[All] Fwd: Monsanto's Roundup Shown to Be Ravaging Butterfly Populations

Fri Mar 9 16:55:06 EST 2012

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Friday 09 March 2012

*Monsanto's Roundup Shown to Be Ravaging Butterfly Populations*
Mike Barrett, Natural Society: "Although the butterfly population may be 
suffering, humans are taking heat from Monsanto's creations as well. 
Past research has shown that Monsanto's Roundup ready crops are leading 
to mental illness and obesity, primarily by destroying the amount of 
good bacteria found in the gut. The corporation's Roundup, containing 
glyphosate, has also been shown to cause infertility and birth defects."
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*"Public Media" Joins "Gang Greens" in Colluding With Frackers*
Maura Stephens, Truthout: "National Petroleum, er, National Public Radio 
has been straying ever farther from journalistic integrity, especially 
when it comes to its 'reports' on 'natural' gas and the 
Halliburton-developed technology known as high-volume horizontal 
hydraulic fracturing, or fracking."
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*Physicians in Congress Committing Malpractice on Millions*
Dr. Brian Moench, Truthout: "I'm reluctant to accuse other physicians of 
malpractice. However, it is obvious these lawmakers have let political 
fealty co-opt their medical judgment. Moreover, their malfeasance has 
the potential to sabotage the health of millions, not just a handful of 
their own patients. This is malpractice on a grand scale."
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*Big-Money Chamber of Commerce to Impact Elections, Mostly for GOP*
Peter Stone, McClatchy Newspapers: "The chamber's biggest donors for 
political, lobbying and other programs have in recent years included 
energy giants, the pharmaceutical industry, insurance companies and Wall 
Street firms. After it unsuccessfully opposed creating the Consumer 
Financial Protection Bureau, the chamber and its center have tried to 
limit the bureau's powers and budget."
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*Healthy Job Growth Pushes Employment-to-Population Ratio Upward*
Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research: "One very positive 
sign is that state and local government added 1,000 jobs after adding 
7,000 last month. This indicates that the sector will no longer be a 
drag on growth and could even provide some modest boost over the course 
of the year. On the negative side, wage growth may be weakening."
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*Five Million Voters May Lose Rights in the 2012 Elections*
Brentin Mock, Colorlines.com: "Many voter ID proponents might argue that 
voter ID are made possible by the success stories of the civil rights 
movement, but they also want to place barriers to voting because civil 
rights legislation may have been too successful, as evidenced by a U.S. 
president who's not only a Democrat but is black. Those working to put 
voter restrictions in place don't want that kind of election to happen 
again."
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*Conyers Urges Obama to Nominate Jeff Sachs to Lead the World Bank*
Robert Naiman, Truthout: "President Obama has a historic opportunity to 
help reform the World Bank, by nominating development expert Jeffrey 
Sachs to be the World Bank's next president. Sachs has said that as 
president he would sharpen the focus of the Bank on achieving the 
Millennium Development Goals for reducing poverty and extending access 
to health care and education. Coming from Sachs, this pledge is change 
you can believe in."
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*Financial Markets Are Not Faceless; Their Face Is That of the Oligarchy*
Geoffrey Geuens, Isabelle Metral and Henry Crapo, l'Humanite: 
"L'Humanite interviews the author of la Finance imaginaire, anatomie du 
capitalisme: des 'marches financiers' a l'oligarchie, Arden publishers 
(Fantasizing about Finance - an Anatomy of Capitalism: 'Financial 
Markets' or Oligarchy?). The Belgian academic dissects the intricate 
logic of political discourse based on facile but factitious 'opposing 
positions' that actually hides the structural links between finance and 
the State."
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*On the News With Thom Hartmann: Keystone XL Shot Down Again, and More*
In today's On the News segment: the Chamber of Commerce is targeting 
Democrats; a Congressional challenge to Obama's "kill doctrine"; pink 
slime is the new "lean, finely textured beef"; and more.
Watch the Video and Read the Transcript 
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*In the US, Futile Hopes for Another Presidential Contender*
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "I haven’t written much lately about the 
spate of articles either calling for, or at least wistfully speculating 
about, a “centrist” third-party presidential candidacy in the United 
States. It’s nonsense, of course, on multiple levels."
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*Undernutrition and Overnutrition: Who's Feeding Whom?*
Jennifer Clapp, TripleCrisis: "De Schutter's policy recommendations 
include a range of measures: impose taxes on unhealthy foods, regulate 
the amount of fats, salt and sugar in processed foods, curb advertising 
on junk food, cut agricultural subsidies and support local food systems 
that promote sustainable, diverse and healthy diets. All these 
suggestions are excellent. But there is one potential hitch that may 
slow down progress on these fronts: the vested interests of the 
transnational food companies."
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*How to Honor Rush Limbaugh on International Women's Day (Video)*
Robert Greenwald and Jesse Lava, Brave New Foundation: "As of this 
writing, 49 sponsors have pulled out of the Rush Limbaugh show after his 
repeated demeaning remarks about Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke. 
But of course, this isn't the first time Rush has slandered women. Or 
the second. Or the fifth. Or the tenth. He makes a career out of 
enflaming misogynistic (not to mention xenophobic, racist, and classist) 
passions."
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*Foreclosing on God: When Banks Seize Churches*
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "Oh dear me, what a divine train 
wreck it is when the free-market economy kicks God out of house and 
home. According to a March 8 Reuters article, 'Banks are foreclosing on 
America's churches in record numbers as lenders increasingly lose 
patience with religious facilities that have defaulted on their 
mortgages.'"
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*Rights Groups, Law Experts Reject Obama's "Assassination" Program
*Read the Article at Common Dreams 
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*Did Taxpayer Bailout Money Fund Heartland Institute's 
Climate-Change-Denial Projects?
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*House Republicans Riven by Internal Battle Over Spending
*Read the Article at Reuters 
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*Limbaugh May Get Fitting New Sponsors: Web Sites That Arrange 
Adulterous Relationships and Match Sugar Daddies With Younger Women
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*Arizona Senate Approves Lying to Women to Prevent Abortions
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*Whistleblower Claims Bank of America Intentionally Blocked Homeowners 
 From Getting Federal Mortgage Help
*Read the Article at ThinkProgress 
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*Mitt Romney's Zombie Problem
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