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http://rt.com/usa/245453-pesticides-fruit-vegetables-sperm/ Pesticides on fruits and vegetables could account for 49 percent loss in sperm Published time: March 31, 2015 04:18 Reuters/Eric Vidal Tags Animals , Biology , Children , Ecology , GMO , Science , USA A major study of men’s sperm found that those who ate regular quantities of fruit and vegetables that had pesticide residue on them had half the sperm count of men who ate less, a new study showed. READ MORE: Pesticides blamed for clinical depression in farmers   The Harvard University study, the first of its kind on the issue, analyzed sperm samples from 155 men who attended a fertility clinic during 2007-2012, Reuters reported. The men involved were attending a fertility clinic because they and their

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/27/collapse-a-foregone-conclusion/ Collapse: a Foregone Conclusion by BEN DENBY Since 1971, the value of the US dollar, and with it the corporeal integrity of the US economy, has been tied to what we know today as the petrodollar system. This arrangement is the result of Nixon’s abolition of the gold standard in 1971, the basis of valuing the US dollar since the end of WW2, coupled with a deal struck with Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations for US military hardware and protection in return for oil sales exclusively in US dollars. Despite rendering the US dollar a fiat currency, in the short term at least this arrangement bolstered the dollar’s flagging value by creating demand for it outside the country — thereby rendering what would have otherwise become inflation into a useful export. The concept of a ‘petrodollar’ arose as the volume of these fiat greenbacks outside US borders rose proportionally to those within, as a way of disting

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/27/sorry-monsanto/   The Science is on Our Side Sorry, Monsanto by KATHERINE PAUL   A few weeks ago, I spoke by phone with Cathleen Enright, executive vice president of the Biotech Industry Organization (BIO). (Long story). During the course of our conversation, when we touched on the subject of the science behind the debate over whether or not GMOs are “safe” (me arguing that there’s no scientific consensus http://www.enveurope.com/content/pdf/s12302-014-0034-1.pdfon safety) Enright said, “Then you must not believe in climate change, either.” I glossed over that accusation, though it struck me as odd. And random. Until less than a week later, on March 9 (2015), an article appeared in the Guardian under this headline: “The anti-GM lobby appears to be taking a page out of the Climategate playbook.” That’s when I realized what I should have known. Enright’s comment wasn’t random at all. It’s just a new twist on an old talking point—from

This is my amazing thought, in that it's "A big issue" idea, in one line, and it simplifies it greatly. Re Wikileaks and Bradley Manning and Snowden. "The world is run by criminal cartels, Wikileaks, Manning and Snowden exposed the depth of corruption. The criminals used the "national laws of the land" to prosecute these people for crimes against the nation, when it should have been them being hung for war crimes etc." This needs to be addressed.

This is about one of the best things that I have heard all week... Society as a whole is awash with drugs - from alcohol (usually obvious impairment and it smells)  to the prescribed and self prescribed. I don't particularly give a fuck if the or a business employs / is run by addicts (food / sex / drugs / gossiping / gambling etc) - I usually shop else where, but when the people you are counting on to be on the ball - are both arseholes to work with, incompetent in their work and most of all, they put your arse on the line - by being dangerous to work with - it's either go to rehab or leave the job WITH a medical report. I once worked in the railways, and in the particular workshop I worked in, the "union guys" (arseholes) had their own sectioned off partition - with a lock on the gate... And the cunts would be in there bonging on and drinking and what ever else... The bong was in the office, the 44 gallon drums were filled with empty stubbies, and you could smell th

  http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/25/the-capitalist-takeover-of-higher-education/     Conduits of Capital The Capitalist Takeover of Higher Education by ROBERT ABELE   The great under-reported crime against education by corporate America is not the buying and selling of schools by for-profit corporations; that this is a significant threat to education is indubitable and well-documented. But the little-discussed threat to education is the deliberate “hollowing-out” of education from within—i.e. by the philosophy which views education, especially at and up through the community-college level, as preparing students to take jobs in the business world upon their graduation, rather than to learn the art of deepening their distinctly human character by engaging in learning and reflection through courses and content that cannot be bought or sold in the business world, such as philosophy, art, humanities, the history of human cultures, logic and critical thinking, ethical de

We can start by sending John Howard and all his banker and military buddies to the Hauge for trial as war criminals. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/22/howard-should-be-tried-for-conspiracy-to-commit-mass-says-andrew-wilkie Howard should be tried for ‘conspiracy to commit mass murder’, says Andrew Wilkie Independent MP says former prime minister should be ‘deeply ashamed that he lied’ over the 2003 invasion of Iraq http://theaimn.com/complaint-john-howard-international-criminal-court/ Australia’s former Prime Minister John Howard has been accused of war crimes before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. A document titled Complaint against John Howard to the International Criminal Court has been sent to The AIMN by a member of the SEARCH Foundation - an on-line copy of the document can be found here. Permission has been given by one of the authors to reproduce the document, but due to its length (75 pages) we have reproduced a summary. etc. And yes - the world bankin