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Will New President of Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin make Peyton Manning MVP?

Hopefully Peyton Manning, quarterback for the Denver Bronco's will not become the "MVP - Most Valuable Pusher" for OxyContin because of all his sports injuries -- neck, arm and knee.

(MYRTLE CREEK, OR) - While serving as "Most Valuable Player" for 15 years at Merck, Timney was known for "downsizing" the work force by 15,000 employees give or take a few.  In fact, he earned a revered spot in The Huffington Post in 2013 under the title 11 Terrible Ways To Say You're Laying Someone Off Without Saying It.

Cocaine and Murder in the Marine Corps

Cold blooded murder of Marine Colonel; Marine veterans pursue independent investigation.

(SOMERDALE, NJ) - Colonel James Sabow was someone by all accounts who would never back away from a fight or lie about another. He loved his country, the Marines, his wife and two children and was looking forward to retirement in two years and continuing to fly as a commercial pilot on the West Coast.

He was a devout Catholic, a graduate of a Christian Brothers high school and George Washington University. He didn’t know it but events were unfolding in January 1991 that would result in his murder at the hands of others.

Marijuana: Best Modern Cure for Addictions

Hoorah for the anti-addiction drug, marijuana!

(PORTLAND, OR) - Whoever you are, you are reading this correctly. Maybe you don't believe it, but I will give you some ammunition.

Cannabis/marijuana as medicine, was formally introduced into the U.S. about 1850, just after it was introduced in Great Britain. It was considered the super drug and was used successfully for almost every disease common at that time.

Nation`s Largest Cocaine Smuggler Revealed: The DEA

Written statements were provided to a U.S. District Court in Chicago, confirming the alliance between the DEA and Mexico's largest cocaine cartel.

(WASHINGTON, DC WHDT World News) - For decades, it has been rumored the United States government was secretly sponsoring the smuggling of cocaine into the country. Federal officials have long denied such speculation, pointing out the billions of dollars spent intercepting drugs.

Newly released documents, and testimony from Justice Department and DEA officials now show the stories of government running cocaine are true.

Tylenol Kills Thousands

I am writing this as a Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology in medical schools. I have known about this extreme hazard for at least sixty years and I am astonished that it took the FDA sixty years to do something, meager as it is.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The headline, warning: this common painkiller may cause liver damage, was a report initiated by the FDA (Food & Drug Administration) that doctors should limit prescribing combination medications that Tylenol, which is acetaminophen, since an excess make cause severe liver damage, leading to death.

This exposes the well known phenomenon of a doctor's advice to a patient, "Take two and if that doesn't work, take one more, but don't take anymore."

Deputies Pursue Suspects Near Stayton (VIDEO)

A deputy involved in the reported chase says the pursuit reached speeds of up to 100 miles per hour.

(STAYTON, OR) - Today at about 11:00 a.m. Deputies following up on several burglary investigations in south Marion County came across a silver Honda Civic that they believed may be connected to their investigation near Jefferson.

When Deputy Derrick Ramseyer attempted to stop the vehicle for a traffic violation, the vehicle took off at a high rate of speed toward the City of Stayton...

`Caro Quintero is Protected by the White House`: Former CIA pilot

If it were not for these few documents that I managed to get, some still classified until 2020, the statements of three former agents might seem to be more of a conspiracy theory.

(SAN JUAN, Coast Rica Vice) - Hours after Rafael Caro Quintero, alleged murderer of DEA agent Enrique Camarena Kiki, was released on 9 August, the governments of Mexico and the United States announced a manhunt.

But in reality it is a fake show. Caro Quintero did not murder Kiki Camarena, and it is possible that the Mexican drug don is now living under a new identity as a protected secret agenda of the White House.

BETRAYAL Synopsis / Book Review

I highly endorse Bob and Tim's recommendation for the VA to adopt a Science Advisory Board with backgrounds in science to objectively evaluate toxic exposures on all 130 military installations on the EPA Superfund Cleanup list.

(SALT LAKE CITY) - "BETRAYAL" reports with precise, well-researched and written evidence of the denial of responsibility and cover-up of environmental contamination of Marines, civilians, their families and the public, at both El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, CA and Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, NC.

This is personal to me because I was a Marine stationed at Camp Lejeune 1973-76, as was my WWII Marine father Walter C. Davis Jr. in 1943. My spouse Sandra and I lived at 2695 Bougainville, in the Tarawa Terrace on base housing area. My first son Caleb was conceived and born there June 16, 1975.

27 Years Later, CIA Pilot Tells of Using Secret Costa Rican Airstrip to Traffic Guns, Cocaine

They seemed like isolated events unfolding in the chaos of Central America in the 1980s. But now, the pieces of the puzzle are fitting together.

(SAN JUAN Tico Times) - Costa Rica’s Santa Elena Peninsula in the northwestern province of Guanacaste was the site of a smoking gun in the 1980s Iran-Contra affair, the scandal that rocked the administration of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

Santa Elena also was the site of extensive drug trafficking back then, according to pilot who now says he trafficked cocaine and guns to a secret airstrip on the peninsula.

CIA Connection to DEA Agent`s Murder Too Hot for FOX News?

CIA connection to Enrique Kiki Camarena’s torture and death not reported by Fox’s “The Kelly File”

(SALEM) - Enrique Kiki Camarena, a DEA agent and former Marine, was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Mexico in February 1985.

In October 2013, Luis Chaparro and J. Jesus Esquivel broke the news that Kiki was murdered on orders from the CIA. The motive for the murder was to prevent him from blowing the whistle on narcotrafficking...