Yesterday mainstream media reported that The Supreme Court lifted a nationwide ban on the planting of genetically engineered alfalfa seeds, despite claims they might harm the environment. The case is between the Greenleaf, Idaho, company, Geertson Seed Farms , which has grown, bagged and sold alfalfa seed since 1942. In a 7-1 vote , the court reversed a federal appeals court ruling that had prohibited Monsanto Co. from selling alfalfa seeds engineered to resist Monsanto's popular weed killer Roundup. But that’s not the whole story – or even the real story. Phil Geertson owner of Geertson Seed is the farmer at the eye of the storm and according to Geertson, the decision marks a major victory against the agrigiant.
‘Viceroy’ McCrystal? ‘Proconsul’ McCrystal? General Stanley McChrystal’s mind must be a strange place. First off, he seems to think that Afghanistan is a critical player on the geopolitical stage and that it is his duty to save Afghanis from themselves if he has to kill every last one of them. And now thanks to an air-head article in Rolling Stone Magazine, McCrystal seems to regard himself as a sort of Rock star. Hence the General has been called to Washington to do some ‘splainin.’ The “splainin” will be far better entertainment value than the sodden Stone’s scree. Perhaps we should ‘Get Him to the Greek’….
And hands together for Tyrone Ben ton. Yesterday BP heard from one of the surviving workers on the deepwater Horizon who blew the whistle but was soundly ignored. The claim was made on the BBC’s Panorama programme by Tyrone Benton. Benton said that weeks before the blast he informed BP and Transocean, the rig’s owner, about a leak on the rig’s safety device – called a blow-out preventer – which he says was switched off rather than repaired. He was unsure whether the leaking device had been turned back on again before the explosion that triggered the giant leak.
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