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Monsanto, the giant American biotechnology company, announced yesterday it is pulling out of GM wheat, which was supposed to be its next big genetically-modified product.
A statement issued from the company's headquarters in St Louis, Missouri, said that as part of a commercial "realignment" Monsanto is delaying the introduction of GM wheat for up to eight years. Greenpeace campaigner Ben Ayliffe said GM wheat was supposed to be Monsanto's next big thing yet the company had lost the support of its own customers. "Monsanto failed to convince even the most die-hard GM supporters that GM wheat was worth the risk," he said. "World-wide opposition from farmers, exporters, and millers meant GM wheat would have been a bigger white elephant than the Millennium Dome." A spokesman for Friends of the Earth said it was a "worldwide victory for consumers and farmers". Joe Mendelson, legal director for the Washington-based Centre for Food Safety said: "Monsanto has run up against the reality of market rejection from both farmers and consumers and they realise that basically no one wanted this stuff. They're in full retreat." The decision comes a month after Bayer Cropscience gave up attempts to grow commercial GM maize in Britain.
FYI: Sexual violator Camas is currently local.
GNN: So what's a lefty or progressive or just a mildly skeptical person to do?
Palast: Dance all night. I think the Left is too fucking stiff. The Left hasn't had an erection in years. We are not approaching people in a normal manner. I mean, these weird words like "imperialism." You go to the corner bodega, the average asshole in America isn't an "imperialist." They're just scared like everyone else, or they don't give a shit. In America we run between falling asleep, going to Disneyworld, and fear.
Alternatives to GMO/GE agribusiness monoculture is found in nature's bounty of wild edible foods that can be included into permaculture farming. Self sustaining permaculture farms will also reduce dependency on petroleum based fertilizer/pesticides, another reason our military is occupying Iraq.
Witnesses said earlier the cleric's office had been flattened by a bomb dropped by a US warplane - but this was denied by General Kimmitt.
A listing of Meetings Hearings and Trainings etc.
related to housing advocacy issues in the Metro area. Affordable housing may not be as sexy as some issues but everybody needs a roof over their heads!
"It is the photographs that give one the vivid realisation of what actually took place. Words don't do it."
— Donald Rumsfeld, May 7, 2004.
 Please join other Kucinich supporters tomorrow, Tuesday May 11 at the old office (now the Majority Visibility Project office), 1420 SE 37th Ave, Portland. We will be meeting at 4:40 pm to do visibility up and down Hawthorne.
I am just curious if anyone here is concerned about the porn shop that is going in across from Ockley Green Middle school in North Portland? I see so many angry posts about the Starbucks in SE, but I think this merits more anger from Portland citizens...
Without Nader in the race, Bush still holds a slight 46-42 lead over Kerry, according to the Connecticut-based institute. [Read it and weep, ABBs - even WITHOUT Nader pulling his 8% (while not even on the ballot in all liklihood), idiot Kerry can't beat Bush because he's playing the pathetic role of Corpy Zombie Bush Lite].
A list of new content that you can stream is available in the text of the article. To get your own show o publish audio content send an e-mail to "salaud(at)riseup.net" with the subject line "PDXRADIO" preferably. Check out the link to the radio page on this article.
More than half of Americans — 54% vs. 47% just a week ago — now say going to war was "not worth it."
I was born facially disfigured with neurofibromatosis - a spontaneous mutation in my case, the affliction usually being congenital - and an affliction it is believed that seriously deformed John Merrick, the Elephant Man. Being thus afflicted it was more or less evident that my trek through life was never going to be smooth and that I would meet with a fair bit of subconscious, inbred prejudice.
Several months back,
While Marines report a successful excursion to the heart of Fallujah, civilians and armed mujahideen join Iraqi police and soldiers in touting the defeat and retreat of US forces in the battle for Fallujah.
At least one state, Missouri, will consider legislation (House Bill 1744) that effectively bans the use of all voting machines, including ballot scanners. --- California's Secretary of State Kevin Shelley has decertified thousands of Diebold touchscreen machines and has called for a criminal and civil investigation of the company. --- And no one spoke in favor of paper-only elections. That was no accident. --- During a break in the testimony I hustled up to the front of the room to ask Chairman Soaries if there was going to be any testimony that would question the legal right or technical wisdom of allowing machines to be involved in the voting process. Soaries seemed taken aback by the question. He responded that it was not the roll of the Commission to address that issue. The Commission, he said, was there to "assist" election officials and voting machine manufacturers... --- testimony Dr. Avi Rubin debunked the myth that there's any security or integrity to paperless voting technology. --- However...the same old lies were told by the vendors, election officials, and organizations like the League of Women Voters. --- Apparently, all the EAC wants to compile is a list of voting machine technologies from which election officials may chose. It's like picking rotten apples out of the same barrel. --- McCormack pointed out that public concerns raised about touchscreens are the same concerns raised in the past about lever machines and ballot scanners. She clearly wanted to give the impression that U.S. elections were secure using those technologies. However, there are numerous examples of vote fraud and irregularities down through the decades with these machines [see link] --- ...it appears that the public is finally beginning to question America's 100-year bad habit of using voting machines.
The photos from Abu Ghraib repeatedly show Spec. Charles Graner Jr. in photographs giving the "thumbs up" over piles of naked Iraqi men.
This same Graner reportedly worked as a prison guard in Virginia and at the Greene County state correctional institution. Prisoners there claim Graner beat and humiliated inmates while he worked there as a prison officer. This according to the Sunday Herald. SCI Greene is the notorious prison in southwestern Pennsylvania where political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is held on Death Row.
Practical Idealism weighs the Rumsfeld matter
We need help, and we need it now!
Some time ago, at the request of Comrade Wendy Binion, a pro-DPRK activist, enviromental scientist, and women's studies personage, I had the opertunity to request of the National Democratic Front of South Korea, information related to the life of women in Socialist Korea. This was part of a college level international studies project, and the ongoing efforts of the Songun Politics Study Group (USA) to better understand what the Juche Idea of KIM IL SUNG and the Songun Idea of KIM JONG IL mean in terms of Women's Liberation.
A letter From the NDFSK dated May 4th Juche 93 stated as follows : "As you requested in March 26 e-mail: " 4.. About Life in the DPRK for Women A Comrade of mine is requesting information about women in the DPRK. Would it also be okay if to put her in Contact with the Korean Social Scientists, or Women's leagues.", we made contact with the staff members of the Central Committee of the KDWU(Korean Democratic Women's Union) and asked them to give an eye to our US comrades' earnest desire. They are very pleased at the news that even the US progressive women are deeply interested in the worthwhile life of women in the DPRK ensured by the three generals of Mt. Baekdu. Here are some presents(Introduction of the KDWU and Brief on the Status and Role of the Women in the DPRK) from the KDWU comrades to your female comrade, a practicing communist and Songun supporter of the US." The Songun Followers in the US are thankful for this gift and display these interesting articles for the progressive masses in the US and the world, as part of our on-going solidarity with the DPRK and NDFSK, united as one as Soldiers of the three great generals of Mt.Baekdu in the US. --- John Paul Cupp, Chairman of the Songun Politics Study Group (USA)
The closest thing to a Utopian society I have been in is the aftermath of major earthquakes. For a brief moment, people are humbled, and there is a thankfulness for life, itself. Possessions are seen as transitory in this light. The homeless are not arrested, police seem to disappear...
Training for direct action street medics and organizing of vanguard journalists+ Current rating: 0
by the urban guerrilla liberation front Email: undergroundmedianet Phone: 770.861.5224 06 May 2004 with immenient action coming up at the g-8 summit next month the ugelf announces training and organozing of street medics and vanguard journalists.
just some thoughts.
Rather than give up his explosives, the bomber detonated them, killing himself and the two robbers near the border fence between Gaza and Israel.
Lynndie England is the perfect poster girl for the new American imperium
Latest articles and headlines from the "Newspaper of the Left"
This is an open call for articles, inks, digital media or audio files on the topic of insurgency. The work will appear in the first issue of Galeropia, a digital magazine produced by Why War?. Galeropia's vision is a nonviolent theory and practice more potent than the prevailing reliance on polemics and death. Our method will be a targeted expansion of the movement's self-knowledge, aesthetics and practice.
An update on the June 12 Day of Action & Solidarity. More information from  http://www.freefreenow.org
Prisoner torture, spreading anti-war sentiments to other Americans, activist critique, the draft, history, and hope.
Pirates can be good or bad, but stories about them are allways interesting to read. Here's some of this week's news from the worlds of maritime and digital pirates.
PORTLAND, OR - Portland Books to Prisoners is holding a benefit concert on Thursday, May 20th at the Rabbit Hole (203 SE Grand). Local musicians John Weinland, BoneSet, and The Summer Lawns will be performing beginning at 8 PM. Admission will be $3-5 or donated books.
Amy Goodman was here to speak this past Saturday. She delivered a message I wish *everyone* could hear. Wonder what kind of ratings she'd get against MacNeil/Lehrer?
Simpson thinks cops were treated with "disrespect" over the MURDER of Jahar Perez
Multnomah County plans to begin aerial mosquito control along the Columbia and Willamette Rivers and the Multnomah Channel today (5/10).
WASHINGTON - Bracing for what the defense secretary has described as "sadistic" pictures, Congress will see the unreleased photos showing Iraqi prisoners being abused by U.S. soldiers, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (news - web sites) said Sunday.
Herein lays out the most recent corporate grab for dominance of our public property.
Now showing at Videos from the Resistance:
Wednesday, May 12th, 7pm, at The Know (2202 NE Alberta) and Monday, May 31st, 7pm, at It's a Beautiful Pizza (SE 34th and Belmont)
Private Military contractor Titan, has Portland offices. Good news their profits are up 21% this quarter.
Iraq, Britain's "war on terror", B.C health workers strike, reviews, photo gallery and much more!
"Can a simple mind like Bush distinguish between terrorism and other religions? When it is the firm unshakable belief of a person that there is only oneGod, only his God, and he feels `chosen' by this God, how much openness will he bring for other ways of looking at things?.."
We should start preparing now for Shrub's return to Oregon for the 2004 campaign. Please, oh political gods, let him come back to downtown Portland!
Tre deeply appreciates any communication from friends and supporters and can receive mail at the following new address:
if voters recently 're-registered' to vote, ie to switch parties to vote in the Boot Kerry Priamry, they may get two ballots in the mail... it looks as if this may be the method of vote fraud here in Oregon..... the skull and boners have probably already hired henchmen to fill in extra ballots throughout the state.
This sounds like florida all over again, despite the clear intention of the voter, officials will now have a reason to throw out votes when they choose.
After years of soul-searching during his alone-time on the Texas Ranch, President Bush has truly learned the meaning of the Christian message he has been preaching to the world:
This is from a NYT board-- it wasn't attributed. Sounds like it might be from the Onion. But one could hope that a true conversion and repentence is in the works.
Police in Poland have admitted they mistakenly fired live ammunition, instead of rubber bullets, to quell a riot at a university on Saturday night.
The answer is that the Bush Administration ALL knew about the torture at and murder least a year and a half ago, if not right from the start. They Knew about it, and probably ordered it. Even simply allowing it to continue, when they could put a stop to it, is legally a crime. But it is amazing that the Administration, the Congress, the military, and virtually every media source is saying that this is the first they've ever heard about it. Read the following, then watch them lie on CNN.
When, and how, exactly, does barbarism-as-usual become officially appalling, and how long will the head-rolling and buck-passing last before everything goes back to "normal" again?
Shiite Cleric's Militia Seizes Control of Baghdad Slum
By Daniel Williams Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, May 10, 2004; Page A01
Not much needs to be said here.
The police will as always be donning their Darth Vader gear...this includes objects of OFFENSE, and objects of defense. We, as could-be revolutionaries must show that we are serious and to be TAKEN seriously.
My question is "Did he apologize to the Irish?" The Resistance to Interrogation or "R2I" techniques used by "coalition forces" in Iraq were perfected by the British against the IRA. Former British SAS and SBS "contractors" have been teaching them to US forces in Iraq, Guantanamo and elsewhere.
The president of the South Oil Company, the company responsible for the oil industry in southern Iraq, told Reuters that Saturday's attack had drastically reduced Iraq's oil exports.
"The situation is not good," Jabar al-Leaby said. He said the attack affected flows to the al-Basra terminal.
Venezuelan authorities arrested at least 88 people they accused of being Colombian right-wing paramilitaries plotting to join Venezuelan dissidents in a bid to overthrow left-wing President Hugo Chavez.
Officials said they captured 56 paramilitaries in a farm on the outskirts of Caracas early Sunday, and later caught another 32, some reportedly wearing Venezuelan military uniforms, after they escaped to a mountainous region south of the capital. Miguel Rodriguez Torres, chief of the police intelligence service, said the group, which he said totaled 130, had been training on the farm for a month.
Anger is amazing. It can refresh you, cleanse you, protect you, feed upon itself creating more and more anger, and it can destroy you. You can let anger control you by denying your anger. Are you angry? Do you protect yourself or put yourself in a cage? Rise above, rise up!
Native Portlander Kathy Kriger, a big fan of the 1942 film "Casablanca," has opened a real Rick's in the winding streats of the real Casablanca's medina.
A 16 year-old boy was subjected to mock execution by US interrogators at Baghdadi air base, in Anbar province - not to be confused with Baghdad international airport - where they were interrogated.
His father was tortured to death.
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Poem, in italian and english, about the fear of the men who pretend to rule the world
