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http://howafrica.com/charleston-massacre-was-actually-the-assassination-of-a-state-senator/Monsanto fires back @ Neil Young
After delivering some bad news to presidential candidate Donald Trump to stop rockin’ to his Freedom song, looks like Neil Young has also upset some of his fans over at Monsanto.
In a statement to Billboard, Monsanto is letting it be known that its feelings have been hurt by the rock legend.
“Many of us at Monsanto have been and are fans of Neil Young,” the company said. “Unfortunately, for some of us, his current album may fail to reflect our strong beliefs in what we do every day to help make agriculture more sustainable. We recognize there is a lot of misinformation about who we are and what we do—and unfortunately several of those myths seem to be captured in these lyrics.”
As we previously reported, the 69-year-old musician is releasing a new album on June 29 called The Monsanto Years targeting the chemical giant’s use of genetically modified seeds and pesticides.
Young sings on the title track: “The farmer knows he’s got to grow what he can sell, Monsanto, Monsanto / So he signs a deal for GMOs that makes life hell with Monsanto, Monsanto / Every year he buys the patented seeds / Poison-ready they’re what the corporation needs, Monsanto.” Take a listen below.
Young’s album also takes aim at other large corporations such as Starbucks, Chevron and Walmart. These companies have also released statements to Billboard.
Starbucks told the publication that it “has not taken a position on the issue of GMO [genetically modified organism] labeling,” adding, “As a company with stores and a product presence in every state, we prefer a national solution.”
Walmart, in response to Young’s song about the retailer’s notoriously low wages, hit back saying, “As you might have seen recently, Walmart raised its lowest starting wage to $9 an hour. We’re proud of the opportunity we provide people to build a career and have a chance at a better life.”
Chevron, on the other hand, acknowledged Billboard’s media inquiry but flat out said it wasn’t going to participate in an interview.
The Canadian rocker has already issued a response to the statements. In a long message to his fans, the “Rockin’ in the Free World” singer once again spoke out against Trump (who “likes Neil very much“) for playing the song during his presidential candidacy announcement this week, and also how corporate interests have “hijacked” democracy.
http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/20/monsanto-fires-back-neil-young/
Former Porn Star Nails The Bullsh*t Way We View Female Sexuality
To all the young women thinking about doing porn; I didn’t find Jesus. I don’t hate porn. I didn’t have any bad experiences. But trust me when I tell you not to do it."
That's how former porn star Bree Olson begins her open letter to young women about why they should stay away from the porn industry. Instead of lamenting the stereotypical assumption that female porn stars are sluts, Olson had a very different reason why young women should choose another career path.
Olson doesn't just highlight the issues a woman might face within the porn industry, but the discrimination she'll most likely experience when she tries to leave it.
On June 17, Olson tweeted a screen shot of a letter to her 900,000 followers, writing: “When you do porn you automatically become a segregated part of society that is held to prejudice without the support of activists for your human rights.” Read the rest of her letter below: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/19/porn-star-nails-female-sexuality-bree-olson_n_7620812.html
Neil Young on the Pope's statements on the environment
Neil Young
Yesterday Pope Francis released his 120 page encyclical.
These words of wisdom resonated strongly with me
And fill me with gratitude.
His words bring welcome support to millions who yearn to do the right thing and be part of the rescue of our fragile shared home.
His powerful message gives me hope that being moved by his call, his followers will help turn the tide by beginning the urgent work of employing solutions that will address the social, economic and environmental crisis we face.
Pope Francis has given us a map for navigating these times
A few of his words -
I invite all to pause to think about the challenges we face regarding care for our common home.
There is a need to seek other ways of understanding the economy and progress.
We need only to take a frank look at the facts to see that our common home is falling into serious disrepair.
We are learning all too slowly the lessons of environmental deterioration.
Whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenceless before the interests of a deified market. Economic interests easily end up trumping the common good.
The present world system is certainly unsustainable from a number of points of view.
A fragile world challenges us to devise intelligent ways of directing, developing and limiting our power.
Climate change represents one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day.
These problems are closely linked to a throwaway culture.
The human environment and the natural environment deteriorate together.
A true “ecological debt” exists, particularly between the global north and south.
Developed countries ought to help pay this debt by limiting their consumption of nonrenewable energy.
Reducing greenhouse gases requires honesty, courage and responsibility.
For indigenous communities, land is not a commodity, but a gift from God, a sacred space.
Each community has the duty to protect the earth and to ensure its fruitfulness for coming generations.
The world we have received also belongs to who will follow us.
Leaving an inhabitable planet to future generations is, first and foremost, up to us.
Interdependence obliges us to think of one world with a common plan.
There is an urgent need for us to move forward in a bold cultural revolution.
There is no room for the globalization of indifference.
Let us sing as we go. May our struggles and our concern for this planet never take away the joy of our hope.
Mass shootings: Can't it be everything, not just one thing?
Why do we have to say it is one thing?
It is the guns. it is the racism. it is the games we play, the games we watch, the movies, the video games the Television (Did you know that Criminal Minds is on 24 hours a day?) the vernacular (That killed).
IT IS ALL OF THAT>
Wanna cry? (Led Zeppelin content in here)
http://singers.littlethings.com/robert-plant-cries-stairway-to-heaven/?utm_source=sungazing&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=ttWOW.
Integrity Disqualifies Sanders for White House
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’s potential bid for the 2016 Presidency was declared over, on Monday, before it even began, because of a key feature of the American political system that makes a person with integrity ineligible for the White House.
According to some experts, the electoral system has developed a number of safeguards over the past few decades to prevent someone with independence and backbone from occupying the Presidency.
“Bernie Sanders’s failure to become a member of either major political party excludes him from the network of cronyism and backroom deals required under our system to be elected,” said Davis Logsdon, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota. “Though that failure alone would disqualify Sanders, the fact that he is not beholden to a major corporate interest or investment bank would also make him ineligible.”
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/integrity-disqualifies-sanders-white-house
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Integrity Disqualifies Sanders for White House
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’s potential bid for the 2016 Presidency was declared over, on Monday, before it even began, because of a key feature of the American political system that makes a person with integrity ineligible for the White House.
According to some experts, the electoral system has developed a number of safeguards over the past few decades to prevent someone with independence and backbone from occupying the Presidency.
“Bernie Sanders’s failure to become a member of either major political party excludes him from the network of cronyism and backroom deals required under our system to be elected,” said Davis Logsdon, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota. “Though that failure alone would disqualify Sanders, the fact that he is not beholden to a major corporate interest or investment bank would also make him ineligible.”
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/integrity-disqualifies-sanders-white-house
Sanders Can Win the Democratic Presidential Primary — Here’s How
Principle 1: Pledged Delegates Are the Key
Hillary Clinton lost the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party in 2008 to Barack Obama by the thinnest of margins despite winning the popular vote because Obama won slightly more pledged delegates during the race than she did — 1,828.5 to her 1,726.5.
Pledged delegates are awarded to presidential contenders based on how well they do in the Democratic Party primaries and caucuses1 held in the country’s 435 Congressional districts as well as the District of Colombia and U.S. territories in a total of 57 contests. Clinton’s attempt to override the results of the process that gave Obama a slim majority of pledged delegates by appealing to current and former Democratic Party officeholders (the so-called superdelegates) failed. Superdelegates were not about to risk a fight on the convention floor with furious Obama supporters and throw the party into disarray on the eve of the general election campaign to make a winner out of a loser. As Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and superdelegate put it at the time: “If the votes of the superdelegates overturn what’s happened in the elections, it would be harmful to the Democratic Party.”
To become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee the way Obama did in 2008, Sanders needs to win approximately 1,885 pledged delegates2 — that is, 50% of all pledged delegates plus 1. The number of pledged and unpledged delegates needed to clinch the nomination outright is 2,242.
MORE: https://revolutionaryds.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/sanders-can-win-the-democratic-presidential-primary-heres-how/
Neil Young on Trump.....(longer version)
Neil Young
Yesterday my song "Rockin in the Free World" was used in a announcement for a U.S. presidential candidate without my permission.
A picture of me with this candidate was also circulated in conjunction with this announcement but It was a photograph taken during a meeting when I was trying to raise funds for Pono, my online high resolution music service.
Music is a universal language. so I am glad that so many people with varying beliefs get enjoyment from my music, even if they don't share my beliefs.
But had I been asked to allow my music to be used for a candidate - I would have said no.
I am Canadian and I don't vote in the United States, but more importantly I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly Democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests. The money needed to run for office, the money spent on lobbying by special interests, the ever increasing economic disparity and the well funded legislative decisions all favor corporate interests over the people's.
The Citizens United Supreme Court ruling is proof of this corruption as well as are the proposed trade deals which would further compromise our rights.
These Corporations were originally created to serve us but if we don't appropriately prioritize they will destroy us. Corporations don't have children. They don't have feelings or soul. They don't depend on uncontaminated water, clean air or healthy food to survive. They are beholden to one thing - the bottom line.
I choose to speak Truth to this Economic Power. When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.
Such is the case with the reaction to my new album The Monsanto Years, which covers many of these issues. I support those bringing these issues to light and those who fight for their rights like Freedom of Choice.
But Freedom of Choice is meaningless without knowledge.
Thats why its crucial we all get engaged and get informed.
That's why GMO labeling matters. Mothers need to know what they are feeding their children. They need freedom to make educated choices at the market. When the people have voted for labeling, as they have in Vermont, they need our support when they are fighting these corporate interests trying to reverse the laws they have voted for and passed in the democratic process.
I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.
Keep on Rockin in the Free World.
Neil Young
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