[Lancaster Patriot] Three Pennsylvania State Troopers and seven other individuals spent several hours inside a building on Amos Miller’s Lancaster County farm while conducting a search on Jan. 4, 2024, eventually leaving with multiple coolers containing Miller’s property.
Attempts were made by The Lancaster Patriot to enter the facility during the search, but a Pennsylvania State Trooper said, "we’re conducting a search warrant inside this building right now," and told the reporter to leave the building until the search was completed.
The search was conducted by employees of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, with Pennsylvania State Police offering assistance as needed.
A search warrant was issued on Jan. 3, 2024, by Magisterial District Judge B. Denise Commins and included an affidavit of probable cause completed by Sheri Morris, Acting Bureau Director of Food Safety with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.
The affidavit referenced incidents involving Miller’s products dating back to 2016, with the latest including the claim that on Dec. 19, 2023, Morris was informed "by the NY state Department of Health of a confirmed positive case of a foodborne pathogen (STEC — Shiga toxin producing E. Coli) in an underage individual" who had allegedly consumed products from Miller’s private buying club. On Dec. 28, 2023, Morris was allegedly notified about a similar incident in Michigan.
In the affidavit, Morris contends that Miller has not filed for applications from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture "for registration, licensing, or permitting under the pertinent Retail Food Facility Safety Act, Food Safety Act, or Milk Sanitation Laws."
A report of seized property provided to Miller after the search was conducted listed 37 items, including sour cream, chocolate milk, ice cream, and eggnog.
A notice affixed to a walk-in cooler door stated that the food in the cooler "has been detained by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture pursuant to Section 5726(a) of the Food Safety Act." The notice states that the food "may be adulterated or misbranded and shall be detained." The notice states that it is "unlawful to remove the food from the premises or to dispose of it without approval of the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture."
Removal or disposal of "a detained or embargoed food article" is a criminal and civil offense.
The cooler contains hundreds of items and represents a large portion of Miller’s products.
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The big bad GIVERnment power making an example of a small farmer. These same busy body GIVERnment food agencies allow massive pig, chicken and cow farms to have up to 10% of production infected with germs and stuffed full of antibiotics. This is about power and nothing to do about safety
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I am struck by the consequences of the past ten years and the overwhelming and widespread proof of government corruption, malfeasance and selective justice across the nation. I wonder how many of us now presume after an initial look that this is about suppressing the business success of Amish Farmers in Pennsylvania against corporate demokrat donors and patrons rather than government actually doing its job impartially? Whatever the truth is, that was certainly my first inclination. Once trust is destroyed, it is hard to return to it!
[UPI] -- A third round of documents from a lawsuit connected to Jeffrey Epstein was made public Friday.
The unsealed documents are from a now settled 2015 civil lawsuit filed by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claimed Epstein sexually abused her when she was a minor. The lawsuit also named Epstein's girlfriend and longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
Among the documents released Friday was a list of witnesses Maxwell's attorneys said might have information that could dispute some of Giuffre's accusations.
The latest release also includes excerpts from witness depositions; a list of phone numbers of vendors and service people; several communications between attorneys; and about 50 pages of handwritten phone messages from Epstein's message book.
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Political fratricide withing the demokrat party, as the Lightbringer's minions allow the negatives on Billy Jeff's libido some subnlight to impact the Clintonista's moves to shadow-in with the Puppet Show?
[Telegraph also at Yahoo] Mike Sadler, who has died aged 103, was a former MI6 officer and an honorary member of "the Originals", as men of L Detachment of the early SAS are known. He was believed to be the last survivor of the Long Range Desert Group or LRDG, without which the fledgling SAS might not have thrived. He also has a piece of the Antarctic named after him.
The origin of Sadler’s adventurous career was a pupil in his prep school who had been brought up in Africa and entertained his fellows with adventure stories. Intrigued, Sadler left school in 1937 to work on a farm in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
When the Second World War broke out in 1939, he joined a Rhodesian Army artillery unit equipped with howitzers from India’s North-West Frontier. Despite not being strong at maths or geometry at school, he took a keen interest in the angles of fire needed to engage distant targets, and was disappointed when his unit converted to an anti-tank role "where you could look through a telescope straight ahead".
[AFRICANEWS] The powerful Catholic bishops conference and Protestant churches in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... (DRC) have demanded an independent inquiry be opened into irregularities and alleged legal violations observed during December general elections.
The presidential election won by incumbent Felix Tshisekedi with more than 73% according to CENI the central African nation's election commission has been met with controversy..
In a joint statement on Thursday, the CENCO-ECC Catholic and Protestant churches said the results of the presidential and legislative vote would only be acceptable if an inquiry was set up. The groups had monitored the polls with their thousands of independent observers on and after election day.
Hours-long delays, malfunctioning machines, and other issues led to an unscheduled extension of voting beyond Dec. 20 - something local observers and civil society organizations have called illegal — and parts of the country were still casting ballots five days after election day.
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That may be a Disney request to keep Amber Heard too busy to comment on the film.
Came across something, and I still have it in the rumor pile, that a bunch (100-200) of old Leopards 'got found' and were slated for Ukraine but the only player on the team who still uses that retired ammo is South Korea; anyone here anything about this?
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Skor make their own tanks. They used US prior. Now their old M1* copy may have used a Rheinmetal tube which would account for the ammo type. * initial models of the M1 were equipped with 105mm guns.
Article hints that the Uke's no longer have confidence in Leopards and are even adding ERA (Explosive Reactive Armor) to the Abrams.
"The Germans, meanwhile, say that Ukraine no longer has any operational Leopard series 2 tanks; those that were broken down or salvaged from the battlefield have been sent off to Estonia for repairs.But Estonia does not have spare parts to fix them, so they are rusting in marshalling yards."
[Self-Reliance Center] Amazon sent an email to millions of Prime Video users last Wednesday to inform them that advertising will appear on the streaming platform starting next month unless they pay an additional subscription fee.
Amazon’s Prime Video will start including "limited advertisements" on its movies and TV shows beginning January 29.
It appears that the annual subscription with free Prime streaming access is not being honored — the Bezos-owned giant is arbitrarily introducing ads at the end of the month. People are ticked and have started to unsubscribe. The hook that Amazon has is free shipping on Prime account orders. This just looks like a way to make another $2.99 from members who prefer uninterrupted movies.
Having forced millions of Gen X and Z users to ditch cable, they are recreating it in a directly delivered form.
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That is what pissed me off. I pay NOT to see commercials. If they just sent me an email that said, "Due to rising costs and inflation, we are increasing the cost by $2.99 a month, I wouldn't have given a shit. But they say "Oh, we are putting in commercials and you can opt out for $3 a month really pissed me off.
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I think Darth has it; this is about conditioning customers.
I'm going to say it again, especially for the youngsters.
Streaming content means you are paying someone to rent back your purchase. If you don't have a copy, you don't have a copy.
Since nobody has seen the movie Moose, I'll pull another example. Jurassic Park 2. In the original the little girl on the beach gets attacked and as the mother screams, the film transitions to Malcolm on a subway. Its actually a great transition. Today, the scream transitions to a lawyer yawning and a over long lawsuit scene which is bland and pointless, and a creation scene for the safari man which is unnecessary and kind of dumb. People who bought the original to stream, now have the new and crappy version. DVD owners, at the moment technology wise, have and keep the better version.
*Moose is a campy, quirky movie and the original was fun. They went through and changed some cuts and most importantly, changed the music, which changed the ambiance, which ruined the atmosphere IMHO, and haven't watched it since. I paid for a movie I liked, now I have a movie I don't like.
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^ Never discussed is that there is nothing "green" about streaming, except for the green being sucked out of your pocket.
An Amazon or Dizney datacenter is a poor substitute for a stand-alone blu-ray player, energy use wise.
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I quit Amazon Prime a year ago. They promised free shipping but when I went to check-out shipping was always included. I complained but never got an answer as to why. Piss on Amazon.
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I gotta say that the Amazon Prime service (I'm not a member/subscriber) taps in to the fast-food, "gotta have it now" mentality of some Americans. There's absolutely nothing I order from Amazon (1-3 orders per year) that I absolutely need within
immediately.
I don't and NEVER will use Alexa, either.
I cancelled my Internet/cable TV bundle 18 months ago (kept Internet)...$200 per month for the most basic of packages and rising. Some of that rise was courtesy of some government jurisdiction raising "fees".
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Anybody remember VHS recorders? Looks like Amazon still sells them. Your record the movie and fast forward through the commercials. Technically, you should be able to do that with the cable company's DVR as well but AFIK you can't get the file off the DVR. Somebody needs to start working on that if they haven't already.
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^ Healthy hacking community devoted to that.
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[FOX video, CNN story below] The US Supreme Court said Friday it will review the Colorado Supreme Court’s unprecedented decision removing former President Donald Trump from that state’s ballot.
The court scheduled oral arguments for February 8.
Trump remains on the primary ballot as the lower-court ruling disqualifying him has been put on hold pending Supreme Court action. If the justices do conclude Trump is ineligible for public office, then any votes cast for him wouldn’t count.
The high court’s decision to hear the case puts the nine justices squarely in the middle of the 2024 election as voting starts in the early primary contests and represents the court’s most significant involvement in a presidential race since its highly consequential decision 23 years ago in Bush v. Gore."
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The most pessimistic folks I know believe that this will be at worst 7-2 for Trump. The problem is that no matter what gets decided, it's on: when the court finds for Trump, the Left will go absolutely bugshiat insane and declare SCOTUS 'illegitimate', and anything less than a unanimous, ringing finding for Trump will be seen by many (if not a majority) on the Right as 'the fix being in'.
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No, not true. The supreme court said they would hear it and decide, and the date for that discission is one month after the printing deadline. Which was yesterday, So Trump will be on it no matter what the court says they can do.
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Just dumb luck that more of the justices aren't like Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson. It's too bad we have to rely on luck instead of the Constitution.
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But then there's Roberts too which is not a comforting feeling.
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Good to know it’s just normal Indian inter-ethnic nonsense in Manipur, not specifically related to Jew hate and the October 7 Hamas war.
[IsraelTimes] Crossed wires during a Knesset committee meeting may have led to a misunderstanding, say community leaders, stressing that their situation is dire enough without exaggerating it.
Members of the Bnei Menashe Jewish community are rejecting an Israeli parliamentary report that a missile strike in northeast India killed seven community members this week. The news spread rapidly on Tuesday after Israel’s Knesset Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs put out a blurb announcing the deaths, following a meeting about potentially jumpstarting efforts by the Bnei Menashe to move to Israel amid ethnic tensions in the Manipur region of India. It cited Tzvi Khaute, director of the Bnei Menashe in Israel for the nonprofit Shavei Israel, as saying that the community urgently needed permission to immigrate, or make aliyah, and that it had "buried seven people who were killed as a result of a bomb falling next to the synagogue."
But Khaute did not make that comment in a video of the hearing reviewed by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. A Bnei Menashe member in India offered a different account of violence near a local synagogue. And the information about the deaths was false, the Bnei Menashe Council in India said in a blurb Wednesday.
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[Rudaw] The Iraqi army on Thursday raided the houses of some Kurds residing in a Kirkuk neighborhood, attempting to forcibly replace them with Arabs despite efforts by Kurdish officials in Baghdad to resolve the issue.
A total of 172 families, mostly Kurds, reside in Kirkuk city’s Newroz neighborhood’s 122 houses. They recently told Rudaw that they fear they might be forced out of their homes as the Iraqi army plans to turn the neighborhood into a military base.
The army, which has been present in the neighborhood for days, began forcibly expelling some families on Thursday, locals told Rudaw.
At least three people were arrested by the army for resisting the eviction attempts.
A Kurdish man told Rudaw’s Hardi Mohammed that the army had "attacked" Kurdish residents of the neighborhood with the aim of replacing them with Arabs.
"This is like Anfal," he said, referring to the massacre of over 182,000 Iraqi Kurds by the Baath regime decades ago. He called on Kurdish officials and politicians to rush to their aid.
"They take our people into humvees and beat them," claimed the elderly man.
Another Kurd, whose brother is among the arrested, told Rudaw that the army did not have any documents from the court legitimizing the raids it carried out.
"They forcibly expelled Kurds only because they are Kurds," said another local.
They refused to leave their houses. "We are not leaving here. This is the place of our ancestors," said one of them.
Iraq’s Justice Minister Khalid Shwani, a Kurd, told Rudaw over the phone that he has spoken to relevant authorities in Baghdad to resolve the issue.
"I spoke with the prime minister [Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... i]. I also sent him footage [of the expulsion]. I told him that these violations are unacceptable and are a grave attack on Newroz residents," he said, adding that the defense minister has ordered the force currently stationed in Newroz to withdraw from the neighbourhood.
According to Rudaw news hounds on the ground the withdrawal has now been seen through.
The houses in the Newroz neighborhood were previously inhabited by members of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath party. After the fall of the regime, Kurdish families from Kirkuk who had been displaced to other parts of the country, returned to the neighborhood and took up residence in those houses.
Paul Bremer, the administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority which oversaw Iraq after 2003, issued a decree to register these houses as property of the finance ministry.
A decree issued by the former Kirkuk provincial council granted the families the right to remain in the houses until the federal government provided them with compensation.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] A Rockwell B-1B Lancer strategic bomber crashed in South Dakota on January 4, the Associated Press (AP) reported, citing a statement from the US Air Force.
“A B-1 Lancer crashed today at approximately 17:50 (January 5 at 2:50 Moscow time) while trying to land on the installation. At the time of the disaster, he was on a training flight. There were four crew members on board. All four ejected safely,” the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Air Force Base said in a statement.
It is noted that at the time of the incident the state had poor visibility, low clouds and sub-zero temperatures.
The military command initiated an investigation into the causes of the incident.
ABOUT THE BOMBER
The supersonic strategic bomber B-1 Lancer was developed as a carrier of nuclear weapons to replace the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress by Rockwell International in the 70-80s of the last century. It entered service with the US Air Force in July 1985, but in the 1990s the developers decided to equip the model with conventional weapons.
Today there are three modifications of the bomber. B-1A, B-1B and B-1R, which is still under development. It was the B-1B Lancer that crashed in South Dakota, the distinctive feature of which was the introduction of the ACES II ejection seat system, allowing each crew member to escape separately.
Fewer than 60 of the 100 B-1B bombers remain in service at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas and Ellsworth Air Force Base.
In the spring of 2021, US authorities announced plans to completely phase out the use of the B-1 Lancer by 2036.
RECENT INCIDENTS INVOLVING US AIR FORCE AIRCRAFT
Last year, during a Korean-American exercise on the morning of December 11, an American F-16 fighter jet crashed while taking off from the Osan base. It was clarified that the pilot managed to escape in an emergency.
Before this, at the end of November, an American Osprey tiltrotor crashed into the sea near Kanoshima Prefecture in Japan. The crash site was reported to be about 2 to 4 kilometers from Yakushima Airport. Later, Japanese rescuers discovered the wreckage of a tiltrotor that had crashed into the sea . Then a helicopter heading to the search site noticed from the sky what appeared to be the wreckage of an Osprey. Shortly afterwards, Japanese Coast Guard divers discovered the remains of five crew members at the crash site.
Before this, an American reconnaissance plane ended up in the water off the coast of Hawaii after skidding off the runway. Then the military plane was partially in the water. There were nine people on board, all of them received minor injuries and were able to make it to shore.
The incident occurred with a Boeing P8 Poseidon aircraft intended for surveillance and patrol.
In addition, on November 10, an aircraft crashed during a training flight over the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The flight of the American military was carried out solely for training purposes; there were no indications of hostile actions.
It is believed that the crash occurred during a “routine refueling” in the air.
Later, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that five US military personnel were killed as a result of the emergency.
In April 2023, two US Air Force helicopters crashed near the village of Healy in the US state of Alaska. Each AH-64 Apache carried two people on board during the training mission. Three US military personnel were killed as a result of the incident.
THE PROBLEM OF PILOT QUALIFICATIONS
In early December, the American publication The National Interest wrote that the training of military pilots poses a threat to the security of the United States.
“In the absence of strict standards, the combat readiness of the US Air Force has fallen to an all-time low. At the same time, the generals are only concerned with how to divert public attention from these problems,” the authors of the material wrote.
The article noted the “unprecedented low qualifications of US Air Force military pilots.”
Moreover, American Air Force General Mark Kelly stated on September 26, 2022 that the depletion and overload of the US Air Force fighter fleet has become a serious problem. He explained that the US Air Force has 48 fighter squadrons and another nine attack squadrons, which consist of legacy A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft. At the same time, the command assigns tasks to military personnel that require 60 squadrons to complete. According to Kelly, it is not surprising that combat vehicles are literally exhausted from overload.
*The crew is warm safe, and dry, albeit likely in need of new underwear.
*We have an intact wreck in a fairly confined space with easy access.
*We have a team already in action, made up of capable, smart, and experienced professionals trying to figure out what the hell went wrong.
*There are several mothballed B-1s available at AMARC that can be brought back into service at a far, far lower cost than that of a new airframe. (It will take a year or two, but it's doable - a B-52 was brought back recently, and another B-1 is in process.)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Lancaster Patriot] Three Pennsylvania State Troopers and seven other individuals spent several hours inside a building on Amos Miller’s Lancaster County farm while conducting a search on Jan. 4, 2024, eventually leaving with multiple coolers containing Miller’s property.
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
[Regnum] A Rockwell 
