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This week on CounterSpin: “Federal Regulations Work Overtime to Kill American Prosperity”—you see what they did there; that’s Reason magazine on new Labor Department rules that mean more people will get overtime pay when they, well, work overtime. We’ll get a different take from Ross Eisenbrey of the Economic Policy Institute.
Transcript: ‘Employers Have an Incentive to Work People Long Hours’
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Also on the show: Hundreds of thousands of people around the world took to the streets last weekend in protest of Monsanto, the corporate giant that’s one of the Big 6 that dominate the world’s seed, pesticide and biotechnology industries. Their anger had to do with much more than labeling of genetically engineered food. We’ll hear about that from Patty Lovera, the assistant director of Food & Water Watch.
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Plus we take a quick look back at the week’s press, including the myth of Bill Clinton, the pro-prosecutor New York Times and the Washington Post‘s dubious Native American poll.
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“The New Overtime Rule Will Directly Benefit 12.5 Million Working People,” by Ross Eisenbrey and Will Kimball (Economic Policy Institute, 5/17/16)
Not only is Roundup, w/ glyphosate as the active ingredient, an insecticide (Bt in corn), Roundup is an herbicide intended to kill “weeds”, the unwanted plants in a field of GMOs/GEs. This products goes on killing soil microorganisms throughout the ecosystem including and on into the human gut and breastmilk.
Yes but, one out of eight humans in this world is slowly starving to death and your coming in here to only rehash the misery of the problem, a mainstream media type of brainwash designed to drive the public away from the problem, exactly what is your problem?
Bt is not RoundUp at all; it is an organic insecticide, naturally produced by plants as an evolutionary defense mechanism. Some crops have been breed to produce more Bt, resulting in less need for spraying insecticides. RoundUp and other brands of glyphosate (it’s been off patent for years) are herbicides and they are used on both conventional and GE crops. Despite all the misinformation out there, such as was rehashed on this show, it doesn’t kill the soil and it isn’t in your breastmilk in anything more than maybe parts per billions, if at all. Being anti-corporation or even anti Monsanto should be no excuse to continue spreading falsehoods.
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To maximize profit for super-fast thinkers of the investor class, surely the optimum pay scale must be achieved, perfection being to give the glory-power of wealth to everyone in direct proportion to their intelligence.
The grand scheme of things being to establish that permanent and lasting good is only an illusion, that temporary and instant pleasure is what life is all about and if the educated upper-half of society could not own all the land and wealth, could not enslave the laboring-class by a poverty minimum wage, why, for them life would not be worth living.
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But, to maximize economic growth, what benefit has that ever been for humanity? For that was what World War Two was all about and that is why USA ended up being Empire USA with ownership of half of all the wealth on earth.
For to be in harmony with nature, man would have to reverse the grand scheme of things, with everyone earning just enough for a comfortable life, with everyone giving to those less intelligent and reserving a grateful response as their only reward.
Thank you for your interview with Patty Lovera. I have been complaining about exactly these issues with otherwise reliable scientific podcasts and commentators. I feel exactly as she described – shamed for being anti science and making too big a deal of Monsanto’s business practices. They seem to often trot out Steven Novella as an “authority” on GMOs. When I complain that he is a neurologist with no agricultural training other than internet searches they say that is who they could get to talk about it. I have given up. Thanks again.