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Continuing the Legacy of Lies at the NYT

This is truly an extinction level event dragged out over time by lies and purposeful mis-information by people like these Psychopaths at the NYT.

(LOS ANGELES) - Hmm, when they lie, they still let info drop.

The Times included this factoid: "was just two feet deep, rather than the 33-foot level estimated by Tepco officials when the government declared the plant stable in December."

Trayvon Martin Killing: Let Investigations Run Their Course

Everyday we hear about the public outrage about the incident. Isn't it time for everyone to step back and wait for the Justice Department and the State of Florida to complete their investigations.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - On Feb. 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teenager, was shot to death by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman captain.

The teen was walking inside a gated community in Sanford, Florida, where his father and stepmother lived.

The Unhurried Dawn

And so I will continue to conduct the pointless rituals, and speak the passing words, on the corpses all around me, and I will not wonder on the purpose of it all. For, impossibly, death has never had dominion, and it never shall.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - The first dead Indian baby I ever saw was also the first one I ever baptized.

His name was Albert Gomez. That’s what his mom and dad called him, at least, because he died in the womb and finally emerged the morning I arrived at Port Alberni General Hospital to pretend to console the shattered couple.

Not a Fable

“I tear the wings off helpless little butterflies.” -
Gustav Meyer ran Section Y for the Canadian government, and it wasn’t insects he ripped apart.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - Even after microfilm came along, the secrets were stored in long manila file folders tucked randomly throughout the acres of shelves of at least four different departments of the government of Canada.

It was reasoned that no-one would ever bother looking there, even if they did learn of the secrets, which was unlikely.

PAKISTAN: A Newspaper Terminates its Editor After Threats from Fundamentalists

Salem-News.com Eye on the World report.

(HONG KONG) - Threats have been made toward an editor with the Lahore based daily newspaper, Takmeel-e-Pakistan, by Muslim fundamentalists, and the group Tahafuz-e-Namoos-e-Rislat Mahaz.

Officials were well aware of the fact that Muslim fundamentalists were agitated, but refused to provide protection to the newspaper.

Lies Taking us to War

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. --Mark Twain

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - A January 12th headline in the Wall Street Journal: "Humanitarian gestures and covert actions won't stop Iran's bomb."

They lie and they know it! Show them the wisdom of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: "The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted."

Hundreds of Israelis March in Tel Aviv to Protest War with Iran

Anti-war protest comes amid growing Facebook campaign linking Israelis and Iranians; campaign leaders: We have nothing to do with the protest rally.

(TEL AVIV Ha'aretz) - Hundreds of Israelis marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest against a possible Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.

The protest came amid a recent Facebook campaign linking Israeli and Iranian citizens in their opposition to war between the two nations.

Urgent Response to Racism: Police Screening Needed

Obviously screening of both neighborhood watch personnel and police in many cases, needs to be reexamined.

(SALEM) - There may or may not be parallels between the killing of an innocent Black teen recently in Sanford, FL and the massacre of 16 Muslim innocents in an Afghan village at the hands of a sergeant from Ft. Lewis, WA who apparently went berserk.

Legislative action could result in reducing similar tragedies.

Trayvon Martin`s Parents Speak Out Over Son`s Death

Our son Trayvon Martin was killed because he looked "suspicious." His confessed killer is still free. Join 900,000 people to call on Florida law enforcement officials to prosecute the man who took away our son.

(SANFORD, FL) - Our son didn't deserve to die. Trayvon Martin was just 17 years old when he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman.

Trayvon wasn't doing anything besides walking home with a bag of Skittles and some iced tea in his hands.

Palestinian Hunger Striker `At Risk of Death` Highlights Injustice of Administrative Detention

Hana Shalabi began her hunger strike in protest against ill-treatment during her arrest on 16 February.

(LONDON Amnesty International ) - Israeli authorities should immediately release a Palestinian detainee or charge her with a recognizable criminal offence and promptly try her, AI said amid fears that the woman could die in detention after 37 days on hunger strike.

Hana Shalabi, 30, from the village of Burqin in the northern West Bank, has never been charged with a criminal offence.