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Prop 37 to label GMO foods fails in California


Activist Post
Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:15 UTC
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It appears that the big advertising push by big food companies defeated the California's Proposition 37, a ballot initiative to require labeling of genetically modified foods (GMOs).

The last few weeks has seen a stunning reversal of poll numbers in favor of Prop 37. Nationwide polls consistently show around 90% of Americans support GMO labeling, and a month ago California polls showed over 60% supported labeling.

Then, large food conglomerates pooled their funds to oppose to the measure and outspent the citizens Right to Know campaign nearly 6-to-1 ($45 million to $8 million).

Here is the list of the top donors that opposed labeling:
MONSANTO COMPANY $8,112,069
E.I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS & CO. $5,400,000
PEPSICO, INC. $2,145,400
GROCERY MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION $2,002,000
BASF PLANT SCIENCE $2,000,000
BAYER CROPSCIENCE $2,000,000
DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC $2,000,000
SYNGENTA CORPORATION $2,000,000
KRAFT FOODS GLOBAL, INC. $1,950,500
NESTLE USA, INC. $1,461,600
COCA-COLA NORTH AMERICA $1,455,500
GENERAL MILLS, INC. $1,230,300
CONAGRA FOODS $1,176,700
KELLOGG COMPANY $790,700
SMITHFIELD FOODS, INC. $683,900
DEL MONTE FOODS COMPANY $674,100
CAMPBELL SOUP COMPANY $598,000

Comment: Not surprising considering the following statement made by the corporate biotechnology giant Monsanto back in 1994:
"If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it."
- Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto, quoted in the Kansas City Star, March 7, 1994

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U.S. brands China as largest cyberspace threat

Zak Islam
Tomshardware
Wed, 07 Nov 2012 06:00 UTC
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Hackers from China increasingly targeting U.S military computers and defense contractors.

According to a leaked draft of a Congressional report, China poses the largest threat in cyberspace, with hackers continuously targeting U.S military computers and defense contractors.

The report obtained by Bloomberg, which was produced by the U.S.- China Economic and Security Review Commission, found that China's advances in its hacking activities over the past year pose a considerable threat to information systems and users.

Attempts by Chinese hackers apparently includes blinding or disrupting U.S. intelligence and communications satellites, weapons targeting systems, as well as navigation computers, so says an anonymous U.S. intelligence official.

Although the attacks are essentially through basic techniques, the volume of the activity is what poses a threat to the United States. Intrusions are predominately designed to collect information as opposed to attacking systems.

Scheduled for a release on November 14, the report urges Congress to develop methods of punishing and penalizing firms who have been found to have engaged in industrial espionage.

Comment: It's odd that who, what, where, why and when isn't discussed. Is it true (and the powers that be can certainly make it look like it is), or is it an attempt to bastardize or create an enemy, real or imagined?

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Better Earth

Israel and Iran hold 'positive' nuclear talks in Brussels

Julian Borger
The GuardianGuardian
Tue, 06 Nov 2012 07:32 UTC
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Not on the agenda is Israel's nuke factory, Dimona. Why?
Brussels conference could help pave way for full international conference on banning weapons of mass destruction in Middle East

Israeli and Iranian officials are taking part in a nuclear non-proliferation meeting in Brussels on Monday, in the hope of paving the way for a full international conference in the next few months on banning nuclear arms and other weapons of mass destruction from the Middle East.

A handful of officials from both Israel and Iran are involved in the two-day event, ostensibly in their capacity as private citizens, in what was billed as an academic seminar.

But the delegations are led by senior officials and have the permission of their respective governments to take part in an informal discussion with representatives from about 10 Arab states, US officials and European moderators to explore the possibility of holding a UN-sponsored conference on establishing a WMD-free zone in the Middle East.

Comment: Iran's position is very clear:

Ahmadinejad says Iran doesn't plan to obtain nukes

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Where Did The Towers Go? A Presentation by Dr. Judy Wood

JoeJoseph
YouTube
Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:21 UTC
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Rocket

Syrian rebels obtain U.S.-made missiles


Fars News Agency
Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:14 UTC
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© UnknownRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow has accurate information that the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) has more than 50 Stinger missiles.

"There is confirmed information that the Syrian rebels have obtained more than 50 Stinger missiles," he said at a press conference in Jordanian capital, Amman, on Tuesday.

The Russian foreign minister reiterated that the FSA elements have repeatedly said that they would target civilian planes as legitimate targets.

"You know perfectly well what Stingers are intended for, all the more so that the leaders of the (rebel) Free Syrian Army have repeatedly said that civilian planes will be a legitimate target," Lavrov told reporters after his meeting with the Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh.
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USA

Evidence of electronic vote fraud pours in from both liberal and conservative sources


Washington's Blog
Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:57 UTC
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Rampant Evidence of Electronic Vote Tampering

Ron Paul supporters, progressives and the mainstream media have all discussed the potential for vote fraud.

A global internet voting company headquartered in Spain recently purchased America's dominant election results reporting company.

The Wall Street Journal wrote in a 2008 article entitled "Will This Election Be Stolen?":
And then there are the e-voting machines. Since early voting started recently, worried voters have reported seeing their votes flipped from Barack Obama to Mr. McCain in West Virginia and Texas.
We reported in 2006:

The non-partisan and highly-respected government agency, the Government Accountability Office, verified that the electronic voting machines used in 2004 were wide open to fraud, and that fraud likely occured in Ohio, Iowa, Nevada, New Mexico, and other states.

The security flaws in electronic voting machines are so complete that anyone can instantaneously install software which will change the vote counts. See this New York Times' Magazine analysis, and also E-Voting Machine an Easy Hack from Wired Magazine.

Exit polling data shows that there was vote fraud.
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Magic Hat

Not that it makes any difference, but US electronic voting machine selects Romney even when choosing Obama

Steve Anderson
The Independent
Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:32 UTC

Footage has emerged of an electronic voting machine somewhere in the US that appears to force the voter to select Mitt Romney as their chosen presidential candidate despite clicking Barack Obama's name.

The clip, posted to YouTube by the user centralpavote - suggesting the voter is in Pennsylvania - shows the voter selecting Obama's name on the machine's touchscreen, only for Romney's name to be highlighted.
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Cult

Video: Romney (in '07) on how the second coming will save the Jews

Philip Weiss
Mondo Weiss
Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:31 UTC
I don't think we're going to have Mitt Romney to kick around for very much longer, so here's a last shot: a weirdly defensive rant from 2007, by Mitt Romney about Mormonism. He's asked at :44 or so about the second coming of Christ. Is it in Jerusalem or Missouri? Romney:
"The second coming, the arrival of Jesus Christ, our church says is in Jerusalem... That's the church doctrine... Christ appears in Jerusalem, splits the Mount of Olives, to stop the war that's coming in to kill all the Jews. Our church believes that, that's where the coming and glory of Christ occurs."

After that Christ will reign from two places, Jerusalem and Missouri for 1000 years. Writes a friend: "It helped offer a certain clarity on the whole Christian Zionism thing and made me even more frightened about the possibility that this guy could win."
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Bad Guys

When will the killing war in Iran begin? It already has

Stephen Gowans
Information Clearing House
Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:52 UTC
"Economic sanctions are, at their core, a war against public health." - The New England Journal of Medicine [1]
Netanyahu bomb

While campaigns are organized to deter the United States and Israel from acting on threats to launch an air war against Iran, both countries, in league with the European Union (winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize) carry on a low-intensity war against Iran that is likely to be causing more human suffering and death than strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities would. This is a war against public health, aimed at the most vulnerable: cancer patients, hemophiliacs, kidney dialysis patients, and those awaiting transplants. Its victims are unseen, dying anonymously in hospitals, not incinerated in spectacular explosions touched off by cruise missiles and bunker buster bombs. But ordinary Iranians who can't get needed medications are every bit as much victims of war as those blown apart by bombs. And yet, we think, that as long as the bombs don't rain down, that peace has been preserved. Perhaps it has, in formal terms, but bleeding to death in the crater of a bomb, or bleeding to death because you can't get hemophilia drugs, is, in either case, death.
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US Muslim placed on no-fly list is unable to see his ailing mother

Glenn Greenwald
The Guardian
Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:37 UTC
Saddiq Long
© Saddiq LongSaddiq Long, a 10-year US Air Force veteran, barred from flying into the US.
Despite never having been charged with any crime, an Air Force veteran is effectively exiled from his own country

In April of this year, Saadiq Long, a 43-year-old African-American Muslim who now lives in Qatar, purchased a ticket on KLM Airlines to travel to Oklahoma, the state where he grew up. Long, a 10-year veteran of the US Air Force, had learned that the congestive heart failure from which his mother suffers had worsened, and she was eager to see her son. He had last seen his mother and siblings more than a decade ago, when he returned to the US in 2001, and spent months saving the money to purchase the ticket and arranging to be away from work.

The day before he was to travel, a KLM representative called Long and informed him that the airlines could not allow him to board the flight. That, she explained, was because the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had placed Long on its "no-fly list", which bars him from flying into his own country.
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