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[The Irish Times - Ireland] The issue of GMO crops is hugely controversial in Europe with several states, including Austria and France, strongly opposed to allowing them to be grown as part of their national agricultural production. But some states favour the promotion of GMO products, arguing that they could hold the key to combating food shortages.
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[rightoncanada.ca] GMO Food Fight: Canada vs. Europe: At the very time EU and North American trade officials were working out how Europe could conform with the WTO decision, Sarkozy’s government came up with a new ban on a Monsanto corn variety that had previously been approved for cultivation in France. Trade bureaucrats on both sides of the Atlantic must have felt like they were trying to herd cats.
[Slow Food Lions Gate] GMO Food Fight: Canada vs Europe: The European Commission has been surveying attitudes towards GMOs in all member states for 15 years now, and despite intense marketing efforts by international agribusiness, the opposition to GMOs only seems to be growing. The EU's pollsters have discovered a "striking" decline in acceptance of GM foods over recent years even though Europeans are expressing support for other uses of biotechnology.
[Populist Party of America] Immoral Hazard: Even then he implied not to worry because "the housing boom will soon simmer down." And Bernanke is even more feckless with comments like "The housing market merely reflects a strong US economy." Grantham portrays him as a Greenspan clone, just as incompetent, and someone having "extraordinary faith in efficiency to the point of denial." Above all, like Greenspan, he's there to serve the "Money Trust" that appointed him.
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[Dandelion Salad] Unleashing GMO Seeds: “Food is Power” by Stephen Lendman: Wind and air proliferate GM seeds to adjacent fields, including organic ones that are now to some degree contaminated. Engdahl explained that “after just six years, an estimated 67% of all US farm acreage has been (irremedially) contaminated with genetically engineered seeds.
[Stock Market News & Stocks to Watch from StraightStocks] Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (April 28 ...: “Rising inflation ”is potentially hugely bullish for the Japanese stock market, Wood wrote today in his ”Greed & Fear strategy note. The ”bull story in Japan is all about a sustained move out of the nearly 20-year period of deflation .
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[Infowars] Global Food Crisis: Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World: It’s high time democracy worked for everyone, that destructive GMO and biofuels schemes won’t be tolerated, and that "America the Beautiful" won’t any longer just be for elites and no one else.
[Terry Etherton Blog on Biotechnology] GM Food: Monster or Saviour?: You remember: environmentalists successfully branded GM “Frankenstein Food” - they warned us of the dangers of contaminating our environment, and of unleashing powerful and unpredictable forces into the British countryside.
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[Trading for the Masses] Data Feed: Bonds could get a boost out of that realization but weakness in manufacturing is mostly priced in (unless its hugely weak). Today’s action looks consolidative but longer term sentiment appears back onside with the positive trend that began in Jun.
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[Philadelphia Independent Media Center - Passionate and Accurate Tellings of Truth] "Immoral Hazard": Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to The Global Research News Hour on RepublicBroadcasting.org Mondays from 11AM to 1PM US Central time for cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests. Programs are also archived for easy listening.
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[Dandelion Salad] F. William Engdahls “A Century of War” Part I by Stephen Lendman: They profited hugely from its capital inflows, and it ensured their advantage that was built into the Bretton Woods system. They also had cartel power by having consolidated to hold disproportionate control over world finance.
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