Monsanto GMO Seeds Use to Further Expand Within US December 30, 2011 Print Version By Mike Barrett Activist Post While genetically modified foods are continually being banned in other countries, the US is slow to follow the very necessary trend. The USDA has chosen to step back and give Monsanto even more power over GMO [...]
Arab Spring: Egypt Strikes Back December 30, 2011 Print Version US-funded agitators have offices raided across Egypt By Tony Cartalucci BlacklistedNews.com The LA Times reported, “Egypt raids foreign organizations’ offices in crackdown. Three U.S. groups are among those raided. Activists say the army is using the ruse of foreign intervention to stoke nationalism and deflect criticism [...]
FDA Won’t Regulate Use of Antibiotics in Healthy Livestock Intended for Human Consumption December 30th, 2011 Via: Guardian: Environmental and consumer groups have condemned the US Food and Drug Administration’s move to renege on its long-held policy to regulate the use of human antibiotics in animal feed. Last week, the agency quietly announced it [...]
U.S. Court Upholds Telecom Immunity for Surveillance of Americans December 30th, 2011 Searching for Mark Klein on Cryptogon will bring up several references to the NSA’s mass surveillance operations. Via: Reuters: A U.S. appeals panel on Thursday upheld the constitutionality of a federal law that grants immunity to telecommunications companies that assist the U.S. [...]
Department of Homeland Security Using Fake Facebook and Twitter Accounts to Monitor Posts Containing Certain Keywords December 28th, 2011 Via: Electronic Privacy Information Center: EPIC has filed a Freedom of information Act lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security to force disclosure of the details of the agency’s social network monitoring program. In news reports [...]
‘Fast and Furious’ Linked to Immunity Deal Between U.S. and Sinaloa Cartel, Trafficking Defendant Alleges in Court Papers December 29, 2011 Print Version Source: CNS News A Mexican drug trafficker awaiting trial in a Chicago federal court claims that the notorious Sinaloa cartel received weapons from “Operation Fast and Furious” under an alleged immunity agreement [...]
WAR DRUMS: Iran films US aircraft carrier near Strait of Hormuz… December 29, 2011 Print Version Source: Telegraph The commander of Iran‘s navy said the reconnaissance mission was proof that his fleet had “control over the moves by foreign forces” but it was unclear what intelligence could be derived from the grainy video, which [...]
December 30th, 2011 Every citizen who is concerned about the future of clean energy generation and the future of our environment should read this report. Every MIT student, every MIT graduate, and every financial contributor to MIT should read it. Judge for yourself where the facts lead. —Dr. Eugene F. Mallove, MIT and Cold Fusion: [...]
The Leading Cause of Breast Cancer: Medical Radiation December 28, 2011 Print Version Source: Cryptogon But keep getting those scans, the New York Times reminds you: The most consistent data suggest that women can reduce their risk by avoiding unnecessary medical radiation, forgoing hormone treatments for menopause that combine estrogen and progestin, limiting [...]
You Won’t Believe How Corrupt, Lazy And Stinking Rich Our Congress Critters Have Become December 28, 2011 Print Version Source: The American Dream If our founding fathers could see the cesspool that the U.S. Congress has become today, they would roll over in their graves. Most Americans don’t realize this, but we already have [...]
US House of Representatives: Internet pirates December 28, 2011 Print Version Source: Boing Boing TorrentFreak continues to crawl through YouHaveDownloaded, a database of IPs that have been logged by a BitTorrent-spying tool run by some folks in Russia. They’ve already revealed the downloading habits of the RIAA and DHS as well as the behavior [...]
U.S. Fifth Fleet says won’t allow disruption in Hormuz December 28, 2011 Print Version Source: Reuters Dubai – The U.S. Fifth Fleet said on Wednesday it will not allow any disruption of traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, after Iran threatened to stop ships moving through the strategic oil route. “The free flow of goods [...]
The transparency problem: the government will not tell you why it’s legal to kill you December 27, 2011 Print Version By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie President Barack Obama has leveraged heavy rhetoric on the subject of transparency for some time now, even going as far as to publish on the official White [...]
Why Neo-Cons Hate Ron Paul’s Honest Foreign Policy December 27, 2011 Print Version Jeremy R. Hammond Alt-Market This article, originally titled “Ron Paul: Propagandist Or Prophet?”, was written by Jeremy R. Hammond and published at Foreign Policy Journal Ron Paul is “the best-known American propagandist for our enemies”, writes Dorothy Rabinowitz in a recent Wall Street Journal [...]
Tougher drug laws mean nearly 1/3 arrested by age 23 December 27, 2011 Print Version Source: RawStory Nearly one in three Americans will already have been arrested by the age of 23, recent research suggests. A study analyzing data from the federal government’s National Longitudinal Survey of Youth found that 30.2 percent of 23-year-olds reported [...]
