U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Clarke has found the Jackson County Oregon GMO ban is not pre-empted by the state’s “right to farm” law, thereby allowing the ordinance to become effective on June 5. Oregon – The Center for Food Safety, a nonprofit critical of biotech crops, considers the ruling a “big win” but expects the […]
Archive for May, 2015
More children taken today than in Stolen Generations 1903-1970
National convergence of Grandmothers Against Removals – rally at Perth Department of Child Protection – more children removed now than during any year of the Stolen Generations – Photo, Alex Bainbridge, GreenLeft Weekly More children of the First Peoples of this continent are removed now than in any year of the Stolen Generations – 1903 […]
National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Recap 05-29-15
Here are the nine reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, May 28, 2015: Sarpy County, Nebraska: A longtime deputy was fired and sentenced to one year’s probation, 200 hours of community service for inappropriately touching woman off duty. He claims he was blackout drunk at the time of the incident. ow.ly/NwqP8 Dexter, New Mexico: A […]
National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Recap 05-27-15
Here are the seven reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, May 27, 2015: Prince George’s County, Maryland: An officer was arrested and charged with first-degree murder for a shooting at fast food restaurant. One man died in the incident and the officer’s ex-wife was injured. ow.ly/NuqD1 Update: Los Angeles, California (First reported 03-18-15): The […]
Discussing Police Militarization on Washington Journal
Last week, I made an appearance on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal to discuss police militarization. You can watch the clip here: Categories: In The News | Permalink Source Article from http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Policemisconductnet/~3/5NPgQaD-uAs/ Views: 0
Multi-Dimensional Beings With Reflections in the Spirit World
Julie Henderson, ContributorWaking Times The spirit world, also known as the mirror world, is the authentic underlying truth of humanity’s collective evolution. It contains humanity’s truest feelings, ideas, beliefs, and sacred consciousness. The subconscious of humanity was placed inside of beings who are dreamers, people who are capable of holding […]
Young American Muslims would rather live under Sharia law, filmmaker discovers
Reuters / Rebecca Cook A US film maker, Amy Horowitz, went out onto the streets of Minneapolis to speak to young Muslims and found that most of those questioned would rather live in the Muslim countries they came from and under Sharia law than in the US. Horowitz asked the simple question: “Do you feel […]
‘Manspreading’: New misdemeanor plaguing NYC subway, first arrests reported
Reuters/Lucas Jackson Making yourself comfortable on a NY subway train could land you in hot water, especially if you occupy too much space. What appears to be the first ever arrest for so-called manspreading was revealed in a new report. Two Latino men were allegedly arrested for manspreading, sitting with knees wide open, thus occupying […]
A challenger appears? Ex-Maryland governor takes on Clinton in presidential nomination race
Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former Governor of Maryland Martin O’Malley (Reuters/Jim Bourg) Martin O’Malley, the former governor of the state of Maryland and mayor of Baltimore, has stepped forward as a challenger to Hillary Clinton in the race to the Democratic nomination for the 2016 US presidential election. O’Malley, 52, announced his running at […]
Obama signs disaster declaration over Texas storms – death toll 24
A woman walks in the flood waters in southwest Houston, Texas May 26, 2015. (Reuters/Daniel Kramer) A record-setting rainfall that caused massive flooding has triggered the US President Barack Obama to sign a disaster declaration for areas in Texas affected by severe weather that killed at least 24 people and prompted mass evacuations. Barack Obama’s […]
Fear and loathing of the USA PATRIOT Act
Reuters/Jason Reed Tags Al-Qaeda, Crime, DHS, FBI, Intelligence, Law, Obama, Politics, Security, Snowden, USA Several controversial provisions of the Patriot Act are set to expire Sunday: The Obama administration insists that letting the law lapse would harm US security, while critics counter that it would be a big step in ending NSA abuses as exposed […]
Revival of Russian charity traditions enters spotlight at Crimea forum
Livadia Palace in the Crimea. (RIA Novosti/Sergey Subbotin) Scientists, clerics and activists from various parts of Russia as well as from Belarus, Ukraine and Israel have gathered in Crimea to talk charity, spiritual and moral values as part of a crowded forum taking place near the city of Yalta. The third annual forum “Elizabethan legacy […]
Rights activist wants retailers to give unsold food to charity
RIA Novosti/Vladimir Vyatkin A member of the Russian presidential council for Human Rights has asked the government to prepare a bill that would ban retailers from turning unsold food into waste, and order them to send it to farms or charity organizations. Yana Lantratova sent the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade a letter in […]
Law enforcer accuses foreign offshore havens of encouraging Russian corruption
RIA Novosti / Maksim Bogodvid Source Article from http://rt.com/politics/262773-russia-corruption-west-provoke/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS Views: 0
Russia classifies military casualties in peacetime
RIA Novosti / Andrey Stenin President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree making all casualties suffered by the Russian military during special operations in peacetime a state secret. Previously, Russia listed as a state secret only casualties suffered by the military during wars. The new rules were published on the government’s legal information website on […]
Top banker Gref speaks against hasty political reforms
Sberbank CEO and Chairman of the Board German Gref (RIA Novosti / Iliya Pitalev) Source Article from http://rt.com/politics/262693-gref-russian-reform-dangers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS Views: 0
Endangered Species Friday: Hispaniolan Solenodon.
Endangered Species Friday: Hispaniolan Solenodon. Endangered Species Friday: Hispaniolan Solenodon This Fridays endangered species article we focus on a very peculiar looking animal scientifically named as the Hispaniolan Solenodon pictured above. Listed as (endangered) the species is endemic to the Dominican Republic and Haiti of which was identified back in 1833 by Dr Johann Friedrich von Brandt (25 May 1802 […]
US Unsuccessfully Attacked North Korea With Stuxnet
In 2009 and 2010, the US attacked Iran with a computer virus known as Stuxnet, aiming to sabotage the nation’s civilian nuclear program. While the virus succeeded in doing some damage, it also caused huge problems internationally as the virus spread to industrial computers worldwide. Today, sources are reporting that a parallel Stuxnet attack was […]
Obama Warns of Terrorism as Patriot Act Vote Looms
Moving into the final weekend of Section 215 authorization under the Patriot Act, President Obama is bringing out the big rhetorical guns, trying to scare Congress into signing off on the extension of the powers he is using to conduct mass surveillance of Americans’ phone calls. “Heaven forbid we’ve got a problem where we could’ve […]
Video Shows Turkish Govt Arming ISIS
Turkish daily newspaper Cumhuriyet has released a series of still images and video showing Turkish state intelligence agents participating in smuggling of arms across the border to Syrian Islamist rebels. The video shows security officials unloading a box of antibiotics, revealing large amounts of mortar shells underneath. This is reportedly the same January 2014 incident […]