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Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Respond to Salem-News.com Article

The Council knows this process is not any easy one for the Tribal community but the Council is committed to getting through it with diligence and compassion.

(GRANDE RONDE, OR) - The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde is conducting an enrollment audit. The audit fulfills one of the tasks assigned in the Tribal Strategic Plan for 2010, which was adopted in August of 2009. That plan was formulated after nearly two years of development that began with a Strategic Futures conference in 2007 involving Tribal leaders and members.

The plan directed Enrollment to audit all enrollment files and applications, track reasons for denials, and audit blood quantum records with the goal of strengthening the Grand Ronde Family Tree.

PTSD: Malignant Medications are Murdering Military Heroes

Pharmacological treatment is best.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Readers are most likely wondering about my title --- good, good! A whole bunch of entrenched treatments must be critiqued. They are bad for the Veterans and society as a whole. With 22 PTSD Veterans killing themselves every day and thousands homeless or hermits, something must be said about this absolute betrayal of our combat Veterans. Our society owes them the return of their souls and minds.

It is not necessary for me to recite the causes and effects of PTSD. They are well known and a cancer on our society. Almost from the first, they were regarded as a lack of moral fiber and/or a sign of whimpiness. Not so. The best combat soldier is frequently the worst victim if he is still alive. His brain has been undone.

Bhopal Anniversary - Call to Action

Survivors have sustained a 29 year struggle for justice. It is because of this sustained struggle that survivors have been able to achieve a number of important victories...

(DA NANG) - December 2/3 2013 marks the 29^th anniversary of the world’s worst industrial disaster –the Bhopal Gas Disaster.

The anniversary will mark 29 years since the people of Bhopal, India were exposed to 40 tons of the highly toxic, methyl isocyanate (MIC) due to the negligence of the American-owned Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), which is now owned by the Dow Chemical Company.

`Tis the season to be jolly...
A Dissertation On Comparative Religions

Man is the only religious animal... that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven... - Mark Twain

(DAYTONA BEACH) - Our godly neighbor nation to the south has just about run the gamut of the current news cycle, exhausting their tears and incredulity over the massacre of children.

But this holy tide of Christmas all other doth deface, so its high time all of us were getting on with it, redirecting our attention to ringing sleigh bells and shoe-horning beloved carols into the doggerel of year-end car sales.

Mass Disenrollment Hits the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde

“This isn’t just about me and my family. This is about the other 900 tribal members who will find a letter of potential disenrollment in their mailbox. This is about all of us,” - family spokesperson, Mia Prickett

(GRANDE RONDE, OR) - Up to 1,000 members (nearly 20% of the membership) of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon will be receiving letters of potential disenrollment, resulting in what could be the largest termination of American Indian citizenship in United States history.

15 members of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde have already been disenrolled, and 79 cases are pending the outcome of hearings scheduled for December.

Happy Birthday Jimi Hendrix, the World Misses You

Have you ever been experienced? Then you know what it's all about.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Jimi Hendrix would have been 71 today. Instead, he is forever young. He was born November 27, 1942 in Seattle, named Johnny Allen Hendrix. Later he changed his name to James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix. His life's works are well known to generations of fans, and indeed, Jimi Hendrix left an indelible mark, etched in the annals of rock.

Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Chuck Berry really attracted Jimi to rock and roll. He started playing the guitar when he was 15, and play he did.

The Uncoverupable Kennedy Murder

Earlier this month was the 18th anniversary of the murder of Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin. This year's trick-the-public scam could and does lead to another Kennedy murdered, JFK's son...

(ST AUGUSTINE) - It is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John Kennedy. I have been watching one mainstream TV documentary after another examining the murder. By the end of this viewing ordeal, reluctantly I conclude, Lee Harvey Oswald did shoot the President. He lied without conscience to the cops for two days before he was killed by Jack Ruby.

Sadly, endless conspiracy-seeking writers have assumed that his proclamations were truthful. They were not.

Did Zapruder Kill JFK?

President Kennedy and his brother, U.S. Attorney Robert Kennedy, were set on eradicating organized crime from the United States.

(SALEM) - It has been fifty years since U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Since that time, many theories have abounded that seek to resolve the issue of whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone or if at least one more gunman participated in the November 22, 1963 murder.

Until now, no clear picture has emerged that would satisfy all parameters, both within the government and without. I believe that I can change that.

U.S. Army Pfc. Eugene Dinkin Intercepted Cable About JFK Assassination

He was 1963's incarnation of Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning; Dinkin intercepted cables in France and tried to prevent Kennedy's death.

(SACRAMENTO) - The sweeping view from "Garden of the Gods" above Colorado Springs was breathtaking in September. I sat with Robert "Tosh" Plumlee, a former CIA operative, taking in this panoramic scene, listening to his recollection of the day this country lost one of its most important national leaders, President John F. Kennedy.

Tosh was in Dallas that fateful day, 22 November 1963, as part of a CIA team dispatched to prevent the assassination of JFK. The story has always been here, yet few Americans know the dark saga of Private First Class Eugene Dinkin and his prediction of the assassination of President Kennedy.

Court in Jaffna Dismisses SL Military Claim on Tamil Memorial Site at Theeruvil

No civilized army or government will ever destroy the memorials of the dead, but Sri Lanka will do it. Here is a Sinhalese government that not only destroyed the memorial, but also claimed the property as their own, fit only for Sinhalese colonization. - Visvanathan Sivam

(JAFFNA TamilNet) - District Court of Point Pedro in Jaffna on Wednesday dismissed the claim by the Sri Lankan military that the land, which the Urban Council of Valveddith-thu’rai (VVT) had chosen to build a public park at Theeruvil was a property that should belong to the SL military.

Legal sources in VVT said the civic body could now proceed with building the park which is situated at a key memorial site...