A Mennonite Farmer is Hauled Away

On April 25, 2008, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Mark Nolt, a Wenger Mennonite (Horse and Buggy Mennonite) dairyman, threatened for months with arrest for selling raw milk without a permit was removed from his property by state troopers.

Jonas Stoltzfus, a friend, fellow farmer, and Church of the Brethen, was asked by Mr. Nolt to speak for him, and said of the raid yesterday - “Six state troopers and a man with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture trespassed onto his property, and stole $20-25,000 of his product and equipment.”

Mr. Stoltzfus explained that Mr. Nolt did not have a permit because “he chose to turn his permit back in because it did not cover all the products he was selling. He felt he was being dishonest selling stuff that was not covered by the permit. He is a man of great integrity.”

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Told by its protagonist ‘in the manner of the bards’, Ice Land is a lyrically written epic inspired by the beauty and history of that island, and the rich world of Norse mythology that infuses it. Intertwining the gods, giants and dwarves of the mythic poems, and the medieval prose stories of the Icelandic Sagas, Betsy Tobin spins a story of love and adventure under the shadow of the pregnant volcano Hekla.

Set in Iceland in 1000 ad, the novel counterpoints three narratives as they slowly interweave. Freya, warned by Fate of her people’s impending doom, must don her falcon suit and fly to Nidavellir, the cavernous land of the dwarves, in search of the golden necklace that has the power to change the course of history.

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THE Romans certainly knew how to build well.

Their discoveries, found in the winter but kept secret until now, were made while they were exploring the flint-and-brick wall that eventually replaced it.

http://kentonline.co.uk/news/default.asp?article_id=40451

MOUNT VERNON, Ohio — A public school district in Ohio says it has hired an independent investigator to look into allegations by parents that a teacher used an electrostatic device to burn crosses on to students’ arms.

The Mount Vernon City School District has assigned an administrator to monitor the classroom of eighth-grade science teacher John Freshwater until the investigation is over.

It’s the district’s latest run-in with Freshwater, who last week refused to obey an order to remove a Bible on his desk from view of students.

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The eyes of Europe are on Birmingham as it becomes the continent’s first ethnic majority city, Britain’s equalities chief has said.

Speaking at the same Birmingham hotel on the 40th anniversary of Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ speech, Trevor Phillips called for a fresh debate on immigration which he said was vital for the country’s economic future.

And he described how he thought Birmingham’s unique ethnic make-up would eventually be the model for the majority of large cities in Europe.

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A new analysis of British DNA has led geneticists to suggest that Germanic invaders may not have ruled Britain by apartheid.

According to a report in New Scientist, earlier, the discovery of a strong Germanic signal in the Y-chromosome of British men had prompted geneticists at University College London to suggest that enslavement and apartheid imposed by Saxon invaders was responsible.

But, according to John Pattison of the University of South Australia in Adelaide, it is just not necessary to assume an apartheid-like system. “The evidence is compatible with the idea of a much more integrated society,” he said.

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BRITAIN is set to be wiped off the map in a shocking new overhaul of the European Union, the Tories warn.

Under secret plans by Brussels bureaucrats, the UK would be carved up into three administrative regions governed from the Continent.

In effect, Britain would disappear altogether as a recognised nation.

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/42234

URFA, Turkey - As a child, Klaus Schmidt used to grub around in caves in his native Germany in the hope of finding prehistoric paintings. Thirty years later, as a member of the German Archaeological Institute, he found something infinitely more important: a temple complex almost twice as old as anything comparable.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080421/FOREIGN01/54504074/1003/FOREIGN

Chaining up a dog and forcing it to go without food and water in the name of art is a surefire way of making yourself unpopular with animal lovers. The furore created by Damien Hirst’s pickled sheep and Tracey Emin’s dirty bed pales into insignificance against the international outrage Guillermo ‘Habacuc’ Vargas has unleashed.

The Costa Rican has been called an animal abuser, killer and worse over claims that a stray dog called Natividad died of starvation after he displayed it at an exhibition last year at the Códice Gallery in Managua, Nicaragua. Vargas tethered the animal without food and water under the words ‘Eres Lo Que Lees’ - ‘You Are What You Read’ - made out of dog biscuits while he played the Sandinista anthem backwards and set 175 pieces of crack cocaine alight in a massive incense burner. More than a million people have signed an online petition urging organisers of this year’s event to stop Vargas taking part.

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As sacred priests, their duties included teaching, law enforcement and possibly even burning people to death in giant wicker men. Druids dominated British culture with their mysterious magical rites in the centuries before the Roman invasion.

For such an important band of men, however – it could take 20 years to train to be a druid, according to some sources – hardly anything is known about them. That could be about to change now, though, after what is thought to be the first discovery in Britain of a druid grave.

The extraordinary find was made at the Essex village of Stanway, near Colchester. It is among a number of graves of eminent people interred around the time of the Roman invasion of Britain in AD43.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/iron-age-mystery-of-the-essex-druid-812194.html