Author: Andy Mastrocola

Food Freedom USA – by Ammon Bundy

This morning my twelve year old daughter and I tried to fly to Salt Lake City from Phoenix for a special event of a loved one. We had to be there by 1:00 pm in order to be a part of the occasion. Everything was going as planned until we came to the Gate B check station and the first TSA agent looked at our boarding passes. He seemed a bit alarmed and asked me if my name was Ammon, I told him yes, he then circled my name and sent me down the line. I could tell there was suspicion but thought it may be because my daughter was a minor, or because my name is unusual and sometimes taken as Arabic.   Continue reading “Bundy Family Treated as Terror Suspects by TSA”

USA Today – by Doug Stranglin

After 7 weeks living off the land in a rugged state forest, a subdued fugitive, Eric Frein, made his first court appearance Friday in Milford, Pa., on a capital murder charge of killing a state trooper with a high-powered rifle.

For law enforcement in Pennsylvania, the capture of the 31-year-old self-taught survivalist Thursday night by U.S. Marshals was personal.He was placed in handcuffs belonging to the state trooper he is accusing of killing, Cpl. Byron Dickson, and placed in Dickson’s patrol car.   Continue reading “Eric Frein makes first court appearance on cop-killing charge”

New York Times – by MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

WASHINGTON — The investigator who led the Department of Homeland Security’s internal review of the Secret Service’s 2012 prostitution scandal quietly resigned in August after he was implicated in his own incident involving a prostitute, according to current and former department officials.

Sheriff’s deputies in Broward County, Fla., saw David Nieland, the investigator, entering and leaving a building they had under surveillance as part of a prostitution investigation, according to officials briefed on the investigation. They later interviewed a prostitute who identified Mr. Nieland in a photograph and said he had paid her for sex.   Continue reading “Investigator in Secret Service Prostitution Scandal Resigns after being Implicated in Own Incident”

Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel – by Bruce Vielmetti

When officials in the tiny Town of Stettin in Marathon County went to collect a civil judgment from 75-year-old Roger Hoeppner this month, they sent 24 armed officers.

And an armored military vehicle.

Among other issues, the recent unrest in Ferguson, Mo., focused attention on the growing militarization of local law enforcement, particularly the use by even very small police departments of surplus armored military vehicles.   Continue reading “Armored vehicle helps collect civil judgment in small town”

Food Freedom USA

Raw-milk advocates have sent appeals to the state’s supreme court, arguing that they have the right to purchase and drink raw milk. Joy Cardin and a food activist will discuss this, along with the political history of raw milk in Wisconsin.   Continue reading “Is Purchasing, Drinking Raw Milk A Right?”

USA Today – by Gene Slone

A health care worker who may have handled a specimen from the Liberian man who died from Ebola in Dallas is on a cruise ship in the Caribbean.

Industry giant Carnival says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notified it late Wednesday that a passenger on the Texas-based Carnival Magic was a lab supervisor at the Dallas hospital where Thomas Eric Duncan died from the disease earlier this month.   Continue reading “Worker who may have handled Ebola specimen on cruise”

The Complete Patient – by Gayle Loiselle

For upwards of a decade, Wisconsin’s small raw-milk producers have been doing battle with the state’s Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, as well as the courts and politicians. DATCP has refused to allow the farms to distribute milk privately, which they insist is their right under the U.S. Constitution. Gayle Loiselle is a Wisconsin resident who has been in the middle of the battles, both as a member of a herd share and as a political activist. She is due to be discussing the history and politics of raw milk in Wisconsin tomorrow (Thursday) on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Joy Cardin Show at 6 a.m. (Central). In this analysis, she provides insights into the real stakes now before the Wisconsin Supreme Court.   Continue reading “Will WI Supreme Court Do Its Duty To Uphold U.S. Constitution In Food Rights Cases?”

Tex Marrs

“Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished.”  – Proverbs 11:21

• What is the #1 product in the world that every industrial nation must have just to survive?Answer: oil and gas.

• Which nation is the world’s top oil and gas producer? Answer: United States.

“It’s all about oil.” We’ve heard it said a thousand times. But, in fact, it really is about oil—America’s oil; it’s about who owns the oil and about who gets it, and who doesn’t.   Continue reading “Rockefeller and Rothschild Unite”

Do Wisconsinites have a constitutional right to privately own a cow, to drink raw milk, and to enter into private contracts with farmers?

October 6th, 2014

Madison, Wisconsin – Petitions for review will be filed with the Wisconsin Supreme Court in three separate cases involving the legality and constitutionality of contracts between farmers, private citizens and private food groups’ rights to acquire raw milk and other fresh sustainably grown and raised foods. Two of the cases, the Zinniker petition and the Grassway petition, will be filed Monday, October 6, 2014. The Vernon Hershberger petition was filed in August, 2014. All three cases are represented by the attorneys of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, Elizabeth Rich and David Cox.   Continue reading “Raw Milk and Food Rights Reach the Wisconsin Supreme Court”

Tradition in Action – by Robert McMullen

The year is 1565. On the island of Malta, 600 Knights of St. John, commanding a force of some 8000 men, prepare to defend their island fortress from attack.

These same Catholic Knights had been driven from their previous stronghold, the Isle of Rhodes, in 1522, by the Ottoman Turks. Under Suleyman the Magnificent, the Moslems were pressing hard across Arabia, Syria, Iraq, into Egypt and northern Africa, and had established a strong foothold on the north coast of the Black Sea, the gateway to all of Europe itself. In 1526, the Hungarians had been defeated at the Battle of Mohacs, and only the Austrian Habsburgs now stood in the way of the Moslem advance. Vienna came under attack in 1529, but the Moslems were unable to take the capital, and their over-extended campaign failed.   Continue reading “The Battle of Lepanto, October 7, 1571”

CNN – by Faith Karimi, Joe Sutton and Ben Brumfield

An American patient treated for Ebola in Nebraska then released is now in isolation in a hospital in Massachusetts. And an Ebola patient in Dallas has slipped into critical condition.

Dr. Richard Sacra, who had been previously treated for Ebola, went to an emergency room early Saturday in Boston with a cough and fever, said missionary organization Serving in Mission. He was afraid he might have pneumonia.   Continue reading “Former U.S. Ebola patient and blood donor back in hospital; Dallas patient critical”