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Thousands of Books Given Away to Troops by Small Nonprofit Press Founded by Disabled Veteran

MilSpeak Books spurs increased trend of giving free eBooks to deployed troops and inspires literary award nominations.

(RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif.) - MilSpeak Books, the nonprofit digital publishing division of MilSpeak Foundation, Inc. (501c3), publishes creative works by military people.

MilSpeak Books was founded to create a venue for military people who write and because military people's contributions to American Literature are largely unrecognized and unpublished by corporate publishers.

A report on the `Occupy` movement and Eureka`s share

A message from Occupy Eureka

(EUREKA, Calif.) - Purposes? "Any of you 99 % got rights?" Not much under this regime. Finding you have much less when you try expressing them! As good a place to start as any in deciding what our personal stake in all this is. Our 'Freedom tools'?

Police Lt. John Pike Pepper Sprays UC Davis Students Right Down the Throat

It is one thing to have a young inexperienced officer abuse members of the public, but an entirely different matter when the senior leader of a police agency is the one with his hand on the device.

(SALEM) - UC Davis students recently learned how police regard today's university crowd. Officers sprayed university students with pepper spray as if they were a row of vegetables.

Report: Occupy Evictions Coordinated by Private Law Enforcement Think Tank

Occupy Oakland Calls for Day of "Re-Occupation”: Tomorrow - Sat., Nov. 19 with March and Actions beginning at 2:00 PM.

(OAKLAND, Calif.) - Oakland Occupy members are questioning the evictions of a dozen Occupy camps after learning they were coordinated in conference calls between mayors, police and a private law enforcement think tank.

According to a new report, an intl. group with ties to law enforcement and homeland security, has been coordinating the conference calls.

Another Marine Iraq War Vet Beaten Savagely by Oakland Cops

Oakland cops look more like thugs than trained professionals.

(SALEM) - I keep writing about the savagery of the cops in Oakland. Now they have ruthlessly attacked another Marine Corps combat vet, who suffered a ruptured spleen.

The police are overstepping lines they will never be able to back up behind again, and this latest casualty, Kayvan Sabehgi, keep being attacked by police, there is no telling what will happen.

`Poopgate` - Media Makes a Stink at Occupy Eureka

A reporter stomps through Occupy Eureka demanding to know, "Did you poop and pee on the bank?"

(EUREKA, Calif.) - A corporate media monster is trolling the Occupy Eureka camp and never has such a horrific display of 'journalism' been recorded and actually released by a station.

'Poop and pee' are the operative words in this story. It just might be the silliest story in history, or perhaps it is a look at the lower rungs of corporate media gone wild.

Oakland, Drug Kingpin Strategies and COINTELPRO Reborn

Drug-fanned violence spread like wildfire and the streets of Oakland became the burial grounds of a social tragedy that many in the US conveniently forget as they pontificate about Mexican violence.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - A friend and I were having a conversation when he raised the issue of why the US never seems to detain its own big drug lords.

I held that control of the US drug market was more diffuse, less centralized than in places like Mexico, where big traffickers come to dominate entire regions and even compete with state power.

What About Salem?

Columbia Journalism Review examines the lack of progressive media coverage in places like Modesto, and we explain our experience trying to implement local news in a medium-sized U.S. city.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Almost eight years have passed since the launch of Salem-News.com; which we hoped at the time would provide significant balance to the capitol city's traditional lack of news coverage.

Is New Age Spiritualism Really New?

Availability Cascades - Is New Age Spiritualism Really New?
“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.” - Ecclesiastes 1:9

(LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.) - First, ODD MAN OUT wants to assure readers that although not a Christian, I did spend the night at a Holiday Inn® recently that turned me into a New Age spiritual expert.

And like every other self-absorbed American, from Baby Boomers to the present Generation What-ev-er, I didn’t bring a book so I perused the Gideon Bible when my wi-fi didn’t work and the Playboy channel was blocked.

Universal Answers in Static Electricity and a Swirling Magnetic Fields

General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics in a single package? 'The Elegant Universe; Einstein's Dream' explores and misses, some of the largest questions.

(SAN DIEGO) - A 9 Nov. 2011 KPBS program copyrighted in 2002 titled “The Elegant Universe; Einstein’s Dream”, it started with: “Actually, no one can figure out how gravity operates when you get down to the size of atoms and subatomic particles.

That is, no one can figure out how to put general relativity and quantum mechanics together into one package.