Jonas Deronzil from Verrettes has been farming since 1974. Like small producers throughout Haiti, his meager income from corn, rice and beans is threatened by new competition from Monsanto.
via t r u t h o u t | Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid Seeds.
A group of 51 German millionaires and billionaires founded a Club of the Wealthy and wrote to Chancellor Angela Merkel proposing to give up 10 percent of their income in the form of a “Rich Tax” for 10 years to consolidate the budget.
via Blog: German Millionaires Volunteer to Pay ‘Rich Tax’ – CNBC.
I love it when New Yorkers write about L.A.
At the bottom of the stairs, runners cantering between the two sets of steps dodge trainers with their weights, their actor-waiter clients splayed like so much human rickrack along the sidewalk.
via Los Angeles Journal – L.A.’s Most Popular Gym Is the City Itself – NYTimes.com.
The shame, the awful poignancy of Bilderberg, is that, for much of the time, there are more delegates up the hill than there are protesters at the foot of it.
via Bilderberg 2010: Why the protesters are your very best friends | World news | guardian.co.uk.
I know part of his thing is being outrageous, but seriously?
Glenn Beck, who repeatedly and angrily tells his alleged persecutors to “leave the families alone,” spent a good chunk of his radio program this morning mocking and attacking the intelligence of President Obama's 11-year-old daughter, Malia.
via Glenn Beck smears Obama’s 11-year-old daughter | Media Matters for America.
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