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• Former Monsanto Lawyer Hired by FDA as Key Advisor

  
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  A former lobbyist and Monsanto employee who is credited with playing an instrumental role in introducing genetically modified milk and known carcinogens into the U.S. Food supply has been hired as a key advisor for the FDA.Michael Taylor has been hired to advise Margaret Hamburg, the FDA’s commissioner of food and ...
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• Union Health Care Words that Work and more!

  
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  SEIU’s Health Care Words that Work Evista   Make money online   Prozac   Payday advance loan   Cialis generic viagra   Cheap levitra   Car rentals   Day care   Tramadol 50mg   Fioricet   Generic viagra   Casino portal   Debt problem   Term life insurance policy   Cheap airline   Casino bonus   ...
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• Former Monsanto Lawyer Hired by FDA as Key Advisor

  
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  A former lobbyist and Monsanto employee who is credited with playing an instrumental role in introducing genetically modified milk and known carcinogens into the U.S. Food supply has been hired as a key advisor for the FDA. Michael Taylor has been hired to advise Margaret Hamburg, the FDA’s commissioner of food and ...
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• Health bill: pass or not, the insurance companies win.

  
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  It seems to me the insurance companies win if this bill passes, and they will win if the bill is not passed. The american people and small businesses will lose either way with increased rates of 15% per year and/or it will remain the same and they won’t have coverage, but the insurance companies will show profits. ...
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• Maryland lobbyist released after serving 36 days for DUI

  
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  A Maryland lobbyist with a string of drunk-driving convictions who has represented the Prince Georges County Council and sheriffs office was ordered released from jail Wednesday after spending 36 days behind bars.
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• Gioia counters charges of conflict of interest

  
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  Incumbent Contra Costa Supervisor John Gioia (D-I) has denied charges of conflict of interest from Mister Phillips , an announced candidate for the Supervisor position in 2010. In his blog Phillips writes Whether you agree with Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia’s decision to support gaming in West County ...
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• Coal Country: Host A Screening

  
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  The new documentary Coal Country examines America’s complex relationship with coal mining, a practice that to some people promises jobs and a reliable fuel source, but to others poses a grave and inexcusable threat to human health and the environment.  While I strongly believe we need to end our dependency on ...
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• Government Just Can’t Get It Right

  
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  From The Lobbyist : Transparency is on at the White House- however, I expect President Obama wishes it wasn’t quite so transparent. Turns out information being sent in regarding what the stimulus has done to boost employment is somewhat inaccurate. The Associated Press started the now-mainstream stimulus ...
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• Wiener dawgs unite!

  
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  Click image for full Joel Pett/ Lexington Herald-Leader cartoon.
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• Puppets in Congress

  
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  For a depressing example of how members of Congress can be spoon-fed the views and even the exact words of high-powered lobbying firms, consider remarks inserted into the Congressional Record after the debate and vote on health care reform in the House. MORE —> Posted in Politics Tagged: BioTech, lobbyist
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• Theory vs Experience Family Violence and Custody Abuse

  
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  Theory vs Experience Its fantastic to have research and advocacy highlight the importance of mothers and children’s experience of violence. It is when some of these people can no longer see human beings, but perceive them as subjects and then it goes a little further to "subjective" until the human being is no ...
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• Kara Visits Facebooks Washington, D.C. Office and Talks Policy!

  
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  Yesterday, BoomTown paid a visit on the Washington, D.C. office of Facebook to meet its reps in the nation’s capital. Perhaps not surprisingly, the social networking site has a very small–just a trio of on-the-young-side dudes–battening down the hatches from a funky office in a funky section of D.C., in Dupont ...
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• Realtors to push for more credit to commercial property (BOHICA; more bailouts)

  
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  Realtors to push for more credit to commercial property Industry groups agenda shifts from home-buyer tax credits to lending issues By Amy Hoak, MarketWatch SAN DIEGO (MarketWatch) -- After successfully lobbying for an extended and expanded home-buyer tax credit, the National Association of Realtors will focus its ...
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• Rap Sheet As Long As Toilet Paper Strikes Again! SUSAN MURPHY MILANO’S JOURNAL

  
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  SUSAN MURPHY MILANO’S JOURNALMONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2009Rap Sheet As Long As Toilet Paper Strikes Again!In 1994 3-year-old Devin Brewer of Oakland, California was beaten to death by Curtis Martin III. The child he murdered with his fists was the child his then-girlfriend.This low-life piece of garbage was allowed to ...
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• Shawnee County Court LIVES of Battered Mothers and their Children Continue to be Destroyed

  
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  [I went ahead and hyperlinked for our ease and access to a site I DO NOT have access to. (For this VERY reason) albeit I must have provided much of the info as they are my case….. so be it then. My review to be in compliance (again) of Contempt is the Nov. 20th, 2009  [...]
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• SIN BY SILENCE | An educational resource on DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; BUT where is the part about how BATTERERS and ABUSERS often get CUSTODY?

  
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   Looks good — but where is the part about how batterers and abusers often get custody, the years of exhausting and financially back-breaking litigation, the damage to the children, etc?==============================One in four American women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. October was Domestic ...
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• DC lobbyist lawfirm bipartisan in hosting Colorado campaign fundraisers

  
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  Today, U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton’s army of big-name lobbyist supporters are hosting another fundraiser for her in DC, this one at the Williams & Jensen lobbying lawfirm townhouse near the Capitol. Tomorrow, it’s Sen. Michael Bennet’s turn. He’s being feted at Williams & Jensen by supporters ...
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• ATR and AWF demand inquiry into illegal lobbying by SEIU’s Andy Stern

  
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  Hot Air had the exclusive this morning. Being a communist isn’t illegal, but acting in the capacity of a lobbyist without registering as a lobbyist is. At 9 am ET today, Americans for Tax Reform and the Alliance for Worker Freedom will deliver a letter to both chambers of Congress and to  US Attorney ...
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• One Giant Scar On Mankind: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AFFECTS US ALL!

  
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  One giant scar on mankindhttp://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/one-giant-scar-on-mankind-20091115-igau.htmlNovember 17, 2009Comments 105Illustration: Greg Bakes.Almost 20 years ago, on December 6, 1989, a young man went looking for women at l’Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. Here, in the middle of this highly ...
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• Another Murder-Suicide: Mom Wanted Shared Parenting, Dad Didn’t

  
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  Another Murder-Suicide: Mom Wanted Shared Parenting, Dad Didn’tFiled under: Child Custody, Child Custody Battle, Child Custody Issues, Child Custody Mediation, Child Custody for mothers, Child custody for fathers, Children and Domestic Violence,Children’s rights, Civil rights, Coparenting, Corrupt bastards, ...
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