We need Peace instead of War…
“Some people are so afraid they cannot find the courage to debunk the junk and face facts. And increasing numbers don’t want to know truths which may be too terrible to bear.”
Weather in Missoula, Montana tonight… a couple minutes ago…
7 Pearl Harbor Day
6 Chanukah lasts 8 days
12 Poinsettia Day
22 Winter Solstice (shortest day of the year)
23 Festivus – for the rest of us!
25 Christmas
26 Kwanzaa
27 National Fruitcake Day
28 Boxing Day – not on the 26th this year
31 New Year’s Eve
December 2015 Portland Alliance
Speaking Truth to Power Since 1981
Unarmed US citizens killed by armed, uniformed “peace officers”
“Police work is often viewed by those in the force as an us-versus-them war rather than a chance for community-oriented engagement and problem solving. The authors also point to a lack of accountability as one of the reasons why police violence persists.”
Tamir Rice report: Tamir was unarmed; officers shot twice, no warning.
Two experts in police use of force commissioned by the Rice family found “the shooting was unjustified.” Those experts, Roger Clark and Jeffrey J. Noble, also found that the prosecutors reports “contradicted one another, made unfounded assumptions and ignored principles of police training.”
CIA arming and training terrorists led to attacks in Paris
Without the American crime of aggressive war against Iraq — which, by the measurements used by Western governments themselves, left more than a million innocent people dead — there would be no ISIS
Conspiracy Theory 101: Some claims are nutty and other claims are true…
in April 1967, the CIA wrote a dispatch which coined the term “conspiracy theories” …
Halloween Rally in the ‘Spirit of Unity’
Saturday, October 31 at 11:00am – 2:00pm Today, Halloween… at Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Just south of the Hawthorne Bridge https://www.facebook.com/events/1464581957203740 Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Just south of the Hawthorne … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: America’s Electoral Farce: Posted Juns 16, 2015 By Chris Hedges
I intend to devote no more time to the upcoming presidential elections than walking to my local polling station on Election Day, voting for a third-party candidate, most likely the Green Party candidate, and going home.
The Great “Mental Illness” Hoax: Rampage Killings and Gun Culture
…For the past several years polling data has revealed that the vast majority of Americans want tougher gun controls – beyond enhanced background checks and bans on military-grade weapons or limits to high-powered magazines.



