wheat looking for signs of the g.m. strain recommending that if the strain is indeed found that we not be sold among the members. states wow really seems like everywhere else in the entire world

wheat looking for signs of the g.m. strain recommending that if the strain is indeed found that the wheat not be sold among the member states wow really seems like everywhere else in the entire world governments are taking precautionary measures against g.m. foods very seriously in fact some countries are going to bars destroying g.m. crops altogether i can the case of a hungry which reportedly torched over twelve hundred acres of g.m. corn just this week but hunger is not alone on this. outright banned in a number of countries the latest being per room which is the very first nation in the americas to introduce a ten year ban on g.e. foods all right guys two million people showed up last week to say no to g.m. those communities everywhere are banding together to fight back so what's stopping you. today marks the third anniversary of an international tragedy six ships on a flotilla route to gaza were seen just by the israeli military the flotilla's purpose was to bring in a ray of banned goods into palestine sadly the v

high sales last moh. >> i love the fact they rescued g.m. g.m. is american institution. good for america is good for general motors or maybe it was vice versa. i love they saved it and saved the job. i doesn't bother me they are the union jobs. $10 billion is a small price to payor saving company of that magnitude. >> we are presupposing this is the only way to save them. we could have done a prepackaged bankruptcy where you would have crammed down unions i'm a union guy. but they extorted so much benefit -- >> neil: you say are you a union guy? areou in a union? >> no, my dad was a union. >> neil: so the reason why you call yourself union guy your dad was in a union. ich is great. so was my dad. i am not a union -- >> here is why. we moved from a crummy apartment to a crummy little house because old man was in a union. >> is that why? >> that is one of -- >> my you moved to the house he was i a union? >> they help provide my father with benefits and work ethic. one thing that the unions did, they did extort, if extort. tremendous benefits at a g.m. what shouldave been d

that the g.m. had a slower growth it had problems with. development of its organs. knocked out the immune system for two days he was a hero to the world's media pushed i was fired after thirty five years with threats of a lawsuit and the industry loads. smear campaign if independent. companies are usually expected to test for safety curve of this is what nonsense who admitted . monsanto should not have to validate the safe the safety of biotech food our interest is in selling as much of it as possible regulates in the us is the food and drug administration the if a poem is made month voice president taylor the food is the all in charge of america's food safety it's filth this documentary knows some of the consequence is the u.s. government's weak program provides free formula to over two million newborns but only genetically engineer varieties i'm like you can go. in my kitchen only that i think is going good i mean is turning red you can freeze properly. i thought it was an i told me no no no i was just like having it only to tell. you. and i knew that we took them

g.m. is piling on new incentives hoping to sell more volts with rebates and lease deals on the pluggin' car totaling $5,000 off some models dropping to $26 with the tax credit. abercrombie & fitch is trying to generate good p.r. and supporting anti-bullying organizations and award

allergic to anything and now everything had people that allergic to parsley when you link it to the g.m. always shoot it resonates like you would not believe the villain in this is obama today because he's seen first what he promised blatantly that he would look into this and do something and he didn't let us know whether their food has been genetically modified because americans should know what they're buying he also appointed what is the guy's name michael taylor used to be a v.p. at monsanto the seat of evil to be the food czar the f.d.a. deputy commissioner of food and of course monsanto's latest frankenfood got speedy approval because this guy is in charge of it because it's like putting jerry sandusky in charge of chuck e. cheese a person who monsanto's the company the told us that p c b's were saying. they told us that agent orange was sick they told us that d.d.t. was safe and now they're in charge of telling us if they're old to get at the modified foods are safe because the f.d.a. doesn't require a single safety study they leave it to. email is even more when investigative jo

protests right here in the united states though g.m. owes still reign supreme pushing seed patents and growing billions of dollars worth of potentially dangerous genetically modified crops that he excuse me the use of g m o's in the united states has grown drastically in the last fifteen years and today as much as seventy percent of food on shelves in grocery stores in the united states are made from g.m. o's made from genetically modified organisms we learned last week that unapproved g m o's can now just randomly appear in a farm field in oregon we learned at the beginning of this year that lawmakers are perfectly ok with monsanto lobbyists using backdoor channels in congress to pass secret giveaways like the monsanto protection act which allows g.m.o. corporations to ignore the rulings of courts that question the safety of their product and we learned during the elections last year that the g.m.o. industry can use money to deny californians the right to know whether or not the food they're eating grows naturally or was it in a lab. s

foods and who bill is on the governor's desk but does it have teeth the latest on the battle over g.m. those on the state level later in the show. it's tuesday june fourth eight pm in washington d.c. and i'm meghan lopez and you are watching r t well day two of the bradley manning trial kicks off today the moment many in the courtroom are waiting for testimony from the man who alerted federal authorities that manning was the person behind the biggest document drop in american history former computer hacker adrian lamo detailed how he communicated with the army private first class using a number of computers and e-mail addresses along with encrypted text r.t. has been covering the story since the very first apache helicopter video was released and if you have trouble accessing our web site r.t. dot com yesterday afternoon for the latest on the trial there's a reason why we were attacked a group known as anti leaks claimed responsibility for shutting down our web site apparently the group has a problem with the free flow of information but hey you know the fact that we were attacked cou

g.m.ing the biggest month since september of 2008. we love that. connell: pretty good. jeff has more on that story. hey, jeff. >> i'll tell you, numbers just keep getting better and better. we thought maybe trucks was going to be the headline this month but they're all the headlines. take a look at numbers overall and i'll tell you, it's the u.s. auto makers doing better. take a look at the regular numbers. g.m. up 3%, toyota up 2 1/2%, chrysler up 11, ford up 14% and you know, v.w., one of the foreign auto makers down 1.3%. wayne is from naperville is out here. tell me your headline. >> up 34% last month. >> for this dealership. >> absolutely. >> what was the deleading the w? >> cruise and equinox. >> you have one over there somewhere? they're way over there. i don't know if you can find them. maybe go through the plants there. that was a big month for the impact s.u.v.? >> absolutely. >> and also small business and truck sales also, right? >> yes. the only thing, the trucks again was the

the government had a police cause guaranteed minimum returns g.m. are weak means that. if you. invest in one because. and they needed it's not enough to recover you a cost the government would top up so that you don't go at a loss because if you do if you go at a loss you will not. plan to the next season and the country would stuff and that is why in the one thousand sixties a name hundred seventy s. when there was a mom. who was net food exporting countries. despite all this kenya was immersed in debt which couldn't be paid without international help it's just a clear lustration no a country that east coast by global forces to surrender policy making that to be of strategic importance to its own citizens why was kinda so enduring because they need aid from the world bank because they need aid from the i.m.f. there were told if you don't change you don't get money from us. so everything including education health communication transportation energy and water follows the free markets rules. agriculture was no exception governmental support was withdrawn and farmers were now on

modified seeds in the european union of other western nations can get it together when it comes to g.m. owes why can't the united states and last week federal prosecutors prosecutors announced that they were charging the website.

g.m. is piling on new incentives hoping to sell more volts with rebates and lease deals on the pluggin' car totaling $5,000 off some models dropping to $26 with the tax credit. abercrombie & fitch is trying to generate good p.r. and supporting anti-bullying organizations and award mom... yes honey? dad told me that cheerios is good for your heart, is that true? says here that cheerios has whole grain oats that can help remove some cholesterol, and that's heart healthy. [ dad ] jan? ♪ >> covering san rafael, south bay, pleasanton and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> good morning, everyone, 4:41 as we look at downtown san francisco and well look at the forecast and see what the weather holds and see how the commute is going in a couple of minutes. >> a dog training to become a seeing eye dog pass add frightening real life test with flying colors. the security cameras caught it all in san rafael. the yellow lab was guiding two employees along 4th when an out-of-control car nearly ran t

g.m. is replacing hj hynes. michelle?? joining is gulf oil ceo. good to see. >> you thank you, michelle. >> hey, i keep hearing about we are at record levels of oil in america. we are producing natural gas. we're doing all this energy we didn't do before. why isn't gasoline cheap senator. >> it's going to come down. in certain areas it is cheaper. the midwest is 70 cents over the east coast and almost a dollar over the gulf coast. >> why? >> lack of infrastructure to move the commodities from where they are to where they aren't. we're relying to much on rail to move crude. you know, for example, we're moving crude 2600 miles to the canadian refinery in st. john's where we buy a lot of our product. it's just a much more expensive movement than if we were to move by water or by pipe. >> and the reason we're not doing that is because we don't have the the keystone pipeline, for example. >> sure. we don't have the big east/west pipeline. we have the jones act from 1920, which restricts vessels moving port to port to u.s. flag

is flourishing along with g.m., with sales up 3 percent and cadillac sales jumped 38 percent. that is covering walnut creek burlingame, campbell and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> a big day for alameda getting control of the air station with the base closed in 1997 as part of a plan to get rid unneeded military bases. originally the navy asked alameda to put up $100 million to put up for transferring the land to the city but then agreed to transfer it back at in cost. they hope this will create thousands of jobs and generate new tax revenues. the city manager will sign 44 deeds later today making the property transfer official. >> the marin county board of supervisors will decide today whether to endorse using some herbicides to control vegetation on mount tamalpais. the marin reports that the board will consider a march grand jury report which cited the high risk of a devastating fire in the watershed. the granted jury advocated the limited use of herbicide and asked the supervisors to do the same. the water district oversees land on mount tamalpais and used the chem

investigation, with 320,000 minivan could have airbag that deploy if no reason, chrysler, and toyota and g.m. are part of the investigation. >> the c.e.o. of lululemon is leaving after embarrassing women across the entire country. the company was forced to recall the top selling pants for being too shear. that is >> covering san rafael, south bay, pleasanton and all the bay area this is abc7 news. >> welcome back on this tuesday morning. san francisco muni officials are concerned about a growing problem, passengers trying to on the doors of moving buses and jumping out between stops there have been 15 of these incidents since the end of may over a week and a half period. it is mostly on the 14-mission limited but it is happening on other runs. according to the "san francisco examiner", police thought they were just trying to get out quickly after boarding the wrong bus but now they review surveillance video to determine if it is a malicious mischief by a grouch passengers. phones say it is a matter time before someone is hurt. >> six months ago we profiled 20 something winemakers trying to m

statement saying that the application for snowden for asylum could take up to two months just like that of g.m.'s holed up in the london embassy now of course you will still be staking out here looking out for more details and as soon as we get anything we'll bring you right back to you. russia and china remain caught between the u.s. and the whistleblower on the run washington is angry that is hoping a lot is going to explain some believe america is just using scapegoats to distract attention from the real issues it's global surveillance program. u.s. secretary of state john kerry hinted at possible consequences that russia may face for its response on snowden saying at times russians have criminals in the u.s. they're looking for and he said the u.s. has cooperated on handing over seven of them in the past two years although if it were a russian whistleblower who stood up for civil liberties in russia it's kind of hard to imagine the u.s. handing them over very quickly especially if the us were not legally obliged to do so and in the case of snowden we heard the russian president say russia

modified seeds in the european union if other western nations can get it together when it comes to g.m. owes why can't the united states and last week federal prosecutors prosecutors announced that they were charging the website liberty reserve.

diet not only is that important because we eat the pigs that eat the g.m. both but also because we humans share similar digestive systems so that g.m.o. corn and soy we eat in just about every could be messing up our inner tube. in light of the fact that antidepressants in our drinking water can make fish crazy and the fact that g.m.o. is in our food supply can cause stomach inflammation and other internal bad things we might want to rethink exactly what we're putting into our bodies here in the u.s. we also might want to question why is the bulk of our population on antidepressants in the first place that has anything to do with the fact that our corporations make the products so dangerous they make our fish crazy and our pigs sick and that our government not only allows this behavior but supports it that alone could be enough to depress us all tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the residence. of mapping out there for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com america and check out our web site r c dot com slash u

foods a new bill is on the governor's desk but doesn't have teeth the latest on the battle over g.m. goes on the state level later in the show.

going at a level that you know won't get out of hand hate to cut you off but i want to take you now our g.m. stock has been following this story and let's take a listen in just a couple of minutes. the president ited states will be announcing that it is now conclusive that bashar assad and the syrian butchers have used chemical weapons senator john mccain speaking on the senate floor at four fifty nine pm on thursday he just scooped the white house which should schedule a press call with reporters at five pm to make a big announcement one regarding the united states his role in the ongoing syrian civil war and mccain made clear see what the announcement was going to be the president also. and now will announce that we will be assisting the syrian rebels in. in syria by providing them with weapons and other assistance senator mccain has long called for direct military assistance to the syrian opposition in fact he spearheaded an effort in the senate foreign relations committee last month to pass legislation to arm the syrian rebels and at the end of may he secretly dropped into syria to meet

and our number two you know it's just total can't him a nation of you know g.m. crops being right next door to whether it be an organic farmer norms you know our you know just coal encroachments you know being able they can to make people's land i think that it should be marked in santo having to pay damages for having you can't have it contaminated crops rather than the farmers have to pay for bills and it's cases like these that give birth to fuel to keep on pushing on now that you met david take a look at the wire up behind me is washington d.c. is monsanto office and they produce the seeds that burke was talking about why do what i do is to get people to really look into their food system and to wonder what they're eating for l. it's companies like monsanto that have the air of the government and their influence over our global food supply but with people like bert barrett raising their opinion that might not always be the case in washington margaret howard r t well it seems that right here in the us a constable modern lifestyle might encourage some bad habit

elections not because of people support for their own program but because they did not want the former g.m. to take over that's one thing i want people voted the brotherhood and the present musi they voted in for specific programs and for promises that he made with the opposition and the rest of the revolutionary movements at the family hotel just before the second round and was. happen is that he metaphors or any of his promises never even his own elections program so that people's you know voting for him as there is no mending valid because he's never been those promises that he came to any early reelections this he came through a revolution and he did not respect the revolution that put them there but at the same time that revolution took place about a year ago and now is a year enough to judge of the man i mean he didn't inherit a country that's economically battered a whole host of problems do you think that perhaps more time is needed to before jumping to conclusions about morsi success or failure. will thing is that mercy knew what he was heading into and that of the revolutionary m

they have g.m. back in the s&p 500.aking of automakers, good news for autoworkers and the economy. ford is boosting production in its north american plants. americans are buying more cars. ford will be making more cars. ford, g.m., chrysler made the f-150 truck selling well because of the housing recovery. increase in consumer confidence. remember the pants from lululemon they pulled off the shelf? they're back. they became sheer when the wearer bent over, which is apparently something that happens in yoga. they ensure the pants snap back after the stretch. the company developed a sheer-o-meter. shares are up 16%. >> you call it a fiasco. some investors call it a celebration, the see-throughness or something. >>> forget the bread or english muff in. use a doughnut instead. check out this new breakfast sandwich. a fried egg and bacon sandwiched between two glazed doughnuts. it's 30 calories less than the turkey sausage breakfast, which it considers a reduced fat option. can i show you the waffle taco. which would you rat

g.m. is trying to spark volt sales and offering up to $5,000 cash back for the plug in. the incentives are putting the monthly payments in the sail range as the cut-rate $269 lease rice in california where you can save a lot. a gallon of regular coughs $3.98 but the energy department says it costs under $1.52 to buy the equal amount of electricity. drivers in california pay average $390 each time they have the cars diagnosissed and repaired, the third highest in the nation, behind new jersey and washington, dc. this is according to the survey that says maintenance prices cut 10 percent. now the markets, we are off the highs but making up some of the ground we lost yesterday and the silicon valley index is up. take your eyes off the became and look at the nice open hard word floor something advertisers are noticing so next week the nab will allow teams to sell ads for the out of bounds safe by the benches. it w use decals that will now be allowed on nationally televised games. >> any place you go, cannot get away. >> like when they put spiderman movie on the bases had was

when we bailed out g.m., the only thing we did was move 40,000 jobs from below the mason dixon line, where they would have been produced in hyundai plants, or honda plants, or toyota plants, or b.m.w. plants, to north of the mason dixon line. it was all about the electoral college; it was not about jobs. >> solman: but it would have been traumatic to detroit and everybody who had an auto job. >> well, of course. but if we're going to say that washington will rescue anybody who is big and noisy and threatens a trauma, then we're going to have total socialism, we're going to have an ossified economy, and we're going to have crony capitalism like you have never seen. money will dominate everything, and we crossed that rubicon when we bailed out detroit in 2008. >> solman: what do you mean exactly by "crony capitalism," particularly if you're including the united auto workers among the cronies? >> crony capitalism tries to get a different outcome than would occur on the market by using the tools and machinery of government. as long as you want the government intervening at will any time

. >> it's not clear that allowing g.m.go under would actually have opened up space for its competitors. it's all very easy now, now that it turned out that we did not have a collapse in the auto industry to say, oh well everything would have been fine if we did nothing, but that's certainly not the way it looked at the time and i think it wasn't in fact true. we did need to act and it's a good thing we did. >> reporter: but surely you're sympathetic to stockman's charge that crony capitalism is a major problem in this country? >> no question that there are a lot of companies, a lot of people who make their way not by having the best product or the best idea, but by having the right connections, the question is whether the solution to crony capitalism is to say let's have a depression that destroys everything. so that we don't bail out those fat cat bankers on wall street and i think that's not the answer. the answer is to regulate the bankers but at the same time save the workers. >> reporter: stockman, like many others, b