Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Activist Post: EPA to American People: 'Let Them Eat Monsanto's Roundup Ready Cake'

Activist Post: EPA to American People: 'Let Them Eat Monsanto's Roundup Ready Cake': "The EPA, whose mission is to "to protect human health and the environment," has approved Monsanto's request to allow levels of glyphosate (Roundup) contamination in your food up to a million times higher than have been found carcinogenic.

If you haven't already heard, it's now official. Monsanto's request to have the EPA raise allowable levels of its herbicide glyphosate in food you may soon be eating has been approved [see Final Rule]. Public commenting is also now closed, not that it was anything but a formality to begin with.

Here is the original registration application, lest detractors claim it was not Monsanto behind this bold move to legalize what an increasingly educated public considers a form of institutionalized mass poisoning:"

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Monday, July 15, 2013

NBN Co appoints new SA construction contractor amid construction halts | ZDNet

NBN Co appoints new SA construction contractor amid construction halts | ZDNet: "As NBN Co hands out additional construction work in South Australia to SA Power Networks, National Broadband Network some construction activity in Ballarat and Hobart has reportedly stopped amid disputes over payment of subcontractors in those locations.

SA Power Networks will roll out National Broadband Network (NBN) fibre to 300,000 South Australian premises over the next three years in addition to the work already underway in the state by troubled contractor Syntheo.

An NBN Co spokesperson would not say what the value of the contract was, but the agreement will see SA Power Networks design and construct the local and distribution network from a fibre access node through to every street covering the 300,000 premises."

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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Why you should put your Facebook password in your will | Information, Gadgets, Mobile Phones News & Reviews | News.com.au

Why you should put your Facebook password in your will | Information, Gadgets, Mobile Phones News & Reviews | News.com.au: "DIGITAL assets are as valuable as houses, cars and jewellery and should be included in people's wills and estates, lawyers warn.
An Adelaide law firm is advising its clients to include usernames and passwords for their online banking, blogs, Instagram and social media accounts in their wills."

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