Why were British sailors captured the same week as the UN security council vote on Iran sanctions? Maybe Iran reinforcing their contention as a player? Or maybe the British wanted to sail close to the edge to push the sanctions as a threat? Maybe both?

Did KSM admit he ‘kidnapped the 15 marines’ too?

This shining example of American Imperialism bullied their shitty product in place of a perfectly good existing product. Yep….genetically modified milk. I think it has been ruled unsafe by the United Nations, even.

More interesting if you look at interviews compiled by journalists, the MD [from memory] made a joke about his wife who was alarmed at the posibility of total replacement of milk stocks by GM milk. You know what he replied….

“Don’t worry, you won’t have to drink it”

I rest my case!!!!!

Wanna be scared about our food?

Harmonization Upward or Downward?

Theoretically, international harmonization could occur at the lowest or highest levels of public health or environmental protection or somewhere in between. Unfortunately, the actual provisions in NAFTA and the WTO requiring harmonization or providing incentives for harmonization could result in the lowering of the best existing domestic public health, social, economic justice, natural resource conservation and environmental standards around the world.

For instance, under NAFTA and the WTO, international standards serve as a ceiling which countries cannot exceed rather than as a floor that all countries must meet. The agreements provide for the challenge of any domestic standards that go beyond international standards in providing greater citizen safeguards, but contain no provisions for challenging standards that fall below the named international standard. Thus, the provisions in NAFTA and the WTO promoting harmonization are likely to serve only as a one-way downward ratchet on domestic standards. Challenges of domestic standards that exceed international standards will be resolved in the binding dispute resolution system built into these agreements.

http://www.citizen.org/publications/release.cfm?ID=5193

Regardless of which side of the virtual water line this took place, it was close enough to create an argument, in the context of confrontation. Chalk it up to careless disregard for heated emotions on both sides.

The Brit’s are none too popular with the Iranian people. They did back the Shah to the hilt you know. My father was part of the team that sold them the Trident system, was it?

Anyway that’s beside the by. China, rat poison and the daily….whatttttheffff…

Ahhh, I see what is going on. Standards. Chinese versus ours. They have a valid point. There is more to the steel industry than melting pots and pans in the back yard.

Finally:

“Yeah, well. That will NOT happen until the U.S., Brits, et al. are no longer dependent on Middle Eastern oil … and until then, it makes some sense to protect that vital interest.”

No it doesn’t. It makes injustice!!!!!!

I don’t believe it for a minute.

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Larry wrote: “Lester, I had exactly the same reaction today when I read about it. So the Persians grabbed some British in the *Persian Gulf*. Maybe the British should stick to the North Sea, and get out of the Persian’s Gulf.”

Yeah, well. That will NOT happen until the U.S., Brits, et al. are no longer dependent on Middle Eastern oil … and until then, it makes some sense to protect that vital interest.

There are too many unanswered questions here.

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Always Outsourced to Communist Slave Labor. *Always*

Lack of standards and lack of quality control is part of the price for imported food or domestic food handled by imported workers, a la Spinach.