As the price of meat continues to skyrocket, will it soon be considered a "luxury item" for most American families? This week we learned that the price of meat in the United States rose at the fastest pace in more than 10 years last month. Leading the way is the price of shrimp. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the price of shrimp has jumped an astounding 61 percent compared to a year ago. The price of pork is also moving upward aggressively thanks to a disease which has already killed about 10 percent of all of the pigs in the entire country. And the endless drought in the western half of the country has caused the size of the U.S. cattle herd to shrink to a 63 year low and has pushed the price of beef to an all-time high. This is really bad news if you like to eat meat. The truth is that the coming "meat crisis" is already here, and it looks like it is going to get a lot worse in the months ahead.
A devastating bacterial disease called "early mortality syndrome" is crippling the shrimping industry all over Asia right now. According to Bloomberg, this has pushed the price of shrimp up 61 percent over the past 12 months...
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In the video below, the shill for the police department tries to spin the situation and somehow justify the actions of these two overzealous cops. It is laughable and equally daunting to think that someone can get on television with a straight face and say that tasering a child could somehow have been called for in any situation.
Luckily SWAT wasn't called in and the other children at the daycare weren't forced on to the ground at gun point or dismembered by German shepherds.
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More than 2,500 people have already asked the Republican Society of Crimean Germans to help them resettle to Crimea. Before the 1940's, the German townships were mostly located on the territory of today's Krasnogvardeisky and Sovietsky districts and even all the paperwork at official agencies there was done in German then.
"Descendants of the Germans whose parents lived and worked in Crimea before the outbreak of combat operations on the Soviet territory are now asking to let them come back," Alexei Nusbaum, a deputy chairman of the Crimean Germans Society told the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily.
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"Several Italian organizations are concerned about the behavior of the European Union and US which supported coup d'état in Ukraine and then closed the eyes on the neo-Nazist and fascist organizations which are collateral to the new so-called government of Kiev," Correggia said. "The EU and US criticized Crimea for its referendum on independence, but they closed eyes on the criminal act of the neo-Nazist groups in Odessa."
Thousands of people are expected to join the demonstration in Rome starting at 6:00 pm local time (4:00 pm GMT). Similar demonstrations were held in Naples last Friday and in Rome earlier this week. May 17 demonstration however is expected to be the largest.
Correggia said Italian peace organizations, trade unions and social organizations will be part of the Saturday event, as well as members of the Russian community in Italy.
"The media did not speak enough about that criminal act and the fire in that building of Trade Union in Odessa, at the same time EU and US criticize Moscow for I don't know exactly what," Marinella Correggia told RIA Novosti. "In spite of negative information in the Italian media, different groups understood what was happening," she added.
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Dutch mine hunter "Makkum" (R), departs as part of the Standing NATO Mine Counter-Measures Group ONE (SNMGMG1) in the harbour of Kiel, April 22, 2014.
Dutch mine hunter "Makkum" (R), departs as part of the Standing NATO Mine Counter-Measures Group ONE (SNMGMG1) in the harbour of Kiel, April 22, 2014.
"NATO sailors in Ventspils were behaving like pigs, ignored Latvian laws and municipal rules," Aivars Lembergs told LETA news agency. "Drunk, they urinated in public, right on shop windows, vomited, drank in public, which is not allowed. They picked flowers from flowerbeds and gave them to prostitutes."
Lembergs, a vocal critic of Latvia's cooperation with NATO, added that the foreign military personnel "behaved like occupiers, who do not recognize Latvia's sovereignty."
The unflattering description comes as the mayor was commenting on an incident in Ventspils, in which several NATO sailors clashed with locals at a night club last weekend. One of the sailors, a 21-year-old Dutch national, sustained serious injuries and had to be taken to hospital with several broken face bones and a concussion.
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The 18 people include Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Douangchay Phichit, his wife and Vientiane governor Sukan Mahalad, according to the diplomat.
The Lao government has not confirmed casualties, but local media reported some people survived the crash, the diplomat said.
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Relatives of Michael Blair, 26, released the shocking video to argue officers did not have to shoot during an encounter with a mentally ill man inside his Houston home last year. But the officers have been cleared of any wrongdoing after an internal investigation and, later, when the case was presented in front of a grand jury.
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Quanell X, a community activist, and Blair’s family speak to the press about wanting an investigation into the police-shooting that left the mentally ill man dead.
Quanell X, a community activist, and Blair’s family speak to the press about wanting an investigation into the police-shooting that left the mentally ill man dead.
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In this May 2013 photo, Daniel Orellana of the Charles Darwin Foundation is shown crossing a field of ferns to reach some naturally? occurring sulfur mines in the Galapagos Islands.
In this May 2013 photo, Daniel Orellana of the Charles Darwin Foundation is shown crossing a field of ferns to reach some naturally? occurring sulfur mines in the Galapagos Islands.
In declaring an emergency, "the Risk Management Secretariat will be able to directly carry out the purchase of goods, the procurement of services, and the work that are required to overcome this emergency," Ecuador said in a statement, though it gave no indication of how long it would take to remove the ship. And as the BBC notes, authorities have reason to worry: An oil tanker that spilled fuel while stranded off the coast of one of the islands in 2001 essentially destroyed the marine iguana population. (In more positive Galapagos news, scientists have managed to save Darwin's finches using cotton balls.)
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An altercation between a young patient and hospital security staff last week turned deadly when Baltimore police arrived at the scene and used a Taser on the teenager, sparking an investigation into the incident.
The confrontation began on Wednesday, May 7, the day after a 19-year-old patient was admitted into Baltimore's Good Samaritan Hospital for medical treatment. The teenager's name remains unknown, and was described by police only as a "ward of the state."
According to CBS Baltimore, Lt. Eric Kowalczyk said that when the hospital called law enforcement for help, the patient was locked in a physical struggle with "at least five security guards" and was suffering from an "emotional crisis."
When two officers arrived, one of them used a Taser on the 19-year-old, ultimately sinking the teenager into a coma. Police said the patient had been given unknown amounts of medication before law enforcement arrived and while they were at the scene.
The young man died on Wednesday, though police stated they did not learn about the coma until days after their involvement was requested.
"The person was breathing when the officers left the hospital," deputy commissioner Jerry Rodriguez told the Baltimore Sun. "It was not learned that the individual was in a coma and was possibly brain dead until several days after this incident."
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Volunteers hand out food to the homeless and needy at McPherson Square in Washington.
Volunteers hand out food to the homeless and needy at McPherson Square in Washington.
A group of volunteers who have prepared food for the Daytona Beach homeless population - or anyone who is hungry, the organizers say - for the past year were given citations and trespass warnings by law enforcement this week.
