An NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) is a non-profit, citizen-based group that operates independently of government control.
Driven by social, humanitarian, environmental, or development goals,
NGOs range from local grassroots clubs to massive international
charities.
Core Characteristics
Independence: While they often collaborate with or receive funding from governments, NGOs set their own agendas and programs.
Not-for-Profit: They reinvest all financial surpluses back into their core mission rather than distributing them to owners or shareholders.
Funding: NGOs rely on a mix of private donations, corporate sponsorships, charitable foundations, and government grants.
Primary Functions
Advocacy & Watchdogs:
They raise public awareness on issues like human rights, gender
equality, and climate action, while holding governments and corporations
accountable.
Service Delivery: They provide essential resources in areas of need, such as disaster relief, healthcare, education, and poverty alleviation.
Research & Policy: Many NGOs produce data and analysis that directly influence public policy and legislation.
Types of NGOs
BINGOs: Business-international NGOs (e.g., World Economic Forum).
INGOOs: International NGOs (e.g., Amnesty International or Oxfam).
Would you like me to provide examples of NGOs focused on a specific cause (e.g., environment, human rights, animal welfare), or are you looking for a breakdown of how to start or find local NGOs in the Tigard/Portland area?
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Yes. This perfectly agrees with everything I have studied so far. Epstein was Mossad and his purpose was the blackmail of all the rich men he could worldwide for the Israeli government. You can also see how Trump was blackmailed by Netanyahu into the Iran War. So, I would call this the 1 trillion dollar Blackmail of Trump by Netnayahu. And who foot the bill? All the American People!
The Epstein Files should be called "The Epstein Blackmail files" Why?
Because why would Epstein keep such meticulous records of who F----- Who worldwide otherwise. If he wasn't blackmailing Trump and Gates and everyone else "Why create the Epstein Files in the first place?"
It was EPSTEIN BLACKMAIL FILES OF THE RICHEST AND MOST POWERFUL MEN ON EARTH!
I sort of needed to ask God: "What's Next God?" "What am I doing here?" we were raising 3 kids then 1 of my own from my first marriage and 2 of hers from her first marriage and we had divorced the same year from our respective spouses 1977. So, now it was 1983 and we had been together 3 years about. And my parents had come up and helped me build an A-Frame on 2 1/2 acres we bought in the fairly remote wilderness about 10 miles from the nearest Gas Station or store of any kind (except maybe a Ranger station at about 9 miles away.
So, this Vision Quest on the Trinity River in Northern California was useful for me to find my way forward. However, it answered questions in a different way and context than I could ever have imagined.
I realized that people mostly don't know who they really are. What I mean is that most people don't realize what and who human beings really are.
The best way I can say this is we are domesticated animals sort of like the pets we raise like Dogs and Cats but I think humans are more like Dog pets than cat pets.
We are sort of pack animals like Dogs were cats are more independent. Whenever I go number 2 for example in the bathroom our corgi comes in and my wife calls this "Poop Support" which seems normal for a dog to give comfort by their presence while people are trying to go to the bathroom. They are pack animals but humans really are pack animals too only domesticated like we domesticate our puppies into adult dogs in some ways.
Our lives are completely conditioned by those who raise us and associate with us through our lives.
But, we are also a solitary animal too and one finds out about this while doing a vision quest in some remote place in the wilderness.
However, after 4 days of no water or food can you then walk back to civilization so you can continue to survive? This might be an important question BEFORE you walk 15 or 20 miles into the wilderness alone and expect to survive a Vision quest of no water or food for 4 days or 96 hours.
The strangest thing to me is that I kept urinating for 4 days even though I didn't drink a drop of water during this time.
The next strangest thing was how vulnerable I felt not drinking water or eating food for 4 days and nights.
The next strangest thing was that I realized I didn't really understand fully what a human being really was before this vision quest. Why?
Because civilization robs us of who we are and who we once were as beings here on earth.
Civlization is sort of like living inside of a painting. Is it fake? No. It's a painting. And Artwork. So, we grow up inside of a human artwork and don't understand who and what we really are at core.
After my vision quest of 4 days and nights I felt closer to every living thing on earth than ever before.
I felt closer to myself than ever before.
I realized I liked myself and I liked the world and I loved myself and I loved all life on earth.
ISLAMABAD — The U.S. and Iran were in dispute
Tuesday over whether Tehran had agreed to allow U.N. inspections of its
nuclear sites. As officials negotiated over how to permanently end the war in Iran, a separate plan emerged to break the shipping bottleneck through the Strait of Hormuz.
The disagreement over nuclear inspections came as Iran’s president met with Pakistani mediators and technical teams from the U.S. and Iran continued talks in Switzerland.
A United Nations agency said Tuesday that a plan was underway to move stranded ships
and their thousands of crew members through the strait — a vital
passage for global energy supplies that Iran had blocked after the U.S.
and Israel launched the war on Feb. 28.
Earlier
in the day, a spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, Esmail Baghaei,
told reporters in Tehran that U.N. inspectors were not scheduled to examine nuclear sites bombed by the U.S. last year, rejecting comments made a day before by U.S. Vice President JD Vance.
President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that if Iran had not agreed to inspections, he would cut off talks with Tehran immediately. But he added there was no rush for those inspections to begin.
The
International Atomic Energy Agency has not responded to requests for
comment over its possible role. It has been in and out of Iran since Israel’s 12-day war in 2025, but has not been granted access to bombed enrichment sites targeted by the U.S.
Iran maintains that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, though it has highly enriched uranium that could be used to build atomic bombs, should it choose to do so, the IAEA has said.
The U.S. and Iran agreed to a deal last week that calls for Tehran to dilute its stockpile of enriched uranium, and waives U.S.-backed sanctions on the country while giving each side 60 days to hammer out broader agreements.
The Iranian delegation arrives for talks in Obbürgen, Switzerland, on Sunday.Hamed Malekpour / Handout via Getty Images
Plan to evacuate stranded seafarers through Strait of Hormuz
The plan to evacuate 11,000 crew members stranded on ships
is being done in cooperation with Iran, Oman, all other coastal states
in the region, the United States and the maritime industry, according to
the secretary-general of the International Maritime Organization,
Arsenio Dominguez.
“We have secured the necessary safety guarantees and have thoroughly verified the conditions for safe navigation to support these operations,” he said in a statement.
The organization said moving the ships will be done gradually to avoid any risk of collision.
A
shipping insurance executive cheered the development. “That can only be
good news for all concerned,” said Marcus Baker, global head of marine,
cargo and logistics for Marsh in London.
But the uneasy ceasefire
already has been tested by Iran saying it closed the strait again over
fighting between Israel and the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah in
Lebanon. Violence again broke out in Lebanon Tuesday.
The
U.S. has said that negotiators have discussed “mechanisms” to ensure
that the strait remains open. Ship traffic is increasing but questions
remain about who controls the passageway.
Data
and analytics company Kpler confirmed 39 ships crossed through the
strait Monday, after about 92 crossings between Friday and Sunday. Prior
to the war, roughly 100 ships a day made the journey.
Two U.S. aircraft carriers were continuing to operate in the Middle East, the U.S. military’s Central Command said.
Vice President JD Vance speaking in Lucerne, Switzerland, on Monday.Nathan Howard / Pool via Reuters
Iran’s president makes his first visit to Islamabad since the war started
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday discussed a range of issues, including regional peace and economic cooperation, according to a statement from the presidency in Islamabad.
It
was the Iranian president’s first visit since the U.S. and Israel
launched war on Iran. He said during a news conference after their
meeting that there was no mention of Iran’s missile program in the
memorandum of understanding signed between the U.S. and Iran.
“If it was not for Iran’s missile capabilities,
our country would have been plundered and destroyed,” Pezeshkian said,
vowing to “never compromise or negotiate our missile capabilities.”
Pakistan’s
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif afterward said he will attend the Tehran
funeral of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the
war’s opening airstrikes.
A large Israeli flag hangs from a destroyed building in the southern Lebanese village of Taybeh on Thursday.Jalaa Marey / AFP via Getty Images
Iran says negotiations focused on sanctions relief, nuclear issues and more
At the start of a 60-day window to reach a permanent deal to end the war, Iran and the U.S. agreed to create a “de-confliction cell” to address the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
Iran said the talks in Switzerland led to the creation of negotiation groups focused on sanctions relief,
nuclear issues, reconstruction, and monitoring, according to the
state-run IRNA news agency. The report quoted Kazem Gharibabadi, a
deputy foreign minister leading the talks there, as saying the countries
also formed a way to discuss ships moving through Hormuz.
In southern Lebanon Tuesday, Israeli soldiers opened fire and killed two people.
That followed two days of calm after a ceasefire brokered Saturday. Any
renewal of heavy fighting could threaten the broader diplomatic talks,
since Iran has demanded that a full truce in Lebanon be part of any
comprehensive deal.
Israel occupies part of Lebanon and insists it must be able to attack militants launching attacks into northern Israel.
The
Israeli military said troops fired at four Hezbollah members who were
riding a bulldozer and a motorcycle and had entered a security zone and
failed to stop despite warning shots. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that the two men were killed next to a bulldozer clearing a road.
No
Israeli airstrikes or shelling have been reported since Sunday and
Hezbollah has not claimed any attacks in what has been the longest halt
in the fighting since the latest Israel-Hezbollah war erupted in March.
Netanyahu raises new questions over fragile Lebanon ceasefire
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that his military still has “full freedom of action” in Lebanon to thwart any threats.
Neither
Israel nor Hezbollah is a signatory to the U.S.-Iran deal. Netanyahu
has vowed to keep his forces in southern Lebanon until threats to Israel
are eliminated. Hezbollah has refused to halt attacks unless Israel
commits to withdrawing.
When asked about Netanyahu’s comments, Trump said “we’re going to take a look at it,” adding that the situation would “get solved.”
The
main highway leading south from Beirut was jammed Tuesday with people
displaced from southern Lebanon returning to their homes. Among them was
Hawraa Nour El-Din, from the village of Khirbet Selm.
“We don’t want the negotiations done by the government,” she said. “We want Iran to negotiate on our behalf, and we are returning victorious, whether everyone likes it or not.”
In
Washington, the State Department said a new round of Israel-Lebanon
talks began on Tuesday with both political and security issues on the
agenda.
The
resolution passed 50-48, with four Senate Republicans joining almost
all Democrats in support of the measure. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa.,
opposed the resolution, and two Republicans did not vote.
The nonbinding measure is Capitol Hill’s sharpest symbolic pushback on the war yet.
The House voted215-208 this month to pass the same Democratic-led measure to end Trump’s war with Iran, offering a rare reprimand of the president.
The resolution
“directs the President to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities
against Iran unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or a
congressional authorization for use of military force against Iran.”
The
Senate has voted on a war powers resolution nine other times, but none
of those votes reached the simple majority threshold necessary to pass
it until Tuesday.
The vote comes as several GOP senators have broken with Trump over his 14-point memorandum of understanding
with Iran, with Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker,
R-Miss.; Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.; and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, pushing
back on it.
Republicans
control the Senate by a 53-47 margin. Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and
Dave McCormick, R-Pa., did not vote Tuesday. McConnell was hospitalized this month. His office said Monday that he would not vote this week.
The vote comes a day before Trump heads to Capitol Hill to speak with Senate Republicans at their weekly lunch.
A
White House official downplayed the Senate vote, saying in an email
that it had “no significance” and that the resolution would neither go
to Trump’s desk nor have any force of law. The official added that the
vote’s outcome was due to Republican absences.
McCormick
and McConnell have both previously opposed resolutions like this one.
Had they been there for the vote and opposed it, the resolution would
have failed on a 50-50 tie.
The
resolution is largely symbolic. Its introduction in the House as a
concurrent resolution means it does not need to go to Trump for his
signature; instead, it expresses the sentiments of both chambers of
Congress.
The White House
official added that the resolution “directs the President to remove U.S.
Armed Forces from hostilities against Iran. Yet there are no
hostilities from which to remove U.S. forces, as hostilities terminated
with the ceasefire on April 7th.”
Both the U.S. and Iran have insisted that the April ceasefire remains in place, even as the countries occasionally exchange strikes.
The vote also comes the day after Vice President JD Vance departed Switzerland following high-level talks between the U.S. and Iran. Vance said the talks had laid a “good foundation” for a final deal.
Vance and Trump have insisted
that Iran agreed to allow the United Nations to examine Iranian nuclear
sites, which Iran fiercely denied. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian
arrived in Pakistan on Tuesday for talks with officials who have been
mediating negotiations between Tehran and Washington.
