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Wayne Barrett, The Nation: ''[Mitt Romney s] ties to Monsanto ... whose dark history features scandals involving PCBs, Agent Orange, bovine growth hormone, NutraSweet, the IUD [and] genetically modified (GM) seed and herbicides, [reaches] back to the 1970s and '80s. That's when Monsanto was the largest consulting client of Romney s employer, Bain & Company, and when Romney helped move Monsanto from chemical colossus to genetic giant, trading one set of environmental controversies for another.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11531-mitt-romney-monsanto-man

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Bain s birth by death squads

In These Times

by Terry J. Allen

09/17/12

Mitt Romney has a debilitating condition that won t show up in his medical report: severe cognitive dissonance, simultaneously holding conflicting ideas, beliefs and values. His problem goes deeper than routine hypocrisy and expedient 'flip-flopping.' Romney believes that free enterprise serves justice and the public good and that he and Bain Capital embody beneficence. He also believes that people like him, and businesses like his, make it on the strength of their bootstraps. And yet the arc of Mitt Romney s life and wealth betrays the delusions inherent in those myths...

http://tinyurl.com/8u3f5sc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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