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Occupy Movement Stands With Farmers, Says Enough! to Monsanto

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January 31, 2012 by Common Dreams   Movement is calling for protests to support 60 family farmers, small seed businesses, organizations challenging Monsanto's patents on genetically modified seed. Details here.

Damning Evidence Points to Pesticide as Cause of Massive Bee Dieoffs

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If you like my blog, please consider a donation. Thanks! Larry January 30, 2012 by Common Dreams Honey bee hive. PLT photo Bayer-produced imidacloprid harmful to bees even at very low levels. Details here. PLT: Here we go again. The overwhelming preponderance of scientific evidence matters not in this world. It is the economic power wielded by Multinationals such as Bayer. That's all.  Sad, isn't it? Please also read a couple of my own, earlier stories on this issue:  "Are Pesticide Regulators on the Take?"   "Lament for the Honey Bee  

Morbid, but Funny

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Big Oil Gets "Fact-Checked!" (Video)

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Rick Mercer Mocks Government Attacks on Pipeline Opponents. (Video)

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"EthicalOil.org" Exposed

Dear Editor, I see the powerful tentacles of Big Oil are tightening around us again. The "grassroots" group known as EthicalOil.org is reaching out through a compliant media, to spread its fear campaign that "foreign hordes," not Canadians, are going to decide whether the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline will be approved. Grassroots, my ass!  The talented, dedicated group of researchers who publishes * DESMOGBLOG.COM has exposed "EthicalOil.org" for what it is; "A small industry front group with secretive funding sources." As DESMOG explains, EthicalOil's message is being amplified through an "echo chamber" of powerful allies, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Sun Media ("Fox News North") to which Harper has close connections. (Not to mention Harper minions like Joe Oliver, whose earlier, infamous letter accused pipeline opponents of being a bunch of "radicals.") The EthicalOil message? Fo