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As you read this, there is a bill before the U.S. Senate that has the potential to change the U.S. food industry more than any other law ever passed by the U.S. Congress. In the name of “food safety”, the U.S. government would be given an iron grip over the production, transportation and sale of all food in the United States. Hordes of small food producers and organic farmers could potentially be put out of business. If this bill becomes law, the freedom to grow what you want, eat what you want and to share food from your gardens with your neighbors could be greatly curtailed. It would give the FDA unprecedented discretion to regulate U.S. food production. A version of this bill was already passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last summer, and now S. 510, also know as the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, is in front of the U.S. Senate and it is expected to pass easily.
Because of how vaguely it is written and because of how much discretion it gives to the FDA, it is potentially a very, very dangerous law.
So who is actually in favor of it?
Well, big food corporations and big agriculture are actually very much in favor of this bill.
September 27th, 2010 | Posted in Business,Featured,Web-Only Content | Read More »
Happy days are here again, so let’s break out the party hats and balloons. One might be so inclined if they happened to see the National Bureau of Economic Research’s report last week that said the recession has been over for more than a year now. Most Americans seemed to have missed their party invitations however, maybe because they were standing in line waiting for an unemployment check. So do these claims of recovery stand up to scrutiny or is this just another example of redefining economic misery out of existence? By now euphemisms such as the “new normal” or “jobless recovery” are common place in the current economic lexicon. These new terms for a dismal economy serve but one purpose, to keep the political class in power despite a condition that should be unacceptable to voters. Redefining what is acceptable makes our bitter pill much easier to swallow if we are all resigned to the fact that there is no changing the current state of affairs. Why devote any time trying to understand or change something that is normal and expected? If it’s not broken, don’t fix it appears to be the underlying message. However, the numbers and trends that have emerged in this economic recovery are anything but normal (see previous post here for a quick refresher).
September 27th, 2010 | Posted in Economy,Web-Only Content | Read More »
Why are the Military Industrial Complex & Fox News funding the Ground Zero Mosque?
September 27th, 2010 | Posted in Featured,Foreign Policy,Liberty Voice TV,Religion | Read More »
Corporal, 22, Tells How His ‘Crazy’ Sergeant Allegedly Murdered For Kicks, Collected Body Parts By MATTHEW COLE and BRIAN ROSS Sept. 27, 2010— Dressed in a t-shirt and Army shorts, a 22-year-old corporal from Wasilla, Alaska casually describes on a video tape made by military investigators how his unit’s “crazy” sergeant randomly chose three unarmed, [...]
September 27th, 2010 | Posted in Featured,Foreign Policy,Liberty Voice TV,Web-Only Content | Read More »
The District’s juvenile justice agency is piloting a program that puts global positioning system devices on the ankles of the young criminals it releases into the community.
September 27th, 2010 | Posted in Big Bro,Featured,Police State,Tech,Web-Only Content | Read More »
WASHINGTON – The new head of the Transportation Security Administration say he’s giving 10,000 of the agency’s employees access to secret intelligence information to better enable them to detect threats and stop terrorists.
September 27th, 2010 | Posted in Big Bro,Featured,Police State,Travel,Web-Only Content | Read More »
To better track criminals, U.S. wants to be able to wiretap online communications.
September 27th, 2010 | Posted in Big Bro,Featured,Tech,Web-Only Content | Read More »
On September 24, Jason Ditz reported on Antiwar.com that “the FBI is confirming that this morning they began a number of raids against the homes of antiwar activists in Illinois, Minneapolis, Michigan, and North Carolina, claiming that they are ‘seeking evidence relating to activities concerning the material support of terrorism.’”
Now we know what Homeland Security (sic) secretary Janet Napolitano meant when she said on September 10: “The old view that ‘if we fight the terrorists abroad, we won’t have to fight them here’ is just that–the old view.” The new view, Napolitano said, is “to counter violent extremism right here at home.”
“Violent extremism” is one of those undefined police state terms that will mean whatever the government wants it to mean. In this morning’s FBI’s foray into the homes of American citizens of conscience, it means antiwar activists, whose activities are equated with “the material support of terrorism,” just as conservatives equated Vietnam era anti-war protesters with giving material support to communism.
September 26th, 2010 | Posted in Featured,Politics,Web-Only Content | Read More »
A social engineering bill to restrict residence in the suburbs and rural areas and force Americans into city centers has passed the United States Senate Banking Committee and is on the fast track to passage in the Senate.
The bill is called the Livable Communities Act (SB 1619) and it was introduced by corruptocrat outgoing Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.). It seeks to fulfill the United Nation’s plan Agenda 21, adopted at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and signed onto by “New World Order” President George H.W. Bush.
September 24th, 2010 | Posted in Featured,Politics,Web-Only Content | Read More »
Pastor Terry Jones was recently sent a security bill of $180,000 by the local authorities for his “burn the Koran” uproar. Pastor Jones is clearly another religious hack pushing hatred and division instead of love and peace, but he is still an American citizen with the right to protest and burn whatever book he wishes. His stunt was divisive and an obvious attempt to stir the pot, but for the police to charge a tax-paying citizen for securing an event that never happened is just, well, mind-boggling.
Sure some people who may be disturbed by Jones’ prejudice and hate will say, “Right on, the public shouldn’t have to pay for protecting that idiot.” Much like they did when the Balloon Boy’s father was charged restitution for the turmoil he caused. Ultimately, both turned out to be fabricated non-events driven by ridiculous levels of media hype. If the public seeks compensation, it seems more appropriate to target the mainstream media’s advertising sales during their 24-hour media glorification of these non-events.
Charging private citizens seems to be a growing trend by public police forces, apparently to cover their budget shortfalls. Anchorage police have begun sending bills to people if officers have to make more than eight trips per year to their homes. In the UK, police sent a man a bill when their car was damaged pursuing the victim’s stolen vehicle. These are extreme cases but the precedents threaten to turn the police into a “private” security force.
September 24th, 2010 | Posted in Economy,Featured,Web-Only Content | Read More »
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