Heads in the Sand and Hands in the Till...

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Thu, 09/01/2011 - 12:00am
Interviews with Jamie Henn @ Tar Sand Action & Sarah Anderson on CEO tax evasion.

www.ips-dc.org/campaigns/tax-dodging-ceos/index.php

It’s another ‘Bathtub Moment’

Grover Norquist's America takes a ’drowned in the bathtub’ government turn for the worse:  As safety rules and regulatory efforts on all sides begin to fall away, the floodgates are wide open to the barbarous corporate hoards.  “Never draw to an inside straight”, as the saying goes.  Del Monte is gunning for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Oregon Public Health department  this past week.

From Washington state to Washington D.C.  food safety agents and agencies are feeling the legal heat in what amounts to bullying – nothing less…

Public health authorities and consumer activists described the complaint filed by Del Monte Fresh Produce as an attempt to intimidate food safety programs across the country.

The lawsuit is a response to a finding by the FDA earlier this year that a Salmonella Panama outbreak that had sickened 20 people in 10 states was likely caused by contaminated cantaloupes grown in Guatemala and imported by Del Monte Fresh Produce.

 

Emmert International, the corporation that is bringing you tar sand oil, is located right here in Clackamas at 11811 SE Highway 212,  info@emmertintl.com or  503-655-7191.

This evening from 4 - 6 pm environmental activists are gathering on Hawthorne Bridge, eastbound, this evening from 4 - 6 pm in solidarity with the actions that have taking place in DC all this weird week long.  and it has been a dark voyage through rough days...

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