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An "unholy" river in India may be the last, best hope for one of the world's largest and most imperiled crocodilians
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James Corbett appears on Truthseeker's Path to discuss his life, work
and experiences in the alternative media.
… After half a billion million years of climate change, I’m shocked,
shocked I tell you, that life on Earth (and specifically corals) have so
many ways to cope with the climate changing. After all, it’s natural
(if you are trained by Greenpeace) to assume that corals can only
survive in a world with one constant stable temperature just like they
never had. One more tool in the coral-reef-workshop
blogger-following
As the world continues to reel from the tragic death of Anthony
Bourdain , many fans have been revisiting his great work, from books to
television. Now Netflix has announced it'll still be easy for fans to do
so on its streaming service. SEE ALSO: President Obama joins other big
names in posting touching tributes to Anthony Bourdain The run of the
chef's CNN series, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknow
During a meeting with one of the most violent and dangerous dictatorial
powers in the world, President Trump cracked a fat joke . And that was
just the beginning. Today's Trump-Kim Jong-un summit was marked by
dozens of moments equally as shameful as this one. The American
President cozied up to the North Korean dictator, minimizing his
spectacular human rights abuses and hyping his "great beache
Several
of the trees, which date back thousands of years, have abruptly died
off within the last decade. Scientists have been struggling to determine
...
A
weather camera picked up this peculiar anomaly on Sunday night and
nobody can agree on what it is. The object was photographed at 3:56am
near a nava...
Via:
AFP: One third of Americans are taking prescription and
over-the-counter drugs, such as birth control pills, antacids and common
heart medications, that may raise the risk of depression, researchers
warned on Tuesday. Since the drugs are so common, people may be unaware
of their potential depressive effects, said the report in the Journal of
[…]
Insane,
anticompetitive, Soviet-style vertical integration. So it goes… Via:
Los Angeles Times: In the aftermath of a federal judge’s approval
Tuesday of the mega-merger between AT&T and Time Warner, you’ll be
reading about how this deal will vastly remake the entertainment and
information landscape, most likely at consumers’ expense. That take is
absolutely true. What’s […]
So
Rocket Man and The Dotard have met. After last year's epic
mud-slinging, US President Donald Trump now says he and Chairman Kim
Jong-un of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea have a "special
bond". The 'optics' of the summit reflect well on both leaders, who were
cordial and without any of the hysterics and tantrums that had
'analysts' forecasting nuclear conflagration just last year. But
Up
to the 21st of May, Israel had murdered at least 112 people and injured
13,190 during the protests of the Great March of Return in Gaza. One of
Israel's latest crimes was the killing of 21 year-old volunteer nurse
Razan al-Najjar, who was shot by a sniper as she walked towards a
wounded protestor with her arms in the air and wearing a clearly visible
medical white coat. In the middle of the PR
If you could taste human flesh in an ethical way, would you? It’s the
kind of question you ask after watching Silence of the Lambs stoned. No
matter how you respond, you never expect anyone to hold you to your
answer. But in a recent Reddit post , user IncrediblyShinyShart shared
the story of a motorcycle crash that put him face-to-face with the
macabre hypothetical. When a car hit his bike and s
Art of the giveaway: Trump offers huge concessions to Kim for little in
return. The historic meeting between President Donald Trump and North
Korean leader Kim Jong Un is over — and Trump thinks it went really
well. During a lengthy press conference , Trump hailed the historic
summit on Tuesday as “very successful,” and praised Kim as having a
“great personality.” He also called the agreement tha
Supreme leader credited with creating conditions for peace as South
Korea and Japan voice security concerns North Korea has hailed Tuesday’s
summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un as marking the end to
hostile relations with the US, with state media depicting the meeting as
a diplomatic victory for its leader. Related: US to suspend military
exercises with South Korea, Trump says Continue re
Considering this is Trump, it could have been worse. But North Korea got a major PR victory and agreed to nothing
The
scientific collaborations LIGO and Virgo have detected gravitational
waves from the fusion of two black holes, inaugurating a new era in the
study of the cosmos. But what if those ripples of space-time were not
produced by black holes, but by other exotic objects? A team of European
physicists suggest an alternative—wormholes that can be traversed to
appear in another universe.
Donald Trump got out of Kim Jong Un a promise that North Korea has already made—and broken—multiple times.
Researchers have predicted the outcome after simulating the entire soccer tournament 100,000 times.
Orally administered material temporarily coats the intestine, reduces blood sugar spikes in preclinical study.
A massive report paints a stark picture of a pervasive problem -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Three
new members have been isolated and added to the Pandoravirus family by
researchers at the Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory
(CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université), working with partners at the Large
Scale Biology Laboratory (CEA/Inserm/Université Grenoble-Alpes) and at
CEA-Genoscope. This strange family of viruses, with their giant genomes
and many genes with no known equivalents, surpr
Fortnite is the biggest game on the planet right now. But beyond being
super popular, this game is incredibly important to the future of the
industry. Fortnite is impacting how modern video games are developed,
get popular, stay relevant, and make money. **Correction: Black Ops
footage at 4:54 should be sourced to Activision, not EA.** Subscribe:
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Many equate the English moors with open grassland and bogs. However,
they were not always this way. Once temperate rainforests, the trees
were felled and fires swept through the land. Filmmaker Burnham Arlidge
envisions a future where the forests might return, teeming with life. ➡
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Nintendo’s E3 keynote focused more on soon to be released titles that
people will actually be able to play in the coming months like Super
Smash Bros. Ultimate, Super Mario Party, and Pokémon: Let’s Go! rather
than offering updates on no-shows announced last year like Metroid Prime
4. If you missed the presentation, though, here’s everything you’ll
need to catch up. Subscribe: http://goo.gl/G5RXG
Singer, songwriter, and musician Jack Johnson is known for his soothing
melodies and go-with-the-flow personality. But when it comes to plastic
pollution tainting the ocean, Johnson refuses to go-with-the-flow. ➡
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The subject of my work is the old paradox between man and nature.
People had long ago cut themselves off of their natural environment and
have suffered since from this division, the lack of the essential
feeling of unity and belonging. Although we do see nature’s own
hierarchy we took a view too long to see how our human nature is defined
by it, and, eventually started seeing ourselves as somethi
A body-jumping soldier grapples with the morality of her missions in
this emotionally charged sci-fi thriller. Starring Mustafa Shakir
(MARVEL'S "LUKE CAGE", HBO's "THE DEUCE") and Angela Lewis (FX's
"SNOWFALL"). More at autonomika.com Directed by: Jesse Atlas Written by:
Aaron Wolfe & Jesse Atlas Produced by: Kai de Mello-Folsom
Co-Producer: Missy Laney Director of Photography: Blake McClure Pro
The Corbett Report
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This week on the New World Next Week: Bilderberg meets in Turin; EU
threatens the web with new copyright legislation; and the CIA's card
game gets exposed online.
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This time on Financial Survival, James and Melody discuss the many
globalist confabs filling up the meeting planners of the super-gophers
this weekend, from Bilderberg in Italy to G7 in Canada to SCO in China
and the North Korean summit.
This week on the New World Next Week: Weed turns to crypto to relieve
the cash crunch; Whole Foods backtracks on GMO labeling; and the police
get ALPR help with digital license plates.
The EnvironmentaList
Deal to buy Trans Mountain project flies in face of Trudeau’s promise to uphold the Paris Accord and rights of First Nations
Protein producers may be 'jeopardizing Paris climate goals,' according to new index
German court empowers cities to ban diesel vehicles due to dangerous health effects
Endangered species can thrive in habitats other than forests, paving way for their return
In Review: Inside Animal Hearts and Minds
The Rules of Exposition
I have no idea.
A Closer Look: Jody Paterson
I am remarkably excited that the long-talked-about podcast with sex
workers that I've been wanting to do for more than a year now has
finally come together. Here's our first episode . With any luck, we'll
be doing a new episode at least once a month. All episodes will be
looking at sex work as a small business, as there is so much the work
has in common with any other small business. Yet that asp
A Different Perspective
Here’s something that relates to my “Chasing Footnotes,” posts. Over
the weekend (June 1 and 2), I ran into an article that was related to
Roswell told by Raymond Szymanski (which I commented on here a few days
ago). As I was working on that article, I had a number of questions that
weren’t answered by any of the sources that I could readily access. I
was worried about the claim that Raymond Szym
Rich Reynolds over at UFO Conjectures alerted me yesterday to a Blogger
problem. Seems that all the comments posted to our blogs are not sent
to us via email as they are supposed to be. Some are dumped into an area
that tells us they are waiting for us to monitor them. I’m not sure why
this is happening because there is no reason for it. Comments by those
who visit here regularly are there and wh
Nearly thirty years ago John Keel, one of those self-styled UFO
researchers that Ken Macdonald complained about in his June 2, 2018 AOL
Newsribol article about Roswell, said that by the turn of the century
(meaning in 2000), there would be hundreds of new witnesses clamoring
for their place in the Roswell mythology. Turns out he was right (not
about the mythology but about the new witnesses). Peo
For years, decades actually, the skeptical community has wondered how
the US has been able to suppress information about UFOs in foreign
lands. Why would foreign governments submit to a US demand that UFO
sightings and UFO reports remain hidden behind a curtain of secrecy? The
answer is probably a little more complex than I can attack here, on
this blog. However… First, let me point out that duri
There is something that writers know about called the “Library Fairy.”
We believe in it but know that it is not a real entity. It is just a
serendipitous discovery of information that makes a story more real,
provides insight into an event or answers a question that needed
explanation. For me it happens frequently. Sure, here is an example that
does not relate to UFOs or the Coyne helicopter sigh
One of the things that I enjoy is chasing footnotes. Gives us all a
chance to look at the information circulating in the UFO community, and
how some of the myths and legends of the field grow. We see how the
information is slightly changed as one writer or researcher uses it to
prove a point. One of the latest examples of this, published here,
concerned the Coyne helicopter case and whether or no
European
Society for Endocrinology Conference 2018 Symposium S30.3 Abstract :
Brain structure and function in gender dysphoria The concept of gender
identity is uniquely human. Hence we are left with the phenomenon of men
and women suffering from Gender Dysphoria (GD) also known as
transsexualism to study the origins of gender identity in humans. It has
been hypothesized that atypical levels of se
Activist Teacher
The
Amnesty International report of June 5, 2018, Syria: “War of
annihilation”: Devastating toll on civilians, Raqqa – Syria 5 June 2018,
Index number: MDE 24/8367/2018
https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/MDE2483672018ENGLISH.PDF
presents undeniable evidence of USA criminal disregard for civilian
life, on a mass scale, in a populated city, and calls for official
By
Denis Rancourt, PhD RACISM. The Western middle-class ethos has been
infected by a disproportionate taboo-like hyper-aversion to attitudinal
and opinion racism. This is a socially engineered and recent pathology
that is not checked by humour and satire. People are now routinely
prosecuted and jailed for victimless "hate speech" that is inferred to
signal blasphemous beliefs and
Dissidents:
If you are too threatening, actually threatening and not protected,
then you will be murdered. If you are too popular, then you will be
character assassinated. If you confine yourself to properly "academic"
expression and the pretext to fire you is too costly or risky, then you
will not be censored. Only your web venues will be very very very
s..l..o..o..o..w.
By
Denis Rancourt, PhD [This article was first published at Dissident
Voice: LINK.] SUMMARY: Why the industry of glib and vehement mainstream
character assassinations of clinical and research psychologist Jordan
Peterson? My examination of Peterson’s “Rule 1: Stand Up Straight with
Your Shoulders Back” suggests that it is a seminal work anchored in a
prestigious body of scientific
Amused Cynicism
Angola 3 News
Working for social justice frequently seems to be a glacially slow
endeavor. This last week brought a summer thaw and more than a few
things have changed. We celebrate and honor the work of Professor Angela
A. Bell and the students in her Law and Minorities classes at Southern
University for their remarkable efforts in seeing the long delayed
parole of John Cluchette through to his release. Pleas
Watch a short video interview with John Clutchette following his
release, here . ( PHOTO : John Clutchette in the 1980s. ) Today 'Soledad
Brother' John Clutchette walked out of the prison gates a free man,
following Governor Jerry Brown's final approval of a January 12, 2018
decision by the California Parole Board to grant parole to Clutchette.
On January 18, we published an interview with Southe
( PHOTO: King, Ida, Marina and Kiilu at Expressions Gallery in 2001,
just months after King's release from Angola. ) A3 Newsletter, May 15,
2018: Paying It Forward Albert and Robert continue on their epic
journey, sharing their stories of solitary and false imprisonment,
bringing attention to yet unreleased prisoners as in Los Angeles where
they met with members of the Committee to Free Leonard P
The Absence of Diplomacy Is Isolating Washington — Paul Craig Roberts
June 5, 2018 | Categories: Articles & Columns The Absence of
Diplomacy Is Isolating Washington Paul Craig Roberts The dissolution of
the Soviet Union removed the constraint on Washington’s unilateralism.
The neoconservatives, who had just risen to power, seized the
opportunity and replaced diplomacy with threat and coercion. On
DAMMIT JANET!
I'm
still laughing about this . Visitors to DJ! over the past two or so
weeks may have been bored to tears by noticed my rather compulsive
compilations of apparently religious outfits that appear on the Canada
Summer Jobs list of successful employers , i.e. groups that signed the
evil abortion clause . My point, of course, was to demonstrate that
many, many religious organizations understood perfe
And
for the grande finale, Quebec. My French stinks, but I had some help in
recognizing key words (thank you, deBeauxOs). Nonetheless the website
search was critical. I almost included an orchard. The usual reminders
on process: I was going by name only, quite literally. All (known)
religious groups got tagged. Others that sounded "churchy" got checked.
Caps and quotation marks from original docum
A
couple of days ago Michael Coren published an article with the numbers
on religious applicants to the Canada Summer Jobs program. There were a
lot and more than half were accepted. So that kinda puts the lie on
media, Church, and Conservative screeching about
anti-religion/anti-Christian bias. Official documents show that of the
2,728 faith-based organizations that applied for summer jobs fundin
Here
are the religious groups in Nova Scotia that did not succumb to the
spin and bad-faith arguments on the Canada Summer Jobs attestation or
"abortion clause." I point out again that the attestation could as well
be called the "sexuality/gender/gender identification clause" but why
bother? The media and the "faith community" (meaning mostly the Catholic
Church) chose to see it purely as ABORTION
Newfoundland
and Labrador Reminders: I was going by name only, quite literally. All
(known) religious groups got tagged. Others that sounded "churchy" got
checked. Caps and quotation marks from original document . Where "no
website" is noted I could not find a website for that particular group.
(Obviously there is a website for "United Church of Canada" but
sometimes I couldn't find one specific t
Chugging
along here. Manitoba here. Not as many different groups as BC or
Ontario, but still diverse. Also, still no identified anti-choice groups
have slipped by. The Canada Summer Jobs attestation seems to be working
as intended. Reminders: I was going by name only, quite literally. All
(known) religious groups got tagged. Others that sounded "churchy" got
checked. Caps and quotation marks from
Dr Cintli
BROWN JOURNEYS THROUGH MEXICO PROFUNDO:
https://xicanation.com/brown-journeys-through-mexico-profundo/ (posted
by XicaMedia) The above is the longer version of a recent piece I wrote
for Truthout's Public Intellectual Page. The piece was shortened and
given a different title. The first part is pretty much the same and the
second part expands on the relationship between law enforcement
violence, r
Truthout’s Public Intellectual Page By Robeeto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez The
color of the people of Mexico is one of the things that had a most
profound effect on my psyche when I first visited the place of my birth
in 1976 at the age of 22. The people came in all colors, though
primarily different shades of red-brown, owing to the nation's
Indigenous roots. Having grown up in a white-dominant society
...and
because I save a small dark corner of my heart for anything this
blatantly Giger-ish, here's a recent gameplay trailer for October-due
game SCORN
...and
suddenly I'm interested in video games all over again + Lyndsay Wagner
as she looked in her Bionic Woman role: hint hint...
the
facts are simple, Star Citizen's now like an over-reaching corporation
that's diversified behond the point where it can actually deliver. For
me, it'll never come out in its current form. There are many reasons why
but most involve the transition from 2.6 to 3.0 when so many disparate
things went into this game for no real reason. It's now five years in
the making and, unlike any real game com
Remember that game that was a miserable failure when it launched last
year... NO MAN'S SKY... looked shoddy, had less than half the stuff it
should have had in it... look at it now, a year later. I mean, "Wow!"
Love the boolean-geometry exploding asteroids at about the 06:30 mark
... erm, this failed-last-year project is looking like pretty-dam-cool
at this year's E3.
Greg Mankiw's Blog
The
tariffs just imposed by President Trump are, of course, terrible
policy. Mr. Trump deserves the first line of blame for making decisions
that no sensible economist would advocate. But let's not let Congress
off the hook. Over many years, Congress has passed the laws that give
the President a lot of discretion over international trade policy. The
assumption is that the President could be counte
May 18, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - After now 2 years of
accusations and constant headlines regarding allegations of still
unproven "Russian influence" in the 2016 US presidential election, it is
difficult to imagine that real political meddling or election
interference anywhere around the globe could go unnoticed. This is
especially true regarding the Western corporate media who has portray
May 22, 2018 ( Ulson Gunnar - NEO ) - A few years ago the story of
former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal allegedly being poisoned with
a deadly nerve agent in the UK supposedly by the Russian state, would
have shook geopolitics and placed immense pressure on Moscow. Today,
while it certainly did shake geopolitics, it was more from the narrative
hitting a brick wall than from its desired impa
May 25, 2018 ( Gunnar Ulson - NEO ) - Centuries ago, technology like
sailing ships, guns, and steel armor enabled Europeans to appear on
South American shores and appear godlike to the natives. Through a
combination of spreading disease and wielding military, organizational,
economic and of course technological superiority, Europeans subjugated
the native populations and conquered an entire conti
June 2, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - Some of the most prominent
newspapers across the Western World spent much of the end of May editing
or deleting humiliating headlines and articles falsely announcing the
supposed death of Russian media figure Arkady Babchenko - who turned up
very much alive and well shortly after the Ukrainian government claimed
he was murdered by assassins. The humiliatio
America's "color revolutions" are polished by the Western media to
portray opposition as daring heroes. However, the truth is far less
flattering, and even compromising. June 5, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO )
- Had James Buchanan - writing for the Guardian in his article, " 'This
country has no freedom!': how Thailand's punks are railing against the
junta " - told the truth about who Kitikea ‘Pur
May 18, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - Washington is attempting to
seize on momentum produced by a sweeping victory for US-backed
opposition in Malaysia by ratcheting up pressure across the rest of
Southeast Asia through US-funded opposition groups, US-funded media, and
US-funded and directed fronts posing as nongovernmental organizations
(NGOs). This includes in Cambodia where the opposition h
Left I on the News
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio .
Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted
11 minutes. CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: *A Woman Dedicated
to Saving Lives Loses Hers in Gaza Violence
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/world/middleeast/gaza-paramedic-killed.html
Actually a decent article, even with an accompanying video includ
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio .
Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted
11 minutes. CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/"MOST DISGUSTING": *Syria war:
Russians killed in militant raid in Deir al-Zour
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-44271676 “Militants”? As the
article itself makes completely clear, although not until the ninth
paragra
This week's broadcast segment on Loud & Clear radio is here .
CANDIDATES FOR “WORST” or “MOST DISGUSTING”: Anti-Castro militant Posada
Carriles is dead at 90
http://amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article211726514.html?__twitter_impression=true
A notorious terrorist, not a “militant”. Even the US considered him a
terrorist. Luis Posada Carriles, Who Waged Quest to Oust C
Middle East Today
Since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, Israel’s political
strategy has been consistent, to drive the Palestinians from their land
in order to implement Eretz Israel or greater Israel. More than five
million Palestinians were driven out of their homes and were classified
as refugees. In addition, more than 500 villages were demolished so that
none of those refugees could come back to thei
News From Atlantis.
Book Claims Nazis Used Masturbation Machines on Jews and a Wolf Saved
Them By Studies Jewish Children Escape Auschwitz And Live With Wolves
Bernie Holstein and his friends Wolves protect the Jewish children This
is the story of an Australian Jew, named Bernard Holstein, who gets
tattooed, claims he was an Auschwitz survivor, and writes a holocaust
novel. The book becomes a best seller. It turns o
Ernest Hess, Hitler's WW1 Commanding Officer Stephen Spielberg's work
of Fiction , Schindler's List, is taught in schools as fact - making a
mockery of an already dumbed-down education system. The ridiculous
holocaust propaganda - mobile gas vans, telephone boxes disguised as gas
chambers, electrocution swimming pools, the amazing Auschwitz from
which more people 'survived' than entered! - none o
Following, all four parts of Timothy Fitzpatrick's work, 'Trump
controlled by Mossad. From https://fitzinfo.wordpress.com Trump
controlled by Mossad, part I Donald Trump and Mossad asset Ghislaine
Maxwell out on the town in New York City in 1997. By Timothy Fitzpatrick
October 29, 2016 Anno Domini Part I Any inquisitive person should be
asking themself why a seemingly anti-establishment candidate
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Obsidian Wings
by Ugh Random movie quotes have been popping into my head lately and
the number one thing I realized is that none of them are from a movie
post-2000. Either I'm old or my movie watching habits have declined.
Probably both. I was going to put up a thread about how one of the great
political "branding" campaigns of the past 30+ years is the GOP
labeling the estate tax as the "death tax." Not that t
by Ugh Because why not, eh? I forget who said that capitalism needs to
be kept safe from the capitalists, but gee ABC, what did you think you
were getting? Also, too, I'm spending way too much time on the twitters,
and encountering some very special people. My kids are casting Harry
Potter spells on each other and I feel old. Me me me, it's all about me!
Thread of openness.
by wj As I noted in a comment earlier, one of my political goals would
be 1) equality of opportunity, 2) NOT equality of outcomes, 3) adequate
support for those who are struggling, funded by money from those who
have been most successful. But how do we get there? I think that first
we have to accept the concept of Enough . When you have income, what do
you spend it on? First, you need food on the
by JanieM russell’s post on drumming has reminded me that there are
worlds and worlds that I know nothing about, and sometimes it’s fun to
peek into them. For instance – long ago a carpenter friend who worked in
stained glass as a sideline took me to pick out some glass for a window
he was helping me make. We went to a rundown neighborhood in Boston,
then into a shabby-looking two-story house. In
Pesticide Action Network
McDonald’s has a long history of employing business practices that are
devastating to the lives of workers and their communities. Key among
these: the fast food chain continues to source potatoes grown with
drift-prone pesticides that put the health of nearby rural and
Indigenous communities at risk, despite claiming “sustainability
priorities” and “responsible sourcing.” In the weeks leading up
This blog is the third in our Farm Bill series focusing in on key
issues of concern to those in our network. HR 2, the House version of
the 2018 Farm Bill, went to the House floor for a vote on May 18, and
failed. PAN was one of more than 500 organizations who voiced opposition
to the House bill, including farmer organizations, advocates for rural
communities and hunger and social justice groups.
As the Minnesota legislature adjourned last week, I was left with mixed
feelings of disappointment and hope for Minnesota pesticide
legislation. Going into this legislative session PAN and our allies knew
that we would be playing a tough game of defense. What we didn’t
expect? While legislators had a field day attacking clean water, air,
and pipeline protections, we witnessed some key tone shifts
The Hawaiʻi legislature has made a momentous decision to pass a bill
that would ban the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos. Now it's on the
Governor's desk. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider
After years of strong scientific evidence and even stronger advocacy,
European officials decided to make a temporary ban on three bee-harming
pesticides permanent. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider
This interview with Churdan, Iowa farmer Patti Naylor is the second
blog in our series focusing on key issues of concern in the Farm Bill to
those in our network. In this blog, Patti focuses on her vision for a
Farm Bill process that better serves her farm and community. Many
provisions in the Farm Bill legislation introduced in the House of
Representatives w
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