All women had at least one of the toxins present in their blood, but there were differences between the pregnant and non-pregnant women. A large percentage of non-pregnant study subjects had both glyphosate and gluphosinate in their blood, while the pregnant women did not. However, 100% of pregnant women studied had 3-MPPA in their blood and 93% had Cry1Ab. Even more troubling—100% of fetal cords studied had 3-MPPA and 80% had Cry1Ab.

Obama wagt es nicht, in einem Wahljahr das Cannabisverbot durchzusetzen.

The main reason why there aren‘t more alternative, protest, single-issue, leftfield or downright frivolous presidential candidates is the difficulty of getting on the ballot in all 50 states. Each state has its own procedures for ballot access, ranging from „lax“ to „obstructionist“.

„Katzenberg recognised early that without the support of the entertainment industry‘s millionaires and billionaires, Obama would have a tough time getting re-elected,“ said Tina Daunt of the Hollywood Reporter. „He became Obama‘s top advocate in the industry – simply because others were not willing to go all out for the president.“

From October 15-19, 2012 The Future of Freedom Foundation and the Young Americans for Liberty co-sponsored a College Civil Liberties Tour that brought a panel of three lawyers – a libertarian, a liberal, and a conservative – to five campuses on the West Coast. The three panelists, inluding Jacob G. Hornberger, Glenn Greenwald, Bruce Fein, and along with moderator Jack Hunter, explained to the students that the U.S. government‘s military empire, war on terrorism, and interventionist foreign policy constitute a dire threat to the civil liberties that all Americans cherish.

The video above is from the second stop of the tour on October 16, 2012, at the University of California at Davis.

GeneWatch UK and GM Freeze today released documents obtained as a result of a Freedom of Information request, which reveal that the GM companies Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer and BASF are setting the agenda for UK agricultural research with a view to bringing GM crops into the UK and exporting overseas.

Some famers in the US are now warning their European counterparts not to make the same mistakes that they did by embracing GM crops – write campaigners

President Barack Obama has extended his narrow lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney among likely voters in a race that remains statistically tied nine days before the election, according to a Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll released on Sunday.

Outside Timken steel plant, owned by Republican donors, union members say they fear Romney will wipe out organised labour

The transit shutdown will last until Wednesday under the current plan. Officials said services would resume operations about 12 hours after Sandy has passed through the city.

„AIG wasn‘t an FDIC-insured bank, it was an insurance institution. So the problem in today‘s financial sector can‘t be solved simply by reimposing models that were created­ in the 1930s.

I will tell you, the single biggest thing that I would like to see is changing incentives on Wall Street and how people get compensated. That ultimately requires not just congressional legislation but a change in corporate governance.“

Oct. 27 – Several people were pushed to the ground and stomped on as members of a miners union clashed with non-union miners in South Africa

Following letter was sent on Friday 26th of October from Ship to Gaza to the Foreign Minister of Sweden Carl Bildt:

Bei der Streikbewegung der Studierendenbewegung geht es aber nicht nur um die ausgebliebenen staatlichen Zuschüsse. Sie wenden sich auch gegen die geplante Novellierung des Hochschulgesetzes, das unter anderem einen massiven Anstieg der Studiengebühren vorsieht. Arturo Cano, Mitglied der Studentenvereinigung, beklagt das intransparente Vorgehen der Regierung. Er befürchtet eine neuerliche Ausgrenzung ärmerer Bevölkerungsschichten beim Zugang zu universitärer Bildung und eine elitäre Ausrichtung der Universitäten.

The German delegation, that arrived in Tehran late Saturday, will hold talks with senior Iranian lawmakers, Secretary of Iran‘s High Council for Human Rights Mohammad-Javad Larijani, Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad-Mehdi Akhoundzadeh and Chairman of Iran‘s Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines (ICCIM) Mohammad Nahavandian.

Diese Regeln, die der italienische Soziologe Rossi zu Kolonialzeiten als »guardia senza armi« (Wächter ohne Waffen) bezeichnete, sind tief in der Bevölkerung verwurzelt. MediatorInnen und kommunalen Gerichtshöfen wenden das traditionelle Recht noch heute an.

The president of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice said he is „deeply troubled“ about reports that the New York Police Department sent a paid informant to spy on the school‘s club for Muslim students.

Gerard Fryer of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said Saturday night the largest wave was measured at 5 feet in Maui in the first 45 minutes.

The waves between 3 and 7 feet were triggered by a sizable 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck Canada‘s Pacific coastal province of British Columbia late on Saturday.

Two people died and 21 others were injured in Peru‘s capital on Saturday as protesters clashed with police trying to shut down a sprawling wholesale market, raising the death toll to four since street battles erupted at the site on Thursday.