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Is Monsanto Using 4-H to Brainwash Your Children About GMOs?

These manipulations can be masterful and insidious. The best way to protect your child from corporate brainwashing is with YOUR watchful eye.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Monsanto is boasting its partnership with 4-H programs by giving a shout-out to “National 4-H Week.”1

This is not the first time Monsanto has used its clever propaganda to influence our nation’s youth. The Council for Biotechnology Information widely circulated a Biotechnology Basics Activity Book for kids, a disturbing and brightly colored obvious intent to 'educate' the children.

Come on Gotabahya, HRC Geneva Welcomes You!

The HRC consists of 47 UN members states, who decide on matters related to human rights situations in any country. Therefore it is absurd for you to lobby Ban-Ki Moon. Neither the UN Secretary General nor the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights can stop any resolution being passed in the HRC.

(PARIS) - In recent days, I learnt that you, Defence Secretary - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa met some dignitaries.

This was to prevent any resolution coming against Sri Lanka in the forthcoming 25th session of the UN Human Rights Council - HRC in Geneva. Among the diaspora a few are not happy about your new role but I am extremely happy and welcome you.

Ullema`s Constitution

Internationally everyone is turning to interfaith dialogue and agreeing to other faiths but you should not impose for this rigid Islamic Jihadist.

(ISLAMABAD) - Throughout the Christmas celebration, 2013, Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilwal Bhutto Zardari claimed that I want to see some sort of Christian Prime Minister in Pakistan within my lifetime.

He greeted Merry Christmas to every Christian worldwide and particularly to Pakistani Christian believers. With his statement, the roars connected with Pakistani non secular politicians raise at the same time the other people.

Umpqua Bank Hires Bill Morris as Loan Officer for Salem Area

Morris has lived in Oregon for over 47 years, including the last 10 years in the Salem area.

(SALEM) - Umpqua Bank, a subsidiary of Umpqua Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: UMPQ), hired Bill Morris as a loan officer for Umpqua’s Home Lending Division serving the Salem area.

“Bill’s clients will benefit from his extensive mortgage knowledge and experience,” said Senior Vice President and Regional Manager Jered Helton. “We are glad to have him as part of our lending team to serve our customers there.”

Happy New Year, Mr. President, and Help SL Tamils with Two Important Things in 2014, Says Tamils For Obama

Tamils for Obama wishes the president a good 2014 and asks him to get behind an international investigation into war crimes committed by Sri Lankan officials during and since the ethnic war, and to help the Tamil victims in northeastern Sri Lanka to determine their own destiny.

(NEW YORK) - In a letter sent to President Obama recently, Tamils for Obama wished the president a happy 2014 and asked him to help the SL Tamils in two significant matters.

"We told the president there are two things the Tamils in Sri Lanka need from him in 2014," said the press spokesman for Tamils for Obama.

Magnitude 5.4 Quake Jolts Eastern Japan

The quake registered lower 5 on the Japanese seismic scale of 7 in the prefecture's Takahagi City, about 150 km north of Tokyo.

(TOKYO KUNA) - A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 on the Richter scale struck eastern Japan on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. However, there were no immediate reports of casualties and damage and no tsunami warning was issued for the 10:03 a.m. (0103 GMT) quake.

Focus of the tremor was 10 km underground in northern part of Ibaraki Prefecture, according to the agency.

A New Year`s Eve Tale from Sunny Phuket

If we all really set our minds to it, we should be able to do something about changing things in 2014, shouldn’t we?

(PHUKET, Thailand) - Yesterday, I exchanged a few words, in English, with what my keen ear detected to be a Russian woman who was waiting in a KFC queue with a pretty little girl of about five.

A little later, the girl must have asked her mother to take her to the washroom, because they disappeared for a few minutes and returned just as I reached the front of the queue.

CNN: NSA Team Spies, Hacks to Gather Intelligence on Targets, Report Says

The hackers focus on foreign militaries, governments and corporations...

(WASHINGTON, DC) - CNN reports that a top-secret National Security Agency team uses spyware and hacking to gather intelligence on targets, according to a new report based on internal agency documents.

According to Der Spiegel, a German magazine that published some of the documents, the unit's interception techniques are worthy of James Bond: intercepting a computer being shipped to a target and installing spyware before it is delivered; supplying an altered monitor cable that transmits everything on a computer's screen to the NSA; or planting a USB plug with a secret radio transmitter.

First-ever Legal Adult Marijuana Sales to Begin TOMORROW in Colorado

A female U.S. military Veteran with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder will be the first customer.

(DENVER) - The first-ever legal adult marijuana sales will begin Wednesday, January 1 in Colorado.

Leaders of the initiative that made marijuana legal, Amendment 64, will hold a news conference at 7:30 a.m. MT at 3D Cannabis Center in Denver — a licensed marijuana retail store with on-site cultivation facility — followed by the first sale at 8 a.m. MT. The licensed marijuana retail store is located at 4305 Brighton Blvd. in Denver.

Food for Thought

Wake Up! You have slept for millions and millions of years. Why not wake up this morning? --Kabir

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - There's nothing quite like the use of metaphors in English to confuse, awaken and stimulate thought. Take the title of this article for instance. Is it about food? Or about thought?

For those adventurous enough to type "Food for thought" into the Google search engine, you'll find it's used for both--and more. One food-for-thought website provides a home for one-act plays. Another is a website that offers articles and a newsletter about Islam.