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Now, those who are having difficulty finding food in Venezuela have another problem: being able to afford it. Food costs in Venezuela have soared so high, they’re practically extraterrestrial. Those who didn’t stock up on emergency food back before the government there made it illegal are now probably fervently wishing they had. Continue reading “What Food Costs in Venezuela: Eggs $150 a dozen, Dry Milk $100 a pound”
SALT LAKE CITY — Some tenants at a Salt Lake City apartment complex are fuming over a new lease agreement that requires tenants to “like” the complex on Facebook.
Tenants of the City Park Apartments told KSL that a “Facebook addendum” showed up taped to their doors Thursday night.
The contract requires tenants to friend the City Park Apartments on Facebook within five days, or be found in breach of the rental agreement, though some of the tenants already signed a lease agreement months ago. Continue reading “Tenants fume over apartment complex’s new Facebook addendum”
Scientific American – by Kagondu Njagi
NAIROBI, May 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As they struggle to deal with more extreme weather, a range of food crops are generating more of chemical compounds that can cause health problems for people and livestock who eat them, scientists have warned.
A new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says that crops such as wheat and maize are generating more potential toxins as a reaction to protect themselves from extreme weather. Continue reading “Extreme Weather May Raise Toxin Levels in Food, Scientists Warn”
Lon Tomohisa Horiuchi (born June 9, 1954) is an American FBI HRT sniper who was involved in controversial deployments during the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff and 1993 Waco Siege. In 1997, Horiuchi was charged with manslaughter for the death of Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge; the charges were later dropped.
An undetected drug allegedly passed around at a music festival in Tampa, Florida killed two young people and sickened 57 others, with one attendee describing the concert as “really uncontrolled.” Meanwhile, police are looking into the causes of death.
So far, Florida residents Katie Bermudez of Kissimmee, and Alex Haynes of Melbourne are the only two confirmed deaths. Both were rushed from the Sunset Music Festival in Tampa to a hospital over the weekend. Continue reading “Unknown drug kills 2 young people at Florida music festival, 57 in hospital”
Transgender people in Denmark will soon no longer be classified as having a mental illness, lawmakers from the parliament’s Health Committee have decided. The move has been hailed as a victory by rights groups.
The decision, which will take effect on January 1, 2017, was made by Danish lawmakers on Tuesday. As of that date, the word “transgender” will no longer appear on Denmark’s official list of mental illnesses. Continue reading “First in the world: Denmark MPs approve removing ‘transgender’ from mental illness list”
CHICAGO (AP) — Demand for long-term care is expected to increase as the nation ages, but the majority of Americans 40 and older lack confidence in their ability to pay for it. The annual cost of long-term care expenses range from $17,680 for adult day care to more than $92,000 for a private room in a nursing home, according to Genworth Financial.
Yet an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey finds that a third of Americans 40 and older have done no planning for their own-long term care needs, such as setting aside money to pay for a home aide or to help with daily activities or a room in a nursing home. Continue reading “Poll: People unsure about ability to pay for long-term care”
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal officials in Minneapolis will announce Wednesday whether they believe the civil rights of a 24-year-old man were violated last November in a confrontation with two police officers that led to his death.
An officer shot Jamar Clark Nov. 15, and he died a day later. His death sparked weeks of protests and an 18-day occupation outside a north side police precinct. A key issue was whether Clark was handcuffed at the time of the shooting. Several witnesses said he was; police said he was not. Continue reading “Civil rights inquiry due in Minneapolis police shooting”
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt said Wednesday that a French ship has picked up signals from deep under the Mediterranean Sea, presumed to be from one of the black boxes of the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month, killing all 66 passengers and crew on board.
The development raised hopes the plane’s flight data and cockpit voice recorders, known as the black boxes, could be retrieved and shed light on the aircraft’s tragic crash. In Cairo, the Civil Aviation Ministry cited a statement from the committee investigating the crash as saying the vessel Laplace received the signals. The French Navy confirmed the Laplace arrived on Tuesday in the search area and picked up the signals “overnight.” Continue reading “Egypt says signals picked up from doomed plane’s black box”
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A Jewish man (Mort) and his wife go to their rabbi.
“Rabbi, I think my wife is trying to poison me!”
Continue reading “A Jew, a Rabbi and a Wife”
USA Today – by Elizabeth Weise
SAN FRANCISCO — In a rare recall of baking and cooking flour, General Mills on Tuesday issued a recall of 10 million pounds of flour because of a possible link to an outbreak of E. coli that has sickened 38 people in 20 states since December.
The recall covers some bags of Gold Medal bleached and unbleached flour, bleached and unbleached Signature Kitchen flour, Gold Medal self-rising flour and Gold Medal Wondra quick-mixing flour. A full list of the recalled flours is listed below and on the General Mills website. Continue reading “General Mills recalls 10 million pounds of flour”
The Justice Department moved Tuesday to fight a federal judge’s order that its lawyers undergo mandatory ethics training, digging in after the DOJ was accused of misleading the courts over President Obama’s immigration executive actions.
In filings Tuesday, the department said the order would “far exceed the bounds of appropriate remedies” and would cost the department millions. Continue reading “DOJ fights federal judge’s order for lawyers to attend ethics training”
Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton is stepping down in August, on the heels of several ethics scandals that have come to light. These include dismissing a staffer who revealed that the corrections department uses unnecessary force, afemale deputy was harassed and “fat shamed”, and, most recently, his souped up Dodge Charger cruiser that he ordered for himself on the county dime, against policy.
Set to take over for him on an interim basis is former Portland police chief Mike Reese. Continue reading “Bloomberg Owned Police Chief Moving Up To County Sheriff”
As Portland police chief Larry O’Dea takes his paid leave of absence, after he got drunk and accidentally shot a friend on a hunting trip then lied about it to cover it up, assistant chief Donna Henderson has been appointed as “acting” chief until the situation is resolved.
Henderson is not without her own sordid past. Continue reading “Meet Portland’s Anti Gun “Acting” Police Chief”
David Alpher has a PhD in “conflict resolution” and teaches at George Mason University. He also writes for some leftists website that no one’s ever heard of until now called The Conversation. His most recent article was picked up by Raw Story on June 1st, at the stroke of midnight.
Entitled “An expert explains why domestic extremists are a much bigger risk than foreign terrorists in America“, Alpher attempts to make a case for painting the modern Patriot movement as being the most dangerous group on the planet. The article originally featured a picture of a Trump rally, but was since replaced with a collage of the mugshots from the Malheur Wildlife Refuge takeover. Continue reading “Professor Says American Patriots More Dangerous Than Foreign Terrorists”
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An outbreak of measles that began with an inmate at a federal detention center for immigrants in central Arizona has now grown to 11 confirmed cases.
Seven of those infected are inmates at the Eloy Detention Center, and four are workers at the facility, Pinal County Health Services spokesman Joe Pyritz said. Continue reading “Measles Outbreak Traced Back to Inmate at Arizona Immigrant Detention Facility as Confirmed Cases Continue to Grow”
A report says Israel remapped as much as 15,000 acres of occupied Palestinian land in 2015 as an attempt at justifying settlement expansion inside the re-designated areas.
Reporting on Tuesday, Israeli daily Ha’aretz said the move was taken to put a legal face on construction activities within the territory Israel had previously claimed as its own. Continue reading “Israel remaps 15,000 acres in West Bank: Report”
There was a Mensa Convention in San Francisco recently. Mensa, as you probably know, is a national organization for people who have an IQ of 140 or higher.
Several of the Mensa members went out for lunch at a local café. When they sat down, one of them discovered that their salt shaker contained pepper, and their pepper shaker was full of salt. How could they swap the contents of the two bottles without spilling any, and using only the implements at hand? Continue reading “Mensa Convention”