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Activist Violently Arrested For Filming At Oregon Rodeo

SHARK’S video of horse tripping at the 2012 Big Loop Rodeo inspired Sen. Mark Hass, D-Beaverton to introduce a horse-tripping ban.

(JORDAN VALLEY, OR) - Animal Rights volunteer Adam Fahnestock was monitoring the Big Loop Rodeo Saturday when rodeo personnel and a deputy approached him.

After a very brief conversation, the deputy suddenly grabbed Fahnestock and threw him violently to the ground where rodeo personnel then also set upon him.

A True Champion

There are no words to adequately define this young man, this is a true story of self-sacrifice...

(HARRISVILLE, N.H.) - It is rare to find a truly selfless human being willing to put the welfare of a total stranger before personal reward.

Cameron Lyle, A 21 year old senior at the University of New Hampshire and Division I college athlete, has trained hard for 8 years to compete in the American East Track and Field Championships to be held this month.

President Obama Calls Jason Collins

Doesn't President Obama really know what courage is? It seems his priorities are way off.

(CLEVELAND) - Jason Collins, NBA player and Stanford graduate, recently announced that he is gay, more power to him. But President Obama cited his courage.

What about the heroes who die in service to their country whose families can't find justice... people like LaVena Johnson?

Domestic Terror and Police-State

Reflections of a tired activist... (EXTREMELY GRAPHIC PHOTOS)

(LOS ANGELES) - I went to school in that area, Boylston Street used to be a favorite hangout in my student life when I wished to get away from MIT.

And last year I was going to be at the Boston marathon right there at the finish line waiting with water bottles and bananas, where the tiny bombs exploded this year.

Stalin Deported the Chechens in WWII

During the Second World War, Joseph Stalin, seized by one of his historic fits of paranoia and cruelty, declared the Chechen people disloyal to the U.S.S.R. and banished them from their homeland.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Remick seems to suggest the Chechen terrorists fighting for separation from Russia were justified because they were deported in WW2.

Stalin had a “fit”? He was then in desperate battle with the invading Nazis...

Bahraini Insiders Believe Formula 1 Circuit May be Set on Flames

Rumors say that 14 February Youth coalition and several other resistant groups will set the circuit on flames by Cocktail Molotov or some sort of bomb to stop the competition.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Rumors have been spreading around the country about setting fire to the circuit’s main building or planting a bomb on the days of competition.

The Grand Prix competition was cancelled in 2011 due to the unrest and mass demonstrations for rights...

Martial Law Comes to Boston on the Anniversary of Paul Revere`s Midnight Ride

"Since 1630, the date of our founding, we've never seen anything like this, except for the American Revolution" - Darren D'Lisle, U Mass student

(SACRAMENTO / BOSTON) - Here we are, on 19 April, the anniversary of Paul Revere's 1775 'Midnight Ride,' and Boston and surrounding areas are essentially under martial law.

The deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon have created a state of occupation.

Updates on Investigation Into Multiple Explosions in Boston

FBI Special Agent Richard DesLauriers issues the latest information.

(BOSTON) - Since Monday’s bombings, the FBI and our law enforcement partners have been working around the clock and are fully committed to investigating this matter to bring those responsible for justice.

Our collective law enforcement team has pursued thousands leads and tips. As I said two days ago, we are working methodically and with a sense of urgency to identify those responsible...

European Football Determined to Reward Racism

Please ask your MP to write to Hugh Robertson, Minister for Sport, to complain.

(LONDON) - Israel has an unsporting record of sheer bloody-minded obstruction towards Palestinians’ efforts to participate in a wide range of sporting activity.

It is quite outrageous for the British government, to applaud and reward their racist behaviour.

Another Terror Attack; Another Terror Drill

For the first time since the Oklahoma Bomb in 1995 it seems that white extremists may be held responsible for a high profile terrorist attack.

(LONDON) - If whistleblower Ali Stevenson is correct, it appears that yet again a terrorist attack, this time the Boston bomb, occurred at the same time as an official exercise was taking place.

The Norwegian attack, the London 7/7 bombings and the 9/11 attacks all turned out to be running in tandem with exercises which were eerily similar to the real terrorist attacks.