California

With high-end food profits often being as lucrative as street drug-trade, the problem of ‘fake foods’ continues to persist. One main ‘fake food’ stocking store shelves is olive oil – with fake olive oil being exported from Italy. With first-pressed, real olive oil going for as much as $50 a gallon, food fakers have been adding cheap additives like sunflower or canola oil to real, extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) to produce the same gallon of ‘olive oil’ for as little as $7.

Human animals, Scientology Sachs and accidental death + this day in history w/Soweto uprising and our song of the day by The Joe Jacksons on your Morning Monarchy for June 16, 2016.

GPS blackouts, warrantless wiretaps and building a new web + this day in history w/The Mindbender accident and our song of the day by The Invisible on your Morning Monarchy for June 14, 2016.

In many states, it is illegal to text while driving, including California. But those states all make police exempt from these laws, believing they are adequately trained to use electronic devices.
However, this week, a California Highway Patrol officer rear-ended another car while looking down at his department-issued computer, killing a teenage boy in the back seat.
Weston Sites, 15, died on the scene. The name of the 49-year-old CHP officer has not been released.
The incident took place Tuesday on Interstate 5 near the city of Orland.

In many states, it is illegal to text while driving, including California. But those states all make police exempt from these laws, believing they are adequately trained to use electronic devices.
However, this week, a California Highway Patrol officer rear-ended another car while looking down at his department-issued computer, killing a teenage boy in the back seat.
Weston Sites, 15, died on the scene. The name of the 49-year-old CHP officer has not been released.
The Hyundai struck from behind by a CHP officer that killed 15-year-old Weston Sites.

Richmond California is a refinery town in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is also where there is a diverse working class community with a strong Richmond Progressive Alliance which previously elected a Green Party Mayor. Bernie Sanders visited the city and actively supported the populist movement in February 2014 making it likely that Bernie Sanders would receive strong support in Richmond.
My daughter is a school psychologist in Richmond’s local school system. Here is her experience yesterday in the California Primary Election:

Next week, the Baltimore City Council will consider a bill that will require warning labels on sugary drinks similar to those found on tobacco products. If the bill passes, it would make Baltimore the first East Coast city to require such a warning.
Source: NPR
The council held an official meeting on Tuesday where members discussed the bill, which would require warning labels on not just sugary beverages, but also advertisements, restaurant menus, and at the point of sale where sugary products are sold.

Blue America is backing several candidates in California's dysfunctional jungle primaries today. On the congressional side, we have endorsed one incumbent, Mike Honda (CA-17) and 4 challengers: Bill Ostrander (CA-24), Lou Vince (CA-25), Nanette Barragán (CA-44), Bao Nguyen (CA-46). I wound also recommend NO votes against 5 Democratic incumbents who have not earned reelection: Ami Bera (CA-07), Jim Costa (CA-16), Zoe Lofgren (CA-19), Pete Aguilar (D-31) and Scott Peters (CA-52).

The California Republican Party does not allow the millions of Decline To State voters (independents) to vote in their primaries. The Democratic Party does. A new poll from the L.A.

A Southern California woman who prides herself on her community involvement was caught on video trying to steal a man’s drone before lying to police in claiming that it nearly killed her.
Lisa Manfredi apparently thought she was doing her good deed for the day when she picked up a remote controlled quadcopter that had crash landed in Fairview Park in Costa Mesa, then tucked it underneath her shirt as she walked away.
She also thought she was much slicker than she actually proved to be.