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If the “Market” Never Goes Down, The System Is Doomed
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The reliance on “good news” narratives dooms our financial system and economy to a death spiral once reality breaks through the induced euphoria. “Markets” that never go down aren’t markets, they’re signaling … Continue reading
Posted in corporate news, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, media, Neoliberalism, news, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Cancer, central banks, Corporate Crime, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Market Crash, Narrative, wall street
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Agrochemicals and Institutional Corruption: Pleading with the Slave Master Will Not Set You Free
By Colin Todhunter Source: CounterPunch Environmental campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason has just written to President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, Vice President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans and Health Commissioner Vytenis Andruikaitis. As set out below, she asks … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, elites, Environment, GMOs, Health, imperialism, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Science, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged Agribusiness, Agrochemicals, Agroecology, Big Ag, Biocides, Biodiversity, Cancer, Die-Offs, environment, Gates Foundation, Glyphosate, GM Crops, GMO, Herbicides, Industrial Agriculture, Localisation, Monsanto, Neoliberalism, Neonicotinoids, Pesticides, Roundup, World Bank
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The Globalisation of Bad Food and Poor Health: Sustainable Development or Sustainable Profits?
By Colin Todhunter Source: RINF The proportion of deaths due to cancer around the world increased from 12 percent in 1990 to 15 percent in 2013. Globally, cancer is already the second-leading cause of death after cardiovascular diseases. In India, government … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, GMOs, Health, Science, society, State Crime
Tagged Agribusiness, Birth Defects, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Diabetes, Factory Farms, Fast Food, Free Trade, GE Food, Global Food System, Globalisation, GMOs, Green Revolution, Junk Food, local economies, Local Foods, Localisation, Malnutrition, Monocrops, obesity, Pesticides, pollution, Processed Foods, Soil, TTIP
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Bayer and Monsanto: A Marriage Made in Hell
By Steven MacMillan Source: New Eastern Outlook In a world infected with a plethora of immoral multinational corporations, it is hard to think of two corporations who have more nefarious histories than Bayer AG and Monsanto. Considering this, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Environment, GMOs, Health, History, Science, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Agent Orange, Agribusiness, Agrochemicals, Bayer, Biotech, Cancer, Chemical Warfare, Glyphosate, GMO, I.G. Farben, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Monsanto, Nazis, Pharmaceuticals, Roundup, World Health Organization
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Terror Cells
Ain’t no cure for dystopian biology By Barbara Ehrenreich Source: The Baffler At around the turn of the millennium, some disturbing findings surfaced in the biomedical literature. Macrophages—immune cells whose function is to attack and kill microbes and other threats … Continue reading
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Tagged Biology, Cancer, Chemotherapy, Immunology, Macrophages, Natural Selection, Oncology, science
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