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Dealing With Corps 101 19 y
Quebec is pulling no punches against the mega corporation Wlmart in a landmark labour dispute case. They hace sent a message that manipulation will not occur on their soil. BRAVO! People first....profit second.
Canadian Court Rules Against Wal-Mart in Fight with Union
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/20/business/worldbusiness/20walmart.html
NYTimes September 20, 2005
Quebec Rules Against Wal-Mart in Closing of Unionized Store
By IAN AUSTEN
OTTAWA, Sept. 19 - Quebec’s labor relations board has rejected Wal-Mart Canada’s claim that it closed a unionized store in that province for economic reasons, saying instead that there was evidence the store might reopen.
In a decision released late last week, the board said that it did not find the April closing of the store in Jonquière to be ”re ... read more Corporate Psychosis 19 y
The world as you know it is under siege by biopirates. Thery are literally carving up the building blocks of life which undermines our very freedoms of existence. it is time to wake up and take notice.
Patenting ”Second Nature”: Nanotechnology Patents Will Supercharge Global Corporate Control
Subject: ETC Group: Nanotech’s ”Second Nature” Patents
ETC Group News Release 16 June 2005
http://www.etcgroup.org
ETC Group Releases New Report on Nanotechnology and Intellectual Property:
Nanotech’s ”Second Nature” Patents
The full text of the 36-page report is available here: http://www.etcgroup.org/article.asp?newsid=509 Twenty-five years after the biotech industry got the green light to patent life, nanotech goes after the building blocks of life.
On the 25th anniversary of ... read more $$$ Playing God $$$ 19 y
Profiteers seem to have no etical values. Profit and power dominate their psyche. Is this the world you want to collectively create? There is no room for apathy as the line between cohernecy and chaos is being pushed more and more by dis eased minds.
New Rules Sparks New Ethics...DId you have antyhnting to say about these rules? Or are the corporations paving the way to this strange new franken world?
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Creating ’human-animals’ for research
Ethics report endorses mingling human cells with lesser beings
RENO, Nevada (AP) -- On a farm about six miles outside this gambling town, Jason Chamberlain looks over a flock of about 50 smelly sheep, many of them possessing partially human livers, hearts, brains and other organs.
The University of Nevada-Reno researcher talks matter-of-factly about his plans ... read more Monsanto Patents Pigs 19 y
Read about Monsanto's latest atempt to patent and thus monopolize our natural foodchain.
Tell Monsanto What You Think of Their Patent for Their Latest Invention: The Pig
Aug. 3, 2005
Monsanto files patent for new invention: the pig
As the article below explains, Monsanto has filed several patents on
breeding herds of pigs!
This is only the latest attempt by Monsanto to monopolize a food source.
Where patents have been granted to Monsanto, the corporation has sought to
aggressively police their ”rights”.
TELL MONSANTO TO STOP PATENTING LIFE
Let Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant (no relation to the actor who plays a sleazy
corporate executive in Bridget Jones’ Diary) a ... read more Genetic Pollution 19 y
More and more geneticically modified crops are poluting our standard age olde crops. Monsanto is at the head of corrupting our foodchain.
Escape of the Transgenic Zucchini
September 20, 2005
Prof. Joe Cummins
Escape of the Transgenic Zucchini
Seminis seeds, a company owned by Monsanto Corporation recently admitted that genetically modified (GM) zucchini squash (courgettes) had been planted in Germany, The company claims to have destroyed the crop.
Presumably, the GM zucchini was modified with viral coat protein genes for virus resistance (virus resistance has been the only trait Seminis Seeds incorporated into GM squash, Cucurbita pepo). Interestingly, Seminis is along with USDA and Cornell University patentee ... read more ~ Organic Standards Update ~ 19 y
Here is an update on the critical debate going on about the Bush administration wanting to seriously water down the current and long established organic standards so his corporate alignments can eliminate their competion.. This is to food what the CODEX is to natural supplements. Please get involved people. These globalists mean business and they are moving fast now.
More Background on Sneak Attack in U.S. Senate on Organic Standards
From: National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture Organic Committee
Yesterday, -- Monday, September 19 -- an amendment to [Organic Food Production Act] OFPA was floated as a possible rider on the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Bill, which is currently being debated. This opening of OFPA through the appropriations process is being orchestrated by the Organic Trade Association and other major Industry food processors. Their goal is to return to what they believe is a pre-Harvey “Status Quo”.
YOUR ATTENTION AND ... read more Corporate Strawmen 19 y
Be conscious of these green washing groups placed to decieve.
4. LIKE-MINDED GROUPS ACROSS A RISING POND http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/article313730.ece
”For decades, corporations have known that, if they lobby for their own interests, public opinion won’t take them seriously,” begins the Independent’s article on the ”most influential” third party groups that have aligned with businesses to oppose action on climate change. They include the Congress of Racial Equality, once ”the ’shock troops’ of the civil rights movement” but, after accepting funding from ExxonMobil ”to assist with ’global climate outreach’,” now notorious for sho ... read more Psy-ops For Sale 19 y
Mass deception is becoming mainstream...a saleable commodity for those who rely on deception or spin for their image. Perhaps this company could have done a better job than waht we have seen recently from New Orleans.
2. PSY-OPS FOR SALE
http://slate.msn.com/id/2126479/
”Strategic Communication Laboratories, a small U.K. firm specializing in ’influence operations’ made a very public debut this week with a glitzy exhibit occupying prime real estate at Defense Systems & Equipment International, or DSEI, the United Kingdom’s largest showcase for military technology. The main attraction was a full-scale mock-up of its ops center, running simulations ranging from natural disasters to political coups,” Sharon Weinberger writes for Slate. The elaborate booth included actors, flashing computer screens and a ... read more Concerned Scientists Newsletter 19 y
Some mixed news from the Concerned Scientists Group.
Feed: Newsletter of the Union of Concerned Scientists
FEED - Food & Environmental Electronic Digest
September 2005
Read FEED online at: http://ucsaction.org/ct/J7_Ifnd1kmB2/ CONTENTS
1. Update: Baytril finally off the market!
2. Hurricane Ophelia hits pharma rice in North Carolina
3. Safe alternatives to antibiotics for livestock
4. Iowa county offers tax breaks for organic farmers
5. Engineered crop outcrosses to distant relative
1. Update: Baytril finally off the market!
After losing another administrative appeal, Bayer threw in the towel and finally allowed its poultry ... read more Soulless Leader 19 y
Written by Marianne Williamson who is best known for her incredible interpretation/translation of A Course In Miracles, this article cuts to the quick of what is happening on the world stage. She is to be complemented for her honesty and courage. Please read this and take note. Marianne has a keen developed sense of awareness.
*Thanks to Daizy for bringing this to my attention*
People SensePresident’s Soulless Sensibility
By Marianne Williamson
From: http://www.detnews.com/2005/editorial/0509/10/D08-309629.htm
Something very important is happening here -- something more than simply a hurricane, or the suffering of thousands who were neglected by their government during a time of great need. Most worldly occurrences reflect deeper truths. What is happening is a gigantic reckoning, as Americans are forced to come to terms with how very, very naked is the emperor who we thought had such incredible clot ... read more ~ Terminator Seeds ~ 19 y
Terminator seeds are one of the biggest threats to mankind. Corporate greed and control/domination rears its ugly head in full arogant display as they attempt to take over the food chain for profit (and tyrnanny) by raping and piliging the bulding blocks of our existance.
First here are 2 poems I wrote a few years ago about the dangers of terminator seeds. THe poems are follwed by a call to action to stop the progression of this pervasive and gravely dangerous globlaist endeavor (profit/control tactic).
The Cutting Edge
Lapis
Rippin the strands to meet demands,
Due diligence set aside.
Mung bean, meet your new maker,
A God with a patent,
A God who’s a faker.
The seed that drifts round the sphere,
Erases the future,
Fuels the fear.
As we trudge through the sludge,
Of old broken promises,
A revived anthem in familiar disguise,
I ... read more GMO Documentary Blocked 19 y
The corporate elite have many ways of making sure that they (and their unethical methods of profiteering) are not found out. COntrolling meddia is but one avenue. Another important one is by pressuring universities (grant money, etc).
Canadian Filmmaker-Activists Stir up GMO Battle
Free Press
Video sows seeds of controversy
GM grain film blocked by U of M: researchers
Mon Sep 12 2005
By Helen Fallding
TWO researchers accuse the University of Manitoba of blocking for three years the release of their video exploring the risks of genetically modified crops, while at the same courting funds from biotech
companies.
The case is being compared to a University of Toronto scandal over the suppression of drug research concerns.
University of Manitoba environment professor Stéphane McLachlan and his PhD stud ... read more Non-sustainable Food Production 19 y
There are five reasons why our current food system is not sustainable. Read this article to find out what thye are and some possible solutions to this massive problem.
Why Industrialized & Globalized Farm and Food Production is Not Sustainable
ISIS Press Release 14/09/05
Policies for Sustainable Food Systems, National and Global
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/PFSFSNG.php
Michael Meacher
Why our current agriculture and food production is not sustainable
There are five reasons why our current food system is not sustainable.
First, the increasingly mechanised agriculture depends on oil, but the supply of oil is beginning to run out, or at least half of the 2 trillion barrels of oil available has already been used and oil demand from China, In ... read more Science Under Siege 19 y
Article delving into corporate science manipualtion for profit.
SCIENCE UNDER SEIGE
By Tim Montague
An ill wind is gusting through the halls of science these days: faked research, suppression of unwelcome results, corruption of science advisory panels, university research falling under the influence of corporate sponsors, and many other conflicts of interest.
It’s as if science were under siege.
For at least the last thirty years science has strongly supported the positions taken by environmental and public health advocates. The proponents of ’business as usual’ have claimed that chemical and nuclear technologies have created only minor pro ... read more Iraq: Oil & Blood 19 y
This examine the real military motivation behind the Bush Administrations military strike on a souvern nation.
Iraq: Oil & Blood
The New York Times
July 28, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/opinion/28herbert.html
Oil and Blood By BOB HERBERT
It is now generally understood that the U.S.-led war in Iraq has become a debacle. Nevertheless, Iraqis are supposed to have their constitution ratified and a permanent government elected by the end of the year. It’s a logical escape hatch for George W. Bush. He could declare victory, as a senator once suggested to Lyndon Johnson in the early years of Vietnam, and bring the troops home as quickly as possible.
His mantra would be: There’ ... read more 9/11...What Happened? 19 y
So many unanswered questions reamin and the Bush administration sweeps all criticisms under the carpet. This must be examined fully and consciously and without bias.
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney Reopens Hearings on 9/11--What Really Happened?
From
McKinney Reopens 9/11
- Conspiracy theories implicating president aired at 8-hour hearing
By Bob Kemper
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
07/23/05
McKinney’s entire hearing is being archived for viewing on her website -
http://www.house.gov/mckinney/ - and videos of all the DC Emergency Truth
Convergence events will also be available online by August 10th. We will
post links here as segments are posted. - Ed.
Rep. Cynthia McKinney chairs Friday’s hearing, reopening the issue that
b ... read more Corporation Status Problem 19 y
Why the pervasive corporate entity must be changed for the health of this planet.
Why We Need to Strip Away the False & Dangerous Legal Status of Corporations as ”Persons”
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:54:10 -0400
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