Zuckerberg To Obama: Stop The NSA. Tumblr Mark Zuckerberg just posted a note to Facebook saying how upset he is with the US government's Internet-spying policies. It reads: As the world becomes more complex and governments everywhere struggle, trust in the internet is more important today than ever. The internet is our shared space. It helps us connect.
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Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. On June 10, 2013, President Obama announced his intention to nominate Jason Furman to become the next chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Shiva brings anti-GMO message to Kaua‘i - Thegardenisland.com: Local. LIHU‘E — The Kaua‘i War Memorial Convention Hall was standing room only as more than 1,100 people showed up Thursday night to hear a presentation by environmentalist Dr.
Vandana Shiva. “Your island is truth speaking to the world,” Shiva told the crowd to thunderous applause. Joining Shiva as part of a three-day Hawai‘i SEED Tour was environmental attorney Andrew Kimbrell and Hawaiian rights activist Walter Ritte of Moloka‘i. “Dr. Shiva is like the Dalai Lama of Agriculture,” Ritte said of the Indian philosopher, physicist, environmental activist and eco-feminist who has authored more than 20 books.
Shiva met with residents of the Westside for dinner ahead of time to discuss a pending class action lawsuit over the continued experimental use of pesticides by biotech companies in the area. Organizers are also working to have Hawai‘i become the first state to label foods containing genetically modified organisms. In introducing Dr. Dr. Critics slam Obama for "protecting" Monsanto. President Obama speaks to the Organizing for Action dinner on March 13, 2013 at the St.
Regis Hotel in Washington, D.C. MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images. The Real Monsanto Protection Act: How The GMO Giant Corrupts Regulators And Consolidates Its Power. By Aviva Shen "The Real Monsanto Protection Act: How The GMO Giant Corrupts Regulators And Consolidates Its Power" Liberals and Tea Party members alike are up in arms over the so-called “Monsanto Protection Act,” a provision snuck into the emergency budget bill that essentially exempts biotech firms like Monsanto Company from judicial review.
Now that President Obama has signed the law, Monsanto may plant genetically modified seeds even if a court of law orders them to stop. ‘Monsanto Protection Act’: Obama Signs Order That Protects Maker of Genetically Modified Crops. A biotech rider included in spending bill HR 933 and signed by President Obama on Tuesday will require the Agriculture Department to approve the growing, harvesting and selling of genetically modified crops, Fox News reports.
The Monsanto Protection Act has been met by White House protests and no less than two petitions, including one by the group Food Democracy that has garnered more than 250,000 signatures over concerns that back-room deal was struck with food growers at the expense of Americans’ health. Senator John Tester told Politico that the deal with Monsanto, the world’s largest producer of genetically modified seeds and crops,will only benefit big corporations. “These provisions are giveaways, pure and simple, and will be a boon worth millions of dollars to a handful of the biggest corporations in this country,” he said. The National Farmers Union, the American Civil Liberties Union, Stonyfield Farms and Nature’s Path also claim to oppose the rider, FN reports.
“Sen. 5 Appalling Facts About The Monsanto Protection Act Obama Signed Into Law (GMO Heaven) “Blink and you might have missed it.”
Even though Food Democracy Now protesters took their fight straight to Obama, protesting in front of the White House against Section 735 of the bill, he signed anyway. Coming quickly to the forefront are disappointment and concerns for the population of the United States. Below are some more details on this bill, and why there is a distraught reaction to is. Obama Slammed For Signing So-Called 'Monsanto Protection Act' » How did Barack Obama become Monsanto’s man in Washington? Alex Jones. Jon Rappoport Infowars.com April 29, 2013 And when are anti-GMO activist groups going to stop saying they’re “shocked and disappointed” by the president?
Shocked and disappointed is polite-speak and politically correct reaction. It’s baloney. Don’t you get it? Obama has never been on your side. Disappointment implies he was your buddy and then unaccountably walked away. The man is a politician. I’ve previously published Obama’s track record as Monsanto’s number-one political supporter in America. Meet Monsanto’s prime lobbyist, Barack Obama: After his victory in the 2008 election, Obama filled key posts with Monsanto people, in federal agencies that wield tremendous force in food issues, the USDA and the FDA: Obama, Senators betray America with Monsanto Protection Act - Sacramento Independent. With the stroke of a pen, Pres.
Obama has given Monsanto and other GMO/biotech companies free reign over America. The Monsanto Protection Act or HR 993, now forces the USDA to approve any new GMO seeds they may come up with and also prevents any actions against them should those seeds turn out to be harmful. America is now one big GMO experiment with you, me, and our children as the guinea pigs. "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power,” -Benito Mussolini.
Obama sells out U.S. citizens by signing Monsanto Protection Act into law - Dallas healthy living. 'Monsanto Protection Act' slips silently through US Congress. Obama Signs Monsanto Protection Act, Get Ready for A Riot. Obama betrays America yet again by signing the 'Monsanto Protection Act' into law. (NaturalNews) President Barack Obama campaigned on promises to end secret prisons, decriminalize marijuana, balance the budget, honor the Second Amendment and make health care affordable.
But what really unfolded was an explosion in the national debt (now $16 trillion and climbing), the signing of the NDAA, a claimed new power to kill any American at any time, even on U.S. soil, the use of military drones to murder American children overseas, a full-on assault against the Bill of Rights, a doubling of health insurance rates and the destruction of the U.S. economy. How the Monsanto Protection Act snuck into law. Updated, March 28: A number of readers have requested to know exactly where in the HR 933 they might find the provision dubbed the “Monsanto Protection Act.”
It is Section 735 in the bill, the full text of which can be read here. Original post: Slipped into the Agricultural Appropriations Bill, which passed through Congress last week, was a small provision that’s a big deal for Monsanto and its opponents. Colorado: Say NO to Uranium mine. Bernie Sanders Goes After Monsanto. The World According to Monsanto (FULL LENGTH) Monsanto Buys the Senate and Democracy Buys the Farm. When the U.S. government was first created, the founding fathers took great pains to distribute power across three branches of government to avoid the tyranny of concentrated power that most of them had crossed the ocean to get away from. The idea was to create a system of checks and balances, to keep certain human tendencies like greed, corruption, ideological extremism and abuse of power from getting out of hand.
They also made sure to keep the church and state at a safe operating distance for more or less the same reasons. Today, we may have drifted about as far away from those original intentions as we ever have in our history, though there may have been a couple of other times when we those stretched those principles nearly as far. During such times, industry, in fact, became a fourth branch of government, and money become a new religion, one that was not at all separated from the state.
Now, we are declaring biotech chemical companies to be above the law. YOUR FOOD, YOUR HEALTH: Latest on BiotechFood, GMOs, Pesticides, Chemicals, CAFOs, Industrial Food.