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Farewell Miss Lewis -- We Will Miss Your Happy Smile

After spending our lives placing our faith in doctors, it is very difficult to disagree when one tells us we are fine.

(EUGENE) - For the past fifteen years I have been having my hair cut at the local beauty college.

For those unaware, one can have their hair done at these colleges at a fraction of the cost of regular salons. The quality is sometimes unpredictable, but working with the students can be fun and we are helping them learn.

250 People Feared Dead in Badakhshan Landslide

Provincial police chief Fazluddin Ayar confirmed that over 250 people were trapped following a landslide in Aab Khoshk village.

(KABUL Khaama Press) - Around 250 people were feared dead following a landslide in the northeastern Badakhshan province of Afghanistan. According to local government officials, the incident took place in Argu district and dozens of others have been trapped under the rocks.

Human Rights Ambassador Calls To End Rohingya Genocide

Salem-News.com Human Rights Ambassador joins global community calling to end Rohingya Genocide.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Recently William Nicholas Gomes, Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com, joined 33 organizations and 32 global citizens calling for an end to the Rohingya Genocide.

Mr. Gomes said, "I am closely observing the situations and I have raised the issues with international leaders and specifically with British government."

Tasering Taxpayers to Death in Salem

The bottom line is that the Salem Police adopted this dangerous, controversial practice knowing how serious of a threat the "taser" is to the people it is used against.

(SALEM) - FOX-12 showed video this week of a Salem Police officer confronting a skateboarder at the Salem Transit Mall, then shooting him with a taser in a way that seems extremely unnecessary.

Salem Police know how dangerous the taser can be. In fact they exemplified the dark side of the act once when one of their own senior supervisors was tased during training a number of years ago, falling and receiving a very serious head injury.

President Barack Obama HD White House Correspondents` Association Dinner 2014

"Gridlock has gotten so bad, you've got to wonder, what did we do to piss off Chris Christie so bad," - Barack Obama

(WASHINGTON DC) - President Barack Obama at 2014 white house correspondents association dinner watch president Barack Obama joke the white house correspondents association dinner 2014 took aim at Republicans, the media — and himself — at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner - beginning and ending with the botched rollout of Healthcare.gov.

"I usually start these dinners with a few self-deprecating jokes, but after my stellar 2013, what could I possibly talk about?" the president joked.

Alicia Silverstone Nixes Circumcision

Jewish actress cites medical studies in speaking out against performing a ‘brit’ in her latest book

(TEL AVIV) - In her new book, “The Kind Mama: A Simple Guide to Supercharged Fertility, a Radiant Pregnancy, a Sweeter Birth, and a Healthier, More Beautiful Beginning,” the celebrity explains her personal decision not to circumcise her son, Bear, according to the website Beyond the Bris: News and Views on Jewish Circumcision.

"I was raised Jewish, so the second my parents found out that they had a male grandchild..."

15th Annual Global Marijuana March Brings Crowds to Potland

Oregonians put one foot in front of the other to end marijuana prohibition.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Nearly a thousand people of all ages and physical abilities marched through the streets of downtown Portland today for the 15th annual Global Cannabis March under cloudy skies and enduring intermittent rain.

There were musicians playing, people singing, kazoos humming. It was a colorful and entertaining time for one and all.

Each one - Teach one

Minorities are divided into two groups, some are in favor of the present electoral system, and others are struggling to restore the democratic electoral system for minorities.

(ISLAMABAD) - Pakistan came into being in 1947 under the leadership of Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Jinnah had repeatedly promised equality of citizenship, but this promise was not kept by his successors.

Pakistan became an Islamic Republic in 1956, making Islam the source of legislation and cornerstone of the national identity, while guaranteeing freedom of religion and equal citizenship to all citizens.

BURMA: Arakan Conference Calls for Creation of ``Arakan Army``

This is a conspiracy against Rohingya Muslims and Arakan Army will be a threat to the life security of Rohingya Muslims. The world community should take measures against this conspiracy which aims to finish the Rohingya generation in Rakhine state. - Nurul Islam

(RANGOON The Irrawaddy) - At a conference in Arakan State’s Kyaukphyu Township in recent days, Arakanese Buddhist politicians, monks and community leaders have called for the creation of an “Arakan National Defense Army” that would protect Buddhist residents from Muslim communities in the state, a conference organizer said.

The five-day Arakan National Conference, which wrapped up on Thursday, was the biggest gathering of ethnic Arakanese representatives in decades and was held amid an ongoing, deadly conflict...

The First Casualty of War is Truth; Gallipoli, the ANZAC Spirit Myth and Waltzing Matilda

We're not made by God to mass kill one another, and that's backed up by the Gospels. Lying and war are always associated. Pay attention to the war-makers when they try to defend their current war. If they’re moving their lips they're lying.” - ex-priest and antiwar activist, the late Philip Berrigan

(DULUTH, MN) - Not too long ago I watched Johnny Got His Gun, the film adaptation of Dalton Trumbo’s famous antiwar novel.

It is about a young American soldier who came home from the trenches of World War One France, having miraculously survived an artillery explosion that blew away his face, as well as both legs and both arms – not to mention his dog tags.