The weed killer, Roundup, is the biggest selling herbicide in the world. The seeds are genetically engineered corn seeds that are immune to Roundup. If you want to grow corn and kill weeds that hurt the corn, Monsanto has the best product on the market by

Seeded on Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:55 PM EDT (CRACKED.com)

The book "Grapes of Wrath" used to be mandatory high school reading. In it is a phrase rarely heard anymore: "Buying at the company store".

farm, senate, food, president, monsanto, law, odd-news, government, corporate, pay

Making self-sufficiency illegal?

Seeded on Wed Sep 15, 2010 7:07 PM EDT (AOL News)

Ever wonder how half the Irish population starved to death, simply because a single crop failed? (and that crop wasn't even indigenous to Ireland?)

food, politics, law, fines, vote, government, illegal, republican, democrat, starving

Diagnosed with Depression, ADD, Neuralgia?

Seeded on Mon May 17, 2010 10:24 PM EDT ()

wonder why there are so many folks with bi-polar, depression, mania, etc?

health

2,700 US citizens wait for a heart - but these guys want to give it to an illegal alien at taxpayer expense

Seeded on Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:53 PM EST (The Boston Globe)

...officials say it is legal for undocumented immigrants to receive organ donations, and a state health fund for the poor could help cover the procedure and the cost of follow-up drugs ...

politics, medicine, illegal-immigration, illegals, heart-transplant, health-care-bill

Made In Taiwan? They ban US, we need to ban them

Seeded on Tue Jan 5, 2010 10:24 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

Tawan bans US beef. Look at what you buy and ban Made In Taiwan.

us, taiwan, in, and, what, look, at, ban, world-news, buy

Want an unbiased bullet statement of what happened to the US financial health?

Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:15 AM EDT

Take out the key terms that are used to keep us fighting - Left, Right, Repub, Demo, and see a non-partisan breakdown of what's happened over the past 10 years to sell the US to a foreign power - even if you don't understand high finance or government processes - read the bullet …

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business, us, bonds, china, wall-street, stocks, mortgage, government, borrowing, us-treasury

Please watch this

Seeded on Thu Jul 9, 2009 1:00 PM EDT ()

local farmers are trying to get our attention.... and we'd better hope they do...

farmers, science, terrorists, wastewater, small-farms, locavore, local-farms

Buying "organic milk" at Wally world, Safeway or Target? Think again.......

Seeded on Thu Jul 9, 2009 12:38 PM EDT ()

As Organic Consumers Association network members know, the current organic dairy crisis was precipitated by widespread fraud in the organic dairy industry.

business, fraud, milk, agriculture, dean-foods, usda, anti-trust, natural-food, agri-business, deceptive-advertising

DOD, Defense Contractors Lobby to Block healthy safety actionh

Seeded on Wed Jun 24, 2009 4:25 PM EDT (The New York Times)

By Sara Goodman The New York Times, June 22, 2009 Straight to the Source The Pentagon and the defense industry is lobbying the White House to prevent U.S. EPA from tightening a health advisory for a rocket-fuel chemical.

epa, health, defense-department, dod, adverse-public-health-consequences, federal-cleanup

Obama's Undeclared War Against Pakistan Continues, Despite His Attempt to Downplay It

Seeded on Wed Jun 24, 2009 4:20 PM EDT ()

At what point do we call a war a war? Three days after his inauguration, on January 23, 2009, President Barack Obama ordered US predator drones to attack sites inside of Pakistan, reportedly killing 15 people.

afghanistan, war, military, obama, foreign-policy

Monsanto - "inert" chemicals not cancerous... but they do kill embryotic and umbilical cord tissue

Seeded on Wed Jun 24, 2009 4:18 PM EDT (Organic Consumers Org)

One specific inert ingredient, polyethoxylated tallowamine, or POEA, was more deadly to human embryonic, placental and umbilical cord cells than the herbicide itself - a finding the researchers call "astonishing."

farm, food, health, green, pesticide, monsanto, chemical, crops, poison, ecology

American Dietary Association?

Seeded on Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:44 PM EDT (http://www.adaf.org/cps/rde/xchg/adaf/hs.xsl/adaf_)

I was reading an article about how the ADA *might* be a bit biased in their recommendations and decided to look up the contributers to this "501(c)3 charity". As usual, following the money is a good way to find out the truth about any situation or person.

cancer, food, health, diabetes, locavore, obseity, american-dietary-association

One for the 'Vote them all Out" crowd

Seeded on Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:08 AM EDT (The Boston Globe)

This reporter has done an excellent bit of work on uncovering a tangled web of public policy influenced by those who gain from it.

taxes, politics, corruption, boston, theft, government-fraud

Harvard looses chunk, has massive cutbacks, but President Faust backs illegal aliens attending Harvard

Seeded on Thu May 21, 2009 3:16 PM EDT (The Boston Globe)

Harvard looses a chunk of their dowry, has massive cutbacks, but President Faust backs illegal aliens attending Harvard with in-state tuition. US Citizens are 2nd class citizens in their own country.

immigration, politics, harvard, tuition, faust, illegal-alien

KBR and their water supply for our military

Seeded on Tue May 12, 2009 9:01 PM EDT (Yahoo!)

My son was at both Camp Liberty and Camp Taji... I heard about the live maggots in their water from him as well...

us-news

Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it

Seeded on Sat Apr 18, 2009 6:39 AM EDT (Fark.com)

I'm neither "left" nor "right"... Republican nor Democrat.... I believe most people, when they take of their party-view blinders, can see right from wrong, and for the past 20 years or so, we have been going down the wrong road.

bush, trial, war-crimes, obama, world-news, us-policy, waterboarding, oberman, national-interest, war-trial

Patient%20mishaps%20in%20Mass.%20hospitals%20top%20300%20-%20The%20Boston%20Globe

Seeded on Thu Apr 9, 2009 12:29 PM EDT (The Boston Globe)

During a seeded debate on UHC... I read this article... Mass has the state's version of UHC... btw

health, health-care, hospital, uhc

A lesson to learn from our world neighbors - what happens when corporations run the govt and the govt runs the courts

Seeded on Tue Apr 7, 2009 6:09 PM EDT (NY Daily News)

Chinese court rejects lawsuits of parents who lost kids in earthquake -

earthquake, politics, law, corporate-power, goernment

Civil Disobedience - the Start of a Peaceful 2nd Revolution

Thu Apr 2, 2009 11:42 AM EDT

My fellow Citizens –

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immigration, tax, constitution, politics, rebellion, voting, illegal, change, corporate, welfare

give $30 million to hire foreign workers?

Seeded on Sun Mar 29, 2009 9:43 AM EDT (The Boston Globe)

Today I see in the Boston Globe that the US Federal Treasury is pumping $30M into small businesses to help them hire teenage US citizens as seasonal workers.

business, immigration, small-business, finance, kennedy, government, illegal, scam, foreign-workers, illegal-alliengs

Immigration march in Boston

Seeded on Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:47 AM EDT (The Boston Globe)

Let's get the terminology straight - there are Immigrants - those who come to this country by legal means, with a plan to build a life, then there are illegal aliens - those who enter or stay here illegally and cannot build a life here.

immigration, protest, immigrant, illlegal-alien

Obama commits 450 more US agents to Mexican border - The Boston Globe

Seeded on Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:38 AM EDT (The Boston Globe)

why are the governors of Texas and Arizona asking to deploy their National Guard troops? They have the authority to deploy their troops within their states.

I voted for Obama... and now find out....

Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:45 AM EDT

Greetings all I voted for Obama. I think he, his wife, and their children bring intelligence, class, and a good work ethic to the white house. I had a lot of hope pinned on him.

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politics, obama, republican, corporations, democrat, independant, contribution, bail-out

2007 bill will give .7% of our GNP to foreign aid

Seeded on Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:29 PM EDT (Maplight dog org)

Hearing about layoffs, unemployment, tax increases, and massive spending, , this bill commits the US to spend 0.7% of its GNP on foreign aid.

un, world, budget, unemployment, news, foreign-aid, us-news, us-deficit

Disgusting Policy up for vote - Veterans body parts policy being decided on by the Veteran's Affairs and SGLI

Seeded on Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:27 PM EDT (Open Congress )

S.347 A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to allow the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to distinguish between the severity of a qualifying loss of a dominant hand and a qualifying loss of a non-dominant hand for purposes of traumatic injury protection under Serviceme …

iraq, abuse, politics, war, soldier, va, veteran, wounded, afganistan, sgli

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