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MyTHicaL
France1070 Posts
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Foxxan
Sweden3427 Posts
Economic hitman. "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" - John Parkins or is this guy on some quack list somewhere so you might ignore it? www.youtube.com Video about how big companies control goverments by making sure the goverments makes loan they can never payback. In return they can do whatever they want. Always about profit. Seen the 2year old study of gmo? "GMO, Global Alert www.youtube.com | ||
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Deleted User 26513
2376 Posts
On October 29 2017 07:16 Foxxan wrote: Seen the 2year old study of gmo? "GMO, Global Alert www.youtube.com That "study" tells you nothing. It's retracted. Here is a good podcast on the matter. They talk about this "study" at the 16th minute. https://soundcloud.com/startalk/understanding-gmos-and-the-future-of-food edit: The wikipedia page, for what it's worth Séralini affair | ||
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
On October 29 2017 07:16 Foxxan wrote: Have you seen this video? Or heard about it? Economic hitman. "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" - John Parkins or is this guy on some quack list somewhere so you might ignore it? www.youtube.com Video about how big companies control goverments by making sure the goverments makes loan they can never payback. In return they can do whatever they want. Always about profit. Seen the 2year old study of gmo? "GMO, Global Alert www.youtube.com please not the GMO conspiracies again. Just stop getting your education off youtube | ||
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Foxxan
Sweden3427 Posts
https://www.newstarget.com/2017-05-05-international-tribunal-finds-monsanto-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity.html User was temp banned for this post. | ||
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
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Simberto
Germany11800 Posts
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Artisreal
Germany9235 Posts
food sovereignty, suing farmers who's field is contaminated by their patented seeds, driving third world farmers into abject poverty and so on. Pretty standard stuff for a multinational. | ||
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maartendq
Belgium3115 Posts
On October 28 2017 07:27 Sermokala wrote: California would run into massive water problems and Texas has well simply put so much oil and military infrastructure. Catalonia would probably want into the EU and it would be a large fight within the eu to see if they'll get in or not. The EU could use a good existential crisis like that to define what its suppose to be afterall. It would not be I don't think so but its never happened yet so who knows? In order to become a fully fledged member of the EU, a country needs a unanimous 'yes' vote from all the current member states. Spain is not going to do that for the next fifty years. With severely restricted access to the European Union and most of its companies moving offices to spain, Catalonia would quickly become an economic wasteland and an international parriah. But hey, at least they'd be independent , so they would've got that going for them. | ||
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TheDwf
France19747 Posts
![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/wTa8Jfv.jpg) Distribution of the 63 seats: D = Independence Party (ECR): 16 V = Left-Green Movement (NGLA): 11 S = Social Democratic Alliance (S&D): 7 M = Centre Party: 7 B = Progressive Party: 8 P = Pirate Party: 6 F = People's Party: 6 C = Reform Party: 4 The outgoing government (right + centre) lost its majority. | ||
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Deleuze
United Kingdom2102 Posts
On October 29 2017 22:41 TheDwf wrote: Results of the Icelandic elections: Distribution of the 63 seats: D = Independence Party (ECR): 16 V = Left-Green Movement (NGLA): 11 S = Social Democratic Alliance (S&D): 7 M = Centre Party: 7 B = Progressive Party: 8 P = Pirate Party: 6 F = People's Party: 6 C = Reform Party: 4 The outgoing government (right + centre) lost its majority. Parties have such funny names these day, and some might say insidious. What is the Icelandic Independence Party and what are their key issues? | ||
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opisska
Poland8852 Posts
On October 30 2017 03:40 Deleuze wrote: Parties have such funny names these day, and some might say insidious. What is the Icelandic Independence Party and what are their key issues? Yeah, it begs the question - "Independence from whom?" | ||
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TheDwf
France19747 Posts
On October 30 2017 03:40 Deleuze wrote: Parties have such funny names these day, and some might say insidious. What is the Icelandic Independence Party and what are their key issues? Sounds like the traditional center-right/right governmental party, "doesn't want to join the EU" branch. On October 30 2017 03:44 opisska wrote: Yeah, it begs the question - "Independence from whom?" From Denmark; Iceland used to be linked with it. | ||
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opisska
Poland8852 Posts
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
On October 29 2017 20:24 Artisreal wrote: His sources and presentation are crap, which is a shame because many credible NGOs fight for things Monsanto is threatening in their opinion.and not just since last week. food sovereignty, suing farmers who's field is contaminated by their patented seeds, driving third world farmers into abject poverty and so on. Pretty standard stuff for a multinational. genetically modified crops are an important tool for third world farmers to get their productivity up. It's protectionist "food sovereignty" in Europe and the US that doesn't allow economies to develop that drives third world farmers into poverty. There's nothing ecological about local farming. buying overpriced 'organic' food is just the worst thing you can do for the third world, the environment, and your own purse | ||
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Dangermousecatdog
United Kingdom7084 Posts
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Furikawari
France2522 Posts
On October 30 2017 08:50 Nyxisto wrote: genetically modified crops are an important tool for third world farmers to get their productivity up. It's protectionist "food sovereignty" in Europe and the US that doesn't allow economies to develop that drives third world farmers into poverty. There's nothing ecological about local farming. buying overpriced 'organic' food is just the worst thing you can do for the third world, the environment, and your own purse You should really read a bit about a subject before speaking about it. | ||
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Artisreal
Germany9235 Posts
On October 30 2017 08:50 Nyxisto wrote: genetically modified crops are an important tool for third world farmers to get their productivity up. It's protectionist "food sovereignty" in Europe and the US that doesn't allow economies to develop that drives third world farmers into poverty. There's nothing ecological about local farming. buying overpriced 'organic' food is just the worst thing you can do for the third world, the environment, and your own purse I'm unsure whether you're mixing up the concept of food sovereignty and patendet seeds? GMOs are yet to provide an answer to climate change and I've yet to hear about small scale farmers who hail Monsanto & company as the solution for all their problems. In contrast to a varied mix of plant species once the bugs are adapted to roundup you're totally fucked as a farmer and thus consumer. Even a broad coalition of nations (UNEP) signed off the notion, that large scale industrial farming isn't the solution to food insecurity. You can read it up in this report. The report is titled "Agriculture at a Crossroads", it's beyond readable with 1700 something pages over 5 volumes and rather detailed. But I've linked the executive summary which entails just 100 odd pages. The 5 regional as well as the global report can be found here. The executive summary is just about 25 pages each (+100 for the global report). There's nothing ecological about local farming. buying overpriced 'organic' food is just the worst thing you can do for the third world, the environment, and your own purse [Citation needed] | ||
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TheDwf
France19747 Posts
On October 30 2017 08:50 Nyxisto wrote: genetically modified crops are an important tool for third world farmers to get their productivity up. It's protectionist "food sovereignty" in Europe and the US that doesn't allow economies to develop that drives third world farmers into poverty. There's nothing ecological about local farming. buying overpriced 'organic' food is just the worst thing you can do for the third world, the environment, and your own purse How can you even write things like that... The solution is certainly not to trap farmers into GMOs. Less developed countries should be able to protect their agriculture against the nonsensical competition from subsidized agricultures of developed countries. | ||
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Velr
Switzerland10875 Posts
Rich countries subsidide their farmers so they don't get outcompeted by poorer countries/can make a living, then the rich farmers/countries sell their overproduction to the poor countries for a price the poor countries farmers can't compete with. | ||
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