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Organic Standards Sabotaged Successfully By “Our” Congress

Sad to say, the ominous forces not really caring about organic foods and products being organic have sabotaged America’s attempt to keep pesticides, additives, genetically altered feed, crops, etc., out of foods previously and futuristically labelled ‘organic.’ The deed has been done — ?for now? — thanks to our wonderful Congressfolk supposedly representing us.
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Hamptons International Film Festival 2005: Some Films to See n Not

‘Go For Zucker’ is great, funny, a Jewish bouillabaisse of appositional comedy; ‘The Fall of Fujimori’ documentary shows the ex-President of Peru interviewed explaining everything so rationally about his bloody dictatorship and its death squads; ‘The Cave of the Yellow Dog’ – Mongolian nomads with three of the most adorable children ever protagonized! ‘Why We Fight’ ‘David & Layla’
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Int’l Atomic Energy Agency Wins Nobel Prize: Anti-Proliferation But Bad Legitimization of Pro-Nuclear Promotional Agency

October 2005 marks the month when the International Atomic Energy Agency and its chief, Mohamed ElBaradei, won the Noble Peace Prize for their efforts to halt the proliferation of nuclear weapons. This is good and bad.
Good because it goes against the rigid warlike policies of our incorrigible leaders who tried to have ElBaradei fired because he spoke truth to power
about finding no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, pre-invasion 2003. Bad because it
legitimizes nuclear power and the international agency that pushes it around the globe.

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Sir Joseph Rotblat, Noble Laureate, Anti-Nuclear Weapons Advocate Dies

Anti-nuclear weapons advocate Joseph Rotblat, 1995 Nobel Peace Prize winner, physicist and leader of the Pugwash scientific conferences, passed away at the age of 96 on August 31, 2005. RotblatĂ­s diplomatic-scientific work help lay the groundwork for many test ban treaties, including the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, and the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972.

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Syngenta Files To Patent Rice Genes

“With these patents Syngenta is claiming the
work of breeders and farmers from the past centuries as the company’s own invention. The attempt to monopolize thousands of gene sequences from most important crop plants in one rush is nothing less than a theft of common goods,” says Tina Goethe from Swissaid. “Not to mention the fact that these patents could block future research to a large extent.”

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