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Global Treaty Signed to Stop Mercury While FDA Allows it In Your Food

Global Treaty Signed to Stop Mercury While FDA Allows it In Your Food | MN News Hound | Scoop.it

Over 140 nations have come together under a new treaty to curb deadly mercury pollution over serious risks to worldwide health, but meanwhile the FDA is still allowing the mass majority of US citizens to chomp down on mercury-containing processed foods. Specifically, mercury has actually been found in the highly popular genetically modified junk ingredient high-fructose corn syrup — an ingredient present in over 90% of processed foods.

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World's Second And Third Largest Economies To Bypass Dollar, Engage In Direct Currency Trade | ZeroHedge

World's Second And Third Largest Economies To Bypass Dollar, Engage In Direct Currency Trade | ZeroHedge | MN News Hound | Scoop.it
To all who still think that in the war of attrition between the USD and the EUR (because contrary to what some have "discovered" only recently, currency wars have been going on for a long, long time and will continue to do so, before morphing into...
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MPAA Head Chris Dodd on Online Censorship Bill: China's the Model | The Weekly Standard

MPAA Head Chris Dodd on Online Censorship Bill: China's the Model | The Weekly Standard | MN News Hound | Scoop.it

If you're wondering why lawyers and Hollywood folks would get behind legislation to censor the Internet, you only need to listen to former Senator Chris Dodd, now the head of the MPAA, who last week explained to Variety that the lobby is only asking for the same kind of power to censor the Internet as the government has in the People's Republic of China:

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