Dear Whole Foods CEO, This Is What a Fascist Looks Like By Thom Hartmann, Sam Sacks, Thom Hartmann Program 20 January 13 hole Foods CEO, John Mackey, doesn’t know what a fascist is. Speaking with NPR this week, multimillionaire Mackey tried to express how much he hates Obamacare. Back in 2009, he hated Obamacare so…
RE: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/01/farm_bureau_turns_against_small_farmers_on_boneta_bill.html#ixzz2IWnhLPw0 Mike, Keith Bolin and I saw the very same thing in Illinois years ago when we were able to get the Producer Protection Act before our House and senate. The IL Farm Bureau opposed us EVERY step of the way….UNTIL they realized that this bill was going to become a law. THen, and…
January 18, 2013 Farm Bureau Turns Against Small Farmers on Boneta Bill By Mark J. Fitzgibbons The Boneta Bill is the most discussed bill in Virginia’s 45-day legislative session that opened on January 9. It is not only terrific model legislation for protecting freedom, it is providing a great lesson about who is for liberty…
The War On Democracy’ (2007) was John Pilger’s first for cinema. It explores the current and past relationship of Washington with Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. Using archive footage sourced by Michael Moore’s archivist Carl Deal, the film shows how serial US intervention, overt and covert, has toppled a series of…
Corporate farming Ag Blogs – Guest Columnist Friday, 18 January 2013 10:21 By Mary Rintoul The Hutchinson NewsKansas Farmers Union President Donn Teske said there is reason to worry. And there is.Teske was reacting to state Agriculture Secretary Dale Rodman’s push for lawmakers to repeal corporate farming laws in Kansas, which have worked well for…
Inside U.S. Trade – 01/18/2013 U.S. Leans Toward Regulatory Approach In Weighing COOL Compliance Posted: January 17, 2013 The administration is consulting internally and with Congress and private-sector stakeholders on which actions it will take ahead of a May 23 deadline to comply with an adverse World Trade Organization ruling that faulted the U.S. country-of-origin…
Food and Farming is Not a Fight to be Won or Lost If we refuse to discuss, negotiate, compromise and reconcile our differences about food and farming, we must then pay lawyers, lobbyists or, at worst, soldiers to win. The cost of victory is too big. It is simple. Good people disagree about whether certain…
Cargill to idle beef plant that employs 2,000 By Dani Friedland on 1/17/2013 Cargill will idle its beef processing facility in Plainview, Texas, at the end of business on Feb. 1, the company announced Thursday. Wichita, Kan.-based Cargill cited tight cattle supply associated with years of drought in Texas and the southern Plains states. Approximately…