Unlike many European Union countries, Hungary is a nation where
genetically modified (GM) seeds are banned. In a similar stance against
GM ingredients, Peru has also passed a 10 year ban on GM foods.
Almost 1000 acres of maize found to have been ground with genetically
modified seeds have been destroyed throughout Hungary, deputy state
secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development Lajos Bognar said. The
GMO maize has been ploughed under, said Lajos Bognar, but pollen has not
spread from the maize, he added.
Based on conversations with activists across the UK and US,'You Can't Evict an Idea' is a first-hand account of the Occupy movement, an assessment of the impacts, and an argument about what can be learnt.
Meanwhile, 80,000 chemicals have been produced in the U.S. to create commonly-used products, which include known carcinogens such as asbestos, formaldehyde, lead, cadmium, trichloroethylene, and vinyl chloride, with virtually no government oversight.
The use of toxic chemicals has risen dramatically in the last 50 years to a point that they are now ubiquitous in human bodies and our environment. Although it is not clear exactly why these childhood cancers are on the rise, a substantial and growing body of evidence suggests that these chemicals may play a role.
A new documentary aims to address an issue that "affects millions of people around the world and impacts everything from the sustainability of our food supply to the safety of our schools," according to apitch video posted on Kickstarter.
"Resistance" filmmaker Michael Graziano goes on to point out that more people in the U.S. die from antibiotic-resistant infections than die from HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, emphysema, Parkinson's disease and homicides combined.
Based on the latest news, things are only getting worse.
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Thousands converged in central Madrid in a din of drums and whistles, in one of scores of demonstrations called by a grouping of civil movements.
"We have come because of it all - unemployment, corrupt politicians, the young people who have no future - it's a combination of everything," said Luis Mora, 55, a construction worker.
He was demonstrating in Madrid with his brothers and sisters who work in the health sector - one of the areas hit with salary and budget cuts in the recession.
At one point, Warren asked why the book value of big banks was lower,
when most corporations trade above book value, saying there could be
only two reasons for it. "One would be because nobody believes that the banks' books are
honest," she said. "Second, would be that nobody believes that the banks
are really manageable. That is, if they are too complex either for
their own institutions to manage them or for the regulators to manage
them."
That set off angry responses to Politico's Morning Money.
"While Senator Warren had every right to ask pointed questions at
today's Senate Banking Committee hearing, her claim that 'nobody
believes' that bank books are honest is just plain wrong," a "top
executive" emailed the financial newsletter. "Perhaps someone ought to
remind the Senator that the campaign is over and she should act
accordingly if she wants to be taken seriously."
Bankers and other members of the finance community have opposed Warren
as she rose from being a Harvard University law school professor to a
Massachusetts senator. They opposed her permanent nomination to head the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which she created.
After Senate
Republicans said that they would filibuster her nomination, she ran for
Senate in Massachusetts. Wall Street donated heavily to her opponent,
former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), but she won the seat. Warren became a
member of the Senate Banking Committee, despite further heavy opposition from banking lobbyists.
The
new “water barons” — the Wall Street banks and elitist
multibillionaires — are buying up water all over the world at
unprecedented pace. Familiar mega-banks and investing powerhouses such
as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Credit
Suisse, Macquarie Bank, Barclays Bank, the Blackstone Group, Allianz,
and HSBC Bank, among others, are consolidating their control over water.
Wealthy tycoons such as T. Boone Pickens, former President George H.W.
Bush and his family, Hong Kong’s Li Ka-shing, Philippines’ Manuel V.
Pangilinan and other Filipino billionaires, and others are also buying
thousands of acres of land with aquifers, lakes, water rights, water
utilities, and shares in water engineering and technology companies all
over the world.
The second disturbing trend is that while the new water barons are
buying up water all over the world, governments are moving fast to limit
citizens’ ability to become water self-sufficient (as evidenced by the
well-publicized Gary Harrington’s case in Oregon, in which the state
criminalized the collection of rainwater in three ponds located on his
private land, by convicting him on nine counts and sentencing him for 30
days in jail).
Let’s put this criminalization in perspective:
Billionaire T. Boone Pickens owned more water rights than any other
individuals in America, with rights over enough of the Ogallala Aquifer
to drain approximately 200,000 acre-feet (or 65 billion gallons of
water) a year. But ordinary citizen Gary Harrington cannot collect
rainwater runoff on 170 acres of his private land.
It’s a strange New World Order in which multibillionaires and elitist
banks can own aquifers and lakes, but ordinary citizens cannot even
collect rainwater and snow runoff in their own backyards and private
lands.
It usually refers to the multinational corporations and
private contractors (like Lockheed Martin) that military agencies use to
develop, plan and build whatever it is they desire with regards to
technology, deep underground military bases and more.
There is a
separate global power structure on Earth that supersedes the government,
and is much more advanced in its understanding of scientific
development, and the true nature of reality.
When it comes to global matters that involve military, financial and
corporate interests, or anything involving the health, pharmaceutical
and energy industry, decisions and cover ups are implemented by this
power structure by using the resources available to them like the CIA,
NSA, FBI, Navy, Army and Air Force.
When military mixes with industry,
coupled with classification of information in order to in slave and
control the human race, it creates a not so desirable combination.
Some
within the bottom of this pyramidal power structure tried to warn us,
like president Dwight Eisenhower in his fair well speech as president in
1961. Here he warns of a separate entity that has more power over
decision making and policy than the government does.
He warms us about
the influential power this separate entity has,and its ability to
heavily influence what it desires to accomplish.
Do we really face any threats? I don’t think so, events are created in
order to justify certain actions, as well as create fear within the
human race and push a false sense of patriotism. It’s no coincidence
that all of our mainstream media is owned by less than 5 corporations,
and those corporations all have ties to the military industrial complex,
we have literally been brainwashed.
Their numbers swell daily: ordinary people furious that, despite his conviction for dreadful crimes during Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971, Mr Mollah faces only a life sentence.
The rallies began on February 5th after online activists called for protests at Shahbag, a busy intersection in central Dhaka.
They want Mr Mollah and others on trial to face the death penalty. He was convicted by the International Crimes Tribunal, a local court set up by the government of Sheikh Hasina to prosecute men, largely from an Islamic opposition party, accused of murder, torture, rape and other wartime atrocities.
When, somewhat unexpectedly, Mr Mollah was spared a death sentence, he was seen flicking supporters a V-for-victory sign. That smug gesture may have helped to provoke the outrage.
"We
have a preliminary test result that suggests the presence of horse DNA
in our 500g Beef Bolognese sauce. As you'd expect, we have withdrawn
this product from our shelves," Asda spokeswoman Jo Newbould said. Asda
has about 550 shops across the UK.
Last
month, Asda withdrew four burger products after they were found to
contain trace levels of horse DNA. The burgers were supplied by
Silvercrest, which had also sold Tesco and other grocers beef burgers
containing horse meat.
Separately on Thursday,
Irish supplier Rangeland Foods said it was withdrawing its frozen
burger products after discovering that some contained 5 percent to 30
percent horse meat. Rangeland supplies frozen burgers to restaurants,
pubs, caterers and fast food chain Supermac's.
Britain's Food Standards Agency
(FSA) said on Thursday that six horses slaughtered in the UK that
tested positive for the drug phenylbutazone were exported to France and
may have entered the human food chain.
The drug
known as bute is a common anti-inflammatory painkiller for sporting
horses, but it is banned for animals intended for eventual human
consumption because of concerns that it poses a health risk to humans.
Buy local, fresh, organic produce. Boycott supermarkets. They make you ill!
Take a look at Lord Lucas
in Britain’s parliament, talking very frankly about Amazon. This is scary stuff. Some
excerpts:
Amazon is an amoral monopsony in its growth phase. It is
using extremely low margins to drive market share. It is using
aggressive tax avoidance to afford those low margins. It is not just us
that it does not pay tax to; it does not pay tax to anybody.
We now have nowhere to shop on a large scale. The internet retailers
have control and the internet retailer that will have control above all
is Amazon.
Suppliers will then become dependent on the one retailer. It is clear
where Amazon intends to go after that: it intends to take out the
publishers.
It is already doing that in the States, forming its own
relationships with authors and publishing its own exclusive-to-Amazon
books.
At the end of the day, what need has a company with
three-quarters of the book trade of independent publishers? It can do
everything itself.
It will continue to use a wide range of predatory tactics to do that.
Amazon trawls the web to make sure that it always offers the lowest
price on anything. It compels suppliers to charge it less than they do
anybody else, on pain of being dropped-either individual projects or
entirely.
It runs this thing called Amazon Marketplace, where little
traders can go, but it knows everything that happens in that
marketplace: all communications between a business and its customers,
what is being sold and at what price.
When it sees a good opportunity,
it goes to the supplier and undercuts the trader.
The disclosure is likely to reignite the public outcry about legal
tax avoidance by big firms at a time when Britain is drowning in debt
and suffering painful public spending cuts.
It comes only a week after
industry regulator Ofwat announced that water bills would rise by an
average of 3.5 per cent to £388 a year.
Corporate Watchfound six UK
water companies took high-interest loans from their owners through the
Channel Islands stock exchange. Interest payments on the loans reduce
taxable profits in the UK and, thanks to a regulatory loophole, go to
the owners tax free.
Corporate Watch found that some £3.4bn had been borrowed by the six
companies using this method. It highlights Northumbrian Water as "the
most brazen case", as it paid 11 per cent interest on just over £1bn of
loans it has taken from its owner, the Cheung Kong group, a Hong
Kong-based conglomerate run by Li Ka-shing, the world's ninth-richest
person.
The Treasury considered closing the loophole last year,
questioning the way companies were using it, but decided against it. The
report also found that Britain's 19 water company bosses were paid
almost £10m in combined salaries and other bonuses in 2012.
The
huge levels of debt used by the industry overall to finance its
operations are also costing UK consumers £2bn a year more than if it was
publicly financed – equating to nearly £80 per household.
A day after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was arrested during a climate change rally
outside the White House, the environmental activist joined HuffPost
Live to defend his protest against the Keystone XL pipeline.
Kennedy, who is president of the Waterkeeper Alliance and a senior attorney for the National Resources Defense Council, told HuffPost Live's Jacob Soboroff that he and other opponents believe the project is "the worst project that we've seen come along in our lifetime."
"The oil industry last year had pure profits of $100 billion," Kennedy
said. "They are the richest private entities of mankind. We've never
seen anything like this and they're exercising political power."
For the first time since November’s Black Friday walkout,
US Walmart retail workers are out on strike.
At noon, half a dozen
workers in Laurel, Maryland, walked off the job in protest of alleged
retaliation by Walmart management. They were joined by Lancaster, Texas,
Walmart employee Colby Harris, a fellow activist with the labor group
OUR Walmart.
After delivering a letter to their store manager, and
protesting with supporters outside the Laurel Walmart, the workers filed
new charges with the National Labor Relations Board alleging illegal
intimidation by the retail giant.
“What inspired me” to strike, Harris told The Nation, “was
the fact that Walmart’s still using those same tactics to try to silence
workers.” Walmart did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A comment left on the site states:
Mocha Bob
Wow, half a dozen? And no pictures of the crowd?
The point being that however many are taking part, the Walmart workers are waking up to the fact they have a voice and are stronger for banding together and using it, as stated below from Huff Post Business.
This is only natural, as the fiat currency concept would have
been shown to be the farce that it is.”
For this reason, Thomas argued, the hoarding of gold is being done
with the aim of redistributing it later on to those nations (or
supra-nations, such as the EU and China) the elite have destined to be
the future global engines after the old one has been discarded:
“It is entirely possible that all currencies could receive a
shake-up, and an entire worldwide system of gold-backed currencies may
develop. If this were to occur, the countries that held the largest
amounts of gold at that time would be out in front economically.”
A recent appointment of Rothschild as “financial advisor” by the Board
of Directors of gold exploration company Spanish Mountain Gold is yet
another unmistakable indication that the ancient family is moving the
world’s gold supply to both “emerging markets” and Central Banks worldwide, strengthening the family’s monopoly position when the fiat-based house of cards comes crashing down in the West
“We have been coming to these sacred cascades since before the time of
Christ,” said Ankuash, preparing a palm-leaf spread of melon and mango.
“The government has given away land that is not theirs to give, and we
have a duty to protect it.
Where there is industrial mining, the rivers
die and we lose our way of life. They want us to give up our traditions,
work in the mines, and let them pollute our land. But we will give our
lives to defend the land, because the end is the same for us either
way.”
We all have different
ideas of what the truth is and what must be included in new plans of
moving forward and creating a new world.
Some of us have differences
with consciousness stuff, some with things about health, others with
aspects of the government and some about things like religion and
beliefs.
Either way we look at it, there is a level of right fighting
and nit picking that seems to be happening more and more as we become
more aware of what is going on.
Unite and WAKE UP. Wake up to what's going on, the lies being told to us to keep us fighting each other, rather than to turn and stand together against them, the 'elite'.
Despite assurances that 'sharing the sacrifice' necessary as a result of the 2008 economic collapse is the patriotic duty of every American, the latest challenge to that burden-sharing philosophy are the school bus drivers, matrons and mechanics of Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 1181, the country's largest transit union with 8,800 members in New York City.
On strike since January 16, the walkout was provoked when Mayor Michael Bloomberg withheld a court-ordered Employee Protection Provision (EPP) from Department of Education bids for upcoming school bus contracts.
In place since 1979, the EPP guarantees each employee a job regardless of which company wins the bid by requiring the company to hire current workers based on seniority.
Without the EPP in force, the privately owned bus companies will be able to cut wages and benefits as they replace experienced, trained personnel with minimum wage workers who lack the necessary CPR training or other required certifications.
♥ HAVE A HEART DAY ♥ On Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2013, celebrate Have a Heart Day by supporting Indigenous children to grow up safely at home, get a good education, be healthy, and proud of their cultures. First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada
Calling it more of a “walk” than a demonstration, Dupuis said retracing history was the major focus of the event. An all-ages group of demonstrators supporting the Idle No More movement weaved through downtown Montreal by the dozens Sunday afternoon.
There are more than one million homeless people in America and 138
million people who live paycheck to paycheck. Many more are struggling,
wondering how they'll make rent or get enough food. Those numbers are
astounding.
This is America.
Many proudly think our society is fair, but
the evidence overwhelmingly shows that fairness in America is a
myth. In the weeks and months ahead, AlterNet will shine more light on
America's economic injustice in an ongoing series.
We are launching our ongoing series with two articles today: Part 1,
below, looks at how America punishes poor people living on the street,
part of a larger pattern of dealing with poverty through criminalization
rather than social and policy fixes that have been shown to work
better.
Part 2 addresses
the growing apathy toward the plight of the poor, after decades of
conservative demonization. As the gap between the wealthy and the poor
keeps growing, there is a sense that more and more people don't want to
deal with the poor.
Is that how you want our society to be? What's your
role? It's time to rethink poverty.
Can we really separate these industries if they are all operated by the same people? How can we separate the medical, food and pharmaceutical industries when they are all funded and headed by the same families and multinational organizations?
How can we disregard comments and research conducted from insiders that have turned to the side of truth?
If cancer cures, clean energy technologies, and other information is being suppressed, who are the ones doing the suppressing and why?
There are still more than 1900 homes in New York and New Jersey that are without utilities of any kind in the prolonged wake of Superstorm Sandy.
Some families are getting assistance from FEMA and going to hotels,
which they must leave every two weeks, go and apply for more vouchers
and then check back in to the hotel.
Others are sleeping in tents.
Still others have remained in storm damaged homes without electricity, water or heat.
Exposing the real story behind global events, which shape the future of human existence and the world we leave our children.
The veil lifts on an astonishing web of interconnected manipulation to reveal that the same few people, secret societies and organizations control the daily direction of our lives, and how the same people on apparently different sides of politics are actually connected to the same elite organizations.
These organizations have the same proven agenda of a world government, a world central bank, a world army, a world currency, and some say a micro-chipped population. “OPPO-SAMES” These apparent opposites in politics are there to persuade us that we are not living in a prison, that we have a choice.
Yet these persons are not opposites at all but are part of a one-party state. The last two US Presidents were apparently opposites and on different sides – Bill Clinton and George Bush – yet they were both heavily involved within the same elite organizations.
David Icke explains: “What happens in practice is that if you look at all the dogmas in all cultures, all societies have what I call a ‘hassle-free zone.’ It is that area within any culture, within each dogma (religious, economic, political etc) wherein if you conform to it, you are in the comfort zone. No one’s going to laugh at you, condemn you for being different, or for expressing your uniqueness, because you are locked into the herd mentality, and you are conforming to what you are told you should be and do.
When you step out of this mind-set and express your unique aspect of all that exists and refuse to be frightened, or controlled, you immediately face ridicule or condemnation as I have in England.”
“THE SHEEPLE” “Whatever happened to living? The vast majority of people, rich and poor, on this planet are enslaved. Enslaved by the system’s robotic programming, its economic imprisonment, and by their own refusal to think, question and find the liberation that comes with an open mind.
We don’t live in a free society, we live as robots in a society in which you are free to do what the society wants you to do – produce and consume – that’s the reality.
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