Saturday, July 16, 2011

31 Year-Old Organic Farm To Be Replaced With Private Soccer Field | Care2 Causes

by Beth Buczynski
July 13, 2011
10:03 am

Farmer Nick Maravell has been growing food and raising cattle in a sustainable fashion for over 30 years. His efforts to grow food for his local community have been so successful, they earned him recognition from USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack who appointed Maravell to serve on the National Organic Standards Board, a panel of unpaid experts established by Congress to set organic industry policy.

But despite the fact that Nick’s 165-acre farm is one of the few certified organic heritage farms left in the United States and a place for the community to see and participate in the growing of its food, the local government wants to tear it up and plant turf grass in its place.

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HE IS HOPELESS & THE NATION NEEDS A DIAPER CHANGE! The United States cannot survive another 4 years.

POLICE STATE 2011_ Police Chief Shuts Down Children's Lemonade Stand

Youtube Banned Incredible Ron Paul Video - VidoEmo - Emotional Video Uni...

Ron Paul: The Revolution is Inevitable!

AMERICAN MILITIAMAN WARNS CONGRESS TO BACK OFF!

Two Navy Ships That Cost $300 Million Are Headed To The Scrapyard Without Having Seen A Day Of Service

Embroiled by legal battles for more than 25 years, two U.S. Navy ships are finally headed to the scrap heap without ever having sailed and despite the fact that they're almost completely finished.

According to Hampton Roads, the USNS Bejamin Isherwood and the USNS Henry Eckford were commissioned in 1985 at the Pennsylvania Shipbuilding Co. to carry fuel to the Navy's fleet around the globe.

When the company defaulted on its Navy contract in 1989 the 660-foot ships were sent to Florida for completion, but cost disputes terminated that contract in 1993.

Since then, the vessels have sat 95 and 84 percent complete at the mouth of the James River as part of the mothballed ghost fleet.

In 1997, the Navy cut its ties and British company Able UK considered re-commissioning them for international sale to a NATO country.

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Woman Gropes TSA Agent's Breast at Security Checkpoint

Updated: Saturday, 16 Jul 2011, 12:22 AM EDT

Published : Friday, 15 Jul 2011, 9:09 PM EDT

Adapted for the Web by
myFOXPhoenix.com Staff

PHOENIX - We hear a lot of complaints about security screeners groping airline passengers.

But now, a Colorado woman is accused of putting her hands on a TSA agent at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix.

Court records show 61-year-old Yukari Mihamae grabbed the left breast of the female agent Thursday at the Terminal 4 checkpoint.

Police say she squeezed and twisted the agent's breast with both hands.

Officers say Mihamae admitted to the crime.

There's no word why she touched the agent.

Mihamae now faces a felony count of sexual abuse.

According to court records, she lives in Longmont, Colorado and is self-employed.

BLOG NOTE: I THINK THIS WOMAN IS A HERO. SCREW THE CRIMINAL TSA AGENTS.

Ron Paul: I See the Fed as a Problem

Friday, July 15, 2011

US more unpopular in the Arab world than under Bush - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

WEDNESDAY, JUL 13, 2011 08:14 ET

I've written numerous times over the last year about rapidly worsening perceptions of the U.S. in the Muslim world, including a Pew poll from April finding that Egyptians view the U.S. more unfavorably now than they did during the Bush presidency. Anew poll released today of six Arab nations -- Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco -- contains even worse news on this front:

The hope that the Arab world had not long ago put in the United States and President Obama has all but evaporated.
Two and a half years after Obama came to office, raising expectations for change among many in the Arab world, favorable ratings of the United States have plummeted in the Middle East, according to a new poll conducted by Zogby International for the Arab American Institute Foundation.
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O' Brother, Where Art Thou?

DEFICITS: THE FINAL FRONTIER

IDIOT REP. SHEILA JACKSON LEE

Idiot Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee this is for you, a little perspective. You say no president has ever been treated like this AND you say read between the lines. You are a despicable creature for bringing up the race card. Look at these pictures and then say how no president has ever been so disrespected. I disagree with Bush on a lot of things but idiots like you force me to defend him.

How the U.S. government uses its media servants to attack real journalism - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

FRIDAY, JUL 15, 2011 07:16 ET

"The US has stopped running its global network of secret prisons, CIA director Leon Panetta has announced. 'CIA no longer operates detention facilities or black sites,' Mr Panetta said in a letter to staff" - BBC, April 9, 2009

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Earlier this week, the truly intrepid investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill published in The Nation one of the most significant political exposés of the year. Entitled "the CIA's Secret Sites in Somalia," the article documented that the CIA uses and effectively controls a secret prison in Mogadishu, where foreign nationals who are rendered off the streets of their countries (at the direction of the U.S.) are taken (along with Somali nationals) to be imprisoned with no due process and interrogated (by U.S. agents). Although Somali government agents technically operate the facility, that is an obvious ruse: "US intelligence personnel pay the salaries of intelligence agents and also directly interrogate prisoners" and are "there full-time," Scahill reported. OnDemocracy Now on Wednesday, the International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed it has no knowledge of this secret prison.

This arrangement, as Scahill told me yesterday, is consistent with standard Obama administration practice: "they continue even the most controversial Bush terrorism policies by having some other government technically operate it so they can keep their fingerprints off it." Indeed, the administration has even resorted to this playbook by using "torture by proxy" -- as we saw when the Kuwait government, with at least the complicity if not direction of the U.S., detained and beat American teenager Gulet Mohamed during interrogation sessions. Just yesterday, a federal judge "reacted skeptically" to the Obama DOJ's demands for dismissal of a lawsuit (on secrecy grounds) brought by an American citizen imprisoned for four months in Africa, where "U.S. officials threatened him with torture, forced disappearance and other serious harm unless he confessed to ties with al-Qaida in Somalia."

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BARACK NOBAMA: WAR CRIMINAL