Corporations threaten Organic Industry with Toxins!

I don’t know why the US is still purchasing products from China after the products we’ve been getting from them.  First, the lives of our pets have been endangered by Chinese factories who use poison as a substitute for protein, second, our children’s lives are put endanger by the toxins in the toy’s purchased from China, and third, American’s have not jobs…  Why are American companies taking American jobs to China?  Are they that unpatriotic and greedy that they are more willing to take jobs over seas, so that they can bulk their bank accounts at Swiss banks to evade American taxes?

What ever happened to grown in America?

What ever happened to made in America?

If you go to WalMart, you should be ashamed!  Look at all those products because most are made in China! We’re not saying you can buy foreign products.  We’re saying that everything doesn’t have to be made or grown in other country’s.  America was founded by small family farmers!  Small farms made America.  American’s don’t have jobs because greedy corporation’s take those jobs over seas.  I’d call that anti-American!  First these corporation’s received tax subsidies which small family farmers were not eligible or not able to apply, and as a result those small family farmers had to sell their land to these greedy corporations, and family lost their farms that they had for generations!

Corporations Undermine Organic Reputation: Chinese Soy Imports and Toxic Petrochemicals

New Report: Many Organic Soy Food Brands Importing Beans from China We no longer trust these imports to feed our pets. They have no place in organicsCornucopia, WI: Tremendous growth in the organic soy foods industry has occurred over the last two decades as consumers seek healthy dietary alternative sources of protein. Many companies touting their “natural” or “organic” soy brands have found favor in the supermarket. A new report, released this week by The Cornucopia Institute, lifts the veil on some of these companies, exposing widespread importation of soybeans from China and the use of toxic chemicals to process soy foods labeled as “natural.”The report, Beyond the Bean: The Heroes and Charlatans of the Natural and Organic Soy Foods Industry, and an accompanying ratings scorecard of organic brands, separates industry heroes-who have gone out of their way to connect with domestic farmers-from agribusinesses that are exploiting the trust of consumers.Part of the meteoric rise in organic food sales has been built on the expectation from consumers that organic foods support a more environmentally sound form of agriculture and one that financially rewards family farmers through their patronage. “Importing Chinese soybeans or contributing to the loss of rain forests by shipping in commodities from Brazil just flat-out contradicts the working definition of organic agriculture,” said Mark Kastel, Senior Farm Policy Analyst at The Cornucopia Institute.Through a nationwide survey of the industry, onsite farm, and processor visits, plus reviews of import data, Cornucopia assembled a rating system aimed at empowering consumers and wholesale buyers with the knowledge necessary to support brands that respect the fundamental tenets of organics. [read more]

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Haliburton’s former subsidiary KBR gets $80 million in bonuses

People claim to support our troops is just a rallying call by republican’s in particular the Bush Cheney clans for republican’s and friends.  Every one else fell for the lies of these people and the lies were told to legitimize the Bush’s wars.  It happens for every Bush war, many of you are probably to young to know.

You do a rallying call to support our troops, but you don’t realize what is really happening behind the scenes!  Our troops don’t get that money, and many of them had to purchase their own body armor, and many mother’s and father’s had bake sales just to get that equipment.  The equipment the soldiers were using in the Bush’s war were not even top quality equipment which only cause harm to the soldiers with many of them coming home with head injuries that will be with them for the rest of their lives!

Who gets all the taxpayer money, after Bush’s and Cheney’s clans rally the people under the guise of “Support Our Troops”?  Lets face it, the troops don’t see that money, but the companies that the Bush and Cheney’s support sure do.

Wars by Bush’s are started, so that they can help and support their friends and families through giving billions to their companies.

Support Our Troops, and sign the petition to stop rewarding people that cause reckless endangerment to our troops and have those involved charged for criminal negligence!

Hold KBR/Halliburton War Profiteers Accountable

The Department of Defense just gave $80 million in bonuses to KBR, a former subsidiary of Halliburton, for electrical wiring contracts in Iraq. But in a dramatic Senate hearing, the DoD’s own documents revealed that U.S. soldiers have died via electrocution as a direct result of KBR’s shoddy and substandard work.

The Nation has issued a chilling report based on evidence revealed this week. Eighteen U.S. soldiers have died as a result of KBR’s work. One of the electrocuted soldiers was a decorated Green Beret whose death was classified by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigations Division as a “negligent homicide.”

KBR/Halliburton is not just distinguished by its close relationship with Dick Cheney, the company’s former CEO and the architect of the disastrous invasion of Iraq. It also happens to be the single largest war profiteer from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bush’s Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, may still lead the Department of Defense under the Obama administration. But that doesn’t mean we can’t end the blank checks for Bush and Cheney’s cronies and hold war profiteers accountable.

Sign this petition today to ask Secretary Gates to rescind the KBR bonuses, pursue criminal charges against the officials responsible for the electrocution deaths of U.S. soldiers, and stop awarding defense contracts to KBR. [sign the petition]

Please press Burma’s Military ruling government to release Aung San Suu Kyi

“Suu Kyi won the right to be Prime Minister in a general election held in 1990, but the junta refused to acknowledge the results.”

What’s Going on with Aung San Suu Kyi, and What Can I Do?

For those who don’t know, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is the leader of Burma’s National League for Democracy, a political party founded in 1988 by activists opposed to the country’s ruling military dictatorship. Suu Kyi won the right to be Prime Minister in a general election held in 1990, but the junta refused to acknowledge the results. Her continued insistence on nonviolence in the struggle for democracy has earned her the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. In their citation, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wrote: [Read More]

• The Burma Campaign UK’s Urgent Action
• The U.S. Campaign for Burma’s Urgent Action

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We’re 30 years behind for a Hi-Speed Rails System; What’s nexted?

Those conservatives are holding back America, again!

America is about 30 years behind for a high-speed rail system in the US, and a few corporations don’t want that to happen.  Some of those corporations bought out the Los Angeles railway system [underground] then closed them off, so they are not even accessible.

Now they are holding back on green energy by preventing Obama from doing what he was voted in to do and as a result China is leading the way.  American’s are losing jobs, and American companies continue to make things in China instead of at home in America.  Walk into a store and look at the product and see where it is being made.  What ever happened to the alleged “patriotism” they speak about?  “Buy American?”

American’s can be making these wind turbines, but China is making them, and who will purchase them from China?  We don’t have to buy everything “made in America,” but we don’t have to buy everything “made in China” either.  Just walk into Wal-Mart or PetsMart and just about everything is made in China.

We Must Seize the Energy Opportunity or Slip Further Behind

China’s leaders are investing $12.6 million every hour to green their economy. Other countries are equally energetic in their embrace of alternative energy technologies; they are setting targets and investing billions of dollars to spur the development of entirely new markets in wind, solar, geothermal, biofuels, energy efficiency, high-speed rail, and other clean and innovative solutions to global warming.

The United States, too, is poised to transform its economy to create millions of new jobs and help create a cleaner, safer planet by investing in a green, renewable-energy based economy. The Obama administration wants to unleash the ingenuity of our private sector to rein in pollution and put millions of Americans back to work. Yet China is spending twice as much as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act spends to lay the foundations for a green energy economy, despite the U.S. economy being 1.5 times as large as China’s. And across Europe and Asia, other governments have diversified their energy portfolios and encouraged entrepreneurs to start and expand clean and renewable energy companies.

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Hold Bush and His Joint Co-Conspirators Criminally Accountable!

It’s a no brainier!

How hard can it be to charge a criminal for crimes? Oh, he’s a former President, I see, so I suppose that means every President of every country can also break laws including international laws against torture and genocide? Why have those laws?

So, why did we go into Iraq?

Many of those alleged supporters of Bush claimed that Sadam was torturing, and that’s why we are there. That’s what they said, but they also alleged other things as well. Maybe they don’t know what they’re talking about and support Bush regardless of what he’s done, so they come up with all kinds of myth stories to try and support him.

Hold Bush and His Joint Co-Conspirators Criminally Accountable!

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The rule of law, justice, and basic integrity require the indictment for criminal wrongdoing of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales, and other high officials of the former Bush Administration.

The media establishment is surprised by the ground swell of support from the grassroots for the pursuit of individuals who committed grievous crimes during the Bush era.

We are not surprised that the people are demanding accountability for those who committed wars of aggression, torture, and subverted the Constitution and thus violated not only their oaths of office but domestic and international law.

Please make an urgently needed donation today to help make the Indict Bush movement grow, by clicking this link.

These crimes are not abstract nor can they be ignored as belonging to a distant past. Millions of people have suffered and continue to suffer because of the criminal invasion of Iraq.

The vital resources of the country have been drained in a criminal enterprise benefiting war profiteers. The people know of and are outraged by the billions of dollars in profit made by Dick Cheney’s Halliburton and that is only the tip of the iceberg.

The pressure is building. President Obama said at his press conference this week, “My view is also that nobody’s above the law, and if there are clear instances of wrongdoing, that people should be prosecuted just like any ordinary citizen,” when asked about the pursuit of Bush Administration officials for criminal wrongdoing.

In a new poll, an astounding 2/3 of the American public favors investigating whether the Bush Administration broke the law. “A majority of respondents said a probe should be launched into allegations that the Bush team used torture…[and] investigators also should look into the former President’s program of wiretapping U.S. citizens without first securing court-issued warrants.” (AFP 2/12/09) [read more]

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Newt Gingrich’s Gay Fascism; More Myth Stories from Religious Fascists!

I think these extremist groups are confusing “Gay Fascism” with something else because Gay people are only fighting for equality and nothing else, so the myth that an alleged “Gay Fascism” exists is a myth being started by these people.

They are not trying to convert your children as the myth going around claims.  You are either Gay or Not, just like you can’t convert anyone to being “Straight,” oh yes, you can pretend to be straight, because you need to fit into your particular group of people and feel accepted, but your only fooling yourself.  The extremist conversion theory is a myth pushed by religious fanatics, along with many other myths.

The only fascists that I know of is Hitler, KKK, and other extremist groups, but they all follow mythical biblical law, and want to exterminate and threaten all Gay people, so again, I have to say that Gingrich is spreading more myth stories in order to gain the converts he needs to push his presidency and kill Gay people.

So, if you like myth stories then you would fit with Gingrich’s new group.

Educate yourself on these kinds of religious fascists, terrorists and fanatical groups [Jim Jones, Timothy McVeigh, Branch Davidian, etc.]  These are some good examples of why religion should be Separate from Church and State laws and politics.  If we have people like Gingrich pushing his Evangelical views on the rest of us, then what religion will we all be forced to practice in the name of his “god”?  Would the Evangelical’s finally ban “The Book of Mormon” for blasphemy or would the Pope finally condemn Evangelicals for removing the word of God from their religious book?  We will only know if people like Gingrich succeed.

Gay people are not pushing any religion or “god” on anyone.  Gay people just want to be free to practice their own religious faiths [freedom of religious practice], and to be treated as American’s with equal protection under constitutional law, NOT religious law.

Newt Gingrich’s Gay Fascism

If only Newt Gingrich could have been a one-hit wonder. Instead, the former Speaker of the House is stirring the pot with a potential 2012 bid for President, and the formation of a new group – Renewing American Leadership. What is the goal of Renewing American Leadership?

To combat gay and secular fascism.

Much as we’d like to be kidding, here’s Gingrich on Fox News:

[T]here is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. I think it is prepared to use the government if it can get control of it.

So in order to combat this gay fascism, Gingrich’s new organization is looking to build and strengthen coalitions between economic conservatives and religious conservatives. According to Bill Berkowitz over at Buzz Flash, Gingrich will be taking his new organization to an influential group of conservative pastors that were among the leaders of the Bush re-election campaign of 2004, and Gingrich is planning on releasing a film about the late Pope John Paul II’s role in taking down the Soviet Union.

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Warning! Religious extremists target Gay community. Recent events caused an increasing of hate violence/terrorism toward the Gay community after religious extremists pushed prop 8.

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Thank Two Congressmen for Saying No to Creationists

Creationists are scary people whom cannot understand the reality of life.

Here we are in a war against alleged terrorists who wish to exert their religious rule on the rest of us through either physical or verbal ideology [terrorism], and we have to deal with them in our own country!

Public school systems should not force kids to study creationist theory, which should be an elective of choice. Private schools already have that, so anyone wishing that type of education should go to a private school because it’s patriotic and common law of the people to have separation of church and state. It’s like that for a reason because creationist wish to exert their ideology on those of use who do not believe or practice that type of religious system, they belittle anyone else who is not part of that system [terrorism]. Social conservatives terrorize groups of people who are not part of their system [terrorism], and try to push it on us through legal means and votes through fear tactics.

Separation of church and state is one of the founding democracy’s and why America is a democracy and free, it’s why our forebears pushed for a free America in the early years of America. People came here to have religious freedom, and that doesn’t mean the right to antagonize people who are non-believers.

Social conservatives [extremists] allege they have religious freedom, well religious freedom just mean that you have a right to practice your faith without persecution with in your own community, it doesn’t mean it’s okay to persecute non believers or those of another belief system, regardless of the hate the bible teaches. Your faith is personal to you and you alone, and should not be forced on others either through legal means or a tyrannical vote, much less taught in public school as if it’s true science!

Perhaps a new age has come for taxation of that kind of business?

Thank Two Congressmen for Saying No to Creationists
It takes courage for a politician in Texas to speak out against religious fundamentalism. Texas state Senator Rodney Ellis and Representative Patrick Rose deserve the thanks of all Americans for showing that courage.

Whether you’re a Texan or not, if you want creationism out of high school science textbooks – and evolution in them – please take a moment to thank Sen. Ellis and Rep. Rose for fighting the Discovery Institute/creationist-dominated Texas State Board of Education (SBOE).

Rose and Ellis proposed legislation “to place the board under periodic review by the Sunset Advisory Commission and hold them accountable for their performance, just as we do the Texas Education Agency and other state agencies.”

Why? In their own words:

“The decisions of the SBOE not only impact millions of young lives on a daily basis, but impact the economic progress of our state as well.

“For these reasons and many others, the public has a right to full disclosure and oversight.

“The board has escaped such scrutiny for far too long. The disregard for educators, instructional experts and scientists can’t continue. It’s time to take a closer look at the operations and policies of the State Board of Education.

“Our state, and especially our kids, deserve better.” [sign petition]

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Chris Buttar’s Hateful Lies: Stop Hateful lies from Utah Lawmaker

Gay people are kind and loving people. They have morals, and many of them have morals of higher standing than Chris Buttar’s! He’s pointing fingers accusing the Gay community of religious crimes!

I happen to know for a fact that my morals are of higher standing, and Chris Buttar’s doesn’t even know me. How dare he demonize our people and our community! I’m getting very tired of these [ モルモン教徒 の ファトゥアー] religious fatwa’s!

Has Utah starting building concentration camps to house these alleged demons?

Stop Hateful Lies from Utah Lawmaker

Utah State Senator Chris Buttars recently called the LGBT community “probably the greatest threat to America…I know of.”

He went on to spew a series of vile insults including:

* Lesbian and gay relationships are “abominations.”
* LGBT people are moving America “toward a society that has no morals.”
* LGBT people will “destroy the foundation of American society.”

Comments like this spread ignorance and fear – promoting an atmosphere of violence against LGBT Americans. They have no place in the discourse of our elected officials.

Please send the letter below to Sen. Michael Waddoups, President of the Utah State Senate, and call on him to condemn Sen. Buttars’ remarks and censure him officially.[sign petition]

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Lesbian’s brutal gang rape [terrorism!] investigated in Calif.

Since religious edicts sent out by the Mormon Church, Saddleback church [see the lies] and other extremists to pass Prop 8, an increase of attacks have possibly occurred on our community. Prop 8, which was pushed by religious extremists target the Gay community, and Same-sex love by created a second-class citizen and stripping away equal marriage rights under California’s constitution.

Recently a Lesbian has been a victim of one of these terrorist acts because she is part of LGBTQ community. We have to continue to defend our rights and protect ourselves from these kinds of terrorists. People like Rick Warren send out edicts to their followers that directly target and demonizes the Gay community in the name of their religious doctrine, we have to stand fast, and watch our backs from these kinds of haters.

Lesbian’s brutal gang rape investigated in Calif.
A woman in the San Francisco Bay area was jumped by four men, taunted for being a lesbian, repeatedly raped and left naked outside an abandoned apartment building, authorities said Monday.

Detectives say the 28-year-old victim was attacked Dec. 13 after she got out of her car, which bore a rainbow gay pride sticker. The men, who ranged from their late teens to their 30s, made comments indicating they knew her sexual orientation, said Richmond police Lt. Mark Gagan.

“It just pushes it beyond fathomable,” he said. “The level of trauma – physical and emotional – this victim has suffered is extreme.”

Authorities are characterizing the attack as a hate crime but declined to reveal why they think the woman was singled out because of her sexual orientation. Gagan would say only that the victim lived openly with a female partner and had a rainbow flag sticker on her car.

The 45-minute attack began when one of the men approached the woman as she crossed the street, struck her with a blunt object, ordered her to disrobe and sexually assaulted her with the help of the other men.

When the group saw another person approaching, they forced the victim back into her car and took her to a burned-out apartment building, where she was raped again inside and outside the vehicle. The assailants took her wallet and drove off in her car. Officers found the car abandoned two days later.

The woman sought help from a nearby resident, and she was examined at a hospital. Although the victim said she did not know her attackers, detectives hope someone in the community knows them. One of the men went by the nickname “Blue” and another was called “Pato,” according to authorities.

Richmond police are offering a $10,000 award for information leading to the arrest of the attackers.

Gay rights advocates note that hate crimes based on sexual orientation have increased nationwide as of late. There were 1,415 such crimes in 2006 and 1,460 in 2007, both times making up about 16 percent of the total, according to the FBI.

Avy Skolnik, a coordinator with the New York-based National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, noted that gay, lesbian and transgender crime victims may be more reluctant than heterosexual victims to contact police.

“Assailants target LGBT people of all gender identities with sexual assault,” he said. “Such targeting is one of the most cruel, dehumanizing and violent forms of hate violence that our communities experience.”

Skolnik said the group plans to analyze hate crime data to see whether fluctuations may be related to the gay marriage bans that appeared on ballots this year in California, Arizona and Florida.

“Anytime there is an anti-LGBT initiative, we tend to see spikes both in the numbers and the severity of attacks,” he said. “People feel this extra entitlement to act out their prejudice.”

Land of the Free H8 Extremists Threaten Free America! Extremism seems to be the perpetrator of Prop 8. Biblical extremists intimidate and threaten free people. No on 8! Stop tyranny and the tyrant mobs!

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California win emboldens anti-gay religious groups

Coming to a State near you! Watch out everyone! Don’t believe their lies because a whole lot of Californian’s fell for it.

I keep hearing comments that Prop 8 was not pushed by religious groups, they keep saying what about these people or those over there. Prop 8 people even agree that it is the Mormon’s, Catholics, and Evangelical Christians. All use the same bible that allegedly justifies targeting gay people for persecution. Though Mormons also use “The Book of Mormon”, and a “prophet” who had found some inscription that only he was able to see miraculously wrote it. Why these religious faiths are grouping together to destroy America’s constitution is bewildering since many Evangelical Christian’s see The Book of Mormon as sacrilegious to the bible teachings. My own former faith taught us to beware of false prophets.

Why are they grouping together? I can only image that it’s for the purpose of voting in order to water down America’s constitution in their religious favor, though it’s still unconstitutional for an overbearing tyrannical majority to oppress a minority. Hopefully, our judicial system will continue to protect our constitutions, if not then this country is lost.

Don’t these people have anything better to do besides attacking other people?

They should focus on their own families, and clean their own houses. Don’t mess with our constitutions.

Proposition 8 is illegal, and unconstitutional! The prop 8 people fooled people into voting for it, and they are trying to be sneaky by pushing this thing through. They are supposed to take it through legislation and then the voting process, but they skipped the legislation part because they already knew that it would not pass legislation. California’s legislation had already fixed the law to clarify civil marriage, but it was vetoed twice by the governor because they though it was up to the courts to correct the discrimination. Though marriage went to the Supreme Court as a result of Mayor Newsom marrying 4000 people in San Francisco, that brought about the court case, and the California Supreme Court found that denying civil marriage to same-sex couples is unconstitutional. The religious fanatics just won’t stop making a mess of everything, they can’t stand it when they loose, so they keep wasting taxpayer dollars on the mess they have created.

They don’t understand that their religious laws are not our civil laws, and those they are separate, but they continue to push their religious dogma on the rest of us, and they don’t care what religion you belong to. They will do their best to exert Christian dogma on us all. Then come the inquisitions because they just will not stop.

California win emboldens anti-gay religious groups
Leaders of the successful Proposition 8 campaign say an unusual coalition of evangelical Christians, Mormons and Roman Catholics built a majority at the polls Nov. 4 by harnessing the organizational muscle of churches to a mainstream message about what school children might be taught about same-sex relationships if the ban failed.
Same-sex marriage bans also won in Arizona and Florida. But in putting together the California victory, the coalition overcame opposition from the state’s political establishment and assumptions about how voters in the famously tolerant state would respond to taking away the rights the state’s highest court granted this spring.
“Everyone told me it could not be done, people do not care about this enough, you will be overwhelmed and you will lose,” said Maggie Gallagher, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage, a New Jersey group that provided seed money early this year to qualify the measure for the ballot.

Marriage Equality. Separate Church and State law. Civil law belongs to the people, and every one should be treated with respect and dignity. Repeal Prop 8!

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