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Nativity: The Story of Whistle-Blower Kevin Annett and the `Little Matter of Genocide`

Duty to Warn...

(DULUTH, MN) - One of the most meaningful Christmas stories that I have ever heard came from my Vancouver, Canada friend, Reverend Kevin Annett. His story is titled “Nativity” and is printed further below.

Kevin spent a week at my home in Duluth, Minnesota a couple of years ago. The week was spent giving scheduled radio and film interviews, giving informal talks over meals, delivering a major speech to the Lake Superior Freethinkers, conducting forums at churches and answering questions following a Zinema 2 screening of his award-winning documentary, Unrepenant.

ReThink911 Keeps Building 7 in the Headlines

Let the BBC Editor Know the Public Doesn’t Buy Their One-Sided Coverage
Plus: NY Times Billboard Continues through December!

(LONDON) - Yesterday the BBC published an article about the ongoing ReThink911 ad campaign in Ottawa.

This piece marks the fifth mainstream news article about ReThink911’s Ottawa campaign since the announcement of the campaign on November 20.

Vietnam Executives Receive Death Penalty for Embezzlement

8 other defendants were given between four and 22 years in jail.

(HANOI) - Vietnam on Monday sentenced two former top executives at scandal-hit national shipping company Vinalines to death for embezzlement as authorities try to allay rising public anger over corruption.

State-owned Vinalines nearly collapsed under some US$3 billion of debt, according to official media, in one of several high profile scandals at large state-run companies which are a pillar of the economy.

Ban Weaponized Drones! - Statement by the European Section Global Anti-Drone Network

Statement by the European Section Global Anti-Drone Network: Ban Weaponized Drones!

(WASHINGTON, DC) - We oppose the use of drone technology for killing, surveillance and repression.

We oppose weaponized and surveillance drones because their deployment lowers the threshold to armed aggression, is used for “targeted” killing of people within and outside warzones – without indictment, trial and conviction, terrorizes the population of the targeted territories, fuels hatred, thereby increasing the cycle of violence, leads to the development of autonomous kille robots, thereby making even more horrifying wars likely, initiates a new round in the arms race.

The Pope`s Nose For News And The Ascension of Charlie (Rose)

While the voices in South Africa paying homage to Nelson Mandela had scarcely fallen silent, while Edward Snowden was still trying to figure out Moscow's transit system, and while the Nobel Committee in Oslo was called into emergency session, the word went forth...

(DAYTONA BEACH) - Two days ago, a puff of white smoke emerged from the top of the Time Life building on the Avenue of The Americas in Manhattan, and the world went delirious with joy.

Time's managing editor, became the world's most famous media midwife with the coronation of the most humble Pope in 1700 years as the Magazine's Parson (make that Person) Of The Year.

Bangladesh Hangs Jamaat Leader for War Crimes

UN Human Rights chief Navi Pillay wrote to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina seeking a stay of the execution, saying the trial did not meet stringent international standards for the death penalty.

(DHAKA Burma Times) - Bangladesh on Thursday hanged Abdul Quader Molla, a top Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) leader known as the “Butcher of Mirpur,” making him the first person to be put to death for massacres committed during the country’s bloody 1971 war of independence.

Deputy law minister Quamrul Islam announced the execution, saying Abdul Quader Molla, 65, a senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was hanged by the neck at 10.01 pm (1601 GMT) in a jail in the capital Dhaka.

Kevin Annett: Pope Bergoglio flaunts UN Deadline on Child Trafficking as 30 Child Skeletons Discovered at B.C. Native School

Children's remains were just discovered in a mass grave on the grounds of a United Church residential school for native children in Port Alberni, B.C.

(VANCOUVER B.C.) - In an interview today with Alfred Lambremont Webre, Kevin Annett, field secretary of the International Tribunal for Crimes of Church and State discusses how Pope Bergoglio is using the basic methods recommended by Machiavelli in flaunting a UN-imposed deadline for revealing Vatican-controlled data on child trafficking.

They have also been tightening up rules covering up child abuse in the Catholic Church.

When It Comes To Questionable Washington Practices, President Has Reversed Himself

When it comes to transparency and credibility, the administration seems to be in increasing trouble.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - President Barack Obama won election, at least in part, by promising to change Washington.  He said repeatedly that he would stop the revolving door and not hire lobbyists in his administration.

At a 2007 campaign event in Nevada, for example, Mr. Obama declared: "I'm in this race to tell the lobbyists in Washington that their days of setting the agenda are over. They will not work in my White House."

Fire the Liar

Memorandum for: The President from: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

(WASHINGTON, DC) - We wish to endorse the call by Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr., Chair of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, Committee on the Judiciary, that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper should be removed and prosecuted for lying to Congress.

“Lying to Congress is a federal offense, and Clapper ought to be fired and prosecuted for it,” the Wisconsin Republican said in an interview with The Hill. “The only way laws are effective is if they’re enforced.”

Abby Martin on the Iran Contra & the CIA Cocaine Conspiracy

Our writer Tosh Plumlee is one of the CIA pilots who blew the whistle on the whole thing.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - In this video, RTV's Abby Martin calls out an article from New York Magazine that suggests the CIA's connection to cocaine trafficking is a mere conspiracy theory.

This is a subject covered regularly on Salem-News.com, and also in the book co-authored by Robert O'Dowd and Tim King, Betrayal: Toxic Exposure of U.S. Marines, Murder and Government Cover-up.