When the 20 agents arrived bearing a search warrant at her Ventura County farmhouse door at 7 a.m. on a Wednesday a couple weeks back, Sharon Palmer didn’t know what to say. This was the third time she was being raided in 18 months, and she had thought she was on her way to resolving the problem over labeling of her goat cheese that prompted the other two raids. (In addition to producing goat’s... 

In this image taken from undated video footage, people on board the Amalthea wave Palestinian flag at sea in unknown country. A Libyan boat carrying supplies for Gaza was sailing toward Egypt late Tuesday, July 13, 2010 instead of trying to run a naval blockade of the Palestinian territory, Israeli military officials said, apparently defusing a potential confrontation on the high seas. The Gadhafi... 

The Obama administration has developed a keen interest in the Amish folks of Lancaster County, Pa., due to their lifestyle and not their carbon footprint. The cattle on their dairy farms produce milk and manure. It is claimed that great piles of manure are the source of pollutants from Lancaster County to the Chesapeake Bay due to run-off from heavy rains. Lancaster County is far from the Chesapeake... 

A Palestinian woman confronts Israeli police as her neighbour’s home is razed Israeli bulldozers razed six buildings in East Jerusalem, including three Palestinian homes, marking the end of Israeli efforts to refrain from contentious demolitions that could undermine peace talks. With excavators preparing to tear down one of the homes in Beit Hanina, a Palestinian suburb of Arab-dominated East... 

Octavia Nasr, senior editor of Middle East affairs at CNN, is leaving the US television news network after praising the late Shiite cleric Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah on Twitter Journalists are being fired for saying what they think while politicians on the Left and Right are being allowed to get away without being questioned, laments Toby Harnden. Freedom of speech may be part of the United States... 

As Alex Jones has warned for years, the military have been training with police to perform gun confiscations in US neighborhoods. Fox 23 News in Albany, New York is reporting on a program taking place between the National Guard and local police. As we have reported, Operation Vigilant Guard trains foreign troops to confiscate American’s guns. After hurricane Katrina, guns were confiscated from citizens... 

The $3million vessel was destroyed in the collision and Mr Bethune was delivering a bill for its replacement to the Shonan Maru 2 captain. A Tokyo court on Wednesday convicted a New Zealand activist of assault and obstructing Japanese whaling ships in the Antarctic Ocean, and sentenced him to a suspended prison term. Peter Bethune was also found guilty on three other charges: trespassing, vandalism... 

Normally I would open this article by explaining this is the story the mainstream media won’t dare report. Except in this case, they are reporting it. It’s right on CNN, on the Anderson Cooper “360” report. What happened is that Lance Rosenfield, a photographer working for ProPublica (http://www.propublica.org), was standing on a public road, taking photos of a BP refinery... 

Will the internet be "jailed" in Australia as it is in China and Iran? Let's hope not... The future of the great Australian firewall is beginning to look decidedly shaky, as electoral calculations and widespread condemnation from politicians and industry alike begin to take their toll. That’s the analysis from Greens communications spokesman Scott Ludlam, who believes the proposed... 

* Ringtone ended with Sieg Heil * Phone also had picture of Hitler * Penalty could be three years’ jail A MAN who had a speech by Adolf Hitler as his ringtone could face up to three years in jail. Police seized the 54-year-old’s phone at Harburg station, near the northern city of Hamburg, after fellow train passengers, shocked by the sound of Hitler screaming, alerted police. “It... 

President Barack Obama has declared a federal emergency exists in Texas as Tropical Storm Alex builds toward hurricane strength and approaches south Texas and northern Mexico. According to a White House statement issued Tuesday, Obama gas ordered federal help to augment the state and local responses to the developing emergency. The declaration authorizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency “to... 

An advisory panel to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that every person be vaccinated for the seasonal flu yearly, except in a few cases where the vaccine is known to be unsafe. “Now no one should say ‘Should I or shouldn’t I?’” said CDC flu specialist Anthony Fiore. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 11-0 with one abstention to... 

Wayne Madsen, the investigative reporter, has a new for-subscribers report out. He says that CEMA — the state of California’s version of FEMA — has been alerted by its counterparts in the Gulf coast on mass evacuation plans. For Madsen’s previous report on mass evacuation, CLICK HERE. Gulf state emergency preparedness agencies confirm mass evacuation plans A well-placed source in California... 

B.James’s title of the album is: “Only Hate” and it is freely distributed in France. So, where is the hate exactly situated? “Just one goal: leaving the Hexagon in bits” “I want these Republican dogs to die and then defecate on their graves” “I defecate on the French flag” “I walk in the streets with bombs” “We take your money,... 

In Ohio, your maternity leave might be permanent. Even in the enlightened, family-friendly world of 2010, you can still get fired for getting pregnant. In Ohio, anyway. The Ohio Supreme Court ruled this week that companies can fire relatively new employees who take time off for pregnancy. Justices ruled 5-1 that new employees risk getting fired when they take extended leaves for any reason. It’s...