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Monsanto, Blackwater and GM crop saboteurs
By Rady Ananda Agribusiness giant Monsanto, which genetically modifies plants to exude or tolerate pesticide or to produce nonviable seed, hired the services of the mercenary firm Blackwater to spy on activists, Jeremy Scahill reports. A death-tech firm weds a hit squad. This is no doubt in response to a decade of GM crop sabotage [...]
Nature’s Blend – Natural Skin Treatment
naturesblend.ca Angela’s Story … I was raised on a 100 acre farm. We were as self-sufficient as possible with growing our own food, large herb garden, livestock, bees for our own honey, etc. My father studied agriculture in Germany before coming to Canada and along with reading a multitude of books on herbal and natural [...]
iPod touch 2010 Review
iPod touch (2010), the fourth generation of Apple’s app-enabled, phone-disabled iOS platform brings with it everything we’ve been waiting for in a mini tablet, but nowhere near enough of it. But that’s often the ecstasy and the agony of Apple. Since we’ve already posted both our iPhone 4 review, which has similar hardware, and iOS [...]
25 Superfoods to Incorporate Into Your Diet Now
Your New Best Friends… Yes, you know better, but a lot of good that does your taste buds. They still prefer potato chips to beets, fried chicken to canned fish, and pasta to just about anything. But what if you didn’t have to choose between good food and good-for-you food because they were one and [...]
The Zen Mind | Free Documentary Online
Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism. The Japanese word Zen is derived from the Chinese word Chán, which in turn is derived from the Sanskrit word dhyana, which means “meditation” or “meditative state.” Zen emphasises experiential prajna in the attainment of enlightenment. As such, it de-emphasizes theoretical knowledge in favor of direct realization through [...]
Primary elections: The tea-partiers march on | The Economist
ONE of the beguiling paradoxes of American politics is that a night of triumphs for the most conservative Republicans can breathe fresh hope into the hearts of demoralised Democrats. So it was on September 14th in the last bout of primaries before the mid-term elections. From Delaware to New York to New Hampshire, candidates from [...]
Tranquil Living Environments Can Positively Affect The Human Brain Function
The research, which was published in the journal NeuroImage, uses functional brain imaging to assess how the environment impacts upon our brain functions. The findings demonstrated that tranquil environmental scenes containing natural features, such as the sea, cause distinct brain areas to become `connected´ with one another whilst man-made environments, such as motorways, disrupt the [...]
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