StopTheLie.com News update 11-19-2012
GMO Labeling Shot Down, Citizens Start Labeling Themselves
Source: NaturalSociety.com
--With a lack of real GMO labeling thanks to dirty tricks by pro-GMO groups like No on 37, grassroots initiatives are the only methods of alerting the public to what they are putting into their mouths. Pro-GMO campaigns have impersonated and illegally used the FDA seal, posed as phony cop and democrat groups, and poured more than $45 million into keeping consumers into the dark.
Now, citizens are fighting back through peaceful grassroots initiatives. As a picture from one Treehugger blog shows, consumers are honestly labeling processed foods across the shelves of international grocers.
Read full article at:http://naturalsociety.com/gmo-labeling-shot-down-citizens-labeling/
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"Organic" Parent Companies That Helped Defeat Prop 37
Source: OrganicConsumers.org
Nov. 15, 2012 - The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today called for a national boycott of the popular natural and organic brands owned by 10 parent companies that donated to defeat Prop 37, the California Right to Know GMO labeling initiative.
The OCA is also calling on other consumer protection groups, and public health, agriculture, natural health, environmental and political groups to urge their members and supporters to participate in the boycott.
(Here is the list of brands to boycott)
PepsiCo (Donated $2.5M): Naked Juice, Tostito's Organic, Tropicana Organic
Kraft (Donated $2M): Boca Burgers and Back to Nature
Safeway (Member of Grocery Manufacturers Association, which donated $2M):"O" Organics
Coca-Cola (Donated $1.7M): Honest Tea, Odwalla
General Mills (Donated $1.2M): Muir Glen, Cascadian Farm, Larabar
Con-Agra (Donated $1.2M): Orville Redenbacher's Organic, Hunt's Organic, Lightlife, Alexia
Kellogg's (Donated $791k): Kashi, Bear Naked, Morningstar Farms, Gardenburger
Smucker's (Donated $555k ): R.W. Knudsen, Santa Cruz Organic
Unilever (Donated $467k): Ben & Jerry's
Dean Foods (Donated $254k): Horizon, Silk, White Wave
Read full article at:http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_26621.cfm
COMMENT: I have no problem buying from other companies...in fact, I look forward to injecting a little more "competition" into the market.
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Rand Paul: Is 1984 Now? (Video)
Source: YouTube.com
Rand Paul discusses the insanity of NDAA and the emerging Orwellian police state.
Watch video at:http://youtu.be/9JdLt2oxWE0
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NDAA Status and the Clapper Brief
Source: DownsizeDC.org
When you fund it, we do it. So...
Clapper v. Amnesty International was argued in Supreme Court on October 29. Downsize DC Foundation filed a brief in this case. You funded it. We did it. You can read it, on our blog.
Cato's Jim Harper liked our brief and wrote about it. Now we wait for the ruling.
Last week we pointed out that the Courts (bad as they are) have done more to restrain state criminality than elections have. Our landmark victory in the Jones case is one example, and that case relates directly to our Clapper brief. Remember...
In Jones we argued that the Courts should restore the property rights basis for limiting state searches under the 4th Amendment. Our argument prevailed, potentially bringing the courts back from a 40 year detour away from the founder's principle.
The Courts ruled that agents of the state cannot place tracking devices on vehicles without either . . .The permission of the owner, or a warrant.
This is a major turning point. Fourth Amendment decisions have centered on the right to privacy for decades. Every time some new spying technology was developed, Fourth Amendment protections steadily shrunk. As a standard, privacy minus property rights was failing. With Jones, we've turned the tide by restoring the property rights standard.
Read full article at:http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/ndaa-status-and-the-clapper-brief
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REMOVED: Barry Jennings Describes "Explosions" in WTC7 (Video)
Source: YouTube.com
Due to "copyright violation," YouTube has been removing clips of the Barry Jennings' interview where he describes explosions in WTC7. The following is an abbreviated version of the interview that clearly falls within the "fair-use" parameters of copyright law.
Watch video at:http://youtu.be/to2IUeEuLkw
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Previous Week's News 11-12-2012
The First Places In The World Where Weed Is Truly Legal
Source: BusinessInsider.com
The marijuana legalization initiatives passed this week in Colorado and Washington state are completely unprecedented around the world, according to a leading drug policy expert.
Beau Kilmer, Codirector of RAND Drug Policy Research Center and coauthor of Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know, told BI that what happened on Tuesday "was really groundbreaking. No modern jurisdiction has removed the prohibition on commercial production, distribution and possession of marijuana for non-medical purposes. Not even Holland."
Read full article at:http://www.businessinsider.com/legal-marijuana-colorado-washington-2012-11
COMMENT: For a less optimistic look at Washington's "pot legalization," take a look at this article:
--One of the worst parts is the DUID (driving under the influence of drugs) provision and the zero tolerance clause for those under the age of 21 despite that people under 21 can legally possess medical marijuana. Medical marijuana patients and recreational users can now be charged with DUID for being above the designated 5 ng (nano-gram) / ml (milliliter) THC blood content limit (or a ZERO tolerance 0 ng/ml limit for those under 21) which means users will be instantly guilty of a DUID and will have their constitutional right to a fair trial revoked if they refuse a police blood draw. Under previous laws the system required law enforcement to prove impairment in court for a guilty verdict to occur.
Full article here:
http://www.examiner.com/article/what-no-one-is-telling-you-about-washington-s-marijuana-legalization
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Charts Showing the Decline in Infectious Diseases (Before Vaccines)
Source: NaturalNews.com
--Data compiled by the National Health Federation (NHF), and relayed by Cynthia A. Janak ofRenewAmerica.com, tells the real story about how virtually every major infectious disease of the 20th century was already on its way out long before its associated vaccine came onto the scene. This fact is clearly illustrated in these powerful visual graphs created by NHF that contain vital statistics from official U.S. public health records.
Read full article at:http://www.naturalnews.com/037883_vaccines_infectious_disease_20th_century.html
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Election 2012: Ron Paul's Revenge!
Source: Antiwar.com
What's particularly nervy — galling, really — about the idea that the US ought to be spreading our democratic system across the globe is the fact that we don't have anything close to democracy in this country. Nor do we have what the Founders intended to create: a republic, where the power of the state is limited by the Constitution. This is underscored every time Americans go to the polls, where they are confronted with "choices" determined by lawmakers whose chief interest in life is getting reelected with as little opposition as possible. These guardians of the polity have made it virtually impossible for so-called third parties — i.e. parties not controlled by corporate interests and foreign lobbyists — to even get on the ballot.
--Isn't "democracy" wonderful?
Well, no, it isn't, not the current American version, which merely serves to legitimize — in a "legal" sense, at any rate — what is in reality an oligarchy. As this election season dramatized once again, the differences between the two state-subsidized state-privileged "parties" is chiefly rhetorical: this came through loud and clear during the Obama/Romney foreign policy "debate," but it's true on domestic issues as well. The bipartisan consensus is clear: maintain the Welfare-Warfare State pretty much as it has existed since the New Deal, with allowances made for trimming around the edges here and there. No matter who wins this election, the victor will have to impose a program of "austerity," i.e. burdening the lower and middle classes with new taxes and program cuts, while granting new opportunities for corruption and cronyism to the political class and the oligarchs, foreign as well as domestic.
Read full article at:http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/11/06/election-2012-ron-pauls-revenge/
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Flu Vaccines are Suspended Across Europe and Canada
Source: Mercola.com
With flu season just around the corner, health agencies are telling Americans to just "get your flu shot," assuring everyone that it's safe and effective. Many, likeMedicineNet.com,1 chalk up any and all safety concerns as "myths."
"It's the time of year when you should be thinking about flu vaccinations for yourself and your family," they write. "Some people, however, decide not to get the flu vaccine and put themselves and others at risk of getting sick just because they believe long-held myths about the vaccine."
Myths? I think not.
The only myth here is the unscientific claim that the flu vaccine is safe and effective and "the best way" to protect yourself against the flu. Nothing could be further from the truth. Numerous studies have shown that the flu vaccine is NOT an effective way to prevent influenza and the real-life experiences of vaccine victims offer a window into the indisputable reality that flu vaccines are NOT without serious risks.
Read full article at:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/11/06/flu-vaccine-efficacy.aspx?e_cid=20121106_DNL_art_1
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