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Tea Party used to push corporate agenda (Institute for Liberty, Monsanto, Asian paper company) - 03/31/11
If you've been following our extensive tea parties coverage, you'll know where this is going (and if you're a teapartier, you'll have no clue):
Last fall, [Institute for Liberty's] president, Andrew Langer, had himself videotaped [ peekURL.com/vM87wLC ] on Long Wharf in Boston holding a copy of the Declaration of Independence as he compared Washington’s proposed tariff on paper from Indonesia and China to Britain's colonial trade policies in 1776.
That's from "Odd Alliance: Business Lobby and Tea Party" by Mike McIntyre of the New York Times (link) about how the Institute for Liberty and...
Video about HR 875 and HR 759: "Food Safety Administration" - 03/30/09
A few weeks ago I offered "Your Monsanto, Tom Vilsack, GMO food assignment", a round-up of issues relating to those topics and the proposed "Food Safety Administration". For some reason, the echo chambers are now discussing these issues (ace.mu.nu/archives/285146.php, etc.) There's also the following video. I think it has something to do with these issues but I didn't really notice what it's about. However, I think it's going to be popular:
Your Monsanto, Tom Vilsack, GMO food assignment - 03/07/09
I'm not up-to-date on farming matters and I let McDonald's handle the food side of things.
The Rockefeller/Bill Gates/Monsanto seed bank (GMO crops) - 03/17/08
Wading into unfamiliar territory, but this seems worthy of note:
Built on the island of Spitsbergen in the Barents Sea near the Arctic Ocean in the country of Norway, a group of wealthy corporations [including "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto Corporation, Syngenta Foundation, and the Government of Norway"] has invested millions of dollars in their project named the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The mission statement is: "So that crop diversity can be conserved for the future"...