Why consider third party candidates?

Published on Monday, July 28, 2008 by Reuters
Security Becomes Main Cost In GMO Crop Trials
LONDON - Security has become by far the largest cost for field trials of genetically modified crops in Britain as researchers seek to protect sites against vandalism, a scientist said on Monday.

Howard Atkinson of Leeds University, who has been running a field trial on GMO potatoes, said the trial itself cost 25,000 pounds but there was a “six figure” bill for security around it.

What position do the mainstream corporate presidential candidates take on this issue? I haven't heard them talk about is in any substantial discussion.

McCain and Obama are currently in a race to the bottom to see who can carry a bigger stick and build a bigger military. Of course, having a bigger military is all for the corporations profit line while lessening our national security. Does anybody feel safer since the Iraqi invasion and occupation? Maybe the corporate elite with their private armies and tax supported police departments.

Yes, people in Europe are demanding an end to the GMO field trials because they know that once their crops become tainted with the GMO strains, it will be very hard to turn back the onslaught. It is like trying to stuff the feathers back into the pillow after having a pillow fight.

We Americans have already accepted that GMO foods are here to stay. Oh, we need the GMO corn for our biofuel. That is a laugh, create 3 pounds of harm for one ounce of good. And who gets the money? The corporate agriculture business entity.

If you eat at a fast food restaurant, you are likely supporting GMO food, as well as the inhumane treatment of animals. While I respect vegetarians (I am not one yet?), I do try to at least eat food that is ethically treated.

If you buy cheap food, ie- cheap chicken, beef, vegetables, you know that someone or something was treated unjustly just to get on your table so cheaply.

Spend your money in what you believe. Unfortunately, corporate interests in the organic market are trying to bring down those standards, but not if we don't let them.

And what is Obama's main concern? Increasing our military presence in Afghanistan. Makes perfect sense. When you support a corporate candidate, corporations will be protected.

It is all connected. Support the status quo which is slowly bringing about our demise, and it will occur even sooner. Don't support the status quo, support third party candidates. Ask your candidate what their position is on GMOs.

Vote Third Party, the status quo has got to go.

There is no peace without justice, and no justice if it is based on lies.

Welcome

Greetings,

This is the first posting. The website is at http://www.NotOneMore.US and dedicated to promoting and supporting peace and justice.

Primarily, the purpose was to select presidential candidates in the 2008 election that supported ending the Iraq war. It also tried to encourage voters to only support those candidates that actively would bring and end to the illegal and immoral war. The effort failed as the mainstream candidates, Obama and McCain, both support a continued US military presence in the Middle East to protect the corporate oil interests that lay under their sand.

And the majority of the voters are now lining up behind either of the two corporate candidates, even though the majority say that they support ending the war. A contradiction, yet they can rationalize it in their minds.

Yes, there is the Green Party with Cynthia McKinney, and Ralph Nader running as well. They support the peace and justice principles that are necessary to evolve into a more just society. So there is someone to vote for that won't make you hold your nose as you step into the voting booth.

I read Common Dreams frequently, but grow tired of the people who are only voting for Obama because they don't want McCain. On the other side you have people who are voting for McCain only because they don't want a democrat.

How can our country sink so low that people are only voting for the lessor of two evils? Well, it has always been that way. Is it worse now? I can't really say but I do feel we are moving closer and closer to the tipping point from which we can't safely recover, one where we are destroying our environment, creating a war based economy that kills civilians indiscriminately, and without concern that a life of a person has been taken.

They say that when you mention a problem you should always offer a solution. But I don't see a solution unless there is a fundamental change in the common consciousness. Yes, there are, and always have been, small groups of people who have actually made a difference by creating change that benefited many more people than just themselves. These unselfish acts go mostly unnoticed by mainstream media as the focus is on the latest movie star to get pregnant, get drunk, get divorced, or whatever else will sell the newspaper.

Look at the miserable job the mainstream media did with they lying and deceit before the start of the Iraq War. And once we got in people didn't want hold the responsible people (like Bush and Company) accountable. So impeachment was taken off the table by the Democratic Leadership. It is a disgrace to basic principles of liberty and justice. Meanwhile innocent civilians die, US soldiers die, and oil companies record record profits.

But I guess more about that later.

Whenever I hear John Lennon's Imagine, it makes me feel a little better that there others out there who understand what we have to overcome if we will ever make the change necessary for humans to live a full and aware life. Imagine is the first step. Doing it is the next.

peace,
AG
www.NotOneMore.US