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Police report: Megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar choked daughter

ATLANTA (AP) — A police report says a teenage daughter of Atlanta-area megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar told authorities her father choked and punched her after an argument.

The report says Mr. Dollar claims he tried to restrain his daughter, wrestled her to the floor and spanked her after she became ...

Holder Making Congress Furious Fast

TruthNews.US - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:01
Ohio.com | Yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder provided congressional testimony for the seventh time regarding Operation Fast And Furious.

LOST is Centralized Control of the World by the UN

TruthNews.US - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:01
Susanne Posel | The UN’s Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) will deliver American sovereignty and seven-tenths of the world’s surface to a global bureaucracy.

Nominee faces heat over racy emails

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:01
The Obama administration's nominee for the next U.S. ambassador to Iraq has run into new opposition thanks to the publication of some racy e-mails suggesting an affair with a Wall Street Journal reporter while both worked in Baghdad.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Calif. public-employee pensions face cuts

SAN DIEGO (AP) — For years, companies have been chipping away at workers' pensions. Now, two California cities may help pave the way for governments to follow suit.

Voters in San Diego and San Jose, the nation's eighth- and 10th-largest cities, overwhelmingly approved ballot measures last week to roll back ...

Farmers Say NAIS/ADT

NoNAIS - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 13:01

The battle continues:

A coalition led by farmers and ranchers is using a last-minute strategy to stop USDA’s new Animal Disease Traceability (ADT) program. The groups involved are using economic grounds - especially the added costs that animal identification will impose on rural America.

In a 9-page letter to the Executive Office of Management and Budget, a unit of the White House, the sixteen organizations in the coalition say animal traceability could cost the U.S. cattle industry more than $1 billion a year.
-FoodSafetyNews

Once again government wants to put the blame and financial burden on the small farmers with no compensations or benefit while not solving any actual problem. NAIS/ADT is really about export markets and profits for big producers. If they want a system of tracking then they should create their own private voluntary system, not one funded by tax payers. We small farmers don’t need NAIS/ADT. We know where are animals are and can trace them from breeding to the customer’s plate without any government “help.”

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