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FOCUS | Monsanto Has Taken Over the USDA

2013-05-13T21:35:23Z

FOCUS | Monsanto Has Taken Over the USDA
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/448-farm-and-food-policy/17377-focus-monsanto-has-taken-over-the-usda

USDA = U.S. Department of Agriculture

The takeover has been thorough. Monsanto's growth hormones for cows have been approved by Michael Taylor, a former Monsanto lobbyist turned USDA administrator and FDA deputy commissioner. This was after Margaret Miller, a former Monsanto employee, oversaw a report on the hormones' safety and then took a job at the FDA where she approved her own report.
Islam Siddiqui, a former Monsanto lobbyist, wrote the USDA's food standards, allowing corporations to label irradiated and genetically engineered foods as “organic.”
The recently passed and signed law nicknamed the Monsanto Protection Act strips federal courts of the power to halt the sale and planting of genetically engineered crops during a legal appeals process. The origin of this act can be found in the USDA's deregulation of Roundup Ready sugar beets in violation of a court order. The USDA argued that any delay would have caused a sugar shortage, since Monsanto holds 95% of the market.
The #revolving_door keeps revolving. Monsanto's board members have worked for the EPA, advised the USDA, and served on President Obama's Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.
Clearly, an investigation of large-scale #government_corruption by this singularly destructive corporation is long overdue.

#porte_tournante #corruption_légale et même #corruption_illégale #qu'est_ce_qu'il_ne_faut_pas_écrire

Bitcoin implements the 90's cypherpunk crypto-currency dreams. How will government adapt to loss of…

2013-04-04T21:43:15Z

#Bitcoin implements the 90's #cypherpunk crypto-currency dreams. How will #government adapt to loss of #currency control ? http://falkvinge.net/2013/04/03/why-bitcoin-is-poised-to-change-society-much-more-than-the-internet-did

La Coalition Nationale syrienne vient de se voir attribuer le siège jusque-là occupé par le régime…

2013-03-31T16:02:20Z

La Coalition Nationale syrienne vient de se voir attribuer le siège jusque-là occupé par le régime de Damas à la Ligue arabe et dispose même aujourd'hui d'une ambassade à Doha. Un gouvernement provisoire est désormais attendu. Sous la conduite Ghassan Hitto, il serait formé d'hommes d'affaires, d'économistes et de technocrates. Tout en jugeant positifs ces développements, Yezid Sayigh (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) met en garde contre la propension de l'opposition syrienne à trop délaisser ce qui fait l'essence de la mission des gouvernants : une administration efficace, la fourniture des services de base aux citoyens, la résolution des conflits et la sécurité dans les zones qu'elle contrôle, au profit des ambitions de telle ou telle de ses composantes. Il rappelle que l'opposition n'a pas encore réglé définitivement un certain nombre de questions : négocier ou pas avec Assad, gouvernement provisoire ? Gouvernement transitoire ? Gouvernement chargé d'expédier les affaires courantes ? Gouvernement installé en Syrie ou à l'extérieur ? Programme de gouvernement ? Yezid Sayigh fait valoir que l'opposition syrienne a amplement démontré son incapacité à s'organiser et que le seul exemple de bonne gouvernance dans les zones libérées est à mettre au crédit des islamistes qui se sont organisés dans la ville de Raqqa (250.000 habitants).

http://carnegie-mec.org/2013/03/28/syrian-opposition-s-very-provisional-government/fu0z

Carnegie Middle East Center/ Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The Syrian opposition's very provisional government
Yezid Sayigh

March 28, 2013
“The Syrian National Coalition of Revolutionary and Opposition Forces (National Coalition) formally took up Syria's seat in the Arab League this week. The outgoing chairman of the coalition, Moaz al-Khatib, who had announced his resignation only days before, represented the coalition, and the provisional prime minister, Ghassan Hitto, sat behind him. This recognition is an important diplomatic gain. But it will prove ephemeral unless the National Coalition and its provisional government can follow up speedily by delivering effective administration, basic services, dispute resolution, and security in the liberated areas, which it claims now extend over 100,000 square kilometers and include 10 million inhabitants”.

#Syrian_National_Coalition_of_revolutionary_and_Opposition_Forces #National_Coalition #al_Khatib #Ghassan_Hitto #governance #provisional_government #transitional_government #Qatar #Raqqa

opengovplatform at GitHub

2011-12-11T10:55:09Z

opengovplatform at GitHub
https://github.com/opengovplatform/opengovplatform

Welcome to the Open Government Platform repository! You'll find here a growing set of open source, open government platform code that allows any city, organization, or government to create an open data site. Below you'll see the first code for a data management system. This is a joint effort between the governments of India and the U.S. to promote open government, transparency, citizen engagement, and to engage application developers to together improve these efforts.

#data #gov #open-source #logiciel #libre