tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post8986448560939904895..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: A Society That Nobody Wants - edited version number 4Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-47434778564462491202009-06-11T15:19:04.841-04:002009-06-11T15:19:04.841-04:00I don't know the answer to that question.
I l...<em>I don't know the answer to that question.</em><br /><br />I live in America's heartland where agribusiness controls the flow of subsidies to farmers and of pesticides into the land, and does its best to control the total yield of GM crops sown from it and the price they bring at market. If you were to go to the local VFW hall and question the toll this arrangement takes on land and people at home and abroad you (ignorant, brainwashed commie sympathiser) would be told that those too stupid to grow their own should be grateful to industrious western geniuses for their very lives. Who needs god when one can be god?Diane Warthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03760651392641280801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-25419778108638061302009-06-11T10:25:53.694-04:002009-06-11T10:25:53.694-04:00"Banal is the notion those who serve the mone...<i>"Banal is the notion those who serve the money god don't enjoy the social benefits and can be shamed into thinking otherwise.</i>"<br /><br />I don't know the answer to that question. A lot of what I write is really a 'prayer'. The 23rd psalm comes to mind almost every day.<br /><br />I live in a rural valley where death in the forest is all around. People need to come out from their cities and see the death and destruction. See where and how their food is produced.<br /><br />I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I fear no evil.Myrtle Blackwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07427043367624101075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-72778618086736229662009-06-10T10:20:48.788-04:002009-06-10T10:20:48.788-04:00People are uneasy about and ashamed of the world t...<em>People are uneasy about and ashamed of the world that they have given their children to grow up in. </em><br /><br />Not many Americans - Look ma, no draft, and kids keep enlisting (so long as the price is right). No shortage of mercenaries, either.<br /><br />Banal is the notion those who serve the money god don't enjoy the social benefits and can be shamed into thinking otherwise.Diane Warthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03760651392641280801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-61590037474077940482009-06-08T19:06:59.346-04:002009-06-08T19:06:59.346-04:00On rereading this article I find the questions I&#...On rereading this article I find the questions I've asked sound so 'banal'. Perhaps because I've lived with those questions for such a long time.<br /><br />Here's the latest update on Vietnam:<br /><br /><i>“When the US Veterans won their out of court settlement [on Agent Orange damage] in 1984 the Judge was Judge Jack Weinstein. The Vietnamese lawsuit that lost in 2005, the judge was Judge Jack Weinstein,” he said. “Why did he rule against the Vietnamese? They were suing the same chemical companies. The Vietnamese victims have the same illnesses and disabilities.”<br /><br />He also pointed out that part of the problem was that the major chemical companies the suits were filed against, Dow Chemical and Monsanto among others, were often feeders for the government and vice-versa.<br /><br />“Monsanto is notorious for this; it is called the Revolving Door,” he said. “Justice Clarence Thomas, who sat in on the AO lawsuit, worked for two years as a lawyer for Monsanto.”</i><br /><br />The revolving door...<br /><br />Activist cautious as Agent Orange experts testify at US Congress<br />Reported by An Dien - Jon Dillingham<br />Thanh Nien Daily News, June 4 2009<br />http://www.thanhniennews.com/features/?catid=10&newsid=49474Myrtle Blackwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07427043367624101075noreply@blogger.com