Sarah Jones at PoliticusUSA points out that Sarah Palin uses terms that sound vaguely religious but have very specific meanings to the dangerous cult of Dominionists (her use of the term ‘Restoration’ for her bus tour is a good example): I’ve …
Another great food producer who is outside of the Industrial Food Machine, and who makes a unique and sought-after product, is being run out of business by government tyrants.
Her business, while it lasted, consisted of herself, making yogurt on the instructions of her father. Ms Dashtaki was renting space in the kitchen of an Egyptian restaurant where she and her father, “like elves before and after their working hours”, lovingly cultured their yogurt under a blanket, then drained it through a certain kind of cheese cloth, then stirred it for hours, and so forth. For the taste to be divine, everything has to be just so. And, being artisans, they kept the volume tiny, about 20 gallons (76 litres) a week, for sale only at local farmers’ markets.
Ms Dashtaki discovered the California regulatory state. She was told she had to set up a “Grade A” dairy plant and use processing machines that were not only very expensive, but would transform her entire method for making yogurt, a process that makes her yogurt product unique and extremely popular.
In spite of the anti-California disposition running through this article in The Economist, it is not just California that tramples the makers of artisanal products. If it is not California it will be some other state, and if not the state governments it will be the federal government that will work to eliminate the competition that threatens to take consumers away from its most favored corporate state partners who are subsidized and/or encouraged (by the federal dietary guidelines, etc.) to produce an industrial “food” supply based on the accepted tenets of conventional wisdom. Always – the government is there to protect a whole slew of favored corporate players from your free choices and voluntary transactions with small producers that may impinge on the the profits of the Big Food industry and influence the food culture in a direction away from its cheap-and-easy factory food. Thanks to Mark Fee for the link.
We are pleased to announce more support is coming in for our campaign.
The Otago Chamber of Commerce and its CEO John Christie are backing the campaign and promoting it to their members. This builds on the support we have already received from Unions Otago.
In addition we now add Cr Syd Brown…
Attn. Brian Roche, CEO NZ Post Paul Brock, CEO Kiwibank
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I am one of a group of long time customers of Dunedin Metro Post Shop and Kiwibank who are opposed to the closure of this outlet announced by New Zealand Post.
A large number of Dunedin customers of New Zealand Post today…
We’ve all known that MyBlogLog was eventually going to get shut down. For years, there have been rumors. Then, in December, Yahoo announced internally that this was no longer a rumor; MyBlogLog was targeted for “sunsetting”. Given that five of OneTrueFan’s seven team members were part of…
Well, well, well.
The US and Pakistan struck a secret deal almost a decade ago permitting a US operation against Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil similar to last week’s raid that killed the al-Qaida leader, the Guardian has learned.
The deal was struck between the military leader General Pervez Musharraf and President George Bush after Bin Laden escaped US forces in the mountains of Tora Bora in late 2001, according to serving and retired Pakistani and US officials.
Under its terms, Pakistan would allow US forces to conduct a unilateral raid inside Pakistan in search of Bin Laden, his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and the al-Qaida No3. Afterwards, both sides agreed, Pakistan would vociferously protest the incursion.
“There was an agreement between Bush and Musharraf that if we knew where Osama was, we were going to come and get him,” said a former senior US official with knowledge of counterterrorism operations. “The Pakistanis would put up a hue and cry, but they wouldn’t stop us.”
…A senior Pakistani official said it had been struck under Musharraf and renewed by the army during the “transition to democracy” – a six-month period from February 2008 when Musharraf was still president but a civilian government had been elected.
Referring to the assault on Bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound, the official added: “As far as our American friends are concerned, they have just implemented the agreement.”
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Not everyone regards Victory Day as a cause for celebration. In Western Ukraine, nationalist party members have violently disrupted a memorial service as veterans paid tribute to those who perished in the war.
Russia is marking Victory Day - 66 years since Nazi Germany was defeated in World War II. Events of commemoration and celebration are taking place across the country, including a traditional grand military parade on Red Square. .
Ukraine is divided once again over its wartime history. A bitter row has erupted in the west of the country over the Soviet Red banner - an exact replica of the one which flew above the Reichstag in May 1945 as the Nazi regime collapsed.
NZ public toilets are mostly disgusting, should put cameras in and ticket people. Could be a money spinner.
At Wellington Airport, one time I entered, coming off a flight, with four other blokes. I was the only one who washed his hands. One in five is not a good ratio, not unlike the 3 in 20 drivers wearing seat belts I noted in Genova, Italy.
The roots of Egypt’s sectarian violence: When Hosni Mubarak was in power, his influence repressed the salafis, a hard-line but influential Islamic sect in the country, ensuring they would not hold strong influence over the country’s militant Sunni Muslims. But with Mubarak out of power, they’re…
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American elites - in politics, in the media, in business - created an economic disaster for the rest of us… “There is not much that resembles democracy in the USA anymore. For years now, the public’s highest priority has been jobs. Neither party had done much of anything about it besides pay it lip service.”
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One in ten Germans would like to see a Fhrer in power; they see dictatorship as the best option for the country, a survey has revealed.
Several nationalist marches have been held across the country as Russia is celebrating the Day of National Unity.
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Seeking fame at any cost some create a timeless masterpiece, whileothers destroy temples. An obscure pastor of a tiny church in Floridawon his Herostratic fame by burning a Koran.
The crucial role of Soviet soldiers in liberating Jews during the WWII has been recognized by Israel, after having played it down for decades.
The southern Russian city of Volgograd, at that time called Stalingrad, where one of the decisive battles of World War II took place, is preparing to the celebrations on a massive scale.
A spectacular parade has opened the Victory Day festivities in Moscow. On the 65th anniversary of the end of WWII, military from the allied forces have for the first time ever marched on Red Square during the parade. .
it’s no one’s business except the woman carrying the fetus, and the man providing the other half of the DNA. we don’t need medieval-style Lutheran bedroom police, unless you want to go back to the 16th century.
all this will do is ensure more backdoor/alley abortions, in which the mother will die along with the fetus. as well as treat women as slaves, if not work animals.
The planting of the Red Standard on Hitler’s headquarters marked the end of Nazi Germany. The man who snapped the historic shot was Soviet photographer Evgeny Khaldey.
There is only one history, but there are quite a few interpretations. The 20th century saw quite a number of serious attempts to rewrite history, says the head of the Russian State Archive Sergey Mironenko.
Moscow is commemorating the legendary parade that took place in Moscow back on November 7, 1941 when Nazi troops were only a hundred kilometers from the capital. .
