Dow and Monsanto seem to be in a race to see who can be the most sociopathic. Because only a sociopath can bioengineer corn so that they can poison the earth more, no matter at the cost to the ecology, humans, and animals.
The Center for Food Safety has a petition up to somehow get the spineless FDA to stop this depraved idea. Please sign it–you never know, they just might feel the pressure for once.
Occupy Monsanto has this up on the ongoing efforts to get GMO food labeled. A shareholder has proposed labeling, but the board has rejected that. (no surprise there)
They are having an event this week to bring attention to the FDA ignoring the public’s wishes for labeling.
Jeff Nguyen has a blog up featuring Eddie Vedder’s song “No More”.
God bless Phil Donahue— still fighting the good fight. I grew up watching Donahue and he opened my world. He talked about subjects that were taboo. He asked intelligent questions. I loved the “live” aspect of his shows where callers could call in to add to the story.
It was a sad day when his show was no more. And even sadder that he was fired from MSNBC for speaking out against the Iraq war.
I hope you’re sitting down, because this is going to blow you away.
An interactive graphic from Der Spiegel explains that this tool is a part of NSA’s ANT division that the agency developed so it can see and hear what is happening in a room “without having to actually install radio-signal-emitting bugging devices in them.”
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…and you thought that mercury poisoned folk like myself were crazy for saying that EMF’s bothered us greatly. When I was sicker, I could not talk on a cell phone for an hour, or I would become ill with a migraine. EMF’s from the classroom smartboard/computer/wand make me ill.
And as far as the radiated beams causing cancer…well, that is a stone in the gravel pit. The NSA is running amok with nobody reining them in or following anything that looks like our Constitution…
Oh, and in case you missed it–they’re also intercepting laptops bought online and installing spyware on them. Yep.
….because we got to get the boogeyman.
We got to get the boogeyman.
I wonder about this and those birds falling out of the sky. More here.
The women of Idle No More tried to hold a Native American dance in the Mall of America, which promptly had them arrested. I kid you not.
123 years after Wounded Knee, and they’re still objecting to the Native Americans dancing.
What is the harm in that? I thought it was quite moving.
They won’t even give her the respect of telling her a valid reason why they can’t be there….because they don’t have one…
Raginghorseblog has a good riddance message to “if-you’re-poor-blame-God” Mayor Bloomberg.
Mercedes Schneider has a post up here on New Years and here on AFT Myths–really good blog on the myths and debunking them with pointed questions.
As I thought about the profiteers circling around public education, the postal service popped into my head. They actually made a profit last year, but you wouldn’t know it by theBush Administration’s demanding they pay into retirement funds for people not even born yet…
…it suddenly occurred to me that not only are the profiteers going after public education and other social programs, the postal service is also a target for a couple of reasons: a) strong union–gotta break those unions; and b) public service efficiently run but could be run more *cough* efficiently. Or, in other words ::damn, look at the golden opportunity to make some bucks while delivering crappy service…:: and, finally, c) postal workers make pretty good money….so they gotta get rid of them!
See…they can’t portray the postal carriers like teachers and say that they are not doing their job because, well, the mail gets delivered in a reasonable time with good rates through wind and rain and dark of night. They had to come up with some other way to bankrupt them and make it look like it was their fault, see? Hence, we have the nonsense of paying for people that aren’t even born….making it look like they can’t make a profit or be self-sufficient…then the neocons/neolibs cry foul and trot out the overused sob story that the postal service is costing taxpayers money! Not exactly. They are funded by Congress for $100 million to deliver service to the blind and Americans overseas. Otherwise, they are funded by stamps and other services the public pays for.
Even more astounding is that the postal service made a profit in this economy. Now that’s impressive!
Fred Klonksy links to a report by Valerie Strauss about talk that Arne Duncan has influenced the choice of NY chancellor. Unethical. Arrogant. Micro-manager= Duncan.
I’ve always loved the Youngbloods’ Get Together. Fred Klonsky has it up on his post for the continuing fight against raiding pensions.
The nuns flashing the peace sign is priceless. 🙂
Global News has this up on highway collapse thought to be caused by several local earthquakes.
So…yeah, I’m looking at fracking in the area. Here’s a report on fracking near the area:
(not linking to it for obvious reasons)
thehydroexcavationblog.com/south-texas-hydro-excavation-link-love-shale-fracking-growth/
From the article:
U.S. oil production has reversed a 30-plus year decline and, by some estimates, the country will become the world’s largest oil producer by as early as 2017 and will achieve full energy self-sufficiency by 2030.
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::…meanwhile, citizens are dropping dead of *mysterious* illnesses at a rate parallel to the amount of fracking being done…..:: /not really snarky, but a little too close to the truth
I found a protest blog by Mexican nationals. Again, you’ll have to use google translate.
I also found this on the detrimental decision to release control of Mexico’s oil resources to outside investors. Combine that with this previous story on the huge reserves just ripe for fracking…and well, you can draw the picture.
Egyptians are also protesting fracking. Can you imagine poisoning the Nile? Good Grief.
Warrior Publications has this up on the curious fact that people opposing the Enbridge pipeline are not the radicals that the Oil industry and the politicos would like you to think.
Like I’ve said before, there are a lot more people in favor of protecting the environment but are afraid to be categorized as terrorists or radicals, so they remain silent. It really came home to me when I wrote an op-ed for my local paper talking about environmental concerns, including GMO labeling. I had people call me and talk to me in person (in a low voice, no doubt so no one else could hear the conversation) about how they agreed with me. But they didn’t take that next step and write their own op-ed on how they, too, wanted to protect the environment.
The oil industry and others have done a bang up job of portraying *all* environmentalists as radical, violent people….when only a small number of people have done things that are disagreeable to the rest. And I’m sure there were agent provocateurs amongst the violent ones.
The following isn’t related to the environmental protests, but it is helpful in understanding that it isn’t paranoia on the part of protestors:
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