U.S., NATO GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES IN LIBYA, SAYS CYNTHIA MCKINNEY

I read this in The Voice of Detroit. What do you think?

U.S., NATO GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES IN LIBYA, SAYS CYNTHIA MCKINNEY

Isn't it interesting what's happening in Africa all along the Mediteranean coast? While the governments of the "western powers" are pushing hard for reform in Libya and recognition of the rebels, sub Saharan Africa is quite reserved about the situation.
 Do they know something we don't know?

OBAMA APPOINTS MONSANTO'S VICE PRESIDENT AS SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE COMMISSIONER AT THE FDA

OBAMA APPOINTS MONSANTO'S VICE PRESIDENT AS SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE COMMISSIONER AT THE FDA

"Michael Taylor has been appointed senior advisor to the commissioner of the FDA. This is the same man that was in charge of FDA policy when GMO's were allowed into the US food supply without undergoing a single test to determine their safety. He "had been Monsanto's attorney before becoming policy chief at the FDA [and then] he became Monsanto's Vice President and chief lobbyist. This month [he] became the senior advisor to the commissioner of the FDA. He is now America's food safety czar. This is no joke."

Jeffrey Smith The leading consumer advocate promoting healthier, non-GMO choices Posted on 9:40 pm July 23, 2009

Here's the full story:

You're Appointing Who? Please Obama, Say It's Not So!

http://www.responsibletechnology.org/blog/858

The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke.

Here’s the back story.

When FDA scientists were asked to weigh in on what was to become the most radical and potentially dangerous change in our food supply—the introduction of genetically modified (GM) foods—secret documents now reveal that the experts were very concerned. Memo after memo described toxins, new diseases, nutritional deficiencies, and hard-to-detect allergens. They were adamant that the technology carried “serious health hazards,” and required careful, long-term research, including human studies, before any genetically modified organisms (GMOs) could be safely released into the food supply.

But the biotech industry had rigged the game so that neither science nor scientists would stand in their way. They had placed their own man in charge of FDA policy and he wasn’t going to be swayed by feeble arguments related to food safety. No, he was going to do what corporations had done for decades to get past these types of pesky concerns. He was going to lie.

Dangerous Food Safety Lies

When the FDA was constructing their GMO policy in 1991-2, their scientists were clear that gene-sliced foods were significantly different and could lead to “different risks” than conventional foods. But official policy declared the opposite, claiming that the FDA knew nothing of significant differences, and declared GMOs substantially equivalent.

This fiction became the rationale for allowing GM foods on the market without any required safety studies whatsoever! The determination of whether GM foods were safe to eat was placed entirely in the hands of the companies that made them—companies like Monsanto, which told us that the PCBs, DDT, and Agent Orange were safe.
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Gathering of Hearts Poverty Tour-Lambert, Ms

The people of Lambert, MS speak out. Povety is not diminishing in the United States
and we need some to help guide the people to overcome their circumstances.
The politicians of today appear to have no interest in the poor at all. This has to
be the fastest growing demographic in the nation yet the power structure feels that it
has the luxury to ignore this group.

More of the Poverty Tour

Let's visit a Tent City

The Poverty Tour

Mission Statement

Smiley & West are going on a road trip to highlight the plight of the poor people of all races, colors, and creeds so they will not be forgotten, ignored, or rendered invisible during this difficult and dangerous time of economic deprivation and political cowardice.

I personally feel like we owe it to ourselves to follow the progress 
of this tour, in order to see what others have to say about their 
condition. I believe it's actually something that President Obama 
should have done early on in his presdency to let the poor know 
that they would not be simply swept under the bus. 

We'll remember that before he even officially took office, his first 
action along with George Bush, was to bail out the banks and the 
wall street brokers and the and the large automotive 
corporations. 

I knew then, that had they simply bailed out the middle class 
and the poor, the funds would have simply trickled up to the 
banks and corporations and they would have made out as they 
always do. With all his talk of "change" he never tried to engage 
the people in these "top down" solutions. So now as usual in 
America, it's up to the poor to drag themselves out of their 
situation. It's about time someone put some effort into 
publicizing the plight of the poor and encouraging us to take 
steps to come together and resolve the problems. All too often, 
people forget that a chain can never be stronger than it's
weakest link. 











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