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Money is in politics and above the law. Greed and corruption are threats to a just and sustainable future.

End corruption. Defend the Republic. | Represent.Us. Revolving Door. This is a Call to Action for a Non-Hierarchical Occupation of Monsanto Everywhere Whether you like it or not, chances are Monsanto contaminated the food you ate today with chemicals and unlabeled GMOs. Monsanto controls much of the world's food supply at the expense of food democracy worldwide. This site is dedicated to empowering citizens of the world to take action against Monsanto & it's enablers like the FDA, USDA, EPA, GMA, BIO, and the processed food companies that use Monsanto's products. Political heavyweight Monsanto took on an Indiana soybean farmer today in the U.S.

Supreme Court over Monsanto’s patents of its Roundup-resistant seed. And, once again, Justice Clarence Thomas was on the bench, hearing the case with the other justices. Some have criticized Thomas’ participation in cases involving a previous employer. Thomas knows something about the subject of today’s case: In 2001, he authored an important decision in this field, J. That’s where Monsanto took issue. Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail | Politics News.

Banksters's Finest. Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash | Threat Level. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Howard McKeon, (R-California), speaks to reporters following a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta The numbers tell the story — in votes and dollars. On Wednesday, the House voted 217 to 205 not to rein in the NSA’s phone-spying dragnet. It turns out that those 217 “no” voters received twice as much campaign financing from the defense and intelligence industry as the 205 “yes” voters. That’s the upshot of a new analysis by MapLight, a Berkeley-based non-profit that performed the inquiry at WIRED’s request. Overall, political action committees and employees from defense and intelligence firms such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, United Technologies, Honeywell International, and others ponied up $12.97 million in donations for a two-year period ending December 31, 2012, according to the analysis, which MapLight performed with financing data from OpenSecrets.

How Corporate Cash Threatens the Environment.