Genetic Foods /Monsanto Revealed PDF Print E-mail
Contributed by J. R. Ransom   
Monsanto's
Monsanto's
Companion text for a three part documentary video about genetically modified organisms (GMO) and Monsanto Corporation aired by Germany's DW Television.

We are told genetic foods are safe but in this documentary we are told something very different, and what we are told in this documentary is backed up by shocking facts. The connections between Monsanto and the FDA are very alarming, many highly influential politicians have worked for and or have tie with Monsanto. We are told that the FDA can be trusted but when you look at the facts they prove they can't when it comes to Monsanto.

Look at this: Clarence Thomas, Prior to being the Supreme Court Judge who put George W. Bush in office, Clarence Thomas was Monsanto's lawyer, Anne Veneman, Former US Secretary of Agriculture Anne Veneman was on the Board of Directors of Monsanto's Calgene Corporation...,

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Pakistan & the Myth of Islamic Terrorism PDF Print E-mail
Contributed by Rakesh Saxena   
Taliban Trio
Taliban Goons
Pakistan, & the Myth of Islamic Terrorism by Rakesh Saxena. President Musharraf has supposedly been fighting Islamic terrorism since he took control of Pakistan in a coup eight years ago. Benazir Bhutto repeatedly justified her role in a future Pakistan by claiming to be a champion of democracy; Nawaz Sharif is also citing to his highly dubious democratic credentials at every opportunity on the campaign trail.

In Washington, both Republicans and Democrats regularly reiterate the link between Islamic radicalism in Pakistan and the safety of the American homeland. Across the porous border in Afghanistan, NATO forces also claim to be fighting Islamic insurgents. And just recently, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared that India was facing a common threat with Pakistan, the threat emanating from religious extremism.

But who exactly are these Muslim men (and women, in some instances) who have been painted with the broad terrorist brush since 9/11?
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Muhammad Yunus - Something From Nothing PDF Print E-mail
Contributed by William Frank Diedrich   
Dr. Muhammad Yunus
Dr. Muhammad Yunus
Something From Nothing by William Frank Diedrich. To make something from nothing is what visionaries do. In the 1970's few entrepreneurs were looking for opportunities in Bangladesh. What opportunities could be created with millions of poverty stricken people? Yet one man saw something in what appeared to be nothing to most people. His name is Muhammad Yunus, and he founded the Grameen Bank. Dr. Yunus, an economist, and his bank have been awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. How and why did a banker win this year's Nobel Peace Prize? He won the award because he made something from nothing.

Dr. Yunus began Grameen Bank by loaning $ 27 to a poor bamboo stool maker and 41 other desperately poor villagers in Bangladesh in 1975. A whole new industry of micro credit, loaning small amounts of money to poverty stricken people, was born. As of August, 2006, Grameen has loaned over 6 billion dollars to over 6.6 million borrowers, 96 percent of them women. Interest rates on Grameen's loans are about 16 percent, and 98 percent of them are repaid. (Typical independent money lenders in poor countries charge 50 percent.) Grameen now employs over 17,000 people.
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Lenny Bruce & The Polar War PDF Print E-mail
Contributed by David Cox   
The Fight for the Poles
The Fight for the Poles
The Polar War By David Cox. The comedian Lenny Bruce entitled his autobiography, “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People." A comic title referencing the hugely popular book at the time, “How to Make Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie. Carnegie went on to make a fortune selling self-help programs and Lenny died of a drug overdose.

But success is fleeting, today Carnegie is largely forgotten yet Lenny’s legacy lives on. The humor in Lenny’s title was that he did indeed talk dirty and indeed did influence people. Lenny was the first truly modern comedian; he didn’t just tell jokes about his mother in law or about how fat his wife was. His comedy was of current events and it was biting and sarcastic and sometimes even those who loved Lenny were offended by it. Lenny could be a comedic Rorshach test as he discussed the issues of race, nuclear weapons, homosexuality and even incest.

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights PDF Print E-mail
Contributed by J. R. Ransom   
The United Nations
The United Nations
When President George W. Bush spoke before the United Nations today, he focused entirely on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a very beautiful document. Regardless of how you may feel about Mr. Bush, the text of his speech points to a very basic point of modern human civilization - the rights of individual people.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (abbreviated UDHR) is an advisory declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (A/RES/217, 10 December 1948 at Palais de Chaillot, Paris). It consists of 30 articles which outline the view of the General Assembly on the human rights guaranteed to all people. Eleanor Roosevelt, first chairwoman of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) that drafted the Declaration, said, "It is not a treaty... [In the future, it] may well become the international Magna Carta..." Select 'Read More' for the entire text of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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