Teen Girls Missing For Two Years Found on Minnesota Farm

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Two Minnesota girls who were reported missing in 2013 amid a custody battle between their parents were found on a farm Wednesday, authorities said.
The Lakeville Police Department said in a statement that Samantha and Gianna Rucki, ages 16 and 17, were found after authorities from the U.S. Marshals and Grant County Sheriff’s Department executed a search warrant Wednesday afternoon.
The sisters “were found safe and in seemingly good health,” police said.
The girls were found on a horse farm, in Herman, Minn, Fox9.com reported.
Authorities told Fox9 they suspect an underground support group has been helping to hide the girls since they were reported missing.

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Minnesota girls reported missing in 2013 found on farm
Published November 18, 2015

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Misguided Fear-Based Policies May Repeat Genocide of Nazi Germany

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BEFORE he fired the shot, the Einsatzgruppe commander lifted the Jewish child in the air and said, “You must die so that we can live.” As the killing proceeded, other Germans rationalized the murder of Jewish children in the same way: them or us.
Today we think of the Nazi Final Solution as some dark apex of high technology. It was in fact the killing of human beings at close range during a war for resources. The war that brought Jews under German control was fought because Hitler believed that Germany needed more land and food to survive and maintain its standard of living — and that Jews, and their ideas, posed a threat to his violent expansionist program.
[. . .]
To expand Germany’s Lebensraum, Hitler aimed to seize Ukraine from the Soviet Union, starve 30 million Eastern Europeans and transfer the food to Germany. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the campaign had two major aims: the control of fertile Ukrainian soil and the destruction of Jews living there. It was this invasion that placed defenseless Jewish children at the mercy of the murderous Einsatzgruppen.
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The mass murder of at least 500,000 Rwandans in 1994 followed a decline in agricultural production for several years before. Hutus killed Tutsis not only out of ethnic hatred, but to take their land, as many genocidaires later admitted.
In Sudan, drought drove Arabs into the lands of African pastoralists in 2003. The Sudanese government sided with the Arabs and pursued a policy of eliminating the Zaghawa, Masalit and Fur peoples in Darfur and surrounding regions.
[. . .]
The Chinese leadership already regards Africa as a long-term source of food. Although many Africans themselves still go hungry, their continent holds about half of the world’s untilled arable land. Like China, the United Arab Emirates and South Korea are interested in Sudan’s fertile regions — and they have been joined by Japan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia in efforts to buy or lease land throughout Africa.
Nations in need of land would likely begin with tactfully negotiated leases or purchases; but under conditions of stress or acute need, such agrarian export zones could become fortified colonies, requiring or attracting violence.
[. . .]



economic migrants and war refugees are making perilous journeys to flee to Europe. In response, European populists have called for the strict enforcement of national borders and the end of the union. Many of these populist parties are supported by Russia, which is openly pursuing a divide-and-conquer policy with the aim of bringing about European disintegration.
[. . .]
It is not difficult to imagine ethnic mass murder in Africa, which has already happened; or the triumph of a violent totalitarian strain of Islamism in the parched Middle East; or a Chinese play for resources in Africa or Russia or Eastern Europe that involves removing the people already living there;
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/opinion/sunday/the-next-genocide.html?_r=0

The Next GenocideBy TIMOTHY SNYDER
SEPT. 12, 2015

Fifteen Unarmed Buffaloes Killed After Escape From Upstate New York Farm

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They escaped Thursday from a farm across the Hudson River in the Rensselaer County town of Schodack. The owner believes they swam across the river to the town of Bethlehem, where they wandered across a busy stretch of Interstate 87 and into neighboring Coeymans.
[. . .]
Thomas Gallagher, a Cornell Cooperative Extension large animal expert who has worked with GEM and who consulted with authorities Friday, said tranquilizers are not effective against buffaloes because of their thick hides and doses need to be so high they are generally lethal.

http://nypost.com/2015/04/24/buffalo-herd-shot-and-killed-after-escaping-farm-near-albany/

15 escaped buffaloes slaughtered in ‘Wild, Wild West’ scene
By Associated Press
New York Post
April 24, 2015 | 5:02pm

Zimbabwe Resumes Threats Against White Farmers

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Most of Zimbabwe's white farmers were stripped of their land in often violent evictions that started in 2000. Now the remaining white farmers are on edge because of threats of new evictions linked to the country's long-running political turmoil.
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However, human rights advocate and political analyst Gabriel Shumba said that linking the evictions to the Mujuru faction "is just political expediency by those seeking to evict them." Shumba said, "White farmers are caught up because they are in possession of an asset that is in demand."
[. . .]
There are fewer than 300 white farmers out of the original total of 4,500, according to the Commercial Farmers Union. The land eviction program that targeted white farmers starting in 2000 was defended by Mugabe as necessary to correct land imbalances dating from the era of white rule, though the upheaval was blamed for mismanagement of Zimbabwe's once rich agricultural economy.

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Zimbabwe's white farmers face threats of new evictions
By FARAI MUTSAKA
January 27, 2015

Organic Farming In Dense Urban Areas

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Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut has designed a futuristic self-sustaining, twin-towered high- rise complex that would bring organic farming right to the heart of the New York City.
The 132-floor urban farm has been aptly named “Dragonfly” for its unique glass-and-steel wings that stretch into the sky, according to AFP. Designed to be built on Roosevelt Island --a narrow strip of land in New York City's East River-- the complex would provide urban farming space with enough room to raise cattle and poultry and 28 different types of crops.

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The Dragonfly: A high rise farm of the future
Published January 27, 2014

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Drones Used in Louisiana To Kill Feral Pigs

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His aircraft is worth about $2,000 whereas the camera attached can cost upwards of $10,000 and beyond.
He recoups some of that money by charging a kill rate on the amount of pigs he kills, which is $25 per pig.
'Whoever’s got the most pigs and the most money, that’s where we’ll be.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2519899/The-boar-war-Hunters-using-DRONES-high-power-firearms--kill-pigs-Americas-deep-south.html

The boar war: Hunters using DRONES and high-power firearms... to kill pigs in America's deep south
Louisiana Hog Control track pigs with thermal imaging camera on a plane
While an operator flies the aircraft hunters on the ground follow directions
Feral pigs cause billions of dollars worth of damage to crop fields ever year
By AARON SHARP
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 11:58 EST, 7 December 2013 | UPDATED: 12:14 EST, 7 December 2013

Unintended Consequences of Government Ethanol Programs

Farmer Leroy Perkins stands in his field of grass which is part of the Conservation Reserve Program near Corydon, Iowa. Perkins must make a decision to either leave the highly erodible field in grass or break ground to plant corn which is at high prices in part because of the ethanol mandate.
Photo: AP

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Agriculture companies like Monsanto Co. and DuPont Pioneer, which stood to make millions off an ethanol boom, told the government those numbers were too low.
They predicted that genetically modified seeds — which they produce — would send yields skyrocketing. With higher yields, farmers could produce more corn on less land, reducing the environmental effects.
Documents show the White House budget office also suggested the EPA raise its yield assumptions.
When the final rule came out, the EPA and Agriculture officials added a new “high yield case scenario” that assumed 230 bushels per acre.
The flaw in those assumptions, independent scientists knew, was that a big increase in corn prices would encourage people to farm in less hospitable areas like Wayne County, which could never produce such large yields.
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When Congress passed the ethanol mandate, it required the EPA to thoroughly study the effects on water and air pollution. In his recent speech to ethanol lobbyists, Vilsack was unequivocal about those effects:
“There is no question air quality, water quality is benefiting from this industry,” he said.
But the administration never actually conducted the required air and water studies to determine whether that’s true.
In an interview with the AP after his speech, Vilsack said he didn’t mean that ethanol production was good for the air and water. He simply meant that gasoline mixed with ethanol is cleaner than gasoline alone.
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In the Midwest, meanwhile, scientists and conservationists are sounding alarms.
Nitrogen fertilizer, when it seeps into the water, is toxic. Children are especially susceptible to nitrate poisoning, which causes “blue baby” syndrome and can be deadly.

http://nypost.com/2013/11/12/the-secret-dirty-cost-of-obamas-green-power-push/

The secret, dirty cost of Obama’s green power push
By Associated Press
November 12, 2013 | 8:58am

Locusts Invade Madagascar

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21955740

27 March 2013 Last updated at 12:50 ET
Madagascar hit by 'severe' plague of locusts
BBC

Eating and Farming Eggs

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-20/egg-recall-the-truth-about-industrial-farming/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsL1

9 Reasons to Beware Eggs

by The Daily Beast

August 20, 2010
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