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One. Harvest of fear: should we grow gm crops? Note: We have temporarily discontinued the final vote and tallying options of this feature.

harvest of fear: should we grow gm crops?

Learn why. The feature itself remains unchanged, and we encourage you to try it. On the following pages, you will be asked the same question seven times: "Based on what you now know, do you think we should raise genetically modified (GM) crops? " Each time, you must answer Yes or No to that question, and each time, depending on how you responded, you will be presented with a new counterargument meant to challenge your stance. Thus, this feature presents six arguments for growing GM crops and six against, but whenever you answer yes or no, you will only see one side of the argument -- the one meant to challenge your position.

Understand the Israeli - Palestinian Apartheid In 11 Images » ThrivalRoom. – Woman’s Attempt To Troll Liberals Backfires When Someone Notices This Distu... Holly Fisher, a conservative Christian, has been getting insane amounts of attention recently by trolling liberals on social media over the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision.

– Woman’s Attempt To Troll Liberals Backfires When Someone Notices This Distu...

Unfortunately, she tried to up the ante one too many times and now she has unintentionally become the living symbol of how fundamentalism, no matter in what religion, looks disturbingly similar. After gaining internet fame for posing for a “conservative hat trick” by standing in front of a Hobby Lobby wearing a pro-life t-shirt and drinking out of a Chick-fil-a cup, Fisher wanted to find her next big political statement.

Fisher’s fans had apparently been telling her that just standing in front of Hobby Lobby wasn’t good enough. Dangerous Minds.

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Cyberwarfare. Guest Workers As Bellwether. Guest Workers As Bellwether Ana Rosa Diaz and Silvia Alfaro Walle at a Wal-Mart protest.

Guest Workers As Bellwether

Photo courtesy of the NGA By the time Martha Uvalle’s boss threatened to have her children assaulted, she’d already lowered her expectations. Uvalle, a forty-year-old from Tamalipas, Mexico, has come to Louisiana as a guest worker every year since 2006. “I came to fulfill the American Dream,” Uvalle told me with a laugh in November. Viral Video Shows the Extent of U.S. Wealth Inequality. 19 Maps That Will Help You Put The United States In Perspective. If Every Member of Congress Were a 90s TV Character...

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Drug War. The Power of Math and the “Wizardry” of Nate Silver. Tonight, Barack Obama continued the 44th US presidency, a second-term president; the first African-American to ever do so.

The Power of Math and the “Wizardry” of Nate Silver

Guinea-Bissau, After Coup, Is Drug-Trafficking Haven. The military brass here has long been associated with drug trafficking, but the coup last spring means soldiers now control the drug racket and the country itself, turning Guinea-Bissau in the eyes of some international counternarcotics experts into a nation where illegal drugs are sanctioned at the top.

Guinea-Bissau, After Coup, Is Drug-Trafficking Haven

“They are probably the worst narco-state that’s out there on the continent,” said a senior Drug Enforcement Administration official in Washington, who spoke on the condition of anonymity so as not to jeopardize his work in the region. “They are a major problem.” Since the April 12 coup, more small twin-engine planes than ever are making the 1,600-mile Atlantic crossing from Latin America to the edge of Africa’s western bulge, landing in Guinea-Bissau’s fields, uninhabited islands and remote estuaries.

There they unload their cargos of cocaine for transshipment north, experts say. Was the military coup itself a diversion for drug trafficking? Mr. United Nations officials agree. Mr. Mr. Oregon 2012 ballot measures. From Ballotpedia Nine ballot measures were certified for the 2012 ballot in the state of Oregon.

Oregon 2012 ballot measures

Four measures were approved and five were defeated. Two measures were legislatively-referred constitutional amendments, four were initiated state statutes, and the three were initiated constitutional amendments. The deadline for filing signatures for the November 2012 ballot was July 6, 2012.[1]. Rep. Paul Broun Says Evolution, Embryology, and Big Bang Theory are "Lies from the Pit of Hell" For the Wealthy, a 28 Percent Tax Solution. The most honest three and a half minutes of television, EVER... 8 Ways America's Headed Back to the Robber-Baron Era. July 2, 2012 | Like this article?

8 Ways America's Headed Back to the Robber-Baron Era

Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Over the past 40 years, corporations and politicians have rolled back many of the gains made by working and middle-class people over the previous century. We have the highest level of income inequality in 90 years, both private and public sector unions are under a concerted attack, and federal and state governments intend to cut deficits by slashing services to the poor. We are recreating the Gilded Age, the period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries when corporations ruled this nation, buying politicians, using violence against unions, and engaging in open corruption.

With Republicans more committed than ever to repealing every economic gain the working-class has achieved in the last century and the Democrats seemingly unable to resist, we need to understand the Gilded Age to see what conservatives are trying to do to this nation. 1. 2. 3. 4. Why America — Where Only The Rich Get Richer — Is Not A Democracy.