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Track where oil train derailed was inspected day before fiery accident

grandforksherald.com

by Mike Nowatzki

May 8, 2015

Railroad tracks where an oil train derailed Wednesday in central North Dakota had been inspected by BNSF Railway a day earlier and by the Federal Railroad Administration...

Teams from the FRA and National Transportation Safety Board continued their investigations Friday at the site just east of Heimdal where six oil tanker cars derailed Wednesday morning, spawning a fire and smoke plume that forced the town's 25 residents and two nearby farmsteads to evacuate. An NTSB spokesman said its four investigators were expected to be there through the weekend.

Rawhide Meats: County ranchers represented with new storefront

uniondemocrat.com

by Lacey Peterson

May 1, 2015

Rawhide Meats, Tuolumne County's longtime meat processing business, has opened a new storefront in Jamestown.

Rawhide Meats is owned by a group of local cattle ranchers - Leslie Hurst and Corinne Macho of Table Mountain Beef, Tricia and Jack Gardella, Lettie Beeman, and brothers Dick and Bill Gaiser. Gus Sundborg founded the business in 1964. It was sold in 2006 to the current group of owners by Lyle and Bryan Barton.

Teen demands right to use medical marijuana in N.J. school, wants ban overturned

nj.com

by Susan K. Livio

May 1, 2015

The Barbours are suing for their daughter's right to use medicinal marijuana in school, while attorneys for the Maple Shade school district say doing so would run afoul of the law because marijuana is still considered a controlled dangerous substance.t

It's prompted a landmark legal battle that could reverberate in New Jersey and beyond. The Barbours are suing for their daughter's right to use medicinal marijuana in school, while attorneys for the Maple Shade school district say doing so would run afoul of the law because marijuana is still considered a controlled dangerous substance by the federal government with no medicinal value.

Residents in St Louis dying in record numbers from World War II radioactive waste

news.com.au

by Matt Young

April 30, 2015

IN 2011, residents across an American community in St Louis began to notice a chain of inexplicably high incidents of cancer and disease across its population.

For decades, both former and current residents from approximately 90 municipalities in the Missouri city were diagnosed with a long list of life-threatening illnesses, including leukaemia, lupus, brain tumours, appendix cancer, multiple sclerosis, birth defects and many more. People died. Babies died. And they're still dying to this day, dubbed "the poison children of Coldwater Creek."

Carmakers Want To Use Copyright Law To Make Working On Your Car Illegal

jalopnik.com

by Jason Torchinsky

April 26, 2015

You know what a pain those plastic engine covers are? How they get in the way and hide your own car's engine from you? Well, consider that black piece of molded plastic a metaphor for something much worse: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

We all know that working on and tinkering with a modern car is a very different undertaking than it has been previously. It's no longer just about putting on a new manifold and dual carbs, modern cars involve many, many computers, and working on your car usually means working with and talking to the computers embedded in the car.

Medical Police State: CA SB277 Mandatory Vaccines Pass Senate as Votes Rigged & Public Silenced

asheepnomore.net

April 24, 2015

After California's vaccine mandate bill SB277 was halted last week with an outcry of public outrage against it, the pro-vaccine mafia machine went to work. Democratic Sens. Ben Allen and Richard Pan helped pursue a vote rigging agenda.

That bill should have died in committee last Wednesday. Instead of taking a vote and letting it die, the bill gets postponed for a week so the author can work on amendments. It's currently scheduled as a "vote only item" Wednesday. That means no one in opposition will get to testify on whatever amendments the author proposes. How is that good government," asked Sylvia Pimentel, State Director of the Canary Party, and member of the California Coalition for Health Choice (CCHC).

Neil Young Doesn't Believe Monsanto's Got a Heart of Gold

takepart.com

by Jason Best

April 23, 2015

As if spring weren't already shaping up to be a dismal season for Monsanto, now the ag-tech giant has to contend with a full-fledged anti-GMO protest album.

Last week, Young and his band, Promise of the Real, performed a surprise concert at a microbrewery in San Luis Obispo, California; the set list reportedly featured songs that might appear on the album, including "Monsanto Years," "Seeds," "Too Big to Fail," and "Rock Starbucks," according to Rolling Stone.

Family Court Corruption: FBI a No-Show

thepublicslate.com

by Kuziak.S

April 22, 2015

Public Corruption-It's our top priority among criminal investigations-and for good reason. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) website, "Public corruption poses a fundamental threat to our national security and way of life."

They state that it impacts everything from the security of borders and neighborhoods to the quality of things like schools, government services and even roads. Then they mention public corruption even impacts "verdicts handed down in courts." They state that public corruption, costs Americans billions in tax dollars every year.

We Can't Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership

Wired.com

by Kyle Wiens

April 21, 2015

IT'S OFFICIAL: JOHN Deere and General Motors want to eviscerate the notion of ownership. Sure, we pay for their vehicles. But we don't own them. Not according to their corporate lawyers, anyway.

In a particularly spectacular display of corporate delusion, John Deere-the world's largest agricultural machinery maker - told the Copyright Office that farmers don't own their tractors. Because computer code snakes through the DNA of modern tractors, farmers receive "an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle." It's John Deere's tractor, folks. You're just driving it. Several manufacturers recently submitted similar comments to the Copyright Office under an inquiry into the Digital Millennium Copyright Act . DMCA is a vast 1998 copyright law that (among other things) governs the blurry line between software and hardware. The Copyright Office, after reading the comments and holding a hearing , will decide in July which high-tech devices we can modify, hack, and repair-and decide whether John Deere's twisted vision of ownership will become a reality.

Automakers to gearheads: Stop repairing cars

autoblog.com

by Pete Bigelow

April 20, 2015

Enjoy working on your car or having it repaired by independent mechanics? Car companies are using copyright law to try and prohibit those activities.

In comments filed with a federal agency that will determine whether tinkering with a car constitutes a copyright violation, OEMs and their main lobbying organization say cars have become too complex and dangerous for consumers and third parties to handle.

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