We're Ready for Real Choice

With a broken government, perhaps it is time to consider a minor, yet significant, change to the voting process.

(SALEM) - Ron Paul finished second in the New Hampshire primary. To be more precise, he finished second in both of that state’s primaries – Republican and Democrat, the latter as a write-in vote.

Though President Obama is running virtually unopposed in the primaries, 2,289 New Hampshire voters felt that Ron Paul would be a more suitable standard-bearer for the Democrat party than the sitting president.

Heavy Rains Limit Access in the Opal Creek Scenic Recreation Area

Crews are working quickly, but it could take weeks.

(DETROIT, Ore.) - Recent storms continue to create hazardous driving conditions on Forest Service roads in the northern section of the Willamette National Forest, particularly in the Opal Creek Scenic Recreation Area.

Public safety concerns have prompted forest engineers to issue a temporary closure of Forest Service Road 2207, which accesses several popular recreation sites...

Your City USA by Glen Bledsoe

PTSD - Medical Marijuana Toxicology - Pharmacology

Campaign Launched for Central Americans with Temporary Protected Status in the U.S.

Groups say Permanent Residency is the only solution...

(HOUSTON) - In 1998, Hurricane Mitch ravaged Honduras and Nicaragua and resulted in the loss and displacement of hundreds of thousands of families who established roots in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

Community organizations have formed a coalition and are launching a campaign to promote Permanent Residency for TPS beneficiaries from Central America.

Sri Lankan Alleged War Criminal Silva 'Selected' as Ban Adviser on Peacekeeping?

Sri Lanka slipped Silva in as representative of the Asia Pacific group.

(UNITED NATIONS) - In UN "bluewashing" of a an alleged war criminal, Sri Lanka's bragging that Shavendra Silva & other officials, were selected for the "UN Secretary General's special Advisory group on Peace Keeping Operations."

Acts of Silva's battalion in 2009 are in the UN's own Panel of Experts report on Sri Lanka.

VIDEO: Salem Water Rescue Leads to Safe Recovery

The spot was about 80 yards from the Willamette River.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Salem Fire crews were involved in the dramatic rescue of a woman today who was toppled from her kayak in Salem's Mill Creek.

The woman was accompanied by three other kayakers when her problems began shortly after 1:00 p.m.

Changes in DSM-5 Autism Definition Could Negatively Impact Millions

"The autism community strongly recommends that the proposed DSM-5 autism spectrum disorder diagnostic criteria be revisited with these concerns in mind," - Sallie Bernard, President of SafeMinds

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Proposed changes to the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorders in the will potentially disrupt appropriate and necessary services to hundreds of thousands of individuals in the US.

Advocates believe the changes would hamper the ability to track the numbers of people with autism, and interfere with efforts to establish biological causes of autism.

Roy Bard: Glad not to be... in the PSC

Cohen's angle is that as the victim of anti-semitism, Jews should be able to decide what anti-semitism is, -and that that decision should not be challenged.

(LONDON) - Dr. Elias Akleh is a Palestinian. In 1948 and again in 1967 his family were displaced, and like millions of other Palestinians, he now finds himself living outside of his homeland.

It is perhaps fortunate that he did not move to the UK and join the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, because after their AGM on Saturday, he would most likely by now be facing moves to expel him from the same campaign that seeks to liberate him.

Washington Wages War of Sanctions against Iran

In the long run, Western oil firms and consumers may “emerge the biggest losers.”

(TEHRAN) - Washington's double-edged sword of policies towards the Islamic Republic is not only exhausting the patience of the Iranian nation but it is provoking the ire of international conscience as well.

Goaded by Washington, EU foreign ministers decided on January 23 to impose a ban on oil imports from Iran under the fickle excuse that the country is pursuing a clandestine nuclear weapons program.

Merkeley: Caller ID 'Spoofing' Must Come to an End

Senator Merkley urges FCC to take action.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley today sent a letter to Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski concerning recent reports of fraudulent use of caller ID technology.

Press reports have indicated a dramatic increase of caller ID “spoofing”, or callers that misrepresent themselves on caller IDs.

Another Major Education Reform Makes its Way to the Capitol

Legislation would abolish the Oregon State Board of Higher Education...

(SALEM ONS) - A new proposal under consideration during the State Legislature’s February session would mean a shake-up for the Oregon State Board of Education.

Senate Joint Resolution 201, introduced by Senator Jeff Kruse, R-Roseburg, is a proposed amendment to the Oregon Constitution which would restructure how the Oregon State Board of Education is chosen and of what its membership would consist.

Families Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck Need to Know the EITC Will Be There

If anyone needs certainty to plan for the future, it is those families who live paycheck-to-paycheck.

(SILVERTON, Ore.) - Last-minute decisions often do not yield good public policy. Congress has demonstrated this repeatedly. Consider last summer's raise-the-debt-ceiling circus.

Or more recently, the midnight-hour deal to extend the payroll tax cut only for a couple of months.

Mother Russia Ignores its Own:
Artist and Sculptor Faces Homeless Winter in Moscow

What Fresh Hell is This? - Dorothy Parker

(SALEM) - We know that people in third-world countries like Palestine live under the constant threat of having their homes destroyed by demolition crews, but did you know this is also taking place in Russia? Elena Odnovarchenko has discovered how it feels to have no say over your personal destiny.

An artist and sculptor, she lost everything- her life's work, when bulldozers destroyed her former home.

Jewish Imperial News

On Saturday the Islamophobic blog Harry’s Place and the Zionist mouthpiece Jewish Chronicle completed their takeover of UK Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC).

(LONDON) - This last weekend brought with it some vile manifestations of Jewish politics in its most horrific forms.

In the USA, the owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu should consider ordering a Mossad hit team to assassinate U.S. President Barack Obama so that his successor will defend Israel against Iran.

Can Foreign Gangsters Bulldoze YOUR Family Home Without Warning.. and Get Away With It?

And then do the same to all your neighbours?

(LONDON) - There can be few things more despicable than robbing a family of their home then destroying it in front of their eyes. But this is Israeli policy.

ICAHD (the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions) took me to see Beit Arabiya, the much demolished and rebuilt Bedouin home, nearly six years ago.

Circumcision: Incest and the GAIA COMPLEX as the Opposite Side of the Oedipal Coin

The origin of neuroses is to be found in trauma occurred in childhood- Freud

(MONTEREY, Calif.) - Freud was his own first patient. He may have been conditioned from Maternal Emotional Incest. The condition lies in the mother and from experience transferred into the child’s psyche.

Freud’s mother’s condition may be termed the Gaia Complex. Gaia was the pre-Olympiad Great Mother Earth goddess. Gaia created Uranus by herself. Uranus became her son/mate and they begat Titans.

NDAA... So! It Has Come to This?

Are we expected to accept this state of affairs and say "Oh, well"?

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Apparently now, instead of Liberty and Justice for all, we are being assigned "one empire, under surveillance, with deceit and oppression for all."

As if the so-called PATRIOT Act was not bad enough, we have been assaulted on New Year's Eve within the semi-routine National Defense Appropriations Act (NDAA) with a provision that potentially subjects us all effectively to be given "enemy combatant" status.

Nuclear Power is Clean -- as Long as you Ignore 'Safety'!

Every American nuclear power plant could be closed down if Americans turned off extra lights and became energy efficient.

(CARLSBAD, Calif.) - In the U.S., radiation-related "safety" decisions over commercial nuclear power plants are handled very undemocratically.

They are considered to be strictly the purview of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Courts, utility and state energy commissions, EPA, DOE, and everyone else whose regulatory authority touches on nuclear power will insist that you cannot talk to them about "safety." You must go to the NRC.

Bush & Obama? Israeli assassinations and US Presidents

There is evidence that in 1991 an Israeli undercover team planned to assassinate a U.S. President. The intended victim was George Herbert Walker Bush.

(SACRAMENTO ) - On January 13th the Atlanta Jewish Times featured a column by its owner-publisher suggesting that Israel might someday need to “order a hit” on the president of the United States.

In the column, publisher Andrew Adler describes a scenario in which Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu would need to “give the go-ahead for U.S. based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel.”

On Its First Anniversary: Egypt Revolution Continues

“The revolutionary public opinion and demands that were created in Tahrir square needed to be politically purused by revolutionary cadres and leadership.”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - "Mubarak is neither a tyrant nor a bloodthirsty man...

"He is a clean man, who could say no wrong. Mubarak has seriously and faithfully worked to the best of his abilities and energy for Egypt and its people and lived a life burdened by his nation’s problems” Said Fareed El-Deeb, Mubarak’s lawyer at a hearing just days prior to the first anniversary of the Egyptian revolution...”

Senators Seek State Control of Federal Railroad Grant Lands

The bill, Senate Joint Memorial 201, must pass both the House and the Senate before going to the governor.

(SALEM ONS) - Two legislators want to bring control of federal railroad lands back into the hands of the state with a new bill proposed for February’s session.

State Senators Fred Girod, R-Lyons, and Jason Atkinson, R-Central Point, have proposed a bill requesting that the federal government give “full management authority” of the Oregon and California Railroad grant lands to the state government.