Khaled,

> When viceroy Paul Bremmer was ruling in Baghdad, one of the stunts they
> tried to pull was to force the Iraqi farmers ( in the Iraqi constitution)
> to buy GMO seeds from the US with a terminator gene in it. Meaning that
> you could not plant the seeds that you harvested the season before
> because they were engineered to be sterile. Imagine that Iraqi farmer who
> is suddenly wondering why nothing came up. Yes the seeds they were using
> were not good enough to keep feeding their country, but that was not the
> way to go about it.
> Khaled


This is a good example of corporate control run amok, and that it causes
resentment in other countries is not surprising - it causes resentment here
as well!

Perhaps that is the key, farmers seeing that the "great Satan" isn't simply
America, it's the government media complex of power that goes forth in the
name of America, but is anti-freedom and squashes opposition at home AND
abroad.

John
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