Monsanto LIES

Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.
The study - carried out over the past three years at the University of Kansas in the US grain belt - has found that GM soya produces about 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent, contradicting assertions by advocates of the technology that it increases yields.


Please, please read the whole thing.

The chickens! They are coming home...to roost!!!!

Two things:

Insurance company profits begin to collapse as more Americans dump junk insurance

Ah, the sound of GREED fucking up the GREEDY? Bring it ON!!!


AND


College students raked John Ashcroft over coals with on the subject of torture. Hey Corporate Media! ARE YOU LISTENING?!?!?!

And Digby breaks down just how bullshit his answers were in The First Salvo in the next Nuremburg

Edit: Amnesty International's new ad on waterboarding

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So I'm gonna go with the "glass is quarter filled" option. For the sake of my sanity.

And peace.

So, new documentary out on Black Female to male transmen. And its promoted on the front page of a big blogger, to boot.

Via: Feministe

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