municipal, county, state and federal ‘counter-terrorism’ agencies view citizens engaged in movements of political and social dissent, such as Occupy Wall Street, as nothing less than nascent, if not bona fide, ‘terrorist’ threats.”
municipal, county, state and federal ‘counter-terrorism’ agencies view citizens engaged in movements of political and social dissent, such as Occupy Wall Street, as nothing less than nascent, if not bona fide, ‘terrorist’ threats.”
President Obama’s Department of Justice has pursued journalists thought to have garnered government secrets
The IRS division responsible for flagging Tea Party groups has long been an agency afterthought, beset by mismanagement, financial constraints and an unwillingness to spell out just what it expects from social welfare nonprofits
many of the nation’s military bases are surrounded by storefront lenders who charge high annual percentage rates, sometimes exceeding 400 percent.
Just a quick heads up that I will be speaking about the right of local self-governance and our local bill of rights ordinance at the annual law conference at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Here is a description of the panel which begins at 3:30 PM, this Saturday....
An important change is underway at MGx.com which is that within the next few days the site will only be reached by entering geddry.com. It was 1996 when I obtained the domain and over the years I have many offers, one as high as $160K and have always refused them....
Please forgive the infrequent posts of late as I had a particularly nasty flu and looking at the screen has only now become tolerable. First, the Coos Commons Protection Council made a decision to hold off submitting signatures for the May ballot because with the...
“Without reducing total production, which would require him to really take on the fossil fuel industries and have a real fight with them, this plan is not going to do anything to solve the problem,”
The Climate Commission study found that the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, a key Australian export, represented the most significant contributor to climate change.
‘Rich country governments have clearly shown that global poverty is not on their priority list’
The International Monetary Fund has been pressuring the United Kingdom to back off austerity for its own good and the good of the global economy
In 1985 the NRC acknowledged that a severe core melt down could occur in the United States. They’ve known all along here in this country that disaster could come and with 23 plants similar in design to the Fukushima GE Mark 1 reactors a similar loss of containment is highly possible.
Beyond the warning, neither the US nor the Japanese government undertook any steps to correct the situation and we are now witnessing a desperate adaptive emergency response that relies upon the efforts of a handful of workers knowingly sacrificing their lives to avert a meltdown.
Commissioner Bob Main perfectly demonstrates some of the difficulties contained within a representative democracy. Main, as reported in The World report "Ballot tactics target LNG plan" says he will not defend, if necessary, a democratically enacted local ordinance,...
Oregon State Representative Cliff Bentz (R-Ontario) has introduced House Bill 2480 to literally take power away from the people of Oregon. Introduced on behalf of a corporate lobbying firm and despite President Trump’s inaugural promise to give the power back...