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This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: 2017 starts out with a whole new year's worth of ways we're winning w/space not spikes, free hot soup, p2p video and much more.

President-elect Donald Trump has named Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris to head the American Manufacturing Council. [1]
The council is the principal prime sector advisory committee to the Secretary of Commerce on the manufacturing of the United States.

Several U.S. state attorneys general will join the pending federal antitrust investigations into the multi-billion dollar mergers between Bayer and Monsanto, and Dow and DuPont. [1]
The attorneys general will be able to provide data on how the prospective mergers – which are expected to be approved – would affect their jurisdictions and jointly conduct calls to gather information from the companies, their opponents, and supporters of the deals.

(COMMONDREAMS) Hundreds of thousands have signed petitions calling on the U.S.

The agritech world got a lot bigger this week when German chemical giant Bayer inked an agreement to acquire Monsanto for $66 billion in cash. The 2 companies had been bickering for months, and this was the 3rd refurbished offer. In the end, Bayer agreed to pay $128 per share, up from the company’s previous offer of $127.50. [1]
The agreement makes it the largest all-cash deal on record.
Markus Manns of Union Investment, one of Bayer’s top 12 investors, said:

People in pain are putting down pills for pot; another breakthrough take the piss out of the power company; and DuPont's guilty, but their dummy company's taking the fall on a double-edged edition of GNNW.

People in pain are putting down pills for pot; another breakthrough take the piss out of the power company; and DuPont's guilty, but their dummy company's taking the fall on a double-edged edition of GNNW.

Fighting fluoride, stoned sheep and depressed fish + this day in history w/Scotch whisky and our song of the day by Beach Slang on your Morning Monarchy for June 1, 2016.

Kauaʻi mother Malia Chun is no stranger to fighting against biotech corporations that spray chemicals in her neighborhood. She flew all the way to Switzerland to attend Syngenta’s board meeting to draw attention to the fact that corporations like theirs are poisoning her children. Recent tests revealed that one of her daughters was riddled with 36 different pesticides – the shocking discovery was found from taking a simple hair sample to a lab.
Malia Chun stands in front of the GE corn fields near her home. Source: MIKE COOTS FOR EARTHJUSTICE