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El Toro, Hell Toro, or El Toxic ??
Irvine`s Beast of Burden Can`t Hide

The El Toro Marine Base is unfit for habitation; dead Marines do tell tales.

(IRVINE, Calif.) - The ruins of a Marine base in Southern California are a silent reminder of the dishonest tactics of Irvine, Lennar Corp., and the Great Parks Corp.

Their unrealistic plans to build a subdivision on the extremely contaminated MCAS El Toro, will never come to pass.

Amazing Home Birth With the Help of a 911 Dispatcher

At 9:04 this morning, a Salem-area couple delivered their baby, only it wasn't in the hospital, it was in their home.

(SALEM, Ore.) - A dispatcher-in-training helped deliver a healthy baby by proxy today through a 911 call. Kathryn Wheeler had been on the clock for three hours and four minutes when a dad-to-be dialed 911 with the type of call dispatchers can go years without receiving.

Italian Doctor Believes Reducing Domestic Violence in Afghanistan is Possible

Psychology Professor Dr. Anna Baldry with the NMT-A team, knows they have a big job on their hands.

(SALEM / KABUL / NAPLES) - Tackling domestic violence in Afghanistan - what a daunting task, a nearly impossible proposition in a land so ridden with violence and decades of war.

Worldwide Screening of Marijuana Documentary on Defacto Pot Holiday

The film starts in the heavily guarded fields of Northern California’s Emerald Triangle where the longtime growers of “Pineapple Kush” make the transition into the legal world of Medical Marijuana.

(LOS ANGELES) - For years now, Marijuana enthusiasts have adopted April 20th as their own holiday.

This year they celebrate in style with a worldwide screening of How Weed Won the West with its LA screening at Paramount Studios and a 30,000-person march in Toronto, Canada.

How I Spent My 2010 Spring Vacation: With Salem-News.com!

Note: Odd Man Out spent his 2010 Spring vacation with editors Bonnie and Tim King as his Oregon tour guides. It wasn’t exactly Homer (The Iliad and The Odyssey), but it was quite an adventure!

(LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.) - I found a few days for a whirlwind weekday tour of Salem and it’s environs recently.

This was a multi-purpose trip, allowing me to meet all of the King family-----not to mention a few members of that band of gypsies known as the S-N.com staff and friends.

U.S. Defenders Take Oregon Motorcycle Rights to the Streets

The majority of the bikers are American military veterans.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Police cars shadowed Oregon motorcyclists Saturday who rode together as part of a program called U.S. Defenders, designed to help establish the rights of motorcycle riding club members in the United States.

They rode in solidarity - to protest local businesses that deny club members service. Numerous clubs were represented.

Wikileak Locates Harrowing Video of Americans Killing Afghan Civilians

The incidents reflected chronic insecurity in the province of Kandahar, where US-led military forces are preparing a major push to dislodge the Taliban from their spiritual capital.

(WASHINGTON D.C. ) - The whisteblower website WikiLeaks exploded onto the national stage earlier this month after releasing a video that showed members of a US Apache helicopter crew gunning two reporters and six others to death.

Now they say they plan to release another, even more harrowing clip.

Jerusalem Interfaith Freedom March Meets Resistance, Success

Skype interview with organizer, Dr. Frank Romano, in Jerusalem.

(JERUSALEM) - It's called the Interfaith Freedom March because everybody deserves to be free, says organizer, Dr. Frank Romano, who is the author of "Storm Over Morocco".

This tireless activist leads the marches through Palestine and Israel four times a year.

Gration`s Political Ponzi Scheme Against Sudan

American complicity in Sudan's dirty politics is now connected to the disappearance of an opposition candidate.

(KASSALA / PORTLAND) - The candidate for Sudan's National Umma Party has disappeared, according to local sources. Ibrahim Mohamed Nur el-Sheikh of Kassala, is a candidate for national parliament.

Two-Day trip to Galilee, North Palestine

A short description and a 7 minute video on a two-Day trip to Galilee, North Palestine.

(BETHLEHEM) - It was strangely uplifting to spend two nights and three days in the Galilee, North Palestine.

We visited good friends, made new friends, saw 3000 year old olive trees, walked in the ruins depopulated villages, and shopped and ate in Palestinian towns which survived 62 years of colonial apartheid.