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Understanding Obama and Other People Who Kill

It takes someone with a particular psychological profile to kill people.

(TASMANIA, Aust.) - When Barack Obama orders the US military to attack people in another country, whether in a war or by using an illegal drone strike, he knows that people, including innocent men, women and children (called 'collateral damage'), will be killed.

How can he do this?

Woodland Police Investigating `Stranger Danger` Incident

Please IMMEDIATELY report any sightings to police by calling 225-8981 or 911.

(WOODLAND WA) - Woodland Police are investigating an incident that occurred this morning where two males in a vehicle apparently attempted to pick up one or more children walking to school.

It was reported that between 7 and 8 a.m., a black large SUV type vehicle was in the area of Gun Club Road, in Woodland.

Witnesses Sought- Investigation Into Marion County Sheriff`s Office Deputy-Involved Shooting

Police are looking for witnesses

(SALEM) - Oregon State Police (OSP) Detectives are requesting assistance from the public in locating a possible witness to the Officer Involved Shooting.

The shooting occurred in Southeast Salem on April 23, 2013.

EXCLUSIVE Interview with `Sandman` - Member of the Free Syrian Army

WARNING: Includes extremely graphic photographs of atrocities in Syria. PHOTOS MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN OR SENSITIVE PEOPLE.

(SACRAMENTO / DAMASCUS) - If there is one thing I learned from this conversation with a jihadist, (Mujahidin) who goes by the name of 'Sandman' - it is that the whole Islamic world may be fragmented beyond repair.

Our perceptions in the west are generally far from reality because Muslim on Muslim conflicts are complicated.

PTSD/TBI: Invisible Wounds and the Trillion Dollar Medical Blunder

PTSD has been known for centuries.

(PORTLAND, OR) - CBS Sixty Minutes on May 5 2013, offered absolutely the best portrayal of the devastation caused by PTSD and TBI.

I don't know if anyone can really separate these two entities because they both scramble the brain.

2,273 Published Online News Articles, One Writer... a Record?

If any reporters have a higher online story count, I would like to know.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - With 2,273 published online news articles, I think I may have the highest number of news reports by a single reporter in the U.S. or otherwise. I will be interested to know if anyone disagrees.

The number, 2,273, is based upon the current archives of Salem-News.com.

Israeli Forces Demolish Hebron Wells, Electric Network

Parts of Beit Ula are classified as Area C, land under the full military control of Israel.

(HEBRON Ma’an) - Israeli forces on Monday morning damaged agriculture lands and destroyed an electric network and water wells in Beit Ula village west of Hebron, officials said.

The bulldozers uprooted trees and were causing continuous damage, a spokesman for the popular committee in Beit Ula said.

Commentary on the `Husband Beater` and Other Disgusting Products

I implore readers to be inspired to let these companies know that what they are doing is unacceptable.

(MIAMI) - One can argue that a free market economy allows for creativity and ingenuity.

However this same free market economy allows people to start businesses that do absolutely no social good and are, in some cases, absolutely despicable.

Covenants without Circumcision in the Jewish Reform Movement

Many Reform Jewish Rabbis are Adopting Symbolic Covenant Rituals.

(TEL AVIV) - Many Rabbis are welcoming intact males into the Jewish community, and a growing number of Rabbis feel that surgical circumcision is no longer appropriate in the 21st century.

In Europe, 200 years ago, influential Rabbis in the early Reform movement of Judaism began writing in private correspondences that Jews should abolish circumcision surgery.

Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone

The full report of the "Athens Dialogue" is now available online in four languages (English, Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi).

(SOUNION, Greece.) - The Athens Dialogue... seeks to establish a zone free of weapons of mass destruction in an area seething with tensions and misunderstandings. Both at the conceptual and practical level the discussions that took place were sober and pregnant with possibilities.

All this brings home to us the importance of initiatives such as the Athens Dialogue which aim to eliminate the bomb from an area rife with tensions and prone to conflict.