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Clackamas County Corrections Offers FREE Safety-Defense Classes for Women

The classes are November 3; Registration closes October 28.

(CLACKAMAS, Ore.) - Clackamas County Community Corrections and the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office will offer two free public-safety education classes for women ages 14 and older on Sunday, November 3, 2013:

1. The first class, "Personal Protection Strategies for Women," is a classroom presentation from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and will discuss:

• Profiles of offenders
• Where you are most at risk
• Personal self-defense techniques
• Strategies for dating safety
• Personal defense devices and weapons of opportunity
...

Salem Police Host 8th Annual Halloween Dress Rehearsal

Free Hot Chocolate and some Halloween Safety lessons for kids that come to rehearsal!

(SALEM, Ore.) - The Salem Police Department is in full preparation for its annual Halloween Dress Rehearsal, Saturday, October 26, 2013, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., 555 Liberty St. SE, 1st floor.

Parents are invited to bring their children in costume for an afternoon of fun and rehearsing to be safe for Halloween night. In its eighth year, the event draws families from all over Salem to have an afternoon of fun with police officers and other local partners in promoting Halloween safety.

Red Rebel and Crimea

Most young people don't know about this American who was so popular in the Soviet Union.

(SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine) - I've often said that some day I will live on a pension and write a book about all those famous men I was lucky to meet during my lifetime. 75 years have passed since the birth of the late singer, the actor and simply fighter for peace Dean Read.

In the autobiographies of the known rebel you will notice Crimea very rarely. The only mention was in September 1985, in the USSR, Crimea. Preparation was underway for a film about American Indians at the Riga film studio. But Dean Read did visit our sunny peninsula a few times.

Sri Lankan Army Chief Unwittingly Admits Committing War Crimes

Army Commander also issues a public warning from the former war zone, that his troops would have no hesitation but to repeat such crimes if separatism rises again in the country.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka ) - Inadvertently confirming that his troops have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in the name of wiping out the Tamil Tiger rebels, Sri Lanka’s newly appointed Army Commander Lieutenant General Daya Ratnayake has said earlier this week that the entire “world has been exhibited the way in which we defeated” the 30-year long separatist armed struggle in the island nation in May 2009.

Army Commander Ratnayake’s controversial speech has come just weeks after the electoral victory of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in the north...

No Glory in War for this Veteran

Veterans Day ceremonies are part of a false promise of victory against those who would no more be defeated and mastered than would we.

(PORTLAND, OR) - I am a veteran – of the Vietnam era, as are my friends and my brothers. My father, uncles, and an aunt were veterans of World War II. A great uncle was stationed on a battleship during World War I. A great-grandfather fought in the Civil War, an immigrant in an Illinois regiment who suffered the rest of his life from his bullet wound.

Veterans Day on November 11 was formerly Armistice Day, celebrating the end of the Great War. But it has turned from a celebration of peace to a celebration of the false glory of war.

Congratulations to our American Truth-Telling Comrades

Our heartfelt congratulations to the winners: you are the pride of the United States and the whole world. At the same time, we cannot hide our disappointment at being left off the list. Our only consolation is that the winners were all US based.

(LONDON Redress) - It’s one of the highest accolades truth-telling fighters against racism and bigotry could hope for.

The Zio-cons of the ironically named “Anti-Defamation League” (ADL) have published a list of what it considers to be the 10 “most influential and active anti-Israel groups” operating in the United States, the Times of Israel reports.

The Big Winners in Kenya`s Oil Debut

In the next 12 months we can expect another 12 wells to be drilled along Kenya’s “string of pearls”...

(LONDON) - Kenya will start pumping its first commercial oil next year and begin exporting in 2016, but this is just the opening salvo: new discoveries in recent months and fast-track new well development make Kenya the darling of East Africa from an investor’s perspective.

Kenya is set to soar past Uganda, which discovered oil much earlier, but is now having a hard time getting it out of the ground and into the market.

One Minute to Midnight

We, the Palestinians, despite our lack of armies and resources, have been trying in vain to bring this destructive machine to a halt.

(LONDON) - The fast train that has been hurtling through our blighted land for the last hundred years is gathering momentum and reaching its final destination. Palestine. A Jewish state with no place for any Palestinian in it.

This tragic journey has continued unchecked and unhindered despite many UN resolutions over many years calling it illegal and against all known international law and conventions. Yet it thunders on.

Oregon`s Pfc. Cody Patterson Memorial Attended by Thousands

Many hundreds of motorcycles roared in and filled the parking areas.

(CORVALLIS, Ore.) - About 5,000 people are estimated to have been at the memorial service in Corvallis today to show their respect for an Oregon man killed by a suicide bomber on Oct 6 in Afghanistan. Philomath High School graduate Pfc. Cody James Patterson's memorial service was held at Oregon State University’s LaSells Stewart Center.

In addition to the thousands of family, friends and community members attending, were several Oregon Motorcycle Clubs and non-club members, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with other patriotic citizens to honor Cody Patterson.

MALE CIRCUMCISION: Nordic Ombudspersons Will Seek a Ban on Non-Therapeutic Male Circumcision

Circumcision without a medical indication on a person unable to provide informed consent conflicts with basic principles of medical ethics...

(OSLO) - The medical communities of several European nations are taking a stand against male circumcision.

At a meeting held 30 September 2013 in Oslo, the children's ombudspersons from the five Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland), and the children's spokesperson from Greenland, in addition to representatives of associations of Nordic paediatricians and pediatric surgeons, have agreed to work with their respective national governments to achieve a ban on non-therapeutic circumcision of underage boys.