ASPARTAME - THE SHOCKING STORY OF THE WORLDS BESTSELLING SWEETENER

THE ECOLOGIST By Pat ThomasCover Story, pages 35-46ASPARTAME - The Shocking Story of the World’s Bestselling SweetenerAspartame is the most controversial food additive in history. The most recent evidence, linking it to leukaemia and lymphoma, has added substantial fuel to the ongoing protests of doctors, scientists and consumer groups who allege that this artificial sweetener [...]No related posts.

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IEA says drill offshore and tax more

The US should consider new gasoline and diesel taxes and expand domestic oil and natural gas production to recently opened offshore areas to increase the nation's energy security, IEA chief economist Fatih Birol said today. The US government should consider taking advantage of falling oil prices by establishing taxes on fuel that would "lock in the efficiency gains that resulted from last year's price surge."

Birol also warned that along with falling demand, the economic slump could reduce energy investment too much and lead to another global spike in fuel prices in several years as the economy recovers.

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Chuck Norris says if Ron Paul says a Politician is dishonest he will choke them

Chuck Norris says if Ron Paul says a Politician is dishonest he will choke them unconscious
Chuck Norris says on Glenn Beck show if America was a Chucktatorship and Ron Paul says a Politician is dishonest he would choke them unconscious. Awesome...

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In past 2 years, 87 million in U.S. went uninsured

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A third of Americans under age 65 — 86.7 million people — went without health insurance at some point during the past two years, according to a report released Wednesday. Go to Source

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Looking At The Big Picture

Except for a few hundred thousand U.S. Patriots, most Americans have no clue what has really been going on within The United States over the past 100 years, and the sad thing is that most do not want to know the truth. The further you look into the ra...

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The speech of his life - but Brown will not say sorry

PM seeks to woo Washington and UK voters with Congress addressGordon Brown will today use his vital speech to Congress to urge US politicians not to lapse into protectionism, but he has insisted he has no need to apologise for personal errors in the build-up to the financial crisis.The speech - possibly the most important [...]

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The Big Lie of Recession Politics: 'Shared Sacrifice'

The Big Lie of Recession Politics: 'Shared Sacrifice'

By Shamus Cooke

Global Research, March 3, 2009
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12525


Its everywhere you look and in every sp...

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Loan shark helpline targets bad lenders

The government today launched a national helpline for the victims of loan sharks, enabling consumers to “shop” companies, individuals or organisations lending money illegally at exorbitant rates.The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (DBERR) said the helpline would give people who fall into the hands of unlicensed moneylenders a single point of call.The announcement [...]

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Longevity plan dies early death

A firm set up to boost incomes for people who live longer than average has shut down after only one year.Life Trust, financially backed by Royal Bank of Scotland, JP Morgan and US hedge fund DE Shaw, today said it had closed to new business, blaming the recession.The firm will offer existing customers the return [...]

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Cramdown Shows How Congress (Still) Really Works

For those who need a 10,000 foot overview of the debate over the cramdown legislation, I highly suggest this recent Businessweek cover story. Not only does it explain the issue and how banks are effectively exacerbating the foreclosure crisis, it shows the ugly side of how Congress still works. By that I mean it shows that in debates over issues of money and corporate power, banks are treated as the most important players of all - more important than the public at large.
For a taste, here's what I mean:

Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who since 2007 had led unsuccessful efforts in Congress to give bankruptcy judges authority to modify home loans, dispatched his senior economic policy adviser, Brad J. McConnell, to talk with lobbyists for JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. "Each agreed to take [the idea] back to their folks to see what they could do," says a person familiar with the talks...

By the time McConnell talked to the JPMorgan and BofA representatives the next day, however, "they had gone on full defense mode and started to complain about how lousy a deal Citi had struck," says the person familiar with the exchanges. Bank opposition...

In the following weeks, banking lobbyists launched a renewed attack on the cramdown legislation, enlisting as an ally Republican Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, among others. Apart from Citi, "the industry remains united in that bankruptcy cramdown would destabilize the market" by creating widespread uncertainty about the value of numerous troubled mortgages, says Steve O'Connor, senior vice-president for government relations at the Mortgage Bankers Assn. His group is distributing talking points to key congressional aides laying out reasons why "Congress should defeat bankruptcy reform legislation."...

Industry lobbyists are organizing home state bankers to pressure moderate Democrats they hope will be receptive to limiting the kinds of loans eligible for cramdown. One target: Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana.

There's a lot in this passage - but I think the most important part is how lawmakers are still integrally involving corporate lobbyists in their legislative efforts to deal with the economic crisis. I don't mean to pick on Durbin - on this issue (and on many) he's been great. I mean to highlight the enduring corruption of the process itself.

It's stunning, really - these lobbyists represent the same corporations that ran the economy into the ground, and yet Congress still feels the need to ask their permission to go ahead with legislation to stop their most egregious practices.

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