Profound Quotes

"Neither is it that US foreign policy is cruel because American leaders are cruel. It's that our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment; it might as well be written into the job description. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers - (let alone American soldiers - do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to." From 'Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower' by William Blum

From "9-11, Six Years Later": "If one looks at the credentials of skeptics compared to the credentials of defenders of the official line, it is impossible to dismiss skeptics as kooks. There are many people with strong imaginations on the Internet, but serious skeptics stick to known facts, known violations of standard procedures and the laws of physics. The vast majority of the people who call skeptics "kooks" are themselves ignorant of physics and have little comprehension of the improbability that such an attack could succeed without either the complicity or complete failure of government agencies. " Paul Craig Roberts

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular? But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." Martin Luther King, Jr.

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MIDEAST: Families Down to a Meal a Day

MIDEAST: Families Down to a Meal a Day
By Erin Cunningham
GAZA CITY, May 13 (IPS) - Um Abdullah cannot remember the last time she was able to feed meat to her eight children. She does know that for the past week the single meal she cooked for them each day consisted only of lentils. And that [...]

Say NO to GMO! Super Human Radio Show | Farm Wars

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The effects of GMO experiments on unwilling human subjects is discussed, and how drug companies profit from illnesses in both humans and animals, which are directly related to GMO feed consumption. The circle of death.
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Global Farm Grab Vs. Our Native Need for Food « The Call of the Land:

In a disquieting rush to secure food supplies, financial speculators around the world are gobbling up farmland in developing nations and causing land prices to soar. Some call it the new colonialism, but most just call it an old-fashioned land grab.
Land grabbing and food speculation are not just overseas phenomena; they are also happening in [...]

OpEdNews » CODEX is in HR 875: Learn why your health depends on stopping it

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May 12, 2009
CODEX is in HR 875: Learn why your health depends on stopping it
By Abu Ahmad
CODEX ALIMENTARIUS - A standards commission under the auspices of WHO/FAO [UN].

Hat tip to HealthFreedomUSA.org

The Codex Alimentarius agenda, which has long metastasized in the recesses of closed boardrooms and governmental chambers, is now coming [...]

Oh Bummer: AIPAC’s Next Holocaust

Left unaddressed by the Obama team is the harsh reality of globalised commodity markets which will see basic food prices sustain price rises that result in starvation for hundreds of thousands of the world’s poorest often landless populations. It takes 232 kilos of maize to fill a standard gas tank with fuel. In this case [...]

Sustainable Food - Change.org: 4 Reasons Why ‘Modern’ Agriculture Is Bad For You

The agribusiness and crop chemical companies are enamored of the word “sustainability” these days because, I guess, they think it’s a magic word that can wipe the slate clean.
I just don’t think anything can be considered sustainable that has such obviously bad effects on our health, and the health of the world around us. Swine [...]

The Real Scoop by Doug Gurian-Sherman | Union of Concerned Scientists

“The Real Scoop”, by Doug Gurian-Sherman, offers a science-based perspective on industrial-style agriculture approaches, including CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations), genetic engineering, and other methods with enormous impacts on human health, the environment, and society. Doug is a UCS scientist with a background in plant pathology and author of recent groundbreaking reports on CAFOs and [...]

World Environment News - Argentine Herbicide Lawsuit Alarms Soy Farmers - Planet Ark

UENOS AIRES - An environmental group’s push to temporarily ban a widely used herbicide in Argentina, citing a scientist’s preliminary study, has sparked concern in the country’s huge soy industry and generated disagreement within the government.
An environmental group filed suit in April before the Supreme Court, seeking a ban on glyphosate, a weed killer used [...]

Domesticated bee numbers soar amid buzzing demand

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The number of domesticated bees is on the rise worldwide despite declining numbers of wild honey bees in the United States and Europe, a study said Thursday.
“The honey bee decline observed in the USA and in other European countries including Great Britain, which has been attributed in part to parasitic mites and [...]

OpEdNews » Americans Finally Favor the Legalization of Marijuana

A matter of time also refers to the current situation in America. The people of America have reached the point of understanding that this banned plant needs to be legalized. A new Zogby poll commissioned by the conservative-leaning O’Leary Report has found 52% voter support for treating marijuana as a legal, taxed, regulated substance. The [...]