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Friday 6/24 EMS responded to a heart attack at the gathering, upon arriving they found that the Rainbow group rolled boulders into the road to prevent emergency access and denied EMS onto the grounds so they had to call Mt Adams ranger district send a Forrest LEO to get the now deceased man. Had they not blocked the road he would have survived. Earlier that day the original Rainbow family was ran out of camp by the new Rainbow group which leaves only the bad element in the woods. Saturday morning around 4am I was awoken by a suspicious noise...

Has anyone here had dealings with the "Rainbow gathering" events? I have over 2000 Rainbow people of the Light participants so far coming through my community panhandling and trying to barter with beads and crystals. They are expecting up to 30,000 for their gathering July 1-7, but some are staying as late as Labor day. Does anyone have any statistics such as crime, pollution, or experiences with this group? Every day I see more walking past my house, this is the first time I have ever locked my doors since living there.

MARRAKESH – A bomb killed 14 people including foreigners in Morocco's bustling tourist destination of Marrakesh, officials said on Thursday, in an attack that bore the hallmark of Islamist militants. The blast ripped through a cafe overlooking Marrakesh's Jamaa el-Fnaa square, a spot that is often packed with foreign tourists. A Reuters photographer said he saw rescuers pulling dismembered bodies from the wreckage. If the bombing is the work of Islamist militants, it will be the first time they have carried out a major attack in Morocco since 2003, when a series of suicide bombings in the commercial capital, Casablanca,...

Honolulu, HI – Please excuse the laughter you hear from the gallery, but we told you so. Welcome to the party, Neil. It took you a while to come around, but we’re happy to have you on board. It appears that Hawaiian Governor Neil Abercrombie will be forced to conclude his chivalrous expedition to prove Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, after all. The new governor may not have been born yesterday, but he chose to take the obstinate route to this destination, and alas, merely finds himself among the other millions of American underlings who have already traveled the...

Malu ‘Aina calls for an immediate end to the U.S. illegal wars of occupation, and major cuts in military spending and increased spending to meet human needs. Locally, we call for an end to all live-fire and activities at PTA that create dust. Comprehensive independent monitoring and clean up of DU, unexploded ordnance, and other military toxins should be done at military expenses. The entire process needs to be transparent and have the confidence of the community, which to date is sorely lacking. Political candidates and citizens alike — where are our voices on these important issues? Contact: Malu `Aina...

Professor Peter Furth has ridden his bicycle to work at Northeastern University each day for the past six years. The two-mile trip through the Boston suburb of Brookline, Massachusetts, is usually without incident. Furth's journey is worlds apart from his former Boston commute, which for 13 years was a battle with drivers who wanted him on the sidewalk. "I've had motorists that drive a couple of inches from my elbow, trying to scare me," he said. Furth would catch up with drivers at stoplights and ask them whether they knew how close they'd come to hitting him. Invariably, they would...

Gary Johnson as candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination? What has he in common with you? video link: http://factreal.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/libertarians-marijuana-gary-johnson-interview-with-hannity-video/ Gary Johnson supports abortion rights, gay unions and legalized pot. And he's probably running for president." Salon.com LEFTISTS LOVE LIBERTARIANS Leftists like Salon.com love libertarian Gary Johnson so much that they titled their interview with him: The most interesting Republican you've never heard of. Here is a summary of that interview: Johnson Favors ProstitutionGary Johnson, a former governor of New Mexico and a likely candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, is talking about hookers. "It's never been a...

During her speech to the first ever National Tea Party Convention in Nashville on Saturday, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin discouraged the very idea of a national organization, urging the movement to stay leaderless and decentralized. This was the most important and valuable part of Palin’s speech. As for the rest of it–Sarah sounded pretty much like the same old Republican Party. Despite the many independents that make up the movement, the tea parties in large part represent a long overdue reexamination of conservative principles. A big-spending Democratic president seems to have awakened grassroots conservatives enough to finally lament the...

U.S. actor George Clooney plays a New Age hippie soldier trained for psychic, peaceful combat in a comedy set during the war in Iraq. "The Men Who Stare at Goats" is based on a book by Jon Ronson about a secret unit created by the U.S. army in 1979 which, the author said, believed troops could become invisible, walk through walls and kill goats just by staring at them. Ewan McGregor plays a reporter who stumbles across a member of the unit as he prepares to enter Iraq, and he and Clooney's character Lyn Cassady go on an ill-fated journey...

Annie Leibovitz is as famous as the people she photographs but now the genius behind the lens is close to financial ruin -- a victim, some say, of her own relentless artistic ambition. Among the qualities making Leibovitz, 59, the most sought after portrait photographer in the world are legendary perfectionism and the pouring of resources into lavish sets. Over the course of her long career, nothing has been too extreme in Leibovitz's pursuit of the perfect picture. She put former action icon and current California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on top of a mountain, submerged black actress Whoopi Goldberg in...

A 6 foot tall Rastafarian rooster, talking cow, and a pedo yoga guy on a farm. This must be where all organic fruits come from...

Rich Man, Poor Plan: Allen Andersson Made a Bundle, Then Made Things Happen -- for a While -- in Honduras By Manuel Roig-Franzia Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, July 14, 2009 Allen Andersson made a fortune. Three times. Richer each time, and ever less interested in being rich. [snip] And then, there's one of his all-time favorite multimillion-dollar gambits, the time he played presidential kingmaker in Honduras . . . and won. Barely noticed outside Tegucigalpa, Andersson assumed a key -- many say decisive -- offstage role in the 2005 election of Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, the recently deposed president of...

GULFPORT — Harrison County sheriff’s investigators went to Austin, Texas, on Friday to interview the couple wanted in the capital murder of a man found dead in a rural Gulfport hotel. Austin police arrested David Lee Obermiller, 21, and Bethany Nicole Goodenough, 20, Thursday night after finding them asleep on a sidewalk at or near the University of Texas campus, said Harrison County Sheriff Melvin Brisolara. It’s against the law in Austin to sleep in a public place, the sheriff said. The couple are accused in the robbery and slaying of Thomas “Tommy” Corbin, a Vancleave man found dead...

JERUSALEM (Map, News) - An American demonstrator was critically wounded Friday in a clash between protesters and Israeli troops over Israel's West Bank separation barrier. Peace activists with the International Solidarity Movement said Tristan Anderson, of the Oakland, Calif., area, was struck in the head with a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops. The military and the Tel Aviv hospital where Anderson was taken had no details on how he was hurt. "He's in critical condition, anesthetized and on a ventilator and undergoing imaging tests," said Orly Levi, a spokeswoman at the Tel Hashomer hospital. She described Anderson's condition...

I just recieved my required reading list for some of my teaching courses, and i have since picked up all of my books. Upon opening the first book, i was shocked to see the name William Ayers. Apparently he is the series editor for a series called teaching for social justice. I dont object to him editing a book, however, i have some reservations about paying for a book, where the money is going to a known terrorist. Though he didnt author the book, he did act as editor and he is acknowledged as an inspiration for the author as...

CNN) -- A 1970s radical who spent years as a housewife while on the run from the law has been released from prison in California. Sara Jane Olson, a former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, had been serving time for her role for incidents in 1975 -- the attempted bombing of two police cars and the shooting death of a customer during a robbery of a bank. Prosecutors say she was part of an SLA plot to murder two Los Angeles police officers by planting bombs under their cars but that the bombs did not go off and no...

1. America is at risk of more terrorist attacks - but not just from the Middle East According to a recent NYPD report, the greatest terrorist threat to United States citizens now comes from our own people - homegrown terrorists. This is not news to anyone who is aware of how different the terrorist threat is from any other enemy we've faced. John Robb, in his excellent book Brave New War, outlines the myriad ways that any dedicated homicide-minded individual can bypass America's woefully inadequate homeland security and exploit technology to wreak havoc on a massive scale: "We have entered...

WASHINGTON — Hippies used to say if you remember Woodstock, you weren't really there. Republicans say presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton can forget about getting $1 million in taxpayer funds for a Woodstock museum. Clinton and Charles Schumer, Democratic senators from New York, want to earmark the federal money for a museum that would commemorate the 1969 music festival in their state. "Woodstock Museum is a shining example of what's wrong with Washington on pork-barrel, out-of-control spending," said John McCain, Arizona senator and Republican presidential hopeful. An example, he said, of "the earmark pork-barrel spending which has made the American...

You know those self-righteous, college-going hippies who smugly inform you that they purchase Noam Chomsky books and Che Guevara T-shirts as a form of rebellion against commerce and American consumption? This video provides some insight into that mentality.

MIAMI -- This graying hippie makes the nightly, winding climb 18 feet to her cozy bedroom. She wakes to roosters' crows and the scents of dewy soil. Over breakfast, her view is a jungle of towering trees, no hint of concrete civilization. Shawnee Chasser lives in a treehouse above a secret garden in the middle of Miami. For 15 years, she has lived atop the 1.5-acre nirvana of green trees and farm animals behind a row of houses 10 minutes from downtown. Neighbors come for potlucks, drum circles and weekly volleyball games. Tenants who rent the extra bedrooms hang out...