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We’ve reported before that animals can’t survive on genetically-modified food. Now a new study from Australia shows that GM food KILLS rats.

In the December 5th edition of the Herald Sun, Jeffrey Smith reports that almost 10 years ago, researcher Arpad Pusztai discovered that GM food caused “massive damage in rats.” The result? “Dr. Pusztai was fired after 35 years and silenced with threats of a lawsuit.”

Smith also writes about California researcher Ignacio Chapela, who published evidence that GM corn is wiping out indigenous Mexican corn, which is an essential part of the diet there. He received a phone call from a Mexican government official who told him, “We know where your children go to school.”
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Once the presidential candidates are finally chosen, we’re all bracing ourselves for the negative TV advertising that we hate so much. Why do political parties place these ads? The reason is simple: they work.
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There were unusually intense UFO sightings in England in earlyDecember, and now orange fireballs with no clear explanationhave been observed by many witnesses in Bangor, Maine. Thefireballs were sighted on December 14 between 10 and 11 PM.

A flaming object was seen dropping out of the sky overPenobscot Bay on Monday night, but the Air Force reportedthat this was probably a fuel tank from an Atlas rocket that hadbeen used to launch a National Reconnaissance Office satellite. When asked about the Thursday night lights, an Air Force spokesman said, ?that wasn’t us.'”
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Global Warming isn’t just happening now?it’s happened in the past, as well. Is there anything we can learn from those times that will help us today?

In New Scientist, Fred Pearce writes, “It was the biggest climate event of the last 10,000 years and caused the most dramatic change in the weather since humans began farming. And it may yet hold important lessons about climate change in the 21st century.”

He’s referring to the fact that ice cores have revealed that 8,000 years ago, a huge glacier in Canada melted, spilling huge amounts of fresh water into the North Atlantic, which shut down the Gulf Stream and cooled parts of the northern hemisphere for more than a hundred years. The same thing is happending to the Gulf Stream today.
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