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FBI: Man sprayed mouse poison on grocery store produce

Reve Fisher
Opposing Views
Wed, 04 May 2016 02:46 UTC
man sprays produce
© Whole Foods
On May 3, officials detained the man who has been accused of spraying a liquid onto unpackaged food products and produce at various Michigan supermarkets.

The public played a substantial role in helping the FBI and Ann Arbor Police Department locate the man who was recorded spraying a substance on the salad and hot food bars at a local Whole Foods Market, MLive reports. Investigators discovered the liquid mixture consists of Tomcat mouse poison, alcohol-based hand sanitizer and water.

At least three stores in Ann Arbor have been affected by the actions of this man, whose name has yet to be released by authorities. The Whole Foods Market at 990 W. Eisenhower Parkway, Meijer at 3145 Ann Arbor-Saline Road, and Plum Market at 375 North Maple Road are believed to have been targeted in the last two weeks of April.
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Alarm Clock

Duggar cult founder plans Kansas 'retreat' to set up arranged marriages for teen girls

Vyckie Garrsion
Raw Story
Wed, 04 May 2016 17:56 UTC
surprised girl
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Wanna hear a true American horror story?

A group of ultra-conservative Christian men are planning to meet up in Kansas later this year to arrange marriages for their pubescent daughters ... and they don't believe their daughters' consent is actually necessary.

Quiverfull patriarch, Vaughn Ohlman, who runs a website promoting early, "fruitful" marriage for Truly True Christian children, has announced plans for a "Get Them Married!" retreat where fundamentalist fathers will find, and TAKE, suitably submissive young brides to bear many babies for their adolescent sons.

The weekend retreat, which will be held in Wichita this coming November, is "designed to bring together like-minded families (and their unmarried young men and women) who are committed to young, fruitful marriage and to help them overcome the barriers which have kept their children unmarried."

For around $1200 per family, Quiverfull parents will spend three days "networking" with similarly-delusional zealots who believe men are to be in charge, wives are to be submissive baby-makers, and children are to be sheltered, isolated, indoctrinated, and pushed toward early, prolific marriages for Jesus.
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Arrow Down

Farm Cartoonist fired from job of 21 years for criticizing Monsanto and Dupont and Company

Erin Elizabeth
Health Nut News
Tue, 03 May 2016 01:48 UTC
Fired cartoonist
I wonder, if, in 20 years, we won't be allowed to write about Monsanto or Dupont at all. They control the government and the government wants to control us. Plain and simple folks.
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Star of David

It's not anti-Semitic to say Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state - it's just common sense

Philip Weiss and Adam Horowitz
Mondoweiss
Tue, 03 May 2016 01:03 UTC
anti-semitism
As you surely know, the British Labour Party is today embroiled in a controversy over whether certain criticisms of the state of Israel can be considered anti-Semitic. The controversy is sure to come to the United States, even during this political cycle; and without wading into the statements and personalities involved, we need to point out that one aspect of the dispute is the claim that it is anti-Semitic to say - as many advocates for Palestinians do - that Israel does not have the right to exist as a Jewish state.

Comment: The Israeli argument boils down to this: "You're racist for pointing out that we're racist." Just imagine a South African supporter of Apartheid whining that all his critics are racist because they point out that Apartheid is wrong, and you'll get the picture. Israel is a racist, Apartheid state that has no right to exist.

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Water

Obama drinks Flint water during speech, brands crisis as "a man-made disaster"


RT
Wed, 04 May 2016 22:37 UTC
Obama
© ReutersObama begins his visit to Flint today.
US President Barack Obama was in the beleaguered Michigan city of Flint for a briefing, community meeting, and speech amid allegations of "wilful and criminal neglect" over its poison water crisis.

Although the White House had not confirmed any plans to do so, Obama drank twice from glasses of filtered city water while in Flint, Michigan on Wednesday, during a speech in which he branded the city's water crisis as a "complete screwup."

During his speech at Flint Northwestern High School, accompanied by boos at the mention of Governor Rick Snyder's name, Obama requested a glass of water, which he told the crowd was "not a stunt."

Comment: See also: Flint will riot 'soon' if you don't #ArrestGovSnyder - Michael Moore to Obama on Facebook

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Christmas Tree

Prices of marijuana drop considerably in Washington state after legalization


RT
Wed, 04 May 2016 22:49 UTC
weed vending machine
© David Ryder / ReutersA view of the screen of a ZaZZZ vending machine that contains cannabis flower, hemp-oil energy drinks, and other merchandise at Seattle Caregivers, a medical marijuana dispensary.
Recreational marijuana use has been legal in Washington State for two years, and while sales of the drug have been filling public coffers with tax revenues, the prices for pot have also been shrinking considerably.

As of March 2016, the price of legal marijuana in Washington was $9.32 per gram, the Washington Post reported, citing data from the state's Liquor and Cannabis board. The wholesale price of the drug was $2.99 per gram.

In September 2014, pot was selling for about $25 per gram, according to a report from KUOW News. By August 2015, marijuana prices had plunged more than 50 percent to $11 per gram.

Although prices initially went up after the drug was legalized, that surge was linked to increased demand and limited supply, according to Steve Davenport of the Pardee RAND Graduate School, who helps aggregate data from the Washington's cannabis board. Since then, prices have been coming down at a rate of 2 percent per month, he told the Post, and they could potentially shrink 25 percent every year.
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Eye 2

Cops under investigation for assaulting man who was legally filming them


RT
Wed, 04 May 2016 22:44 UTC
memphis police
© Francesco DaDon Guglielmette / Facebook
Police in Memphis have launched an investigation after a video was posted online purportedly showing police officers assaulting a man for filming them in the line of duty, even though he has a legal right to do so.

The video was posted to Facebook on Monday by Francesco DaDon Guglielmette who claims he "was assaulted by Memphis police just for recording," which is something that Memphis Police Department have previously stated is allowed.

A number of police officers can be seen talking to a number of men by a police car when Guglielmette is asked to move onto the sidewalk by one of the officers.

"The sidewalk is made to walk, not to stay," the officer says to Guglielmette who is walking away.
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Health

Hundreds of frozen food products recalled after listeria outbreak kills two


RT
Wed, 04 May 2016 22:38 UTC
frozen peas
© Reuters
Hundreds of frozen fruit and vegetable products are being recalled after federal health officials linked them to an outbreak of listeria that has sickened up to eight people in three states. Two of the people affected have died.

The recall affects 358 products under 42 brands sold by the Pasco, Washington-based CRF Frozen Foods, the company announced on Monday. The products being recalled all have expiration dates between April 26, 2016 and April 26, 2018. They have been sold in all 50 US states, as well as the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

The recall was initiated after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discovered the Listeria bacteria during a routine check, ABC News reported.
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Bad Guys

Underage Texas girl fights off rapist who 'bought' her virginity from acquaintance for $10,000

Bethania Palma Markus
Raw Story
Wed, 04 May 2016 12:20 UTC
Delacruz and Aguilar
© Dallas Police departmentCirino Santiago Delacruz and Adriana Aguilar.
A Texas man is being accused to trying to pay $10,000 to "buy" the virginity of an underage girl, the Dallas Morning News reports.

Cirino Santiago Delacruz, 32, and Adriana Aguilar, 33, have both been slapped with felony trafficking charges after negotiating the price. The two are now in custody.

The incident reportedly happened in December and police were notified when the girl told her parents last month.

Documents obtained by the Morning News say that the girl knew Aguilar, who in December invited her to ride along on some errands. She took the girl to an apartment, where she met Delacruz. At that point, Aguilar told her Delacruz had offered $10,000 for her virginity.

The girl was forced into a bedroom where Delacruz fondled her and attempted to rape her, but she fought her way out. He still paid $100 because he had touched her, the Morning News reports.

The girl told the investigators she feared both Delacruz and Aguilar. Child protective services are now involved with the case.
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Nuke

New Mexico Native American tribe threatened by chromium plumes from Los Alamos National Laboratory


RT
Tue, 03 May 2016 22:34 UTC
map LANL chromium
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Hexavalent chromium may not be familiar to the average American ‒ but Erin Brockovich likely is. A plume of the same toxic chemical that led to a movie based on Brockovich is now threatening a Native American tribe's sacred lands and a major aquifer.

Chromium-6 (aka hexavalent chromium) lines the cooling towers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern New Mexico. For nearly two decades, from 1956 to 1972, the birthplace of the nuclear bomb flushed water from its cooling system ‒ water contaminated by the corrosion-preventing chemical - into Sandia Canyon.

Since then, the runoff has created an underground chromium plume that is a mile long by half a mile wide and 100 feet thick. It's threatening drinking wells, a major aquifer, and the San Ildefonso Pueblo's sacred tribal land, which borders the federal property. The plume was discovered during the installation of a groundwater monitoring well in late 2005, according to Los Alamos.

Scientific research ‒ and the lawsuit against Pacific Gas and Electric, for which Brockovich served as a legal clerk ‒ has shown that drinking water tainted with high levels of chromium-6 is linked to cancer. In 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed classifying the chemical as "likely to be carcinogenic to humans when ingested." It has set a maximum contaminant level for all types of chromium, including the hexavalent variant, at 100 parts per billion.



Comment: The Department of Energy estimates the amount of chromium released between 1956 to 1972 was approximately 159,000 pounds. New wells are estimated to cost $3.5M each amongst 50 archaeological sites.

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