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Why Americans Should Care About What Happened in Sri Lanka

Western media has ignored the Tamil Genocide and the plight of fellow journalists.

(SALEM) - The survival of humanity is a concept of inter-dependency. Each time this essential synchronicity is stripped away, the dogs of war assume their battle stations and sickening patterns of brutality begin.

The horror that enveloped Sri Lanka just over two years ago is beyond description. Sexual depravity accompanied mobs of morally disorganized soldiers who had orders to kill, everyone.

The Nightmare in the Congo

It is an understatement to say that everyone wants a piece of this place.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The Congo is a very large country in Africa which if placed in the U.S. would span from California east to Kansas and from Texas north to North Dakota filling almost half the U.S.

With South Carolina Victory, Gingrich Rides Adelson Money Train Against Obama

Gingrich carries some of the heaviest political baggage this country...

(CHICAGO) - Newt Gingrich is the current holder of the Republican crown. Saturday night, NBC projected Gingrich as the winner in the South Carolina Republican primary over his closet rival, Mitt Romney.

With 94% of the votes counted, Gingrich was winning by a 40% to 27% margin over Romney, much larger than advance polls has predicted.

Dear Editor of The Jewish Times: Please re-think your call to assassinate Obama

You have an awful lot of chutzpah to call for the assassination of the President of the US by the Mossad.

(SUNDANCE, Wyoming) - When an apparently logical line of reasoning leads to an illogical or insane conclusion, it is time to re-think your logic.

I’m no Obama fan either, but let’s face it, publishing calls for his assassination is stupid and immoral as well as illegal! And war with Iran would be a disaster!

Survivor Recounts Rescue from Flooded Willamette River Bank

Fortunately, the victim had a cell phone that allowed her to notify 911.

(SALEM) - Water Rescue crews from Salem Fire and other local agencies had their hands full today when a call came in from several victims trapped by rising flood waters on the Willamette River.

The Willamette River crested today at 28.5". The woman in the video below, relates her story of being caught by rising river flood waters that left her no escape route.

Police Shoot and Kill Attacking Pit Bull

The police sergeant's injury was described as a "substantial bite".

(SALEM) - Police say a callout to a Domestic Disturbance led to a police sergeant suffering injuries from a dog attack, and the subsequent fatal shooting of a pit bull.

Officers reportedly knocked at the door of the residence, made contact, and issued instructions to the people inside the residence, to put the dog away.

In Support of PRESS TV

British media regulator OFCOM have removed Iranian Press TV Ltd’s broadcasting license, with SKY satellite being the first to remove Press TV.

(MELBOURNE, Aust.) - The Guardian — Press TV, the Iranian state broadcaster’s English-language outlet, has been forced off the air in the UK after Ofcom revoked its licence for breaching the Communications Act.

Ofcom found that Press TV’s practice of running its editorial oversight from Tehran, Iran‘s capital, is in breach of broadcasting licence rules in the UK.

Should Participation in Vaccine Clinical Trials be Mandated?

Forcing people to be involved is one such strategy, and it "is not as outlandish as it might seem on first consideration" - AMA publication

(BANGOR, Maine) - AMA Article Proposes Forcing People to Participate In Vaccine Trials... you read that right. The American Medical Association has published a piece in the Policy Forum entitled: Should Participation in Vaccine Clinical Trials be Mandated? I am absolutely apoplectic.

The article begins its argument for forced participation in vaccine trials with a quote from Highly Esteemed and Eminent Physician Ethically Challenged College Dropout Bill Gates. Cause... you know... he's rich.

Car Washes under Flooded Albany Intersection, at Least One Child Missing

Rescue crews will re initiate their mission to recover victims from the vehicle in the morning.

(ALBANY) - Fire officials in Albany had the sad task of searching for missing children after a vehicle was washed out of a grocery store parking lot, into a creek swollen by heavy rains, and under the intersection of SE Geary St & Queen Ave SE.

Wanda Omdahl with Albany Fire, says rescue crews responded to the scene and one adult and one child were pulled out of the water on the other side of the bridge.

`Occupy Wall Street-what`s it all about?`

Truth, Justice, and Peace are on the line and Agron Belica’s new song, Spirit of the 99 is its anthem.

(BOSTON) - “Occupy Wall Street—what’s it all about?” demands Agron Belica in his latest song Spirit of the 99.

He then proceeds to answer his question in his most hard-hitting formulation yet, in lyrics by Belica and Ervis Topalli, of his on-going critique of life and injustice in the American Empire at home and abroad.