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30 July 2010
23 July 2010
Daily Kos: Tom "I Heart Monsanto" Vilsack, This One's For You
In light of Mr. Vilsack's actions of recent days, I think this might be an oldie but
goodie to revisit.
Google Vilsack and Monsanto in the same search window and see what comes up.
13 July 2010
Meet the Food Industry Front Groups That Push for Carcinogens in Your Food | Food | AlterNet
You might remember the California Farm Bureau from the movie Food, Inc., in which they were caught on film arguing that foods containing clones should not be labeled. Or perhaps you've heard of the California Strawberry Commission's pet cause du jour: legalizing the pesticide methyl iodide, a carcinogen so potent it is used to induce cancer in the lab. In other words, this is not the bunch that government regulators and health professionals should turn to for unbiased, factual information about the danger of pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables.
Meet the Food Industry Front Groups That Push for Carcinogens in Your Food | Food | AlterNet
12 July 2010
Glenn Beck's Disturbing Plans to Co-opt MLK's 'I Have a Dream' Speech | | AlterNet
'it's worth emphasizing just how grotesque is Beck's attempt to co-opt a landmark anniversary of the civil rights movement. Beck has been anything but shy about his intentions. On May 26, he told his radio audience, "We will reclaim the civil rights moment. We are on the right side of history."
This from a man who once called Jesse Jackson "the stinking king of the race lords."
Had Beck been a public figure at the time of King's famous speech, there is little doubt on "which side of history" he would have stood: the same side as every other far-rightwing Mormon. Had they been contemporaries, Beck would have condemned King as a "progressive cockroach" surrounded by communists, or as an outright communist himself. We know this not only because he has imported such tactics into the present. We know this because his Mormon heroes were viciously anti-civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s.
Beck has repeatedly, respectfully, and recently played audio of men like Ezra Taft Benson, a Mormon apostle who thought the civil rights movement was a dastardly communist plot. Benson also wrote the foreward to a book of race hate whose cover illustration featured the severed, bloody head of an African American.,
Just when you think you've heard the ultimate foolishness to come out of this huckster, side-show freak's 7-sided mouth, along comes this.
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