GMO – another attack of the big companies

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Crowds on the Polish streets and the attacks of Anonymous were the reason for the Polish government to find a scapegoat who will be responsible for the actions which took effect in signing an unfortunate agreement.

However, it seems to be a gimmicky activity which aims to save the government and the Prime Minister’s reputation after ACTA has been already signed.

In spite of the fact that ACTA was broadly discussed much earlier, the Polish government was withholding the moment of drawing up the agreement till the last minute. Even though the internauts’ reaction was more than unexpected, the government did nothing to speak with the basic segment of this treaty – the Internet users.

Nevertheless, we need to take a wider look on the ACTA agreement. As we already know, it was elaborated in secret in participation of the big concerns which will probably earn the most on it.

We need to note that it doesn’t mean that only phonographic and movie companies will have the biggest benefits. It actually turns out that this treaty can have something in common with...GMO.

Three words about GMO

Let’s start with a definition of GMO - the Genetically Modified Organisms are living organisms whose genetic material was modified by genetic engineering methods. We can have modified bacteria or plants. Today, when we speak about the GMO we rather think about artificially altered plants whose genetic code is protected by the patent rights belonging to some big biotechnological concerns.

The GMO issue is very controversial. Its followers claim that it gives bigger crops and the plants remain fresh for a long time. Its opponents say that the influence on human body and local ecosystems wasn’t precisely investigated (it is connected with the process of absorption by the genetically modified plants).

What thing can link ACTA and GMO?

People interested in GMO know that the GMO seeds are sold and cropped on license of rights – it means that every farmer must pay a relevant amount of money to the company which created a particular type of tillage. This obvious thing can be although very confusing.

Let’s take the Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser as an example. He was accused by the biotechnological concern Mosanto of illegal cropping of genetically modified colza. Schmeiser stated that the GMO appeared on his field by coincidence – it was probably a self-sown plant which came from the neighbor field with genetically modified colza. The judge wasn’t satisfied with those arguments – hence, the farmer was forced to pay the patent fee to Mosanto. Apparently Schmeiser should have done everything in order to avoid self sowing or to weed those GMO plants.

The problem is serious because thanks to ACTA which protects the patent rights and after introducing the GMO tillage the big corporations will be able to sue those people who do not even know that their tillage was pollinated by GMO.

Let us imagine a situation after signing ACTA and introducing the GMO tillage – there’s a farmer in a small village who starts to crop genetically modified plants, buys seeds, pays the patent fees and pollinates his field. After some time the pollen is spread by the wind, bees or other animals which pollinate the crops of another farmer having an ecological tillage on his field. Not only he looses the ecological status of his tillage but also he is subject to a potential visit of a biotechnological concern’s representative wanting him to pay the fee for growing GMO. Even if our farmer doesn’t want to grow the GMO and to make the biotechnological concern’s wallet bigger – he has no choice.

ACTA with its vague content and terms can treat the GMO patens as the same subject of copyrights as the Internet files. What is more, every farmer can be a potential criminal pursued by an international institution called up after the treaty enters into force. Interesting concurrence: an international institution pursuing the violation of copyrights and international corporations being the owner of the license for crops. Coincidence?

On the 8th of February the social consultations will be held in the Presidential Palace. There will be 6 followers of GMO and only 3 of its opponents – the supporters of common sense and healthy food. It is possible that it will cause the same scandal as ACTA. Poland will become a rubbish bin full of genetically modified food whose real usefulness is hard to find by an every-day man. Our shops are full of powder products which increase the financial benefits of producers and businessmen as well as the number of allergies and patients financed by the National Health Fund.

Who will take advantage of the genetically modified food? Would it be a step towards the elimination of the ecological agriculture, the fall of the small and medium enterprises and the disappearance of our precious ecological brand?

Is ACTA really connected with GMO? I encourage the lawyers to analyze this question and the internauts to take a wider look on this problem till it’s too late.

I believe that the Internet society can become a barometer of unconsidered politics where people’s interest is no more a fundamental value.

Zhirinovsky: third world war will begin on summer 2012

This year there will be four years since the beginning of russian-georgian war. Since that time there are still tensions between both states, nevertheless the puzzle is much more complicated. 

There is probability, that the conflict which can start between Iran and Israel can easily spread across neighbouring countries. The first, which will be endangered at the first time is surely Syria. Its president who still remains in power, Bashar Al-Assad had noticed that: 

"Syria is the hub now in this region. It is the fault line, and if you play with the ground you will cause an earthquake."

One look at the map will prove that Assad can be right. Syria can be considered as the gate into the Middle East. 

Vladimir Zhirinovsky/
fot. A. Sdobnikov 

But north to Syria there is also another important and dangerous region - Southern Caucasus, where local states are not only bordering but they are also closely connected with the states which will most probably engage in the coming conflict (Russia, Turkey, Israel, Iran). They have their own interests as well.

Let's call up here the words of famous controversial Russian politician, Vladimir Zhirinovsky. He claims that The Third World War will break this summer:

“Azerbaijan might take advantage of that state to re-seize Nagorno Karabakh. TheRepublic of Armenia will act in opposition to it, while Turkey will support Azerbaijan. That’s how we’ll (Russia - VO) in summer be caught in a war” 

Not very optimistic perspective, but is it possible to come true? What would Georgia do?

GMO products even faster on the market

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United States Department of Agriculture - SDA had simplified procedures to introduce new GMO spieces on American market. 

Large companies producing GMO soon will be able to get much faster a permission for their products. At the moment this process is much longer due to necessity of considering such factors as public interest. 

Whole case looks even more grotesque when we consider growing controvercies about GMO. News processes, protests and blocades in many countries should theoretically warn the government agencies. Theoretically yes, but practically we can see that these controvercies play a little role. 

According to Anthony Gucciardi of Activist Post the whole case is obvious - for SDA workers GMO companies profits are much more important. 

Pyramid in Area51?

Famous Area 51 is one of the most mysterious military bases in the world. Plenty of theories had grown in recent decades about that place, so it is quite difficult to make clear which one is a true one. 

Another great mystery are the pyramids. Nobody knows why and for what purpose they were constructed, neither to explain how so similar constructions can be found in so many different places in the world, like Egypt, Central America, China and probably also Europe. 

We heard about these mysteries quite long time ago, they have even got into specific "folklore" used dozens of times by popculture and Hollywood. What if there is a connection between these two?

How can we explain these photographies which were shown on the Blacklistednews.com. Can we see there some pictures of the supposedly Area51 and the pyramid?  

If these photographies are not mistification and the pyramid can be really found in the Area51, then we can expect milions of new questions. First of all - regular pyramid has got three sides, while the one on the picture has got only three. To what is it?

A great alliance between muslims and christians?

According to Sheikh Imran Hosein, possible alliance between muslims and christians would be an significant sign that we are living in the end of times.

In the interview with Marc Glenn at January 10th 2012, Sheikh had claimed that there is a chance that in the close future there will be an alliance between muslims and christians (especially those connected with the Orthodox Church) against the doctrine and countries supporting NWO. The whole interview can be listened below:

 

 

Computers eavesdropping our thoughts? It will soon be possible

Scientists from the Berkeley University in California can now announce their great success. They had informed about the scanner which is able to read human thoughts.

They have invited 15 English-speaking patients who suffer particular neurological diseases. Special holes were made inside their skulls and then 256 electrodes were inserted inside. Their task was to record brain signals.

After that, the patients were asked to listen to the words, while the scientists were recording brain activity in the temporal lobe. Then the data was transferred to the computers which had revealed the whole process and then it has recostructed the words earlier head by patients.

Of course we can only say that the only one experiment was succesful, but maybe this would be the first step to read human mind? This would be surely used not only by people with their language centers damaged but also intelligence agencies.

Obama wants a world tax?

What the world government would look like? It would probably be the government which will be able (or will be going to) to gather taxes from all over the planet. Even if we consider the whole case from the other point of view, which means the global tax, there should exist some king of institution which will have a duty to gather the taxes and to discipline these countries which do not obey.

We need to ask ourselves what should we think of these ideas of creating a global tax? In many situations this would mean some efforts to make the world a little bit more just.

Maybe these are the reasons behind declarations of president Obama's economic advisor, Gene Sperling who claimed his support for a global tax. What is more, Sperling did not say this in a private interview but during oficial meeting in the White House. He later explained that the reason for his support is the fact, that there are many companies which are escaping into tax havens.

While the White House has oficially claimed that they do not support Sperlings view, the US president himself had stated something very similar soon after. As the Weekly Standard journalists had noticed, Obama had said during the meeting in Milwaukee, that there is a need for "international corporations to pay some kind of basic, minimal tax". Obama and Sperling had used different names, but we can guess that they were speaking about the same thing.

source: Weekly Standard