Officials Consider Allowing Raw Milk Sales At Farmers Markets – As Long Vendors Include Official CDC Propaganda
November 28, 2011
Natural News
By Ethan A. Huff
“If you drank raw milk from diseased cows on factory farms, that wouldn’t be ideal – just like consuming anything from a factory farm. The only reason the CCD is concerned is because the cows are sick and diseased. But if you drink it from healthy cows eating grass, it’s amazingly healthy.” –KTRN
Maine is one of ten US states that currently recognizes the freedom of individuals to buy and sell raw milk at the farm and retail level. But raw milk sold at farmers markets technically does not fall under the banner of either “farm” or “retail” sales, which prompted a recent crackdown by (nit-picky) Portland, Me., health officials against its sale at such events.
In response to this needless crackdown, farmers, vendors, and patrons who support the sale of raw milk at farmers markets showed up at a recent city council meeting to push for an amendment to lift the ban. And The Portland Press Herald (PPH) reports that members of the Portland City Council’s Health and Recreation Commission have actually recommended approval of an ordinance that will allow raw milk sales at city farmers markets.
But this recommendation is reportedly contingent upon the inclusion of a ridiculous warning pamphlet developed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that is filled with the agency’s unfounded biases and superstitions about raw milk’s alleged risks, none of which are definitively backed by sound science.
The CDC still claims, for instance, that raw milk is inherently dangerous, no matter how it is produced, and that pasteurization is a form of “minimal processing” that magically makes milk safe for human consumption. In reality, raw milk produced on clean, small-scale farms is far healthier than the pasteurized milk product sold in stores across North America, which has caused more illness outbreaks and deaths than raw milk (http://www.realmilk.com/rawmilkover…).
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Senate Moves To Allow Military To Intern Americans Without Trial
November 28, 2011
Prison Planet
By Paul Joseph Watson
“Why do they need to draft a bill in secret before being passed in a closed-door committee meeting if there wasn’t something fishy going on? Think about it.” –KTRN
The Senate is set to vote on a bill next week that would define the whole of the United States as a “battlefield” and allow the U.S. Military to arrest American citizens in their own back yard without charge or trial.
“The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president—and every future president — the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world. The power is so broad that even U.S. citizens could be swept up by the military and the military could be used far from any battlefield, even within the United States itself,” writes Chris Anders of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office.
Under the ‘worldwide indefinite detention without charge or trial’ provision of S.1867, the National Defense Authorization Act bill, which is set to be up for a vote on the Senate floor Monday, the legislation will “basically say in law for the first time that the homeland is part of the battlefield,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who supports the bill.
The bill was drafted in secret by Senators Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), before being passed in a closed-door committee meeting without any kind of hearing. The language appears in sections 1031 and 1032 of the NDAA bill.
“I would also point out that these provisions raise serious questions as to who we are as a society and what our Constitution seeks to protect,” Colorado Senator Mark Udall said in a speech last week. One section of these provisions, section 1031, would be interpreted as allowing the military to capture and indefinitely detain American citizens on U.S. soil. Section 1031 essentially repeals the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 by authorizing the U.S. military to perform law enforcement functions on American soil. That alone should alarm my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, but there are other problems with these provisions that must be resolved.”
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ASA Sues Obama Administration For Interfering With State, Local Medical Marijuana Laws
November 28, 2011 by William
Filed under Government
November 28, 2011
Natural News
By Ethan A. Huff
“If people want to take marijuana, let them. Not only is it may less harmful than cigarets and alcohol, it actually has some amazing medical benefits for people who are sick. Why does the government care? Oh wait, they make more money and keep people down and in jail for pot. It’s a way to control us. It’s not because they are concerned for your health. If that was the case, they would ban high fructose corn syrup.” –KTRN
The battle continues to rage between the individual states and the federal government over the legalized cultivation and use of medical marijuana. Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the nation’s largest medical marijuana advocacy organization, has now filed a lawsuit against the Obama Administration’s Justice Department for aggressively trying to subvert state and local laws by shutting down legal medical marijuana dispensaries.
California, Oregon, New Mexico, Colorado, and a handful of other US states all have laws on the books that permit the growth, possession, and use of medical marijuana in some way, shape, or form. But the federal government still ignorantly classifies the natural plant as a Schedule I narcotic under the Controlled Substances Act, a tenet of the “War on Drugs” that has been a source of much conflict over the past several years.
This ongoing clash between state and federal law has led to numerous federal raids of medical marijuana growers and distributors, particularly in the State of California where medical marijuana laws are among the most lenient, and where the plant is most utilized. The federal government also routinely intimidates local officials to try to get them to ban medical marijuana dispensaries.
In a most recent raid, for instance, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) stormed Northstone Organics, a fully-licensed marijuana cultivation collective in Mendocino County, Cal. Agents reportedly cut down all 99 of the group’s marijuana plants, and handcuffed the owner and his wife with zip-ties.
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Cops Bust Open Face Of Black Friday Grandpa
November 28, 2011
RT
By RT
“Watch how the cops in the video don’t even seem to care that the man is practically bleeding to death. They took him down so hard for allegedly shoplifting on Black Friday – it turns out he wasn’t shoplifting at all. Why would anyone be a part of Black Friday? The mobs of people grabbing bargains is beyond lame. Talk about a bunch of sheeple.” –KTRN
Black Friday turned into Red Friday for Jerald Newman, 54, who was out on Thanksgiving evening shopping with his grandson. Consumers prepped themselves for long lines in retail shops, but Newman didn’t think he’d have to brave for a police assault.
Newman was shopping at a Wal-Mart store in Buckeye, Arizona late Thursday night along with thousands of other Americans who congregate to celebrate consumerism in a post-holiday bargain hunting binge called Black Friday. Newman says he became overwhelmed by the crowds at the Wal-Mart he was shopping at, so he attempted to lift his grandkid into the air to avoid a mob of violent shoppers. To free his hands, Newman says he placed a video game into his waistband and tried to launch the youngster out of the crowd. Police suspected the man of shoplifting, however, and took him down. Hard.
Cell phone cameras began rolling shortly after a police officer swept the legs of Newman, dropping the man to the ground, where he promptly hit the concrete floor of the shopping center face-first. As he laid motionless and silent, cops mounted the man while a pool of blood began to spill out into the store.
“Get that on camera. See how fucked up that is,” a bystander is heard yelling at the cops.
David Chadd, 24 of Las Vegas, caught the whole thing on his iPhone 4S. He tells RT that hundreds of people were in the entertainment section of Wal-Mart for games that the store only kept six copies of apiece.
“People were getting trampled,” says Chadd.
“You would have thought there was a cure for cancer in this box,” shopper Skyler Stone adds to a local Fox affiliate. “I mean people were literally going insane.”
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2nd Mayan Tablet Linked to 2012 Apocalypse
November 25, 2011 by William
Filed under Unexplained
November 25, 2011
Newser
By Mary Papenfuss
“2012 is not going to be the end of the world. Relax people. If they Mayans are correct, it’s going to be a NEW world with amazing new possibilities. I can’t wait!” –Chris Davis KTRN
The bad news is that Mayan ruins make not one but two apparent references to a possible apocalypse in 2012. The good news—maybe—is that Mexican archeologists say not to worry about it. Experts have finally confirmed that a second suspected reference to 2012 was found at the Comalcalco ruin in an inscription that has been safeguarded in storage for years by Mexico. An earlier find from the nearby Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco named the same apparent date on a stone tablet. The Tortuguero inscription describes some kind of world-ending or world-changing event that is supposed to occur in December 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a Mayan god linked to both war and creation.
But some experts say translating the Mayan date to 2012 is inaccurate, and officials at Mexico’s Institute of Anthropology and History have long said such fears are a Westernized misinterpretation of what happens at the end of a Mayan calendar cycle. “Western messianic thought has twisted the cosmo-vision of ancient civilizations like the Maya,” the institute said in a statement yesterday. But concern is running so high that a roundtable of 60 Mayan experts will meet next week at Palenque to “dispel some of the doubts about the end of one era and the beginning of another,” the statement added.
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Currency Not Tied To Gold Or Other Standard Becomes Worthless
November 25, 2011
The Washington Times
By Richard W. Rahn
The major world governments are in the process of destroying the value of the money their citizens hold. On Nov. 16, the Cato Institute held its annual monetary conference. Speakers included high-ranking officials from the Federal Reserve and monetary experts from the academy, think thanks and financial institutions. There was unanimous agreement that the world monetary system is in deep trouble, which is obvious to anyone who keeps up with the news. It is easier to observe the problem than to come up with a solution.
Economists define money as having the following characteristics:
A unit of account, meaning that we can define the value of goods and services in it.
A medium of exchange, meaning that others will accept your “money” (e.g., the U.S. dollar) for goods and services.
A store of value, meaning that it keeps its intrinsic worth.
Since the beginning of the Federal Reserve System in 1914, the U.S. dollar has been a lousy store of value. It is now worth just one-twenty-second of what it was worth in 1913 and only less than one-quarter what it was worth as recently as in 1971, when the United States officially cut the last tie of the dollar to gold. Even so, many people around the world prefer to keep U.S. dollars because dollars have been less subject to inflation than most other major currencies. At the moment, the U.S. dollar is losing value at a rate of about 4 percent per year.
Inflation occurs when the central bank – the Fed in the United States or the European Central Bank in Europe – creates money at a faster rate than the supply of goods and services increases. Changes in the rate with which people spend money (referred to by economists as changes in the velocity of money) also affect inflation in the short run. If people hold on to money rather than spend it, inflation will fall and vice versa. Central banks can control the supply of money but not changes in velocity. In the United States, velocity has fallen because regulators have been increasing lending standards, so, in many cases, banks cannot even make what they think will be good loans. Also, regulators have been increasing the amount of reserves banks must hold. The result is that even though the Fed has been rapidly increasing the money supply, much of it is sitting in banks rather than being used for additional investment or consumption. Even so, the growth in the money supply has been greater than the growth in new goods and services; hence the current inflation.
Democracies have an inherent flaw in that many seek to use the political process to transfer wealth from some to others. This leads to counterproductive levels of government spending. People also dislike paying taxes. Therefore, the politicians tend to spend more than the tax revenue provides, and this excess spending is funded by the sale of government bonds. Under a classic gold standard, the sale of bonds by government was limited to the amount of gold the government held, plus the amount of gold that the bond buyers could reasonably expect the government would be able to buy from projected tax revenues if it became necessary.
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Euro on ‘Death Watch’ After Investors Spurn German Bonds
November 25, 2011
CNBC
By John Melloy
Investors began to fear the worst for the euro after unusually weak demand at an auction for bonds from Germany, the region’s largest economy. One analyst went so far as to put the currency on a “death watch.”
Germany sold just 60 percent of the 6 billion euros in 10-year bonds it brought to auction, about the weakest demand seen for the country’s debt in the currency’s 16-year history, economists said. The rejection of debt from Europe’s safe harbor marks a new stage for the crisis.
“No bunds wanted equals no Euros wanted equals the Euro death watch,” wrote Mark Steele, an analyst with BMO Capital Markets. “We have seen many poor German auctions. This is not the issue. The issue is how badly the euro is doing after the weak auction.”
The euro [EUR=X 1.3225 -0.012 (-0.9%) ] fell more than 1 percent against the dollar to a 7-week low against the Greenback. The currency threatened to break through the October lows that came amid the height of turmoil in Italy and Greece. Both countries would go on to install new Technocrat leaders, lifting confidence in the currency briefly.
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Move To Ban Alleged Insider Trading Faces Pitfalls
November 25, 2011 by William
Filed under Government
November 25, 2011
NBC
By Tom Curry
“Of course the government doesn’t want to ban insider trading for themselves. They make TONS of money from this.” –KTRN
Spurred by a CBS “60 Minutes” report and a new book by Peter Schweizer, a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution, on alleged insider trading by members of Congress, there’s growing momentum for an effort to ban members and congressional staff from trading stocks or commodities based on confidential information they have on pending bills.
Yet despite the attention given to the “60 Minutes” report, such a ban is a long way from becoming law, partly because it would be difficult to enforce and might create significant unintended consequences.
“Many constituents saw the report and will be asking their lawmakers, ‘So what are you doing to fix that problem?’ Politically, they need some kind of an answer,” said congressional scholar John Pitney, who teaches political science at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif.
One answer is a House bill called the “Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act,” or STOCK Act.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Tim Walz, D- Minn., and Rep. Louise Slaughter, D- N.Y., would ban buying or selling stocks or commodities by a member of Congress or staffer who has “material nonpublic information” regarding legislative action that relates to a specific company or commodity.
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Pregnant Seattle Protester Miscarries After Being Kicked, Pepper Sprayed
November 25, 2011
The Raw Story
By David Edwards
“Law enforcement is needed to serve and protect. These actions are not serving or protecting anyone.” –KTRN
A woman who was pepper sprayed during during a raid on Occupy Seattle last week is blaming police after she miscarried Sunday.
Jennifer Fox, 19, told The Stranger that she had been with the Occupy protests since they started in Westlake Park. She said she was homeless and three months pregnant, but felt the need to join activists during their march last Tuesday.
“I was standing in the middle of the crowd when the police started moving in,” Fox recalled. “I was screaming, ‘I am pregnant, I am pregnant. Let me through. I am trying to get out.’”
She claimed that police hit her in the stomach twice before pepper spraying her. One officer struck her with his foot and another pushed his bicycle into her. It wasn’t clear if either of those incidents were intentional.
“Right before I turned, both cops lifted their pepper spray and sprayed me. My eyes puffed up and my eyes swelled shut,” Fox said.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer photographer Joshua Trujillo snapped a picture of Fox in apparent agony as another activist carried her to an ambulance.
Seattle fire department spokesman Kyle Moore told The Washington Post that a 19-year-old pregnant woman was among those that were examined by paramedics.
While doctors at Harborview Medical Center didn’t see any problems at the time, things took a turn for the worst Sunday.
“Everything was going okay until yesterday, when I started getting sick, cramps started, and I felt like I was going to pass out,” she explained.
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