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Urgent: Oppose DARK Act

mercredi 11 février 2015 à 13:00

US citizens: phone your congresscritters and senators to oppose the DARK Act that would ban states from requiring labeling of GMOs.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.

US media's toleration of lies

mercredi 11 février 2015 à 13:00

The US media won't tolerate Brian Williams's little lies, but what about the big lies that enabled Dubya to invade Iraq?

Herbicide 2,4-D

mercredi 11 février 2015 à 13:00

Earthjustice has sued to block EPA approval of the herbicide 2,4-D for massive use with GMOs.

US gov't to grow milkweed

mercredi 11 février 2015 à 13:00

The US government is going to grow milkweed to help monarch butterflies survive the effects of massive use of Roundup.

The use of pesticides is a form of habitat destruction, which (as usual) threatens a whole ecosystem, many species at once. Normally, protecting on threatened species is done by protecting the habitat, which protects all the species that live there.

This peculiar method of protecting monarch butterflies avoids protecting its habitat and thus avoids protecting the other species threatened by Roundup.

How HSBC helped clients do bad things

mercredi 11 février 2015 à 13:00

Specific examples of how HSBC helped its clients do bad things.

Some of these actions are crimes, and some are clearly wrong. Others furthered activities by clients which are or should be illegal. Fundamentally, governments have the responsibility to block companies from sending their profits untaxed through the frontier.