Monsanto is not worried about mon-santé.

Researchers at Monsanto tested rats and covered that their GM MON 863, a modified corn already grown and eaten in the US and Canada, causes the rodents to develop kidney disease and low blood count . The results weren't supposed to come out and when they did, Monsanto dismissed the results as meaningless and due to chance, reflecting normal variations between rats.

I still would like some more testing done please, preferably by a third party, before the EU grants permission to sell Monsanto's products to my kids.

Six years ago Dr Arpad Pusztai , a British scientist and a GM fan, already found disturbing evidence that the GM potatoes he was studying damaged the immune systems, brains, livers and kidneys of rats. He mentioned it briefly in a TV interview and at the same time threw his career out the window. Read what happened to him in this article: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=640402

Mystery Piano Man

You have probably read or heard about the Mystery Piano Man, that guy who showed up April 7 in Kent, England, wearing a drenched suit. All the lables from his clothes had been removed. He hasn't uttered a word since but give him a piano and he plays concertos for four hours straight or he draws detailed pictures of wing pianos.

I'm calling David Lynch tonight to pitch him this idea I have for a new movie:)

Naked in the rain.

Wassup with this Spencer Tunick hype and the nude people he photographed in Bruges over the weekend? Every newsshow and paper had an item on it and especially women around 40 seem to find his 'art' very provocative, hip & interesting. I don't get it.
Tunick is a one-trick pony. Is it art simply because they're naked? If everybody wore fleshcoloured or white spandex jumpsuits would it still be considered as high art and more importantly: would the media cover it??
Come on Spence, time to move on to something new...
If you want to see some real art check the post right below www. banksy.co.uk

Guerilla Art

Check this guy out: http://www.banksy.co.uk
Next level graffiti. He clandestinely hangs some of his stuff in art galleries between 'real' art.

Why not privatise public transport? Here's why not

British commuters pay up to five times more than rail passengers on the Continent, a study has found.

While an annual season ticket from Hemel Hempstead to London costs £2,504 for a 23-mile journey, the equivalent would cost just £510 in Berlin.

The news emerges after the Government announced price increases above the inflation rate. On some London commuter routes up to one out of every four trains runs late. It is also thought that further increases are in the pipeline.

Bob Crow, the general secretary of the RMT, argued that the private companies involved in the rail network were siphoning off profit and ensuring that rail fares in Britain were higher than in most Continental countries. "The Rail privateers are taking out a billion pounds a year from the railways and £2m a week from the Tube - is it any wonder that commuters are paying through the nose for season tickets?" he said. "Commuters in countries where the railways remain in public hands pay a fraction of season ticket costs here. The time has come to draw the line under privatisation and bring our rail and Tube back into the public sector."