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Shocking World By Monsanto - Must see!!!

you stupid USA 'sheeples' better wake the fuck up

seems Monsanto has made an attempt to put a virus in this you tube video, so I had to remove it

they play dirty, we play dirty

the Mexican Mafia will get them all and good riddance
for introducing their bullshit genetic corn into Oaxaca
voy a hacer seguro que todos los Hispanos saben de Monsanto Mierda
vale verga

so, see this you tube video

it will blow your mind make you sick and never eat any more soy products or processed pork
any Monsanto employees i ever meet i will kick your ass, or worse
not a threat , a promise

HIPPIE yes, pacifist no
fuck Monsanto

but then USA sheeples love that fast food crap, that is why you all are fat and sick
so I removed the embedded video
see the series here starting the link below

this is from my preacher friend in New Mexico

Michael;

The more I learn about Monsanto (mon=one and santo=saint) and their
corruption in the world's food supply, the more I see the horsemen of
the apocalypse approaching at a break-neck speed:

"And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say,
Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on
him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the
midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and
three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil
and the wine. And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the
voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold
a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell
followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part
of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and
with the beasts of the earth." (Revelation 6:5-8 KJV)

As if "The World Of Monsanto" wasn't bad enough already, you need to
watch this five part series "Monsanto's Patient For A Pig":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-ouf_gmA5o&feature=related

but then 2012 is close

The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008

By Robert Weissman, Multinational Monitor
Posted on November 24, 2008, Printed on November 27, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/108321/

2008 marks the 20th anniversary of Multinational Monitor's annual list of the 10 Worst Corporations of the year.

In the 20 years that we've published our annual list, we've covered corporate villains, scoundrels, criminals and miscreants. We've reported on some really bad stuff - from Exxon's Valdez spill to Union Carbide and Dow's effort to avoid responsibility for the Bhopal disaster; from oil companies coddling dictators (including Chevron and CNPC, both profiled this year) to a bank (Riggs) providing financial services for Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet; from oil and auto companies threatening the future of the planet by blocking efforts to address climate change to duplicitous tobacco companies marketing cigarettes around the world by associating their product with images of freedom, sports, youthful energy and good health.

But we've never had a year like 2008.

The financial crisis first gripping Wall Street and now spreading rapidly throughout the world is, in many ways, emblematic of the worst of the corporate-dominated political and economic system that we aim to expose with our annual 10 Worst list. Here is how.

Improper political influence: Corporations dominate the policy-making process, from city councils to global institutions like the World Trade Organization. Over the last 30 years, and especially in the last decade, Wall Street interests leveraged their political power to remove many of the regulations that had restricted their activities. There are at least a dozen separate and significant examples of this, including the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, which permitted the merger of banks and investment banks. In a form of corporate civil disobedience, Citibank and Travelers Group merged in 1998 - a move that was illegal at the time, but for which they were given a two-year forbearance - on the assumption that they would be able to force a change in the relevant law. They did, with the help of just-retired (at the time) Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who went on to an executive position at the newly created Citigroup.

Deregulation and non-enforcement: Non-enforcement of rules against predatory lending helped the housing bubble balloon. While some regulators had sought to exert authority over financial derivatives, they were stopped by finance-friendly figures in the Clinton administration and Congress - enabling the creation of the credit default swap market. Even Alan Greenspan concedes that that market - worth $55 trillion in what is called notional value - is imploding in significant part because it was not regulated.

Short-term thinking: It was obvious to anyone who cared to look at historical trends that the United States was experiencing a housing bubble. Many in the financial sector seemed to have convinced themselves that there was no bubble. But others must have been more clear-eyed. In any case, all the Wall Street players had an incentive not to pay attention to the bubble. They were making stratospheric annual bonuses based on annual results. Even if they were certain the bubble would pop sometime in the future, they had every incentive to keep making money on the upside.

Financialization: Profits in the financial sector were more than 35 percent of overall U.S. corporate profits in each year from 2005 to 2007, according to data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Instead of serving the real economy, the financial sector was taking over the real economy.

Profit over social use: Relatedly, the corporate-driven economy was being driven by what could make a profit, rather than what would serve a social purpose. Although Wall Street hucksters offered elaborate rationalizations for why exotic financial derivatives, private equity takeovers of firms, securitization and other so-called financial innovations helped improve economic efficiency, by and large these financial schemes served no socially useful purpose.

Externalized costs: Worse, the financial schemes didn't just create money for Wall Street movers and shakers and their investors. They made money at the expense of others. The costs of these schemes were foisted onto workers who lost jobs at firms gutted by private equity operators, unpayable loans acquired by homeowners who bought into a bubble market (often made worse by unconscionable lending terms), and now the public.

What is most revealing about the financial meltdown and economic crisis, however, is that it illustrates that corporations - if left to their own worst instincts - will destroy themselves and the system that nurtures them. It is rare that this lesson is so graphically illustrated. It is one the world must quickly learn, if we are to avoid the most serious existential threat we have yet faced: climate change.

Of course, the rest of the corporate sector was not on good behavior during 2008 either, and we do not want them to escape justified scrutiny. In keeping with our tradition of highlighting diverse forms of corporate wrongdoing, we include only one financial company on the 10 Worst list. Here, presented in alphabetical order, are the 10 Worst Corporations of 2008.

AIG: Money for Nothing

There's surely no one party responsible for the ongoing global financial crisis.

But if you had to pick a single responsible corporation, there's a very strong case to make for American International Group (AIG).

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Five ways to keep Alzheimer's away

(CNN) -- Blanche Danick may be 86 years old, but she's pretty hip. She keeps up with all the latest health news, and a while back, she called her daughter wanting to know whether she should start taking the herb ginkgo biloba. She'd heard it might stave off Alzheimer's disease.

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"I told her not to bother, that it wouldn't make much of a difference," says her daughter, Edythe London, a professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at the University of California, Los Angeles. "On the basis of what I've read, I don't think it staves off dementia."

London's advice makes a lot of sense, according to a study out this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Ginkgo is a top-selling herb and has been hailed by some as a memory-booster, but the new University of Pittsburgh study found it didn't help prevent Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia in more than 3,000 elderly study subjects.

Ginkgo manufacturers say this isn't the first -- or the last -- word on the herb. "There is a significant body of scientific and clinical evidence supporting the safety and efficacy of ginkgo extract for both cognitive function and improved circulation," said Mark Blumenthal, executive director of the American Botanical Council.

London's still skeptical. "But I do tell my mother there are other things she can do," says London, who's studied the brain and aging. "I tell her to go out and do things and see people every day and be active." Studies have shown that physical exercise, the kind that keeps the heart healthy, also keeps the brain healthy, according to the National Institutes of Health's Cognitive and Emotional Health Project. Watch more on staving off Alzheimer's »

People are like rats, London says. "If you put a rat in a cage by itself, it won't do well on cognitive tests. But if you give it toys and put other rats in its cage, they're going to be smarter rats."

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In addition to playing with toys and hanging out with your fellow rats, here are five other tips for keeping your memory sharp. London says they help work on memory centers of the brain, including the cerebral cortex and the hippocampus, identified in the diagram above.

1. Antioxidants

London makes sure her mother takes vitamins A, C, and E. They're antioxidants, which prevent cell damage and are believed by some to slow down diseases of aging. "There are studies that suggest antioxidants might prevent dementia," she says.

2. Fish oil supplements

Dr. Gary Small, director of the UCLA Center on Aging, says aging brains show signs of inflammation, and fish oil has anti-inflammatory properties.

3. Phosphatidylserine supplements

Phosphatidylserine is a lipid found naturally in the body. Small says he's not 100 percent convinced these supplements will help stave off dementia, but they're worth a try. "If I start having memory problems when I get older, I'll give them a trial run and see if they help," says Small, author of the new book "iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind."

4. Curry

Small, who's 57, says that as he gets older, he might also try eating more foods with curry in them. "Some studies in Singapore show that those who ate curry once a week had better memory scores," he said.

5. Cross-training your brain

"Our brains can be made stronger through exercise," says Andrew Carle, assistant professor of in the department of health administration and policy at George Mason University. "In the same way physical exercise can delay many of the effects of aging on the body, there's some evidence cognitive exercise can at least delay the onset of Alzheimer's."

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But Carle says it's not enough to do just one kind of brain exercise. "Doing a crossword puzzle every day is good, but it's the equivalent of doing only pushups -- your arms will get strong, but not the rest of your body."

He recommends doing other activities in addition, such as computing numbers in your head instead of using a calculator, or using one of the "brain gym" computer games designed to enhance brain function.

As for London, who's 60, she thinks her best bet at staving off dementia doesn't come in a bottle, or on a dinner plate, or in a computer game. "I'm going to keep working on my research, and surround myself with young people, and do a lot of exercise," she says. "I'm going to be a happy old lady. That in and of itself is going to do a lot of good for my brain."

Inside the mind of an entrepreneur

Scientists claim the decision-making skill of entrepreneurs can be obtained from teaching - or drugs...

A new Cambridge University study suggests that entrepreneurs differ from standard managers because they’re more inclined to take risky decisions – or at least, they’re more willing to tolerate the accompanying risks when they decide to do something. And it argues this kind of decision-making under pressure can not only be taught, but also (possibly) stimulated by particular drugs. If so, that would suggest that entrepreneurs aren’t just born – they can also be made...

According to the study, entrepreneurs contravene a widely-held assumption: that risk-taking is actually an abnormal expression of behaviour, hence its association with substance abuse and mental illness (in other words: that risk-taking is characteristic of people who aren’t functioning properly). In fact, the Cambridge research found that entrepreneurs’ 'highly adaptive risk-taking behaviour', i.e. the ability to solve problems and make decisions under stress, could be of real value in our stressful and ever-changing times. So in fact, in certain circumstances, risk-taking might actually give people an evolutionary advantage.

To test their thesis about what makes these people tick, the boffins experimented on a mixed group of entrepreneurs and managers. On ‘cold’ decision-making tasks, both groups performed similarly. But on ‘hot’ tasks, where the consequences of failure were much greater, entrepreneurs were far more likely to take the risky option. They also showed ‘superior cognitive flexibility’ and scored higher on ‘impulsivity’. And the good news is that this kind of hot decision-making can be taught (and practised).

As far as Cambridge is concerned, this could affect the way it teaches students. ‘This research suggests that when engaged in teaching entrepreneurship, the focus should be on risk tolerance as opposed to the more traditional focus on risk mitigation,’ says Dr Shai Vyakarnam of the Judge Business School. ‘If we train potential entrepreneurs to reframe their decisions this may in turn encourage greater entrepreneurial activity’. It would also help, he says, to place them in an environment that normalises ‘a more risk-tolerant type of decision making’ – like Silicon Valley for instance, or Cambridge’s own Silicon Fen cluster.

One fascinating aspect of the research is that the skills commonly found in entrepreneurs are intimately linked to brain neurochemistry – and in particular, the production of the hormone dopamine, which many scientists think teaches the brain about the risks attached to particular behaviours. So it’s possible that by using drugs to control dopamine levels, scientists can help the rest of us make decisions like entrepreneurs. An intriguing, if slightly scary prospect..

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