"The most common side effect of ECT is short term memory loss. Less frequent side effects usually respond to simple treatment. These may include: headaches, mild muscle soreness, nausea, adverse reactions to anesthetic or muscle relaxants, and heartbeat irregularities."

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Nominated for lobbying for RoundupReady (RR) soy to be considered a "climate-friendly" crop that is eligible for carbon credits and subsidies under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM); and for pushing for meaningless 'responsible' label for RoundupReady soy, which could be used …

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A new book claims to give readers an inside look at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), arguing everything from its claims of financial and political clout to its genuine agenda are rooted in deception.

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The authors dub CAIR and other similar groups, the Muslim Mafia in America; indeed, the title of their book is: Muslim Mafia. Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America.

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Payments made to 3,400 doctors nationwide were disclosed as part of a settlement with the federal government over the company's illegal marketing practices.

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I really don't know what to say anymore, about a country in which proposing a new and better version of corporate-plunder masquerading as national healthcare gets you burned in effigy for being a socialist stooge by gun-toting angry mobs.

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The Pope has declared genetically altered foods a mortal sin. Undeterred by any critic, the Biotech Brigade PR Team have countered with their well tuned PR machine.

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The Monsanto PR campaign has been placing a lot of articles in the media, now defending the use of hormone hyped dairy by making an argument that it has environmental benefits.

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Critiquing Monsanto's Response to Vanity Fair

In the May 2008 issue, Vanity Fair published, Monsanto's Harvest of Fear, by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele.

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It may be the last stand of Posilac. A new advocacy group closely tied to Monsanto has started a counteroffensive to stop the proliferation of milk that comes from cows that aren't treated with synthetic bovine growth hormone.

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Deception and Omissions in NY Times AP Business Report

Thank you so much to hamid, who flagged this piece in the NY Times for me. The headline was true, the poor countries did grow more biotech crops, but decreased pesticide use is only true for the first two years.

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relations | tobacco Philip Morris (PM) has long been a past master at funding front groups and organizing scientists to deny the obvious. Now it is apparent that someone at PM tried puffing the entry in Wikipedia on the Marlboro cigarette.

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Poll- Is 14 Days Fair Warning for FDA to Approve Cloned Foods?

Yesterday the FDA announced that it intends to allow cloned animals as approved foods, unless it receives sufficient response from consumers indicating that there is reasonable opposition.

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Members of the British National party have set up a front organisation in an attempt to raise money from far right sympathisers in the United States.

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Sadly, the second part of 2006 turned out to be even worse than the first when it came to the aggressive and deceptive push behind GMOs. The final couple of months were so bad, in fact, that they require a section all to themselves, still to come - PART 3!

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Is Sidewinder77 Monsanto PR ?

It doesn't take very long to find all the YouTube videos about genetically engineered foods. What jumped out at me when scanning was an inventory of professionally done shorts, filmed all over the globe, some clearly tagged as Monsanto's.

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Punk'd

One of the greatest gifts of Newsvine is that open debate of opposing views, very often forces the truth to light.

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If a front group fools Killfile can they fool you?

Let me start by saying that I am among the many here who loves to read Killfiles articles and consider him among the best and brightest of the CJ sources. His articles are meticulously researched, educational and informative.

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In a report released last week, Los Angeles-based Environment California says that more than half of all studies on the health effects of perchlorate published between 1995 and 2005 were funded by the Perchlorate Study Group.

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Drug maker Eli Lilly & Co. used questionable marketing practices to promote its drug to fight blood infections, according to several doctors.

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Even for an administration dedicated to putting industry lobbyists in charge of the very agencies they have devoted their careers to undermining (coal and oil lobbyist J.

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My overview is a bit more extreme than Common Dreams journalistic coverage of the issue. Where there is money there is often deception for profit.

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American corporate interests have hijacked the legislative process through years of lobbying and paid influence.

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July 13, 2006 · The U.S. military doesn't do all its public relations work overseas -- it's also investing in grass-roots efforts here at home.

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Exploiting the unpopular Kelo vs.

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