Last year, General Mills debuted a souped-up version of an old standard: Cheerios Protein. "I think the protein trend is real. I think it started with [the Atkins diet] back in the day, leveled off and now is gaining steam again," a General Mills exec told the Wall Street Journal at the time.
But now the Center for Science in the Public Interest has taken a close look at the product's label—and turned up some unsettling information.
CSPI claims that Cheerios Protein offers just marginally more protein per equivalent serving than the old product—plus a startling 17 times more sugar.
METRO MANILA, PHILIPPINES- That was the position of Atty. Harry Roque when asked about possible repercussions of a contrary ruling of the Supreme Court regarding the Senate Resolution against the validity and effectivity of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA).
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The EDCA has been signed by Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and US Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg in April last year, as part of the defense pact between the US and the Philippines. It has been characterized as an executive agreement, which supporters say is valid even without Senate concurrence. Those against it emphasize that in all respects it was a treaty, which required approval of the Senate for it to be valid.
Atty. Roque has long been opposing EDCA, and has in fact filed with the Supreme Court to declare it invalid, together with Former Senator Rene Saguisag, Dean Pacifico Agabin, and lawyers Rachel Pastores and Evalyn Ursua. Their group has now found strong political support in the said Senate resolution.
“The Santiago resolution reiterated the letter and spirit of the highest law of the land,” Atty. Harry Roque said. “An SC ruling to the contrary may render the Justices liable to impeachment for culpable violation of the Constitution.”
Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago proposed said resolution to Senate, with thirteen other Senators concurring: Sonny Angara, Nancy Binay, Joseph Victor Ejercito, Francis Escudero, Teofisto Guingona III, Manuel Lapid, Loren Legarda, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Sergio Osmeña III, Aquilino Pimentel III, Grace Poe, Ralph Recto and Cynthia Villar.
Sen. Pia Cayetano, while absent during the vote, signified her support for the resolution.
Senate President Franklin Drilon and Senate Minority Leader Juan Ponce Enrile abstained, while only Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV objected to it.
“Even though the SC is the interpreter of the Constitution, it cannot ignore well-defined constitutional powers of the Senate, such as giving concurrence to treaties,” Roque added.
Atty. Roque is the former Director of the Institute of International Legal Studies at the UP Law Center, a position he has held for more twelve years. He is also a professor of Constitutional and International Law at the UP College of Law. He gave up his academic tenure to run for the 2016 elections under the party-list KABAYAN.
“While the Senate resolution is a political act,” Atty. Roque notes, “so is the act of impeachment. And that is why it is important for the SC Justices to follow the letter of the Constitution, otherwise they may be liable for impeachment.”
Now that we are finally seeing the text of the TPP, we are discovering that it is worse than we imagined.
Corporate Greed Resisters!
Last week, the text of the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) was released to the public. After 5 years of secret negotiations, so many people wanted to read it that the server kept crashing!
Many groups have been analyzing the text and sharing what they learned. You can read those analyses by clicking here.
We've written a piece to fill you in on the ten shocking realities of the TPP that we've discovered so far. We hope this will help those of you who are sitting on the fence to rise up and take action.
The DC mobilization this November 14 to 18 is going to be big! Please thank the action endorsers when you can (they are listed here) and give yourself recognition for making this a success.We've reserved a second church to provide extra sleeping space. If you need accommodations, please let us know. You will need to bring your own bedding.
And this week, people are sending us details of local actions that they are organizing. Click on theActions Page to see if there is one near you. You can also use the page to submit your action (if it doesn't work, email Mackenzie@PopularResistance.org directly).
Join the Wednesday night TPP Resistance call. We only have 1 call left before the actions. It is Wednesday night at9 pm ET/6 pm Pacific.
Plan to join the Global Hack-a-thonon Tuesday night, Nov. 17. Details to come.
And finally, this work and the mobilization require money. We need funds for materials (we are planning spectacular art!), space for the mobilization,food for the participants and more. CLICK HERE to donate if you are able. All who donate $25 or more can receive a "Stop the TPP" T shirt. Email Info@PopularResistance.org with your size after you make the donation.
It is up to us to stop the TPP and together we can do it! Get involved in whatever way you are able. And spread the word. We're going to Flush the TPP, oh yeah.
Construction jobs in clean sources of electricity are expected to boom under a low-carbon scenario.
The report, from NextGen Climate America, showed that investment in efficiency, renewable sources of electricity, and fuel switching — such as moving from fossil fuel-powered cars to electric vehicles — would add a million jobs by 2030, and roughly 2 million jobs by 2050, while increasing GDP by $290 billion and improving household income. The researchers looked at scenarios that would reduce emissions by 80 percent below 1990 levels.A new report has found that transitioning to a clean energy economy would be an economic boon to the United States, increasing employment, reducing costs to consumers, and benefiting investors.
“While addressing climate change is one of our greatest challenges, it is one of our greatest opportunities to build the economy,” Tom Steyer, co-founder of NextGen and billionaire climate activist (and a board member of the Center for American Progress), said on a call with reporters Monday.
The construction industry, in particular, could see a huge bump in jobs — to the tune of 1.2 million more in 2050 than under the business-as-usual scenario. That’s because it will take a lot of people to build the wind farms, install the solar panels, and retrofit the buildings needed to reduce America’s dependence on fossil fuels.
Efforts to lower emissions are often subject to the criticism that they will hurt the economy, even though actual examples of programs have shown that efficiency and clean energy programs can actually boost economic factors like household disposable income.
“The go-to argument against [climate action] is that it’s bad for the economy and it’s a job killer,” Steyer said. This report shows otherwise. Steyer also pointed out that in the last few years, jobs in the solar industry have grown 20 times faster than the rest of the economy.
In addition, the so-called reference case — a general economic forecast — did not take into account the potential costs of not addressing climate change. Recent reports have shown climate change poses a significant financial risk.
The report studiously stays away from telling policymakers how to get to 80 percent less emissions. Rather than policy recommendations, the researchers took a feasibility study and used it to build out the economic impacts. The researchers used a 2014 report, Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States by Energy and Environmental Economics, which looked at whether it was technologically feasible to reduce carbon emissions significantly enough to avoid 2°C warming.
Economist Jeffery Sachs told reporters it was critical to first determine where we want to go, and then tailor policies to achieve those end goals.
“Too often our national policy conversation jumps straight to the question, ‘Is it a tax? Is it this or that?’ Whereas what this report does, much better, in my opinion, is to show here’s where we want to go,” Sachs said.
Overall, the report painted an optimistic picture of the economy under a clean energy scenario. It’s worth noting, though, that the gains will not be across the board. Job growth in two of the nine regions was expected slow under the low-carbon scenarios. Those two regions — which include roughly the area from Montana to Texas, a fossil fuel heavy swath of the country — would have slower job growth.
That means that as the country does develop policies to achieve these goals, it will likely need to dedicate resources — educational and economic — to areas that will have a harder time getting off fossil fuels.
“To help them adapt we need to provide dedicated new resources for economic diversification, job creation, job training and other employment services for workers and communities affected by job losses at coal mines and coal-fired power plants,” the authors said.
Jobs notwithstanding, all regions were found to see increases in disposable income.
Workers at the U.S. Capitol are striking to protest wages that leave them destitutewhile private corporations get rich off taxpayer dollars. Adnan Syed, the incarcerated star of the smash-hit podcast Serial, will for the first time be allowed to submit new evidence. Comcast's new data cap reveals what everyone has always suspected -- the cable giant has betrayed us all. And, a new report shows that transitioning off fossil fuels won't just save the environment -- it could save the economy too.
Cable giant Comcast doesn’t necessarily conjure up warm and fuzzy feelings, and more likely associated with feelings of frustration and primal rage. ...(read more)
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And finally, this work and the mobilization require money. We need funds for materials (we are planning spectacular art!), space for the mobilization,food for the participants and more. 
