Kosher Food Plant Manufacturing Meth (JTA)

(Oy Vey!)

Feds: Drugs made at kosher meat plant

Published: 05/13/2008

Federal authorities charged that a methamphetamine laboratory was operating at the nation's largest kosher slaughterhouse and that employees carried weapons to work. The charges were among the most explosive details to emerge following the massive raid Monday at Agriprocessors in Postville, Iowa. In a 60-page application for a search warrant, federal agents revealed details of their six-month probe of Agriprocessors. The investigation involved 12 federal agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the departments of labor and agriculture...

[MORE: http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108541.html]

2 die in Somalia riot over food prices (IHT)

Reuters, The Associated Press

Published: May 5, 2008

MOGADISHU, Somalia: Soldiers opened fire and killed at least two people and wounded several others Monday as tens of thousands of people protested in the Somali capital against high food prices. Poor weather, high fuel costs and rising demand have contributed to rising prices of rice and other staple foods in much of the world. But in Africa, prices of some staples have increased more than 50 percent over the past few weeks...

[MORE: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/05/africa/somalia.php]

US dockworkers’ union holds eight-hour work stoppage to protest Iraq war (WSWS)

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) carried out an eight-hour work stoppage at West Coast ports on May 1 to demand an end to the war in Iraq.
The work action halted activity at 29 ports from San Diego, California to Washington State.

According to both the ILWU and the employers’ organization, the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA), 25,000 dockworkers represented by the union did not report to work for the first shift on Thursday, shutting down the country’s principal gateway for cargo container traffic from the Far East. In the course of a typical work shift, some 10,000 containers are loaded and unloaded from ships docked at West Coast ports...

[MORE: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/dock-m02.shtml]

Happy May Day

Today is International Worker's Day, the REAL 'Labor Day'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_day

Fraudbama Thinks General Betrayus Is Just Dandy (WSWS)

Obama vows to back Bush’s war commander

By Bill Van Auken
29 April 2008

Democratic presidential front-runner Senator Barack Obama said on Sunday he would endorse Bush’s nominee to direct US military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout a region extending from North Africa to Central Asia. The pledge, made on the “Fox News Sunday” program, while predictable, serves nonetheless to thoroughly expose the antiwar pretenses of Obama and the Democratic Party as a whole.
Obama was asked by Fox’s Chris Wallace: “Senator, this week President Bush named David Petraeus, the commander of US forces in Iraq, to be the head of Central Command.... Will you vote to confirm his nomination?”
Obama responded, “Yes. I think Petraeus has done a good tactical job in Iraq..."

[MORE: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/apr2008/obam-a29.shtml]

UN Calls For Aid To Farmers Amid Food Crisis

Help farmers in developing world now to grow food, ease global crisis: FAO

12 hours ago

FRANKFURT, Germany — Farmers in developing countries need help right now before they can grow more crops to ease the global food crisis, the head of the United Nations food agency said Thursday.
"The facts are clear," said Jacques Diouf, leader of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization. "One, we need to provide food and money so that people have something to eat and to lower the cost for the poor people so that they are getting access to food," Diouf said in an interview.
"Two, we help farmers to get access to what they need to be able to produce."
Farmers in developing countries must have immediate access to more seeds, fertilizers and animal feed for the 2008 growing season.
"If we do not help the farmers this season, the problem will worsen," he said...

[MORE: http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gLOg90ERQJNUgvHjPtJgJmnHJv9g]

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