Category Archives: chemical

Genetics and corporations

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Well, if we had any doubt at all, it is true that corporations actually think they own us.  Literally.

What seems like a no-brainer–that you can’t own something you didn’t personally create, as in human beings–somehow becomes less clear once money is involved.

So, because someone wants to make a buck, the human body is patentable?

If that is so….and corporations own my body….who can I sue for being heavy metal poisoned??

 

More on the Arkansas spill

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You know, there are days when I wish that I was wrong, and this is one of them.

So…my first inclination was right–that they were trying to control the message and access to the area by the press….it would appear that the press corps are going to have to start having body guards.

At least there is one aerial photo of the mess here.

Monsanto, the Godfather…

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…of destruction to human beings and the environment…

And President Obama signs the Monsanto Protection Act.  WTH?

From the Union of Concerned Scientists link:

In 2008—the last year a federal Farm Bill was completed—the company reported a whopping $8.8 million in lobbying expenditures (see table below) intended to influence decisions in Congress, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and other federal agencies.

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$8 million. Just for lobbying, folks….that’s not counting the money spent on persecuting farmers. It was common for farmers to keep seeds to plant crops with–nothing was wrong with that….until Monsanto made it illegal…and one has to ask why?  Why are they allowed to persecute farmers for saving seed?  In some cases, such as Percy Schmeiser, a farmer doesn’t even have to have purchased the poisonous seeds….

Don’t forget the Hoosier farmer fighting this Goliath in the Supreme Court.

One of the articles I passed over with my search made a statement that Monsanto’s seeds are popular with farmers…perhaps that is what the problem is…and where the solution lies…NOT purchasing seeds from Monsanto.  I think it is going to take a helluva boycott on the part of the farmers to bring this giant to its knees.  It’s obvious by now that the gov’t is not going to do the right thing and regulate this poisonous agriculture or the corporation responsible for it.  And Monsanto is doing its best to destroy the family farm.

What a fight on our hands….

Exxon interfering with coverage of the Arkansas spill

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Exxon is interfering with our right to know and the First Amendment–the right of the news crews to fly over the spill to document it. And my guess that the reason I haven’t heard of it on the news is becoming obvious–trying to shut down the news of it so that the Canadian XL pipeline can go through without protest… (note again the Hillary Clinton connection to XL…)

…and as I said, the real reason they don’t want *outsiders* taking the ducks and other wildlife to rescue centers is to thwart attempts to document the damage with photos of the dead and suffering wildlife….

(I say outsiders with just a little sarcasm…as if the American public were outsiders in their own country….but increasingly made to feel that way, eh? )

Arkansas oil spill

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Gah, there is so much I miss…

I did not know that there had been an oil pipeline spill. 

(I’m sure that the push for the new pipeline has nothing to do with it)  /snark

Be sure to click on the links—the poor ducks….

…and I strongly suspect the reason that Exxon officials are discouraging people from handling the ducks are not concern for the person’s safety as they are at keeping people away from the scene to thwart pictures of the ducks circulating, a la BP thwarting efforts to document the deaths of the dolphins during the oil spill.  And the government is not helping, but also part of the see-no-evil plan…

Here’s an update to the gulf. Not good news…not that I  expected any. More here.

Here’s a photographic diary of the devastation.  Warning: the worst photo I have ever seen of a poisoned dolphin  is in this group, along with the pelicans, turtles, and other sea life covered in oil….it makes you just want to suck in air, doesn’t it?  Good God.

 

 

 

More on hazardous conditions

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Common dreams has this up on fracking and all the hazards it entails.  Hey, just as long as Dick Cheney gets his cut, all is well…

More here.

And here.

And the best Congress money can buy….

Let’s not forget the other consequences of fracking– earthquakes.