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Outrageous Oregon Contract Disasters

These sound like jokes, but they are what actually happens when public agencies must contract their projects out to for-profit contractors in the capitalist economy.

(PORTLAND) - Don’t Oregon public agencies need sharper lawyers and better due diligence to negotiate with private contractors? During the past few days, we’ve heard that

(1) Portland can’t collect more than $600,000 in penalties from screwups by the builder of its new streetcars...

Parody For You

Small sheets of paper distributed in the store stated: “How is it legal? So is this a real business? Are you saying Starbucks is dumb?”

(LOS ANGELES) - On the weekend of Feb. 8 through 9, a coffee shop set up in the Los Angeles area had people speculating about whether Starbucks was starting a new trend. Though short and sweet, “Dumb Starbucks” was started up as a comedy act for comedian Nathan Fielder, who stars in a television series, Nathan for You.
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As the popularity grew for this new coffee shop, people wanted to satisfy their curiosity.

Salem-News.com: Online and Going Strong After Ten Years

We need the support of our readers and supporters more than ever...

(SALEM) - This world we live in is changing fast. The so-called good guys eliminate more human life and do more harm to the planet than we can even begin to understand. The fuel for war and earth pillaging is the media and press. As long as they are under control, the evil forces in the world prosper.

After ten years, Salem-News.com is perfectly free from this type of corruption. That's pretty damned cool.

The Corporation as Sociopath:
Do Mining Corporations like PolyMet Meet the Definition?

"Slavery is the legal fiction that a person is property. Corporate personhood is the legal fiction that property is a person." -- Anonymous

(DULUTH, MN) - In 2010 the NeoConservative, pro-corporate, anti-democratic Roberts’ 5/4 Supreme Court’s decided in the Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission ruling to grant personhood to corporations by allowing unlimited, anonymous monetary contributions to political campaigns and candidates.

This ruling has emboldened the already powerful and corruptible multinational corporations...

New Spy Technology to Spawn Oil Revolution

The next step in technology takes us off the ground and airborne—at a much cheaper cost—according to Jen Alic, a global intelligence and energy expert for OP Tactical.

(LONDON OilPrices.com) - The future of oil exploration lies in new technology--from massive data-processing supercomputers to 4D seismic to early-phase airborne spy technology that can pinpoint prospective reservoirs.

Oil and gas is getting bigger, deeper, faster and more efficient, with new technology chipping away at “peak oil” concerns.

Upset Hindus Urge `Mara Hoffman` to Withdraw Lord Ganesh Swimwear

Mara Hoffman, who launched her first collection in 2000, is usually heavily focused on prints.

(RENO) - Upset Hindus have urged for the immediate recalling of swimwear carrying image of Lord Ganesh designed by New York (USA) based “Mara Hoffman”, calling it inappropriate.

Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, said that Lord Ganesh was highly revered in Hinduism and was meant to be worshipped in temples or home shrines and not for pushing swimwear for mercantile greed.

Parents Should be MAD as Hell Over `Heroin in a Capsule` (Zohydro ER)

Deadly drug for Americans is Launched with the Approval of the FDA... Part 2 of a Series

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - In Part 1, I received some comments from readers indicating I should suffer the pain they are experiencing.

Since we are dealing with an opioid epidemic in the U.S. and Canada, I challenge these people in so much pain to experience the pain of the tens of thousands of families who have lost a loved one to the opioids in plentiful supply compliments of the FDA.

Reactor Reax Top Stories - Taxpayers Finance Nuclear Plants

"Reactor Reax" is brought to you by Physicians for Social Responsibility.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - This week in Reactor Reax, Washington Post asks, "Why is the Obama administration using taxpayer money to back a nuclear plant that's already being built?"

In Taxpayers Fund Nuclear Plants, National Review states, "... government-subsidized funding comes shortly after a series of three blows to the nuclear industry.

Lumber Liquidators Opens New Store in Salem, Ore.

Now the Salem area has a better selection of low-price, high-quality flooring

(TOANO, VA) - With the recent opening of its newest store on 3920 Rickey St. S.E., Lumber Liquidators has brought its low-cost, no-middleman flooring approach to Salem, Ore., homeowners and construction professionals alike.

In fact, Lumber Liquidators is the largest specialty retailer of hardwood flooring and offers over 340 flooring varieties...

How Junior Companies Survive in the Exploration Wild: Interview with Blackbird

Garth Braun, CEO of Blackbird Energy, operates assets in Canada's high-value Montney Resource.

(LONDON OilPrices.com) - Only the fittest can survive in today's market for junior oil and gas companies, which must demonstrate a great deal of ingenuity in the balancing of risk and reward.

Nothing but the most exceptional oil and gas projects will win capital...