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America is a country with a very dirty, dangerous secret that it's managed to keep since 1996. I have spent over 20 hours digging online to discover that dirty secret. A chemical company called Monsanto, through lies and bribes, conspired with...
by ExpatT
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on Fri Jul 14, 2023 at 08:22 AM PDT
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Migrants Before I caught onto calendars As a kid, I still knew there were Special times, Some of them happened In late spring And in the summer months, too – Days would come when The sky was filled With such beings As the tiny orange and black kites...
by Paul Frea
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on Tue Mar 07, 2023 at 11:00 AM PST
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My first ever little political rant morphed into something that almost comes across like a political documentary at times. I did not do this to make any friends or enemies. I just began getting increasingly annoyed at how the mainstream news outlets...
by Green Satori Innkeeper
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on Mon Nov 07, 2022 at 01:05 PM PST
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The Monsanto Company recently pleaded guilty to a smattering of environmental crimes related to its use of a pesticide known as Forfeit 280. Last week, a District Court accepted the terms, which require Monsanto to pay $12 million in fines after it was...
by April Siese
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on Mon Jan 10, 2022 at 02:37 PM PST
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by Jamale Stanley Did you enjoy this article? Please consider supporting and donating at EcologyFlorida.org “Percy Vs Goliath” is based on the events that unfolded between farmer Percy Schmeiser and the multi-billion-dollar agrochemical company,...
by jtietz
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on Mon Dec 27, 2021 at 09:58 AM PST
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Also: Debunking CA Recall 'fraud' claim COVID crisis creating hospital death panels as the voluntarily unvaxxed killing themselves and others... If there's one guy you really don't want vowing to dog you, it may be Rhode Island's Democratic Sen....
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Sep 16, 2021 at 07:39 PM PDT
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There really was no silver lining to this country’s four-year sentence under the kakistocracy of the Trump administration. Beyond a huge, unnecessary tax cut lapped up by a tiny slice of this country’s wealthiest, no affirmative act stands out as...
by Dartagnan
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on Thu May 27, 2021 at 02:00 PM PDT
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COVID-19 surging in U.S. at record rates as hard evidence confirms that yes, Trump told his 'people' to 'slow the testing down, please'... Seriously, at some point American officials will need to be prosecuted for mass murder for their criminal...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Jun 25, 2020 at 06:58 PM PDT
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Introduction
There was a time when America considered itself to be “a city on a hill,” somehow more virtuous than, and an example to, other nations. Recently we have fallen from that pinnacle ...
by Francois LAmericain
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on Thu Oct 31, 2019 at 04:00 PM PDT
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"Roundup" The Usual Suspects Besides burying their own research regarding the danger of their chemicals, Monsanto had a “war room” operation specifically to attack anyone who questioned the impact of their chemical poisons on humans and the...
by Austin Bailey
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on Thu Aug 08, 2019 at 09:15 AM PDT
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The first car my parents carted me and my siblings around in, in the 1950s, didn’t have seatbelts. Not one of us was ever strapped into a car seat. No kid I knew donned a helmet before hopping on her bike. When I was a kid, there were no...
by Katherine Paul
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on Sun Aug 04, 2019 at 07:45 AM PDT
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“I don’t think the store will like you putting up those signs,” said the young woman working for the local gigantic home/hardware/garden big-box store.
“I know,” I said. I resisted the urge to point out that it isn’t the store that will object, but...
by CharleyBarley
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on Sun Jul 21, 2019 at 03:05 PM PDT
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An Infinite Amount Of; Many, Small Acts Of Rebellion. ♥For My Constant Muse; Dr Theodore Adams, Professor Of Sociology♥ *The United States Elections Are Scheduled For Tuesday, November 3rd 2020. Contested; All 435 Seats In The US House...
by rebel ga
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on Sat May 04, 2019 at 05:00 PM PDT
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A new study has been published that claims that the herbicide glyphosate is linked to an increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph tissue. Of course, once a study like this hits the interwebs, everyone becomes panicked that...
by SkepticalRaptor
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on Tue Feb 26, 2019 at 12:59 PM PST
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Source: The Guardian
Biodiversity is not an optional extra. It is the web that holds all life, including human life.
The most recent study concluded that insect biomass is decreasing around the world at a rate of 2.5% a year. At that rate, half...
by vape standish
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on Wed Feb 13, 2019 at 10:41 AM PST
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Dewayne Johnson never wanted to be a celebrity acting out his life on an international stage. He’d much rather be a healthy man, going to work, taking care of his family, making a modest-but-steady living.
In a recent interview with Time magazine,...
by Katherine Paul
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on Thu Nov 29, 2018 at 12:38 PM PST
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When the judge in the Monsanto Roundup trial signaled she might overturn the jury’s verdict, we expected the worst.
In the end, Judge Suzanne Bolanos slashed the amount of money the jury said Monsanto should pay its victim, Dewayne “Lee” Johnson,...
by Katherine Paul
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on Fri Oct 26, 2018 at 08:29 AM PDT
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Robert Howard, juror #4 in the trial of former school groundskeeper Dewayne Lee Johnson vs. Monsanto, has two questions for the judge who is threatening to the jury’s unanimous verdict against Monsanto:
“Do you have any reason at all to believe...
by Katherine Paul
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on Thu Oct 18, 2018 at 08:35 AM PDT
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Yolo County Sheriffs Deputies arrested eight environmental and social justice activists at the main gate to the Woodland Monsanto/Bayer Plant, the world’s largest biotech seed facility, between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m. on October 15.
Deputies took the...
by Dan Bacher
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on Mon Oct 15, 2018 at 10:30 AM PDT
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Newspapers push back as GOPers agree with Trump's Nixonian attacks on media; Trade war leads to U.S. factory closures; Trump's $92M parade; Zinke's land lie; Pruitt's toxic desk; Poison in your cereal; RIP Aretha…
Today on The BradCast: On the 47th...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Aug 16, 2018 at 06:43 PM PDT
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