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<p>Friday 09 March 2012</p>
<font><strong>Monsanto's Roundup Shown to Be Ravaging
Butterfly Populations</strong></font><br>
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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<font><strong>"Public Media" Joins "Gang Greens" in
Colluding With Frackers</strong></font><br>
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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<font><strong>Physicians in Congress Committing
Malpractice on Millions</strong></font><br>
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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<font><strong>Big-Money Chamber of Commerce to Impact
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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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<font><strong>Healthy Job Growth Pushes
Employment-to-Population Ratio Upward</strong></font><br>
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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<font><strong>Five Million Voters May Lose Rights in the
2012 Elections</strong></font><br>
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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<font><strong>Conyers Urges Obama to Nominate Jeff Sachs
to Lead the World Bank</strong></font><br>
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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<font><strong>Financial Markets Are Not Faceless; Their
Face Is That of the Oligarchy</strong></font><br>
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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<font><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Keystone XL
Shot Down Again, and More</strong></font><br>
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.
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<font><strong>In the US, Futile Hopes for Another
Presidential Contender</strong></font><br>
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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<font><strong>Undernutrition and Overnutrition: Who's
Feeding Whom?</strong></font><br>
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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<font><strong>How to Honor Rush Limbaugh on International
Women's Day (Video)</strong></font><br>
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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<font><strong>Foreclosing on God: When Banks Seize
Churches</strong></font><br>
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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<p><strong>Rights Groups, Law Experts Reject Obama's
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<p><strong>Did Taxpayer Bailout Money Fund Heartland
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<p><strong>House Republicans Riven by Internal Battle Over
Spending<br>
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<p><strong>Limbaugh May Get Fitting New Sponsors: Web
Sites That Arrange Adulterous Relationships and Match
Sugar Daddies With Younger Women<br>
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<p><strong>Arizona Senate Approves Lying to Women to
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<p><strong>Whistleblower Claims Bank of America
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<p><strong>Mitt Romney's Zombie Problem<br>
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