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As Election Day nears, Romney crowds are surging

SIDNEY, Ohio (AP) — The crowds tell the story. As Election Day nears, Mitt Romney is drawing large and excited throngs.

Look to dusty Iowa cornfields, rain-soaked Virginia parks, the muddy fields of the Shelby County Fairgrounds, where a crowd of 9,500 – almost half of this western Ohio town – gathered among the barns and stables on a frigid October evening this week to glimpse the Republican presidential contender….

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_REPUBLICANS_ENTHUSIASM

Thirteen tips to make your home a “fortress”

From LewRockwell.com:

If you live in suburbia, security starts from the inside out. Your home should be a fortress, although not so blatantly that it catches the attention of casual passers-by, making them wonder, “What’s in there?” Some simple updates can harden your domicile against intruders.

- Doors should be sturdy and steel core. The frame around the door is equally important. Even the strongest door will not hold up to a [...]

Thefts of hay bales skyrocket in drought-stricken Texas

GRAPEVINE (CBSDFW.COM) – If the drought wasn’t enough for farmers and ranchers to struggle with, now they are facing a growing threat. Thieves are targeting pastures and barns for suddenly valuable hay bales.

It’s the nature of ranchers like James Lockridge to give you something if you need it badly enough. “Come up and ask us. Surely we can work something out.”

Mitch Waters runs a feed [...]

Mark Bittman on Proposed Big-Farm Film Ban: “The System is Already Gagged”

Bittman has a great column this week about the ridiculous proposed laws to ban filming and photography at farms. Animal rights and sustainable food activists have embarrassed corporate farms by publishing footage of how corporate farms actually treat animals, and the disgusting and cruel conditions that they maintain (the footage is often shot by brave employees of the farm who are offended by what they [...]

TORNADO HITS FARM: 40,000 TURKEYS ‘RUN AMOK’

ALLEGAN COUNTY (WWJ) – Folks in Western Michigan’s Allegan County are thankful that no one was killed following a vicious tornado that swept through their area on Tuesday night.

The National Weather Service confirmed the twister touched down, causing damage to the Deboer Turkey Farm and trailers in the area.

Kyle Windemuller, co-owner of Windscapes Landscaping in Allegan County, said although his business was also damaged in the twister, he’s thankful [...]

Japanese Revisit Nuclear Zone While They Can

From NYT:

OKUMA, Japan — Residents who lived near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant flocked to the area on Thursday ahead of a midnight evacuation deadline imposed by the government.

While they were greeted by the buckling roads and collapsed houses familiar to many Japanese in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that wrought such destruction here on March 11, they faced the added burden that dangerous radiation levels [...]

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As Election Day nears, Romney crowds are surging

Thirteen tips to make your home a “fortress”

Thefts of hay bales skyrocket in drought-stricken Texas

Mark Bittman on Proposed Big-Farm Film Ban: “The System is Already Gagged”

TORNADO HITS FARM: 40,000 TURKEYS ‘RUN AMOK’

Japanese Revisit Nuclear Zone While They Can

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