FFF.org | From what I can tell, the feds are going after Kahre for two main reasons, both of which appear to me to be ludicrous abuses of prosecutorial power. First, the feds are upset that Kahre paid his workers with gold and silver coins. Second, they’re upset that he treated his workers as independent contractors rather than as salaried employees.
SsentinelSource.com | Governments have historically feared change they don’t control. After all, government at its core is a group of men and women who are willing to use the threat of force — or actual force — to achieve their ends. They desire to control their neighbors be enforcing their laws upon them. What’s wrong for one neighbor to do to another, suddenly becomes justified and “necessary” if you get a group of friends together and call yourself a government.
Bakersfield.com | Whenever I'm in our local "health food" market I have a sense of frustration as I walk by the shelves of numerous hemp food products. Hemp growing is effectively banned by federal executive fiat, even as we import quantities of hemp from, mostly, Canada; in effect, this exports thousands of jobs, both agricultural and industrial. The hemp-products market is underdeveloped due to government interference -- an action based on ignorance supported by vested interests.
ScienceDaily.com - The inactivated flu vaccine does not appear to be effective in preventing influenza-related hospitalizations in children, especially the ones with asthma. In fact, children who get the flu vaccine are more at risk for hospitalization than their peers who do not get the vaccine, according to new research that will be presented on May 19, at the 105th International Conference of the American Thoracic Society in San Diego.
