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‘Parliament throws 45,000 meals in the bin while 70,000 London kids go hungry’ – Labour MP
Published time: 18 Dec, 2015 13:13
Parliament wasted 45,000 meals last year as tens of thousands of children go hungry across London, an MP has said.
New
figures that reveal the staggering amount of food waste in the British
parliament have prompted calls for MPs to donate their unused meals to
those in need.
Shadow Commons Leader Chris Bryant called on the government to give uneaten meals to local food banks in the capital.
“Last
year 1.2 million sausages were sent to landfill in Rhondda Cynon Taf
alone, which is why it is great that the local council is now signing
everybody up to proper food recycling,” the Welsh Labour MP said.
“But new figures show that this House last year wasted 45,000 meals that were just tipped in the bin.
“With
33 Trussell Trust food banks within the M25 and an estimated 70,000
children in London going to bed hungry each night, would it not be time
for the leader to institute a new scheme to donate unused food from this
palace to local London food banks?”
Speaking at a United Nations “climate” summit in Paris, Obama blamed America for alleged man-made global warming and claimed that the nation embraces its responsibility to “do something” about the alleged problem. That “something,” of course, at least in the administration's view, involves redistributing the wealth of embattled U.S. taxpayers to Third World governments and dictatorships for climate reparations, as well as shackling the American economy with draconian controls to reduce emissions of what serious scientists know as the “gas of life.” Sounding like a wannabe messiah, Obama even claimed that “we finally determined we would save our planet.” However, lawmakers in Congress and the American people have made clear that they neither believe in the increasingly discredited anthropogenic global-warming (AGW) theory nor in the alleged solutions to the supposed problem.
Dictators and other heads of state have typically arrived at UN conferences toward the end of the show. This time, however, hoping desperately to secure a global “climate” agreement where past summits have failed, UN organizers decided Obama and other “world leaders” should show up at the start. Obama complied, spewing gargantuan amounts of CO2 and arriving in Paris to deliver various speeches hyping the AGW theory, along with illegal pledges to hand out your money. “I've come here personally, as the leader of the world's largest economy and the second-largest emitter, to say that the United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it,” Obama claimed at the ongoing conference, which featured some 150 dictators and heads of government and state.
Of course, Obama is not the “leader” of the “world's largest economy.” His job description is to serve as the chief executive of the federal government, to faithfully execute the laws, and to uphold and defend the Constitution. His other claims were even more ludicrous. For instance, the notion that America recognizes its alleged role in creating the alleged problem could not be more wrong. According to a Pew survey released last year, just 40 percent of Americans even believe the increasingly discredited AGW theory. And without a doubt, far less than that would agree that the nation should shackle its economy and redistribute its wealth to Third World regimes under the guise of dealing with a problem that the overwhelming majority of Americans do not even believe exists.
Obama blames America for non-existent global warming
Barack Obama speaks at U.N. climate summit.
Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
While speaking at the United Nations on Tuesday, President Obama blamed the United States for global warming, even though there has been no global warming for nearly 18 years. While the administration insists global warming is a real threat, one professor issued a paper saying there has been no global warming for 19 years.
"But there should be no question that the United States of America is stepping up to the plate," Obama said. "We recognize our role in creating this problem; we embrace our responsibility to combat it. We will do our part, and we will help developing nations do theirs. But we can only succeed in combating climate change if we are joined in this effort by every nation –- developed and developing alike. Nobody gets a pass."
Obama hyped action the United States has taken, touting moves taken against power companies in what has been described as a "war on coal." According to the president, the United States has reduced its total "carbon pollution" by more than any other nation.
Carolyn is a staff writer for Science and is the editor of the In Brief section.
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It’s getting hot in here. A dispute between the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) over a climate change paper published this summer is escalating. The latest salvos include a second letter from Representative Lamar Smith (R–TX) to NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan seeking internal communications and documents authored by NOAA employees and a letter from the American Meteorological Society condemning Smith’s demands and warning about its implications for all federally funded research.
The quarrel began with a paper by NOAA scientists published 5 June in Science that revised historical atmosphere and ocean temperature data records found to have been poorly calibrated. In 2013 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had noted that the temperature data seemed to suggest that global warming had slowed down beginning around 1998. But the Science paper showed that apparent slowdown in global warming vanished when the data were corrected to account for various sources of bias.
That paper immediately caught Smith’s attention, triggering multiple committee requests for data and methodologies related to the study. NOAA told the committee that the findings were already publicly available and met twice with committee staff to brief them on the results.
But that response didn’t satisfy Smith. On 13 October, he subpoenaed all of NOAA’s internal emails related to the paper, asking for the information by 27 October. In response, the committee’s Democrats wrote to Smith on 23 October, noting that the subpoena “appears to be furthering a fishing expedition” and saying that it oversteps the committee’s bounds, as the paper is a research study and not a policy decision. House Republican leadership this year had given Smith the authority to issue subpoenas without the consent of the minority party.
Did Federal Agency Commit Climate Fraud? Sure Looks Like It
10/28/2015 06:30 PM ET
Junk Science: Worried about climate fraud, Congress is investigating a federal agency for allegedly manipulating weather data to show recent global warming when there is none. So why is the agency refusing to cooperate?
First, a little background: Satellite temperature readings clearly show no warming trend for the last 18 years, 8 months and counting. None.
This fact is significant for two reasons: One, satellite temperature readings are the most comprehensive and thus the most accurate. And, two, the pause in warming since 1998 undercuts the entire global warming agenda of the environmental movement and its allies on the left who see in climate change an opportunity to impose greater government control over our lives.
Yes, we're skeptical of "climate change," at least as defined by the green extremists. Climate is always changing. No one denies that. What's at issue is how it's changing and why. The science is still unclear.
Earlier this year, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists took part in a study that found — no surprise — that the "pause" in global warming from 1998 to 2013 didn't exist.
Their change didn't come from actual temperature readings. It came from extensive data manipulation and tinkering. Instead of a pause, they found a surge.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is refusing to hand over its climate scientists' emails to Rep. Lamar Smith.
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CDC scientists held meeting to destroy autism-vaccine documents, reveals CDC whistleblower
Thursday, December 03, 2015 by: Julie Wilson staff writer
(NaturalNews) The results of a 2004 study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discovered a significant
link between the MMR vaccine (measles, mumps and rubella) and autism in
African American boys vaccinated under or around the age 36 months;
however, if it weren't for one whistleblower, you would not have been
privy to any of this, because the evidence was deliberately covered up.
Dr.
William Thompson, currently a senior scientist at the CDC, recently
made a shocking admission that he and his colleagues specifically
arranged a meeting to destroy important documents related to the
study in an attempt to withhold information from the public regarding a
link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
As first reported by Sharyl Attkisson, a former CBS News journalist turned independent investigative reporter, Dr. Thompson and the study co-authors "scheduled a meeting to destroy documents related to the study.
"The
remaining four co-authors all met and brought a big garbage can into
the meeting room, and reviewed and went through all the hardcopy
documents that we had thought we should discard, and put them into a
huge garbage can."
"The omitted data suggested that African
American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at
increased risk for autism." – CDC Senior Science Dr. William Thompson
However, aware that destroying documents
in this manner was both illegal and unethical, Dr. Thompson kept hard
copies of all the documents that had been disposed of, as well as
maintained all associated computer files.
After securing a
whistleblower attorney, Dr. Thompson came forward with his admission,
providing relevant documents in August 2014 to the office of Rep. Bill
Posey (R-Florida), who presented details of the cover-up on the floor of
the U.S. House of Representatives.
Posey, who maintains that he is "pro-vaccine," read the following quote by Dr. Thompson on the House floor:
My
primary job duties while working in the immunization safety branch from
2000 to 2006, were to later co-lead three major vaccine safety studies.
The MADDSP, MMR autism cases control study was being carried out in
response to the Wakefield-Lancet study that suggested an association
between the MMR vaccine and an autism-like health outcome. There
were several major concerns among scientists and consumer advocates
outside the CDC in the fall of 2000, regarding the execution of the
Verstraeten Study. One of the important goals that was determined up
front, in the spring of 2001, before any of these studies started, was
to have all three protocols vetted outside the CDC
prior to the start of the analyses so consumer advocates could not
claim that we were presenting analyses that suited our own goals and
biases. We hypothesized that if we found statistically
significant effects at either 18 or 36 month thresholds, we would
conclude that vaccinating children early with MMR vaccine could lead to
autism-like characteristics or features. We all met and finalized the study
protocol and analysis plan. The goal was to not deviate from the
analysis plan to avoid the debacle that occurred with the Verstraeten
thimerosal study published in Pediatrics in 2003. At the Sept 5th meeting
we discussed in detail how to code race for both the sample and the
birth certificate sample. At the bottom of table 7, it also shows that
for the non-birth certificate sample, the adjusted race effect
statistical significance was huge. All the authors and I
met and decided sometime between August and September 2002, not to
report any race effects from the paper. Sometime soon after the meeting,
we decided to exclude reporting any race effects. The co-authors scheduled a meeting to destroy documents related to the study. The
remaining four co-authors all met and brought a big garbage can into
the meeting room, and reviewed and went through all the hardcopy
documents that we had thought we should discard, and put them into a
huge garbage can. However, because I assumed it was illegal
and would violate both FOIA and DOJ requests, I kept hardcopies of all
documents in my office, and I retain all associated computer files. I
believe we intentionally withheld controversial findings from the final
draft of the Pediatrics paper.
The CDC and Dr.
Thompson's co-author Dr. Frank DeStefano, CDC Director of Immunization
Safety, continue to defend the study as originally published.
A July 29 Tweet by Attkisson states:
So far, no hearings scheduled and no known inquiry of the alleged scientific misconduct.
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Details
of the long-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership are public at last: it
will undermine the safety of our food supply, make medicine more
expensive, and give power to the biotech monopoly. Action Alert!
A few weeks ago, the full textof
the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal was finally released
after many years of closed-door negotiations between officials from the
US and eleven other countries, all of whom border the Pacific Ocean. Its
provisions were apparently kept secret from all but the biotech and
pharmaceutical industries.
Leaked documents during the trade
negotiations provided reason to be concerned about the final agreement.
And now, a review of the deal’s twenty-nine chapters and five thousand
pages proves these early concerns were completely justified. The final
package now awaits a vote in Congress, which is likely to take place in
Spring 2016.
Here are some of the most pressing concerns for natural health advocates:
It Undermines the Safety of the Food Supply
The TPP contains a number of provisions that threaten current food safety laws.
Generally
speaking, passage of the TPP would mean that any US food safety law
concerning things like pesticides, food additives, or labeling that is
more stringent than “international standards” may be considered an
“illegal barrier” to trade, and subject to enforcement. We have learned
to beware of such “international standards.” They are largely determined
by global special interests.
The TPP expands corporate power in other ways. The deal includes an investor-state dispute settlement(ISDS)
system in which multinational corporations can challenge a host
company’s regulations in an international court. ISDS has been a fixture
in other trade treaties, including NAFTA (the North Atlantic Free Trade
Agreement), and has been used to challenge countries’ economic
policies, anti-smoking efforts, and environmental preservation laws. It
is another giveaway to Big Food and other powerful multinational
interests—a recurring theme throughout the TPP document.
The trade agreement also undercuts US efforts to inspect food imports.
The agreement limits food import inspections at the border “to what is
reasonable and necessary,” and if an issue arises, a country must also
provide an “opportunity for a review of the decision.” This provision,
referred to as the Rapid Response Mechanism, may give exporting
countries the right to challenge basic food safety provisions in the US.
It Gives New Patent Protections to Big Pharma
The
TPP contains an entire chapter on intellectual property rights, with
many provisions relating to pharmaceutical patents. No doubt heavily
influenced by the pharmaceutical industry, the trade deal will force signatory countries to accept many of the same patent laws that have kept drug prices so astronomically high in the US.
The
deal would extend and broaden certain patent and data protections for
the pharmaceutical industry, which Big Pharma can then use to keep
prices high and delay competition from generics. It is a wonderful gift
to the pharmaceutical industry—but a grave loss to patients in
developing countries looking for access to affordable drugs.
The
TPP also allows a practice known as “evergreening,” which lets drug
companies extend a patent on an old drug when it can be used to treat a
new condition—another boon for Big Pharma’s monopoly power.
Even
when Big Pharma loses in the TPP, it wins. One of the more controversial
topics in TPP negotiations concerned patent and data protections for
biologic drugs—medicines derived not from inert chemical compounds but
from living organisms. Big Pharma wanted twelve years of exclusivity—
they already have this in the US—and US trade officials pushed hard in
the negotiations to make this the standard. Instead, the deal grants
them at least five years of exclusivity and as much as eight.
It’s Also a Gift to Biotech Seed Companies
Finally, the TPP deal expands biotech’s monopoly
over the seed industry. The deal requires all twelve countries to join a
number of global intellectual property treaties. One of these treaties
is the 1991 International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties
of Plants (UPOV91), which emphasizes the rights of seed companies over
farmers. Among other things, UPOV91:
Requires intellectual property (IP) protection for all plant species;
Provides IP protection for 20 to 25 years; and
Stops
farmers from exchanging seeds—a common and important practice in many
developing nations and indeed throughout human history.
In
countries that have not already turned agriculture over to the biotech
industry, this could mean a substantial rewrite of regulations meant to
protect farmers.
Other treaties that signatory countries are
compelled to join make it easier to apply for patents—making it very
likely that more plants and seeds will be patented.
If these gifts to industry were not enough, President Obama moved earlier this summer to have the deal “fast-tracked”—that
is, Congress will be given a fixed period to review the agreement,
after which time legislators must make a yes/no vote without the
possibility of amending the deal. Essentially, it’s “take it or leave
it.”
We say: leave it. And if the US does reject it, do not worry
about losing the reduction of tariffs that is already included. There
will just be a second (and, we hope, a better) version to replace it. Action Alert!
Write to your members of Congress and urge them to oppose the TPP deal,
which undermines consumers and farmers and extends monopoly rights to
major industries. Please send your message immediately.
President Obama arrives at the TransCanada Stillwater Pipe Yard in Cushing, Okla. on March 22, 2012. (Associated Press) more >
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times - Updated: 9:28 p.m. on Monday, November 2, 2015
The company proposing to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline asked the State Department
on Monday to halt indefinitely its ongoing review of the massive
project, adding new delays and uncertainties, and possibly ensuring that
final word will come from President Obama’s successor.
Amid legal challenges in Nebraska — ground zero in the fight over the project — TransCanada officials sent a letter to Secretary of State John F. Kerry and called on the administration to cease immediately its Keystone approval process.
The
move raises a real possibility Mr. Obama will not be the one to make a
decision on the pipeline and that the next president, perhaps one more
inclined to back new oil-and-gas infrastructure in the U.S., will be the
final arbiter.
Powerful environmental groups quickly condemned TransCanada’s request and said it’s clear the company simply wants to delay a decision until January 2017, when a Republican may enter the White House.
The
U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry held a
biotechnology hearing for the first time in 10 years last week to
discuss the future of food technology as the industry responds to
increased demand, production challenges, and consumers’ calls for a safe
and transparent food supply. But the meeting came up short on
transparency and carried on more like a Monsanto share-holders meeting
than an unbiased inquiry into the pros and cons of biotechnology where
it concerns the food supply.
Senator after senator praised
biotechnology and genetically modified foods, claiming they had ‘come a
long way’ in ten years. Pamela Bailey, president and CEO of the Grocery
Manufacturers Association said:
“The
Senate Agriculture hearing reaffirmed the broad consensus among
scientists and regulators that GMOs are safe and highlighted the real
world negative impacts a patchwork of state labeling mandates will have
on farmers, businesses and consumers. Action by Congress is urgently
needed this year to pass a national, uniform labeling standard.”
The
senate hearing was scheduled shortly after the US House of
Representatives passed the “Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of
2015,” otherwise known as the DARK Act (Deny Americans the Right to Know) by a vote of 275-150.
A
school district in Tennessee voted to cancel classes and shut down its
schools as a result of a budget problem that has left the government
unable to fund the facilities. The school director blamed Obamacare for
its problems.
Clay County,
Tennessee operates three schools total – one high school and two that
cover pre-kindergarten through eighth grade – on a $9.5 million budget.
However, now more than 1,100 students are sitting at home while
officials try to figure out how to reopen the doors. A school board
meeting last week saw the board voting 6-4 to close the schools. A
separate vote to keep them open failed.
Notably, the county’s financial issues are not new. Clay County Director of Schools Jerry Strong told Associated Press that
officials have been struggling with the budget for three years, and
blamed county obligations such as state and government mandates,
particularly the Affordable Care Act, for the monetary hole.
"Clay County's inability to generate the revenue to offset the mandates is what's caused this to come to a head," he said.
The American Dream Is Becoming A Nightmare And Life As We Know It Is About To Change
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Permanently Locking In The Obama Agenda For 40 Percent Of The Global Economy
By Michael Snyder, on October 5th, 2015
We
have just witnessed one of the most significant steps toward a one
world economic system that we have ever seen. Negotiations for the
Trans-Pacific Partnership have been completed, and if approved it will
create the largest trading bloc on the planet. But this is not just a
trade agreement. In this treaty, Barack Obama has thrown in all sorts
of things that he never would have been able to get through Congress
otherwise. And once this treaty is approved, it will be exceedingly
difficult to ever make changes to it. So essentially what is happening
is that the Obama agenda is being permanently locked in for 40 percent
of the global economy.
The United States, Canada, Japan, Mexico,
Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and
Vietnam all intend to sign on to this insidious plan. Collectively,
these nations have a total population of about 800 million people and a
combined GDP of approximately 28 trillion dollars.
In
hailing the agreement, Obama said, “Congress and the American people
will have months to read every word” before he signs the deal that he
described as a win for all sides.
“If we can get this agreement to
my desk, then we can help our businesses sell more Made in America
goods and services around the world, and we can help more American
workers compete and win,” Obama said.
Sadly, just
like with every other “free trade” agreement that the U.S. has entered
into since World War II, the exact opposite is what will actually
happen. Our trade deficit will get even larger, and we will see even
more jobs and even more businesses go overseas.
Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal Struck As "Corporate Secrecy" Wins Again
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/05/2015 17:46 -0400
Once again the corporatocracy wins as the so-called "Trojan horse" Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement has been finalized. As WSJ reports,
the U.S., Japan and 10 countries around the Pacific reached a historic
accord Monday to lower trade barriers to goods and services and set commercial rules of the road for two-fifths of the global economy, officials said.
For the U.S., the TPP (reportedly)
opens agricultural markets in Japan and Canada, tightens intellectual
property rules to benefit drug and technology companies, and establishes
a tightknit economic bloc to challenge China’s influence in the region (likely forcing their hand into separate trade agreements).
However, Obama is likely to face a tough fight to get the deal through Congress(especially in light of presidential candidates' opposition).
The
US, Japan and 10 other Pacific Rim economies have reached agreement to
strike the largest trade pact seen anywhere in two decades, in what is a huge strategic and political win for US President Barack Obama and Japan’s Shinzo Abe.
It
is amazing how the elite media can be dragged along by their noses into
accepting that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) can have a big
impact on trade and growth. If I had a dollar for every time the deal
was described as “massive,” or that we were told what share of world trade
will be covered by the TPP, I would be richer than Bill Gates. The
reality is that the vast majority of the trade between the countries in
the TPP is already covered by trade agreements, as can be seen:
We continue to hear superlatives even as the evidence suggests the trade impact will be trivial. For example, the New York Timesreported that US tariffs on Japanese cars will be phased out over 30 years. Wow! The most optimistic growth estimates show a cumulative gain by 2027 of less than 0.4 percent, roughly two months of normal GDP growth.
This doesn’t mean that the TPP can’t have an impact. It will lock in a regulatory structure,
the exact parameters of which are yet to be seen. We do know that the
folks at the table came from places like General Electric and Monsanto,
not the AFL-CIO and the Sierra Club. We also know that it will mean
paying more for drugs and other patent and copyright-protected material
(forms of protection, whose negative impact is never included in growth projections), but we don’t yet know how much.
We also know that the Obama administration gave up an opportunity to include currency rules.
This means that trade deficit is likely to persist long into the
future. This deficit has been a persistent source of gap in demand,
leading to millions of lost jobs. We filled this demand in the 1990s
with the stock bubble and in the last decade in the housing bubble. It
seems the latest plan from the Fed is that we simply won’t fill the gap
in this decade.
Economist Dean Baker is co-director of the
Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. A version of
this post originally appeared on CEPR’s blog Beat the Press (10/6/15).
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
The U.S. national debt grows at a rate of 45.486 dollar per second!
20,517,497,500,000
10/05/15 6:28pm CDT
$ 65.903
Debt per citizen
$ 113.353
Debt per taxpayer
Year
x billion U.S dollar
2004
7.379
2005
7.933
2006
8.507
2007
9.008
2008
10.025
2009
11.910
2010
13.562
2011
14.781
2012
16.059
2013
16.732
2014
17.810
For Real Time National Debt Numbers Visit The US Debt Clock
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Since our worlds collided on that fated day in 2008 when the
American dream became even more elusive for the majority of us there
has been some time to reflect on our mistakes. Some of us have learned
from what we have lived and experienced. Others, however, are still
stuck in the partisan la la land of Rabid Conservatism or Rabid
Liberalism. Each side pulling for its own without taking pause to
understand the long-range consequences of their actions.
Politicians
will do what politicians do best, protect their pockets and those
who keep them full. What excuse do the common folk (non-corporate or
lobbyist) have? You vote Republican or Democrat because they hold the
best future for our country? Or do you vote because it is all you
know and you cannot fathom the fact that both sides of the aisle
serve the same master? It has gone way beyond the scope of
political party or leanings. It is time to put those patriotic
gestures, slogans and mindsets to actual use by truly putting
your country first. We must put a stop to the criminal
Washington/Corporate agenda that is killing us.
Until we truly
and seriously address the criminals who are selling our Nation
and our children's future to the highest bidder we are doomed.
Are you ready to face the truth or will you just sit back and
blame another while you do nothing to change the problem?
The
only answer to the putrefaction that is taking place all across
this nation is in the hands of the people. Many laughed at the
Occupy movement. Some vilified those who wanted to make a
difference and voice their displeasure with the status quo. How
many of you have done anything to make a change? How many of you
have cared enough to even consider what role you may have to play?
Truly,
I do not see a way out of this unless people stop seeing right or
left and start seeing stars and stripes. This nation depends on it's People,
not its politicians. Why have we become so complacent that we are
no longer willing to fight the good fight for our freedom and
our way of life? When did this nation become the home of the
lazy and the weak? It is time the strong and the brave stood up,
if there are any left.
What will it take to make
you see that politics is a trap? An illusion to make us believe we
have a choice when in reality we have none. They have both
evolved to serve the same masters and fulfill the same agenda. An
agenda that serves neither you nor me. When will you wake up
from your blue and red slumber to see that we have all been
lied to ?
When do we take America back as a People not a political party?
The
time is growing short people! Unless you open your eyes and
understand what is truly at stake. You will never live in America
the Land of the Free and the Brave again. We will simply exist
in a land run by petty politics and corrupt corporations willing to
do whatever it takes to maximize their bottom line. Even if it means
exploiting our children's lives and futures.
Just
in case you still don't have a clue what I am talking about.
Here is a very short list of examples of the Corporate Assault on
Our Lives And Our Health that our politicians have allowed to take
place for a price.
GMO's in our food supply
Digestive disorders, Obesity,Endocrine disorders on the rise
Glyphosate in our foods, our water and our breast milk
Kidney and Liver damage on the rise
Fracking chemicals in the water supply
Cancers on the rise
Fluoride in the water supply
Vaccines causing deadly reactions in children and adults
Autism on the rise
Heavy metals in our food supply
Alzheimer's on the rise
Deadly chemicals being pawned off as sugar substitutes from saccharine to splenda
all have been found to cause cancer in animal studies. The
biggest culprit and most dangerous thus far being Aspartame.
Life saving drugs monopolized by Big Pharma to bloat prices beyond most people's reach. Daraprim being the latest going from $13.50 per pill to $750.00. Basically condemning those who cannot afford them to die.
There are so many more examples you just need to open your eyes and want to see the truth
When
we get our story wrong, we get our future wrong. Much like the
Trans-Pacific Partnership "trade deal", everything we are told about
capitalism and our economy is a pack of lies. Time for a new story,
says preeminent scholar and critic of corporate globalization, David
Korten, the best-selling author of When Corporations Rule the World and
The Great Turning. David has a brand new book, Change the Story, Change
the Future - a Living Economy for a Living Earth. He is the co-founder
and board chair of YES! Magazine, co-chair of the New Economy Working
Group, founder and president of the Living Economies Forum (formerly the
People-Centered Development Forum), a member of the Club of Rome, and a
former board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
(BALLE) and associate of the International Forum on Globalization.
This Earth Day address was recorded April 22, 2015 at Seattle University Pigott Auditorium.
Community
Rights educator Paul Cienfuegos explains how "We The People" are
exercising the authority to govern ourselves and dismantle corporate
rule. When small farmers in rural Pennsylvania wanted to say "no" to a
corporate factory farm coming into their community, they learned they
couldn't, because it would violate the corporation's "rights" and state
pre-emption laws. So they did something technically illegal - their town
passed an innovative ordinance banning corporate factory farming. It
worked! The corporation left town. Pittsburgh upshifted the approach:
Rather than define what we don't want, define what we DO want. Their
"Right to Water" stopped natural gas fracking in the city. Ordinances
like this have been passed in over 150 communities in 9 states. Tune in
to learn how this works. Episode 258. [paulcienfuegos.com, celdf.org,
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Have
we forgotten about the national debt? Congressional Republican leaders
and the Obama administration have begun private talks about a new
two-year spending plan that would keep the government operating beyond
the 2016 election but would do little to address more fundamental
structural problems, including entitlement and health care spending for
an aging population.
Even before Congress completed work on a
short-term spending measure to avert a government shutdown at least
until early December, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY),
outgoing House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and President Obama held
preliminary talks on a possible multi-year budget agreement to increase
spending for both defense and domestic programs by lifting fiscal 2016
discretionary spending caps imposed by the 2011 Budget Control Act. Related: New CBO Director Renews Warning on Long-Term Debt
The
agreement would be similar in scope to a two-year mini-budget agreement
that was struck by Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
following a 16-day government shutdown in late 2013 that temporarily put
an end to inter-party budget warfare. That agreement allowed for $45
billion more in spending above the caps in 2014 and $20 billion more in
2015, as well as $20 billion of deficit reduction.
USS
Ronald Reagan and its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5,
provide a combat-ready force that protects and defends the collective
maritime interests of the U.S. and its allies and partners in the
Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (Photo: U.S. Navy Specialist 2nd Class Paolo
Bayas)
The
Russians are bombing CIA-backed rebels in Syria and continuing to hold
parts of Ukraine. ISIS continues to spread in the Middle East and
inspire attacks around the world. Iran is receiving hundreds of billions
in sanctions relief, some of which will likely go to destabilizing the
Middle East. China is building illegal islands in the South China Sea.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees are streaming across Europe. The
Taliban is on the rise in Afghanistan. And our national secrets are
being vacuumed up by Chinese hackers.
At the same time, our national defense budget is being slashed.
Since 2011, the defense budget has been cut by 15 percent
in real terms. If you include the war budget, which has been going down
as we reduce troops in Afghanistan, the national defense has been cut
25 percent in four years.
As a result of these budget cuts, the
U.S. military is smaller than it was on 9/11 and in many cases the
smallest it has been in recent history.
The
world is a mess, our military is being slashed, and now President Obama
is going to veto a bipartisan bill that would increase the national
defense budget by 6 percent in real terms.
The House of
Representatives just passed the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2016 (NDAA), and it is headed to the Senate. This is a
bipartisan bill that has been signed into law every year for 53 straight
years, but Obama plans to veto it for one simple reason: it doesn’t
increase non-defense spending. The president believes that defense and
non-defense spending should be increased, and, according to the White
House, “he will not fix defense without fixing non-defense spending.”
John Boehner Admits Republicans are Willing to Put U.S. at Risk to Play Partisan Politics
February 16, 2015 By Allen Clifton
Republicans
are anything if not predictable. The moment they gained power back in
the Senate it was obvious that they were going to use that power to play
petty partisan politics. The truth is, controlling Congress means very
little as long as the person in the White House has veto power.
So
no matter what sort of propaganda Republicans spew about the nonsense
they’re going to undoubtedly shove through Congress, it’s still on them
to send the president legislation that they know he will sign, otherwise
they’re essentially just wasting time.
The
president is the one person who’s voted into office on a national scale,
meaning that they’re the one individual who truly “represents the
majority of the people.” So no matter what anyone in Congress says, it’s
beholden upon them to make sure whatever bills they’re sending to the
president’s desk actually have a chance at being signed. It’s extremely
rare for both the House and Senate to have the two-thirds majority
needed to override a presidential veto.
All
that being said, as many already know the Department of Homeland
Security is set to run out of funding fairly soon. Normally this
wouldn’t be a huge deal; all it would take is for Congress to pass a
bill funding the department, which would almost certainly be signed by
President Obama.
By Michael Snyder, on October 5th, 2015
At the same time, our national defense budget is being slashed.
Since 2011, the defense budget has been cut by 15 percent in real terms. If you include the war budget, which has been going down as we reduce troops in Afghanistan, the national defense has been cut 25 percent in four years.
As a result of these budget cuts, the U.S. military is smaller than it was on 9/11 and in many cases the smallest it has been in recent history.