put this issue on the ballot it has been unfortunately in american democracy with companies like monsanto being able to give so many campaign contributions spend so much money on marketing and lobbying we have not been successful in the legislatures even though this cause to have genetically engineered foods labeled house and support out of of nine out of ten americans and yet you know it could be one hundred percent it doesn't seem like we're getting anywhere with the legislature is we're not getting anywhere with the presidential administration so we're taking our cause to the voters and we think with nine out of ten support at the polls we should be able to win the you know there are other countries where it is not just legal to label g.m.o. foods but illegal not to operate i mean almost of the industrialized world. just about how we're all here and europe everywhere you know why and what's their experience been well i think consumers now in europe and other parts of the world where to that if the engineered foods are labeled consumers actually know what they're eating they ask questio

welcome so i kind of default to german for months for how long has have agribusiness giants like monsanto been basically. in charge of whether or not we can know what they're doing well you know anybody who's eighteen years old they've been living. with this food unlabeled in their diet for since one thousand nine hundred two since birth yes since birth we have our first generation of people raised months and labeled genetically engineered. while we also have a we also have a bit obesity crisis in the states we also have an explosion of autism among people in that cohort. connecting dots the only crazy conspiracy theorist word or not at all and these are the issues that need to be studied certainly was in childhood cancer together i mean i have an eight year old girl i'm very interested in the issue of premature puberty you know. and we know that there's a connection between cows that are given growth hormone that make them over produce milk and the types of hormones that are in the children who have premature puberty but it's never been studied so that's what that's what we're being kept

something so terrible facts about monsanto can see a company prison industrial complex. climate change which is already happening and. when you land on one of these which you know happens arbitrarily as a stop the wheel whenever i want to because i'm the controller of this wheel misfortune. you get one of these cards. and you need to learn about the terrible situation. that is here why don't you know so i can take a picture was he like as a picture one of the one hundred you do and i'm going to be the future isn't treating you know we don't treat it for yourself and. tweet about what's going on and take pictures of people the artwork is different foods to eat it out to everybody maybe people come out when they see a little know they're here. that's mostly my family who is six week and sue used twitter as a means to do both outreach to the larger community in reach within the movement medication between occupations between people within the occupation and it also as a means of getting new resources and question things that we need whether it be food or clothing or support

an agent monsanto is has been shot dead but to leave by his own teenage son. police say the agent was watching tv last night when the 14 year-old fired it from the backyard. the weapon used was the agents icy should gun. the boy is in custody tonight in a motive for the shooting was not yet known. the tables were turned on the gunman who tried to rob a jewelry store. police say the store owner took matters into his own hands after he was threatened. shots were fired this afternoon on broadway street in vallejo. as robert weil tells us the would-be thief ended up dead. degrees broadway in illinois is infamous. >>> suntory is surveillance cameras were installed to blocks a week ago. >>> another police cameras bustling travel every grocery full potential witnesses stockton would be robert from bursting through doors of the jewelry store just before one. leaving the counter down and hand. with the braves and burglar did didn't anticipate was that the doors were locked behind each customer. and that owner had a gun behind the counter. krio fired killing the would-b

one nine hundred sixty one were manufactured and sold by american chemical companies including dow monsanto and diamond shamrock. at the time vietnam was divided into northern south the us supported the government of south vietnam and military intervention intensified after nine hundred sixty five. but the us made strong resistance from guerrilla forces who used dense jungle as their base of operations. defoliant spraying was begun in an effort to deny cover to the guerrillas by eliminating the jungle falling which. as the war escalated the spring of deval eons increased dramatically and much of the land in south vietnam was contaminated and left barren. the defoliant known as agent orange was made from the same chemical substances as herbicides used in the us but it was twenty five times more potent. agent orange also contained dioxin the most toxic chemical ever produced. dioxin remains in the environment for many decades and causes a variety of health problems. several million vietnamese and american soldiers who fought in vietnam were affected by agent orange. their children and grandch

what isn't it the subject of a new article written by jill richardson called how corporations like monsanto have hijacked higher education bill richardson is all tonight contributor and a member of the organic consumers association policy advisory board and she's also author of the author of the book a recipe for america why our food system is broken and what we can do to fix it i guess jill just start out by laying this out for me how did we get to this point. ok certainly so. i just want to point out first of all the food and water recently put out a report on the same subject so that was kind of my jumping off point and within the past couple decades we've really seen an increase in. an increase in corporate funding of academic research as well as a decrease of federal and government funding and then aside from that just i mean the corporations are also doing their own research outside of academia so when you look at them in the confines of academia you're seeing that the corporations are only funding a quarter of academic research and land grant institution over to ration their funding

to keep these subsidies in place corporations and organizations like monsanto the american farm bureaukraft foods and the american corn growers association of cordura public report have shelled out tens of millions of dollars in lobbying and campaign contributions on the other hand the center for science in the public interest the leading healthy food lobby spent only seventy thousand dollars lobbying last year which is roughly what the giant agribusiness spend every thirteen hours so while obesity threatens to bankrupt our nation with higher medical costs and lower productivity congress is looking the other way and instead taking pockets full of campaign cash from the very industries that are driving this epidemic. but that's not all there is this story too about how democrats in congress are also up for sale one of the leading democratic critics of the volcker rule which outlaws banks from gambling with your money is virginia senator mark warner so why does warner oppose regulating the big banks because he's received over a quarter of his campaign donations from wall street giant j.p

that a lot of people died well that's too bad for them well it was also a good journey for dow and monsanto now the other thing i want to turn to that max is the next headline back to america machines dominate the market eighty four percent of all trades have t. trading by real investors is taking up the smallest share of u.s. stock market volumes since morgan stanley started keeping track ten years ago the findings highlight how us trading activity is increasingly being fueled by fast turnover of shares by independent firms in the market making desks of brokerages many using high frequency trading engines. now the interesting thing max of where this trading against to well the proportion of u.s. trading activity represented by buy and sell orders from mutual funds hedge funds pensions and brokerages referred to as real money or institutional investors accounted for just sixteen percent of total market volume in the form of buying and thirteen percent selling in the final quarter of last year so you have more and more volume by these computers against the pension funds and their mutual fund

i mean come on you're not as though they're breeding the offices of monsanto early take big huge factory farm companies you never really got to really a farm animals you need to you need to shoot them to protect the right. to protect the big lobbying and see and sure that money keeps flowing their breeding like get their reading really small farms i think one time they were able to cooperate more than once they had officers raided co-op i mean it's. just i think it's stupid i agree with rand paul i would. think we need the f.d.a. you know i like for there to be certain checks on the food and farming practices and this is one of his father's big thing is you know and whenever i go to cover these rallies. people are always wearing the t. shirts you know please let me sell my raw milk i mean it's a direct topic that seems to be very important to the whole family. i mean if it's unhealthy that's why the f.d.a. should be their right to regulate but they don't need to do it i don't think you know. little bit you know just a notch to the over asking for this thing is kind of funny because these

monsanto is bucking the trend.year and the quarter thanks to strong seed and herbicide sales. our road map for today, the hits keep coming for research in motion, the stock in a steep slide as the company reviews its options to reshape or possibly sell itself. we'll find out if there's value left in that name. >>> plus, the former ceo of lehman brothers and the current ceo, peter cohen, is joining us to talk about wall street and investing. >>> the ceo of cowen & company is here, jeffrey solomon. >>> and the post 9 investor club is back. we'll tell you which stocks to buy and sell and which ones are truly best for your portfolio. that's coming up in the next hour. >>> first, shares of rim continue to drop after falling more than 10% in after-hours trading yesterday. the company reported a surprise operating los for the first quarter. it hired rbc capital to review its numbers. james mormon is equity analyst at iq, and on the phone, scott sutherland, managing director with web bush securities. gentlemen, good to tal

among them, monsanto, strong in north america prompting the company to raise the full-year forecast. sallie mae adding another 400 million to its stock buyback plan. take a look at shares of hamilton. it's up 13.6% after the fourth quarter profit doubled a year ago while the market is also higher up. the company reported better than expected fourth quarter results. bill, back to you. >> all right. raise your hand if it's your birthday today. anybody? anyone? >> come on, mary. >> there you go. >> happy birthday. >> thank you, guys. thank you. >> she's such a public person. she love it is when we do that. >> all right. where were we now? heading lower again with 50 minutes to go. down 160 points on the dow jones industrial average. >> we go out on to the floor next. take the temperature of traders. >> somebody has his hand in your pocket. it's the hand of big government. it's taking away about four months pay from what your daddy earns every year. $1 out of every 3 in his paycheck. >> where did we find that? that is hilarious. nearly 50 years. that's barry goldwater's commercial there.

monsanto up about 10% for the year. >>> foreclosure factor seems to be waning a bit.d to buying a foreclosed home is going away. foreclosures jumped 159% since october of 2009. with that in mind, where are the best places to buy a foreclosed home? diana olick is here, literally, here in englewood cliffs with the top spots. >> that's right, brian. we reported in the last hour investors are still feeding on distressed homes buying up foreclosure likely to take advantage of sky high rents. if you're one of them, where will you reap the greatest rewards? reo or bank owned properties. take a look down at number five is san francisco where foreclosure prices are down from a year ago averages about $308,000. now, i know that's pricey, but the foreclosure discount, which is really what we're looking at and the primary driver of this list is 38%. and rents in san francisco are the highest in the nation averaging $1,900 a month according to the national low income housing coalition. so, excellent investor returns there close to half of all home sales in san fran are reos, that'

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for monsanto had the couragemin staye in a box or a month. i have to cut the straps on to the backpack. it went right through like it was through butter as expression goes. to let you know how strong it was i yank real heart of the strap it would not break. you were demonstrating the e150. eyebrow mind i had hoped up. i did not know how to start it every time i pressed on the foot pedal, the manual is very vague the lights would be. you do not need your foot control cuddle so you can put over your shoulder across the start button i felt like an idiot all you have to do is press the start button. [laughter] >>guest: have all done that and more inclined to not feel bad you are not alone to read >>host: where you are today are loving the machine? are you using that with ease? >>caller: and is really easy to use i love it. mostly for the quiltingvlot embroidery for a lot of people. i am doing monograms, teddy bears turtles bib hummingbird set different things.- am13 baby blankets. -- bibs when >>host: you get home rule appears sleeves and be cour

iraq -- we came roc in and said, "you must use only genetically modified seed from unilever and monsantoe're attempting to do the same thing in iran. we must cause iran's leaderrs to starvation. this is what americans do. first we starve them. then we say our companies will come in and sell you the seeds so you will no longer a star ve. this is a moral outrage. host: ok, alice. guest: alice, war has consequences and that is why it is important to make these kinds of smart investments to build these new partnerships to avoid consequences of war and to avoid going to war in the first place. those types of technologies may not add value over time-- they very well may. some of the technologies that will be real in five to seven years could do is a real shot at ending the kind of cycle of famine that we see when we see excruciating droughts. but they are not relevant right now in sub-saharan africa. there is a long way to get to the point. we're not focusing as part of an effort. i would question the history. america has a proud history. americace the 1860's, has been the scientific leader el

businesses, from unilever and monsanto. we are attempting to do the same thing to iran. will they say, i heard this on c-span in 2008 at the apec conference. we must cause iran's leaders to fear starvation. this is what is being done in gaza. this is what americans do. first we starve them and then we say, our companies will come in and sell you the seat so you will no longer start. this is not a moral imperative. this is an outrage. this is a moral outrage that americans should be ashamed of, and seek to change their ways. >> host: let's throw that comment in question to raj shah. >> as you point out war has consequences and that is precisely why it's important to make these kinds of smart targeted investments to build partnerships to avoid war, to avoid going to war in the first place. the reality is there is no focus on gmo products per se in the new alliance that president obama lunch yesterday not because those types of technologies may not add value over time. they very well made and in fact i personally tend to believe that some of the drought-tolerant technologie