Packaging Innovation: Are Mushrooms the new Styrofoam?


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For years, developers have been trying to design a substitute for Styrofoam. Styrofoam is a brand name for expanded polystyrene, and requires precious fossil fuels and a lot of energy to manufacture. Styrofoam is generally used to cushion fragile consumer goods and once the package is opened, it ends up in the garbage, clogging landfills […]

08/08/2013

Groundbreaking investigation reveals Monsanto teaming up with US military to target GMO activists


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A hard-hitting investigative report recently published by a prominent German newspaper has uncovered some shocking details about the tactics being used by chemical giant Monsanto in assuming control of global agriculture. According to this thorough analysis, Monsanto appears to be aggressively targeting independent researchers, scientists, activists, and others opposed to genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) by utilizing […]

31/07/2013

State Of Mind: The Psychology Of Control


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State Of Mind: The Psychology Of Control, from the creators of A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995, reveals that much of what we believe to be truth is actually deliberate deception. The global elites are systematically implanting lies into our consciousness to erect a “tyranny over the minds of men.” This film exposes the mind […]

21/07/2013

“It’s A ‘Black Day’ For Liberty” ~ Chris Hedges


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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit has dealt a terrible blow to Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky and the other activists and journalists suing to prevent the indefinite military detention of American citizens. Sections 1021 and 1022 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 would allow the military to detain indefinitely persons who are […]

21/07/2013

Carter: The United States Has No Functioning Democracy


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We have been discussing the collapse of the American civil liberties movement and the attacks on the free press and privacy under the Obama Administration. As discussed in prior columns, we continue to refer to the United States as the “land of the free” despite a comprehensive reduction of civil liberties and due process in […]

20/07/2013

Oliver Stone on NSA Spying


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Some have claimed that Americans don’t care about the revelations that the NSA is conducting massive surveillance on our private communications. But Oliver Stone isn’t buying it. In a video produced with the ACLU, Director Oliver Stone shares some of his reflections on the NSA spying program and the disastrous legacy of unchecked government abuse […]

17/07/2013

The Psychotic Militarization of Law Enforcement


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How did it ever come down to abandoning peace keeping and accepting law enforcement by any means? Even the New York Times expresses alarm in, When the Police Go Military. “The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 generally bars the military from law enforcement activities within the United States. But today, some local and city police […]

17/07/2013

Gitmo Force-Feeding Continues Through Ramadan


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July 16, 2013 Doing so constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. It inflicts excruciating pain and suffering. It’s aggravated assault writ large. It’s torture under international law provisions. It violates human dignity. It reflects disdain for human suffering. It’s Josef Mengele-style treatment. Nazi prisoners were coerced. They had no choice. Experiments constituted torture. Obama reflects the […]

16/07/2013

Snowden’s New Talking Point: Nazi War Crimes Trial


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In his Friday statement from Moscow‘s Sheremetyevo International Airport, Edward Snowden revealed that he’s asked for asylum in Russia as he tries to arrange travel to a country willing to host him indefinitely, most likely Venezuela. Along the way, Snowden framed his situation in striking new terms, citing the 1945-1946 Nuremberg trials that convicted several […]

15/07/2013

Revolution: An Instruction Manual


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How to take down a tyrant without firing a shot. Now’s the time for a revolution! Recommended reading (these links are to free electronic versions, none of them are protected by copyright): “The Psychology of Revolution” by Gustave Le Bon – http://www.amazon.com/The-Psychology-… “From Dictatorship to Democracy” by Gene Sharp: http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/683367… source: http://stormcloudsgathering.com/

15/07/2013

Monsanto Protection Act Signed By Obama, GMO Bill “Written By Monsanto” Signed Into Law


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  The Monsanto Protection Act, essentially both written by and benefiting Monsanto Corporation, has been signed into law by United States President Barack Obama. The infamous Monsanto Corporation will benefit greatly and directly from the bill, as it essentially gives companies that deal with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically engineered (GE) seeds immunity to […]

11/07/2013

We Are All Aboard the Pequod


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By Chris Hedges The most prescient portrait of the American character and our ultimate fate as a species is found in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.” Melville makes our murderous obsessions, our hubris, violent impulses, moral weakness and inevitable self-destruction visible in his chronicle of a whaling voyage. He is our foremost oracle. He is to […]

09/07/2013

DHS Has Declared War On the USA


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Welcome to the Fatherland, where there is no constitution, no justice and, at the present moment, no future. Our way of life, our culture and even our lives are in jeopardy if we do not quickly reign in an out of control and potentially deadly Department of Homeland Security. Questions Did anyone else remember when […]

08/07/2013