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UK Arrests Iranian Journalist Over `Traitor` Complaint

The British police have detained the Iranian owner of a London-based television production company over allegations made by a British secret service agent against Press TV.

(LONDON Press TV) - Mehdi Mirtaleb, who heads a company that renders media services to Press TV, was taken into custody by London police after a notorious Iranian separatist filed a complaint against the alternative news channel.

Shadi Sadr, whose controversial remarks promoting the separation of the resource-rich southwestern province of Khuzestan from the rest of Iran has met with angry reactions from Iranians throughout the world and earned her the title of ‘traitor’, took exception to Press TV covering her statements in a February 27 article published on the channel’s website.

Freeing Native Americans from This Sick Culture

Oh, the lovely US government. It's overdrive now, breaking promises to each of us, but those it broke to Native Americans define the very culture we all must live in.

(SALEM) - Right now Native American kids are killing themselves. "Native youth are more than three times more likely to commit suicide (a number that increases to more than 10 times on some reservations), and have post traumatic stress symptoms on par with Iraq War veterans."

That's children, killing themselves. "Experts say in addition to these factors, a “trail of broken promises” adds to a feeling of hopelessness ...."

``The So-Called Hearing/Investigation of Extortion 17``

"Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood". John Adams

(SALEM) - After 2+1/2 long years, the families of 22 SEAL TEAM members, 8 Army Special Ops and National Guard soldiers and 1 loyal dog, finally got the congressional hearing they had been pleading for.

Their son’s Chinook helicopter was shot down in the Tangi Valley in Afghanistan under very suspicious circumstances in Aug 2011. It was the biggest one time loss ever in the history of SEAL Special Operations, and during the entire Middle East war on terror.

Environmental Cause of Autism Decoded

The rate of Autism in the military has consistently doubled the general population rate of 1 in 50. But the military is only one source of deadly TCE contamination in the United States.

(MINNEAPOLIS) - A new study finds high rate of Autism among Minneapolis Somali community. The investigation grew from parent concerns; it also found a high rate of associated intellectual disability.

“This study validates the concerns of the Somali community in Minneapolis,”

Isabella County Michigan Sheriff Responds to Salem-News Article About Government Theft of Veteran`s Home

Isabella County Sheriff Responds Over Visner Case

(SALEM) - Many readers have been following the story of Ted Visner, the Michigan man who was buying a home from a sheriff's office employee in Isabella County, only to return from a weekend outing with his family to find a padlock on his door, and his property vanished.

Ted Visner says the Isabella County Sheriff's Office and the sheriff himself, Leo Mioduszewski, are directly complicit in the theft of his family's property...

You Have Just Been Slapped in the Face by Your Government; Well Maybe Not ``Your`` Government

Too bad Oregonians don’t know their congressional delegation is “throwing” good money away while punishing our own citizens.

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - The federal government has been cutting domestic programs for all US citizens such as Head Start, Food Stamps, aid to education, scientific research, the national parks program, claiming we cannot afford it, but just agreed to transfer another 429 million to Israel to further develop the Iron Dome missile system.

The money is to be transferred immediately, represents the tip of the iceberg.

#InternetEnemies : Take action

The Internet is a collective resource. Don’t let the “Enemies of the Internet” turn it into a weapon in the service of special interests.

(PARIS Reporters WIthout Borders) - This year’s “Enemies of the Internet”report, which Reporters Without Borders publishes every year on World Day Against Cyber-Censorship (12 March), spotlights the government units and agencies that implement online censorship and surveillance.

Attention must be drawn to the practices of these Enemies of the Internet, which usually operate in the shadows. As many people as possible must be made aware of them.

Duty to Warn The Corporation as Sociopath: Do Mining Corporations like PolyMet Meet the Definition? - Part Two

"Slavery is the legal fiction that a person is property. Corporate personhood is the legal fiction that property is a person." – Anonymous

(DULUTH, MN) - Experienced psychologists tell us that sociopathic individuals that have committed crimes have to be locked away or otherwise isolated to protect society from them.

As a review of last week’s column, part 1, I reprint below the seven diagnostic criteria that are used to diagnose antisocial (aka, sociopathic or psychopathic) personality disorder in humans.

Petitioning US Attorney`s Office / US Department of Justice - Corruption in Isabella County Michigan

Michigan Family Loses Home and it's Contents to employed members of the Isabella County Sheriff's Department without Due Process, without a police report, without a receipt, without warning and without any legal justification what-so-ever.

(MT. PLEASANT, MI) - Family lost home and it's contents when two employees of the Isabella County Sheriff's Department acted together (while in disguise) to take the home in the absence of due process.

TV Series Manipulate Addict Viewers

The key is to offer a compelling product that shrinks the heart of the viewer.

(MADRID) - According to a study of "Neuromarketing Labs" for Fox and Vodafone, the usual viewing of "Breaking Bad", "The Walking Dead," "Game of Thrones" and "The Big Bang Theory", among others, are addictive in the audience.

The report studied the brain activity of 74 people aged between 18 and 47, which were simultaneously exposed fragments of several television series.