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Sources: www.independent.co.uk 5th September Australia's Green Party have had a successful time in the recent national elections doubling their portion of the vote to a record high of 11.5%. The left-of-centre environmental party took a seat in every state of the country as well as a critical one in the Lower House. With a hung parli … Read More

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By Caroline Scott-Thomas Food Navigator The Corn Refiners Association has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asking it to allow the term ‘corn sugar’ as an alternative label declaration for high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). HFCS has suffered from a spate of bad publicity in recent years, and food and beverage manufacturers have been increasingly switching it out of their products in preference for beet or cane sugar (sucrose).  [All … Read More

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What are the advantages of organic food? How is eating organic a healthy food choice? And how do you determine what foods are healthy? Organic foods are better for you for these important reasons:  Organic food is healthier – You won't be poisoned by pesticide & herbicide residues  Organic food is safer – You won't be a guinea pig for GMO experiments Organi … Read More

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this is why we need Instant Run-off Voting (IRV), a system where every vote counts. IN IRV, the voters rank the candidates like they do for the MVP award, best picture Oscar, and Mensa. A positive side-effect of IRV is that campaigning turns on issues and ends negative campaigning since every candidate is trying to get each voter to rank them second if they don’t rank them first.

Here’s to competitive elections. Here’s to spirited primaries that are fights for the soul of a party.  Such races are terrific when focused on issues and core ideology. But when it comes down to the wire and the race is very close, the strategists often conclude that the only thing they can do is go negative. Then it’s all about bringing the other person down, not building yourself up. And once it starts, it gets ugly.  You see it now with Eric … Read More

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“Yeah. They just accept it as true because the Cuomo camp said so. Nobody has even posed a question to CSEA, PEF, NYSUT or 1199. They just reported it as fact.”

“Decades of labor advocacy thrown out the window and the reporters don’t question it?”

“Nope.”

“I knew the reporters were lazy, but are they also stupid, gullible and blind?”

“Did you hear?”  “What?”  “Cuomo reversed himself on the Working Families Party line. Now he’s accepting it.”  “Wow. What a flip-flop. He’s gonna get killed by the Post.”  “No, the Post is ignoring it completely.”  “Huh?”  “The Post and all the other reporters bought the Cuomo spin – which is that the WFP 'caved in' and is now embracing and endorsing Cuomo’s reform agenda.”  “And reporters believe that?”  “Yeah. Completely. No one is even questio … Read More

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Protest September 14, 11:55 pm (midnight) missile launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base: Join the protest of the test launch of a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) thermo-nuclear warhead delivery system from Vandenberg Air Force Base Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. Uphold the good faith of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty! Come to the front gate of Vandenberg Space Command / Air Force Base (across from Vandenberg … Read More

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