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In reply to the discussion: He failed us - Obama signs Monsanto Protection Act! It's Time to Label GMOs! [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)38. The site was accurate in its reporting contrary to what you claimed.
The story was also reported on RT, also accurately.
And yes, RT does have that 'liberal bias' so long missing from our own Corporate Media.
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He failed us - Obama signs Monsanto Protection Act! It's Time to Label GMOs! [View all]
Smilo
Mar 2013
OP
That's an appropriations bill. I don't find any reference to Monsanto or food labeling in it.
Honeycombe8
Mar 2013
#80
Tacked into a spending bill? Yuk, so much gets added in these with no line item veto.
freshwest
Mar 2013
#65
It was in the local (DE) paper today that DuPont and Monsanto kissed and made up. n/t
woodsprite
Mar 2013
#4
Our complicit corporate enamored President does not have to sign these bills.
xtraxritical
Mar 2013
#43
What is your alternative. That every single provision in a several hundred page bill
onenote
Mar 2013
#82
"...strip federal courts of the authority to immediately halt the planting and sale of genetically
abelenkpe
Mar 2013
#44
and gay marriage and equal rights aren't much of an issue to some people either..
frylock
Mar 2013
#56
I don't like the provision, but the claim that it was unknown to most senators is BS
onenote
Mar 2013
#83
And then what happens when, according to some, he is powerless to stop the inclusion of a similar
AnotherMcIntosh
Mar 2013
#76
Poor, frail little Monsanto. Thank goodness the big, strong government came along to protect them.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Mar 2013
#21
Somebody should introduce the "powerless" Obama to his veto pen and explain its usefulness.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2013
#24
So, how else can the executive exercise the power given to his office?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2013
#42
I'm willing to take a risk rather than be bullied by the corporations and the GOP.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2013
#46
Yes, he is willing to be bullied and intimidated by the corporations and GOP.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2013
#52
So gm food should have a diagram of the gnome on the package? Wow that helps me a lot.
xtraxritical
Mar 2013
#47
When has he ever not put the interests of corporations over the public interest?
forestpath
Mar 2013
#39
can't veto JUST the provision that you name - and he was not going to veto the continuing
karynnj
Mar 2013
#66
Agreed. Not signing it would defund VAWA, etc. We have 6 months to go after this for the next
freshwest
Mar 2013
#90
Signing a bill passed by a veto proof majority to keep the government running was wrong?
onenote
Mar 2013
#86
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren voted FOR this bill. Repeat-voted FOR this bill.
graham4anything
Mar 2013
#77
more than that: 6 of 7 Democrats who sponsored an amendment to kill the monsanto
onenote
Mar 2013
#87