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The Southwestern Company Part 2: A RICO Case

This activity is illegal, shameful, and unconscionable. The Southwestern Company represents the very worst of the U.S. business community.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) is a Federal Statute designed to allow for prosecutions of mafia organizations.

Retraction: The Southwestern Company - Part 1: Corporate Mafia

Response to the reflex arc of The Southwestern Company.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, Oregon attorneys representing The Southwestern Company have contacted Salem-News.com to threaten legal action in response to Part 1 of our series on The Southwestern Company.

WHO Calls Breastfeeding Best Answer for Newborns in Haiti

Risks of miscarriages and other complications are serious.

(PORT-AU-PRINCE/SALEM) - The United Nations reports that about 7,000 women are due to give birth this month in Haiti, as medical teams continue to work around the clock in birthing tents to deliver newborns.

According to UNICEF, there are currently 120,000 pregnant women in Haiti, more than half are in earthquake-affected areas.

Op Ed: `Personhood` Perverts Our National Heritage, Now Denies Progress

Frustrations driven by falsities threaten false “Revolution”

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Multiplying politically-manipulated measures are fueling the fires of a new rebellion in this nation. That’s a furious fact, reflected in numerous ways and now undeniable on many grounds.

Personal desolation resulting in disgust --and, for some, in near seditious revulsion-- have combined to create this consummate democracy-threatening mess. Most Americans still believe in their Constitution, and seek rational, reasonable adjustment to 21st Century reality.

Purdue Pharma`s Values or the Grim Reaper Walks Amongst Us

Purdue Pharma - "We believe in doing the right thing"

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - "Honesty, integrity, and respect for the individual are at the core of our culture. We are committed to improving the lives of patients in meaningful and positive ways – from finding and developing safe and effective medicines, to manufacturing them at the highest levels of quality, to demonstrating their value and proper use. We are equally committed to upholding the highest ethical standards, and to compliance with all applicable laws and regulations."

The above is posted on Purdue Pharma's website. The insane thing is these guys actually believe that they have honesty and integrity even after the epidemic of OxyContin deaths and addictions throughout the U.S. and Canada because of their past and present marketing tactics.

Mexican Cartels Join DEA in Opposition of U.S. State Marijuana Laws

That's right, the Mexican drug cartels.

(SALEM, Ore.) - This nation is heading for a showdown with the DEA, a rogue government agency running awry of state laws in order to keep the pharmaceutical and insurance industries intact.

The DEA is an enemy of the emerging data that keeps painting marijuana an even richer tone of green.

`Red Rocket` from Seaside Signal Series

Some of the world's best in-depth reporting has been purposely thrown aside.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - For serious readers, sensitive to charges now being made nationally re the startling action by the Supremes, here are basic, classic documenting references from 1988 right up until the day they took this near-treasonous action.

These are THE classic sources familiar to anyone seeking quality, documented, published, award-winning, factual information on what may well be among the most significant developments of the new 21st Century.

Disquiet on the Western Front: Showdown in the Malheur Marshes

Eastern Oregon cattle ranchers get away with criminal behavior toward the families of federal employees.

(HARNEY COUNTY, Ore.) - Six hundred miles north of Tonopah, Nevada, in the high desert of central Oregon, lies Harney County, another site of intense confrontation between federal officials and the militant property rights movement.

Here federal Fish and Wildlife Service agents sought to fence off a wetland that had been trampled by a rancher’s cows on the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge about thirty miles south of the dust-caked town of Burns.

Escaped Prison Population Poses Threat in Haiti

Officials plan to build areas to house the recaptured inmates, most likely outside the capital, but so far they have only recaptured 36 of some 5,100 missing prisoners.

(PORT-AU-PRINCE/SALEM) - Thousands of inmates fled Haiti’s main prison after buildings collapsed during the earthquake on 13 January, and they have posed a threat to security in this battered island nation.

Officials say Prison Civile de Port-au-Prince had been burned down by the prisoners after the earthquake in an attempt to destroy prison records. With the capital in such a vulnerable state, there was some concern that escapees may return to areas like Cite Soleil and try and form gangs.

Statement from White House: Small Business Jobs and Wages Tax Cut

News release from White House following President's State of the Union Address.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - In one year, our economy has come back from the brink of depression, and is now growing again. But as the President made clear in his State of the Union address, he will not be satisfied until economic growth is translating into robust job growth. Although businesses are beginning to invest and expand again, many remain reluctant to hire.

In this environment, we have a unique opportunity to accelerate the pace of job growth...