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Food & Water Watch: Now they`re engineering our apples!

Even major food companies like Gerber and McDonald's, have already said that they won't use the GE apple. We need to show the USDA that the public — that's you — overwhelmingly opposes this freakish fruit.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - You've seen the stories, maybe on the Internet, maybe on your local news. It's a gross curiosity: someone shows off junk food that they claim they've had for 40 years, but it looks like it was made yesterday.

These stories give us all the creeps, because it's just not natural for food not to decay. You should feel the same way about genetically engineered (GE) apples — these "Arctic" apples won't turn brown when you cut them up!

Hamid Karzaï: `The United States behaves in Afghanistan like a colonial power`

There is corruption in Afghanistan, no doubt. There is corruption within the Afghan system, no doubt. There is corruption also within the international community, especially regarding American contracts and the way those contracts are implemented. - Hamid Karzai

(KABUL Le Monde.fr) - In a interview with Le Monde, afghan president, Hamid Karzaï, blames the United States for acting like a "colonial power" in the way it "pressures" Kaboul to sign a security agreement.

This accord is meant to provide military assistance to Afghanistan after 2014. M. Karzaï says he is not ready to sign it unless certains conditions are met.

Drones over Tijuana

“It’s a strategy against delinquency. The public complains about home burglaries and robberies on mass transportation,” - Tijuana Mayor Jorge Astiazaran Orci

(LAS CRUCES , NM) - If Tijuana’s new municipal government has its way, drones will fly over the northern Mexican border city in 2014.

Tijuana Mayor Jorge Astiazaran Orci, a member of President Pena Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party, said his administration is working with a California firm to deploy small drones as a means of fighting crime and carrying out other public safety tasks like detecting fires.

#CostsOfRepeal: Congressman Walden Would End $109 Million Local Investment in Oregon Community Health Centers

“The mounting price tag for Congressman Walden’s reckless obsession with repealing the Affordable Care Act is devastating...” - Emily Bittner of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Congressman Greg Walden’s plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act would end new significant local investments in community health centers.

This includes $109 million in Oregon instead sending us back to an old, broken system that gave insurance companies free rein and left millions of Americans to get their only care in emergency rooms, driving up costs for everyone.

Sheer Determination: My Coping Clues

Absorbing a vast vocabulary resulted in developing anecdotes and analogies that better expressed my feelings and thoughts and avoiding the trap of cliches.

(SALEM) - Lately I've been doing a lot of retrospect about the path my life has taken and a bit about the roots of my tenacity. Those tentative discoveries.

I would say these are my Five Fundamentals of Coping with Conflict. If you possibly could fine-tune any of these to your lifestyle dynamics, by all means, be my guest!

On Kitzhaber and the Oregon legislature

Government has taken an oath of loyalty to the state. Citizen voters should consider the politicians responsible for these giveaways recallable or impeachable.

(PORTLAND, OR) - With only a handful of exceptions, Oregon’s Democratic governor Kitzhaber and the Dem state legislature grovel before Nike, Intel and the corporate 1% and shower them with our taxpayer's money.

A NYT reports on how Washington’s political leaders (also Dems) grovel before Boeing and the possible consequences of workers refusal (so far) to accept it.

Abby Martin on the Iran Contra & the CIA Cocaine Conspiracy

Our writer Tosh Plumlee is one of the CIA pilots who blew the whistle on the whole thing.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - In this video, RTV's Abby Martin calls out an article from New York Magazine that suggests the CIA's connection to cocaine trafficking is a mere conspiracy theory.

This is a subject covered regularly on Salem-News.com, and also in the book co-authored by Robert O'Dowd and Tim King, Betrayal: Toxic Exposure of U.S. Marines, Murder and Government Cover-up.

SRI LANKA: Avoiding The UNSC For An International Investigation

There are several ways of avoiding the UNSC for a trial to commence against accused war criminals.

(LONDON) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) remains relatively new, formed in 2002, to address allegations of war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and serious violations of international law.

The Rome Statute remains the founding legislation of the court which expressly states the conditions required for taking up a situation for both investigations and trial. There are several ways in which this may occur and begin with the provisions detailed in Article 12 of the Rome Statute, all which require the concerned party to be a member of the court in some way.

Where is Palestine`s Mandela?

The last thing Netanyahu wants is a Palestinian leader who commands the respect of his people and will not accept crumbs from Zionism’s table.

(LONDON) - The answer to my headline question is that he, Marwan Barghouti, is in an Israeli jail where he has been since his arrest in Ramallah by an IDF unit in 2002, after which, in 2004, he was sentenced to five life terms in prison.

Some months before his arrest one of Israel’s security agencies tried and failed to assassinate him. A missile was fired at his bodyguard’s car and killed the bodyguard. (If the attempt on Barghouti’s life had succeeded, his killers would not have been brought to justice because as well as bulldozing Palestinian homes and stealing Palestinian land and water, Israel kills, murders, with impunity).

Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam`s (TGTE) 2nd Parliament Inaugurated

Group also elects Prime Minister and Speaker, while urging that Sri Lanka be expelled from the Commonwealth and to reject South Africa sponsored Truth & Reconciliation initiative.

(LONDON) - Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam, which was formed after the mass killing of Tamils in the final months of the Sri Lanka war in 2009, completed its first Parliamentary term and inaugurated its second Parliamentary term on December 6, 2013.

The newly elected 112 TGTE Members of Parliament (MPs) met from December 6th to 8th in New Jersey in the United States to take oaths and to inaugurate the second Parliamentary term. Some MPs joined via video conference from Zurich, Switzerland.