Tag: iowa
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#MorningMonarchy: September 13, 2017
Fake patients, the tip of the fatberg and replacing holy water + this day in history w/the death of Tupac and our song of the day by !!! on your Morning Monarchy for September 13, 2017.
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#MorningMonarchy: August 29, 2017
Website warrants, Silicone Prairie and the rise of the superbrains + this day in history w/Faraday’s electromagnetic induction and our song of the day by Oh Sees on your Morning Monarchy for August 29, 2017.
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#MorningMonarchy: October 26, 2016
Darknet coffee, health carefree and a lot of pot + this day in history w/the PATRIOT Act and our song of the day by PWR BTTM on your Morning Monarchy for October 26, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: October 5, 2016
OneTouch hack, sporting goods sellout and cash crops + this day in history w/Monty Python’s Flying Circus and our song of the day by Devendra Banhart on your Morning Monarchy for October 5, 2016.
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Locally-Sourced #Thanksgiving Meal Easy to Gobble
from kwwl.com: As you prepare your Thanksgiving feast, one local food expert asks you to consider just where all that nourishment came from. Wednesday afternoon, Brittany Bethel stood in her Dubuque County kitchen, pulling out the raw materials that would soon become her and her husband’s Thanksgiving feast. “It’s all local produce and cheese and…
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2/16 Binge and Purge: Arsenic and Old Taste
Organic Food Can Have High Concentrations of Arsenic // EU and US agree to Historic New Partnership on Organic Trade’ // Organic Farmer Prince Charles on Changing Our Faulty Food System // China’s Xi, US officials talk food trade in Iowa // Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning // Obama’s budget cuts bacteria testing in produce…
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CNN drops news feed on anti-war soldier supporting Ron Paul
Here’s an interesting view from a uniformed soldier that you generally wouldn’t hear on the lame stream news. “Well, I think it would be even more dangerous to start nit-picking wars with other countries… Someone like Iran… Israel is more than capable…”
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in iowa, farmland expands as crop prices soar
from nytimes: Across much of the Midwest the sharp increase in farm earnings has driven the price of farmland to previously unimaginable – and, some say, unsustainable – levels. But in the process, to much less fanfare, the financial rewards have also encouraged farmers to put ever more land into production, including parcels that until…
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12/8 binge & purge: rhetoric, recalls & recipes
newt says obama the ‘finest food stamp’ president* is obama the ‘food stamp president’?* supervalu joins farmers behind US food stamps at $71.8b* world food prices fall for a fifth straight month, united nations says may be ‘bottoming out’* 46 million on food stamps, up two-thirds* woman denied food stamps kills self, shoots children* iowa…
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9/1 Binge & Purge: Sugar, Slave, Blast
Antifreeze-tainted vinegar kills 11 in China, 120 poisoned* Foreign students protest slave labor at Hershey’s* One injured in ADM blast near Clinton, Iowa* video: Vitamin Water exposed as sugar water in Food Investigations*
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From ‘Flash Mob’ to ‘Flash Rob’: 5 Things to Know About Crime Waves
A flash mob in Germantown, Maryland robbed a local 7-Eleven store in under one minute Saturday night, as Military.com says flash mob attacks ‘the new terrorism’. // Media stifling racial violence coverage
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Biowars/Envirohealth: Dark Marks & 100 Days of Oil
Video: Dark mark – 100 days of oil* Corexit sprayed by BP tops 1m gallons* BP caught exploiting cheap prison labor to clean up oil spill* BP hires prison labor to clean up spill while coastal residents struggle* BP CEO Hayward out; Russia job in works* BP plans deep-water drilling off Libya* US expert: China…
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Monsanto Under Investigation By 7 US States
Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, and two other unidentified states are in a working group to investigate the biotech giant.

