MONSANTO PROFITS DROP 25% AGAIN AS FARMERS, INDIVIDUALS GO ORGANIC

For Monsanto’s 2nd quarter, total sales for Monsanto dropped 13%; with one of Monsanto’s top-sellers, corn seeds, falling 11%. The biotech giant cites an “unfavorable agricultural market” for its losses, pointing out that:

• Pressures in overseas markets is increasing

• Farmers are reporting less income due to less-than-ideal harvests

• The strength of the U.S. dollar made products more expensive

But the company makes little or no mention of the other key factors affecting its bottom line.

• Organic food demand is exploding like crazy – and the figures show no sign of it slowing any time soon.

• The world is seeing how toxic pesticides and herbicides really are.

• Record farmers are switching to non-GMO crops.

• Monsanto is one of the most hated companies in the world.
• http://www.infowars.com/monsanto-profits-drop-25-again-as-farmers-individuals-go-organic/

When Robots Take Our Jobs, Should Everyone Still Get a Paycheck? Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/when-robots-take-our-jobs-should-everyone-still-get-paycheck-180958483/#8gE79io7eTuWx3lA.99 Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! http://bit.ly/1cGUiGv Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter

There’s nothing new about worrying that machines will take our jobs. More than 200 years ago, Luddites started taking sledgehammers to weaving machines.

But tech anxiety got a fresh jolt last month when the White House sent out a Council of Economic Advisers report including a projection that people making less than $20 an hour have an 83 percent chance of eventually losing their jobs to a robot. The odds for those earning up to $40 an hour are more than 30 percent.

Not that most Americans would find that very surprising. According to a Pew Internet Survey released last week, more than two-thirds of Americans think that within 50 years, most jobs will be done by robots or computers—although the vast majority conveniently thought that won’t happen with their own jobs.

No matter how this plays out, it’s pretty clear that machines will be handling more and more work, particularly now that increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence is enabling them to take on mental tasks too. And that is raising a big question:  When machines dominate the work world, what are all the people they replace going to do for money?
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/when-robots-take-our-jobs-should-everyone-still-get-paycheck-180958483/?no-ist

REPORTS: Secret Service, Trump Campaign Increasing Security After Threats to Family, Violent Protests

The Secret Service and the presidential campaign of Donald Trump are increasing security for the candidate and his rallies after threatening letters were received by Trump family members and violent protests by leftists broke out at a string of several recent Trump rallies.

NBC News reported on Friday: Secret Service Tightens Trump’s Security Amidst New Threats

“The Secret Service is ramping up their presence around Donald Trump as the joint terrorism task force investigates a suspicious envelope with powder that was delivered to Trump’s son.”

The NBC report aired before it was revealed that Trump’s sister, federal appeals court judge Maryanne Trump Barry, had also been sent a threatening letter that was received Friday but did not contain any powder.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/03/reports-secret-service-trump-campaign-increasing-security-after-threats-to-family-violent-protests/