News for today's 2018

ARGENTINA AND MONSANTO

5:42 PM Tukiyooo 0

<br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAkB06NlSkARa8dt_7zzcbug3Rs0tK5q7ZdOu7Mf_t7xJmJDy5rGWoqt-2BjBYA4451XyykE2RUXGM9VkPQjzHrdrKFDo2znryN4p81H9v0d7eiCdLb_Bu54SSY3NC3Gc9ZkgJKpDNfCtB/s1600/IMG-20130208-00778.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAkB06NlSkARa8dt_7zzcbug3Rs0tK5q7ZdOu7Mf_t7xJmJDy5rGWoqt-2BjBYA4451XyykE2RUXGM9VkPQjzHrdrKFDo2znryN4p81H9v0d7eiCdLb_Bu54SSY3NC3Gc9ZkgJKpDNfCtB/s320/IMG-20130208-00778.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Monsanto out" Protest graffiti in front of Monsanto HQ Buenos Aires, Argentina </td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ENVIRONMENTALISTS IN ARGENTINA MANAGE TO SUSPEND MONSANTO CORN-SEED DRYING FACILITY</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VTaQf3nihBU?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></b></span></span></div><br /><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #444444;"></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span></span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">In 1996 the Argentine government under Ex president Menem (the sunny boy of the IMF) opened the agriculture market to controversial USA Agro giant MONSANTO in order to grow </span>genetically modified soya seeds. Consequently 60% of fertile land was sold to foreign agriculture entities, with devastating consequences for small farm producers and the environment (mono cultures), not to mention the extensive use of MONSANTOS herbicide “Roundup”, which generates cancer.<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS TRY TO CONTROL ARGENTINA </span></b></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">in order to implement “</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">CORPORATOCRACY”</span>(<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy</a>) in the wake of the agriculture boom. See: </span><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/10/corporatocracy.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/10/corporatocracy.html<span style="color: #444444;"><b>  </b></span></a><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><b>and</b></span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">CORN-SEED SALES IN BRAZIL, ARGENTINA AND MEXICO HELP MONSANTO WITH RECORD EARNINGS</span></b></span></span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/02/argentina-agriculture-curse.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/02/argentina-agriculture-curse.html</a></span></div><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/10/corporatocracy.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"></span></a><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ANOTHER SETBACK FOR MONSANTO IN SOUTH AMERICA</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the ARGENTINE province of Córdoba justice system ordered the suspension of the construction of a corn seed-drying facility in the district of Malvinas ARGENTINAS, 14 kilometres outside the capital city of Córdoba.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Judges invoked “environmental risks” in the construction of the 300 million dollars plant </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The decision was made by a labour court in Córdoba City, which placed an injunction to halt the application of Order Number 821/2013, granting the firm permission to advance with its construction project.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The court thus accepted the appeal presented by the ARGENTINE Law Foundation Club and counters the ruling by Civil and Commercial Judge Claudia Zalazar, who on January 25 had authorized the beginning of the construction.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiseW2NdnPvDpzJrRtIEOqv3BK377s97cvlZkzjabYfPelJhyphenhyphenWXkmO3x-M8LvkYKPqLcPFGEoSTdByY6rIu1FDkrUJ8gttPfxiRfCwDwaAHbL8WjSh6Y-qD8oiyPTyQnY0Otq8lkq2lzhnZ/s1600/IMG-20130208-00777.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiseW2NdnPvDpzJrRtIEOqv3BK377s97cvlZkzjabYfPelJhyphenhyphenWXkmO3x-M8LvkYKPqLcPFGEoSTdByY6rIu1FDkrUJ8gttPfxiRfCwDwaAHbL8WjSh6Y-qD8oiyPTyQnY0Otq8lkq2lzhnZ/s320/IMG-20130208-00777.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">"Monsanto out" protest graffiti in front of Monsanto HQ in Buenos Aires</span> </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sources in Monsanto claimed that no prior legal warning had been received from the authorities and insisted that an appeal was more than likely.<br />In the resolution revealed on Monday, Judges Silvia Díaz and Luis Farías highlighted that the precautionary principle which prevailed in the decision was centred on questions of potential “environmental risks.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Consequentially, the works will remain suspended until the fundamental issue leading to the appeal by the ARGENTINE Law Foundation Club and Malvinas ARGENTINA’S residents is resolved. The appellants have objected to the constitutional validity of the municipal order granted by Judge Zalazar which allowed for the beginning of a project approved by the provincial Water, Environment and Energy Ministry in September last year.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Through a project notice, the ministry revealed that a facility of some 27 hectares, with similar characteristics to another built by Monsanto in Rojas, Buenos Aires province, would be built in Malvinas Argentinas. According to the firm, prior to the injunction, the plant was expected to be inaugurated in December after a 1.6 billion Pesos investment (approx. 300 million dollars).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In BRAZIL Monsanto said it was to file an immediate appeal of a recent ruling by a single judge of the BRAZILIAN Superior Court of Justice, relating to the company's request for term correction of a patent covering its Roundup Ready soybean product. The company will move forward with the next phase of the appeals process to secure its intellectual property rights and ensure its business is not disrupted in the country.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Monsanto had previously obtained patent protection in BRAZIL for its first-generation Roundup Ready soybean products. In accordance with BRAZILIAN law, Monsanto has sought to correct the term of its patent rights in BRAZIL to conform to the 2014 patent term granted in the UNITED STATES.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">CORN-SEED SALES IN BRAZIL, ARGENTINA AND MEXICO HELP MONSANTO WITH RECORD EARNINGS</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">US agricultural giant Monsanto Tuesday posted a large increase in quarterly earnings on strong results in corn seed sales in the US and Latin America and better sales of pesticides. The St Louis-based corporation said net income for the first quarter was 339 million dollars, up from 126 million a year earlier.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The results were boosted by particularly strong sales of its gene manipulated corn seed products in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico, the company said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Farmers in Brazil and Argentina have upgraded to new Monsanto genetically modified products, the company said. Sales in this category rose more than 27% compared to the same period last year.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The company also said it also had a positive US order book that was better than the same point last year.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The other big improvement came in the agricultural productivity category, which includes crop protection products and law-and-garden herbicide products. Sales in this category rose nearly 31% compared with the same period last year.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We've achieved a successful start to the year, with contributions from multiple areas that speaks to the strength of our global business and provides confidence in our ability to realize a third consecutive year of significant growth,” said Hugh Grant, CEO of Monsanto.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Monsanto's earnings came in at 62 cents per share, excluding exceptional items, well above the 37 cents per share projected by analysts. Monsanto shares were up are currently up 3% to 98.86 dollars.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">See:  </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/monsanto-global-monster-corporation.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/monsanto-global-monster-corporation.html</a></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/monsanto-part-2.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/monsanto-part-2.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><h3><span style="color: #444444;">MONSANTO – “GLOBAL MONSTER CORPORATION”? </span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wvjCE_g2tKM?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe><span style="color: #444444;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Monsanto Company is a multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation which is particularly famous for its genetically modified products and herbicides. It is also notable for its involvement in high profile lawsuits, where fines and damages have run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Most of them were related to health damage caused by Monsanto’s products.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Monsanto is one of the most powerful and controversial Agricultural and Biotechnology Corporation on the globe. Monsanto allegedly controls 90% of the world wide food market and is a key promoter of genetic modified food products as well as lead producer of pesticides.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#Soybean_in_Argentina">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#Soybean_in_Argentina</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Given the fact that Argentina is a major agricultural producer and exporter, the strong presence of Monsanto in Argentina must raise concerns, for the corporation is known for its lack of moral and controversial use of Biotechnology especially in genetic manipulated food products and chemicals used for pesticides. Most of the lawsuits are related to health problems connected to genetically manipulated food products and side effects of pesticides.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Currently Monsanto is engaged in countless legal battles and controversies around the globe, a frightening fact, given the power and political influence the corporation has. Some of the current controversies and lawsuits involving Monsanto are: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MONSANTO GUILTY OF CHEMICAL POISONING</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Via Reuters</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A French court ruled that a controversial US biotech company Monsanto is guilty of unintentional chemical poisoning of a French farmer. The verdict sets a French precedent for pesticide-poisoning and more cases are expected to follow.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Grain farmer Paul Francois, says he suffered a number of neurological problems, including memory loss, stammering and headaches, after inhaling Monsanto's Lasso weed killer in 2004. He blamed the company for failing to provide adequate warning labels on its products.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The present case is not the first of its kind. All previous health claims have reportedly failed because of the difficulties with proving the links between health issues and exposure to pesticides and other chemicals. Francois’s claims appeared to be easier to substantiate because he could describe a particular incident – the inhaling of a particular pesticide while cleaning the tank of his crop sprayer. The man was only able to obtain his work invalidity status after a court appeal.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">300K FARMERS HOPE FOR LAWSUIT AGAINST MONSANTO </span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Via RT</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Around 300,000 organic farmers think that Monsanto, the biotech giant known for genetically modifying Mother Nature’s handwork for profit and pushing over the little guys all the while, is pretty seedy. <br />Now a judge in New York is debating if Monsanto’s questionable methods will go before a jury.<br /><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><b>FOGGY PATENT CLAIM ON GENETICALLY MODIFIED SEED</b></span><br /><br />Last year, 270,000 organic farmers from around 60 family farms tried to take Monsanto to court over issues pertaining to a genetically-modified seed masterminded by the corporation. Not only were the smaller farms concerned over how the manufactured seeds had been carried by wind and creature alike onto their own plantations, but the biggest problem perhaps was that Monsanto was filing lawsuits themselves against farmers. Monsanto went after hundreds of farmers for infringing on their patented seed after audits revealed that their farms had contained their product as a result of routine pollination by animals and acts of nature.<br /><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><b>SMALL FARM GRABBING TACTICS BY MONSANTO</b></span><br /><br /><b>Unable to afford a proper defense, competing small farms have been bought out by the company in droves</b>. As a result, Monsanto saw their profits increase by the hundreds of millions over the last few years as a result. Between 1997 and 2010, <b>Monsanto tackled 144 organic farms with lawsuits and investigated roughly 500 plantations annually during that span with a so-called “seed police.”</b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b>MONSANTO’S INCREASING REIGN OVER THE WORLD’S AGRICULTURE WILL SURPASS ANYTHING IMAGINABLE</b><br /></span><br /><b>Farmers have been concerned that unless Monsanto is stopped, their reign over the world’s agriculture will surpass anything imaginable</b>. They are seeking pre-emptive protection from those questionable lawsuits and next month Judge Buchwald will weigh in on if the matter should go to trial. Her honor recently listened to oral arguments on Monsanto’s Motion to Dismiss, which the corporation hopes to win to cease the charges being brought by a total of 83 plaintiffs representing now over 300,000 organic farm-affiliated businesses. The legal team for the small-time farmers also offered their arguments.<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">ARGENTINA SAYS MONSANTO CONTRACTOR ABUSES WORKERS</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="strap"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The Associated Press</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span class="date">January 16, 2012</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Argentina's tax agency has raided a Monsanto Co. contractor and found what it calls slave-like conditions among workers in its cornfields.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The AFIP tax agency says Rural Power SA hired all its farmhands illegally, prevented them from leaving the fields and withheld their salaries. They had to de-tassel corn 14 hours a day and buy their food at inflated prices from the company store. AFIP says it will hold the American agro-giant responsible for its contractor's slave-like labor conditions.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Monsanto didn't immediately respond to calls Monday to its headquarters in Buenos Aires and in St. Louis, which was closed for the Martin Luther King holiday. Argentina's congress last month gave farmhands an 8-hour day and other benefits long denied under a dictatorship-era law.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thursday,July 8<sup>th</sup> 2010 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">EU COURT RULING FAVORS ARGENTINA IN DISPUTE WITH MONSANTO OVER SOY-SEED PATENT</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">United States Monsanto Co., the world’s biggest seed company, can’t use a European patent on its Roundup Ready soybeans to block Argentinean soy meal imports, the European Union’s highest court said Wednesday. MercoPress</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">MONSANTO’S HARVEST OF FEAR</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto200805">http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto200805</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><b>MONSANTO VS. CANADA</b></span><br /><br />After an 8 year review, Canada rejected Monsanto's request for the approval of their genetically modified milk hormone, rBGH. This drug has been shown to make dairy cows produce 10% more milk than normal. This rejection was a major setback for the GE Giant because it was Monsanto's first GE product, and Monsanto had hoped that it's international exceptance would help lead the way to the approval of their other genetically engineered products, most notably crops like cotton, tomatoes, potatoes, rice, corn , and soybeans.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Canada dissaproved of the rBGH drug because, as the product label acknowledges, it can cause udder infections, very painful, debilitating foot disorders, and reduced life span in treated cows. There is no doubt that bigger issues of genetic engineering in general also played a big role in the final decision.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://library.thinkquest.org/25365/monsanto.html">http://library.thinkquest.org/25365/monsanto.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-world-according-to-monsanto/">http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-world-according-to-monsanto/</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ARGENTINA BE WARY OF MONSANTO </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></div><span style="color: #444444;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="color: #444444;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444;"><span class="titrearticle"><b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR;">ROUNDUP READY SOYA IN ARGENTINA</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The GM soya, Round Up Ready (“RR”), which is resistant to spraying of Monsanto’s weed killer Round Up, took only a few years to become established in Argentina. This crop swept onto the market as financial crisis hit Argentina in 2001. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While soya cultivation represented only 3700 hectares in 1971, it had risen to 8.3 million hectares in 2000, 9.3m by 2001, 11.6m by 2002 and by 2007 had reached 16 million hectares or 60% of the land in cultivation, giving rise to the phrase “SOYISATION OF THE COUNTRY”. Of the total, 14 million hectares were sown with GM soya, representing a 37 million tone harvest, of which 90% was exported, mainly to Europe and China.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ARGENTINE LAND GRABBING - MONSANTO STYLE</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Due to the economic crisis in 2001, land prices had shot up in value, encouraging small landowners to sell up and concentrating land ownership. In the course of a decade the average landholding in the Pampas grew from 250 to 538 hectares while the number of farms fell by 30%. What’s more <b><span style="color: red;">16 million hectares of cultivable land were owned by foreign agribusinesses</span></b>. This caused a profound reorganization from what had been a diverse and self-sufficient agriculture, to a <b>model of virtual monoculture</b>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Argentina’s leaders preferred to substitute an intensive industrial model of agriculture, open to exploitative practices, for traditional family farms. As Argentina’s Secretary of Agriculture remarked, soya was seen at the time as a lifebelt for an Argentine economy in danger of drowning. The State was raising taxes of 20% on oils and 23% on grains, representing 10 billion dollars a year, or 30% of the national revenue. <b>Another boost to the growing of GM soya was that Argentina had refused to grant Monsanto a patent for the GM seeds, so the small farmers were able to replant RR seeds without having to pay the firm from St Louis to use them</b>. To make sure they grabbed the whole market, Monsanto didn’t hesitate to sell its seed three times cheaper than in the US. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The new seed was seen as a “miracle” by many Argentine farmers allowing them to save on weed killers but also to spare the soil from too frequent spraying. <b>After a few years of using RR soya however many of them were disillusioned by the reality.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">THE GREAT LET-DOWN: THE HIDDEN FACE OF GM SOYA</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The surge in GM soya, and what experts casually refer to as “<b>the rush for green gold</b>” <b>drove down production of crops that were needed to feed Argentineans</b>. Thus from 1996-7 to 2001-2, the number of dairy holdings dropped by 27% and for the first time in its history <b>Argentina had to import milk from Uruguay</b>. In the same period, Argentina recorded a decline of 44% in rice production, 44% in sunflowers and 36% in pork. <b>This was accompanied by a rise in the price of basic foodstuffs, so that in 2003 flour rose by 162%, lentils by 272% and rice by 130%. The irony of this situation is that Argentinians were being encouraged to substitute soya milk and soya steaks for the traditional milk and meat that had always formed part of the culinary heritage of their country.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“VOLUNTEER” SOYA: TOWARDS A STERILE SOIL</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Before the advent of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready (“RR”) soya, <b><span style="color: red;">Argentine farmers used four or five different herbicides on the same land, including very toxic ones like 2-4D (an ingredient of “Agent Orange”)</span></b>, atrazine or paraquat (all banned in the European Union). But alternation of the different products stopped the weeds from developing resistance to any one of them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now, the exclusive use of Roundup had caused biotypes to appear. At first these were “tolerant” of glyphosate and farmers had to increase the doses of Roundup to get rid of them. But tolerance was followed by resistance and the appearance of “volunteer” soya which became ever more widespread in the Pampas. <b>Before the arrival of RR, Argentina used on average a million litres of glyphosate a year, but by 2005 that had grown to 150 million, with a considerable financial boost in consequence for Monsanto.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Increasing spraying with Roundup was weakening soils because it destroys the microbial flora that it is essential to their fertility. As the soil becomes progressively more sterile, it becomes less productive, farmers are forced to use more fertilizer and so their costs of production rise. <b>The claim that using GMOs will increase profits is therefore somewhat in doubt.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">CONSEQUENCES FOR HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></div><span style="color: #444444;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rural populations are the first to be affected by the damage to their environment from massive use of Roundup. <b>Twice a year, crop dusters or “mosquitos” spray the herbicide across the whole countryside right up to people’s doorsteps. No precautions are taken in Argentina to reduce the impact of contamination by glyphosate, which affects the environment, the air and the ground water and in turn the population.</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">According to Dario Gianfelici, an Argentine doctor working in the countryside, “Along with several other colleagues in the region, we have recorded a significant increase in birth abnormalities, like miscarriages or early fetal death, <b><span style="color: red;">thyroid dysfunction</span></b>, respiratory dysfunction - like pulmonary oedema – kidney and endocrine dysfunction, liver and skin diseases and serious sight problems”.1 These are direct observations from the ground and not scientific proof.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Furthermore the increase in land area given over to growing soya has had an associated effect on deforestation which has increased to provide new terrain. The region of SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO has shown one of the <b>highest rates of deforestation in the world</b> with an average of 0.81% of the forest torn away each year, against a global rate of 0.23%. According to Jorge Menendez, Director for Forests with the Environment Ministry, between 1998 and 2002, that represented 800,000 hectares of forest in this region gone up in smoke to make way for soya. In the same period, 118,000 hectares were lost in the CHACO and 170,000 in SALTA. This is a veritable ecological tragedy for the primitive forests which shelter a biodiversity found here and nowhere else on the planet.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR;">MONSANTO VERSES ARGENTINA</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In order to dominate the market for GM soya, Monsanto hasn’t hesitated to extend a number of privileges in Argentina, like the bargain prices for RR soya seed, the lack of a patent and its undertaking not to sue farmers who replant part of their harvested seed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">However <b>Monsanto</b> is in dispute with the Argentine government at the moment because the firm is claiming royalties on the sale and export of its GM soya. The firm <b>is demanding three dollars per tonne of soya grain or flour leaving Argentine ports or 15 dollars on arrival of the cargoes in European ports</b>. That represents a potential <b><span style="color: red;">financial boost of 160 million dollars a year for Monsanto</span></b>simply from Argentine soya exports destined for the EU. Currently no agreement has been reached between Monsanto and the Argentine government. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://monsanto.no/index.php/en/environment/gmo/gmo-news/92-monsantos-herbicide-roundup-linked-to-birth-defects-in-argentinas-agricultural-areas"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">http://monsanto.no/index.php/en/environment/gmo/gmo-news/92-monsantos-herbicide-roundup-linked-to-birth-defects-in-argentinas-agricultural-areas</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MONSANTO TARGETS LATIN AMERICA FOR SEED BUSINESS GROWTH </span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Via Dow Jones Newswires<b> </b>12/22/2011</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Monsanto claims more than 40% of Brazil's GMO seed market and more than half of Argentina's.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The big farms of Brazil and Argentina have become a key <b>battleground for Monsanto Co. (MON) as the agribusiness heavyweight seeks to maintain its market leadership in genetically modified seeds in Latin America.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As growth of Monsanto's GMO seeds outside the U.S. is expected to outpace the domestic market for the first time during the upcoming crop season, <b>Latin America has taken on new importance for Monsanto. </b>The momentum is expected to accelerate in 2012 in Latin America. Furthermore it is expected the ramp-up of the corn opportunity in Brazil and Argentina will be one of the single largest sources of new growth in the next few years according to Monsanto.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While the U.S. has a finite amount of cultivatable crop lands, there are still massive amounts of land available to expand production in Brazil and Argentina</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. (<a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2012/01/latam-economic-downgrading-tactics-by.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2012/01/latam-economic-downgrading-tactics-by.html</a>)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Moreover, the benefits of GMO seeds -- including increased resistance to pests and herbicides -- have won them increased usage by farmers in those nations. <b><span style="color: red;">Monsanto claims more than 40% of Brazil's GMO seed market and more than half of Argentina's</span></b>. Last year, the company's sales to Argentina totaled over $600 million out of Monsanto's overall global seed sales of $10.5 billion.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brazil and Argentina are primed to boost Monsanto's</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> top line as farmers adopt biotech seeds and trade up to more advanced and higher-margin seeds.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With 120 million acres of soybeans in South America versus 75 million in the U.S. it is a significant growth opportunity for Monsanto and the next blockbuster product, with a big opportunity for investors in South America</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Leaked documents reveal US diplomats actually work for Monsanto</span> </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Article by Anthony Gucciardi via Natural News</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(NaturalNews) Biotech giant Monsanto has been genetically modifying the world's food supply and subsequently breeding environmental devastation for years, but leaked documents now reveal that Monsanto has also deeply infiltrated the United States government. With leaked reports revealing how U.S. diplomats are actually working for Monsanto to push their agenda along with other key government officials, Monsanto's grasp on international politics has never been clearer.<br /><br />Amazingly, the information reveals that the massive corporation is also intensely involved in the passing and regulations concerning the very GM ingredients they are responsible for. In fact, the information released by WikiLeaks reveals just how much power Monsanto has thanks to key positions within the United States government and elsewhere. Not only was it exposed that the U.S. is threatening nations who oppose Monsanto with military-style trade wars, but that many U.S. diplomats actually work directly for Monsanto.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">What the leaked documents reveal -- Military style trade wars, government corruption</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 2007 it was requested that specific nations inside the European Union be punished for not supporting the expansion of Monsanto's GMO crops. The request for such measures to be taken was made by Craig Stapleton, the United States ambassador to France and partner to George W. Bush. Despite mounting evidence linking Monsanto's GM corn to organ damage and environmental devastation, the ambassador plainly calls for 'target retaliation' against those not supporting the GM crop. In the leaked documents, Stapleton states:<br /><br />"Country team Paris recommends that we calibrate a target retaliation list that causes some pain across the EU since this is a collective responsibility, but that also focuses in part on the worst culprits. The list should be measured rather than vicious and must be sustainable over the long term, since we should not expect an early victory. Moving to retaliation will make clear that the current path has real costs to EU interests and could help strengthen European pro-biotech voices."<br /><br />The undying support of key players within the U.S. towards Monsanto is undeniably made clear not only in this release, but in the legislative decisions taken by organizations such as the FDA and USDA. Legislative decisions such as allowing Monsanto's synthetic hormone Posilac (rBGH) to be injected into U.S. cows despite being banned in 27 countries. How did Monsanto pull this off?<br /><br />The biotech juggernaut managed to infiltrate the FDA positions responsible for the approval of rBGH, going as far as instating the company's own Margaret Miller as Deputy Director of Human Safety and Consultative Services. After assuming this position, Miller reviewed her own report on the safety and effectiveness of rBGH.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Many US diplomats pawns of Monsanto's GM agenda</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While it may be shocking to you if you are not familiar with the corrupt influence of Monsanto, the cables also show that many US diplomats are pushing GMO crops as a strategic government and commercial imperative. Interestingly enough, the U.S. focused their efforts toward advisers to the pope specifically, due to the fact that many Catholic figureheads have openly voiced their opposition to GM foods. With this kind of political influence, is it any wonder that many food staples are now predominantly GM? Nearly 93% of U.S. soybeans are heavily modified conservatively, with many other staple crops coming in at similar numbers.<br /><br />U.S. diplomats have unique opportunities to spread honest and intellectual campagins that can serve to better mankind and end suffering, however they are instead spreading the roots of Monsanto deeper and deeper into international territory. As a substitute for the betterment of mankind, these paid-off diplomats are now spreading environment desecration and health destruction.<br /><br />As if there wasn't already enough information to reveal Monsanto's corruption, the biotech giant also spends enormous amount of money lobbying government each year. Monsanto spent an astonishing $2 million lobbying the federal government in the 3rd quarter of 2011 alone, according to mainstream sources. Why so much cash? The government lobbying focuses on issues like regulations for GM crops and patent reforms. This 'legal' form of persuasion is the reason government agencies like the USDA and FDA let Monsanto roam freely.<br /><br />Satisfying government officials' financial vested interest is all that matters when dealing with corrupt mega-corporations like Monsanto. As long as these financial ties continue to exist, Monsanto will continue to reign over the food supply and continue to wreak devastation to the environment, ecosystem, and humankind.<br /><br /><b>Sources for this article include:</b><br /><a href="http://naturalsociety.com/us-start-trade-wars-with-nations-opposed-to-monsanto-gmo-crops/" target="_blank">http://naturalsociety.com/us-start-trade-wars-with-nations-opposed-to-monsanto-gmo-crops/</a><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/03/wikileaks-us-eu-gm-crops" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/03/wikileaks-us-eu-gm-crops</a><br /><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9RL51J81.htm" target="_blank">http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9RL51J81.htm</a><br /><a href="http://213.251.145.96/cable/2007/12/07PARIS4723.html" target="_blank">http://213.251.145.96/cable/2007/12/07PARIS4723.html</a><br /><a href="http://www.fastcoexist.com/1677871/fearful-of-genetically-modified-crops-youre-too-late" target="_blank">http://www.fastcoexist.com/1677871/fearful-of-genetically-modified-crops-youre-too-late</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

ARGENTINA AND MONSANTO

"Monsanto out" Protest graffiti in front of Monsanto HQ Buenos Aires, Argentina ENVIRONMENTALISTS IN ARGENTINA MANAGE TO SUSPEND ...

André Chiote's Architectural Illustrations

5:00 PM Tukiyooo 0

Earlier today I included the Sauerbruch Hutton's Brandhorst Museum <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/2013/03/todays-archidose-654.html">in a post with colorful buildings</a>. In my inbox are some illustrations from <a href="http://cargocollective.com/andrechioteillustration">André Chiote</a>, an architect who also dabbles in creating "a set of images in which the aim is to simultaneously outline the  emblematic and distinctive side of the building while creating a graphic  composition whose expression could speak out beyond the building  itself." One of the illustrations happens to be the <a href="http://cargocollective.com/andrechioteillustration/ARCHITECTURE-Germany">Brandhorst Museum</a>:<br /><br /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Am0uJHbBpBZqA4m65KFCxLCpaqyKnh0vnDKcjEKxRrsme7S07TmC1tMI8XLfWD7wwNdoWxSKV1KuUhLrWpaJ84rT7wMVIu7i-4Hq-Qkkr_vehSywRi3wbtd9wzx9XUZLX7GIi5gV9g9F/s1600/brandhorst.jpg" /><br /><br />Keeping with the theme of color, here are a few more illustrations by Choite, but be sure to <a href="http://cargocollective.com/andrechioteillustration">check out his website</a> for many more.<br /><br /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAhJwGnjo2RqnVZRa9FGy1vFn66eWWyo8YA3bEyV_a_uaRxptYULGRX_LAlKL6GINfxwpWP0v_-Shg1av-zSze2XKrMqjbAODEZ0NVluhTD-98bMhW16uYTD1L28-8WX8i3Y5F6FlltNgo/s1600/quai_branly.jpg" /><br /><br /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAELkfhVLDui0EP-7rdGpZSKhVXSxowwbE3sb17o_EFt4f7EL8Nd_KWDTAtLC-mgdB8gJLpVhKRWQwz6yUP7zpWta6l_fWGJvbMsnOISUdH4XwXMJ64LqmQsjrYZBfPHz1oa4zxOATYgbL/s1600/musac.jpg" /><br /><br /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizqq0YGROsFis2HmqLFhNvuNdd0CdkZo1AvCPebi8JO407qxx0XEdqeTpH2XZJ0NgTvtVf5ipP9wK79TDqsauazFhD4yE9Yd-7pBAFIk-ch0Xv3eRUQtvzngHAH37eJGAmEcPOwyMsSp4w/s1600/casa_historias-pr.jpg" />

André Chiote's Architectural Illustrations

Earlier today I included the Sauerbruch Hutton's Brandhorst Museum in a post with colorful buildings . In my inbox are some illustration...

GNU Foods Fiber Bars Review

1:45 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj43-DVpr7p3FVtUz9vCbvIfmvcarKBQ4hyphenhyphenIufIR6jL2AgHvJlVDYKQOIPxUbZWnsIMavZhAMdTVTAiDULhxI10OML6VrIAaymv012ZvqHIAFP-wb5LM7skd8yGUUyz2OJh098TqzGM1NA/s1600/Gnu+Fiber+box!.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj43-DVpr7p3FVtUz9vCbvIfmvcarKBQ4hyphenhyphenIufIR6jL2AgHvJlVDYKQOIPxUbZWnsIMavZhAMdTVTAiDULhxI10OML6VrIAaymv012ZvqHIAFP-wb5LM7skd8yGUUyz2OJh098TqzGM1NA/s320/Gnu+Fiber+box!.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If there's one thing some people don't get enough of it's fiber.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have to admit, even eating healthy at times I don't get enough of the daily amount of fiber.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With these delicious snack bars I was given for review by <a href="http://gnufoods.com/">GNU Foods</a> they certainly do give fiber a good name!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They come in many flavors, and are oh so delicious!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You won't even know that it's rich in fiber either!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are just that good!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are all natural, 12 grams of fiber per bar, and kids will love them!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eating these bars I promise will have you feeling healthier knowing you got your daily dose of fiber, and most importantly a "GNU" you!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was sent an assortment box with each flavor and They all sound amazingly delicious!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*The flavors*</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chocolate Brownie</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Banana Walnut</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Blondie Bar</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Carrot Cake</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Blueberry Cobbler</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cinnamon Raisin</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Orange Cranberry</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Espresso Chip</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peanut Butter</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interesting facts:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">helps with weight management and diet</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">promotes ongoing natural regularity</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">supports heart health</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Doesn't include:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">transfat</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">high cholesterol</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">soy</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hydrogenated oils</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sugar alcohols</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">refined sugars except blondie</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These bars are like no other bar, they can't even compare. They are high in fiber.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Offers only 130-140 calories.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Made with just only six whole grains!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sweetened with fruit juices.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Made with kamut flours and organic whole wheat.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their bars are vegan except for their blondie!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Loaded with double the fiber insoluble and soluble. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxYHtuyJewCQe-Xi0K2gthe-QKPiFfI64MTJbF2AJXd2huFM6-sOd0-YpwSG82ofOgn6oV5VsBWV3BM4UQBZZt1cYs6SVXT3e3HdB0ahgSlNIhcrRF8G63psyQ0cN-pnVZum5JuDXetJ4/s1600/chocolate+brownie+GNU+bar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxYHtuyJewCQe-Xi0K2gthe-QKPiFfI64MTJbF2AJXd2huFM6-sOd0-YpwSG82ofOgn6oV5VsBWV3BM4UQBZZt1cYs6SVXT3e3HdB0ahgSlNIhcrRF8G63psyQ0cN-pnVZum5JuDXetJ4/s320/chocolate+brownie+GNU+bar.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So far I've tried The chocolate brownie and it's so good!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tastes just like the real thing without all the added fat and calories!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieCQXvpPPevwEFHRvBUls6zNKUU9U04rf6QJIOFA4cjfnQjCCgj-Hre1lzLBV-P4oXvyRn0mbhA9ZULpAcNKXe2wyAg4jRREjWTl3c3zAvSMyKI-caCYs-gIqXXxycyci0NQlH_zW07g8/s1600/orange+cranberry+GNU+bar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieCQXvpPPevwEFHRvBUls6zNKUU9U04rf6QJIOFA4cjfnQjCCgj-Hre1lzLBV-P4oXvyRn0mbhA9ZULpAcNKXe2wyAg4jRREjWTl3c3zAvSMyKI-caCYs-gIqXXxycyci0NQlH_zW07g8/s320/orange+cranberry+GNU+bar.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd_vErp1h9iz7QPnwpY0bh-nwYyoDrEDYLPJJY4uNrk9NPITlhh7duYa3RLE_EzT6ZfvSBV10hpIIvDapDwgfliT4GkWDrhQRhpXbs6LkpB65e1ybFo8x0wuI4mktY-xU3Q2_o4E4nTN4/s1600/Carrot+cake+GNU+bar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd_vErp1h9iz7QPnwpY0bh-nwYyoDrEDYLPJJY4uNrk9NPITlhh7duYa3RLE_EzT6ZfvSBV10hpIIvDapDwgfliT4GkWDrhQRhpXbs6LkpB65e1ybFo8x0wuI4mktY-xU3Q2_o4E4nTN4/s320/Carrot+cake+GNU+bar.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKlQ-z_LTxAX7Cy9ImJVAlY64xgjQ0GcR1cxBvQHNQR7n9_IoqVLgpE47Ji1U7Klf98oOVlDDke2CQX8haTH4zBSZdOQaKxzflhcnmmFKblOpL7oannNgNaw0NpAKPbNaa7DG3kT1kZMU/s1600/Cinnamon+Raisin+GNU+bar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKlQ-z_LTxAX7Cy9ImJVAlY64xgjQ0GcR1cxBvQHNQR7n9_IoqVLgpE47Ji1U7Klf98oOVlDDke2CQX8haTH4zBSZdOQaKxzflhcnmmFKblOpL7oannNgNaw0NpAKPbNaa7DG3kT1kZMU/s320/Cinnamon+Raisin+GNU+bar.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcZRJCJZFzwp8vCAOYatfq1pEhLPZ0Uw_RtaNBDwhDndVnNkNCI1sRVULap9zsAC57qzTH9kz3xn6no9bIUQ-rXkXKY_REEAv2xe-MqrZ6mRtzVuZTsTQc-ePyxTI3OVezy74pqnElwMg/s1600/Banana+Walnut+GNU+bar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcZRJCJZFzwp8vCAOYatfq1pEhLPZ0Uw_RtaNBDwhDndVnNkNCI1sRVULap9zsAC57qzTH9kz3xn6no9bIUQ-rXkXKY_REEAv2xe-MqrZ6mRtzVuZTsTQc-ePyxTI3OVezy74pqnElwMg/s320/Banana+Walnut+GNU+bar.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tasted just like Banana bread to me, which is great because I love it!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Didn't taste like a health food at all!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I loved the banana taste it wasn't overpowering or hard to eat.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was moist and flavorful!</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGUqjbVLQMfQYTNEIFUr_Yg73KQiuYbL_ubnyonvJUyhx9yTuL8qXcw3nu7VH1YqHWFC4y44zH08lemVpnMhdUFM8Yt373P4EOhCNUn_qSd5QRl_er6oer7RBexi_0T2zrB2TPeCbFeQ4/s1600/blondie+GNU+bar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGUqjbVLQMfQYTNEIFUr_Yg73KQiuYbL_ubnyonvJUyhx9yTuL8qXcw3nu7VH1YqHWFC4y44zH08lemVpnMhdUFM8Yt373P4EOhCNUn_qSd5QRl_er6oer7RBexi_0T2zrB2TPeCbFeQ4/s320/blondie+GNU+bar.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaaJ4HfwaSkauISSxjspwsTvk233bq58p2rafiTW7tpxKg5F3rEG9g1t6_7W-m9hnAVjM31vN0GEICYEuqpyfHzYtVgdvFGrXSqhSvJJTjtxuf0_dcE-mAyUh4TNs2f0761-RajwmicTM/s1600/blueberry+cobbler+GNU+bar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaaJ4HfwaSkauISSxjspwsTvk233bq58p2rafiTW7tpxKg5F3rEG9g1t6_7W-m9hnAVjM31vN0GEICYEuqpyfHzYtVgdvFGrXSqhSvJJTjtxuf0_dcE-mAyUh4TNs2f0761-RajwmicTM/s320/blueberry+cobbler+GNU+bar.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhkPncobTTFffawK7PKQBt2fDbRxyW4tD2Y8GgauAdUzRhhMauSL4GuaPzM7OYzKjdCpQwBNeYsinMkoxcSYq32CYEq-jQ9atxmjEFUsIJ17E5aATFVwZPIT4YTLPG_Yals7JQ-IKerIA/s1600/espresso+chip+GNU+bar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhkPncobTTFffawK7PKQBt2fDbRxyW4tD2Y8GgauAdUzRhhMauSL4GuaPzM7OYzKjdCpQwBNeYsinMkoxcSYq32CYEq-jQ9atxmjEFUsIJ17E5aATFVwZPIT4YTLPG_Yals7JQ-IKerIA/s320/espresso+chip+GNU+bar.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They also have them in minis!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can order their products here!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://gnufoods.com/">http://gnufoods.com/</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like them on Face Book </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">or Follow them on Twitter.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/GnuFoods?ref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/GnuFoods?ref=ts</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/gnufoods"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">https://twitter.com/gnufoods</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

GNU Foods Fiber Bars Review

If there's one thing some people don't get enough of it's fiber. I have to admit, even eating healthy at times I don't get e...

Jerusalem, My Happy Home: Part 6

11:33 AM Tukiyooo 0

<br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">Today, on a boat, in the middle of the Sea of Galilee, we met Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s girlfriend. Actually we met her several days ago but we found out about the Ferlinghetti connection today. Hearkening back to JMHP, Part 2: “God will always surprise us.” -- The Rt. Rev. Sulheil Dawani. Who goes to the Sea of Galilee to meet the girlfriend of, the author of “Coney Island of the Mind, the beat poet who made the other beat poets famous?!?” Werner Heisenberg and Bishop Duwani agree: Reality is, at its heart, unpredictable and delightful. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">But that didn’t happen until late afternoon. The day was engaging long before that. Our bus headed East from Jerusalem toward the Dead Sea. At last we came to the desert wilderness I had expected in this Land of the Holy One. It is a “ferocious landscape” (Belden Lane) somewhat similar to Nevada, but distinctive. There are occasional groves of date palms. The dates are used to make honey such as the honey in which John the Baptist dipped his crispy locusts. In the Spring, there are also wildflowers, but basically, ”it’s a desert out there.” <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">We drove North through that desert, then on through the mountains of Samaria into the rolling green hills of Galilee. At the Sea of Galilee we stopped to visit the Mount of the Beatitudes, a seaside mountain where the Church has long commemorated the Sermon on the Mount. Actually the Sermon on the Mount is a collection of Jesus sayings artistically and theologically arranged by Matthew, but it is a work of spiritual genius and deserves to be commemorated. The beautiful gardens and the octagonal church built to honor the Sermon are fitting. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">Venerating holy places is like reading Holy Scripture. Different parts of Scripture must be read in different ways. Some texts are history, others are poetry, some are rules, others are prophecies, and some are cries of passion. Just so, some places are holy for historical reasons. Something important really happened here. Others are holy because of the prayers that have been said there for millennia though no special events are associated with the place. But there is a special dynamic in religion called “sacred geography.” I learned about sacred geography while studying Hinduism from Dianna Eck. A spiritual truth is conveyed through a narrative, which may be historical, fictional, or a mixture “partly truth and partly fiction” – but the point is it contains a spiritual message that cannot be stated as a flat two-dimensional abstraction. It must be expresses as story. There is an art in weaving and telling sacred story. When it is done well, we then go on to construct a sacred geography for the story. We say, “Ram was born in this place.” “The Buddha meditated and was enlightened under the branches of this tree.” “Jesus was born in this place.” If we have designated a place as part of the sacred geography and honored it by association with the story that bears a spiritual truth, the place comes to bear that truth as well. So it is with the Mount of the Beatitudes. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">From there we went north, north, north to the borders of Lebanon and then Syria to visit the region of Caesarea Philippi. There are two reasons visiting this place. First, in this area three rivers, fed by the snow melting off the Golan Heights, converge to form the River Jordan. Far be it from me to suggest that this three becoming one is a natural metaphor of the divine nature. Second, this is where Jesus asked his disciples “Who do you say that I am?” and Peter answered, “ You are the messiah, the Son of the Living God.” I am somewhat mystified by why Jesus took his disciples so far north to ask this question. It would have been one long walk from his home base in Capernaum!!! On another occasion, they walked all the way to the region of Tyre and Sidon in Lebanon – even further. He did cover some distance on foot. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">We then headed back south into Galilee and visited Capernaum. There is a ruin of a 4<sup>th</sup> Century synagogue believed to have been built on top of the ruins of the synagogue where Jesus worked his first exorcism. By the way, my friends of a skeptical bent, recasting Jesus as a wisdom teacher who did not actually do miraculous healings, exorcisms, and other such unscientific things is a case of western modernist cultural imperialism – rewriting the story to fit our worldview, to keep it in our comfort zone. Those who believed in Jesus were unanimous that he worked miracles. No surprise in that. But the people who did not believe in Jesus were also unanimous that he worked miracles. They just denied it was by God’s power he was doing it. When it comes to miracles, I don’t know what’s possible and what’s not. Take it out of my cultural context and I am even less prepared to say what’s impossible. Bottom line: Gabriel said it to my satisfaction, “With God, all things are possible.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">Around the old synagogue are older ruins of houses going back to Jesus’s day. An Orthodox Church is built over one such ruin of a house. The church has a glass floor so one can look down into the ruin. Christians have long regarded this house as the home of Peter’s mother-in-law whom Jesus healed of a fever right after the exorcism in the synagogue. History or more fictional sacred geography? This is somewhere in the middle. Could be true. It’s a house next door to the synagogue. No one can say for sure.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">From there we walked down to the rocky beach near the synagogue, which means near the site of the 1<sup>st</sup> century village of Capernaum. On this beach, the first disciples were mending their nets when Jesus said, “Follow me” and they did. You can’t say the exact spot where their boat was situated, but it’s a short distance along the beach, easy to walk the length of it – easy to know that right along here, the Kingdom Mission began when Jesus said, “Follow me.” That’s history. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then we took our boat ride on the Sea of Galilee. It’s a pretty big lake, as I had imagined it would be. The hills come right up to the lake as I had been told. But those hills are taller and greener than I had imagined, a truly beautiful place. The day was enriched by a good exegetical reflection on the Beatitudes by Brother Mark and a moving reflection on storms in our lives given by Dean Graham Smith while we were on the Lake. And that brings us back to where we met Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s girlfriend.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

Jerusalem, My Happy Home: Part 6

Today, on a boat, in the middle of the Sea of Galilee, we met Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s girlfriend. Actually we met her several d...

Crews to Raze Fla. Home Over Sinkhole; Man Missing

11:29 AM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><iframe height="221" id="kaltura_player_1362338853" src="http://cdnapi.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/0_xid6qkpf/uiconf_id/3775332/st_cache/1064?referer=http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/florida-sinkhole-opens-beneath-mans-home-18635696&autoPlay=false&addThis.playerSize=392x221&freeWheel.siteSectionId=nws_offsite&closedCaptionActive=true&" style="border: 0px solid #ffffff;" width="392">Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames.</iframe> <br /><div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 0; text-align: left;"><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Crews planned to begin demolishing a Florida home Sunday that is perched over a huge sinkhole, after deeming it too dangerous to keep searching for the man swallowed up from his bedroom.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">The search for Jeff Bush, 37, was called off Saturday and demolition equipment was seen moving into position Sunday. The 20-foot-wide opening of the sinkhole is almost completely covered by the house and rescuers feared it would collapse on them. Two neighboring homes were evacuated as a precaution.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Heavy equipment, including a vehicle with a big bucket scoop on a long arm, was on the street near the house Sunday morning. Authorities said they expected to start the demolition around 8 a.m. Family members gathered on lawn chairs, bundled up with blankets against unusually chilly weather. Several dozen people milled about within view, including officials and reporters.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Hillsborough County Administrator Mike Merrill disclosed the plan hours earlier to raze the home. "At this point it's really not possible to recover the body," Merrill said, later adding "we're dealing with a very unusual sinkhole."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Jessica Damico, spokeswoman for Hillsborough County Fire Rescue, said the demolition equipment would be positioned on what was believed to be solid ground and reach onto the property to pull apart the house. The crew was expected to try pulling part of the house away from the sinkhole intact so some of the residents' keepsakes can be retrieved.</div><div class="rel_container g_4" id="rel_image_feature" style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 20px 50px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 200px;"><div class="rel_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="rel_thumb" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" name="lpos=widget[Left_Rail_Image]&lid=view[Image]" style="color: #336699; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="PHOTO: A Florida man is trapped under debris after a sinkhole opened in his home, in Brandon, Fla." border="0" height="112" src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/abc_sinkhole_dm_130301_wg.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.5px; padding: 0px;" title="" width="199" /><span class="image_icon" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://a.abcnews.com/assets/images/icons/image_icon_35x35.png); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 35px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 73px; width: 35px;"></span></a></div><div class="rel_headline" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="photo_credit" style="color: #aaaaaa; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right;">ABC</div><div class="photo_caption" style="margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">A Florida man is trapped under debris after a... <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" name="lpos=widget[Left_Rail_Image]&lid=view[Image]" style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">View Full Size</a></div></div></div></div><div class="rel_container g_4" id="rel_1" style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 20px 50px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 200px;"><div class="rel_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="rel_thumb" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" name="lpos=widget[Left_Rail_Video_1]&lid=view[Video]" style="color: #336699; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="112" src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/WNT/abc_wn_gutman_130301_wa.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="200" /><span class="image_icon" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://a.abcnews.com/assets/images/icons/play_icon_35x35.png); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 35px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 73px; width: 35px;"></span></a></div><div class="rel_headline" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Florida Man Believed Dead After Falling into Sinkhole <a class="open" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Watch Video</a></div></div></div><div class="rel_container g_4" id="rel_2" style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 20px 50px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 200px;"><div class="rel_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="rel_thumb" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" name="lpos=widget[Left_Rail_Video_2]&lid=view[Video]" style="color: #336699; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="112" src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/GMA/abc_gma_champion_130301_wa.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="200" /><span class="image_icon" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://a.abcnews.com/assets/images/icons/play_icon_35x35.png); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 35px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 73px; width: 35px;"></span></a></div><div class="rel_headline" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Florida Sinkhole Swallows House, Man Trapped Inside <a class="open" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Watch Video</a></div></div></div><div class="rel_container g_4" id="rel_3" style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 20px 50px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 200px;"><div class="rel_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="rel_thumb" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" name="lpos=widget[Left_Rail_Video_3]&lid=view[Video]" style="color: #336699; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="112" src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/abc_sinkhole_brother_130301_wa.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="200" /><span class="image_icon" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://a.abcnews.com/assets/images/icons/play_icon_35x35.png); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 35px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 73px; width: 35px;"></span></a></div><div class="rel_headline" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Sinkhole Victim's Brother: 'I Know in My Heart He's Dead' <a class="open" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" style="color: #336699; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Watch Video</a></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Bush was in his bedroom Thursday night in Seffner — a suburb of 8,000 people 15 miles east of downtown Tampa — when the ground opened and took him and everything else in his room. Five others in the house escape unharmed as the earth crumbled.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is conducting the investigation. Det. Larry McKinnon said that sheriff's office and the county medical examiner cannot declare Bush dead if his body is still missing. Under Florida law, Bush's family must petition a court to declare him deceased.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">"Based on the circumstances, he's presumed dead, however the official death certificate can only be issued by a judge and the family has to petition the court," McKinnon said.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">On Saturday, the normally quiet neighborhood of concrete block homes painted in Florida pastels was jammed with cars as curious onlookers converged on the scene.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">At the home next door to the Bushes, a family cried and organized boxes. Testing determined that that house and another had been compromised by the sinkhole. The families were allowed to go inside for about a half-hour to gather belongings.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Sisters Soliris and Elbairis Gonzalez, who live on the same street, said neighbors were worried for their safety.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">"I've had nightmares," Soliris Gonzalez, 31, said. "In my dreams, I keep checking for cracks in the house."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">They said the family has discussed where to go if forced to evacuate, and they've taken their important documents to a storage unit.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">"You never know underneath the ground what's happening," added Elbairis Gonzalez, 30.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Experts say thousands of sinkholes form yearly in Florida because of the state's unique geography, though most are small and deaths rarely occur.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">"There's hardly a place in Florida that's immune to sinkholes," said Sandy Nettles, who owns a geology consulting company in the Tampa area. "There's no way of ever predicting where a sinkhole is going to occur."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Most sinkholes are small, like one found Saturday morning in Largo, 35 miles away from Seffner. The Largo sinkhole, about 10 feet long and several feet wide, is in a mall parking lot.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">The state sits on limestone, a porous rock that easily dissolves in water, with a layer of clay on top. The clay is thicker in some locations — including the area where Bush became a victim — making them even more prone to sinkholes.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Jeremy Bush, who tried to rescue his brother, lay flowers near the house Saturday morning and wept.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">He said someone came to his home a couple of months ago to check for sinkholes and other issues, apparently for insurance purposes, but found nothing wrong. State law requires home insurers to provide coverage against sinkholes.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">"And a couple of months later, my brother dies. In a sinkhole," Bush said Friday.</div></div></div>

sinkhole Crews to Raze Fla. Home Over Sinkhole; Man Missing

Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Crews planned to begin demolishing a Florida home Sunday that is perched over a huge s...

Kevin Hart Dresses Up as Pope Quvenzhane Wallis on Saturday Night Live

11:20 AM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.nbc.com/assets/video/widget/widget.html?vid=n33496" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pope Benedict XVI</strong>'s successor was chosen Saturday, March 2 by <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Saturday Night Live</em>. During<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrities/jason-sudeikis" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"> Jason Sudeikis</a></strong>' <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer</em> sketch, he revealed that 9-year-old Oscar nominee <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/quvenzhane-wallis-best-actress-oscar-nominee-to-star-as-annie-2013242" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Quvenzhane Wallis</a></strong>, portrayed by host <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kevin Hart</strong>, had been named the new Pope.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/pictures/youngest-oscar-nominees-2013212/28647" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PHOTOS: Oscars' youngest nominees</a></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I don't think anyone saw this coming," Sudeikis said.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Quvenzhane Wallis, of course, the first African American, the first female and first child Pope," a reporter at the scene explained. </div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/pictures/stars-funniest-snl-moments-2009278/2563" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PHOTOS: Stars' funniest SNL moments</a></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Comedian Hart, 32, then made his debut dressed up as Wallis in her navy Giorgio Armani gown and carrying her her favorite <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/quvenzhane-wallis-puppy-purses-where-to-buy-them-2013282" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">puppy purse</a>. To celebrate her victory, Pope Quvenzhane lifted her arms into her signature muscle man pose and then danced the Dougie.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Who the man? I'm the man," Pope Quvenzhane said in Latin.</div><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><br /></span></div>

Kevin Hart Kevin Hart Dresses Up as Pope Quvenzhane Wallis on Saturday Night Live

Pope Benedict XVI 's successor was chosen Saturday, March 2 by Saturday Night Live . During Jason Sudeikis ' The Situation Room w...

Rigbys

10:51 AM Tukiyooo 0

<p>Last night we went to Rigbys on Leeson Street for dinner.  Ciaran and I joke that we are like old people because we like to eat early.  When I called looking for a reservation for 7pm, I was told that it was no problem but that they would need the table back by 9.30pm.  9.30pm!!! Who eats that late?!</p><p>Rigbys is a little strange in that there are no menus and there are only limited dinner options. For starters, we had a choice of chicken or salmon and then for mains the choice was beef or hake.  There was a further special choice of lobster for dinner for a bargain price of €15.95 for a half and €26.95 for a full lobster.</p><p>Ciaran had  a chicken ballotine to start - this was lovely and I would order it again.  My flaked salmon and cucumber salad was also very good.</p><p>I chose the beef for main while Ciaran selected the lobster.  However, after one bite of his meal he decided he wanted to switch out his lobster for my beef.  I was happy enough to do this!</p><p>Dessert options was a cheese plate or a dessert trio. We decided to split the dessert trio which consisted of a chocolate biscotti, a slice of coffee and chocolate terrine served with brown bread ice cream.  Delicious!</p><p>The atmosphere in this place is great.  It's small and casual.  However, the best thing about Rigbys is that it is BYOB.  It is situated right next door to a very good wine shop who give you 10% off any purchases when you tell them you are dining next door.</p><p>We finished off a great night with a few after dinner drinks in Birchalls in Ranelagh.</p><div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'> <a href='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhXR7aytFSxpEjhxnVw_yYOOIOGDP6dd6H9b3Mgcc_7FIWZGsxyDJZTqG4wb6NpdeNfpqhm0Hvk1RS1-CbcdHb1pVV_GMtW7_kzf4uRhwyc5EEdnJNlu0yeJgbD2SD1uhyphenhyphennL7hs20giPV/s1600/lobster.jpg' imageanchor='1' style='margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;'> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhXR7aytFSxpEjhxnVw_yYOOIOGDP6dd6H9b3Mgcc_7FIWZGsxyDJZTqG4wb6NpdeNfpqhm0Hvk1RS1-CbcdHb1pVV_GMtW7_kzf4uRhwyc5EEdnJNlu0yeJgbD2SD1uhyphenhyphennL7hs20giPV/s400/lobster.jpg" /> </a> </div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVR22JVtrkqAp5-vhhfdhv7gEpyZ4kJz3W-MWsLO5grUNrANZoseJZ1Q9sO937pYpBQXJkTIVbuOSsrxeN2wyazuEOcQFoxqbP5a1we8SCSK9zGN1_mtQWTxy5MS_WnsZAegYBu7qFXLLU/s640/blogger-image-1947988693.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVR22JVtrkqAp5-vhhfdhv7gEpyZ4kJz3W-MWsLO5grUNrANZoseJZ1Q9sO937pYpBQXJkTIVbuOSsrxeN2wyazuEOcQFoxqbP5a1we8SCSK9zGN1_mtQWTxy5MS_WnsZAegYBu7qFXLLU/s640/blogger-image-1947988693.jpg" /></a></div>

Rigbys

Last night we went to Rigbys on Leeson Street for dinner. Ciaran and I joke that we are like old people because we like to eat early. When...

Oz

9:57 AM Tukiyooo 0

<p>My sister got tickets for the preview of the new Wizard of Oz film.  After a late night I struggled to get up to go see it.  However I was so glad I dragged myself from my bed as I thought it was a great movie- one of the best 3D films I've seen in awhile.</p><p>If you get the opportunity do go see it.  It opens on March 8th in both the States and Ireland.</p><p><a href="http://amydublinia.blogspot.ie/2013/03/blog-post_3.html">Click here</a> for my twin sister's blog post about this event - she has great pictures up!  And here is my younger sisters <a href="http://certifikatie.blogspot.ie/2013/03/irish-preview-oz-great-and-powerful.html">blog post</a> about this movie preview.</p><p>Aren't the 3D glasses awesome?!!</p><div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'> <a href='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7ujxwsDMt4CDV68FT9KuzqkKPoJv0SIDN_cfAoLyO2uD1LKbec1y2PjFtFbprVAyPzE5EJMnyG6NZt2y8uTNIYsAYGQN8RbwMg01glRvusW4YcgJJ1PpkZl4loWrR8j8KUJGNk1Zb_XzR/s1600/photo.JPG' imageanchor='1' style='margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;'> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7ujxwsDMt4CDV68FT9KuzqkKPoJv0SIDN_cfAoLyO2uD1LKbec1y2PjFtFbprVAyPzE5EJMnyG6NZt2y8uTNIYsAYGQN8RbwMg01glRvusW4YcgJJ1PpkZl4loWrR8j8KUJGNk1Zb_XzR/s400/photo.JPG" /> </a> </div>

My sister got tickets for the preview of the new Wizard of Oz film. After a late night I struggled to get up to go see it. However I was s...

Today's archidose #654

8:00 AM Tukiyooo 0

Some colorful buildings for this Sunday.<br /><br />Bilbao Arena (2010) in Bilbao, Spain, by <a href="http://www.acxt.es/">ACXT</a>, photographed by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwape/">Pawel Paniczko</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwape/8484713341/" title="Bilbao Arena by Pawel Paniczko, on Flickr"><img alt="Bilbao Arena" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8242/8484713341_28a9377293_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwape/8484706263/" title="Bilbao Arena by Pawel Paniczko, on Flickr"><img alt="Bilbao Arena" height="360" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8372/8484706263_ab02c593e0_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwape/8484708343/" title="Bilbao Arena by Pawel Paniczko, on Flickr"><img alt="Bilbao Arena" height="360" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8388/8484708343_8798bbb9cd_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwape/8484709983/" title="Bilbao Arena by Pawel Paniczko, on Flickr"><img alt="Bilbao Arena" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8100/8484709983_cc9724a8cb_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />De Kleine Kikker (Little Frog nursery school, 2003) in Utrecht, Netherlands, by <a href="http://www.drostvanveen.nl/">Drost + van Veen architecten</a>, photographed by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wojtekgurak/">Wojtek Gurak</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wojtekgurak/8518226894/" title="De Kleine Kikker by Wojtek Gurak, on Flickr"><img alt="De Kleine Kikker" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8524/8518226894_efa5b01364_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />Brandhorst Museum (2009) in Munich, Germany, by <a href="http://www.sauerbruchhutton.de/">Sauerbruch Hutton Architects</a>, photographed by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nachoissd/">Víctor Pérez</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nachoissd/8510375641/" title="Brandhorst Museum by Victor Pérez :: victorperezp.com, on Flickr"><img alt="Brandhorst Museum" height="640" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8366/8510375641_e32b8c34a1_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />Theatre Agora (2007) in Lelystad, Netherlands, by <a href="http://www.unstudio.com/">UNStudio</a>, photographed by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wojtekgurak/">Wojtek Gurak</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wojtekgurak/8490926018/" title="Agora Theatre by Wojtek Gurak, on Flickr"><img alt="Agora Theatre" height="427" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8237/8490926018_1a4d805bae_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />An electrical substation in London covered in ceramic tiles by artist <a href="http://www.poncelet.me.uk/">Jacqueline Poncelet</a>, photographed by "<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bradman334/">bradman334</a>":<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bradman334/8503936450/" title="patterns for energy by bradman334, on Flickr"><img alt="patterns for energy" height="426" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8386/8503936450_b1515349c7_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just:<br /><blockquote>:: Join and add photos to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/archi-dose/">archidose pool</a>, and/or<br />:: Tag your photos <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/archidose/">archidose</a></span></blockquote>

Today's archidose #654

Some colorful buildings for this Sunday. Bilbao Arena (2010) in Bilbao, Spain, by ACXT , photographed by Pawel Paniczko : De Kleine Kikker (...

Experts Want More Studies of Diet’s Role for the Heart - NYTimes.com

6:11 AM Tukiyooo 0

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><nyt_text style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div id="articleBody"><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">This is a watershed moment in the field of nutrition, medical experts say. For the first time, researchers have shown that a diet can have an effect as powerful as drugs in preventing what really matters to patients — heart attacks, and strokes and deaths from cardiovascular disease.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">The subjects were people at high risk of heart disease, and the diet was a Mediterranean one, high in olive oil or nuts.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">The study, published last week in <a title="New England Journal of Medicine article." href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1200303?query=featured_home&&#t=article" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">The New England Journal of Medicine</a>, is now shaking up the field of cardiovascular medicine, infusing it with optimism. Scientists are calling for similarly rigorous studies of other popular diets that are routinely recommended by cardiologists even though there is little solid evidence that they work.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">"We don't know what the best diet is," said Dr. Michael Lauer, the director of the division of cardiovascular sciences at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. "This is a great opportunity to come together and use power of the scientific method to get closer to the right answer."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Other leading experts agreed.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">"This is the start of where we need to go with nutritional clinical trials," said Dr. Neil J. Stone, a professor of preventive cardiology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and a former chairman of the American Heart Association's nutrition committee.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute is supporting a large clinical trial to see if fish oil and <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/nutrition/vitamin-d/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Vitamin D." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">vitamin D</a> can prevent heart attacks and cardiovascular deaths. But while that is important, heart experts say it is time to also look at diets as a whole.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">"We definitively need to test plausible diets, within the context of what is available and consumed in the U.S., that could lower the risk of heart disease," said Alice H. Lichtenstein, a professor of nutrition science and policy at Tufts University and the lead author of the American Heart Association's dietary guidelines.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Dr. Lawrence Appel, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins who was a member of the 2005 and 2010 United States dietary guidelines committees, said he was inspired by the Mediterranean diet study.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">"Can we do a trial of fruits and vegetables?" he asked. "I think we can."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">The situation in nutrition today reminds Dr. Lauer of an era in the 1950s when doctors struggled to figure out how best to treat heart attack patients.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">"Nutrition research is where heart attack research was," Dr. Lauer said. Patients in those days were advised to stay in bed for four to five weeks and take lidocaine to normalize their hearts' rhythms and nitroglycerin to open blood vessels.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">But it turned out that treatment actually hastened death. It took years to find the answers, but eventually, Dr. Lauer said, dozens if not hundreds of large clinical trials radically transformed heart attack treatment.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">But when it comes to diet and heart disease, doctors — and patients — have been going on hunches.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">The new study could be a start in changing all that, heart researchers said.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">It involved 7,447 people in Spain, half of whom were randomly assigned to follow a Mediterranean diet and the rest to follow the sort of standard low-fat diet that cardiologists often prescribe. It was ended early after less than five years because those on the Mediterranean diet had 30 percent fewer heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease compared with people in the control group, who ate more or less the same way that they always had. They had been instructed to follow a low-fat diet but had not been able to comply.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Dr. Ramón Estruch of the University of Barcelona, the lead author of the study, said that although some had thought people would never allow their diets to be decided by a figurative toss of a coin, it was not hard to get people to switch to a Mediterranean diet.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">"They wanted to eat the way their grandfathers ate," he said. Most study participants actually thought they were already eating that way. They learned they were not after answering questions about, for example, how often they ate red meat versus fish.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Dr. Estruch said he and his colleagues were so buoyed by the success of their study that they were planning another one.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">They intend to randomly assign people to consume the Mediterranean diet or to exercise while following a similar diet that is lower in calories. The hope is that adding weight loss and exercise will prevent even more heart disease.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">But for now, chaos reigns. The public is bombarded with diet advice, often contradictory and often lacking a rigorous scientific grounding, medical experts said.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">"Diets are an extreme case of accepting evidence we want to believe," said Dr. J. Sanford Schwartz, a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">That includes doctors, he added, who overlook that the evidence for the low-fat diets they often recommend is the sort "we would never accept in the practice of medicine."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Those low-fat diets sound sensible — eat fruits and vegetables, fish and lean meats. Cut back on salt- and sugar-laden sodas and potato chips. Cut or sharply limit most fats, including olive oil and nuts. But such diets have not been tested in the way the Mediterranean diet was tested.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Doctors are in a bind, said Dr. Daniel J. Rader, a heart disease specialist at the University of Pennsylvania. When patients ask what to eat, he said, "you have to give them something."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">"Given the importance of diets and given the decades of dietary recommendations we have given to people, you would think we would have had more dietary studies with hard endpoints to get at these questions," Dr. Rader said. But the best they have are studies that look at intermediate markers of risk, like <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/nutrition/cholesterol/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Cholesterol." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">cholesterol</a> levels. In the end, he said, "most doctors just give dietary platitudes."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Kevin McNamara, 44, faced a decision about diet after he went into cardiac arrest in June while jogging along the Jersey Shore. Mr. McNamara, an investment manager, had no idea he had heart disease.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">He ended up in the nearest hospital and had bypass surgery to open two blocked arteries. When he returned to his home near Valley Forge, Pa., he sought advice on what to eat and was persuaded by a book that said a vegan diet would prevent and even reverse heart disease.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">"I talked to some of my doctors, and they said it wouldn't hurt if I went on a vegan diet," Mr. McNamara said.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Now he wants to discuss the Mediterranean diet with his doctors. He worries because he wants to keep his cholesterol levels very low. "I am paranoid that any sort of fat will build up in my coronary arteries," Mr. McNamara said. But he added, "I am not sure if I want to do a vegan diet for the next 30 or 40 years of my life."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Vegan diets have never been rigorously tested, and probably never will be, Dr. Lichtenstein said. "Given the high cost of conducting a long-term diet study we have to think about what is feasible for the majority of the U.S. population," she said. "From past experience, we know it is highly unlikely people are going to make radical changes in their diet and stick with those changes long term."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">But other diet studies are definitely in the offing, researchers said.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">"As we go on, we realize we know less and less," Dr. Lauer said. "We can despair and just make things up, or we can celebrate and say we have a real opportunity to grow here."</p><nyt_correction_bottom><div class="articleCorrection" style="margin-bottom: 2.8em; "></div></nyt_correction_bottom><nyt_update_bottom></nyt_update_bottom></div></nyt_text><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "></span></div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/health/experts-want-more-studies-of-mediterranean-diets-role-for-the-heart.html?&pagewanted=all">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/health/experts-want-more-studies-of-mediterranean-diets-role-for-the-heart.html?&pagewanted=all</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

Experts Want More Studies of Diet’s Role for the Heart - NYTimes.com

This is a watershed moment in the field of nutrition, medical experts say. For the first time, researchers have shown that a diet can have a...