9/11 Autopsy Guidelines Plan Abandoned

An effort to create standard autopsy guidelines that could document a link between toxic air at ground zero and deaths of 9/11 rescue workers has been abandoned by the federal government amid concerns the information collected could be misinterpreted.

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This video investigation runs eight minutes with official news conferences and contract awards. Washington has been preparing for the H1N1 Tamiflu and pharma hey day since 2005, adjuvants and all, ordered and stockpiled by the taxpayer billion half a decade ago.

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In a recent Nation cover story, William Greider decried the lack of attention being paid by the media to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) charged with investigating the causes of the financial meltdown.

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There's never a bad time to know when Congress is putting one over on the public and the win for Monsanto getting WTO corporate buddy rules to trump National Standards is a wet dream come to life. More articulate details follow.

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By CARMELO RUIZ-MARRERO

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Will our views on GM food be 'modified'? Stand by for yet another attempt to persuade a resistant British public to consume genetically modified food.

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Biotech related extracts from the recent in-depth report about the power of commercial interests within science and technology: Science and the Corporate Agenda, by Stuart Parkinson and Chris Langley of Scientists for Global Responsibility.

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Turkey, the 27th largest export market for all U.S. goods, issued a new regulation placing additional requirements on all food and feed products containing genetically enhanced components. This new regulation essentially came without warning, according to U.S.

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With all the talk about "food security," and distorted media statements like "South Korea leases half of Madagascar's land,"1 it may not be evident to a lot of people that the lead actors in today's global land grab for overseas food production are not countries or governments  …

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Years ago, an owner of a glass company was arrested for throwing bricks through store windows in his town.

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by Kathy Ozer and Marcia Ishii-Eiteman "Lobbyists won't find a job in my White House." President Obama assured us with this claim upon inauguration.

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Don't like Government Health Care? You've Already Got It!

A funny thing happened on the way to the Government takeover of health care. I realized that it had already happened.

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Washington, DC-A month-long collaborative investigation by the Sunlight Foundation and the Center for Responsive Politics has uncovered never-before-seen webs of campaign contributions from outside lobbyists and their clients, who are all important players in the health care refo …

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Norman Borlaug passed away some 10 days back. Ever since he passed away, a number of newspapers globally have published obituries and explained his contribution to agriculture. I too was flooded with requests to write about him or to talk about his role in Indian agriculture.

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Mae-Wan Ho reports on an extraordinary gathering of Thai farmers, activists, government officials, academics and rice research scientists with the objective of securing official protection for indigenous biodiversity knowledge and wisdom.

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The recent appointment of Michael Taylor as FDA's Senior Food Safety Advisor is of major public health concern.

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This piece offers a soft landing for the disastrous results that biotech nutrient enhancements have shown.

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Without human health studies or environmental impacts debated, Monsanto has taken America's sugar beet crop for it's own fee based seed and chemical portfolio.

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Monsanto has placed me on their blacklist, I've just discovered. Though I've personally served Clinton, G.W.

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Mariam Mayet The Cape Times, September 25 2009 *The green and gene revolutions are threatening the richness of traditional agriculture

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Today, over 70 percent of all the cotton, rice and corn in the United States are devoted to conservation tillage. The wonder of Roundup Ready technology has allowed this. Without exaggeration, Roundup Ready changed the face of U.S. agriculture.

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AMSTERDAM/BRUSSELS Sept 18 (Reuters) - Spanish authorities detected traces of unauthorised forms of genetically modified (GM) corn in U.S. soy shipments on August 25 and blocked the imports, a European Commission spokeswoman said on Friday.

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New York Times Study Points to Failed EPA Regional Model OpEdNews, 09/17/09 By Robert Bullard

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Australia's canola exports are likely to be significantly impacted by the change of government in Japan.

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Note - Verlyn Klinkenborg is a member of the editorial board at the New York Times

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Jill Richardson :: Today I posted a piece on the food blog Zester Daily called "Trained to Get Fat." In it, I focused quite a bit on David Kessler's new book The End of Overeating.

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