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Patrick Leahy Introduces Bipartisan PATRIOT Act Reforms, but Civil Rights Groups Unsatisfied

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Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) introduced a reauthorization of the PATRIOT Act last week that would extend and reform some provisions set to expire on February 28. Leahy's reforms, known as the USA PATRIOT Act Sunset Extension Act of 2011, would limit the government's power in gathering intelligence...

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Out with the Old: As Internet Addresses Run Out, the Next Generation Protocols Step Up

Wallace Shawn | Why I Call Myself a Socialist

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If the courts or the Republicans in Congress gut healthcare reform, there may only be one way forward: Single payer

BY ROBERT REICHEurope Moves to Stabilize Its Energy Supplies

European leaders agreed on Friday to give unprecedented leeway to the bloc’s executive agency to help negotiate contracts with energy exporters like Russia in an effort to improve security of supplies and safeguard investment.

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Why Tunisia Is Not a Social-Media Revolution
Our conversations about the transformative power of tech are maturing newspaper, noted when a premature rumor of a coup spread on Twitter and blogs, at least it exists. "[Online coverage is] unreliable in comparison to what?" Whitaker wrote. "If you read the Tunisian newspapers and nothing else, you would scarcely be aware that an uprising is taking place.( Another case of a dysfunctional header )

For American foreign-policy observers, championing the Internet as a tool of democracy seems to skip all that unpleasant Cold War heavy-handedness. Clinton's so-called 21st century statecraft approach isn't democracy through the backdoor. It's democracy through infrastructure.

he Internet doesn't make the dissident. Rather, the dissident makes use of the Internet. What's happening in Tunisia isn't a Twitter or a WikiLeaks revolution. It's just what revolution looks like these days.

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Mechanism Involved in Breast Cancer's Spread to Bone Discovered

Cancer cells often travel throughout the body and cause new tumors in individuals with advanced breast cancer -- a process called metastasis -- commonly resulting in malignant bone tumors. What the Princeton research has uncovered is the exact mechanism that lets the traveling tumor cells disrupt normal bone growth. By zeroing in on the molecules involved, and particularly a protein called "Jagged1" that sends destructive signals to cells, the research team has opened the door to drug therapies that could block this disruptive process.

 In findings that will be published online in the journal Cancer Cell on Feb. 3, the team's research shows that breast tumor cells are able to give bone cells the wrong instructions through a process known as cell signaling -- with disastrous effects for the patient

New Images Show Cloud Exploding from Sun Ripples Like Clouds on Earth

 Warwick researchers spotted a familiar pattern of instability on one flank of an exploding cloud of solar material that closely paralleled instabilities seen in Earth's clouds and waves on the surfaces of seas.

When observed these Kelvin-Helmholtz (or KH) instabilities appear to roll up into growing whirls at boundaries between things moving at different speeds, for instance the transition between air and water or cloud. The difference in speeds produces the boundary instabilities.

The President Ignored the Elephant in the Room

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The President’s new emphasis on the importance of investing in education, infrastructure, and basic research in order to build the nation’s long-term competitive capacities is appropriate. For the last three decades the federal government’s spending on these three essentials has declined as a percentage of its total spending, arguably threatening America’s technological and economic leadership.

But the President’s failure to address the decoupling of American corporate profits from American jobs, and explain specifically what he’ll do to get jobs back, not only risks making his grand plans for reviving the nation’s “competitiveness” seem somewhat beside the point but also cedes to Republicans the dominant narrative.

The Myth of the Center
Everyone is obsessed about Obama moving to the center. Too bad it doesn't mean anything anymore.
PAUL WALDMAN If all it takes to "move to the center" is some inclusive rhetoric, then by all means, Obama can move wherever he likes. The "center," after all, is a rather nebulous place, one defined, if it can be at all, by what it isn't. Just as a "centrist"doesn't know what he believes until you tell him what the left and right believe, the center is something we can define only by what people who actually believe something believe. If one side moves to the ideological edge, has the center been tugged along behind it? Or is it now the place where the other side was all along?

Indefensible
Five decades after a landmark Supreme Court case establishing the right to a public-defense lawyer, the poor still lack adequate legal representation.

. Of state and county public-defense systems recently surveyed by the Bureau of Justice, more than 70 percent reported caseloads that exceed national professional guidelines, a burden which can clog dockets and crowd jails before a verdict ever arrives.

After sentencing, there's the social cost of extra prison time and the actual cost: Incarcerating an inmate for a year averaged $22,650 in 2001, the latest year for which national data is available. More recent tallies, such as those from California, show skyrocketing costs. The Golden State spends nearly $50,000 a year to imprison an individual. Meanwhile, funding for indigent defense, which might minimize the prison population, is wildly uneven. According to a 2008 report from the National Legal Aid & Defender Association, per-capita spending on public defense ranges from $40.95 in Alaska to $4.15 in Mississippi, the lowest in the country.

 The Southern Public Defender Training Center, a three-year classroom and mentorship program recruits and equips bright young lawyers to serve a corner of the justice system that desperately needs them. Lawyers attend two weeks of classes with veteran public defenders at Samford University's Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama. They reconvene every six months to discuss challenges, consulting with mentors in the interim. The center has trained 95 attorneys since 2007. The neediest offices pay as little as $250 to enroll a public defender.

The center's founder, Atlanta lawyer Jonathan Rapping, says the program not only provides defense-specific education that's too expensive for many offices; it promotes professional pride and a culture of thorough, vigorous representation. "We need to have a community of public defenders who care as much about their clients as O.J. Simpson's lawyers cared about him," he says.

In February, Attorney General Eric Holder told lawyers at a Washington, D.C., symposium that the country's criminal-defense system is "morally untenable" and "economically unsustainable," and that solutions are needed. "It must be the concern of every person who works on behalf of the public good and in the pursuit of justice," he said. The goal itself -- guaranteeing that every person accused of a crime has a lawyer who  is competent and dedicated is long overdue. But can Holder's call to action be fulfilled?

In 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously concluded in Gideon v. Wainwright that the "noble ideal" of a fair trial "cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him."

The American Bar Association and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People have chronicled the appalling outcomes of a broken system. Defendants spend excess time in jail awaiting trial -- sometimes as much or more time than their eventual sentence. Overburdened or inadequately trained lawyers fail to investigate or challenge the state's evidence and instead urge plea deals. Prosecutors capitalize on weak defenses to get the accused to waive counsel and plead guilty.

"There's no oversight, no one holding providers accountable, no one removing the bad actors," says Michigan state appellate defender James Neuhard, who, through his work with the American Bar Association, has become a leader in indigent-defense reform. About 40 percent of cases referred to his office are overturned on appeal because of sentencing-guideline mistakes, he says. A client may have been credited with nonexistent prior convictions, for example, which automatically increased the prison term. A defense attorney with the time, training, and will to mount a serious defense, Neuhard says, would easily catch such simple errors. Instead, taxpayers fund a new trial and the incarceration costs.

Tucker Carrington, director of the Mississippi Innocence Project, says that serious defense-related mistakes appear in nearly every capital case his group handles.

Convictions can decimate the already tenuous lives of the poor. It's nothing for them to be arrested and in the course of that, lose their homes, furniture, clothes, jobs, spouses.  A dysfunctional public-defense system arguably exacerbates racial injustice. But the issue is a hard sell. There's not much of a national uproar to try to help people that are thrown into the criminal-justice system and branded criminals.

( Indeed. The Canadian 'Progressive Conservatives' under Harper [ an oxymoronically named party under a suitably confused 'leadership' ] are pushing a 'Law and Order' agenda. Nor does the physical infrastructure exist to handle current demands, let alone expansion. )

Discomfort in an Age of Demagoguery
We are hungry to be a part of a community where the dire challenges we face and the resilience of the American union are both acknowledged.

This new brand of GOP Palinese is pretty pat: Overpromise and under-research; always simplify and never apologize; make the opposition look like tin men -- all brains, no heart.

Uncertainty makes us hard-driving, decisive Americans wildly uncomfortable. Demagoguery, on the other hand, is soothing. Let's take Speaker of the House John Boehner, for example. Speaking about the Iraq War, Boehner has said, "Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us."

Wouldn't it be nice if the Iraq conflict could be reduced to that? We'd have a real opportunity for an abstract Platonic dialogue or maybe a made-for-television movie about courage and triumph. In reality, what we've got is a thorny tangle of economic, moral, political, and spiritual questions that demand volumes, not sound bites, of investigation: How many lives and dollars are worth a dysfunctional democracy? Is there an effective way to disempower despots that doesn't involve violence? What are the repercussions for our failures in Iraq for future generations? These questions -- the kind explored in documentary films like My Country, My Country or books like The Good Soldier-- don't play well to voters, because they're discomfiting. They make us feel ill-equipped and overwhelmed.

Naomi Klein, the ultimate pied piper of uncomfortable realities, has reportedthat Tony Hayward, the former CEO of BP, has a plaque on his desk that reads, "If you knew you could not fail, what would you try?"

This is quintessential corporate hubris, but it is also the comforting stuff of demagoguery. We are literally swimming in failure -- toxified by oil and the blood of Lower 9th Ward residents who were left to die -- and yet our leaders reassure us that there is no problem that our robust American spirit can't solve. That there is no problem at all, except perhaps, the unnecessary complexity being imposed on us by those wonky liberal leaders -- the Debbie Downers at every red, white, and blue party. Why can't liberals just drink the Kool-Aid, slap on the flag pin, and join in the sloganeering like everyone else?

I've even heard Democratic strategists make this argument -- that progressives will continue to fail until we learn how to employ the same emotionally manipulative empty rhetoric as the "other guys." It is as if they've been fooled into believing there would be no cost for our disingenuous capitulation, as if the ends would justify the means.

I don't think American citizens deserve certainty.  It's dangerous and delusional. It leads us to elect people who don't acknowledge the full complexity of the times we are facing and fail to take responsibility for their own errors in judgment. We do deserve the comfort of clarity and community.

When you pay your taxes remember 3 billion go to Israel

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The Week in Sharia: How the West Was Lost

A bill introduced late last month by state senator Cecile Bledsoe to ban the use of foreign or religious law has apparently stalled in the legislature. Bledsoe toldArkansas News that her bill isn't meant to target Islamic law, but rather all foreign law. This is a pretty standard defense and sounds very innocuous, so it's worth explaining why it's false: Bledsoe didn't write the bill from scratch; as Little Rock's KUAR reported, she had help from a group called the American Public Policy Alliance, an organization with a stated mission to "protect American citizens' constitutional rights against the infiltration and incursion of foreign laws and foreign legal doctrines, especially Islamic Shariah Law." 

Christians protecting Muslims during their prayers

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Christians protecting Muslims during their prayers in tahiri square.

( Both groups claim they are 'Christians'. Which promotes brotherhood ? )

Expressions of Faith
Public discussion of religion can build walls at the same time it tries to bring them down.

When O'Reilly and Palin complain about their religious oppression, their problem isn't that their beliefs have been excluded but rather that everyone else isn't being subjected to their beliefs to a sufficient degree. It's not as though the government is issuing proclamations saying that Jesus is a false god or Macy's is banning Christians from shopping. But saying "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" does undermine their monopoly. In other words, what has them riled up is not that the circle of inclusion has been drawn without them in it but that the circle includes everyone. That's the thing about being in the majority -- privileges you alone enjoy begin to seem like rights whose diminishment is a crime against justice.

Nothing for Something
Does pushing higher education for everyone actually make it tougher for poor students to enter the middle class?

 it's useful to ask, to paraphrase another president: "Is our children learning?" According to a new study by two sociologists, the answer for students enrolled in college is "No, not really." The researchers -- Richard Arum, professor of sociology and education at New York University, and Josipa Roksa, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia -- tested 2,300 students enrolled in four-year colleges and universities and found they didn't do much better on measures of critical and analytic reasoning after four years than when they started.

Students are told that they need transferable critical-thinking skills to compete in the global workforce and weather technological shifts, and an increasing number of employers now require a degree or some other type of certification for entry into a field. But if the point is to equip students with the skills to be global "innovators," then according to this research, we're failing.

Moreover, by requiring college courses in trades like heating and air installation and massage therapy that were once learned through an apprenticeship, students -- especially poor students -- end up wasting a lot of money and taking time out of their careers for little added benefit. If traditional colleges and universities aren't teaching all students generalized, high-level skills that enable them to adapt to whatever working environment they find themselves in, then it's hard to see what the value of obtaining a college degree is. We either need to start making sure all students leave college with those skills, or re-evaluate why it's important for some career-oriented programs to be part of a college course and not an on-the-job training program.

In the study, the results were correlated with a student's course of study. Students who took liberal-arts courses with more required reading and writing scored the best; students enrolled in courses of study like business, communications, education, or social work geared toward teaching marketable skills did the worst. That's troubling, because most of the college-enrollmentleap in the last decade has been driven by for-profit and community colleges, which tend to offer career-oriented education and serve a larger percentage of poor and minority students than do four-year universities or liberal-arts colleges.

Students most worried about their job prospects right after school often choose a course of study that will give them concrete technical skills, which in good times tends to pay off. But if those students are not learning the types of skills necessary to see them through job or career changes, is a traditional college the best way to train future accountants or business managers?

That's not a question many are asking, because we're too busy adding to the list of career-oriented college majors. But there was a time when plumbers, electricians, and police officers could all enter those jobs with high school degrees or less, study under a professional or through a union-based course and become licensed. Now -- in part because of a decline in unions and the evisceration of vocational education in high school -- many community colleges have begun to fill the need, offering plumbing and electrician courses, and municipalities require that police officers attend some college.

If that trend continues, it's only a matter of time until we start requiring even more schooling for careers that not long ago required only on-the-job training and licensing. 

Wal-Mart entered the education game by teaming up with a for-profit, online college called American Public University. 

What Wal-Mart has actually done is create a system in which workers who once got promoted simply by doing their job well are now tacitly required to pay for a degree in addition to doing their job well.

The Wal-Mart problem is emblematic of the bigger issue: By expanding the types of careers for which college is considered necessary, are we actually creating barriers that previously didn't exist? That's a bigger problem if students are going to college only to find themselves with a job they could have gotten without a college degree a few years ago and without, as this research suggests, the critical thinking skills that allow them to enter the educated class. There's nothing wrong with making higher education open to everyone, but perhaps it's time to ask what we want colleges to do. 

( It might be worth noting that only a few decades ago when economic privation kept children working from 12 - 16 on, school teachers for example,might only have Grade Eight and a year of specialized training.   Their schooling  curricula was superseded...not necessarily functionally improved. 

In fact, reading,writing and arithmetic are learning skills.  Rather than play the routine testing game for anything more than student diagnostics, it might be better to focus on encouraging initiative. )

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Save Our Libraries: A Culture Without Libraries Is A Failure

At any one time, local authorities are considering their plans, and almost every library closure that has been mentioned today is a proposal-these things are being consulted on. In Oxfordshire, in my own backyard, the proposals will undergo a three-month consultation. In response to my hon. Frie ...

George Carlin - Teach your children to question

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George Carlin on the Universe

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Beautiful description of humanity and the universe by the genius George Carlin.

» ‘Dating’ Site Imports 250,000 Facebook Profiles, Without Permission

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How does a unknown dating site, with the absurd intention of destroying Facebook, launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day?

Ibuprofen 'trebles the risk of a stroke' doctors warn

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Large regular doses of ibuprofen and similar painkillers could treble the risk of strokes and increase the likelihood of heart attacks, researchers are warning.

Non-toxic dose of Δ9-THC on Human(Normal Brain Cells) PT 2/2

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Using the same tests used to judge new chemotherapies, the SETH team discovered that this herbal compound kills human brain tumor cells at a concentration that is nontoxic to normal brain cells. A computerized microscope captured images of the cells every 5 minutes to compile the time-lapse videos. 

Bayer (aspirin) distributed HIV/AIDS to thousands!!!

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Wikileaks Finally Releases UFO Cable - coupmedia.org

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Egyptian Protests Grounded in Decades of Struggle; Portend Regional Transformation

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Part of the work of preparing for this counterrevolution is in dismissing the protests as "spontaneous," a momentary outburst of rage that will be quieted by a bit of change at the top. In the Momentary Convulsion School of History, people briefly spasm in the streets in response to outside provocat...

A Marxist Analysis: Arab Uproar

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Long time in the making! Long time suffering poverty, inequality, official murder-torture-imprisonment, despotism, fundamentalism, and governments lackeyed to US/Western powers. Long time in the making! Long time suffering poverty, inequality, official murder-torture-imprisonment, despotism, fundame...

Turning Over a New Leaf? The Chicago Mayoral Election and the Daley Legacy

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A few eyebrows were raised when Rahm Emanuel quit his position as chief of staff to President Barack Obama to run for the mayor of Chicago, but not many realize how powerful a position the mayor of Chicago is. The current mayor makes many major appointments in a city that dominates the politics of ...

The Problem With the Bilateral "Summit"
The United States' long-term interests are much better served by almost any conceivable decision-making process other than so-called G2 summits with China. Pogrom in Cairo - Where Was Obama? www.truth-out.org Robert Naiman: Contrary to what we were led to believe - that the US-backed and US-financed Egyptian military would protect the right to peaceful protest - on Wednesday, February 2, in Cairo, the Egyptian military permitted "Mubarak supporters" - who, according to press reports, were clearly organiz...
MATTHEW YGLESIAS  It's very tempting to say foreign policy should just be hashed out between the world's two most important countries and everyone else can take a memo. The problem is that America's No. 1 status is eroding much faster than is generally realized. It's true that as of 2011 our GDP is a bit more than double China's. But as recently as 2001, it was more like eight times China's. The Economist predicts that we'll likely be overtaken in 2019 and has a neat tool that lets you adjust assumptions. You can see that on almost any plausible account, the surpassing will take place some time in the next five to 15 years. more and more, we'll want to rely on our posse. In a world where America is No. 2, suddenly a "G3" meeting between China, the United States, and the European Union looks appealing. So does the United Nations Security Council or a broad summit of Pacific Rim countries. Indeed, just about any multilateral forum would do a good job of leveraging the enduring advantage provided by our favorable geographic position and broadly appealing values. ( Control issues of empire. ) Former Kansas State Trooper Greg Everson: 'U.S. Forces Plan DIRECT ACTION AGAINST American Citizens' www.youtube.com There is an event coming in the very near-term future that is going to effect the USA to its very soul, former Kansas State Trooper Greg Everson of The Heartland USA and former host of Republic Broadcasting Voices from the Heartland told host Steve Quayle in a special two hour Survive 2 Thrive broad Q&A: Food Prices and Revolution TAP talks to someone from the United Nations World Food Programme about how food-price instability affects what's happening in Egypt. While many factors are contributing to the growing unrest in Egypt -- and the crumbling of longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak's regime -- it's important to note that one of the causes is the global rise in food prices. Price shocks for staples like wheat and grain led to rioting in many poor countries in 2007 and 2008, and price volatility in the global food market is likely here to stay. For a poor country like Egypt, changes in food prices have drastic consequences. MONICA POTTS The USDA's Thintervention The USDA's new food guidelines offer a startling recommendation for dealing with our national obesity crisis: They actually tell you to eat less. MONICA POTTS "Eat less" isn't a message many thought we'd ever be likely to hear from the USDA, since that's also the agency responsible for promoting American food products.  ( Why the red ? It looked like 'red letter candor'. ) What it should say is "eat less cheese, red meat, and ice cream," and the omission highlights some of the political problems the USDA runs into when crafting the guidelines: It steers clear of singling out particular foods we should cut down on for fear of upsetting particular food industries, which spend millions to lobby legislators every year. "This document is not just a road map for food manufacturers ... but it's also a road map for how we need to reform our farm and food policies," Scott Faber, vice president of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, said on The Diane Rehm Show Tuesday. "It's great to say people should have half their plate covered with fruits and vegetables; that's not possible for 10 percent of Americans because they don't have access to a grocery store." The report urges governments to expand access to grocery stores and farmers markets -- making food available, affordable, and safe. (It doesn't, of course, detail how this should be done.) It also encourages the expansion of safe agriculture and aquaculture practices that bring food to all populations, but it doesn't really spell out what those are.  ( Yes, well that was why Monsanto runs PR from the White House, job that Rumsfeld held dear. ) Aspartame - Rumsfeld's Bioweapon Legacy When Searle was absorbed by Monsanto in 1985, Rumsfeld reportedly received a $12 million bonus. Not surprisingly, the same adverse reactions seen in lab ... www.rense.com/general67/rum.htm How Aspartame Became Legal - The Timeline Monsanto was apparently untroubled by aspartame's clouded past, ... www.rense.com/general33/legal.htm Racketeering Charges Filed Against Donald Rumsfeld & Monsanto 7 Nov 2006 ... Racketeering Charges Filed Against Donald Rumsfeld & Monsanto1.MONSANTO MEN in USA Government 2.Racketeering charges filed against Donald ... www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_3329.cfm Donald Rumsfeld - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In 1985, Searle was sold to Monsanto Company. Rumsfeld is believed to have earned around $12 million from this sale. Rumsfeld served as Chairman and Chief ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld  Donald Rumsfeld In Bed With Aspartame « Genetically Modified Foods ... 10 Aug 2007 ... Monsanto. Below is some clinical data that has been attributed to Aspartame products. 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Obama Gives Key Agriculture Post to Monsanto Man | Disinformation

6 Apr 2010 ... Gary Ruskin for the Centre for Research on Globalization: Today, PresidentObama announced that he will recess appoint Islam A. Siddiqui to ...
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Mark of the Beast: Obama's latest Monsanto pick, Elena Kagan

16 May 2010 ... Now, the real food movement has completely lost its appetite with Obama'snomination of Monsanto defender, Elena Kagan, to the US Supreme ...
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Monsanto's Man in the Obama Administration

18 Aug 2009 ... One has to ask: given its support for Taylor, Monsanto and a new Green Revolution in Africa, does the Obama administration's foreign ...
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Slow Food, Obama, and Monsanto « Slow Food Reno

Slow Food, Obama, and Monsanto. January 28, 2011 by bobblesse. Yesterday, in attempt to make the 2011 State of the Union address more relevant, ...
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Top Obama adviser is lobbyist for Pfizer, Carlyle Group, Monsanto ...

11 Feb 2008 ... Top Obama adviser is lobbyist for Pfizer, Carlyle Group, Monsanto and NRA and....
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Dupont, Monsanto, and Obama Versus the World's Family Farmers ...

11 Jul 2010 ... President Obama has stacked his administration with people who are tied to multinationals like Monsanto (of Agent Orange infamy) and Dupont ...
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Ronnie Cummins: The Unholy Alliance: Monsanto, Dupont & Obama

11 Jul 2010 ... President Obama knows that agribusiness cannot be trusted with the policy and regulatory powers of government. On the campaign trail in 2007 ...
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( If you thought I had a 'thing' about Monsanto and friends...I think them one of the top menaces to food security. Questions ? Corporate Farming is a start. I really miss the essay at  the Panelist 'The Real Winner in Iraq is Monsanto' rather than the video in its place. It laid out in graphic detail how Bremer's 100 Orders literally destroyed Iraqi seed stocks that had a heritage of thousands of years of selective breeding. 

I don't give Rady Anada over at Food Freedom nearly enough credit, even though he's on his own RSS feed.)

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  Thom Hartmann | A Lobbyist's Hit List (Video)

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  Thom Hartmann reports on the business lobbyists who are demanding that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California) go after important environmental and financial regulations. 

  Designing the vertical farm - economist.com/video

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  Four architects describe their designs for the vertical farms of the future

  The Egyptian Tinderbox: How Banks and Investors Are Starving the Third World

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  Underlying the sudden, volatile uprising in Egypt and Tunisia is a growing global crisis sparked by soaring food prices and unemployment. The Associated Press reports that roughly 40 percent of Egyptians struggle along at the World Bank-set poverty level of under $2 per day. 

  VIDEO: On YouTube, footage of vans hitting protesters in Cairo

  Jim Hightower | The Kochs Are Coming

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  The multibillionaire Koch brothers are used to running their nefarious network of political front groups from behind closed doors, keeping their identities and self-serving involvement secret from the media and us hoi polloi.

  Paul Krugman | US Conservatives Raise a Stink Over Meddlesome Government

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  Conservatives are convinced that the Environmental Protection Agency is messing with Texas. The state has been battling the federal agency for years over pollution regulations, and now it is suing, insisting that the agency is abusing its power. Also, officials say that forcing the state to adopt s...

  The Koch Brothers' Vast Right-Wing Media Conspiracy

  
  

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  Watched any conservative programs lately? Chances are, you've seen an oil-funded pundit.

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100,000 Americans Die Each Year from Prescription Drugs, While Pharma Companies Get Rich | www.alternet.org

Prescription drugs taken as directed kill 100,000 Americans a year. That's one person every five minutes. How did we get here?

Ronald Reagan cared more about UFOs than AIDS

He often dreamed of the world coming together to battle spacemen, but never gave much thought to an actual killer

 

ALERT! HAARP busted! TODAY! February 2, 2011 - Beebe, Arkansas! OMG.. caught on RADAR

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BREAKING: FOX News Reports: Assassination Attempt On Egyptian VP Kills 2 bodyguards,

BREAKING: FOX News reports: Assassination attempt on Egyptian VP kills 2 bodyguards, sources say— (Unconfirmed as of this post)– Will update when further information is available… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Egyptian Journalist Ahmed Mahmoud Dies Of Gunshot Wounds; First Reported Journalist Death In Uprising Huffington Post- First Posted: 02/ 4/11 05:25 PM Updated: 02/ 4/11 07:20 PM CAIRO — An Egyptian rep

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Even Gary Bekkum is skeptical

Gary Bekkum’s  STARpod.org’s site is usually replete with government conspiracies, psychic spies, hamsters, Bigelow’s Skinwalker Ranch, Laura Eisenhower’s Mars Colony and other wondrous esoteric oddities that it’s hard to believe that Gary could be skeptical of anything. But he is. He is very skeptical of the recent videos coming out on YouTube about the UFOs dive-bombing the Dome of the Rock in J

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Rick Santorum Cites 'Jihadist Training Camps In South America' In Arguing For Border Crackdown

Santorum then claimed it was "a lie" to say Islam had nothing to do with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"They're fighting us because they fundamentally disagree with us. They want to eliminate us," he said. "We have two different ideas of what god is, two different ideas of what humanity is, two different ideas of what social justice is."Image via Wikipedia

 

( Everybody's a Comedian - though pushing the idea that sending soldiers to murder foreigners is the fault of people who are in their own country rather than profiteering is getting old. )

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