A U.S. official said the Obama administration considered but rejected deploying military force under the directive during the recent standoff with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his armed supporters.
A Chinese court has announced guilty verdicts for 55 people charged with of terrorism, separatism and murder, with the dependents learning of their fate at a stadium filled with 7,000 spectators — part of an apparent show by the government of its determination to combat unrest in the country’s far west.
Bolzano Artisan Meats is in the midst of a legal fight with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection (DATCP). Like with raw milk, food politics are the focus once again.
DATCP did not want Bolzano Artisan Meats creating salami that was made with active cultures, using only fermentation and drying. In working to do so, Bolzano Artisan Meats became a model state inspected plant – one of the top officials at DATCP stated in email to Bolzano Artisan Meats that Bolzano had a better understanding of HACCP than most people he works with. Even new inspectors volunteered to come to the plant, unpaid, to see the operation, because they were so advanced and thorough in their methods. Continue reading “Artisan Salami Maker is Shut Down by Wisconsin DATCP for Label Mishap”
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Residents of California’s largely rural, agrarian and politically conservative far northern counties long ago got used to feeling ignored in the state Capitol and out of sync with major urban areas.
The idea of forming their own state has been a topic among local secession dreamers for more than a century. Residents in two counties will have a chance to voice that sentiment next week.
Voters in Del Norte and Tehama, with a combined population of about 91,000, will decide June 3 on an advisory measure that asks each county’s board of supervisors to join a wider effort to form a 51st state named Jefferson. Continue reading “Voters in California contemplate forming new state”
There is really nothing left to say, is there? Do we wait for the next Bundy Ranch? We all have our lives and we are walking on eggshells hoping to get a few more things tied up before we have to step out from our protective barriers called “lives” and become counter-revolutionaries. We have to stop trying to protect those things that are lost. We cannot hold onto what we have and do anything substantial to overcome the tyranny of the current corrupt system. Continue reading “Hard Truths and Adios”
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Seeking to redefine America’s foreign policy for a post-war era, President Barack Obama on Wednesday declared that the United States remains the only nation with the capacity to lead on the world stage but argued it would be a mistake to channel that power into unrestrained military adventures. Continue reading “Obama seeks ground between intervention, isolation”
LONDON (AP) — Almost a third of the world is now fat, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis.
Researchers found more than 2 billion people worldwide are now overweight or obese. The highest rates were in the Middle East and North Africa, where nearly 60 percent of men and 65 percent of women are heavy. The U.S. has about 13 percent of the world’s fat population, a greater percentage than any other country. China and India combined have about 15 percent. Continue reading “30 percent of world is now fat, no country immune”
MIAMI (AP) — A divided appeals court on Wednesday threw out the murder conviction and lengthy prison sentence for a former FBI agent in the decades-old mob-style killing of a gambling executive, one of numerous slayings linked to jailed Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger.
Florida’s 3rd District Court of Appeal ruled 2-1 that former agent John Connolly was improperly convicted and sentenced to 40 years for his role in the 1982 slaying of World Jai-Alai President John Callahan. Connolly, 73, remains in prison for now, and prosecutors vowed to appeal. Continue reading “Fla. court voids ex-FBI agent’s murder conviction”
I simply had to post this video! It is addressed to the American people by a well-known musician from #Khrakov, #Ukraine, Philip Vartan Melkhizedek, and it has gone viral on Youtube. This is a well-informed, yet at the same time mystical & pacifist call from someone who is in the middle of it all. Philip is a Ukrainian citizen with Armenian roots, who as many, identifies with the Greater Russian culture. Unfortunately, since March when this video was first published, much happened in Ukraine – and the situation continues spiraling out of control. Continue reading “Truth, Lie and Propaganda. An Appeal to the American People from a Ukrainian”
You would think a possum would, you know, ‘play possum’ when threatened — but this YouTube video shows that’s not what happened when one possum met an unsuspecting deer. Fox News says,
“The deer jumps about 5 feet into the air. You see that? The possum looked a little startled too, but that deer sure was scared.”
The distraught father of one of the University of California, Santa Barbara, shooting victims — who blamed his son’s death on the inability of lawmakers to act in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School — got a special message from a father of one of the Newtown, Conn., victims welcoming him to an unwanted club.
A Georgia man was in custody on Monday and authorities were searching for a second man after police said that both suspects opened fire, and shot several people at a Memorial Day rodeo.