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An April Month of Transformation, Ethics, and Depth Exploration

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Transformation, Ethics, and Depth ExplorationHenry Seltzer – April has a lot going on, including some entirely unique and astrologically interesting features. These include the recent entry of Pluto into Aquarius in the timing of the previous month’s Equinox New Moon, still affecting the current month, an unusual second Aries New Moon on the 19th of this month that is also a Solar Eclipse, as well as the eclipse taking place in the last ten minutes of a degree of Aries and the fact that this mid-April event lies in close square to Pluto.

Add to the above the general tenor of an entirely transformative presence of Pluto in the first degree of Aquarius in aspect to the recent New Moon, to Saturn at that aspect’s midpoint, and to potentially angry Mars in the final degrees of Gemini. These are some confrontational times and some uncharted territory that we are entering upon in April and in the spring and summer to follow. Continue reading →

Celebrating Western Civilization (Part 1)

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Paul Rosenberg – I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve heard Western civilization disparaged, in everything from street talk to written screeds to intellectual circles. It would have to be thousands of times at least. In fact, it’s something that people (including people who should know better) repeat endlessly, always confident that they’ll receive a pat on the back for it.

Criticizing the West passes for enlightenment these days.

Except that it’s false. Western civilization (and by that I mean European civilization and its offshoots, from the breakup of the Western Roman Empire to today… the civilization based upon Judeo-Christian ethics and scientific progress) is, by far, the most productive in human history. To criticize it in broad terms is not a sign of enlightenment, but of delusion. Continue reading →

Sanders Fails to File Senate Financial Ethics Forms

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sandersThomas – Socialist Senator and former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is in hot water after missing the deadline to file his ethics financial statements… for a second time!

The first deadline was May 15th for the 2016 records. But Sanders, a big-government socialist who campaigned on more transparency in government, missed the filing deadline.

What’s going on here? Does it have to do with his wife’s FBI investigation, or perhaps alleged favors received from Team Clinton in exchange for cooperation during the 2016 presidential campaign?

Sanders was supposed to file two separate disclosures because he was running for President, but he failed to do that as well until after losing to Hillary Clinton in the Democrat primary.

He’s been caught hiding his financial records:

[…]Sanders has failed to meet a May 15 deadline for turning in an annual report detailing his finances for 2016, according to the Valley News, a New England newspaper. Continue reading →

Ethical Choices College Students Face

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collegeGoing to college is a dream come true for many young people. College is not only a good place to invest in one’s future, it is great fun too. However, college life raises many ethical questions that test an individual’s values and beliefs.

Students struggle with issues of plagiarism, sex, drugs, and personal relationships to name a few. How they respond determines the quality of their college life and even their future. Here are five ethical issues college students face before and after graduation.

1) Applying for College

College students face the first ethical question even before stepping into a college, and it regards their college application. Should they lie? According to the College Board, most students are lying in their applications to increase their chances of admission. The board cites stiff competition for college positions as the reason behind this trend.

It claims that students are lying about their high school achievements or failing to disclose any disciplinary action taken against them. Their parents are not helping either. They are also lying in their admission essays.

2) Academic Misconduct

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Academic GMO shills exposed: Once-secret emails reveal gross collusion with Monsanto, academic fraud at the highest levels inside U.S. universities

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Julie Wilson – U.S. Right to Know (USRTK), a non-profit organization dedicated to exposing the fraud and corruption surrounding the food industry, launched an investigation into the intimate and unethical relationship between the biotech industry and university faculty and staff, which is used to manipulate public opinion about GMOs and to coerce the government into passing legislation supportive of Big Ag’s patented seeds and pesticides.

The investigation, which is still ongoing, reveals how biotech industry giants Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, Dow AgroSciences and others, buy academics employed by taxpayer-funded universities to push GMOs and lobby Congress to pass legislation favorable of their products, with one of the most high-profile examples including attempts to derail states’ rights to enact GMO-labeling laws.

The collusion between Big Food, its front groups and university staff has been exposed through thousands of emails and documents obtained through a USRTK Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, which was meticulously filed over a six-month period.

USRTK: Public deserves to know about flow of money and level of coordination between Big Ag and public university scientists

The FOIA request sought to obtain emails and documents from 43 public university faculty and staff to learn more about the biotech industry’s public relations strategies. Records were requested from scientists, economists, law professors, extension specialists and communicators, all of whom are employed by taxpayer-funded public institutions and steadily promote GMO agriculture under the “independent” research.

Currently, USRTK has received thousands of documents in nine of their requests; however, much more information is expected to be released as FOIA requests continue to be answered.

The documents received thus far expose how the biotech industry funds expenses for university faculty to travel the globe promoting and defending GMOs and their associated pesticides, highlighting the shift that scientists have made from being researchers to being actors in Big Ag PR campaigns. Continue reading →