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To: John Hunt who wrote (27578)	2/3/1999 5:27:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116814

OT - Seeds of Discord (Farmers vs Monsanto) << BRUNO, Saskatchewan—On a cold January morning in central Canada, Percy Schmeiser looks over his frozen fields. "Here's where all the trouble began," he says, pointing to where private investigators last year arrived uninvited and snipped samples of his crops for DNA tests. Schmeiser, 68, has been farming these fertile acres all his life, growing canola for the valuable oil in its seeds. And as farmers have done for thousands of years, he has saved some seeds from each year's harvest to replant his fields the following season. Now, he says, "for doing what I've always done," he is being sued by agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. in a landmark "seed piracy" case. The outcome could influence how much control biotechnology companies will have over the world's food supply in the next millennium, and is highlighting a major source of friction as the genetic revolution spills into the world of agriculture. -- cont'd -- >> washingtonpost.com

To: John Hunt who wrote (27578)	2/3/1999 5:36:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116814

The real U.S. economy << The stock market is propped up by the economic news, which is largely misstated. Economist Walter J. Williams, who runs the Shadow Bureau of Government Statistics in Hawthorne, N.J., reports that our annual inflation is not 1.6 percent, but 4.1 percent over last year if you use pre-Clinton methodology. Unemployment is not 4.3 percent, but over 10 percent if you back out all those people who were reclassified as "discouraged workers" and simply eliminated from the government's tally. And over half of the 17.5 million new payroll jobs since Clinton came into office are imaginary "fudge" factors. >> worldnetdaily.com But they are just little white lies....

To: John Hunt who wrote (27578)	2/3/1999 5:42:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Respond to of 116814

Speculators split US, Europe (SCMP) << Stark divisions between Europe and the United States over how to reform the global financial architecture were highlighted yesterday by an attack by German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on speculators for wrecking economies. Urging rapid reform of the financial system, he said worldwide development and co-operation was being derailed by speculative capital movements which had driven national and international exchanges and national economies to the brink of ruin. He told a World Economic Forum meeting that "many thousands of people" had been deprived of their livelihood and had their hopes "thoroughly dashed". -- cont'd -- >> scmp.com