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The guy who used to run Quest was in the news again today. He is appealing the sentence of an insider trading charge that has him spending 6 years behind bars.
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July 31 (Bloomberg) — Joseph Nacchio , the former chief executive officer of Qwest Communications International Inc. [...]
I haven’t been following the story of The Family but it seems pretty important. But the more the story gets talked about the more nervous some people are becoming.
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Apparently, “The Rachel Maddow Show” has drawn fire from the office of Congressman Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.) over a segment aired last week [...]
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This is really smart marketing.
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Tesco, the world’s third-largest retailer, is embracing the recession-inspired trend to “grow your own” produce by offering allotment spaces to rent in the U.K and selling live chickens.
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The Chinese government is expressing it’s unhappiness toward the Japanese government after a Chinese dissident made charges in Tokyo of mass disappearances.
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Nearly 10,000 Uighurs involved in deadly riots in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region went missing in one night, exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer said Wednesday, calling [...]
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Peace Boat in Vancouver
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If you don’t know what the Peace Boat is here are the details from Wikipedia:
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The Peace Boat (ピースボート, Pīsu Bōto?) is a global organization headquartered in Japan established for the purpose of building connections internationally among groups that [...]
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Another blow to Monsanto’s credibility. This time it’s from South Africa where GMO food has failed to live up to it’s promise.
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(NaturalNews) Farmers in South Africa have reported an inexplicable failure to seed in three different varieties of [...]
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British Columbia has positioned itself as a leader in tackling global warming. Yet the province’s natural environment and climate leadership are being threatened from beyond its borders by the federal government’s desire for unrestrained growth in Alberta’s Tar Sands.
Source: forestethics.ca
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UBC lab is ‘trying to create something that doesn’t exist anywhere else’
From the Victory gardens of the last century’s two world wars to the community-garden movement started in the 1970s, urban agriculture has played an important role in the security of the food supply.
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UBC lab is ‘trying to create something that doesn’t exist anywhere else’
From the Victory gardens of the last century’s two world wars to the community-garden movement started in the 1970s, urban agriculture has played an important role in the security of the food supply.
Source: cityfarmer.info
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This is an alarming development for anyone who has a serious interest in food safety in America.
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The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke.
Source: huffingtonpost.com
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