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Schedule Announced for 2012 Oregon Logging Conference `The World Needs Our Wood`

Skilled log loader operators sought for the conference’s third annual log loader operator competition.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Towering heavy equipment and forestry professionals from across the world return to the Lane Events Center in Eugene, Feb. 23 through 25, for the 74th Oregon Logging Conference.

Kitzhaber Asked to Reject Attempts to Privatize Public Lands for Public Schools

“Where is the return on the more than 2.6 million dollars that the Department of State Lands stated was the value of 621 acres exchanged to Giustina Resources?” asked Shannon Wilson of Eco Advocates NW.

(SALEM) - Eco Advocates Northwest are urging state officials to reject the Department of State Lands attempts to privatize thousands of acres of publicly owned lands in Oregon to allegedly raise funds for public schools.

They propose that the Governor raise public school funds by rectifying a colossal mistake created by the Oregon Legislature in 1999 by reversing House Bill 3575.

`Whole Foods and Challah with GMOs`

Sabbath blessing over the Challah: "Blessed art Thou, Lord our God, who brings forth bread from the earth."

(NEW YORK CITY) - There is a growing outrage over genetically engineered crops.

Pathologists report evidence of animal sterilization, scientists are seeing gross deformities in amphibians and birth defects...

OSGATA et al. v. Monsanto
Will Farmers Receive Justice?

Monsanto would not give up its option to sue contaminated family farmers...

(NEW YORK) - It was standing room only as family farmers from around North America filled a federal courtroom in Manhattan on Tuesday.

The topic was the landmark organic community lawsuit OSGATA et al v. Monsanto.

GMO Foods and the Damage to Human Babies, Placentas & Umbilical Cords

Short umbilical cords causing strife.

(JAKARTA) - I am writing from Indonesia, the country who got GMO soy first... I'm curious to share what I am seeing.

In 2008 Bumi Sehat Bali's 573 babies saw an increase in retained placentas, and an increase in velamentous cord insertion.

Beekeeper`s Discovery, Funding Open New Path of Inquiry for WSU Colony Collapse Research

"The truth is out there” - The X-Files

(PULLMAN, Wash.) - For longtime commercial beekeeper Eric Olson of Yakima, no sting is as painful as the one he felt last winter when he discovered his hives had gone silent.

Peering into each box, he saw the queen and a mere scattering of her worker-bee offspring; tens of thousands of adult bees - gone.

Unacceptable Police Brutality Continues at Posco Site in Odisha, India

Below is an appeal from the protesters.

(NEW DELHI, India) - Villagers in this contested region of India have been cordoned off by the Police. Entry and exit into the villages are controlled and restricted.

Three prominent leaders remain behind bars for opposing the forcible occupation of their lands by POSCO, nominally Korean but largely an American and European banksters controlled firm.

Rumor Mill Claims Monsanto Purchased Blackwater (XE) as its own Private Army

A translation mistake started an information whiplash; the nation's most deadly company, Monsanto, is not buying XE.

(SALEM) - The article 'Blackwater's Black Ops' - by Jeremy Scahill, carried by The Nation, was republished by a number of groups that took the additional step of concluding that Blackwater was purchased by Monsanto, the driving force behind both Agent Orange, and Genetically Modified Food (GMO).

As it turns out, Monsanto did not purchase Blackwater (XE), however there is no question that the groups have done their share of dancing.

Starvation deaths in the Indian state of Bihar

Systems are in place to prevent malnutrition but starvation deaths are being reported from a state that is home to 110 million, and how many deaths remain unreported?

(NEW DELHI, India) - One hundred and fifty persons-men, women and children-have died of hunger in nineteen districts of Bihar in the past five years to 2011. The dead are mainly from the Dalit community.

Palestine Tree Planting Campaign Focuses on Areas Targeted by Israeli Government and Jewish National Fund

Despite poor weather, there was a large turnout for the planting and the event was welcomed by those involved.

(ABERDEEN, Scotland) - Members of a Stop the Jewish National Fund (JNF) delegation joined with several groups to take part in a new project to re-plant trees in previously devastated areas of Palestine.

The group planted 111 trees, representing the number of years that the JNF has been in existence, playing a key role in Israel’s policy of displacing and dispossessing Palestinians.