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VA Care: Fake Doctors and Fake Treatment

Phillip Leveque has spent his life as a Combat Infantryman, Physician Pharmacologist and Toxicologist.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - As a pharmacologist and PTSD victim, I try to keep up with what is going on in these two interrelated matters. Web sightings on the computer indicated 86 pages related to these subjects.

One of the most interesting to me was an article by William Levesque (he is a cousin but according to my French Dictionary he doesn’t spell his last name correctly!). He printed in the Tampa Times that the Tampa area VA Hospital was staffed mostly by unlicensed psychologists. This seems very bad to me. How come psychologists are treating PTSD, a medical problem? Are any doing brain surgery? It’s just one step up.

He writes that Tampa’s VA Hospital has 34 psychologists but 12 are not only unlicensed but have little if any supervision by a licensed psychologist and apparently Psychiatrists or regular Physicians are not in the mix. THIS IS A NEGLIGENCE CATASTROPHE. The VA says it doesn’t matter. If it doesn’t matter, why the Fake Treatment with Fake Doctors?

Amber Alert Issued for Illinois Baby

Anyone with information should call 312 745 6004 or dial 911.

(CHICAGO) - The Illinois State Police Department has issued an Amber Alert over a missing seven-month old baby, who reportedly disappeared after the vehicle the child was in was stolen.

Authorities say the child is Osial Hernandez, a Hispanic male child.

At this point, police in Illinois way the suspect who stole the vehicle with the child inside remains unknown.

The stolen vehicle is a light green 2003 Dodge Caravan, with Illinois license plate X533131.

Two Men Remain Missing After Boat Capsizes at Tillamook Bay

The Coast Guard spent the day searching Tillamook Bay for the missing men.

(TILLAMOOK, Ore.) - The Coast Guard says they responded to a capsized fishing vessel near the north jetty at Tillamook, Oregon this morning.

A Coast Guard 47-foot smallboat crew from Station Tillamook Bay, reported the capsizing of the 40-foot fishing vessel Network and immediately responded to the area.

The Coast Guard Station Tillamook Bay confirmed there were three people on board the vessel. One of the three men managed to swim to shore and was picked up by Coast Guard and fire crews from Rockaway Beach and Garibaldi, Oregon.

Ancient Marijuana Stash Discovered in Chinese Tomb

This ancient batch of marijuana was reported to have a fairly high content of THC, the main ingredient in cannabis.

(OTTAWA ) - Opponents of marijuana have called foul over the belief that the herb has actually been used for thousands of years; and now their arguments will fall silent as a researcher announces locating a stash of marijuana in a Chinese tomb that is scientifically dated at 2,700 years old.

Thanksgiving Day Fire in Woodburn Results in No Injuries

Nobody was home at the residence when a passer by called 911 to report the fire.

(WOODBURN, Ore.) - The Woodburn and Aurora Fire Districts were called into action on Thanksgiving Day for a house fire in the 17000 block of Butteville Road.

A spokesman for Woodburn Fire says the initial response at 10:26 AM included three engines, three tenders, a ladder truck and an air support unit.

While responding to the call as a possible fire, dispatch received updated information confirming the house was on fire. Arriving on scene, Woodburn Engine 21 reported a two story farm house with heavy fire showing from the front.

Interstate 5 Closes for Hours Over Fatal Pedestrian Crash

The fatal vehicle vs pedestrian crash happened on Interstate 5 at the Donald/Aurora Interchange.

(WILSONVILLE, Ore.) - Oregon State Police say a 17-year old boy from Washington died Thanksgiving evening when he was struck by a car while trying to run across the southbound lanes of Interstate 5 at the Donald/Aurora interchange.

Oregon State Police Sergeant Dale Young says that at approximately 5:25 PM, a 2005 Hyundai Accent driven by 24-year old Casey Reanne Stone of Salem, was southbound in the left lane of Interstate 5 near milepost 278 when the victim attempted to run from the west side of the freeway to the east side. The victim ran in front of the Hyundai and was struck.

The victim, identified as 17-year old Alan M. Bautista of Auburn, Washington came to rest on the inside median shoulder. He was pronounced deceased at the scene.

View from `The Group W Bench`

“Group W's where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after committing your special crime..." - Arlo Guthrie

(SALEM, Ore.) - Several years ago, my husband, Bill, and I were listening to Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving classic, “Alice’s Restaurant.” This song tells the story of a Thanksgiving celebration with hilarious and unforeseen consequences, including an arrest for littering and an impact on Mr. Guthrie’s experience with the Vietnam War draft.

Bill and I have been listening to the song every year since we met nearly twenty years ago, but on Thanksgiving Day, 2004, I felt as though I was hearing part of it for the first time.

Earlier in the spring of that year, after dipping my toes into the waters of politics in Maryland, Bill and I decided to pack up and move our family to Oregon. Our primary reason for moving was so that I could take the medicine I need, cannabis, without breaking the law.

Analysis From Jane’s Country Risk Daily Report on the Mumbai attacks

Comment from Jane’s South Asia Analyst, Urmila Venugopalan.

(LONDON) - “An unknown group, Deccan Mujahideen, has reportedly claimed responsibility for the attacks via email, although this has yet to be verified.” Jane’s South Asia Analyst, Urmila Venugopalan, commented. “Nevertheless, it has triggered speculation that the group may be linked to the Indian Mujhaideen, which sent email manifestos claiming responsibility for four attacks it carried out between November 2007 and September 2008.”

Jane’s Country Risk Daily Report explained that an examination of the strategy and tactics employed by this new group suggest significant differences to the terrorist violence that has beset India over the past 15 years and specifically over the past year.

Attacking international and luxury hotels and other soft targets is not a new phenomenon in the region, particularly in light of the September 2008 Mariott bombing in Islamabad that killed more than 50 people, but the apparent focus on killing or capturing foreign businesspeople, specifically US and UK nationals, has never occurred before, suggesting a wider global anti-Western agenda.

Meet California`s Lawless Sheriff

Law? What law? Patrick Hedges just makes his own and calls in federal forces on the citizens of his county when he needs more muscle.

(SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.) - The dark ages have descended upon sunny San Luis Obispo, California, where a sheriff has made a personal mission out of punishing a legal medical marijuana dispensary owner. Threats, intimidation, and an absolute and total disregard for his own state laws describe the SLO-town Sheriff Patrick Hedges, to the embarrassment of many.

Op-Ed: Responsible Revolution
Can Reverse Malign
Corporate Controls

Defense of freedoms demands every citizen's action.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Few citizens in our United States completely comprehend how thoroughly corporate control has infiltrated governance, and how it deprives them of treasured Constitutional freedoms.

Apathetic, uninformed acceptance of supposed “the way it is”-status is the stunning reflection of WHY so much, for so many, goes so thoroughly wrong --when it truly didn’t used to be that way.

How did this happen to us?