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Meet the newest vegetable: pizza

Post author:Erich Vieth
Post published:November 18, 2011
Post category:Corporatocracy Food Health
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The food industry lobbyists have been working overtime, and Jamie Oliver reports on what they have been accomplishing:

A new Congressional bill that looks likely to pass quickly will slow down reductions in sodium by requiring further study on long-term requirements, block whole grains by haggling over the definition, and help pizza stay on the menu by allowing two tablespoons of tomato paste on pizza to keep counting as a vegetable.

Jamie Oliver isn't the only person upset by Congressional corruption:

Many are outraged by these possible last minute changes, including Mission: Readiness, a group made up of hundreds of retired military Generals and Admirals who have been raising alarms about the readiness of our armed forces due to current childhood obesity. Amy Dawson Taggart, the director of Mission: Readiness, recently stated in a letter to politicians: "We are outraged that Congress is seriously considering language that would effectively categorize pizza as a vegetable in the school lunch program. It doesn't take an advanced degree in nutrition to call this a national disgrace.”

Payday Lenders rule in Texas

Post author:Erich Vieth
Post published:November 17, 2011
Post category:Corporatocracy Corruption Politics
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Here's one way that deregulation has worked in Texas:

Large corporations that operate payday lenders, many of them based in Texas, have been steady contributors to Perry's political campaigns over the last decade, donating upwards of $200,000, according to Texas campaign finance disclosure statements. In 2004, Perry appointed William J. White, a senior executive of one of the nation's largest payday lending corporations, Cash America International, to a seat on the Texas Finance Commission, which is tasked in part with protecting the state's consumers. Two years ago, the governor elevated White to the chairmanship of that body.

Eighteenth-Century Occupy Protesters

Post author:Erich Vieth
Post published:November 17, 2011
Post category:Art Corporatocracy Patriotism/Nationalism Protests and Actions
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Here is a group of Eighteenth-Century Occupy Protesters: [Image by Erich Vieth, a derivative work based on John Trumbull's painting, "Declaration of Independence"]

Finding Jesus

Post author:Erich Vieth
Post published:November 17, 2011
Post category:Religion Whimsy
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You'll never know where Jesus will next turn up. Here's a few more places where Jesus has been spotted. And there's lots more where that came from. He even shows up on potato chips. There's also a lot of other people's faces showing up in surprising places.

LRO cameras capture Apollo landing sites in great detail

Post author:Erich Vieth
Post published:November 17, 2011
Post category:Astronomy Science
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Check out these stunning images captured by the LRO cameras in 2010. I felt great pride when I viewed these images. Seeing them brought back some of the emotions I felt back in 1969 when the U.S. sent astronauts to the moon. If our country ever turned its attention from villainizing and attacking entire countries and cultures, maybe we could get back to serious space exploration, as well as other cutting edge science.