On Thursday, Bair will also update the number of banks on the FDIC's list of troubled institutions. That number shot up to 305 in the first quarter - the highest since 1994 and up from 252 late last year. ...
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ScientificAmerican.com | Satellites Used to Predict Infectious Disease Outbreaks
From avian flu to cholera, infectious diseases may not be able to hide for long. Some researchers have their sights trained on predicting their every move with detailed satellite data
Turnabout - Thief Steals Bernanke Credit Card
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Bernanke Victimized by Identity Fraud Ring
Bernanke Victimized by Identity Fraud Ring
Exclusive: According to court documents, the Fed chairman and his wife were swindled in 2008 by a skilled team of crooks.
Cave's Headline News - August 26, 2009
"It was the Pentagon audit report announcement that $2.3 trillion (trillion with a "T") was missing and unaccounted for announced on 9-10-2001. And guess where the "whatever" hit the Pentagon the next day? The auditors area. What a coincidence. Nothing surprises me anymore." - Unknown
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Geithner asks Congress for higher US debt limit -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner formally requested that Congress raise the $12.1 trillion statutory debt limit on Friday, saying that it could be breached as early as mid-October.
NaturalNews.com | Featured Stories - August 26, 2009
| Setting the people up to die: A conspiracy of silence about swine flu natural remedies (NaturalNews) It's emblazoned across the front page of USA Today, just underneath a subhead declaring Michael Jackson was, indeed, killed by a drug overdose: "Flu could infect half of USA." The article goes on to describe the predicted number of... |
| Baking Soda Found To Help People with Chronic Kidney Disease (NaturalNews) Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a serious condition marked by the permanent loss of kidney function. When the kidneys are damaged, the organs can't remove wastes and extra water from the blood as well as they should and the result can be... |
| Vitamin C Boosts Life Expectancy and Removes Plaque from Blood Vessels A high intake of vitamin C is shown to improve life expectancy by six years. Not only does vitamin C help prevent the diseases that shorten life, but the vitamin itself has life sustaining properties. Vitamin C is known to help prevent heart... |
| Antidepressant Commonly Prescribed for Autism Found Utterly Useless (NaturalNews) The antidepressant Celexa, commonly prescribed to alleviate some symptoms of autism in children, has no medical benefit in such patients, while exposing them to a significant risk of side effects. Researchers treated 149 autistic children... |
| When It Comes to Good Health, Vitamin D Delivers Ignored for years, today vitamin D is a superstar. Here`s what you need to know about this vitally important nutrient, including how to make certain you`re getting enough vitamin D to protect your health. According to conventional wisdom... |
| Reverse Halitosis: Natural Remedies for Bad Breath Everyone at some point in their lives has suffered from a horrendous case of morning breath - the type that makes your partner's eyes water or that the kids cower away from. For most of us the cure is simple, a quick brush followed by a gargle... |
| Windows to the Soul: An Interview with Iridologist Susan Laing Susan Laing is a Naturopathic Iridologist and is based in Leeds, England UK. She also specializes in Raw Food and runs workshops. Susan is also training to become an Ashtanga Yoga teacher. David Hestrin: What is an iridologist? ... |
| Don't Inject Me - Swine Flu Vaccine Song and Music Video Released by the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) We've just launched the latest song and music video in the Beyond All Reason album. It's an anti-vaccine song entitled Don't Inject Me (the Swine Flu Vaccine Song), and it's already making waves on YouTube and peer-to-peer... |
AP | Feuding family members jailed after Alabama riot
MARION, Ala. — Members of two feuding families were in jail Tuesday after years of quarreling erupted into a small-town riot in which 150 screaming people hurled rocks and tools — and even struck the police chief.
SolarWeather.com | Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded some lively action on August 25th
SOLAR ACTIVITY: In the pits of a century-level solar minimum, the sun is setting new records for quiet. But really, how quiet can a 1027-ton nuclear explosion (a star) ever be? The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded some lively action on August 25th:
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The time-lapse movie shows a prominence, a swirling cloud of hydrogen held up unsteadily by solar magnetic fields. Prominences appear to be the one form of solar activity that continues apace even when sunspots are absent. Readers with solar telescopes, for a good show train your optics on the edge of the sun.
more images: from Joe Bartolick of Livermore, California; from Michael Buxton of Ocean Beach, California.
PennisulaClarion.com | Oil terminal to stay unused: Cook Inlet production not anticipated to fully recover
Photo By M. Scott Moon
Flood water and debris push up against a retaining wall protecting oil tanks at the Drift River Terminal Facility during the eruption of Mount Redoubt in March. Officials have announced that current plans call for no additional crude oil to be stored at the facility.
Middle Class Americans Begin to Pick Strawberries with ILLEGALS (YouTube)
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Is this what we are coming to? Is this what Obama considers change? I am getting confirmed reports of middle class Americans entering the ILLEGAL pool of labor. Welcome to your future
InfoWars.com | Alex Jones website blocked under filter for ‘criminal skills’ content
Was panicked controversy over the ‘Obama-as-Joker’ Poster the reason the website JonesReport.com was restricted for ‘promoting criminal skills’?
Obama administration has turned diplomatic attention to the United Nations
http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/217808/the-us-back-un
The US is back in the UN
Since the Obama administration took over the White House in January, its foreign policy has been focused on restoring relations with former allies and offering dialogue to isolated regimes. Both the State Department and the Department of Defense agree that diplomacy trumps force in today’s multilateral world. President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Gates and the special envoys to troubled regions have all been carrying that message across the world to countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Now with most bilateral relationships restored, the US has turned diplomatic attention to the United Nations. (In contrast to the US, the Philippines can take pride in its consistent supportive role at the UN since its founding in 1945.) But the Bush administration apparently did not consider the UN of any value. It seems odd that President Bush, whose father was a distinguished ambassador to the UN before his presidency, was so indifferent to the United Nations. He sent, as the US ambassador, John Bolton, an outspoken critic of the organization who famously said that 10 floors of the beautiful building on the East River in New York, should be lopped off.
Needless to say, relations grew frosty. President Obama’s first step to reestablish goodwill, was to appoint his own foreign policy adviser, Susan Rice, as ambassador to the UN and elevated the position to Cabinet rank. Susan Rice is a Rhodes scholar with a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University. She was on President Clinton’s National Security Council before becoming the assistant secretary of state for African affairs. Strobe Talbott, a former deputy secretary of state and now president of the Brookings Institution, who has worked with Susan Rice, said “Susan is intellectually tough. She’s tough in her approach to how the policy making process should work and she will be a very effective diplomat.”
Falling in line with the president’s show of respect for the United Nations, Congress voted to pay up its back dues to the UN, which dated back to 1999. And President Obama announced that he will host a UN summit on climate change in New York this fall.
As UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has pointed out, the UN’s important day to day work is relatively invisible to the general public. It includes prevention of starvation, helping war victims, feeding 90 million people in 70 countries. It obliterates such debilitating diseases as smallpox and polio and vaccinates 40 percent of the world’s children. It provides $2 billion each year in emergency disaster relief and maintains a global peacekeeping force of 120,000 men and women who are sent to maintain peace and order in conflict areas. UNICEF – the agency devoted to children – works in conflict areas to secure the release of child soldiers. The UN mission in the war-torn Congo has secured the release of 32,000 children. The UN also helps nations which do not have adequate security forces, hold free elections.
Since the US has shown its interest in playing an active role in the UN, the US has won membership, for the first time, on the UN Human Rights Council, which tackles issues of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. Ambassador Susan Rice said, “We intend to lead, based on the strong principle vision that the American people have about respecting human rights, supporting democracy.”
The US is back in the UN
Since the Obama administration took over the White House in January, its foreign policy has been focused on restoring relations with former allies and offering dialogue to isolated regimes. Both the State Department and the Department of Defense agree that diplomacy trumps force in today’s multilateral world. President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Gates and the special envoys to troubled regions have all been carrying that message across the world to countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Now with most bilateral relationships restored, the US has turned diplomatic attention to the United Nations. (In contrast to the US, the Philippines can take pride in its consistent supportive role at the UN since its founding in 1945.) But the Bush administration apparently did not consider the UN of any value. It seems odd that President Bush, whose father was a distinguished ambassador to the UN before his presidency, was so indifferent to the United Nations. He sent, as the US ambassador, John Bolton, an outspoken critic of the organization who famously said that 10 floors of the beautiful building on the East River in New York, should be lopped off.
Needless to say, relations grew frosty. President Obama’s first step to reestablish goodwill, was to appoint his own foreign policy adviser, Susan Rice, as ambassador to the UN and elevated the position to Cabinet rank. Susan Rice is a Rhodes scholar with a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University. She was on President Clinton’s National Security Council before becoming the assistant secretary of state for African affairs. Strobe Talbott, a former deputy secretary of state and now president of the Brookings Institution, who has worked with Susan Rice, said “Susan is intellectually tough. She’s tough in her approach to how the policy making process should work and she will be a very effective diplomat.”
Falling in line with the president’s show of respect for the United Nations, Congress voted to pay up its back dues to the UN, which dated back to 1999. And President Obama announced that he will host a UN summit on climate change in New York this fall.
As UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has pointed out, the UN’s important day to day work is relatively invisible to the general public. It includes prevention of starvation, helping war victims, feeding 90 million people in 70 countries. It obliterates such debilitating diseases as smallpox and polio and vaccinates 40 percent of the world’s children. It provides $2 billion each year in emergency disaster relief and maintains a global peacekeeping force of 120,000 men and women who are sent to maintain peace and order in conflict areas. UNICEF – the agency devoted to children – works in conflict areas to secure the release of child soldiers. The UN mission in the war-torn Congo has secured the release of 32,000 children. The UN also helps nations which do not have adequate security forces, hold free elections.
Since the US has shown its interest in playing an active role in the UN, the US has won membership, for the first time, on the UN Human Rights Council, which tackles issues of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. Ambassador Susan Rice said, “We intend to lead, based on the strong principle vision that the American people have about respecting human rights, supporting democracy.”
Link: Gulf War Veterans Association - Gulfwarvets.com
The American Gulf War Veterans Association (AGWVA) was established with one goal in mind: To obtain treatment for those service members and their families who experience symptoms collectively known as the "Gulf War Illness". However, there is more to this issue than meets the eye. As this investigation into causation has now progressed into the arena of possible exposure to chemical and/or biological agents, radiation poisoning due to the use of depleted uranium and most disturbingly, the use of our fighting men and women as "Guinea Pigs" in medical experimentation, the AGWVA has now added a second goal: To obtain justice and compensation for all those affected by these illnesses. Our troops returned home after serving their country with an illness that appears to be spreading into the general population, treatment is being denied and to date there are no safeguards of our blood supply. Those responsible have passed the burden of proof onto those that are suffering and least able to fight the enormous bureaucracy of governmental agencies that are more concerned with avoiding admission.
America wants to know why.
For over three years the AGWVA has been embarking on this search for the truth and the documentation that we have compiled is voluminous. The Pentagon, DOD, Veterans Administration, Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, Congressional Investigation into Gulf War Illness, the Presidential Advisory Committee and the Government Accounting Office have collectively spent over $100,000,000 "researching" the Gulf War Illness. Little if any of that funding has been used for the real treatment of the 700,000 troops that served in the conflict, over 100,000 have signed on with the Persian Gulf registry. 90% of those that contact the AGWVA report they are offered Prozac or some other psychotropic drug by DoD facilities. The numbers alone demonstrate that the gulfwar illness has spread into epidemic proportions. Meanwhile, government bureaucracy, public officials and military leaders have continually turned their backs on their own country's defenders.
America deserves to know why.
The mainstream media has also turned its back on the veterans and have shirked their responsibility to the American people to be the watchdog of government. With the exception of talk radio, local television coverage and hometown newspapers, the networks and news services have done nothing more than parrot "official reports" offered to them by the very agencies that require investigation. Evidence from senate reports, congressional hearings, government documents and testimony from eyewitnesses have been ignored and gone unreported. America demands to know why.
Justice can only be obtained in the court of public opinion, and until the public knows the truth, there can be no justice. Truth and justice are the American way and the AGWVA is dedicated to finding the truth, educating the public and obtaining justice for the sake of all Americans. There can be a million lies, but there is only ONE truth and in the battle for truth, the lie is always the casualty. If professional careers are destroyed, if personal fortunes are decimated, or if prominent individuals are found guilty of criminal charges, let it be seen as nothing more than a side effect from the administration of a healthy dose of truth. We ask for your support and involvement in this effort to expose the truth because we believe that America is worth it.
We hope you do too. We will not stop.
For God and country,
Joyce Riley vonKleist and Dave "Riddell" vonKleist
What you don't know about your government could kill you...
Department of Defense documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act expose the horrific underworld of the disposable army mentality and the government funded experimentation upon US citizens conducted without their knowledge or consent.
UNMASKING SECRET MILITARY PROJECTS:
Chemical & Biological Exposures
Radioactive Poisoning
Mind Control Projects
Experimental Vaccines
Gulf War Illness
Depleted Uranium (DU)
Is the United States knowingly using a dangerous battlefield weapon banned by the United Nations because of its long-term effects on the local inhabitants and the environment? Explore the illegal worldwide sale and use of one of the deadliest weapons ever invented.
Beyond the disclosure of black-ops projects spanning the past 6 decades, Beyond Treason also addresses the complex subject of Gulf War Illness. It includes interviews with experts, both civilian and military, who say that the government is hiding the truth from the public and they can prove it.
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Virtues of Honey and Cinnamon (Status: Undetermined)
Old American Dams Quietly Become a Multibillion-Dollar Threat
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Coming this fall, a clunkers-type program to boost sales of energy-efficient home appliances will authorize rebates of $50 to $200
Joyce Riley's THE POWER HOUR NEWS - August 26, 2009
SEN. EDWARD KENNEDY DIES AT AGE 77 -- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate and haunted bearer of the Camelot torch after two of his brothers fell to assassins' bullets, has died at his home in Hyannis Port after battling a brain tumor. He was 77. His family announced his death in a brief statement released early Wednesday.
34 Percent of U.S. Workers Surveyed Have Only One Week or Less of Savings to Cover Expenses if Laid Off from Work -- Despite the fact that most financial advisors caution workers to save the equivalent of six months’ salary in preparation for troubled economic times, a recent Monster Meter Poll reveals more than one-third of U.S. workers surveyed on Monster.com admit they have only one week or less of savings to cover living expenses if they were to be laid off from work.
Miami health center starts RFID soap monitoring -- RFID tags are being deployed at the University of Miami to report when doctors and nurses wash their hands, and let them know if their fingernails aren't clean.
CDC advice to parents: flu shots for all -- "We're going to continue to stress that the vaccine is the most important thing that parents can do to protect their children," said Tom Skinner, a CDC spokesman. This H1N1 vaccine should be taken in addition to the seasonal flu vaccine, and not as a replacement for it. (The seasonal flu vaccine, offered every fall, is recommended for people at risk for serious complications, including very young children, people older than 65, those with chronic health conditions and pregnant women.)
Post Office plans cuts via buyouts of up to 30,000 employees -- The U.S. Postal Service is offering buyouts to tens of thousands of employees as it faces financial losses caused by the recession, as well as changes in the way Americans communicate.
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Geithner asks Congress for higher US debt limit -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner formally requested that Congress raise the $12.1 trillion statutory debt limit on Friday, saying that it could be breached as early as mid-October.
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1 crime solved for every 1,000 CCTV cameras senior official says -- Just one crime is solved a year by every 1,000 CCTV cameras in Britain's largest force area, it was claimed today.
The H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating the Data to Justify a Worldwide Public Health Emergency -- The Atlanta based Center for Disease Control (CDC) acknowledged that what was being collected in the US were figures of "confirmed and probable cases". There was, however, no breakdown between "confirmed" and "probable". In fact, only a small percentage of the reported cases were "confirmed" by a laboratory test.
Federal Reserve loses suit demanding transparency -- A federal judge on Monday ruled against an effort by the U.S. Federal Reserve to block disclosure of companies that participated in and securities covered by a series of emergency funding programs as the global credit crisis began to intensify.
US Training Center run by Xe (formerly known as Blackwater) -- Training today to meet the challenges of tomorrow.
Possible leak detected at chemical weapons depot -- The Army says a low level of mustard agent has been detected in a building storing chemical weapons at the Pueblo Chemical Depot.
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CIA threatened to kill detainee families -- A newly declassified CIA report says interrogators threatened to kill family members of a man accused of planning the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. The report, written in 2004 and released Monday by the U.S. Justice Department, said CIA officers told Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that if any other attacks happened in the United States, “we’re going to kill your children.”
Veterans Wrongly Told They Have Fatal Disease -- Former Air Force reservist Gale Reid received a letter from the Veterans Affairs Department that told her she had Lou Gehrig's disease, and she immediately put herself through a battery of painful, expensive tests. Five days later, the VA said its "diagnosis" was a mistake.
Springfiled Mass. to be under a period of martial law over crime rates -- (police chief said-police be allowed to operate under what he called "a short period of martial law." The move, over a period of 30 to 60 days, would give police the power to sweep all the illegal guns in the city) Police Commissioner William J. Fitchet and Mayor Domenic J. Sarno, in a press conference Monday afternoon at police headquarters, said there will be additional patrols by officers on foot and in cruisers all hours of the day.
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Miami health center starts RFID soap monitoring -- RFID tags are being deployed at the University of Miami to report when doctors and nurses wash their hands, and let them know if their fingernails aren't clean.
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Post Office plans cuts via buyouts of up to 30,000 employees -- The U.S. Postal Service is offering buyouts to tens of thousands of employees as it faces financial losses caused by the recession, as well as changes in the way Americans communicate.
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Geithner asks Congress for higher US debt limit -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner formally requested that Congress raise the $12.1 trillion statutory debt limit on Friday, saying that it could be breached as early as mid-October.
Waxman Takes on Drug Makers Over Medicare -- As the health care debate focuses on whether cost cuts are looming in Medicare coverage, Representative Henry A. Waxman is on a crusade to save Medicare billions of dollars — in a way that he says would end up helping the elderly.
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1 crime solved for every 1,000 CCTV cameras senior official says -- Just one crime is solved a year by every 1,000 CCTV cameras in Britain's largest force area, it was claimed today.
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Federal Reserve loses suit demanding transparency -- A federal judge on Monday ruled against an effort by the U.S. Federal Reserve to block disclosure of companies that participated in and securities covered by a series of emergency funding programs as the global credit crisis began to intensify.
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CIA threatened to kill detainee families -- A newly declassified CIA report says interrogators threatened to kill family members of a man accused of planning the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. The report, written in 2004 and released Monday by the U.S. Justice Department, said CIA officers told Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that if any other attacks happened in the United States, “we’re going to kill your children.”
Veterans Wrongly Told They Have Fatal Disease -- Former Air Force reservist Gale Reid received a letter from the Veterans Affairs Department that told her she had Lou Gehrig's disease, and she immediately put herself through a battery of painful, expensive tests. Five days later, the VA said its "diagnosis" was a mistake.
Springfiled Mass. to be under a period of martial law over crime rates -- (police chief said-police be allowed to operate under what he called "a short period of martial law." The move, over a period of 30 to 60 days, would give police the power to sweep all the illegal guns in the city) Police Commissioner William J. Fitchet and Mayor Domenic J. Sarno, in a press conference Monday afternoon at police headquarters, said there will be additional patrols by officers on foot and in cruisers all hours of the day.
Sunscreen may be linked to Alzheimer's -- University of Ulster says two of its experts have been awarded £350,000 by the European Union to explore the possible links between the suncream and the brain disease.
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The first step toward the creation of CIMMYT International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (in Spanish: Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo, CIMMYT) were taken in 1943 when cooperative efforts of the Mexican government and the Rockefeller Foundation led to the founding of the Office of Special Studies, an organization within the Mexican Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Nourishment.
Syngenta AG is a large global agribusiness which markets seeds and pesticides. Syngenta is involved in biotechnology and genomic research. The company is a leader in crop protection, and ranks third in total sales in the commercial agricultural seeds market. Sales in 2008 were approximately US$ 11.6 billion. Syngenta employs over 24,000 people in over 90 countries. Syngenta is listed on the Swiss stock exchange and in New York.
Syngenta History
Based in Basel, Switzerland, Syngenta was formed in 2000 by the merger of Novartis Agribusiness and Zeneca Agrochemicals. Its roots are considerably older.
In 1758 the city’s Johann Rudolf Geigy-Gemuseus began trading in “Materials, Chemicals, Dyes and Drugs of all kinds”. In 1876, Sandoz Laboratories began business in Basel, followed in 1884 by Ciba. These three companies ultimately became Novartis in 1995. Ciba-Geigy, formed in 1971, had concentrated mainly on crop protection in its agro division, Sandoz more on seeds.
Zeneca Agrochemicals was part of AstraZeneca, and formerly of Imperial Chemical Industries. ICI was formed in the UK in 1926. Two years later, work began at the Agricultural Research Station at Jealott’s Hill near Bracknell.
In 2004, Syngenta Seeds purchased the North American corn and soybean business of Advanta, as well as Garst and Golden Harvest.
In 2005, Syngenta opposed a Swiss ban on genetically modified organisms.[2]
In 2007, Syngenta's Canadian division was named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, as published in Maclean's magazine, one of only a handful of agribusiness firms to receive this honour.[3]
On 21 October, 2007, a Brazilian peasant organization, the Landless Workers' Movement, led a group of landless farmers in an occupation of one of the company's seed research farms, in protest against genetically-modified vegetables and in hopes of obtaining land for landless families to cultivate. After the occupation had begun, a group of gunmen arrived in a minibus and attacked the protesters. A security guard was killed, various protesters were wounded, and Valmir Mota de Oliveira, known as Keno, was found dead, "killed execution-style by two shots to the chest" according to some reports "at the centre of a bitter dispute"[4].
Protesters and sympathizers (including Sarah Wilson, of Christian Aid) claimed that the gunmen were under orders of Syngenta to kill the occupiers, but the company says that the guards of the security company they contracted were not allowed to carry guns. The MST claimed further that NF Security was a front company controlled by rural producer organizations linked to the agribusiness. Amnesty International expressed concern, and said that threats and intimidation by gunmen hired by landowners and agricultural companies are a common occurrence in Paraná.[4]
The police investigation completed in February 2008 implicated MST members and employees of NF Security but not Syngenta.[5]
Syngenta condemned the violence and severed the contract with the security firm.[6]
The Civil Court of Cascavel granted an order for the repossession of the site on December 20, 2007. On June 12, 2008, the remaining MST members left the Santa Teresa site they had been occupying.[6] On October 14, 2008, Syngenta announced donation of the 123-hectare station to the Agronomy Institute of Paraná (IAPAR). IAPAR will use the site for research into biodiversity, recovery of degraded areas and agriculture production systems, as well as environmental education programs.[7]
Syngenta Legal issues and controversies
Syngenta and its predecessor companies have been involved in numerous legal actions over the years.
Following a series of fatalities due to accidental consumption in the 1960s, the company’s herbicide, Gramoxone (Paraquat), gained notoriety in the 1970s and 80s due to a rash of suicides using the product, similar to the use of Monsantos herbicide Roundup/glyphosate for suicidal purposes. Although the World Health Organization (WHO) classifies it as only moderately hazardous, in the United States it is labeled a restricted use pesticide and it is banned in several countries. The U.S. Center for Disease Control describes the herbicide as "dangerously poisionous" to humans if ingested, inhaled, or absorbed into the body. Syngenta has added a blue dye, a foul odor, and a powerful vomit-inducer to Gramoxone to help prevent mistakes and misuse.
Atrazine has been banned in several Wisconsin counties in the United States and in the European Union. Syngenta has been linked to attempts to block the publications of UC Berkeley Professor Tyrone Hayes - Syngenta has denied those claims. Tyrone Hayes researches the herbicide Atrazine, which he has found to cause hermaphroditism in frogs.[12] However, EPA and its independent Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) examined all available studies on this topic - including Hayes' work - and concluded there is "currently insufficient data" to determine if atrazine may affect amphibian development. Hayes, formerly part of the panel, resigned in 2000 to continue studies independently.
The company has also faced questions on its Galecron insecticide’s possible relationship to bladder cancer and other illnesses. Production of Galecron stopped between 1976 and 1978 for new safety assessments, and then halted permanently in 1988 after more research showed potential risk. In a 1995 class action in the US, Ciba-Geigy agreed to cover costs for employee health monitoring and treatment.
In 2001, the United States Patent and Trademark Office ruled in favor of Syngenta when the company filed suit against Bayer to protect its patent on a class of neonicotinoid insecticides. The following year Syngenta filed suit against Monsanto and a number of other companies claiming infringement of its U.S. biotechnology patents covering transgenic corn and cotton.
In 2004, the company again filed suit against Monsanto, claiming antitrust violations related to the U.S. biotech corn seed market.
In September 2008 Syngenta's U.S. subsidiaries announced settlements with the United States Environmental Protection Agency totalling $284,000. In various separate cases, the company had been alleged to have failed to store PPE away from areas contaminated with pesticides;[13] distributed its Mesotrione Wet Paste herbicide with a chemical composition different to that registered with the EPA; and violated rules governing the advertisement of restricted-use pesticides.[14]
In October 2008 Syngenta was found guilty of wrongful termination in a federal lawsuit in Baltimore, Maryland. A female employee who complained to management about an abusive manager was terminated after the complaint was filed. A jury awarded her $1.85 million.[15] On May 8,2009 the judge in the case awarded the woman an additional $244,113.24 in legal fees. The judge, Benson Everett Legg, noted in his order that the counsel for the defense, Whiteford, Taylor and Preston, had billed Syngenta $264,003 for 2,025.5 hours of work. The judge ruled that the fees charged by the counsel for the plaintiff were reasonable.[16] The Syngenta legal record also includes citations by regulators, NGOs, and individuals for health issues related to its products.
Israel Makes Waves by Simulating an Earthquake - Financed by the US Department of Defense
(IsraelNN.com) The Seismologic Division of the Ministry of National Infrastructure's Geophysical Institute will attempt to simulate an earthquake in the southern Negev on Thursday. The experiment, financed by the U.S. Defense Department, is a joint project with the University of Hawaii and is part of a scientific project intended to improve seismological and acoustic readings in Israel and its environs, up to a 1,000 km/621 mile radius.
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Breaking: FDA Authorizes Emergency Use of H1N1 Test for U.S. Troops Serving Overseas --'The FDA worked quickly with the Defense Department to authorize the use of this test.' 25 Aug 2009 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced it has issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) that allows a 2009 H1N1 influenza virus test to be used to detect the virus in troops serving overseas. The EUA allows the U.S. Department of Defense to distribute the H1N1 test to its qualified laboratories that have the required equipment and trained personnel to perform the test and interpret its results. An EUA authorizes the use of unapproved medical products (i.e., deadly vaccines) or unapproved uses of approved medical products during a declared public health emergency.
Report: CIA officer concerned they would wind up on 'wanted list,' before war crimes court --Report reveals agents' doubts about whether their actions were legal --Only two weeks' training for CIA interrogators 26 Aug 2009 New details about the treatment of terror suspects in the wake of 9/11 contradict old assurances from former Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney that interrogators were "highly trained professionals" who well knew the boundaries of the law. Often, they had received barely two weeks' training and sometimes made up the rules as they went along. Torture details: 'We're going to kill your children.' ..."The debriefer entered the cell where Al-Nashiri sat shackled and racked the handgun once or twice close to Al-Nashiri's head. On what was probably the same day, the debriefer... revved the drill while the detainee stood naked and hooded." ... One officer expressed concern that one day officers would wind up on a 'wanted list' to appear before a war crimes court due to [their] activities.
Report Shows Tight C.I.A. Control on Interrogations --The harsh treatment began with the "attention slap," and for three prisoners of the nearly 100 who passed through the program, the endpoint was waterboarding. 26 Aug 2009 The Central Intelligence Agency’s secret interrogation program operated under strict rules, and the rules were dictated from Washington with the painstaking, eye-glazing detail beloved by any bureaucracy. Managers, doctors and lawyers not only set the program’s parameters but dictated every facet of a detainee’s daily routine, monitoring interrogations on an hour-by-hour basis. From their Washington offices, they obsessed over the smallest details... Lawyers at the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, likewise, were immersed in the details of investigations.
CIA agents threatened child killing and rape 24 Aug 2009 The self-'confessed' mastermind of the September 11th bombings in the US was threatened with the deaths of his children by CIA interrogators. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was told if there were another terrorist attack in the US his children would be killed. According to a declassified document released by the US Justice Department, another suspect was told his mother would be raped in front of him. [How could KSM 'control' terror attacks on US soil? It wasn't KSM that ordered NORAD to 'stand down' on 9/11 and to 'pull' WTC 7 -- that was Bush and 'Lucky Larry.' Bush/Cheney controlled the terror attacks -- including the Fort Detrick anthrax attacks -- on US soil. --LRP]
Full text: CIA internal report on interrogation methods 25 Aug 2009 On Monday, the US Justice Department released a declassified version of a 2004 internal CIA report, entitled "Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities" (September 2001 - October 2003).
Deaths, Missing Detainees Still Blacked Out in New CIA Report --Inspector General Reportedly Discovered Three Died, Many Unaccounted For by CIA 25 Aug 2009 The CIA and the Obama Administration continue to keep secret some of the most shocking allegations involving the spy agency's interrogation program: three deaths and several other detainees prisoners whose whereabouts could not be determined, according to a former senior intelligence official who has read the full, unredacted version. Of the 109 pages in the 2004 report, 36 were completely blacked out in the version made public Monday, and another 30 were substantially redacted for "national security" reasons. The blacked-out portions hide the Inspector General's findings on the circumstances that led to the deaths of at least three of the detainees in the CIA's program, the official said.
Special prosecutor named to look into interrogations 25 Aug 2009 Attorney General Eric Holder appointed a special prosecutor Monday to determine whether CIA interrogators or contractors should be criminally investigated for the alleged torture of post-Sept. 11 terrorism prisoners. The announcement came shortly after the release of a 2004 CIA inspector general's report that documented abuses by interrogators who exceeded even the authority granted by the Bush administration Justice Department to use "enhanced interrogation techniques," including waterboarding, which is considered torture. Holder said that in appointing John Durham, a longtime federal prosecutor in Connecticut who also is investigating the CIA's destruction of videotapes of interrogations, he was following the recommendations of a still-secret report by the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility.
Cheney Slams Obama Administration Decision --Strong Words From the Former VP on the Attorney General's Decision to Appoint a Prosecutor to Review CIA Interrogators 25 Aug 2009 Former Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney slammed the Obama administration for its decision to appoint a prosecutor to review and investigate whether CIA interrogators violated U.S. torture statutes and questioned its ability to protect the nation's security.
Cheney Slams Obama Administration for Opening Investigation of CIA Interrogators 25 Aug 2009 Former Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney slammed the Obama Administration for its decision to appoint a prosecutor to review and investigate whether CIA interrogators violated US torture statues and questioned its ability to protect the nation’s security.
Satire: Cheney: We Did Not Use Electric Drill to Force Tom Ridge to Increase Terror Alert --'That little snitch popped it up to orange alert without needing persuasion.' By R J Shulman 26 Aug 2009 Former Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney lashed out at those that assert he used so-called enhanced interrogation to force former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to increase the national security-threat level before important elections. "That little snitch popped it up to orange alert without needing persuasion," Cheney said, "although, he did scream like a little girl when I showed him that Photoshopped picture of him and Larry Craig in Minneapolis." (Satire)
Rep. King On Probe: 'It's Bulls---' 25 Aug 2009 Long Island Rep. Pete King (R-Sociopath) tells Ben Smith over at Politico that "it's bulls---" that the Justice Department has decided to open an investigation -- however narrowly focused -- on CIA interrogation abuses. "It’s bulls***. It’s disgraceful," King said, adding that this is a "declaration of war against the CIA, and against common sense."
Republicans Denounce 'Witch Hunt' of CIA Interrogators 25 Aug 2009 Leading Republicans denounced Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s decision to appoint a prosecutor to investigate alleged abuses torture of roughly a dozen detainees prisoners under a Bush-era CIA policy, as top Democrats expressed mixed views on Monday's actions by the Obama administration and some worried that the Justice Department probe would not go far enough.
Barack Obama continues rendition 26 Aug 2009 The Obama administration will continue the Bush regime's policy of "extraordinary rendition" - sending terrorism suspects to third countries for detention and interrogation - but has pledged to closely monitor the program to ensure those held are not tortured, reports say. The decision will allow the US to continue the transfer of prisoners for interrogation to countries with a history of torture. The Obama administration was condemned yesterday by human rights groups who said promises from other countries of humane treatment was no protection against abuse. As a presidential candidate, US President Barack Obama had strongly suggested he might end the practice. [But, alas alak, Obama broke this promise, too. --LRP]
Top Iran reformist in alleged links with UK intelligence 25 Aug 2009 Saeed Hajjarian, a premier reformist strategist who was disabled in a 2000 assassination attempt, has been accused of having links with the British intelligence service. During the fourth round of the mass trials held for those arrested during Iran's post-election violence, the co-founder of Iran's main reformist party, the Islamic Participation Front, was linked to renowned political theorist John Keane, Open Society Institute's George Soros and German philosopher Jurgen Habermas. "Hajjarian has twice met with John Keane, the British mastermind connected to MI5," the prosecution said. Hajjarian, the prosecutor said, had met well-known philosopher and sociologist Jurgen Habermas, who is famous for the theory of Civil disobedience.
$2m witness payment, bogus forensic evidence and Pentagon memo blaming Iran: How Lockerbie bomber appeal threatened Scottish justice 24 Aug 2009 As the political furore over the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al Megrahi engulfs three countries in bitter recriminations, The Mail on Sunday can now reveal the new and compelling evidence which he says would have proved his innocence. In a submission to the Court of Appeal running to thousands of words, Megrahi’s lawyers list 20 grounds of appeal which include: Details of a catalogue of deliberately undisclosed evidence at the original trial. Allegations of 'tampering' with evidence. A summary of how American intelligence agencies were convinced that Iran, not Libya, was involved but that their reports were not open to the 2001 trial.
Four US soldiers killed, making 2009 deadliest year for Nato in Afghanistan --Number of coalition deaths rises to 295, compared with 294 in whole of 2008 25 Aug 2009 Four US soldiers with the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force were killed today in Afghanistan, making 2009 the deadliest year for coalition troops since operations began. These latest deaths bring the number of Nato soldiers killed since the start of the year to 295. In 2008, there were 294 coalition deaths.
Afghanistan 'needs more US troops' [like a hole in the head or the light brown apple moth] 24 Aug 2009 US military commanders in Afghanistan have told the US special envoy to the region that they need more troops to bring security to the country, a report in The New York Times has said. The military chiefs gave their assessment to Richard Holbrooke during his visit to regional command centres in Afghanistan over the past two days, the newspaper reported on Sunday.
Massive truck bomb kills dozens in Kandahar 25 Aug 2009 A massive truck bomb has killed 36 civilians in the major Afghan city of Kandahar as violence by the 'insurgency' continues to intensify. The truck bomb ripped through 10 residential buildings near the offices of the Kandahar provincial council in the center of the city Tuesday night. More than five dozen people were also wounded.
Iraqi suspect: It cost $10,000 to pass checkpoints 24 Aug 2009 Attackers paid $10,000 to get a bomb-laden truck past checkpoints and next to the Iraqi Finance Ministry in last week's attacks, one of the suspected masterminds said in a confession broadcast Sunday. The attackers paid $10,000 to a [an Xe] facilitator who knew the Iraqi security forces manning the checkpoints on the roads from Muqdadiyah to the Finance Ministry, 57-year-old suspect, Wisam Ali Khazim Ibrahim, said.
Your tax dollars at work: Israel Makes Waves by Simulating an Earthquake --Experiment financed by DoD 25 Aug 2009 The Seismologic Division of the Ministry of National Infrastructure's Geophysical Institute will attempt to simulate an earthquake in the southern Negev on Thursday. The experiment, financed by the U.S. Defense Department, is a joint project with the University of Hawaii and is part of a scientific project intended to improve seismological and acoustic readings in Israel and its environs, up to a 1,000 km/621 mile radius.
Health scare sent to 1,800 veterans 25 Aug 2009 More than 1,800 Gulf War veterans were sent letters from the Veterans Administration this month informing them that they had Lou Gehrig's disease, a fatal neurological disease. But at least some of the letters -- and the diagnoses -- were a mistake. Jim Bunker, president of the National Gulf War Resource Center, said VA officials told him the letters dated Aug. 12 were the result of a computer coding error that mistakenly labeled the veterans with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.
Half of GPs refuse swine flu vaccine over testing fears --Of those who said they did not want to jab, 71 per cent said it was because of safety concerns. 25 Aug 2009 Up to half of family doctors do not want to be vaccinated against swine flu. GPs will be first in the line for the jabs when they become available but many will decline, even though they will be offering the vaccine to their patients. More than two thirds of those who will turn the jab down believe it has not been tested enough. A week ago, a poll of nurses showed that a third would turn down the opportunity of being vaccinated against swine flu.
Feds to launch massive propaganda campaign on 'safety' of swine flu vaccines --The federal government will spend about $16 million on outreach propaganda to convince people of the 'need' to get the swine flu vaccine. 25 Aug 2009 Federal authorities plan to launch a massive campaign in the coming weeks to convince Americans to get the swine flu vaccine and to erase any public skepticism about the flu's danger and the safety of immunizations. Even as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has manufacturers working overtime to produce a vaccine for the swine flu by mid-October, government officials are concerned [!?!] that demand for immunization will not be high.
CDC's Advice: Swine Flu Shots for All 25 Aug 2009 The first swine flu precaution that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests for parents: As soon as a vaccine is available, try to get it for everyone in your family. "We're going to continue to stress that the vaccine is the most important thing that parents can do to protect their children," said Tom Skinner, a CDC spokesman [We'll pass on the mercury-laden, squalene-filled, Polysorbate 80 cancer sticks, manufactured (along with the pandemic itself) with legal immunity granted on 17 July, to enhance Barack Opharma's corpora-terrorists' coffers.]
Swine flu could cause as many as 90,000 US deaths: WHouse --Epidemic's resurgence could 'produce infection of 30-50 percent of the US population this fall and winter' 24 Aug 2009 Swine flu could infect as much as half of the US population this fall and winter and cause up to 90,000 deaths, President Barack Obama's 'science' advisors warned Monday. Laying out a "plausible scenario" for the epidemic's impact in the United States, the report painted a grim picture of stress on the US health care system as it struggles to cope with a flood of flu patients.
Obama reappoints Bernanke as Fed chairman --Bernanke was selected as Federal Reserve chairman by George W Bush in 2005 24 Aug 2009 US President Barack Obama has awarded Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke a second term, charging him with steering the US economy out of the worst slump since the 1930s. Obama suddenly interrupted his vacation on the resort island of Martha's Vineyard to make the announcement on Tuesday, reasoning that Bernanke had led the Fed through "one of the worst financial crises that this nation and this world have ever faced.''
Fed Must Release Reports on Emergency Bank Loans, Judge Says 25 Aug 2009 The Federal Reserve must make records about emergency lending to financial institutions public within five days because it failed to convince a judge the documents should be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. Manhattan Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska rejected the central bank’s argument that the records aren’t covered by the law because their disclosure would harm borrowers' competitive positions.
Remember Me? Wall Street Repackages Toxic Debt 24 Aug 2009 Wall Street may have discovered a way out from under the bad debt and risky mortgages that have clogged the financial markets. The would-be solution probably sounds familiar: It's a lot like what got banks in trouble in the first place. In recent months investment banks have been repackaging old mortgage securities and offering to sell them as new products, a plan that's nearly identical to the complicated investment packages at the heart of the market's collapse.
'Stress' is shrinking polar bears 25 Aug 2009 Polar bears have shrunk over the last century, according to research. Scientists compared bear skulls from the early 20th Century with those from the latter half of the century. Their study, in the Journal of Zoology, describes changes in size and shape that could be linked an increase in pollution and the reduction in sea ice. Physical "stress" caused by pollutants in the bears' bodies, and the increased effort needed to find food, could limit the animals' growth, the team said. The researchers used the skulls as indicators of body size. The skulls from the later period were between two and 9% smaller.
With Bat Extinctions Looming, 1.5 Million Dead, Group Says Feds Must Make Saving Bats First Priority (Center for Biological Diversity) 24 Aug 2009 Mounting evidence that several species of bats have been all but eliminated from the Northeast due to a new disease known as white-nose syndrome prompted a conservation group to send a letter today to Sam Hamilton, the new director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, urging that action on the bat epidemic be his first priority.
Quick action! Bats Need Urgent Help, Contact Fish and Wildlife 24 Aug 2009 Bats are on a clear trajectory toward oblivion. For months, the Center for Biological Diversity has warned that the bat crisis is dire while calling for more funding to try to determine what, exactly, is killing America's bats -- and how the disease can be stopped. We spearheaded an effort to send a letter to every member of Congress, pleading for action and more resources for this wildlife catastrophe... Please send a message today urging Fish and Wildlife Service director Sam Hamilton to create a white-nose syndrome plan immediately to prevent the complete unraveling of America's bat populations.
World's ocean temps are warmest on record --At 62.6 degrees in July, that's a full degree above 20th Century average 25 Aug 2009 July was the hottest the world's oceans have been in almost 130 years of record-keeping. The average water temperature worldwide was 62.6 degrees, according to the National Climatic Data Center, the branch of the U.S. government that keeps world weather records. June was only slightly cooler, while August could set another record, scientists say. At a full degree above the 20th century average of 61.5 degrees, "the global ocean surface temperature for July 2009 was the warmest on record," the center said.
Previous lead stories: 'We could get your mother in here. We can bring your family in here.' CIA told suspect his mother would be raped in front of him 24 Aug 2009 An internal CIA reported published today reveals a host of incidents in which its interrogators went far beyond acceptable bounds, such as threats against family members, including hinting that an [alleged] al-Qaida suspect's mother would be raped in front of him. Interrogators, questioning 'al-Qaida' and other suspects at Guantánamo and secret prisons round the world, took a power drill and a handgun into the interrogation room, and also staged a mock execution in a cell next door. The CIA document, which the agency fought for years to prevent publication of, says that Saudi terror suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was told that if he did not talk, "we could get your mother in here. We can bring your family in here". It added that the debriefer wanted Nashiri to infer that the "interrogation technique involves sexually abusing female relatives in front of the detainee".
Report: CIA Used Power Drills, Guns, Threats Against Children --Declassified Report Says --Then-Attorney General Knew One Suspect Waterboarded 119 Times 24 Aug 2009 CIA officers used power drills, mock executions and threats against children in often futile attempts to break [alleged] high-value al Qaeda targets, according to portions of a 2004 report by the CIA inspector general that was made public today. "We now have a document that the world can read that shows in excruciating and disgusting detail that the United States violated its own beliefs and turned to the dark side when it didn't have to," said Richard Clarke, a former national security official and now an ABC News consultant.
'The CIA hired Blackwater to conduct targeted killings in Afghanistan.' Death Squad: Blackwater Accused of Creating 'Killing Program' --A memo obtained by SPIEGEL indicates that cooperation between the CIA and private security firm Blackwater was deeper than previously known. SPIEGEL has uncovered further details about a plan to set up squads for targeted killings of suspected al-Qaida leadership in Afghanistan... In a memo obtained by SPIEGEL, two former employees describe details of cooperation between the firm and the intelligence agency that then-Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney asked the CIA not to disclose to the United States Congress. The intelligence service commissioned Blackwater and its subsidiaries to transport terror suspects from Guantanamo to interrogations at secret prison camps in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. The paper identifies aircraft movements and unveils how the flights were disguised. The memo says: "The CIA hired Blackwater to conduct extraordinary renditions". And: "Blackwater flew the rendition targets from Fort Perry and Cuba to Kandahar, Afghanistan." Blackwater also supported the CIA with other controversial activities during the Bush years, the memo states. "The CIA hired Blackwater to conduct targeted killings in Afghanistan," it reads.
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