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Signature of Antimatter Detected in Lightning

Designed to scan the heavens thousands to billions of light-years beyond the solar system, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has... more

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Indoor plants could save your life

"New research shows that ornamental plants can drastically reduce levels of stress and ill health and boost performance... more

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Mukluks to keep it real in the USA

"Warning! Steger Mukluks and Steger Moccasins are addictive. We make the warmest winter boots and most comfortable moccasins... more

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Stop selling out science to commerce

http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/11651-stop-selling-out-science-to-commerce

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Happy Carl Sagan Day!

Back in 1980 the US space programme was in the doldrums. Apollo was fading into history and there hadn't been a US astronaut... more

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More evidence showing nanoparticles effect DNA

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/06/2735612.htm Researchers in the United Kingdom have found some nanoparticles - which... more

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New families of viruses found in Antarctic lakes - Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/11/new-families-of-viruses-found-in-antarctic-lakes.ars

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Codex Alimentarius Report 2009: mandating global illness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxTZyiHFqLI How do you keep the pharmaceutical and medical industries rolling in profits? Well,... more

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Cocktail for killers: Facts not reported in US News...again at Ft. Hood

http://current.com/items/91079159_cocktail-for-killers-facts-not-reported-in-us-news.htm Everyone seems befuddled every time... more

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Earth's greatest mass extinction blamed on fiery fountains of coal

FOSSIL fuels have a new crime to live down. A frenzy of hydrocarbon burning at the end of the Permian period may have led to the... more

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Jaipur Oil Fire

A devastating fire engulfed 10 million liters of fuel at an Indian Oil facility in Jaipur, India last week. Experts blame... more

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Drones Converted to Climate Scouts

In a modern-day rendition of beating swords into plowshares, a pair of unmanned military aircraft have been turned over to NASA... more

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A message from Dr. Vandana Shiva: help us fight for the truth

ttp://truefoodnow.org/campaigns/messagefromvandanashiv/

Have you seen this advertisement? Couched deep within the green-washed rhetoric of a recent Monsanto ad is an egregious claim:

Producing more. Conserving more. Improving farmers’ lives. That’s sustainable agriculture. And that’s what Monsanto is all about.

Oh, really?

While the mainstream media and Big Ag pundits seem all too happy to watch how Monsanto and other biotech companies spin and co-opt the term “sustainability,” we at the Center for Food Safety (CFS) are on the front lines fighting against the corporate take-over of our food, farms, and future; advocating for REAL, sustainable, solutions to the problems of the biotech industrial agriculture model.

Over the next month, CFS will be bringing you videos from some experts with whom we work closely in the trenches—Michael Pollan, Vandana Shiva, Anna Lappé, and CFS’s Executive Director Andrew Kimbrell—to help us tell you the real truth about the false claims put forth by Monsanto and other biotech companies. We’ll share with you why these leading activists support the work of the Center for Food Safety.

CFS has been fighting on your behalf since 1997. We have accomplished a lot – we’ve stopped GMO crops including wheat, rice, and alfalfa, and also dangerous pharmaceutical-producing crops. We’ve beat Monsanto in the courts, but they have the substantial resources to continue to challenge CFS; just this week, they asked for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider yet another appeal of our successful lawsuit stopping GMO alfalfa.

We can only accomplish these victories with the support of members like you. Please join Vandana Shiva in supporting our work, to raise the funds we need to continue to fight Monsanto in the courts, and to combat the twisted version of “sustainability” biotech company marketers are trying to foist on the world. We need your help, right now, to raise our goal of $100,000 this Fall — less than the amount Monsanto spent on just ONE AD on the back page of The New Yorker (about $140,000), to support our important workttp://truefoodnow.org/campaigns/messagefromvandanashiv/ Have you seen this advertisement? Couched deep within the green-washed... more