'Fight Smart' - Update 28 Oct - GMOs and War
The Real Bush Agenda
Solution
to terrorism = 'World Trade' = 'The ability to seek America's
interests around the world' = Ban on GM labeling
Crocodile
Tears for Afghanistan
"And the
terrorists are hearing from us all. (Applause.) They are hearing
from a compassionate nation -- a nation that sends food and
medicine to starving people of Afghanistan.... The terrorists
attacked the World Trade Center, and we will defeat them by
expanding and encouraging world trade. (Applause.) In order
to help me expand world trade, I've asked the Congress to give me
what's called trade promotion authority ['Fast
Track'] --
the ability to seek America's interests around the world."
George Bush, speech at California Business Association Breakfast,
Sacramento Memorial Auditorium
Sacramento, California, October 17, 2001
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/10/20011017-15.html
"The
unread news today is that the 'war against terrorism' is being
exploited in order to achieve objectives that consolidate
American power."
John
Pilger, 9 Oct 2001
http://pilger.carlton.com/print
"The House Ways and Means
Committee approved a revived Fast Track international trade bill
(H.R. 3005) Oct. 9 on a near party-line vote. H.R. 3005
contains a provision to require that U.S. trade negotiators seek
a ban on labeling of genetically engineered ingredients (p. 14).
This would set up consumer labeling as an 'unjustifiable trade
restriction' - especially regarding genetically modified
foods-threatening many consumer labeling regulations with being
overturned through trade challenges. Under this bill our efforts
to label GE foods will become illegal barriers to trade!"
From alert prepared by Friends of the Earth,
US, October 2001
TAKE
ACTION to STOP Fast Track! - click here
[But see DEC 12 update at bottom from Centre for Food Safety]
"Having
clearly defined our negotiating proposals we are now counting
down the days to the WTO ministerial [in
Quatar 9-13 November] ..... The events at Seattle,
and since then, have emphasised that civil society is worried
about the effects that trade can have on issues such as the
protection of the environment, rural development, food safety and
animal welfare.... Regarding food safety, the Community, like
other WTO members, has the right to establish the level of
protection it considers appropriate.... These concerns must be
addressed in the negotiations in a balanced way compared to the
trade issues in order to ensure, and to show civil society, that
the benefits of freer trade are not at the expense of public
goods....The outcome should create a system where all parties are
winners, not one in which only some can win at the expense of
others."
Dr Franz Fischler, European Commissioneer
for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries
Special briefing for WTO journalists, Brussels, 18 October 2001
"Those who
perished and the survivors in the wake of the September 11
tragedy are victims not just of desperadoes but also of the U.S.
media which kept readers and viewers deliberately ignorant of
unjust and unfair American foreign policies".
'Telling it like it isn't'
Ameena
A. Saeed, California State University,The Hindu, October 4
http://www.hinduonnet.com/stories/05242524.htm
"The war has
given George W. Bush power most presidents daren't dream of....
Within the US the war has silenced all political criticism of
him, of the military campaign and of any other policy. His
supporters already talk of a second term...."
War Briefing, London Times,
25 October 2001
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001320013-2001371522,00.html
24 Reasons to oppose NATO
FBI considers torture as suspects stay
silent - London Times
Animated display
of effects US war on terrorism- click here
Addendum Footnote: An update from the Centre for Food Safety following the approval by Congress in early Dec 2001 of Fast Track advises as follows: ".... The Fast Track bill states that a principal objective of U.S. agricultural trade policy is to protect its markets and advance its exports by trying to eliminate 'unjustified trade barriers' such as 'labeling' on new technologies, including 'biotechnology.' The language speaks directly to Congressional objectives but does not create positive law. At its worst, this language could be seen as U.S. intent to prevent (through bi-lateral negotiations or otherwise) foreign countries 'unjustified' labeling of genetically engineered foods. Significantly, the bill does not define 'unjustified.' As a result, it is not sufficient to show Congressional intent to eliminate (or prevent) justified labeling of genetically engineered foods in this or any other country."
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Islam, Vedic Defence and World Peace - 24 Oct 2001
"It
is February 2002 again. The pundits are digesting President
Bush&rsquos brave switch away from the Middle East in search
of apolitical oil. They ask if he has found the answer to
America&rsquos latest energy crisis and conclude that he has
probably not, because oil, by its nature, will always be
political. Instead they paint a picture of an America turning
away from oil altogether in favour of liquefied natural gas,
methanol, solar and wind power and hydrogen, the holy grail of
alternative fuels. The Wall Street Journal says that America can
lead the technological revolution that will lead the world into
the post-oil era. Al Gore, with beard, emerges from obscurity to
note that this might save the planet. This is a future that could
work, the pundits say. Whether Bush is the man to embrace it is
another matter."
Giles Whitell, London Times, 25 Oct 2001, 'The last oil
rush'
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,7-2001370984,00.html
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