An Alabama jury determined on Thursday, August 20 that former Alabama men's basketball player Kai Spears was defamed by The New York Times for an article that inaccurately linked him to the scene of a fatal shooting. As part of the ruling, which came after five hours of deliberation and two weeks of testimony in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Spears was awarded $9.25 million in damages. read more
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) " Hundreds of Lindsay Clancy supporters, many wearing pink clothing emblazoned with phrases such as "Believe," "She Needed Help" and "Peace For Lindsay," gathered Thursday outside the courthouse where she is on trial in the killings of her three children. READ MORE: Psychologist testifies Lindsay Clancy was not criminally responsible in killing of her 3 children Several of the 300 women, and a few men, said Clancy's story resonated with them and that they wanted to raise awareness about how the mental health system treats women. Clancy's lawyer does not dispute that she killed the children, but says she should not be held criminally responsible because she was mentally ill. read more
Democratic Socialists are capturing more votes than ever before ... read more
Progressive state Rep. Angie Nixon scored a major upset over former National Security Council aide Alex Vindman in the Florida Democratic Senate primary ... read more
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- California energy regulators have approved new rules that will phase out some replacement tires sold in the state that do not meet energy-efficiency requirements. The standards target replacement tires that fail to meet the new efficiency requirements. State regulators say the changes will help drivers save money on fuel over time. Tire manufacturers, however, argue the rules could increase upfront costs for consumers by hundreds of dollars. read more
Herd sizes are the smallest in 75 years coupled with very high prices.
This is due to meat processing being a bottleneck. The meat processing consolidated because high startup costs, razor-thin profit margins, strict government rules, and make it difficult for small or new facilities to survive against giant corporations.
I purchase 1/4 & 1/2 cows, I pay $15.00/lb, almost half of which is ground beef. The Rancher I purchase the cow from make ~$4.00/lb. The issue is we need a USDA butcher ...
Concentration in U.S. Meatpacking Industry and How It Affects Competition and Cattle Prices
However, in recent years there is evidence of reduced competition in meatpacking, with lower prices for cattle. This evidence is reflected in sharply increased spreads between cattle prices and wholesale beef prices, the disappearance of excess capacity in packing plants, and recent entry into the industry by new packers. Entry and capacity expansion could encourage renewed competition in the industry.
www.ers.usda.gov
Same problem different industry...
I seem to recall the same issue with cotton in India. Over production of cotton due to increase yield due to GMO'd seeds, the processing plants couldn't process all that was grown, prices dropped so low, to where the farmers couldn't purchase seeds for the next season. Many were put out of business, at least until more processing plants could be built.
Is this problem any different than having to pay $200 for a 15min consultation with a DR? No ... this is that the government regulates so much that people don't invest in the industry proper. Ergo we get like popup restaurants that don't follow any regulations. Look for more and more under the table dealings as the governments burden creates consolidation in industries. The anti-capitalist aren't wrong about people wanting monopolies, but they are wrong about the cause, its not the free market creating monopolies, its more and more regulations which probably have nothing do with meat processing.
Book written in 1970s.... pretty incredible read ..
"Day by day, month by month, doubt by doubt, law and order became fascism; education, constraint; work, alienation; revolution, mere sport; leisure, a privilege of class; marijuana, a harmless weed; family, a stifling hothouse; affluence, oppression; success, a social disease; sex, an innocent pastime; youth, a permanent tribunal; maturity, the new senility; discipline, an attack on personality; Christianity... and the West... and white skin..."
The Camp of the Saints
www.amazon.com
here's a review.
Equally so, as the Raspail book so clearly portrays, is the extraordinary cultural difference between many peoples and that the only way to maintain a Culture and Civilization that you value and want is to defend it against the opposing human conflicts for domination and control of our world. This Raspail book, using fiction, hallmarks a stark confrontation and truth that no human civilization can survive unless it chooses, defends and values itself . People kill, torture, enslave and destroy each other with regularity. In the long view of human history war and competition for resources defines a part of the human experience and such battles and killing is what, in part, has brought us to what we are today, for better or worse.
You think your current life is all that exists, and it is for you. But if you're a liberal you understand that you are but a blink in the history of time, for all those that came before or will come after.
What world are you going to leave? This isn't a conservative or liberal issue, its do you want your values to survive.
That is the struggle Americans and the Europeans are up against, and right now the answer is no you don't want your values to survive.
In the 90s Americans proclaimed EndOfHistory .... Looks like they were wrong... what are you going to do?
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LOL they're trying to public .. this just keeps them in the cycle.
Good for them, too bad for the suckers that posted this and believe it.