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BBC Goes Out on a Thin Limb To Illustrate Israeli Land Theft

"How long will the people involved stay in their jobs?" - Anthony Lawson

(SALEM) - A team from The BBC has stepped onto a long and fragile limb with this new video. It pokes the Israeli apartheid system right in the gut. Israel's political platform is based on the belief that the Jews can do anything they want because they are God's "Chosen People".

If anyone objects they are called an antisemite. The system has been in place for years, but these days the rhetoric is wearing thin.

Underground Nuclear Explosion At Crippled Japan Atomic Plant Shocks World

Russian experts now warn that Fukushima's pollution is spreading all over Earth

(FUKUSHIMA EU Times) - An ominous edict was issued from the Office of the President of Russia last week.

It orders all Ministries of the Russian Government ordering that all “past, present and future” information relating to Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster now be rated at the highest classification level “Of Special Importance” states that this condition is “immediately and urgently needed” due to a series of underground nuclear explosions occurring at this crippled atomic plant on 31 December as confirmed by the Ministry of Defense (MoD).

Senior Home Residents Often Shortchanged

Are our public policy makers in hibernation? It's past time to wake up!

(SALEM) - There's a major difference between living in a senior retirement home and a nursing center facility. That first category lacks healthcare supervision. In essence, it's like a hotel for the elderly.

Yes, you do get three square meals as part of your rent ticket. But the emphasis is on creating tasty dishes....and not necessarily healthy ones. In fact, for many seniors, mealtime is their primary social outlet. People form clusters for chitchat to have a sense of constancy. That's to counterbalance the sense of loss these older folks get daily from conditions they cannot control.

Crisis in the California Courts

Californians do not deserve rationed justice. It is time for the legislative and executive branches to infuse more money into the judiciary.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Last year, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, and San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi made statements on the importance of adequate funding for the California courts.

Why? Because the California state court system -- the largest in the world - is in crisis.

US Peace Brokers - `Neutral` in Favour of Israel

They were brought up on the narrative of one side. From childhood on, they have internalized the history and the terminology of one side (ours). They couldn’t even imagine that the other side has a different narrative, with a different terminology.

(LONDON Redress News & Analysis) - A former Israeli army chief of staff, a man of limited intelligence, was told that a certain individual was an atheist. “Yes,” he asked, “but a Jewish atheist or a Christian atheist?”

Lenin, in his Swiss exile, once inquired about the party affiliation of a newly elected member of the Duma. “Oh, he is just a fool!,” his assistant asserted. Lenin answered impatiently: “A fool in favour of whom?”

The Skanner News Update January 3, 2014

Includes "The Skanner Foundation's 2014 Martin Luther King Breakfast," "U.S. Mayors' Report: More Americans Homeless and Hungry," "Legal Marijuana Sales Bring Buyers to Colorado" and more...

(PORTLAND, OR) - The Skanner is a website and newspaper published in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington. Established in 1975, The Skanner News Group has advanced the cause of the Black Press in the North Western United States.

Through the newspapers and the Web site The Skanner has provided regional and national corporate advertisers a variety of methods to effectively market their products and services to our readers.

Brilliant Thoughts by Great Thinkers

My choice of quotable thinkers hasn't been to those best known but to writers and speakers that many miss. Their ideas are all worth thinking about.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - A favourite pastime of mine involves reading brilliant thoughts of wise men and women. I see their words, think about them, and save their messages when I believe they're worth keeping, rereading and sharing.

Sometimes these thoughts provide healthy advice for personal development, like this observation by Mohandas Gandhi: "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

Ground Zero: Working to Build The World House in 2014

Let us resolve in this New Year to reach out and engage more people to say YES to a world without Trident and all nuclear weapons... YES to a world that looks a whole lot more like Dr. King's "World House."

(BANGOR, WA) - Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action is leaping out of the starting gate this New Year with a fresh issue of the January 2014 Ground Zero Newsletter!!!

From saying NO To NEW TRIDENT to the continuing legal action against the Bangor Second Explosives Handling Wharf, the GZ Newsletter is all the news that's fit to print, and then some.

Is it Really The Guardian of the Truth or has it Become The Guardian of Zion?

Freedland probably waited for Ariel Sharon to die in order to spread his laughable reading of history, just to make sure that the ‘immortal Sharon’ would not bounce back and dismiss this gross interpretation as complete nonsense.

(LONDON) - In a uniquely dishonest piece, The Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland paid a tribute today to Israel’s veteran PM Ariel Sharon.

According to Freedland, Sharon, “as one of Israel's founders… had the credibility to give up occupied territory – and even to face the demons of 1948”. Freedland speculates also that “Sharon's final mission might well have been peace.” This is indeed a big statement, but how does Freedland support his creative historical account?

Former Deputy Arrested for Criminal Mistreatment and Assault, Four Year Old in Critical Condition‏

The 4 year old boy, the son of Michael Abo's girlfriend, was transported to OHSU via Life Flight helicopter and remains in critical condition. Investigators believe that the injuries to the 4 year old were a result of physical abuse caused by Mr. Abo.

(MCMINNVILLE) - Michael Shane Abo, 29 years of age, was arrested early this morning during the execution of a search warrant at 420 NW Evans Street in Sheridan, Oregon.

Abo was taken into custody without incident and lodged at the Yamhill County Correctional Facility.