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Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton Remark on Developments in Haiti

Remarks were made from the White House Rose Garden this morning.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good morning, everybody. In times of great challenge in our country and around the world, Americans have always come together to lend a hand and to serve others and to do what's right.

That's what the American people have been doing in recent days with their extraordinary generosity and contributions to the Haitian people.

State Dept. Launches Person-Finder Tool to Locate the Missing in Haiti

Secretary Clinton Announces Launch of State.Gov Person Finder Tool for Those Missing in Haiti

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced today the launch of a new tool on state.gov, the “Person Finder,” to allow people to find and share information on missing loved ones in Haiti.

People around the world are turning to the Internet to search for information on friends and family in Haiti: however, accurate information is fragmented and difficult to locate.

Stabbing Death Leads to Murder Charges in Portland (UPDATE)

An adult female stabbing victim was transported immediately to an area hospital, where she died from her injuries.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Police detectives arrested a man on charges of Murder and Unlawful Use of a Weapon, after an early morning stabbing that led to a woman's subsequent death.

Breast Milk Donations Needed for Haiti Quake Victims

A spokesperson for the group says all breast milk donations are screened and pasteurized before delivery.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The World Health Organization and Adventist Medical Center are asking for human breast milk donations to help babies of the Haiti quake, and a Portland, Oregon group is the connection point for those who can help.

The Adventist Medical Center’s breast milk donor depot opened in August 2009 as the only donor depot in Portland, and one of only two donor depots in the Pacific Northwest. It has been the subject of a past Salem-News.com article.

Secretary-General to Travel to Haiti in Show of Solidarity

The UN launched a flash appeal for some $550 million this afternoon.

(NEW YORK) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will travel to Haiti to show solidarity with the people of the impoverished nation.

UN emergency teams on the ground estimate that as many of half of the buildings in the worst-hit areas of the capital have been damaged or destroyed.

Dingell, Stupak, Miller Call on Navy to Fund Camp Lejeune Studies

“The law doesn’t make victims of toxic exposure, or the ATSDR, beg polluters for justice and the necessary funding; the law gives them rights.” - Congressman Brad Miller

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Members of Congress accuse the Navy of delaying efforts to provide a more meaningful understanding of the health problems incurred by former Camp Lejeune residents.

The Navy has failed to provide funding requested by ATSDR for a cohort mortality study and a health survey as required by law.

Medical Teams International Responds to Crisis in Haiti

Their first team landed safely, the second team will leave Sunday, January 17.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Medical Teams International’s first disaster relief team arrived safely in Haiti today with medical personnel from throughout the Pacific Northwest; including Seattle, Portland and Spokane. The second team will leave Sunday, Jan. 17.

The team that arrived today included veteran volunteers Dr. Joe Markee of Portland, Ore. and Dr. Dan Diamond from Bremerton, Wash.

2010: The Year of the GRASS

Green is their signature color. Medicinal marijuana gardeners throughout the state of Oregon enjoyed a plentiful harvest last fall, and look to 2010 as a year of growth, and change.

(SALEM, Ore.) - “After living through arrests in the past for growing marijuana, to be able to do it legally, it’s almost entirely stress-free compared to when it was illegal. So to be able to help the people that need this- it warms our hearts,” said Paul Stanford, Executive Director of The Hemp & Cannabis Foundation.

Game On: Is the U.S. Doing Enough for Haiti?

It is our apparent job to kill for the benefit of the world, isn't it also an obligation to save lives?

(SALEM, Ore.) - History shows us that the U.S. goverment failed to help its own people adequately after Hurricane Katrina struck the residents of Louisiana, Mississippi and several other states.

`The Lost Embrace`, Circumcision and Peace

Our writer in France reviews a movie by Daniel Burman with an unforgettable circumcision scene.

(PARIS) - Marilyn Milos (a nurse founder of the American movement NOCIRC against infantile sexual mutilation) wrote me: “I would put my own body between the scalpel and the baby.”

Reproaching her son to come back home late without warning, the excessive mum of Ariel, the thirty year old or so hero of the movie, also brings her body into play, possibly because of unconscious guilt for having let him be circumcised; why else would she have taken the cake knife that she is holding out to him, saying: “Kill me!”?