This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: California pols mighty have to wear their corporate sponsor's logos; the Free State Project crosses pledge milestone; Organic farmers are growing 'GE-free zones'.
This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: California pols mighty have to wear their corporate sponsor's logos; the Free State Project crosses pledge milestone; Organic farmers are growing GMO-free zones.
Oregon Under Attack, mystery meat and Middle East heat + This Day In History w/LBJ and your song of the day w/Tom Jones on Morning Monarchy for January 4, 2016.
"People got together for this and it doesn’t have to stop here. This could be a hope that spreads through the whole country."
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The Mexican Supreme Court recently ruled that the prohibition of cannabis is unconstitutional, so Claire Bernish of Anti-Media joined us for a little pot talk.
Officials in California have decided to delay the start of crab season due to a spike in toxins that may make the creatures dangerous for human consumption. [1]
“Due to the detection of dangerous levels of domoic acid,” Dungeness and rock crabs caught in waters between the Oregon borders and the southern Santa Barbara County line pose a “significant risk to the public if consumed,” the California Department of Public Health (DPH) said in a release. [2]
Jackson County, Oregon was already successful in banning genetically modified foods (known as GMOs) even though Big Ag tried to fight the democratic vote. Now another Oregon County is following suit.
In his comment on the mass shootings at the Oregon community college, President Obama said: “This has become routine.”
So have police shootings of unarmed and unresisting Americans.
So have numerous other undesirable and deplorable happenings, such as the foreclosure on the homes of millions of Americans, while the “banks too big to fail” are bailed out with trillions of dollars, and such as foreign policy lies that have destroyed seven countries, bringing the US and Europe millions of refugees.
Normalised mass violence has become the unmentioned subject of US school syllabi. Teachers’ meetings and academic retreats must be getting longer and more perturbed: How do those in a university setting cope with an armed assailant who will take a dozen lives in a short span, and then perish?
Josephine County voted on a genetically modified food ban that was to go into effect on September 4th, but of course rejecting GMOs can never happen without a fight. One day before the ban went live, GM sugar beet farmers, with the backing of agrichemical corporations, sued in order to halt the ban. This is a similar tactic that was used in Maui County and Kauai County, who passed similar bans via a democratic process. When will the courts uphold justice?
