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Op Ed: Personal Dialog Attack
Violates Principle of Purpose

Corporate Social Responsibility has been under study by the writer since the early ‘70s.

(BEND, Ore.) - “We has met the enemy, and he is us”, stated Pogo, in what has become a world-famous situation-summary now seen as directly applicable to many open channels designed for shared learnings.

The rapid growth of Internet offerings, both source and ongoing channels offering interchange and participant comment, has made Pogo’s painful findings into highly current common/sense.

Op Ed: Crucial Corporate-Governance Principles and Practices Undergoing 21st-Century Change

Boston’s International Summit Sets Needs in Deep Perspective.

(BEND, Ore.) - The most-essential foundation-format for all corporations is itself now under 21st Century examination. Many broadly-defined changes are now being detailed in depth, under further developed principles built anew, from scratch.

Highly-qualified professionals from civil society, law, labor, and government are taking full-bore interest and leadership roles. Good-faith participation is already under way from world-leaders active in current corporate management.

Op Ed: Without Change, Death of Democracy at Hand

Corporate forces intent only on profit-line demand control of the very people they were created to serve.

(BEND, Ore.) - Corporate control, relentlessly “driven by the profit motive alone”, is now forcing full and drastic reconsideration of what must be done before the inevitable consequences finally --and perhaps even forever--overwhelm the remnants still remaining of all traditional democracy.

Capitalism is our own worst enemy. True: our entire social, economic, cultural and controlling direction of life for most inhabitants of our world is now threatened by the shaping forces released via capitalism and its consequences.

Unethical Scumbags in Oregon`s State Legislature

The voters know the lawmakers and officials are SUPPOSED to be doing the work of the PEOPLE, not just the work of the lobbyists, and the deeper their apathy goes the hotter their anger grows.

(SALEM, Ore.) - This most recent legislative session that we had in 2007 was nice. It was productive. It avoided most of the acrimony of the previous sessions that were under the iron bootheel of (would-be Empress) Karen Minnis who ran the Oregon House as if it were her own ideological dominion.

Hopefully this February session will see the influence of the lobbyists wane under new ethics rules put in place during the recent session.

PETA States Opinions on Primate Research in Oregon

Opinion Editorial from PETA.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - On November 13th, PETA went public with the results of a four-month undercover investigation revealing that the Oregon National Primate Research Center consistently operated in violation of federal guidelines governing the use and care of animals.

Using evidence documented by our undercover investigator, PETA alleged that the primate center denied sick animals adequate and effective veterinary care and pain relief, handled monkeys in ways that caused them psychological and physical trauma, cleaned cages with a high pressure hose that left the animals wet and frightened and provided inadequate enrichment activities that resulted in monkeys frantically pacing back and forth inside of their tiny cages.

Op Ed: Kicker Falsifies
Economic Realities, Distorts Economy

Off-Cycle Estimate Distorts, Magnifies Realistic View of Money Woes.

(BEND, Ore.) - “Magical tricks” amuse and please everyone - especially when they end with rapid access to a check representing “surprise money.”

Oregon suffers from the ONLY “sometimes you win while losing” fiscal-policy numbers-game, euphemistically named “the kicker” --with most-affected members of our Oregon family never realizing the true irony of that trusty-name.

Oregon Human Services: Today`s Gestapo?

Is it in a child's best interests to always be placed in a family that is more affluent?

(SALEM, Ore.) - No wonder Gestapo CPS continues to get away with the attacks on families that it constantly perpetrates. There is clearly a very vocal contingent in this country to whom the concept of family and blood relations are meaningless.

Op Ed: M-50 Election Bought
Your Vote Sold
At $24.00 per Ballot

Oregonians misinformed, misled by malign BIG-T dollars.

(BEND, Ore.) - Some editors in Oregon profess to believe that the Big-T portentous piles of pelf, now already arrived in tv-station, radio AND printed-page pockets, made no REALLY appreciable difference in the damaged and damaging outcome for Measure 50.

Yet our most sacred Oregonian democratic process ”the initiative” primarily set up precisely to determine true-and-reliable voter values on controversial issues, has never been more challenged, and now badly damaged than by this debacle.

Op Ed: Amnesty Only Possible
Control and Direction
NOW For The TEN MILLION

Unavoidable realities demand skillful plans well implemented, available ONLY by constitutionally responsible action by Congress.

(BEND, Ore.) - There’s no doubt whatsoever of the damaging and dangerous situations and circumstances which now so obviously enrage so many solid citizens of this nation contemplating that rushing torrent of illegal entrants crossing our Mexican border.

That excruciating inflow HAS been happening and continues to do so, the result of our own neglect stemming directly from long-continued citizen and Congressional irresponsibilities.

Op Ed: IMPEACHMENT: Now or Never

To re-shape Democracy, our “World-Leader Nation” now must prove Democratic strength.

(BEND, Ore.) - Great democratic traditions for the entire world now hang in limbo while we Americans tolerate by far the most serious challenge in our history to what we really stand for; and believe demanded for the entire world to prosper further.

A royalist-minded President has procured for himself and his cohorts tremendous powers over the average citizen never contemplated in the Constitution; and, indeed, abrogated, firmly and fully denied by our Founders on their own full study of world-famed philosophers and history.