{"article":{"id":7958,"heading":"More From Inside","author":"intime-sdimc","created":"2001-06-27 23:25:07","modified":"2001-06-27 23:40:19","last_modified":"Thu, 28 Jun 2001 06:40:19","article":"<p>I can think of few things more boring and distressing than predominantly white people in suits making deals that will have ramifications for citizens. So I was bored and distressed at BIO2001 today. I was again captivated, though, by the fact that such a large part of the BIO conference consists of white Western governments are fighting with each other to have the priviledge of handing over their tax-payers' money to ensure that bio corporations will do business in their locale (and donate to their re-election campaigns perhaps.) So the most interesting photos I could find to take today were of government booths. Admittedly they lack aesthetic excitement, but I hope they are telling nonetheless.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Governments Taking From the Poor to Give to the Rich","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2001\/06\/7958.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":7959,"heading":"More","article":"It just occured to me that governments don't even bother anymore to repeat their rhetoric that tax breaks and other such incentives for corporations are good for all citizens. I guess that since the mainstream media is corporate dominated, they handle all such propaganda...","author":"intime","parent_id":7958,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-06-27 23:28:14","modified":"2001-06-27 23:40:19","fileurl":""}]}