Monsanto – Public Enemy No. 1 By Siv O’Neall

By Siv O’Neall
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axisoflogic.com
September 12, 2009

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The War of the Empire has many faces

The ‘war on terror’ has become nameless since our administration changed. But it is the same war, it has the same goals and it is as unwinnable as it always was. But certainly there are other ways of conquering the planet, says Washington. And so they impose the huge industries with their humungous profits on the entire world, corporations like Monsanto, Cargill, Dow, Bunge and others, giants that impose their own laws on world-wide agriculture and their goal is to make us eat only what they profit from.

Through lies and total lack of concern for the final outcome, they insert their hired crooks, their representatives, in top positions everywhere, make deals with corrupt governments all over the world, deals that make farmers the innocent victims of a world-wide scam. The result is disaster for the farmers and the poor people all over the world and enormous power for the Biotech Companies that suck the blood out of the earth and out of the people who used to cultivate it with their own millennia-old and environmentally safe methods.

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Joe Wilson Voted to Provide Taxpayer Money for Illegal Immigrants’ Healthcare + Lie to Say Illegals Not Insured by Health Reform?

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Updated: Sept 13, 2009 added video

by Donny Shaw
OpenCongress
September 11, 2009

On Wednesday night, Rep. Joe Wilson [R, SC-2], shouted “You lie!” at President Obama when he said that the healthcare bill would not cover illegal immigrants. “The supporters of the government takeover of healthcare and liberals who want to give healthcare to illegals are using my opposition as an excuse to distract from the critical questions being raised about this poorly conceived plan,” Wilson said the next day in a campaign fundraising video.

However, in 2003, Wilson voted to provide federal funds for illegal immigrants’ healthcare. The vote came on the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, which contained Sec. 1011 authorizing $250,000 annually between 2003 and 2008 for government reimbursements to hospitals who provide treatment for uninsured illegal immigrants. The program has been extended through 2009 and there is currently a bipartisan bill in Congress to make it permanent.

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Mad as Hell Docs Head to Salt Lake City

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09.11.2009 by Elizabeth Ziegler

(KCPW News) A group of Oregon physicians is on a road trip to the nation’s capital to gather support for a single payer health care system. These “mad as hell doctors” will be in Salt Lake City tomorrow. KCPW’s Elizabeth Ziegler spoke to one of the doctors yesterday from his Portland, Oregon, office: Dr. Paul Gormon.

Dr. Paul Gormon is part of The Mad as Hell Doctors road trip, which stops in Salt Lake City tomorrow at 3 p.m. in the Main City Library’s fourth floor conference room. There will be a presentation on single payer health care, then they’ll collect stories from the audience to post on their Web site, madashelldoctors.com.

h/t: CALL ON PRESIDENT OBAMA TO MEET WITH THE MAD AS HELL DOCTORS

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Real Time With Bill Maher: Anthony Weiner + New Rules

Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment: Joe Wilson, You’re Wrong!

Health Care or Insurance Care – Take Your Pick by Dennis Kucinich

Riz Khan: The battle for US healthcare – Is healthcare really a right or a privilege?

Obama’s Speech To Congress: The Public Option + Health Reform Speech + transcript

Bill McKibben: Why is 350 the most important number in the world?

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thomhartmann
September 12, 2009

Thom discusses global warming with Bill McKibben. Check out http://www.350.org

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Real Time With Bill Maher: Anthony Weiner + New Rules

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Updated: Oct. 3, 2009 revised post as previous videos were unavailable.

HBO: Real Time with Bill Maher: Episode Guide: Episode 167

September 11, 2009

Guests: Rep. Anthony Weiner D-NY; Kathy Griffin, comedian; Paul Rieckhoff, author and veterans advocate; Rajiv Chandrasekaran, journalist; Richard Clarke, fmr. counter-terrorism czar

HBO: Real Time with Bill Maher: Episode Guide: Episode 167

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Hamza Yusuf & Chris Hedges: Does God Love War? The Fine Line Between Faith & Fanatacism

With Chris Hedges
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Zaytuna
September 07, 2009

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Have the teachers of our religions failed us? Or have we not been listening? From leaders of Americas Christian Right seemingly forgetting that Blessed are the Peacemakers, to Jewish rabbis watching unflinchingly as collective punishment is doled out to Arabs in Palestine, to Muslim jurists ruling that civilian victims are acceptable under a Just War, the three great Abrahamic faiths are increasingly facing accusations of ignoring the sanctity of life. And so, does religion offer a way toward reconciliation? Or has it instead become part of the problem? This remarkable event brought together two speakers highly qualified to address these burning issues.

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Rolling the Dice Again by Ralph Nader

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
Sept. 11, 2009

The Wall Street gang is at it again! It’s been one year since Wall Street’s collapse and bailout took trillions from taxpayers and the sinking economy. The speculative instruments that pulled down the economy were those super-risky sub-prime mortgages, credit default swaps, collaterized debt obligations—you know—Las Vegas East, using other peoples’ savings.

As if to elaborate their gigantic con job, the investment banks, guaranteed by you the taxpayers, are now packaging life insurances policies in what sane, on the ground businesses would consider deranged exotic money plays.

Here is how the New York Times described the new securitization packages emerging from such corporate welfare goliaths as Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and their eager rating agency, DBRS.

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