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Mocking health reform, Republicans propose mandating gun ownership | Raw Story
In a measure apparently mocking the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance mandate, Republican lawmakers in South Dakota want to force everyone over 21 years of age to buy a gun by 2012.
The Center for Food Safety has announced an immediate challenge to the USDA’s unregulated approval of Monsanto’s genetically-modified (GMO) alfalfa . “All farmers should be on notice that we will be suing again, so before they make their seed buying decisions, I would certainly caution them that we will be in court,” CFS’s Andrew Kimbrell told Agri-Pulse.com . “And I think that anybody who looks at our past record over the last five years will realize that we haven’t lost yet.”
Monsanto back in court: Center for Food Safety challenges GMO alfalfa ruling – Red, Green, and Blue
Biologists wipe out a mouse's spatial working memory
Working memory is the place we hold temporary information that we're using to handle ongoing tasks, like dialing a phone number or following a set of directions. We often forget these after we're done—unless it's going to be your daily commute, you don't need to permanently recall that you make a left at the third traffic light—but working memory plays an essential role in many processes, and a person's working memory capacity seems to correlate with their performance on a variety of tests. So, what happens if you wipe a bit of working memory out?
Nigeria: Amnesty Implementation Pushes Oil Production to 2 Million Barrels Per Day
A Federal Government has said that the successful implementation of the Niger Delta Amnesty Programme has jacked up Nigeria's oil production to two million barrels per day up from its previous level of 600 barrels.
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Companies / Middle East & North Africa - Saudi move to buy telecoms stake
For decades, Saudi Arabia has sheltered the most brutal, anti-American and anti-Semitic dictators and strongmen that the Islamic world has to offer.
Why Mubarak Will Go to Saudi Arabia | NewsReal Blog
Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule of Egypt is probably coming to an end, and that means he’ll likely leave Egypt right after he leaves power. (Dictators don’t usually stick around the countries they dictated.)
Mubarak’s Going to Saudi Arabia, CIA-Backed Forecasters Say | Danger Room | Wired.com
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Obama, Incorporated by David Bromwich | NYRBlog | The New York Review of Books
Twenty-Five Arrested, Thousands Converge on Koch Brothers Billionaire's Caucus in the California Desert | News & Politics | AlterNet
Sunday's protest against the Koch brothers' right-wing gathering in Rancho Mirage demonstrated a growing boldness by progressive causes and activists. Note: The article below reprinted from FireDogLake by David Dayen recounts the events of Sunday's protest against the Koch brothers in Rancho Mirage, CA.
As I noted earlier, there have been many reports that the looting in Egypt has been carried out by agents provocateur .