Huey P. Meaux | South Texas Rhythm ‘n’ Soul Revue

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRioZRu82KesV4oQguGj7uknicm-kYSU_BiSHjzPKrINtv2r7Yhk8mwhhcXhLTh-uKUkwU_56dPvqzTV3cen0d6kxwJZ6_bpu8YKN5lznHVksaauVB0xMkSwkXOvBrTvEp6XWyrNTwNbo/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRioZRu82KesV4oQguGj7uknicm-kYSU_BiSHjzPKrINtv2r7Yhk8mwhhcXhLTh-uKUkwU_56dPvqzTV3cen0d6kxwJZ6_bpu8YKN5lznHVksaauVB0xMkSwkXOvBrTvEp6XWyrNTwNbo/s1600/4.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/08/12/211355177/south-texas-collects-producers-checkered-career" target="blank">National Public Radio</a></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">R</span><b>ecord producer Huey P. Meaux’s career had two chapters, each of which ended with him in prison. But both times, he discovered some amazing Texas and Louisiana artists who made great music. </b><br /><br />Researchers are still piecing together the first half of the story, which saw hundreds of singles released on labels like Jet Stream, Tear Drop, Jet, Pacemaker and Eric. Now some of those songs have been collected on a compilation called <i>South Texas Rhythm ‘n’ Soul Revue</i>.<br /><br /><object data="http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/player.swf" height="24" id="audioplayer576" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="290"> <param name="movie" value="http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/player.swf"><param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=audioplayer576&soundFile=http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2013/08/20130812_fa_02.mp3"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="menu" value="false"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></object> <br /><div><a href="http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2013/08/20130812_fa_02.mp3" target="blank">download mp3</a></div></div>

Huey P. Meaux | South Texas Rhythm ‘n’ Soul Revue

National Public Radio R ecord producer Huey P. Meaux’s career had two chapters, each of which ended with him in prison. But both times, he d...

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Tower of David | World’s Tallest Slum

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Tower of David | World’s Tallest Slum

VocativVideo S quatters took over Venezuela’s Tower of David, an unfinished 45-story skyscraper, in the early 1990s, and they’ve been there ...

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Spitbank Fort | Luxury Accomadations

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Spitbank Fort | Luxury Accomadations

O riginally constructed to defend the British from Napoleon III's navy in the 18th century, Spitbank Fort was abandoned but is now reno...

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Small Farmers Take Their Power & Stand Up To Government

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/A8S4S49TyDk?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=564009107862031725" http:="" reason.com="" reasontv="" target="blank" usda-v-horne-farmers-fight-for-their-rig=""><b><span style="font-size: large;">Reason.com</span></b></a><br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">“They want us to pay for our own raisins that we grew. We have to buy them back!” </span>~Raisin Valley Farms owner Marvin Horne</blockquote><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">C</span><b>alifornia rasin farmers have been giving almost HALF of their crop (47%) to the US Department of Agriculture for FREE. </b><br /><br />It’s part of depression-era regulations, called an agriculture marketing order, meant to stabilize crop prices so that raisin farmers receive a fair price every year. An elected board of bureaucrats known as the Raisin Administrative Committee decides what the proper yield should be in any given year in order to meet a previously decided-upon price. Once they can estimate the size of the year's harvest, they force every farmer to surrender a percentage of their crop to raisin packers like Sun-Maid. The packers then place the raisins in a “reserve pool,” a special holding vat for raisins that cannot be sold in the U.S. Eventually, the packers can sell the reserve pool raisins overseas at highly discounted prices set by the government or funnel them into school lunch programs for next to nothing.<br /><br />The farmers were always supposed to get a percentage of the money raised from the reserve pool raisins, but as profit margins dwindled over the years, so did the return to farmers. The tipping point came in 2003, when farmers received zero dollars in return for the 47 percent of the crop they had surrendered.<br /><br />The Hornes started packing and selling their own raisins, which they believed would allow them to circumvent the marketing order. In doing so, they inadvertantly sparked a small revolution, as other independent raisin farmers saw their initial success and began to pack and sell, too. The government wasn't happy (neither was Sun-Maid).<br /><br />When the Hornes and a few other raisin farmers challenged the USDA's seizure of their crop without payment as an unconstitutional taking of property in violation of the Fifth Amendment, the government balked and said that the issue should be heard in a Federal Claims court, as the case had nothing to do with the taking of property but instead was a matter of the Hornes violating farming regulations and being fined for doing so. <br /><br />The Fifth Amendment says that private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation.<br /><br />The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the USDA and declared that they had no jurisdiction in the case. Luckily for the Hornes, however, the Supreme Court took the case and ruled, in a 9-0 decision, that the 9th Circuit was mistaken and must consider the case on its constitutional merits.</div>

Small Farmers Take Their Power & Stand Up To Government

Reason.com “They want us to pay for our own raisins that we grew. We have to buy them back!” ~Raisin Valley Farms owner Marvin Horne C alifo...

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