Politico's Smith charged Clinton "seems to be breaching" a "less-aggression" pact with News Corp.

2 days ago on Media Matters for America

on the July 22 edition of Hannity's America. Media Matters for America challenged a previous claim by Smith in an April 10 Politico article that Fox News' coverage of Hillary Clinton "has been largely respectful." In that article, Smith claimed that the Clintons...

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." -Martin Luther King, Jr. :coolmad:

Chavez is NOT a dictator! BUSH is a dictator. Seems like the establishment (Dems as well as Repubs) characterize anyone who doesn't let American/Multinationa Korporations take their resources a dictator!

When the heck will you admit it's fascism?

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Maddow / Dean smackdown! woo hoo!!!

    Actually I think Obama was able to stay on message with his answer of proising to meet with Hugo Chavez and others, by saying yes he is showing a commitment to a new direction in Washington. While Hillarys' answer sounded more like more of the same, and almost a little like Bush. Anyone who believes that Chavez or any of the others will not use any meeting wth the U.S. as a propaganda event is a little niave.

"Islands at Risk" - GMO & FrankenFood in Hawai'i
Terminator Seeds with Vandana Shiva
US EPA closing regional brick & mortar libraries for *selected* centralized & digital libraries.

courtesy Truthout, a selection from Fortune Magazine:

Attack of the mutant rice
America's rice farmers didn't want to grow a genetically engineered crop. Their customers in Europe did not want to buy it. So how did it end up in our food?

Fortune's Marc Gunther reports, Fortune senior writer, July 2 2007: 3:56 PM EDT

(Fortune Magazine) -- Back in the spring of 2001, a 64-year-old Texas rice farmer named Jacko Garrett watched a fleet of 18-wheelers haul away truckloads of rice that he had grown with great care. "It just bothers me so bad," Garrett said. "I'm sitting here trying to find food to feed people, and I've got to bury five million pounds of rice." No one likes to waste food, but for Garrett, who runs a charity that collects rice for the needy, the pain was especially acute.

Garrett's rice was genetically modified, part of an experiment that was brought to an abrupt halt by its sponsor, a North Carolina-based biotechnology company called Aventis Crop Science. The company had contracted with a handful of farmers to grow the rice, which was known as Liberty Link because its genes had been altered to resist a weed killer called Liberty, also made by Aventis.

Banned: Regulators told the Hornbecks and other farmers that they could not sell their Clearfield 131 rice for planting.

But by 2001, Aventis Crop Science was living a biotech nightmare. Another one of its creations, a variety of genetically modified corn known as StarLink, had been discovered in taco shells made by Kraft. Because the StarLink corn had been approved as animal feed - and not for human consumption - all hell broke loose.

Food safety at issue, local farming praised
Hundreds of corn products were recalled. Consumers and farmers sued. Greenpeace dumped bags of corn in front of federal regulatory agencies, and an Environmental Protection Agency official accused Aventis Crop Science of breaking the law. So shell-shocked was Aventis SA (Charts), the French pharmaceutical giant that owned Aventis Crop Science, that it decided to sell the U.S. biotech unit and abandon the very emotional business of reengineering the foods we eat.

So dumping the Texas rice was a no-brainer. "We didn't want to take any chances," says a former Aventis executive. "We burned and buried enough rice to feed 20 million people."

Eventually Aventis paid about $120 million to settle the StarLink lawsuits. It sold its crop science unit to Bayer (Charts), the German drug giant that makes aspirin, Aleve and Alka-Seltzer. Bayer Crop Science dropped plans to bring Liberty Link rice to market, largely because rice grown in the U.S. is exported to Europe and other places that don't want genetically modified foods. And everyone forgot about Jacko Garrett's rice.

Can you guess where this is going

? Yep. In January 2006, small amounts of genetically engineered rice turned up in a shipment that was tested - we don't know why - by a French customer of Riceland Foods, a big rice mill based in Stuttgart, Ark. Because no transgenic rice is grown commercially in the U.S., the people at Riceland were stunned. At first they figured that the test was a mistake or that tiny bits of genetically modified corn or soybeans had somehow gotten mixed up with rice during shipping. They said nothing.

Then came another shock. Testing revealed that the genetically modified rice contained a strain of Liberty Link that had not been approved for human consumption. What's more, trace amounts of the Liberty Link had mysteriously made their way into the commercial rice supply in all five of the Southern states where long-grain rice is grown: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri. Bayer and Riceland then informed the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which announced the contamination last August.

By then the tainted rice was everywhere. If in the past year or so you or your family ate Uncle Ben's, Rice Krispies, or Gerber's, or drank a Budweiser - Anheuser-Busch (Charts, Fortune 500) is America's biggest buyer of rice - you probably ingested a little bit of Liberty Link, with the unapproved gene. (A very little bit - perhaps ten to 15 grains of transgenic rice in a one-pound bag of rice, which contains about 29,000 grains.)

See the aftermath of the contamination
Last November, over the howls of anti-GMO (that's genetically modified organisms) activists, the USDA retroactively approved the Liberty Link rice, known as LL601. The department said the genes that it approved are similar to those inserted for years into canola and corn, with no apparent ill effects. The experts at the USDA, the EPA and the Food and < ahref="http://thiscanadian.typepad.com/this_canadian/2006/05/clinton_fightin_2.html">Drug Administration, all of which bear some responsibility for regulating transgenic food, say the contamination is nothing to worry about.

Then again, the experts also have dismissed repeated warnings that genetically modified crops can't be managed or controlled. When organic farmers worried that their fields could be invaded by genetically modified plants grown nearby, regulators told them there was nothing to fear. The biotech industry promised that experimental, gene-altered plants could be grown in open fields and never, ever end up in the neighborhood Safeway.

Oops.

In any event, after last year's contamination became public, and after rice prices took a tumble, and after Europe said it no longer wanted any American rice, and after several other countries, including Japan and Iraq (!), demanded rigorous testing of U.S. rice, the industry moved to contain the damage.

Rice growers were told not to plant Cheniere, a popular seed variety that had been tainted by Liberty Link genes. Regulators set up a comprehensive testing program to keep future harvests clean. Last December, Bruce Knight, a USDA official, assured worried rice farmers, "The good news is that the only foundation seed to test positive for Liberty Link was of a single variety - 2003 Cheniere."

And then ... the tests that had been put in place uncovered a second contamination, and then a third, involving new, unapproved strains of Liberty Link, which turned up in another popular variety of rice seed, called Clearfield 131 (CL131). This seed variety is made by the German chemical giant BASF Corp. So the CL131 seed had to be banned as well.

Yes, it's the attack of the mutant rice, & it's spreading."
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so, you think YOU can afford to Lease a Liver?

Let's not talk about how LITTLE is consumed, LET'S TALK ABOUT HOW UTTERLY IGNORANT we are of WHAT THE HELL WE'RE DOING.
LOOK MA!~ WE HAVE LEFT OVER PARTS!
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Scrapheap challenge
...They sifted through the approximate total of six billion letters in the non-coding regions of the human genome and looked for repeating sequence fragments, or motifs.

"One of the things that arises from this paper is that junk DNA may not be junk. But this needs to be verified," Dr Rigoutsos told the BBC News website. ...

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you think any of these shithead corporations are going to BE AROUND to fix what they BROKE, when we need it later????
say in some post-petroleum economy, in about 300 years?
bet your ancestors are gonna LOVE paying DNA fix premiums & upgrades...
genetic feudalism, congratulations.

duh.

all for shareprice, kids, all for shareprice & snazzy journal publication prestige: "PUBLISH OR PERISH" hum...

just be cause we CAN do something, you think we SHOULD?
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Anyone remember this TRMS story from almost 2 yrs ago (Aug 2, 2005)?  Something or other about military recruits satisfying some of their service obligations by serving in the Peace Corps??  Get a load of the following choice quote, from the TRMS-linked WaPo article:

"Democratic and Republican administrations alike have kept a bright line separating the Peace Corps from short-term foreign and security policies," [former PCV and PC head during last 2 yrs of Clinton's admin Mark] Schneider said. "Blurring that sharp line is a bad idea, particularly now, given the unfortunate rise in anti-American sentiment following the Iraq war."

Ah, the irony... 

It is possible to watch the Asia Cup online if you subscribe to this site...

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 If you miss a game, they are archived for later viewing.

This may seem like a random comment and/or one which was already addressed, but I only caught the part of the show when Rachel seemed desperate to see the Iraqi team play in this tournament. I hope that this information proves useful.

Rachel said everything I would have said to Dr. Dean and was *much* more diplomatic than I might have been.

Thank you, Rachel for speaking for me (at least)...and as you pointed out, a majority of the American people.

(Frankly, I had been a Howard Dean fan, and I'm pretty surprised at his refusal to hold this criminal administration accountable. For the sake of precedence, prevention of another war, safeguarding our troops and trying to stem some of the considerable damage already done, I cannot understand his recalcitrance.)

Where is Tuesday's stream?  All I get is Monday's.  This happens too often.

As the Presidential race gains speed global poverty is an issue that needs to be critically addressed by all potential candidates. Too much time is being spent on a candidate’s character and not enough on the issues. The United States has agreed to the Millennium Development Goals, plan that will put an end to global poverty by 2015. Unfortunately less than half of aid from the United States goes to the poorest countries where people earn less than $2 a day. Groups such as the Borgen Project are working to bring global attention to global poverty. For any candidate to receive recognition it is crucial that their foreign policy addresses these issues.

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