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FDA to Make Food Safety Rules Farmer-Friendlier, Monsanto’s Michael Taylor Says
from usatoday.com: The Food and Drug Administration says it will revise sweeping new food safety rules proposed earlier this year after farmers complained the rules could hurt business. Michael Taylor, FDA’s commissioner for foods, said the agency wants to make sure the rules are practical for farmers who have to abide by them.
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What An ‘#Organic’ Food Label Should Mean
from latimes.com: Mandatory GMO labeling of all food will continue to arouse passions on both sides of the issue. Though it may not satisfy all GMO-labeling advocates nor be welcomed by all leaders in the biotechnology industry, allowing a GMO-free organic label provides more choice in the marketplace and responds to the demands of millions…
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New World Next Week: Episode176 – New World Next Year 2014
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode176 – New World Next Year 2014 Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Pilato’s 2013 Story: The End of Money ‘What is Bitcoin’ Among Top US Google Searches in…
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#NSA Fallout Hits American Defense Contractors To The Tune Of $4b
from falkvinge.net: Brazil ditches Boeing’s F/A-18 in favor of SAAB’s JAS 39 Gripen over the NSA’s rogue behavior. In a press conference tonight, Brazil’s defense department announces that Brazil will buy the Swedish fighter jet, according to multiple Brazilian sources. The direct reason for rejecting Boeing’s F/A-18 was the United States’ hostile and unacceptable spying…
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Who Owns the World’s Biggest #Bitcoin Wallet? The #FBI.
from wired.com: Who owns the single largest Bitcoin wallet on the internet? The U.S. government. In September, the FBI shut down the Silk Road online black marketplace, and it started seizing bitcoins belonging to the Dread Pirate Roberts — the operator of the illicit online marketplace, who they say is an American man named Ross…
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Fracking Chemicals Linked to Birth Defects, Infertility
from naturalblaze.com: A controversial oil and natural gas drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, uses many chemicals that can disrupt the body’s hormones, according to new research accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s journal Endocrinology. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals, or EDCs, are substances that can interfere with the normal functioning of the endocrine system. EDCs…
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Nine states propose 16 anti-fluoridation bills
from naturalnews.com: Things are heating up on the fluoride front as states and municipalities all across the country rethink their official water fluoridation policies. According to the Fluoride Action Network (FAN), some 16 pieces of legislation across nine states were introduced or passed just within the past year to protect the public against this pervasive…
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France: Hamburger sales increase 40% in last two years
from rawstory.com: Once considered the worst kind of food sin in France, the hamburger is conquering the land of haute cuisine. From humble fast food to Michelin-starred gourmet burgers, sales of the most quintessentially American sandwich have soared in France and the dish has become a fixture on restaurant menus. “The French discovered the burger…
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#BedStuy School Allegedly Performed “#Occult” Rituals On Boy
from gothamist.com: A set of parents are suing the Brooklyn Waldorf School for allegedly practicing witchcraft on their kid, after he was suspended last year for “grabbing another boy’s privates.” Emily Hartzell and Leslie Nuchow filed court papers earlier this month claiming that school administrator Walkyria Machado forced their then-6-year-old son to undergo a bizarre,…
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Ex-#BP Engineer Convicted of Deleting Texts to Obstruct #GulfOilSpill Probe
from foxnews.co: A former BP drilling engineer was convicted Wednesday of deleting text messages from his cellphone to obstruct a federal investigation of the company’s massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He was found guilty on one charge and acquitted of a second charge. A federal jury deliberated for more than nine…
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Religion Writers Agree: #PopeFrancis is No. 1 Newsmaker of 2013
from religionnews.com: He’s Time magazine’s Person of the Year, the most talked about topic on Facebook and the most popular baby namesake in Italy. No surprise, Pope Francis is also the top Religion Story of the Year and the Religion Newsmaker of the Year, according to a poll of Religion Newswriters members. Francis beat out…
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#HaroldCamping, Radio Host Predicted World’s End, Dies at 92
from washingtonpost.com: Harold Camping, the radio preacher who convinced thousands of followers that Jesus would return on May 21, 2011, to usher in the end of the the world, has died, according to a statement released late Monday (Dec. 16) by his Family Radio network. He was 92. Camping died Sunday evening, an employee at…
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Oregon Grocers File Liquor Privatization Measure
from kgw.com: A group led by Oregon grocery stores filed initial paperwork Monday that could lead to a ballot measure asking voters whether to privatize liquor sales. The organization called Oregonians for Competition said in a statement that it’s filed five proposed initiatives and will select one to move forward with. The initiatives differ in…
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Facebook to Show Video Commercials That Play Automatically
Facebook Forces Video Ads on You Because Marketers Told It To* from mercurynews.com: Some Facebook users will see video commercials Thursday that start playing automatically when users scroll through their usual stream of posts and updates from friends, the social networking company said Tuesday. But the commercials won’t make a sound unless a user taps…
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#Satanists Take to Indiegogo to Build Giant #Oklahoma Monument
from geek.com: So, the Satanic Temple isn’t trying to separate church and state, but may perhaps force the state’s hand in removing the Ten Commandments monument, because it’s not fair to other religions. If you want to stick it to the man, want to see your satanist ideals represented in a state in which you…