Archives for April 25, 2015

Another Medical Kidnapping at Boston Children’s Hospital: Baby Seized Over Formula Disagreement

  It is an all-too-famil­iar cas­cade of events that hap­pens all across the world, but for baby Bella’s fam­i­ly, their fair­ly typ­i­cal sce­nario has result­ed in their baby being tak­en from her lov­ing par­ents. Now Mass­a­chu­setts DCF wants to adopt this beau­ti­ful baby out, per­ma­nent­ly sev­er­ing Christi­na and Jonathon Hinote’s parental rights to their daugh­ter, who […]

Minnesota Takes Aim at Egg Farmer Co-op Member for Third Time

FA Note — Anoth­er barage by the unholy alliance between Big Ag and gov­ern­ment, designed to erad­i­cate your free­dom to grow/buy your food as you will, put­ing the lie to  “sus­tain­able” agri­cul­ture. Min­neso­ta sim­ply can­not get enough of Alvin Schlangen. An egg farmer who tends to and vol­un­teers with a fresh food co-op. Two coun­ties in par­tic­u­lar (MDA) have tried […]

Armed Oregon Protesters Gather at Bureau of Land Management Office Over Mine Dispute, Report Says

FA Note — Courts have long rec­og­nized the Act of July 26, 1866, and May 10, 1872 as amend­ed, where­by Con­gress abdi­cat­ed its author­i­ty and juris­dic­tion over the min­er­al estate, grant­i­ng it as an absolute gift with­out con­di­tion or lim­i­ta­tion to all cit­i­zens. More than 100 demon­stra­tors, some of them armed, report­ed­ly sur­round­ed the Bureau […]

The USDA Is Taking On Agriculture’s Huge Contribution To Climate Change

The Unit­ed States Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture plans to announce a set of vol­un­tary ini­tia­tives aimed at help­ing farm­ers, ranch­ers, and for­est land own­ers respond to cli­mate change by increas­ing car­bon stor­age, reduc­ing car­bon emis­sions, and sup­port­ing resilience in the face of extreme weath­er. Sec­re­tary of Agri­cul­ture Tom Vil­sack is expect­ed to make the announce­ment Thursday […]

(Montana Governor) Bullock Signs Tribal Water Rights Ratification Into Law – But More Rivers To Cross

Before Gov. Steve Bul­lock on Fri­day signed the bill rat­i­fy­ing the Flat­head trib­al water rights com­pact, trib­al Chair­man Ver­non Fin­ley said it has one pri­ma­ry goal – “pro­tect the water” – and that he hopes oppo­nents will rec­og­nize it’s noth­ing more than that. “That’s basi­cal­ly it: Let’s share the resource and be good neigh­bors and let’s […]