All Discussions Tagged 'warfare' - 12160 Social Network2024-03-28T13:15:00Zhttps://12160.info/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=warfare&feed=yes&xn_auth=noAll the World’s a PsyOptag:12160.info,2022-05-13:2649739:Topic:22010122022-05-13T14:26:16.337ZParrhesiahttps://12160.info/profile/DianaLovell
<p>The marketing department of the U.S. Army’s Psychological Warfare division just released a stunning recruitment video. They want you to know that they are ghosts in the machine, watching and warping everything, and that if you want to be part of the A-Team as the world is dragged into the hell of global war, you can jump on board.</p>
<p>It’s quite alluring. Slick editing. Bewitching music. Absorbingly dark in tone, and sufficiently ambiguous. It is superb psyop theatre, and as one commenter…</p>
<p>The marketing department of the U.S. Army’s Psychological Warfare division just released a stunning recruitment video. They want you to know that they are ghosts in the machine, watching and warping everything, and that if you want to be part of the A-Team as the world is dragged into the hell of global war, you can jump on board.</p>
<p>It’s quite alluring. Slick editing. Bewitching music. Absorbingly dark in tone, and sufficiently ambiguous. It is superb psyop theatre, and as one commenter replied, <strong><em>‘I suddenly want to die for oligarchs. This sure is effective!’</em></strong></p>
<p>Your tax dollars at work.</p>
<p>There’s plenty of <a href="https://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/ghosts-in-the-machine-the-highly-symbolic-video-by-the-u-s-armys-psyop-division/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis of it</a> already circulating in the independent media, so I’ll just comment that the ad is impressive in the sense that it effectively does what psyops are supposed to do, which is to confuse, mislead, redirect, and occupy your mind.</p>
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<p>The key message here is that very well organized and well funded organizations are operating at full steam behind the curtain to lead you astray from your original mind and your original self. And they are damned good at it.</p>
<p>Recently I was hanging out with family discussing a sick family member, when out of nowhere a distant relative said, ‘I sure am worried about Monday, cuz Putin’s gonna drop a nuke on Victory Day.’</p>
<p>Now, of course that’s quite a tangent from the conversation on what to do about grandpa, but as you can expect, the comment launched an instant heated debate on Russian motives and Putin’s mental health, and everyone involved confidently threw in their 5 cents 0r more. Because, you know, they’ve been all been thinking deeply about these issues, for oh, you know, like 6 weeks. They’re all experts now, and they’re really good at global threat assessment. They’re savvy enough to know you gotta keep your eye on the ball. Whichever ball’s in front of you, that is.</p>
<p>But what do a handful of Hillbillies from East Texas and Western Louisiana really know about Vladimir Putin and contemporary Russian war strategy?</p>
<p>The answer is nothing. Except, that is, for what they’ve been told to think about and repeat from whichever CIA controlled news and disinfo outlets they tune into everyday.</p>
<p>And herein lies the real danger of psychological warfare and mind control. People who have no stake in global affairs and no deep understanding of the world, parrot narratives planted into their minds by people who wish to give them stuff to think about. And in the process, the lives of said individuals drift further and further away from their own unique purpose, and, once captured by the herd, their personal lives descend deeper into chaos and dysfunction, making it evermore easy to manipulate the body politic.</p>
<p>It’s head-spinning.</p>
<p>So, being who I am, and <a href="https://www.dylancharlescoaching.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doing what I do</a>, I see all of this as yet another indication that it’s time to really get down to the grounded business of repairing one’s own life. And this ain’t easy to do when the world has been reconfigured as a stage to suck your attention, energy and power away from your own life. The system is letting you know that they’re fucking with your head on all fronts. It’s all out in the open. And people think it’s cool… because they’re supposed to think it’s cool.</p>
<p>But you’re different. You don’t want the man in your head grabbing the stick, sending you into a nosedive of self-destruction. And this is why you’ve been flagged as a threat and targeted with more mind control.</p>
<p>All the world’s a psyop, and as the whole show gets evermore ridiculous, I’m going to keep on doing the work work of ushering people out of the theatre.</p>
<p><a href="https://noqreport.com/2022/05/12/all-the-worlds-a-psyop/">All the World's a PsyOp (noqreport.com)</a></p> To The Men and Women Who Serve In Harm's Waytag:12160.info,2016-11-15:2649739:Topic:16479422016-11-15T21:21:16.560ZDoc Vegahttps://12160.info/profile/DocVega700
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<p align="center" style="text-align: left;"><b>Veteran’s Day</b></p>
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<p>Veteran’s Day by most seems to mean barbecue, beer, and family get togethers on a weekend in November. It does little to invoke the true meaning of the holiday which is to honor those who served their country in the military. Even though our brave warriors serving in the Marine Corps, Navy, Army, Air Force, and Coast Guard are the only…</p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: left;"><b>Veteran’s Day</b></p>
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<p>Veteran’s Day by most seems to mean barbecue, beer, and family get togethers on a weekend in November. It does little to invoke the true meaning of the holiday which is to honor those who served their country in the military. Even though our brave warriors serving in the Marine Corps, Navy, Army, Air Force, and Coast Guard are the only thing that stands between us and our enemies, few bother to stop and think of just how and why these brave men and women have honored their country with their sacrifices.</p>
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<p><b>Unfortunate reality</b></p>
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<p>The world has a very short memory. It forgets easily that America liberated the world twice in the 20<sup>th</sup> century and acted as a global guardian for the regions in chaos in such police actions as Korea and Vietnam. The blood of American servicemen and women has been spilled all over the world in the unselfish act of preserving the peace of other nations yet many returning veterans have come home maimed and changed forever only to be met with indifference or even hostility by liberals.</p>
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<p><b>What they do</b></p>
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<p>Never the less, they still offer their lives so that we who often take for granted our freedoms can remain unharmed by the many hostile groups who would destroy America if they could. We owe a debt of gratitude to these brave people who fly into harm’s way, take up a rifle, or man general quarters aboard a destroyer in dangerous waters where enemy aircraft can appear out of nowhere and make high speed passes just to play a deadly game of cat and mouse.</p>
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<p><b>Distinguished service</b></p>
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<p>Few people can remember just why the US Marines earned the nickname “Devil Dogs”. That term was carried proudly into battles from World War II to Desert Storm as a tribute to our troops who served in World War I and were surrounded on a hill in Europe by German forces. The horrific stalemate of trench warfare unfolded between Germany and France on the western front where thousands died on muddy fields pockmarked with shell craters and barbed wire. After 3 years of carnage in Europe and the Mediterranean theaters as Great Britain, France, and the Kaiser’s Armies fought a bloody war of attrition that seemed endless there seemed little room for hope. America finally entered the war determined to end the deadlock and bring peace back to the world.</p>
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<p><b>Turning the tables of fate</b></p>
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<p>In the dead of night and a lull in the fighting, US Marines found themselves isolated from supplies and reinforcements. Kaiser Wilhelm’s seasoned shock troops had encircled the Americans on a hill and were ready to wipe them out, but something happened. As the Germans quietly crept into their positions confident that they would show the US Marines just what kind of terror they had dished out to the British and French a psychological blow was dealt by fearless young men surrounded but not yet beaten.</p>
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<p><b>The legacy</b></p>
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<p>The US Marines began howling like dogs in the tense but silent night that fell before battle. That ominous gesture unnerved the Germans and terrified them. One of the Kaiser’s troops called the US Marines “Devil Dogs” and the nickname stuck. The battle ended with the determined Marines breaking out from the German stronghold and defeating them. It appears the “Devil Dogs” label served as an omen to all who opposed them. If not for this kind of heroism displayed so many times in the years and wars to be fought in the future the US Marines would not have distinguished themselves nor would America have been defended so faithfully in desperate times. This singular incident only typifies just why a holiday like Veteran’s Day is so significant to the American heritage.</p>
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<div style="background-color: white;"><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The below summary of Barack and Michelle Obama’s 5 year reign in the White House is by far the best I’ve ever read as it squarely hits the nail on the head.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span>A white man’s account would be instantly criticized by the liberal media as pure racism.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">But,</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">how can anyone scream Racist when an exacting description of the Obamas is penned by a well known journalist of color?</span></strong></span></div>
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<div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span>The other evening on my twitter, a person asked me why I didn’t like the Obama’s.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span>Specifically I was asked: “I have to ask, why do you hate the Obama’s?</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span>It seems personal, not policy related.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span>You even dissed (disrespect) their Christmas family picture.”</span></div>
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<div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The truth is I do not like the Obamas, what they represent, their ideology, and I certainly do not like his policies and legislation.</strong></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span>I’ve made no secret of my contempt for the Obamas.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span>As I responded to the person who asked me the aforementioned question, <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">I don’t like them because they are committed to the fundamental change of my/our country into what can only be regarded as a Communist state.</span></strong></span></div>
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<div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>I don’t hate them per definition, but I condemn them because they are the worst kind of racialists, they are elitist Leninists with contempt for traditional America.</strong></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>They display disrespect for the sanctity of the office he holds, and for those who are willing to admit same, Michelle Obama’s RAW CONTEMPT FOR WHITE AMERICA IS TRANSPICUOUS</strong></span>.</span></div>
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<div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>I don’t like them because they comport themselves as emperor and empress. I expect, no I demand respect, for the Office of President, and a love of our country and her citizens, from the leader entrusted with the governance of same.</strong></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">President and Mrs. Reagan displayed an unparalleled love for the country and her people.</span></strong></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span>The Reagan’s made Americans feel good about themselves and about what we could accomplish.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Obamas arrogance by appointing 32 leftist czars and constantly bypassing congress is impeachable. Eric Holder is probably the MOST incompetent and arrogant DOJ head to ever hold the</strong> <strong>.</strong></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span>Could you envision President Reagan instructing his Justice Department to act like jack-booted thugs?</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span><strong>Presidents are politicians and all politicians are known and pretty much expected to manipulate the truth</strong>, <strong>if not outright lie</strong>, <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">but even using that low standard, the Obama’s have taken lies,dishonesty, deceit, mendacity,subterfuge and obfuscation to new depths.</span></strong></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>They are verbally abusive to the citizenry, and they display an animus for civility.</strong></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><strong>I do not like them, because <span style="text-decoration: underline;">they both display bigotry</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">overtly</span>, as in the case of Harvard Professor Louis Gates, when he accused the Cambridge Police of acting stupidly, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">and her code speak pursuant to now being able to be proud of America.</span></strong></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">I view that statement and that Mind set as an insult</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">to those who died to provide a country</span> where a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Kenyan, his illegal alien relatives, and his alleged progeny, could come and not only live freely, but rise to the highest, most powerful, position in the world.</span></strong></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Michelle</span></strong> <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">is free to hate and disparage whites because Americans of every description paid with their blood to ensure her right to do that.</span></strong></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span><strong>I have a saying, that “<span style="text-decoration: underline;">the only reason a person hides things, is because they have something to hide.</span>” <span style="text-decoration: underline;">No president in history has spent over a million dollars to keep his records and his past sealed.</span></strong></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>And what the two of them have shared has been proven to be lies.</strong></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>He lied about when and how they met, he lied about his mother’s death and problems with insurance, Michelle lied to a crowd pursuant to nearly $500,000 bank stocks they inherited from his family.</strong></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>He has lied about his father’s military service, about the civil rights movement, ad nausea.</strong></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>He lied to the world about the Supreme Court in a State of the Union address.</strong></span></div>
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<div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>He berated and publicly insulted a sitting Congressman.</strong></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>He has surrounded himself with the most rabidly, radical, socialist academicians today</strong></span>.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>He opposed rulings that protected women and children that even Planned Parenthood did not seek to support.</strong></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>He is openly hostile to business and aggressively hostile to Israel.</strong></span></div>
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<div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">His wife treats being the First Lady as her personal</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">American Express Black Card</span> (arguably the most prestigious credit card in the world).</strong></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>I condemn them because, as people are suffering, losing their homes, their jobs, their retirements, he and his family are arrogantly showing off their life of entitlement – as he</strong> <strong>goes about creating and fomenting class warfare.</strong></span></span></div>
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<div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span>I don’t like them, and I neither apologize nor retreat from my public condemnation of them and of his policies.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><strong>We should condemn them <span style="text-decoration: underline;">for the disrespect they show our people, for his willful and unconstitutional actions pursuant to obeying the Constitutional parameters he is bound by, and his willful disregard for Congressional authority.</span></strong></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span><strong>Dislike for them has nothing to do with the color of their skin;</strong> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>it has everything to do with their behavior, attitudes, and policies.</strong></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>And I have open scorn for their constantly playing the race card. </strong></span> <span>I could go on, but let me conclude with this.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>I condemn in the strongest possible terms "THE MEDIA for refusing to investigate them, as they did President Bush and President Clinton, and for refusing to label them for what they truly are".</strong></span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span>There is no scenario known to man, whereby a white President and his wife could ignore laws, flaunt their position, and lord over the people, <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">as these two are permitted out of fear for their color.</span></strong></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span>As I wrote in a syndicated column titled, <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">“Nero In The</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">White House”</span></strong> – <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">“Never in my life, inside or outside of politics, have I witnessed such dishonesty in a political leader.</span></strong></span></div>
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<div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">He is the most mendacious political figure I have ever witnessed. Even by the low standards of his presidential predecessors, his narcissistic,contumacious arrogance is unequaled. Using Obama as the bar, Nero would have to be elevated to sainthood.</span></strong></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span>Many in America wanted to be proud when the first person of color was elected President, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">but instead, they have been witness to a congenital liar, a woman who has been ashamed of America her entire life, failed policies, intimidation, and a commonality hitherto not witnessed in political leaders.</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">He and his wife view their life at our expense as an entitlement – while America’s people go homeless, hungry and unemployed.</span></div>
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<p><br/> <br/> Source: <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/2014/03/black-male-journalist-on-obamas-this-is.html">http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/2014/03/black-male-journalist-on-obamas-this-is.html</a></p> Disaster Capitalists - Democrats Code: Never Let a Good Crisis Go To Waste"tag:12160.info,2014-01-21:2649739:Topic:13990522014-01-21T17:30:45.792Z14300https://12160.info/profile/14300
<p><strong>Disaster Capitalists - Democrats Code: Never Let a Good Crisis Go To Waste"</strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Food Price Shock: Genetic Modification or Starvation</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Intimately connected to the price of oil is the global food crisis.</strong> <strong>Not only do high gas prices drive</strong> <strong>up food costs but the boom in agrofuels has blurred the line between food and fuel, pushing food growers off their land and…</strong></p>
<p><strong>Disaster Capitalists - Democrats Code: Never Let a Good Crisis Go To Waste"</strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Food Price Shock: Genetic Modification or Starvation</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Intimately connected to the price of oil is the global food crisis.</strong> <strong>Not only do high gas prices drive</strong> <strong>up food costs but the boom in agrofuels has blurred the line between food and fuel, pushing food growers off their land and encouraging rampant speculatio</strong>n.</p>
<p>Several Latin American countries have been pushing to re-examine the push for agrofuels and to have food recognized as a human right, not a mere commodity.</p>
<p>United States Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte has other ideas. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>In the same speech touting the US commitment to emergency food aid, he called on countries to lower their "export restrictions and high tariffs" and eliminate "barriers to use of innovative plant and animal</strong> <strong>production</strong></span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>technologies, including biotechnology (aka GMO's)</strong></span>."</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">This was an admittedly more subtle "stickup", but the message was clear: impoverished countries had better crack open their agricultural markets to American GMO products and genetically modified seeds, or they could risk having their aid cut off. In other words "GMO's or Starvation".</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Genetically modified crops (GMOs) have emerged as the cure all for the food crisis, at least according to the World Bank, the European Commission president (time to "bite the bullet") and Prime Minister of Britain Gordon Brown. And, of course, the agribusiness companies like Monsanto</strong></span>.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>"You cannot today feed the world without genetically modified organisms," Peter Brabeck, chairman of Nestlé, told the</strong> <strong><em>Financial Times</em> recently</strong></span>. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The problem with this argument, at least for now, is that there is no evidence that GMOs increase crop yields, and they often decrease them.</strong></span></p>
<p>But even if there was a simple key to solving the global food crisis, would we really want it in the hands of the Nestlés and Monsantos? What would it cost us to use it? In recent months Monsanto, Syngenta and BASF have been frenetically buying up patents on so-called "climate ready" seeds--plants that can grow in earth parched from drought and salinated from flooding.</p>
<p>In other words, plants built to survive a future of climate chaos. We already know the lengths Monsanto will go to protect its intellectual property, spying on and suing farmers who dare to save their seeds from one year to the next. We have seen patented AIDS medications fail to treat millions in sub-Saharan Africa. Why would patented "climate ready" crops be any different?</p>
<p>Meanwhile, amid all the talk of exciting new genetic and drilling technologies, the Bush Administration announced a moratorium of up to two years on new solar energy projects on federal lands--due, apparently, to environmental concerns. This is the final frontier for disaster capitalism.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Our leaders are failing to invest in technology that will actually prevent a future of climate chaos, choosing instead to work hand in hand with those plotting innovative schemes to PROFIT FROM DISASTERS aka "Disaster Capitalism."</strong></span></p>
<p>Privatizing Iraq's oil, ensuring global dominance for genetically modified crops, lowering the last of the trade barriers and opening the last of the wildlife refuges... Not so long ago, those goals were pursued through polite trade agreements, under the benign pseudonym "globalization." Now this discredited agenda is forced to ride on the backs of serial crises, selling itself as lifesaving medicine for a world in pain.<span class="article-appeared"><a href="http://www.thenation.com/issue/july-21-2008"></a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/disaster-capitalists-reap-profits#">http://www.thenation.com/article/disaster-capitalists-reap-profits#</a></p> Wall Street Reportedly Circulates Class Warfare Emailtag:12160.info,2010-05-01:2649739:Topic:1750032010-05-01T19:13:05.314ZLocaltarianhttps://12160.info/profile/Awho
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/30/wall-street-reportedly-ci_n_559032.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/30/wall-street-reportedly-ci_n_559032.html</a><br></br><br></br>The Reformed Broker and <a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/04/30/217381/we-are-wall-street-we-are-smarter-and-more-vicious-than-dinosaurs/" target="_hplink">FT Alphaville</a> have gotten a hold of an email that is reportedly making its way through inboxes on Wall Street.
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<p>For anyone with even a…</p>
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/30/wall-street-reportedly-ci_n_559032.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/30/wall-street-reportedly-ci_n_559032.html</a><br/><br/>The Reformed Broker and <a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/04/30/217381/we-are-wall-street-we-are-smarter-and-more-vicious-than-dinosaurs/" target="_hplink">FT Alphaville</a> have gotten a hold of an email that is reportedly making its way through inboxes on Wall Street.
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<p>For anyone with even a scintilla of knowledge of Wall Street's excesses in the past decade or so, the email itself is hard to stomach.
By turns, it takes shot at unionized teachers, the Obama administration<br />
and "average Joes."</p>
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<p>In fact, this screed is so idiotic it's a an unintentional argument <i>for Wall Street reform</i>. As <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/30/wall-street-reportedly-ci_n_559032.html" target="_hplink">The Reformed Broker</a> puts it, it's a "hideous little piece of class warfare:</p>
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<blockquote>"We are Wall Street. It's our job to make money. Whether it's a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake
paper, it doesn't matter. We would trade baseball cards if it were<br />
profitable. I didn't hear America complaining when the market was<br />
roaring to 14,000 and everyone's 401k doubled every 3 years. Just like<br />
gambling, its not a problem until you lose. I've never heard of anyone<br />
going to Gamblers Anonymous because they won too much in Vegas...</blockquote>
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<p>Here's more:</p>
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<blockquote>"Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you're only going to hurt yourselves. What's going to happen when we can't find
jobs on the Street anymore? Guess what: We're going to take yours. We<br />
get up at 5am & work till 10pm or later. We're used to not getting<br />
up to pee when we have a position.We aren't dinosaurs. We are smarter<br />
and more vicious than that, and we are going to survive."</blockquote>
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<p>And then there's this enraging piece of utter nonsense: "Our money was your money. You spent it. When our money dries up, so does yours."</p>
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