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Asia. Australia. Europe. Middle East. North America. Environment. How the Man is Making You Sick. Health Freedom. Nutricide. Keith Olbermann [MSNBC] Guantanamo death highlights U.S. detention policy - Guantanamo. Collapse (part 1) Collapse (Part 2) 27c3: INDECT - an EU-Surveillance Project. ‘Anonymous’ hacks security firm that probed its membership‎ By Monday, February 7, 2011 10:01 EDT.

‘Anonymous’ hacks security firm that probed its membership‎

Bush's Swiss visit off after complaints on torture. The Jonestown Death Tape - November 18, 1978. Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different? The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now? "The policy set for GE alfalfa will most likely guide policies for other GE crops as well.

The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now?

True coexistence is a must. " - Whole Foods Market, Jan. 21, 2011 In the wake of a 12-year battle to keep Monsanto's Genetically Engineered (GE) crops from contaminating the nation's 25,000 organic farms and ranches, America's organic consumers and producers are facing betrayal. A self-appointed cabal of the Organic Elite, spearheaded by Whole Foods Market, Organic Valley, and Stonyfield Farm, has decided it's time to surrender to Monsanto. Top executives from these companies have publicly admitted that they no longer oppose the mass commercialization of GE crops, such as Monsanto's controversial Roundup Ready alfalfa, and are prepared to sit down and cut a deal for "coexistence" with Monsanto and USDA biotech cheerleader Tom Vilsack. In exchange for allowing Monsanto's premeditated pollution of the alfalfa gene pool, WFM wants "compensation.

" Bush, Obama, and the Nine-year “Emergency” On September 14, 2001, President George W.

Bush, Obama, and the Nine-year “Emergency”

Bush declared a national emergency with respect to the terrorist attacks of three days earlier. The National Emergencies Act of 1976 requires the President to renew this state of emergency on an annual basis if he wishes it to remain in effect. Bush renewed it every year he was in office, and now President Barack Obama has extended it for the second time during his term. The United States of America, therefore, is now entering its 10th year under a continual state of emergency — on the basis of a small number of (admittedly spectacular) terrorist attacks that took place in the space of a few hours back in 2001 and a handful of failed attempts since.

So-called national emergencies are a boon for governments, and particularly for heads of state. When the President declares a national emergency, wrote Harold C. The Facebook Setting You Should Change as Quickly as Possible. Welcome to INDECT homepage — indect-home. The piece of paper that fooled Hitler. 27 January 2011Last updated at 11:51 By Jon Kelly BBC News Magazine Continue reading the main story Select GROUP II / IAMADRID I to BERLIN RSS 128, 130/9/6/44 TPC on 12896 kcs at 1030 GMT 9/6/44 AUI on 9288 kcs at 1107 GMT 8/6/44 256 267.

The piece of paper that fooled Hitler

To HEROLD. Please engage LUDWIG MARTIN in this. 1. The wrong kind of sharing: Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page hacked. Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page has been hacked by an unknown person who posted a status update suggesting that the site should let people invest in it rather than going to the banks.

The wrong kind of sharing: Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page hacked

The page belonging to the 26-year-old Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder who was named Time's Man of the Year in 2010, was hacked some time on Tuesday. Food: There's Lots Of It. Mass Animal Deaths. A Letter from Anonymous. A Message from Anonymous. American Officers To Police Canada- NAU. Leaked Cable: Hike Food Prices To Boost GM Crop Approval In Europe. In a January 2008 meeting, US and Spain trade officials strategized how to increase acceptance of genetically modified foods in Europe, including inflating food prices on the commodities market, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks.

During the meeting, Secretary of State for International Trade, Pedro Mejia, and Secretary General, Alfredo Bonet “noted that commodity price hikes might spur greater liberalization on biotech imports.” It seems Wall Street traders got the word. By June 2008, food prices had spiked so severely that “The Economist announced that the real price of food had reached its highest level since 1845, the year the magazine first calculated the number,” reports Fred Kaufman in The Food Bubble: How Wall Street starved millions and got away with it. All to boost acceptance of GM foods, and done via a trading scheme on which Wall Street speculators profited enormously. Mass food riots in several nations ensued, as did an investigation by the U.S. The Wikileaks Documentary. The Rockefeller File (1976) by Gary Allen. Amazon take down of Wikileaks - Is the free internet dead?