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UBS tried to deep six documents of holocaust victims’ bank accounts, so why did Romney park his money there? Am I the only person in the world that this has occurred to? Mitt Romney had a $3 million dollar account in UBS (United or Union Bank of Switzerland). Why would he leave his money [...] Mother Jones: A study from Purdue researchers casts further suspicion on Bayer’s money-minting concoctions. To understand the new paper—published in the peer-reviewed journal Plos One—it’s important to know how seed treatments work: The pesticides are applied directly to seeds before planting, and then get absorbed by the plant’s vascular system. They are “expressed” in the pollen [...] Corporations are artificial creatures of law. As such, they should enjoy only those powers—not constitutional rights, but legislatively-conferred powers—that are concomitant with their legitimate function, that being limited liability investment vehicles for business. Corporations are not persons. Human beings are persons, and it is an affront to the inviolable dignity of our species that courts have created a legal fiction [...] Bank of America cubicles emptied of the 99% employees who used to do home loan modifications for the rest of the 99% Revolutions all over the world have been demonstrating just how critical the internet is to the modern world. It can be used to oppress and it can be used to free people [...] In the streets of Manhattan, during a weekend in late September, the faces of steel and concrete behemoths staring down at me, I quickly weaved my way through stopped cars. I moved with several thousand others. A collective elation filled the air, surrounding us as we sped forward. Cars honked in support, cab drivers [...] Ambrose Bierce wrote in his Devil’s Dictionarythat “Radicalism is the Conservativism of tomorrow, injected into the affairs of today.” One of the joys of aging is to have been a radical in one’s youth, to continue to be a radical, and to be proven right (or in my case, be proven left?) about past ideas [...] For thousands of years Sun worshipers have celebrated the Sun god’s rebirth after the winter solstice. Pagans honored the birth of the “invincible sun” with a festival of lights, using big bonfires, pork fat tallow candles and, today, billions of colored lights. Rome’s seven day Saturnalia was religious revelry with decadent drunkenness, outrageous adultery and [...] If you recall, back in 2002 the US government launched an expensive propaganda campaign in its failed “war on drugs” aimed at tying the recreational use of drugs such as marijuana and cocaine to terrorism. The ads, one of which aired during the Super Bowl, equated the use of illegal drugs with the killing of [...] |  | ||||
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