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FNS News: Border Food Summit Convened

The decades-old Southwest Marketing Network brings together producers, distributors and consumers of agriculture in the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - In the waning days of summer, southern Arizona will become the hot spot for food.

Convened by the Southwest Marketing Network, the upcoming Border Food Summit is meant to attract people from across the region for three days of farm tours, presentations, workshops, discussions and, of course, traditional foods sampling.

American Democracy - The Funeral

It really doesn’t matter who wins the upcoming Presidential Election. Either way the American people and the rest of the world will lose.

(BANGKOK) - The words of Anthony Lawson in this video are both chilling and tragically accurate. The United States has completely lost the path of democracy and instead supports those countries that practice state terrorism.

Isolated from the real world, the politicians in their suits offer approval for the worst, most destructive policies that the modern world has seen.

Controlling Opium

When Reason and Rationality Are Trampled By Politics and Emotion

(WINDSOR, N.H.) - “He sat in the courtyard watching his children spinning and spinning, their arms flailing as they cut through the air with each turn. Such giddiness and uproarious laughter had never before been witnessed, by him, in his children.

Even when they fell to the earth bumping their knees and elbows, the looks of pure joy coupled with moans and laughter puzzled him.

Through Thick and Thin, Rimsha is Out of Jail Today

The girl has been in custody since she was arrested in a poor Islamabad suburb more than two weeks ago...

(ISLAMABAD, Pakistan) - Yesterday Pakistani Judge Muhammad Azam Khan granted bail and today his court issued a release order accepting two sureties bonds of Rs. 5,00,000/- each for a Christian girl Rimsha, who had been accused of blasphemy.

Rimsha was released from Central Jail, Adaial Rawalpindi, where she had been kept under detention for couple of weeks, and flown to safe place in a government helicopter.

The Night An Unscripted Moment of Democracy Surprised the Democrats

What they could not dispose of was the image of AIPAC once again playing the tune to which the Democrats willingly dance.

(CHICAGO) - To have seen it, you had to be watching either a public or a cable network. You also had to be watching closely.

Otherwise, early Tuesday evening in the Democratic National Convention, you missed an ever-so fleeting unscripted moment of democracy at work.

Obama Surrenders Again on Palestine but Will he Benefit?

The whole spectacle also damaged the Democratic Party which since the 1960’s has championed voter’s rights.

(BEIRUT Al Manar) - As a former law professor President Obama knows something about international law and US constitutional law which he taught at the University of Chicago.

He hurt his campaign on 12/5/12 by ordering the Democratic Party to summarily change earlier a twice debated and unanimously adopted plank of the Democratic Platform on the subject of the status of Jerusalem.

44 Cows Dead After Being Struck by Semi Trucks on Hwy 97

When you see an animal/wildlife near or on the roadway, reduce your speed and following distance and try to stay in your lane.

(MADRAS, OR) - Forty-four (44) cows died Thursday night after most were struck by five different commercial trucks along Highway 97 about 14 miles north of Madras. Oregon State Police (OSP) troopers are completing the investigation and no drivers were injured.

Most of the cattle were dead at the scene and any remaining injured cattle were put down by their owner. OSP and ODOT employees worked with R2 Ranch to remove the dead cattle from the highway.

Medical Marijuana for PTSD: Oregonian Newspaper Promotes Pot???

The Oregonian vilifies “sympathetic doctors”. Well there have been about 3,500 marijuana sympathetic doctors out of 8000 doctors in Oregon.

(PORTLAND, OR) - I couldn’t believe the latest spate of The Oregonian newspaper diatribes about medical marijuana (wolves in sheep’s clothing), I can see that The Oregonian and all of its minions are disregarding all medical science facts and figures in favor of the “Reefer Madness” and “Devil Weed” movies of the 1930’s.

For Shame!!!

Streamcourse.com Ready to Go LIVE With The Classic Golf Club, Spanaway

A local company takes golfing high-tech.

(Spanaway, WA) - Streamcourse.com provides immediate high-definition streaming video of each hole on the course.

Israeli Leaders Score Own Goal Over Non-Aligned Summit in Iran

Uri Avnery argues that the Israeli premier’s and defence minister’s reactions to the UN and Egyptian leaders’ participation in the Tehran non-aligned summit demonstrate their ideological fixations, mental outlook and low intelligence.

(TEL AVIV Redress) - Nothing could be more scary than the thought that this duo – Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak – is in a position to start a war, the dimensions and outcome of which are incalculable.

It’s scary not only because of their ideological fixations and mental outlook, but also because of the level of their intelligence.