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  • McDonald’s Is Super-Sizing Destruction of Amazonia: Greenpeace
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Friday, April 7, 2006 by Agence France Presse McDonald’s Is Super-Sizing Destruction of Amazonia: Greenpeace http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0407-09.htm
    The environment group Greenpeace launched a campaign against McDonald’s, accusing the US restaurant chain of abetting the destruction of the Brazilian rainforest by buying meat raised from Amazonian soya.
    Greenpeace protestors staged colourful but peaceful demonstrations at several McDonald’s (…)

  • Cancer in a Can By Terry J. Allen
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2567/
    Fifteen years ago the Food and Drug Administration said, “Trust us.” Its scientists had found benzene, a known carcinogen, in some sodas and fruit drinks. The same levels in drinking water would have triggered mandatory action and public notification through newspaper, radio and TV ads. Yet the FDA neither sounded the alarm nor required the beverage industry to fix the problem.
    Instead, it cut a private deal. FDA chemist Greg Diachenko (…)

  • Canned! Food Firms Bale Out of Whaling in Face of Global Consumer Protest - the Independent / UK
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 by the Independent / UK Canned! Food Firms Bale Out of Whaling in Face of Global Consumer Protest by David McNeill and Michael McCarthy
    Japan’s ruthless push for the return of commercial whaling received a significant setback yesterday when pressure from green campaigners forced five big food companies to pull out of supporting the Japanese whaling industry.
    The five firms, led by the Japanese seafood giant Nissui and its wholly-owned US frozen (…)

  • Join The ExxonMobil War Boycott - Buy Citgo - VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLARS Consumers For Peace
    18 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ExxonMobil has been selected for boycott because of its apparent active involvement in U.S. policy in the Middle East in general and Iraq in particular, and its power to help change these policies.
    Campbell Soup, Carlson Companies (Radisson Hotels, TGI Friday’s), Corning Inc., Metlife, Novartis, Pfizer, Verizon, Wells Fargo and Wyeth are also selected for boycott because these firms can influence ExxonMobil through board members they share in common with ExxonMobil.
    When governments (…)

  • Lobbyist Aims to Show Labor Groups to be ’Duplicitous’
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Full-Page Ads Launch Anti-Union Drive
    By Amy Joyce
    The full-page newspaper ads that ran yesterday showed a "Closed" sign over a padlocked gate, declaring the sign "The New Union Label. . . . Brought to you by the union ’leaders’ who helped bankrupt steel, auto, and airline companies.
    The advertisements in The Washington Post, New York Times and Wall Street Journal, introduced the Center for Union Facts and its Web site, UnionFacts.com. The group was created by Richard Berman, a (…)

  • news blocked in web search engines?
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Have you noticed that if you do a web search for Walmart Video on Google, all you get is news about renting video’s from Walmart?
    There must be a way to get these engines to be picking up the 6000 showings of the "Walmart Video" as part of these searches. I’ve seen reference to showings in the brief descriptions of some entries. But I’ve been trying for 10 minutes using Google to bring up the webpage of the group that is promoting and selling that video.
    I wonder if there is some (…)

  • World Interest Banking System is the FRAUD that drives TERRORISM, WAR, and POVERTY
    23 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is interesting to note, that especially in the 20th and now the 21st century that the business of banking is the LARGEST and MOST powerful business in the world, claiming secretly ownership of most of the worlds resources, lands, labor forces, and markets. It is interesting because the financial news is full of information about such mind control topics about price of stocks, housing, labor, and a number of other so-called economic factors. But in a system that affects us all it has not (…)

  • [Mass Media is Mind Control] Something for every mind we wish to control...
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Internet is the single biggest problem that propagandist face. The Internet and people that can and do engage in READING and WRITING. These two alone are probably going to do more to dismantle the mantle of MIND CONTROL set up over the last 2,000 years since the introduction of mass story telling, folklore, cultural rituals, and finally the grand parents of the total system we live in MONEY and PROSTITUTION.
    Money and Prostitution are the oldest SOCIALLY ACCEPTED AND ACTED on social (…)

  • How Those Big Bucks End Up in Big Oil’s Pockets
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Steven Mufson
    When oil prices spiked — and oil profits soared — 26 years ago, virtually every newspaper intern in America (including me) was dispatched to gasoline stations to collect quotes from irate motorists. Big Oil was viewed as public enemy number one: Congress convened hearings to skewer oil industry execs, regulatory agencies investigated pricing, and some news organizations rented helicopters to scour the waters (in vain) for signs of oil tankers floating offshore just waiting (…)

  • Teacher Unions Join Boycott of Wal-Mart
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    August 11, 2005, Los Angeles Times
    The two largest U.S. teacher unions joined a "back-to-school" boycott against Wal-Mart Stores Inc., targeting one of the year’s busiest shopping seasons to protest the retailer’s labor practices.
    The 2.7-million-member National Education Assn., the biggest U.S. union, and the 1.3-million-member American Federation of Teachers are teaming with the United Food and Commercial Workers in urging shoppers to buy school supplies elsewhere, the UFCW’s Wake-Up (…)