, lacking context, Google Government is no substitute for public employees.

(SILVERTON, Ore.) - Efforts are afoot in Oregon to make state government more transparent.

On one hand we have Attorney General John Kroger doing a top to bottom review of our public records law and revamping how his office advises state agencies on their responses to the thousands of requests for information they get each year.

Worldwide Screening of Marijuana Documentary on Defacto Pot Holiday

The film starts in the heavily guarded fields of Northern California’s Emerald Triangle where the longtime growers of “Pineapple Kush” make the transition into the legal world of Medical Marijuana.

(LOS ANGELES) - For years now, Marijuana enthusiasts have adopted April 20th as their own holiday.

This year they celebrate in style with a worldwide screening of How Weed Won the West with its LA screening at Paramount Studios and a 30,000-person march in Toronto, Canada.