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Court Gives Nestlé Green Light To Continue Bottling Water From National Forest

When Nestlé Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe was asked if he believes water is a human right he said that, “Yes, water is a human right, but water isn’t free.” Apparently, if you are a mega-corporation like Nestlé, it comes pretty darned close.

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Nestle brand Arrowhead water bottlers. (Screenshot)

California — A California federal judge just gave Nestlé the go ahead to continue stealing water from the San Bernardino National Forest. Nestlé has become infamous for trying to privatize water from over 50 springs throughout the United States, though residents in the small towns they monopolize have tried fighting back. In a recent turn for

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Latin American Scientists Say Bill Gates’ GMO Golden Rice Is A Total Failure

‘Golden Rice,’ a highly touted Gates Foundation experiment has been proven to be deceptive in its claims to help feed the world and stop Vitamin A deficits in poor populations.

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Mothers and children display painted baby tubs which they themselves designed during a protest on World Environment Day Wednesday June 5, 2013 at suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila, Philippines. The mothers have formed a coalition called "Green Moms" advocating organic foods and breastfeeding practices to show their opposition to a genetically modified rice variety known as "Golden Rice" which allegedly is being promoted by GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) proponents as a quick fix solution to a Vitamin A Deficiency or VAD especially for new-born babies and lactating mothers.

Nobel Laureates who have been pushing the genetically modified organism agenda deep into scientific circles are being lambasted by a group called the Union of Latin American Scientists Committed to Society and Nature (UCCSN-AL). A whopping third of Nobel laureates recently slammed Greenpeace for its anti-GM campaign, claiming that the issues

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Despite Ongoing Effects Of Agent Orange, Vietnam Embraces Monsanto GMO’s

Fifty-five years after rendering almost an entire country cancerous, chemical companies like Monsanto are being welcomed with open arms into Vietnam. 

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In this photo taken on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, Le Van Tam, 14, is picked up by his father at a rehabilitation center in Danang, Vietnam. The children were born with physical and mental disabilities that the center's director says were caused by their parents' exposure to the chemical dioxin in the defoliant Agent Orange. On Thursday, the U.S. for the first time will begin cleaning up leftover dioxin that was stored at the former military base that's now part of Danang's airport. (AP Photo/Maika Elan)

Vietnam — Vietnam’s Agriculture Minister has asked the country to embrace Monsanto 55 years after the company dumped 20 million gallons of Agent Orange there. One of Monsanto’s former companies, among nine contractors responsible for creating Agent Orange, sprayed more than 20 million gallons of the herbicide on an area of South Vietnam about

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Pesticide For Zika-Carrying Mosquitoes In Florida Linked To Autism Risk

Dallas County Mosquito Lab microbiologist Spencer Lockwood sorts mosquitos collected in a trap in Hutchins, Texas, that had been set up in Dallas County near the location of a confirmed Zika virus infection. Is pesticide spraying to kill mosquitoes causing autism? In the least, the government is spraying larvicides with great impunity in many neighborhoods […]

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Por Christina Sarich | Underground Reporter
Dallas County Mosquito Lab microbiologist Spencer Lockwood sorts mosquitos collected in a trap in Hutchins, Texas, that had been set up in Dallas County near the location of a confirmed Zika virus infection.

Is pesticide spraying to kill mosquitoes causing autism? In the least, the government is spraying larvicides with great impunity in many neighborhoods throughout the U.S. in order to ‘combat Zika’ and other diseases said to be caused by mosquitoes. Little is known of the true ramifications for such hackneyed actions, but one study suggests that in

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Bipartisan Group Of Lawmakers Pushing To Get Veterans Access To Medical Marijuana

Nineteen Democrats and two Republicans want a new policy that “removes barriers that would interfere with the doctor-patient relationship” in states where medical marijuana is legal.

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Por Christina Sarich | Underground Reporter
Afghanistan | Veterans Suicide

Under a policy that expired January 31, 2016, Veterans Affairs (VA) doctors were not allowed to discuss medical marijuana treatments to their patients. Twenty-one lawmakers are urging VA doctors to allow medical marijuana to be not only discussed, but sometimes recommended in states where it is legal. Nineteen Democrats and two Republicans,

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