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My vanity "ATHEIST" license plate was just refused by the state. Reason: It's offensive. #wronganswerEarlier this year, the New Jersey Star-Ledger published the list of words that the MVC refuses to print on license plates. But the list, which has a total of 1,085 words and is dated Nov. 26, 2012, does not include the word atheist.
- David Silverman (@MrAtheistPants) August 26, 2013
Hawaii is home to one of the world's greatest concentrations of GMO research fields by five of the largest biotechnology and chemical companies: Monsanto, Dow AgroSciences, Syngenta, DuPont Pioneer and BASF.
These transnational corporations prefer Hawaii for growing and testing GE crops because of its abundant sunshine, rainfall and year-round growing climate.GMO opponents say the companies also enjoy Hawaii's isolation, largely removed from the public eye.
Yet these companies, which have been in Hawaii for decades, are now facing increasing opposition from residents concerned about GMOs, the health and environmental impacts of pesticides and what they see as a lack of oversight and transparency.Exposed: Monsanto's chemical war against indigenous Hawaiians
In the past 20 years, these chemical companies have performed over 5,000 open-field-test experiments of pesticide-resistant crops on an estimated 40,000 to 60,000 acres of Hawaiian land without any disclosure, making the place and its people a guinea pig for biotech engineering.
The presence of these corporations has propelled one of the largest movement mobilizations in Hawaii in decades. Similar to the environmental and land sovereignty protests in Canada and the continental United States, the movement is influenced by indigenous culture.
Comment: SOTT.net's calling BS on this one.
We find it extremely unlikely that anyone in Iran said this, especially in any official capacity, with the P5+1 talks on-going and with Hilary Clinton just today calling on the Senate not to impose more sanctions on Iran.
We challenge 'Reza Kahlili', the author of this piece, to authenticate his translation of Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami's speech.
Given the way in which Ahmadinejad's words regarding 'the inevitable decay of Zionism' were twisted in the ugliest way possible, the mainstream media, especially in the West, can simply not be trusted about anything to do with Iran.
Curiously enough, 'Reza Kahlili' claims to be a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard who was turned by the CIA. In other words, he was probably a spy from the very beginning and is now actively working to derail rapprochement towards Iran. Here he is sharing a stage with notorious NeoCon warhawk Michael Ledeen.