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Marijuana Users: The Great Unwashed Bottom Dwellers!
- So Says the Oregonian.

"Drug warriors" should get their facts straight!

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - The Oregonian newspaper is back at its obnoxious vilification of medical marijuana users with a title of an op-ed article “America Can’t Afford to Legalize Marijuana”.

The writer's brain must be venom because it acts like poison with no positive attributes.

Oregon Prepares to Just Say NO! to GMO

GMOs have been injected into everything from baby formula to our dairy, and even our meat.

(NEWPORT, OR) - Health conscious Oregonians are mounting a campaign to demand that GMO foods be labeled as such. The group behind this effort has a web site http://oregonrighttoknow.org.

They have one month to gather enough signatures to place this issue on the state-side ballot in November.

FNS News: Bleak News for Rio Grande Irrigators

The May 2012 Water Supply Forecast for New Mexico cited unseasonal temperatures that could impact farmers later in the growing season.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - Rio Grande irrigators in the Paso del Norte borderland are in for more bad news.

Experts have noted that spring runoff forecasts for the Rio Grande into New Mexico’s Elephant Butte Reservoir are only 21 percent of normal flows.

Biotech 2, Vermont 0

The biotech industry has had to use corruption and threats to keep secret what they continue to claim is safe and "substantially equivalent" to normal food.

(MONTPELIER, VT) - Vermonters was slammed by the biotech industry twice this month.

They were hit the first time when 90% of the population wanted GMOs in their food labeled but the governor would not sign a bill requiring this because the biotech giant Monsanto threatened to sue the state.

GM Maize: Nepal`s Food Security Threatened

The sole purpose of genetic engineering of seeds is control over seed supply and global food availability. This weaponization of food system is being implemented by a few American and European multinational firms.

(NEW DELHI) - Not only Nepal’s but the entire Himalayan region is under threat.

Genetically Engineered seeds are weapons of mass culling. The Nepalese Government’s foolishness in inviting USAID and Monsanto for ‘agricultural development’ through genetically engineered maize will destroy the quality of its livestock and humans.

Merkley, Wyden: Local Concerns Must Be Addressed in Travel Management Plan

In Letter, Oregon’s Senators Relayed Local Concerns to Forest Service Chief.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Oregon’s Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden urged the Forest Service to fully re-engage the public and address concerns after the Forest Service decided to “stop the clock” and withdraw the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest Travel Management Plan.

In a letter to Tom Tidwell, Chief of the United States Forest Service, Merkley and Wyden relayed concerns they have heard directly from constituents...

Bill Gates and 47,500 Cases of Paralysis

Mimicking Monsanto’s PR, Gates used Bollywood actors to strongly promote his vaccine campaign to ‘eradicate polio’ across India. Vaccines ware given to Indian children. Have they brought health?

(NEW DELHI) - In India, Monsanto hired Bollywood actors to promote genetically engineered cotton seed to illiterate farmers.

Nana Petakar became a brand ambassador for Monsanto. The advertising has been called “aggressive, unscrupulous and false.”

Salem Saturday Market Kickoff 2012 is a Blooming Success

Oregon sunshine (the dry variety) was enjoyed by all!

(SALEM, Ore.) - What is your idea of a Saturday morning in spring time? In Salem, Oregon, Spring means coming outdoors, breathing in the fresh air, and maybe even turning over some soil in your own backyard.

Friends and neighbors are seen mowing their yards, planning for events under sunny skies and looking for new, intriguing products to make spring really sing.

Drought Affecting Thousands in Somaliland

“Even the families with some livestock can't buy food due to the high prices” - Abdi-Rashid Sh. Mohamed, an elderly man in Baki.

(CHENNAI, India) - Officials in the self-declared republic of Somaliland are appealing for food aid and potable water for thousands of families who have lost their livelihoods in the current drought.

“You can see from far children running to the road waving empty bottles asking you for water and bread or biscuits,” Hussein Muhumed Hog, Somaliland's health minister, told IRIN.

Help Polish Minister Ban MON810 in Poland

Strong Beekeepers Protest and motion for a ban of the GM maize MON810 in Poland!

(WARSAW) - A powerful symbolic drama was staged by members of The Coalition for a GMO Free Poland in which thousands of dead bees were laid out on the Ministry steps.

The Minister of Agriculture, Mr Sawicki, never appeared. However he later saw a delegation in his office and, during a public broadcast, announced that he had set in motion a ban of the GM maize MON810.