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"Neither is it that US foreign policy is cruel because American leaders are cruel. It's that our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment; it might as well be written into the job description. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers - (let alone American soldiers - do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to." From 'Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower' by William Blum

From "9-11, Six Years Later": "If one looks at the credentials of skeptics compared to the credentials of defenders of the official line, it is impossible to dismiss skeptics as kooks. There are many people with strong imaginations on the Internet, but serious skeptics stick to known facts, known violations of standard procedures and the laws of physics. The vast majority of the people who call skeptics "kooks" are themselves ignorant of physics and have little comprehension of the improbability that such an attack could succeed without either the complicity or complete failure of government agencies. " Paul Craig Roberts

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular? But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." Martin Luther King, Jr.

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New no-vote over lifting GM crop bans

New no-vote over lifting GM crop bans

By staff reporter, 03-Mar-2009

Related topics: Legislation

Environment ministers yesterday voted against a proposal to force Hungary and Austria to lift bans on the growing of genetically modified crops, indicating that the great European rift over GM is still wide.

EU opinion over genetically modified (GM) food and crops has been one of the hottest debates of the last decade. Certain EU states, such as the UK, are swayed in favour of the technology, while others like France are resistant.

The issues have resurfaced in the last year, partly as solutions have been offered to the problem of ensuring food security for a growing world population whilst reducing the impact of agriculture on the environment. GM is proposed as a solution on one extreme, and organic farming at the other.

Environment ministers were asked yesterday to vote on a Commission proposal that would force the countries to lift their bans on farmers growing Mon 810 maize, developed and sold by Monsanto.

A qualified majority (282 votes out of 345) were against the move, even though the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has given its opinion that Mon 810 is safe, and it is presently authorised for EU cultivation. This is the forth time the question over Hungary and Austria has been put to ministerial vote.

Environment groups have welcomed the vote, and the French are seeing it outcome as a good sign given that their national ban (and that of Greece) is up for a similar vote in the spring.

New no-vote over lifting GM crop bans.

April 25th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: agribusiness (Cargill, ADM, Monsanto, DuPont), corruption, environment, extortion/blackmail, food and agriculture, social justice | Leave a comment |

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