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Author Topic: Is Bill Gates trying to hijack Africa's food supply?
Michelle
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posted 08 August 2007 07:01 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
From Counterpunch.

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Genetically altered crops will rescue Africa from endemic shortfalls in food production, claim corporate foundations that have announced a $150 million "gift" to spark a "Green Revolution" in agriculture on the continent.

Of course, U.S.-based agribusiness holds the patents to these wondercrops, and can exercise their proprietary "rights" at will. Are corporate foundations really out to feed the hungry, or are they hypocritical Trojan Horses on a mission to hijack the world's food supply --- to create the most complete and ultimate state of dependency.

"Poor-washing" is the common public relations tactic of concealing bitterly unfair and predatory trade policies that create and deepen hunger and poverty with clouds of hypocritical noise about feeding the hungry and alleviating poverty. It's hard to imagine a better case of media poor-washing than the hype around the recently announced $150 million "gifts" of the Gates and Rockerfeller Foundations to the cause of reforming African agriculture, feeding that continent's impoverished millions and sparking an African "Green Revolution."



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Sandy47
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posted 08 August 2007 08:16 AM      Profile for Sandy47     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
As stated in the documentary "The Corporation", the ultimate aim is that "someday everything will be owned by somebody".
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remind
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posted 08 August 2007 08:38 AM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Sandy47:
As stated in the documentary "The Corporation", the ultimate aim is that "someday everything will be owned by somebody".

People have already tried that throughout the ages and how did it work for them?

The rich land owners/aristocracy owned everything, or the church, and now they want to try it again through corporate control. There is nothing new under the sun. It didn't work through the ages and the world's people are certainly not going back into the box again. They might be succesful in a short term, but not in a long term, and I doubt it even in the short term.


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