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Viva Palestina Rolls Into Gaza After Violent Attack by Egyptian Police

The Qatar-based Al Jazeera reported that a convoy of eight trucks started crossing the Rafah Terminal.

(GAZA STRIP) - Sources in the Mideast report that the Viva Palestina Convoy, after facing ongoing Egyptian rejection and violent attacks by the Egyptian security forces, started on Wednesday evening to roll into the besieged Gaza Strip.

Thousands of Palestinians, carrying flowers and flags, gathered in the streets while the convoy continued to move in.

Oregon Firefighters Endorse John Kitzhaber

To date, Kitzhaber has received the support of all three labor unions that have made public endorsements.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The Oregon State Firefighters Council announced their endorsement of John Kitzhaber for Governor today. The support of the Firefighters represents the first major public safety endorsement in the 2010 campaign for Governor and gives Kitzhaber another significant labor endorsement.

“We are proud to be an early endorser of Oregon’s next Governor,” said Oregon State Firefighters Council President Kelly Bach.

Nevadans for Sensible Marijuana Laws Submits Petition for 2012 Ballot Initiative

Proposal would create state-regulated marijuana suppliers and retail stores throughout the state.

(CARSON CITY, Nv.) - Today, on the steps of the State Capitol building, the campaign manager for Nevadans for Sensible Marijuana Laws, Dave Schwartz, unveiled the details of a proposed 2012 ballot initiative to establish a taxed and regulated marijuana market in the state of Nevada.

The press conference occurred immediately after Schwartz submitted the initiative petition to the Secretary of State. Submission to the Secretary of State is a prerequisite to circulating the petition throughout the state.

Be Not Jaded in January: A Time for Retrospect

As we look back, that helps to shape the road ahead. It will decide if we are prepared--or impaired!

(SALEM, Ore.) - Ah ha, the Joys of January! Or are we turning jaded? The month which begins our new year is actually named for the Roman god Janus, who had a face looking forward and a mirror-image face poised to look backward. The second undoubtedly implied Retrospect.

But what happens when we look at the year that just transpired? Are we happy or sad--on filled with ire? It all depends on our expectations which will then shape our explanations.

China Jails Tibetan Filmmaker

The India-based Tibetan government-in-exile estimates that 220 Tibetans were killed and 7,000 were detained in a subsequent region-wide crackdown.

(HONG KONG) - Authorities in the northwestern Chinese province of Qinghai have handed down a six-year jail sentence to a Tibetan filmmaker who returned from exile to make a documentary about his homeland, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

The Xilin People’s Court handed down the sentence to Dhondup Wangchen, the producer of the documentary “Leaving Fear Behind,” in a secret trial that found him guilty of “splitting the motherland,” Tibetan sources told RFA’s Tibetan service.

Food for Thought

Moisture rises from the sea and falls on plains, foothills and mountain peaks which flows back to its common beginning in the same way as human lives return to their beginnings by which life spans are determined.

(PASO ROBLES, Calif.) - “Miracles and Modern Spiritualism,” by Alfred Russell Wallace; 1876 - reflect mid-to-late 19th Century thought that possess a level of consistency and truth I refer to as The Dichotomy of Being.

In his book he says: “Inclinations toward Mystery and passions strongly excited by Catholicism that increases religious fervor may give the appearance of truth occurring in the oddest manner, but they exist as fact only in the minds of the faithful by inference.” The cardinal maxim of Spiritualism is that everyone must find truth for himself.

Early Modern Theories of the Imagination and the Work of Art

An explanation of what was at stake for artists like Leonardo, Michelangelo, Albrecht Dürer and Jacques de Gheyn II in the creation of fictive realities such as dragons and chimera.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Distinguished art historian Claudia Swan will deliver the Hogue-Sponenburgh Art Lecture Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Ford Hall, Room 122, at Willamette University.

Swan‘s topic is “Conceptions, Chimeras, Counterfeits: Early Modern Theories of the Imagination and the Work of Art.”

Benny & Sid presents Chapter 15 of the serialized graphic novel The Truant Officer featuring the Mysterious Futoko

Does it require Futoko's understanding of how everyone must be his own teacher and that learning is as essential as food, clothing and shelter?

(Your City, USA) - No matter what the cause, battles are lost or won according to the skills of the leaders of opposing forces. The winner is lauded and the loser vilified.

But what kind of creatures are we that we cannot act in such a way independent of a charismatic leader who must invoke our better selves to produce the desired effect?

Bradbury Backs Industrial Hemp and Medical Marijuana

False facts offered to Americans in the first half of the 20th Century were accepted by an otherwise ignorant public, and guided by an industrial desire to rid the United States of the strongest natural fiber known to man.

(SALEM, Ore.) - We have left messages with the John Kitzhaber's campaign for Governor, asking what his position on medical marijuana is, without reply.

Former Gov. Kitzhaber will face longtime Secretary of State Bill Bradbury in the next Oregon primary, and this equally familiar face in Oregon politics didn't flinch when asked about his position on both Oregon industrial hemp, and medical marijuana.

Egyptian Police Launch Violent Attack Against Humanitarian Aid Convoy

The military might of Israel and Egypt combined, lacks the steel framing these humanitarian activists.

(SALEM/LOS ANGELES/CAIRO) - Israel trains its pet animals well. Hundreds of humanitarians have come under attack while trying to reach Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid.

They have been trying to reach Gaza for weeks, and now their pursuit has led them to ruthless violence at the hands of Egyptian police, under the command of Israel.