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Group Needs Help Locating C-123 Veterans

Please get the word out to any former C-123 crew and their families to go to the web site and engage on the issue.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Through a coincidence of timing and chance I recently met a retired USAF officer who has never forgotten the aviators’ duty to take care of one’s aircrew.

Danube`s near-record lows strangle shipping

Shipping on the Rhine-Main-Danube canal linked to the North Sea also dropped severely over the past few weeks.

(VIDIN, Bulgaria) - Severe drought has hit Europe's second largest river, the Danube, turning it into a navigation nightmare for shipping companies all the way from Germany to Bulgaria.

According to Bulgaria's Danube exploration agency, the levels of one of the continent's most significant commercial waterways dropped to near-record lows in the past month, making it barely passable at several critical points.

The Second Bush Plan for a Fascist Coup of the US

News from US Citizens Against Fascism.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - In 1933 Prescott Bush, who made the Bush fortune in Nazi Germany, attempted a Fascist coup in the United States on behalf of himself and various corporations.

He wanted a system like Hitler's and Mussolini's here. He was not executed or imprisoned. The House Un-American Acttivies committee did nothing. The Justice Department did nothing.

Report Calls Security at Israel`s Nuclear Reactor `Severely Deficient`

Israel refuses to acknowledge possessing an arsenal of nuclear weapons as part of an official policy of "nuclear ambiguity."

(JERUSALEM Xinhua) - Security arrangements at the Dimona nuclear reactor have been "severely deficient" for years, making Israel's super-secret desert facility vulnerable to a breach, the Israel Hayom daily reported Tuesday.

Several inspections of the site, conducted by the Israeli army' s Home Front Command, determined that its ground security units lack the means to provide adequate protection from potential attacks, the report said.

Processing Disability Claims Based on Exposure to Contaminated Drinking Water at Camp Lejeune

EPA's revised assessment of trichloroethylene (TCE), now characterizes chemical as "carcinogenic to humans" by all routes of exposure.

(CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.) - Veterans who served at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, were potentially exposed to contaminants present in the base water supply prior to 1987.

From Immaculate Conception to Genetic Deception

The answer can be found by looking around us and into our history.

(LONDON) - The Christ consciousness with which humanity is endowed, and which took physical form in Jesus Christ some 2,000 years ago, is a revolutionary gift. It has the power to transform, to heal and to penetrate the darkness with light.

However, it is a gift which still remains largely sealed away from human consciousness, covered over by the cult of consumption and religious orthodoxy.

Abhay Sahu, leader of anti-POSCO movement arrested

The Central Government and the Odisha Government are complicit in this anti-national act of American and European banksters led integrated steel firm.

(NEW DELHI, India) - Abhay Sahoo, the leader of the anti-POSCO movement, was arrested over the weekend.

POSCO is a typical case of whether people's rights prevail over the predatory acts of a company largely owned by American and European financial interests.

So far all Orange County got was a big ugly orange balloon

A new article questions the millions and millions that have been spent transforming the contaminated military base into a park for kids and families.

(SALEM) - Southern California received a heavy dose of reality a few days ago, with the release of the Orange County Register article titled: Were Great Park master plans a good investment?

We're taught as journalists to always capture the reader in the first few words. That title effectively made me a prisoner.

Camp Lejeune Survivors Face Critical Next Few Months

All we have to do is crack the door open, and their whole story will crumble into dust.

(CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.) - Regarding the many crimes and irregularities enacted by government personnel connected to the Musa case of 6 children removed via allegations made by Haringey council that were later found to be unfounded and without merit some months back i submitted an official complaint about the solicitor for Haringey council ROSITA MOISE to the Solicitors Regulatory Authority who plays a big part in this shocking case.

Finally i have received a message today relating to my complaint {below} from the Solicitors Regulatory Authority but of course it remains to be seen whether any action is actually and realistically taken.

In The Beginning, and In The Other Beginning

"We are greater and more powerful than God now... for all that God has made and given for free - to feed and to heal - we have stolen and defiled and claimed as ours alone." - CEO's

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - At a time when nature is so threatened, the hope is that atheists and those of all religious backgrounds will recognize their shared feelings for the sacredness of nature and all of our inviolable rights to it.

It might be helpful to atheists, as they read the quotes below from the Bible, to remember that Gandhi's religious belief was central to his courage...