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URGENT: Don`t Let the Biotech Industry Sneak This In!

Provision would strip federal courts of the authority to halt the sale and planting of illegal, potentially hazardous crops while USDA is assessing those potential hazards.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Congress is considering a sneaky, pro-GMO rider to a funding bill, and it may become law without anyone realizing it—unless you take action NOW!

The biotech industry has managed to insert a dangerous rider in support of genetically engineered crops into the FY 2013 Agriculture Appropriations bill.

Even in Israel, More and More Parents Choose Not to Circumcise their Sons

Because no systematic record is kept of the number of circumcisions performed in the country ‏(see below‏) there are no exact data.

(TEL AVIV Ha'aretz) - When their first child, a son, was born 11 years ago, it was clear to Eran Sadeh, now 42, and his partner, Maya, 40, that he would be circumcised.

“We arranged it with a mohel [ritual circumciser] and then I started to look for information and references about the man on the Internet,” says Eran, a former lawyer-turned-computer instructor in a software company.

Princess Maha Al-Sudairi Attempted To Avoid Paying Shangri-La Hotel In Paris $7.4 Million

Her global over-spending has been well-documented in the past.

(DUBLIN) - As moonlight flits go it was one of the more brazen. If you were trying to dodge paying a hotel bill of £5million you might just slip out of a side door and walk away quietly with some hand luggage.

However, when a Saudi princess tried it from a five-star establishment in Paris she was just a little bit too noticeable – what with her retinue of 60 servants in tow and a mountain of suitcases.

The Sun of Dharma Will Rise (Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya)

The life-enhancing teachings of Sanatana Dharma are God's free and precious gift for all sentient beings in existence, regardless of their nationality, gender, or parentage.

(CHENNAI, India) - A new Vedic movement is being born today that is unlike any movement ever seen before in world history. This Sanatana Dharma movement is empowered by God Himself.

It is a movement that is destined to thoroughly change the face of the entire Earth as it is presently constituted.

Saud and Susya

I have a dream that Barack Obama or his successor will finally show some backbone...

(BETHLEHEM) - The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Nayef Al-Saud died at age 78.

Nayef was the Interior Minister known for his "efficient" crackdown on dissent and thus was praised by US administrators for dealing with "terrorism" (the same administrators who tortured and "rendered" subjects to be tortured).

Sergey Lavorov: `On the Right Side of History`

An article from Russia's Foreign Minister on the Syrian crisis.

(MOSCOW) - Over the last year or a year and a half, the events unfolding in North Africa and the Middle East have come to the forefront of the global political agenda.

They are frequently referred to as the most remarkable episode in the international life of the new 21st century.

Enforced Disappearance: JSMM`s Muzaffar Bhutto Was Found Dead After More than a Year

He was neither a terrorist nor a criminal, he was a qualified engineer and a political activist working for the rights of people living in Sindh.

(KARACHI) - Muzaffar Bhutto, who went missing on February 24, 2011, was found dead near Hyderabad on Tuesday 22 May 2012.

The 42-year-old’s bullet-riddled body, also bearing torture marks, was found at the roadside near Hatri and was taken to Civil Hospital, Hyderabad.

Aging Without Raging: It`s Perseverance Plus!

Human potential is ageless, whatever its source. Never minimize that maxim.

(SALEM) - All of us age by degrees. It is not an overnight process.

Nevertheless, we seem conditioned to ignore this life reality and indulge in a game called Manana-itis. We tend to be in denial.

The Great Indian Gene Bazaar

Kaushik Basu's Useless Suggestions to Prop up the Indian Economy

(NEW DELHI, India ) - It has taken the civil society years of struggle to ensure that the plant genetic resources (PGR), which is essentially the preserve of farmers, are not passed on freely into the hands of multinational corporations/seed companies.

After the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity, the battle to seek control over PGR had of course intensified.

An Apple Sprouts in Manhattan: Mr. John Goes to the United Nations, Unfortunately

Gangsters like Ed John don’t like drawing more attention to bad publicity about themselves – especially when they know it’s all true.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - I first heard Ed John’s name mentioned when a large and nasty thug shoved his arm into my throat and bellowed in my ear, “Eddie John is pissed off at what you’re doing here, so cut it out now!”

The ruffian was named Dean Wilson, an enforcer with the Carrier-Sekani Tribal Council in Prince George, British Columbia.