Rat-Infested Cities, Pest Control Industry Concerned With State Rat Poison Ban

Video at the link



California is moving toward an all-out rat poison ban statewide. AB-1788 cleared the State Assembly earlier this summer. But the problem with the ban is that some California cities are being overrun by rats. Kiet Do reports. (7-23-2019)



https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/4130667-rat-infested-cities-pest-control-industry-concerned-with-state-rat-poison-ban/

Christian Students Descend on California Capitol to Declare God’s Name

If you have a voice, it's time to stand up and be heard, before they won't let you, or you can't

The West Coast Baptist College Choir filmed a gloriously moving music video on the grounds of the California state capital in Sacramento. We posted the video at the bottom of this story.
“Nothing ever can, Nothing ever will overcome the Lord our God,” the students sang as they raised their voices to the Almighty.
The song is quite fitting considering the attacks on religious liberty and freedom in the Golden State.
It is incredibly encouraging and comforting to know there are Christian young people who are willing to stand and be counted. They boldly declared their allegiance to God.

California passes resolution defining criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism

Hit the link, it's actually worse than the part I clipped reads



Last month, the California State Assembly passed a resolution urging state educational institutions to more aggressively crack down on criticism of the State of Israel on campuses, which the resolution defines as “anti-Semitism.” The anti-democratic resolution is the latest step in the broader campaign to stifle and suppress dissent on California’s increasingly volatile campuses.

The California State Assembly is the lower house of the state legislature, consisting of 80 members. The resolution—H.R. 35: “Relative to anti-Semitism”—was passed by a vote of 66 to 80, including a majority of both Republicans and Democrats in the Assembly.

The resolution was drafted by Republican Linda Halderman and passed without public discussion. The vote on the resolution came when most students were between semesters and away from their campuses.

The resolution (available here) uses the classic trick employed by defenders of Israel’s Zionist regime: lumping together any criticism of the Israeli state’s policies or of the US government’s support for them with racist attacks on Jews.

On the one hand, the resolution denounces

GMO: The Secret the Food Industry Is Spending Millions to Keep

Big Agriculture and food companies are shelling out gobs of cash ahead of November's election to convince Californians to vote against a proposed law that would require businesses to label products that contain genetically modified organisms.

Proponents of Proposition 37 applaud the strict labeling requirements and say it will help consumers make better purchasing decisions. Opponents say that the labels are misleading and overly burdensome to food producers. Not only that, they claim, but compliance would be costly -- an expense that would likely drive up the price of goods in the grocery store

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Shouldn't the consumer be the one to decide what's to overly burdensome for them?
How is it misleading to say that this food is a product of GMO experimentation?
Does not the consumer have the right to deny the status of guinea pig over products that have never been tested for human consumption?

The money is behind the opposition, literally.

Prop 37's opponents include Monsanto (MON), PepsiCo (PEP), Coca-Cola (KO), Hershey (HSY), and Kellogg (K). Together these companies and other large agricultural concerns have already spent millions to fight the proposed labeling law.

Wake up America, it's time to back California's request for the requirements of Proposition 37.

But it's not just about labels; it's about setting a precedent.

Opponents aren't just worried that the law will drive California consumers away from their products. They also fear that the rest of the country will follow California's lead and give the anti-GMO movement traction in other states.

Washington State Joins the Movement for Public Banking

http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/washington-state-joins-movement-for-public-banking

Oh look, common sense seems to be catching on.
Here's hoping it spreads like wildfire.
It's the only sane thing left to do to save "our" collective and individual selves.
Cut out the middle man



Bills were introduced on January 18 in both the House and Senate of the Washington State Legislature that add Washington to the growing number of states now actively moving to create public banking facilities.

The bills, House Bill 1320 and Senate Bill 5238, propose creation of a Washington Investment Trust (WIT) to “promote agriculture, education, community development, economic development, housing, and industry” by using “the resources of the people of Washington State within the state.”

Currently, all the state’s funds are deposited with Bank of America. HB 1320 proposes that, in the future, “all state funds be deposited in the Washington Investment Trust and be guaranteed by the state and used to promote the common good and public benefit of all the people and their businesses within [the] state.”

The legislation is similar to that now being studied or proposed in states including Illinois, Virginia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, Florida, Michigan, Oregon, California and others.

A fatal collision and a large pothole closed freeways

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/02/fatal-collision-and-pothole-close-freeways.html

That must be a hell of a pothole.
The pothole was reported on Saturday and this article was written on Sunday and Caltran has no estimate on when the freeway will reopen.

On the Santa Ana (101) Freeway, southbound lanes just north of East 1st Street were closed after a pothole was reported at 11:55 p.m. Saturday, according to the CHP. The depression measured 4 feet in diameter and was about 6 inches deep, Carter said. No injuries were reported, but 20 to 25 vehicles were stranded on the right shoulder with flat tires, Carter said.

Caltrans was working to repair the pothole, but there was no estimate of when the freeway would reopen, Carter said