From the Trenches World Report
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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?”
The Fairfax press revealed last week that the inscribed Arabic sword seized during unprecedented police raids on September 18—and portrayed by the media as the weapon that would be used in an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)-inspired plot to kidnap a random person and behead them in the street—was actually a plastic ornament. Moreover, it is a plastic Shiite ornament. Its inscription pays homage to Imam Ali, whose veneration by Shiites is considered by the Sunni Wahhabist extremists who make up ISIS as heresy.
The revelation adds to the numerous, disturbing questions about the raids on 15 homes in five Sydney suburbs, which was the largest anti-terrorism operation ever carried out in Australia and involved some 800 state police, federal police and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) agents. Continue reading ““Terrorist” sword seized in Australian police raids was plastic”
Redress Information & Analysis – by Jonathan Cook
This hour-long documentary, the Ringworm Children, raises so many disturbing questions about Israel and its relationship with the US that one hardly knows where to begin.
In the 1950s, waves of new immigrants swept into Israel. To the dismay of the country’s Ashkenazi leaders (those originating from Europe and the US), the great majority were from Arab countries. Levi Eshkol, a later prime minister, expressed a common sentiment when he called them “human rubbish”. Israel, deprived of “good-quality” Jews, was being forced to bring to its shores Arab Jews, seen as just as primitive and dirty as the Palestinians whom Israel had recently succeeded in ethnically cleansing. Continue reading “Israel’s very own history of eugenics”
“I don’t have a philosophical objection necessarily to a travel ban, if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe,” President Obama said on Thursday.
Obama said the experts have advised him that it’s more effective to let West Africans into the U.S. than it would be to keep them out.
“The problem is that in all the discussions I’ve had thus far with experts in the field, experts in infectious disease, is that a travel ban is less effective than the measures that we are currently instituting, that involve screening passengers who are coming from West Africa.” Continue reading “Obama: We’ll Keep Ebola Out by Letting West Africans In”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Sandusky, OH — A mother and father were on their way home with their 2 week old baby when they were stopped by Sandusky police officers.
Andre Stockett, the father and the passenger in the vehicle, and the man who took the video, has a good understanding of his rights when dealing with police. Continue reading “This Traffic Stop Video Epitomizes Everything that is Wrong With Police Today”
Israel National News – by Ari Yashar
Congressman Peter King (R-NY) is outraged after Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials dismissed Ebola after a “cursory” exam of an African man, who died on a plane to JFK Airport Thursday in a fit of vomiting.
The unnamed 63-year-old had boarded an Arik Air plane out of Lagos, Nigeria the night before, a federal law enforcement source told the New York Post. While in the air, the man vomited in his seat repeatedly, and before landing in New York he died on the plane. Continue reading “African Dies Vomiting on Plane to New York”
Business Insider – by ERIN FUCHS
A controversial police tactic that lets cops seize large amounts of suspicious cash has been aided by a family-owned company that won millions in federal contracts, Robert O’Harrow and Michael Sallah write in The Washington Post.
That company, Desert Snow, has trained cops around the US on the art of roadside asset forfeiture, which allows police to take cash or other assets they believe have been illegally obtained. Cops can take these assets from people even if they’re never convicted of or even charged with a crime, and people must go to court to get their stuff back. Continue reading “How A Small, Family-Owned Company Taught Cops Around America To Seize Millions In Cash”
Washington Post – by Lindsey Bever, Fred Barbash and Elahe Izadi
The cruise ship carrying a Texas health-care worker who “may have” handled lab specimens from Dallas Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan is headed back to the United States after Mexican authorities failed to grant permission for the ship to dock off the coast of Cozumel, according to a Carnival spokeswoman.
The Carnival Magic had been waiting off the Mexican coast since Friday morning for its scheduled port visit. Mexican authorities still hadn’t given clearance by noon, so the ship continued to its home port of Galveston, Tex., where it was due back on Sunday, according to Carnival. Continue reading “Mexico fails to grant access to cruise ship carrying Texas health worker”
The intriguingly long mission of the unmanned X-37B has come to a conclusion at last. But the mystery of the mission lingers on.
The US Air Force space plane, one of just two X-37B vehicles in the Pentagon’s inventory, landed Friday morning under the auspices of the 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California after 674 days in space — that is, 22 months.
And that’s about all that the space plane’s handlers would say about the mission, aside from the terse statement that it “conducted on-orbit experiments.” Continue reading “Secretive X-37B space plane returns to Earth, two years on”
Excerpts from a proposed international trade agreement leaked to the web this week suggest that the United States is pushing for changes that would make it more difficult to get life-saving drugs overseas.
On Thursday, transparency group WikiLeaks published a draft chapter from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement which 12 countries, including the US, have been negotiating in near total privacy for years. Continue reading “WikiLeaks: US pushes to extend drug monopolies in secret proposed trade deal”
Food Freedom USA
WSWS – by James Cogan
CNS News – by Susan Jones
C=Net – by Jon Skillings
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