RT

China’s Ministry of Agriculture has announced plans to create 53.3 million hectares of connected farmland to ensure the country’s food security. More than five million hectares of farmland will be developed this year.

The country which has to feed nearly 1.4 billion people has been building drought and flood resistant farmland since 2011. By the end of 2018, China had developed 42.6 million hectares of such land.   Continue reading “China to develop drought & flood resistant farmland in area bigger than Spain”

New York Times

WASHINGTON — A coalition of 16 states, including California and New York, on Monday challenged President Trump in court over his plan to use emergency powers to spend billions of dollars on his border wall.

The lawsuit is part of a constitutional confrontation that Mr. Trump set off on Friday when he declared that he would spend billions of dollars more on border barriers than Congress had granted him. The clash raises questions over congressional control of spending, the scope of emergency powers granted to the president, and how far the courts are willing to go to settle such a dispute.   Continue reading “16 States Sue to Stop Trump’s Use of Emergency Powers to Build Border Wall”

The Washington Post – by Danielle Paquette

DUETTE, Fla. – Both human and machine have 10 seconds per plant. They must find the ripe strawberries in the leaves, gently twist them off the stems and tuck them into a plastic clamshell. Repeat, repeat, repeat, before the fruit spoils.

One February afternoon, they work about an acre apart on a farm the size of 454 football fields: dozens of pickers collecting produce the way people have for centuries — and a robot that engineers say could replace most of them as soon as next year. Continue reading “Farmworker vs Robot”

The Eagle – by Mike Copeland

At least 11,000 Texas farmers believe they have suffered because of tariffs and trade disputes erupting amid President Donald Trump’s get-tough stance with China, which buys about half the cotton grown statewide, according to the Waco-based Texas Farm Bureau and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Thursday, Valentine’s Day, was the deadline for agricultural producers to sign up for the USDA’s Market Facilitation Program, launched in September to help producers “suffering from damages due to unjustified trade retaliation,” according to a USDA press release.

Continue reading “11,000 Texas farmers sign up for tariff relief”

Wood TV

SOLON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Four people, including children, were found shot to death in northern Kent County Monday afternoon.

Speaking to reporters at the scene, Sheriff Michelle LaJoye-Young would not say how many of the victims are children, nor would she provide any information about the victims’ genders. She said authorities were still working on confirming their identities.  Continue reading “Sheriff: 4 dead, including children, in northern Kent Co., Michigan”

WFAA

ONALASKA, Texas — Onalaska, Texas, has a secret.

Nestled along the piney shores of an East Texas lake, Onalaska lacks an airport.

A WFAA review, however, has found more than 1,000 registered aircraft claiming an Onalaska address. That’s equivalent to one plane for every three Onalaska residents, which is more per capita than anywhere else in the country.   Continue reading “Foreign ownership of thousands of U.S. aircraft cloaked in secrecy”

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CBS News

Texas Rep. Will Hurd, the sole Republican representing a congressional district along the southern border, said more than 1,000 farmers in his state are at risk of having their land seized by the federal government to facilitate the construction of President Trump’s long-promised wall.

“In the great state of Texas, we care about a little thing called private property, and there’s going to be over 1,000 ranchers and farmers potentially impacted if the government comes in and takes their land,” Hurd said on “Face the Nation” Sunday.   Continue reading “Hurd says 1,000 Texas farmers could have land seized to build Trump’s border wall”

Activist Post – by BN Frank

I’m not saying that the well-funded publicly promoted and celebrated American Eugenics Movement wasn’t covered in my high school American History class.  But I feel like I’d remember learning about it.  I still shudder when I think of about the book, The Scarlet Letter.  It was only the last few years that remember seeing news coverage about states that once had laws allowing forced sterilizations.  These were apparently part of the American Eugenics movement.  Some people who were forcibly sterilized during that time period are being financially compensated.   Continue reading “PBS Documentary on How “The Eugenics Crusade” Started in the U.S. – Not Nazi Germany”

Times of Israel

The United Nations Humans Rights Council is expected to release a series of reports critical of Israel next month, including one reportedly accusing the military of war crimes over its response to violent protests by Palestinians on the Gaza border.

According to the pro-Israel watchdog group UN Watch, other reports are set to accuse Israel of alleged human rights violations in the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War war, and in territories claimed by the Palestinians for a future state, Channel 12 news reported Thursday.   Continue reading “Record number of reports criticizing Israel said to be released by UN next month”

Times of Israel

CNN and MSNBC have each agreed to broadcast an ad that Fox News rejected for a documentary about a Nazi rally held in New York in 1939.

The filmmakers of “A Night at the Garden,” which has been nominated for an Oscar in the category of documentary short, confirmed to The Washington Post on Friday that the 30-second ad spot would air during “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer” on CNN and “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC on Monday.   Continue reading “CNN and NBC agree to air ad for Oscar-nominated documentary about NY Nazi rally”

Times of Israel

WASHINGTON — A new spending bill signed Friday by US President Donald Trump to prevent another government shutdown over border funding allocates a $200 million increase in defense assistance to Israel than compared to years prior.

The provision tucked in the 1,159-page bill includes $3.3 billion in funds designated for security assistance to Israel under the 2016 memorandum of understanding between the Obama White House and Netanyahu government.   Continue reading “New US spending bill includes $200m increase in defense aid to Israel”

These new corporate policies will be going into effect next year.

AZ Central

As of Oct. 1, 2020, Arizona residents won’t be able to travel out of several airports throughout the state and country with just a standard driver’s license as identification, the Arizona Department of Transportation said.   Continue reading “Arizona residents will be grounded without new travel ID”

The Guardian – by Ruth Quinn

The tomb of Karl Marx in Highgate cemetery in London has been vandalised for the second time in the space of a month.

The words “doctrine of hate” and “architect of genocide” were found daubed in red paint across the Grade I-listed monument in the north London graveyard on Saturday.   Continue reading “Karl Marx’s London memorial vandalised for second time”

The Great Recession

Bears, like myself, picked the meat off market bulls throughout 2018. We scoffed at the start of the year when bulls concocted a narrative that said bears would starve because 2018 was going to be the year of “global synchronize growth.” We bears bawled that this was euphoric nonsense.

Global economies fell off a cliff as soon as the bulls’ narrative took hold, and all economies continued to falter for the entire year. The US was the only major economy to get a significant boost, due to absolutely massive tax cuts, which piddled away after two quarters (fourth quarter now estimated at 1.5%).   Continue reading “The Bears Have it Right: Economy went Polar Opposite of Bullish Predictions”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

New Castle, DE — As the Free Thought Project has reported numerous times, the only thing dangerous about marijuana is what happens when the police catch you with it. Marijuana will not kill you, but the police officers who find you with it just might. The violent arrest of a 16-year-old Delaware boy over the weekend proves this notion.

The boy, identified by his family as Roger Darnell Brown was outside talking with his friend on Saturday because he’d just gotten a brand new dirt bike and wanted to show it off. The boys weren’t breaking into cars or vandalizing the neighborhood of stealing things. They were just being boys hanging out.   Continue reading “Cops Smell Weed on 16yo Boy, So They Beat the Hell Out of Him”