Tag: congress
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4/29 Binge & Purge: Feeding The Fast Food Nation
SCOTUS hears arguments over genetically modified seed sales // Tests find HIV-like virus in bushmeat // Life insurance companies own $2B of stock in fast food chains
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Right On Schedule: Arizona Immigrant Law Energizes Hispanics, Dems
Hispanics and Democratic lawmakers furious over Arizona’s harsh crackdown on illegal immigrants expect huge weekend rallies across the United States, piling pressure on President Barack Obama to overhaul immigration laws in this election year.
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Econocrash: Fortune, Fail & The Fed + Geopolitiks Update
In an internal e-mail released Saturday, Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein wrote in November 2007 that the firm “didn’t dodge the mortgage mess,” but “made more than we lost” by betting against the U.S. housing market.
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4/22 Binge & Purge: Pinkwash, Raw Milk & Meat Residues
Komen makes mockery of self with KFC pinkwash campaign // Fake food safety bills: Feeding America poison one law at a time // US government continues its war on raw milk // ABC grills Vilsack on meat residues // Wholesale prices rise most in 26yrs as food costs explode
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poll: 4 out of 5 americans don’t trust washington
poll: 1/3 of americans say their own government a threat* from ap: America’s “Great Compromiser” Henry Clay called government “the great trust,” but most Americans today have little faith in Washington’s ability to deal with the nation’s problems. Public confidence in government is at one of the lowest points in a half century, according to…
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4/15 binge & purge: bayer hazard & banana republics
bayer admits gmo contamination out of control* ‘growing concern’ over marketing tainted beef* former US hostages sue chiquita for supporting terrorists* usda workers grow gardens for soup kitchens & food pantries* supplements exempted from codex language in ‘food safety bill’* update: usda finds major problems with toxins in meat supply*
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defcon 4/15: transhumanism, twitter, radio waves & fireballs
merging man & machine: we are the internet* youtube goes orwellian: now requires sms from every new registrant* how tweet it is!: library of congress acquires entire twitter archive* russia has no plans to deploy weapons in space* cyberwar doomsayer mcconnell lands $34m in govt cyberwar contracts for booz* cyberwar commander survives senate hearing* mysterious…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Afghanisurge, Lobbyists, Patenting Genes
The only jokes on this April Fool’s Day are the one’s being played on people everyday by the elites & their corporate-controlled media. That’s why Corbett Report & Media Monarchy join forces each week to bring you the New World Next Week – a 10min video series that gives you the text/context/subtext of the story…
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Sudden Mass Enlightenment Puzzles Congress, Causes Nat’l Security Alert
President Obama, U.S. congressmen and their aides held an emergency four hour-long meeting Wednesday to decide what action to take to stem a sudden and unprecedented mass enlightenment of the US population that threatens to destabilize the Government and create a fiscal crisis.
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Obama Appoints Ex-Pesticide Lobbyist As Agricultural Trade Negotiator
Islam Siddiqui’s recess appointment as chief agricultural negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has sparked considerable opposition from environmentalists and organic farmers. Siddiqui served as vice president for science and regulatory affairs at CropLife America, a trade association for the pesticide and biotech industries.
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ground zero: american apoplexy
support ground zero & purchase this episode for $1! from clyde lewis: There is a very critical problem facing America. There is a large wound on our mass consciousness and everyone wants to blame someone for their pain. Arguments between the right and left have polarized the entire country from healing this wound. What the…
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decider-in-chief bypasses congress, then visits his afghanisurge
obama bypasses senate process, filling 15 posts from nytimes: President Obama, making a muscular show of his executive authority just one day after Congress left for spring recess, said Saturday that he would bypass the Senate and install 15 appointees, including a union lawyer whose nomination to the National Labor Relations Board was blocked last…
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World Mourns As Communist Darkness Falls Upon America
In what is being described as one of the most astounding power grabs in modern history by newspaper headlines around the World, President Obama has succeeded in his audacious plan to remake America into a full fledged godless communist empire barely one year into his term with the enactment into law by the US Congress…
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Wall Street Despised In Poll Showing Most Want Real Regulation
Most people interviewed in the Bloomberg National Poll say they don’t like Wall Street, banks or insurance companies and favor letting the government punish bankers who helped cause the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
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Landmark Legislation: Both Parties Collude to Bring US Health Scare
Amid the hype, all I have to add is that if they wanted us to get health care, they could deliver it with the same shock & awe quickness that they deliver death & destruction around the world – at a fraction of the cost! – just like Bill Hicks said…