Blair, the new Mideast Envoy

This now seems a certainty. Apparently, the USA, the UN, Russia and the EU representatives will meet up in Jerusalem tomorrow to seal the deal.

I cannot think of a more nauseating, wrong thing to do.
Blair, bringing peace to the Mideast...
Which is of course why it's going to happen, yes?!

Robert Fisk puts it to words nicely:

I suppose that astonishment is not the word for it. Stupefaction comes to mind. I simply could not believe my ears in Beirut when a phone call told me Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara was going to create "Palestine". I checked the date - no, it was not April 1 - but I remain overwhelmed that this vain, deceitful man, this proven liar, a trumped-up lawyer who has the blood of thousands of Arab men, women and children on his hands is contemplating being "our" Middle East envoy.

Can this be true? I had always assumed Balfour, Sykes and Picot were the epitome of Middle Eastern hubris. But Blair? That this (soon-to-be) ex-prime minister, this man who took his country into the sands of Iraq, should actually believe he has a role in the region - he whose own preposterous envoy, Lord Levy, made so many secret trips there, to no avail - is going to sully his hands (and, I fear, our lives) in the world's last colonial war is simply overwhelming.

and so on

So, they agreed on the EU treaty, then!

After all the posturing and spin and threatening and stuff, seems they did it after all.

I wonder if they'll hold another referendum in the Netherlands or in France, or anywhere else
(bwahahahaaaa of course not!)

The article says the Netherlands sees this new treaty as a triumph.
No, we dont. Balkenende does. But he was pro-treaty from the word go, and pushed fanatically for a yes vote which he did not get. He's the worst person to be representing us in this issue, and any agreement that has his enthusiastic approval will be greeted with the utmost suspicion from me.

I dont like our pm, I dont trust him and by rights, after the last election, he should not even be representing the Netherlands in this.

The USA had already gone too far with Guantanamo,

but now they have really crossed every possible line!!!

The White House acknowledged Friday that a meeting to discuss the future of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility had been planned but was canceled late Thursday, and confirmed that the United States is helping build a prison in Afghanistan that would take some prisoners now at Guantanamo Bay.

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the country is utterly amoral and should be internationally isolated.

Barry Commoner's Four Ecology Laws

1. Everything is Connected to Everything Else

2. Everything Must Go Somewhere

3. Nature Knows Best

4. There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

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We forgot this for a while...
I hope we remember soon.

Happy birthday Aung San Suu Kyi

62 years old today...
and still locked up.

Zombie

seeds.

European scientists are going to try to develop zombie seeds.
For real... from EU tax money, it seems.

Have they gone stark raving bonkers???
Can you imagine the effects of contamination?

Now, I dont know the nuts and bolts of thow they plan to get this specific functionality in the plant but I imagine there would be at least one gene that needs to be switched on with a proprietary chemical, before the plant will grow.
If that gene were to sneak out of there and live in other plants, those would also need that chemical switch to be flipped before it would grow. Anyone who thinks this is not very probable, hasnt taken a good look at the staggering level of GM contamination in American crops these days.

What damn bunch of fools thought this would be a good idea, huh?
Bloody irresponsible bastards... and I include our politicians who wont regulate this shit.

"Zombie" GM crops - so called because farmers will have to pay biotech companies to bring seeds back from the dead - are being developed with British taxpayers' money.

The highly controversial development - part of a £3.4m EU research project
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Zombie crops would also be engineered to produce sterile seed that could be brought back to life with the right treatment - almost certainly with a chemical sold by the company that markets the seed. Farmers would therefore have to pay out, not for new seeds, but to make the ones they saved viable.

(snip)

The three-year EU research programme, called Transcontainer, which involves 13 universities and research institutes and is partially funded by taxpayers in Britain and other EU countries, says that it is developing the technology to try to "reduce significantly" the spread of GM genes to conventional and organic crops.

Such contamination - long denied and downplayed by the industry and its supporters - is now accepted to be one of the main obstacles to the advance of modified crops.

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The Transcontainer project insists that it is "specifically targeted at European agriculture and European crops". But it admits that such technologies "may become a problem for farmers in developing countries."


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United States of Europe???

If the new EU treaty is pushed through, this is what Sarkozy is pushing for:

Tony Blair as the European Union's first full-time president!

A president???!!!!
Bloody hell!!!

And it seems that Sarkozy is planning to push this treaty through in France without a referendum this time, seeing that it was voted down last time by the pesky citizens. I am getting the impression, so is Balkenende in the Netherlands.

Thankfully, for now, it looks as if the treaty won't go through.
But, you never know. There is such a push for it behind the screens, I think it won't matter any more what "we the people" want.

But, a single fulltime president?? Of the United States of Europe??
No, no, no. I don't bloody well think so.
Not Blair, not anybody.
I won't accept an European president, even if it's ceremonial.
I simply won't.