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America Caught Unaware: Behind the Bombings at Pearl Harbor

We were caught taking a disastrous nap, and the enemy exploited that gap.

(SALEM) - We were caught taking a disastrous nap, and the enemy exploited that gap.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Dec. 7th, 1941 as "a day that will live on in the infamy of man", refering to the massive sneak attack that day that nearly wiped out America's entire Pacific fleet. Many were killed and injured. Most young people today know little of how that came about.

Conscientious Objector Omar Saad Sentenced to Prison for Refusing to Join Israeli Army

"I refuse that because I am pacifist, and I hate any kind of violence, and I believe that the army institute is the top of physical and psychological violence..." - Omar Saad

(TEL AVIV) - Omar Saad, 18 years old from Mghar, a village in the Galil, arrived, Wedensday 4/12/2013, to the Induction Base in Tiberias, where he declared his refusal to serve in the Israeli Army.

He arrived with many supporters and objectors to the mandatory military service imposed on Arab-Palestinian Druze Comunity in Israel. On 5/12/2013, Omar was sentenced to 20 days of imprisonment for his refusal, in the military prison No. 6 near Atlit.

Police Attack on Kyiv`s EuroMaidan Demonstrators Draws International Outrage

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, who has not been afraid to speak his mind about Yanukovych’s recent decisions, wrote on Twitter that the attacks in Kyiv were “worrying” and that Sweden was following events closely.

(KYIV, Ukraine) - After riot police stormed Kyiv's Independence Square early today and used violence to remove 400 peaceful demonstrators, Western diplomats quickly condemned the brutality.

Berkut, Ukraine’s feared riot police, raided the EuroMaidan camp at Maidan Nezalezhnosti just after 4 a.m. Dozens were reportedly hospitalized, while many others sought sanctuary at nearby St. Michael's monastery.

New Report: Unregulated Contaminants Common in Drinking Water

Eighteen of the chemicals are not regulated under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act so utilities do not have to meet any limit or even monitor for them.

(WASHINGTON, DC ) - Traces of 18 unregulated chemicals were found in drinking water from more than one-third of U.S. water utilities in a nationwide sampling, according to new, unpublished research by federal scientists.

Included are 11 perfluorinated chemicals, an herbicide, two solvents, caffeine, an antibacterial compound, a metal and an antidepressant.

Does the FDA Have a Conscience -- Or Are They Too Corrupt to Care About American Lives?

FDA approves potentially deadly drug against recommendations of their own committees, big pharma will do anything for money, and the FDA is in their pocket.

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - Congress has major concerns about the FDA's approval of a dangerous and highly addictive new opioid set to be prescribed in 2014. The name of the painkiller is Zohydro ER.

Their concern is primarily due to the epidemic of deaths and addictions in the past decade plus because of dangerous opioids -- in particular OxyContin. You may wonder how the FDA could approve another opioid when the U.S. is fighting a tsunami of deaths, addiction and abuse currently to the opioids they had previously approved.

Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Respond to Salem-News.com Article

The Council knows this process is not any easy one for the Tribal community but the Council is committed to getting through it with diligence and compassion.

(GRANDE RONDE, OR) - The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde is conducting an enrollment audit. The audit fulfills one of the tasks assigned in the Tribal Strategic Plan for 2010, which was adopted in August of 2009. That plan was formulated after nearly two years of development that began with a Strategic Futures conference in 2007 involving Tribal leaders and members.

The plan directed Enrollment to audit all enrollment files and applications, track reasons for denials, and audit blood quantum records with the goal of strengthening the Grand Ronde Family Tree.

Egypt: Physical Assault and Arrest of Human Rights Blogger Mr Alaa Abd El Fattah

Ensure that the treatment of Alaa Abd El Fattah while in detention adheres to all those conditions set out in the 'Basic Principles for Treatment of Prisoners, adopted by General Assembly resolution 45/111 of 14 December 1990' -William Nicholas Gomes,Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com

(Washington, D.C) - Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com, William Nicholas Gomes is deeply concerned at the arbitrary arrest and detention of human rights defender Alaa Abd El Fattah, and the physical assault he and his wife were subjected to.

William Nicholas Gomes is further concerned by the new legislation criminalising peaceful protesters and on-line activism.

Human Rights Prawer and PA Shame

The people of Nablus buried their latest victim of Israeli racism. An Israeli simply shot him at point blank range.

(BETHLEHEM) - On Friday, all demonstrations in many Palestinian villages had the theme against the Prawer Plan. On Saturday in 30 countries, events were held to counter this plan to ethnically cleanse 40,000 Palestinians from the Negev in the 65 year colonial Zionist program to make Palestine a “Jewish state”.

The demonstrations locally in Palestine were held in Haifa, the Triangle, Jerusalem, AlBireh, and the Negeb with the same message: Prawer shall not be passed or implemented and we emphasize the unity of all 12 million Palestinians.

ALEC: In Town and Under Fire: Lawmakers to Respond to Corporate-Owned Agenda and Disturbing New Revelations Detailed in Leaked

Includes New Must Read Report from the Guardian, Dec. 3: ALEC facing funding crisis from donor exodus in wake of Trayvon Martin row.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - State and federal lawmakers who have seen firsthand how ALEC’s corporate-owned special interest agenda harms their constituents will respond to disturbing new revelations about ALEC’s upcoming legislative agenda and plans to further sabotage the Affordable Care Act, as well as newly published documents that raise serious issues about the group’s status as a so-called charitable organization.

ALEC – the American Legislative Exchange Council, is in D.C. this week for its “State and Nation Policy Summit”...

Dead BA Pilots `Victims of Toxic Cabin Fumes`

TWO of British Airways’ most talented pilots have died after complaining of years of exposure to toxic oil fumes on board passenger planes.

(LONDON) - Karen Lysakowska, 43, was buried last Tuesday, while Richard Westgate, also 43, was laid to rest four days before.

Both believed they had been poisoned by the toxic oil fumes that can contaminate cabin air and which regularly forces pilots to don oxygen masks in order to breathe.