@Snode

and i'd add that the disappearing social safety net was built to stave off insurrections against the Lords of Capitalism.

green capitalism is seen most obviously/cynically at the world economic forum, as with prince charles hawking his 'green bonds', full of terms like 'net zero' and 'renewables' (not sustainables).

i'd lost this part earlier, but all i never knew about Evil Africom, spawn of NATO, i'd learned from crossed crocodiles long ago. at some point he'd switched topics as with this:

August 28, 2014, The fight against Big Ag and GMOs in Ghana , Posted by xcroc (in part)

The following is an article released by Food Sovereignty Ghana and published in a variety of sources throughout Ghana, Africa, and globally.

BAN ALL GM FOODS IN GHANA!

Food Sovereignty Ghana calls for an indefinite Moratorium or ban on the propagation, cultivation, raising, and growing of Genetically Modified Organisms in Ghana.

We call for a total ban on everything GMO, including but not limited to, the introduction into the environment, contained and confined use or field trials, import, export, GMO in transit, or placement on the market.

We demand that this ban be put in place until the science of GM foods and human health, as well as environmental impact, has been thoroughly studied and cleared as safe by independent science rather than corporate-driven, profit-oriented scientists and regulators, ridden with conflicts-of-interest.

There is a gigantic global attempt to impose GMOs into our food chain through deals made by transnational agribusiness corporations with our political elites, designed to limit public awareness and exclude public participation. The collusion between the biotech industry and politicians and regulators makes nonsense of their assurances that GM foods are safe.

Even if the highly questionable claims of increases in food or crop yields, or drought-resistant flood-resistant GM crops were true, the ever increasing amounts of pesticide toxins they contain should prohibit their production or use. Toxic food, regardless of abundance, does not replace safe and edible food.

GMOs contain massive quantities of pesticides, a huge health threat. Close to 100% of all commercial GMO crops are genetically engineered to contain pesticides, or to absorb huge amounts of pesticides without being killed. When we consume the plants, or eat animals that consume the plants, we consume those pesticides that can injure heart, lungs, nerves, digestion, blood, skin, immunity, and sexual function and development.

Genetically engineered Bt Crops are engineered to express (produce) the Bt toxin in its active form,. The active toxin is produced in every individual cell of the crops, thus making the entire crop a pesticide. When you eat a genetically modified Bt food crop you are eating pesticides. Bt crops are regulated by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as pesticides (EPA document 735-F-02-013 May 2002). Promoters of GM foods downplay but it does not change the fact that Bt is a pesticide. This is common sense but unfortunately some people are trying so hard to prevent us from thinking for ourselves.

Vast quantities of GMO crops are herbicide resistant crops. These are grown both for human and for animal consumption. These crops are genetically engineered to absorb massive doses of pesticides that kill weeds, chemicals that are sprayed on the crops repeatedly, sometimes as many as 300 days out of the year. These chemicals are in fact chemical cocktails and include adjuvant chemicals designed to penetrate the plants and cause them to absorb even more of the pesticidal toxins. The adjuvant chemicals, close to 400 of them, are never tested. Testing is not required by law. How safe they are, or what they do when they enter our bodies is anybody’s guess.

The American Academy of Environmental Medicine, the Doctors who understand, study and follow the effects of environmental factors on our health, issued a statement in 2009, on the dangers of GM food and advised all their members to prescribe non GM foods to their patients. Just last week, we saw in the news, a call by Lieutenant General Mi Zhen-yu, former vice president of the Chinese Academy of Military Science, on the Chinese government to“face up to reality” about the harm from genetically modified food.

The General provides specific numbers on the increases in birth defects, severe depression, precocious puberty in girls, autism, childhood cancers, male sperm quality and infertility, Parkinson’s disease, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease. “The situation is shocking.” Why are those who claim GMOs are safe are opposed to any long-term independent studies in toxicity? Why are they against labelling?

some nations ban GMOs altogether, including imports. i used to remember some of them. ; )

the thing is, gates, monsanto, bayer control much of the food supply, AND gates also runs the Svalbard native seed vault in...norway? nice trick, billy.

#1.2 Just, there is no difference between our government and the 1%. Our government and the 1% are 100% capitalist and anything they do is done by the rules of capitalism. The rules of capitalism doesn't recognize pure charity. If they wanted to do something altruistic, they have the means to do so.

Bush 1's charity "A Thousand Points of Light" had the 90 cents out of every dollar going to overhead and salaries, and when that was pointed out the consensus was, well, that's not an out of line ratio.

So, if it's food, there will be agribusiness , medicine, big pharma, all having direct access to our representatives. We used to have programs modelled on the Peace Corps in the villages and towns, directly aiding people. Now there are corporations with their axes to grind masquerading as non profits and charities dealing directly with client nations leaders, supported by our government. This is the pattern since Reagan.

Which is why some of the most terrifying words are "I'm from the 1%, and I'm here to help."

@snoopydawg

me to think of 'inner space as a final frontier': permit them to have some lysergic acid and watch endless loops of the harm they've done to the planet and global citizens. Timothy Leary's thinking? ; )

#2.1

and once they take off we close the country so they can’t renter?