In article <482b5aa6$0$12916$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Persephone
wrote:
> I had trouble posting a comment on subject
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> "Firms Seek Patents on ?Climate Ready? Altered Crops"
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> It kept bouncing with a strange error message. So I am
> creating a new message quoting part of the original.
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> <http://www.ucsusa.org/>
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> (Union of Concerned Scientists)
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> From the above URL
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> "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was founded with the
> simple yet profound charge "to protect human health and the
> environment." Yet a new UCS survey of scientists at the agency reveals
> that challenges from industry lobbyists and some political leaders
> have led to the suppression and distortion of EPA scientific
> findings--to the detriment of both science and the health of our
> nation. In the re****t Interference at the EPA, we propose steps to
> ensure the integrity of future agency research."
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> I wish you luck, you brave scientists. The EPA may have been
> founded as the "Environmental Protection Agency", but in the
> last 7-1/2 years has effectively functioned as the "Environmental
> POLLUTION Agency".
>
> BTW: EPA was founded in 1970, during the Nixon administration.
> It's illuminating to note that, despite the awful things that happened
> under both Nixon and Johnson, there were a number of very im****tant
> laws passed to better the lives of human beings. Contrast that with
> Reagan, where only money and cor****ate interests counted.
>
> Don't bother contrasting with the current crop of criminals!
Conversation with a "real" Conservative: Russell Train
Commentary: Russell Train, head of the Environmental Protection Agency
under Richard Nixon, explains that the Bush administration has declared
"war" on the environment.
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/10/10_207.html
>
> Will things change after next November? Stay tuned.
> Think of your children and grandchildren...do not be deceived by
> rhetoric...look at the record of one certain candidate and then at his
> politically-motivated FLIPFLOPS.
Four More Years of Bush: McCain
>
> Persephone
--
Billy
Bush Behind Bars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVTfcAyYGg&ref=patrick.net
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0aEo59c7zU&feature=related


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