The Constant Weader at http://www.RealityChex.com

They are actively going after seed cleaners in Missouri and Illinois. Everyone should read this article and take action before it is too late.

http://www.opednews.com/articl…..15-45.html

give him a chance

I don’t have any choice, do I? *g*

If he shifts his stance on GM seed, etc to a more organic stance, for instance, what would cause that shift? As a behaviouralist I have this bias that the best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour.

Yes, I’m skeptical but if people can say they’ve been “born again” then that should also be possible with one’s basic agricultural philosophy.

Sorry for the delay in responding. I watched the rerun of Krugman at the National Press Club yesterday.

As for Blair, he reflects a dangerous tendency in American intelligence. Not just DNI and DCI are held by military people but almost all the other intelligence groups are headed by them. From my scandals list:

44. Militarization of intelligence: Rumsfeld perhaps out of pique that the Afghanistan operation was largely a CIA affair and conceiving the world as one big turf battle pressed to put all special operations under Pentagon control. The vast majority of intelligence funding is already funneled through the Defense Department. In addition to this, the current intelligence czar the Director of National Intelligence John Michael McConnell is a retired vice admiral. The CIA is currently headed by an active duty general Michael Hayden (USAF). The top man at the NSA (formerly headed by Hayden) is Lt. Gen. Keith B. Alexander (Army). General James R. Clapper Jr. is Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Lt. Gen. William J. (Jerry) Boykin is Deputy Under Secretary for Intelligence, Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Michael Ennis is Deputy Director for Human Intelligence at the CIA. Retiring Army Lt. General Dell Dailey, formerly Director of the Center for Special Operations at the Pentagon which runs black ops, was nominated to head the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (S/CT) at the State Department. He was confirmed June 22, 2007.
National Counterterrorism Center was headed by another retired vice admiral John Scott Redd from August 1, 2005 to November 10, 2007. He left after making remarks that Iraq had made the country less safe and had helped in the recruitment of terrorists. The current acting head of the NCTC is its principal deputy director Michael Leiter, a civilian.

The danger about which I was talking is that career military will tend to view all situations overwhelmingly through a military lens. This can skew both the focus and the responses of the government in ways that decrease our overall security. Cultural, religious, historical, economic, and technological factors which are all at least at important as the military are diminished. This is not good.