| Farm lobby at the helm of Waxman-Markey bill |
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| Written by Los Angeles Times | |
| Friday, 26 June 2009 | |
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Conspiracy theorists point to an assortment of groups they think secretly run the country -- the gun lobby, Big Oil, the New World Order and even Yale's Skull and Bones society have all been fingered as the shadowy Illuminati who rule Washington. Yet the nation's real power brokers are in plain sight, amid amber waves of grain: the farmers. Read more...
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