Chinese people do not want to be involved in direct confrontation. Samsung manufacture its products in Korea, while every bit of Apple technology (except Apple's logo) was given to Chinese companies. Now nearly evetything Apple is manaufacturing is made in China. Why should they pay so much for the stupid logo? They got the technology in chinese way "1 component at a time". In the past Chinese were destroying its enemies like bugs destroy trees (one leaf at a time) so one day the tree eaten by bugs will collapse without any warning. Now you wounder why North America and Europe is failing!

The Seeds Of Suicide: How Monsanto Destroys Farming

Companies / Agricultural Commodities Apr 13, 2013 - 07:15 PM GMT

By: Global_Research

Vandana Shiva writes: Monsanto’s talk of ‘technology’ tries to hide its real objectives of control over seed where genetic engineering is a means to control seed,

“Monsanto is an agricultural company.

We apply innovation and technology to help farmers around the world \produce more while conserving more.”

“Producing more, Conserving more, Improving farmers lives.”

These are the promises Monsanto India’s website makes, alongside pictures of smiling, prosperous farmers from the state of Maharashtra. This is a desperate attempt by Monsanto and its PR machinery to delink the epidemic of farmers’ suicides in India from the company’s growing control over cotton seed supply — 95 per cent of India’s cotton seed is now controlled by Monsanto.

Control over seed is the first link in the food chain because seed is the source of life. When a corporation controls seed, it controls life, especially the life of farmers.

Monsanto’s concentrated control over the seed sector in India as well as across the world is very worrying. This is what connects farmers’ suicides in India to Monsanto vs Percy Schmeiser in Canada, to Monsanto vs Bowman in the US, and to farmers in Brazil suing Monsanto for $2.2 billion for unfair collection of royalty.

Through patents on seed, Monsanto has become the “Life Lord” of our planet, collecting rents for life’s renewal from farmers, the original breeders.

Patents on seed are illegitimate because putting a toxic gene into a plant cell is not “creating” or “inventing” a plant. These are seeds of deception — the deception that Monsanto is the creator of seeds and life; the deception that while Monsanto sues farmers and traps them in debt, it pretends to be working for farmers’ welfare, and the deception that GMOs feed the world. GMOs are failing to control pests and weeds, and have instead led to the emergence of superpests and superweeds.

The entry of Monsanto in the Indian seed sector was made possible with a 1988 Seed Policy imposed by the World Bank, requiring the Government of India to deregulate the seed sector. Five things changed with Monsanto’s entry: First, Indian companies were locked into joint-ventures and licensing arrangements, and concentration over the seed sector increased. Second, seed which had been the farmers’ common resource became the “intellectual property” of Monsanto, for which it started collecting royalties, thus raising the costs of seed. Third, open pollinated cotton seeds were displaced by hybrids, including GMO hybrids. A renewable resource became a non-renewable, patented commodity. Fourth, cotton which had earlier been grown as a mixture with food crops now had to be grown as a monoculture, with higher vulnerability to pests, disease, drought and crop failure. Fifth, Monsanto started to subvert India’s regulatory processes and, in fact, started to use public resources to push its non-renewable hybrids and GMOs through so-called public-private partnerships (PPP).

In 1995, Monsanto introduced its Bt technology in India through a joint-venture with the Indian company Mahyco. In 1997-98, Monsanto started open field trials of its GMO Bt cotton illegally and announced that it would be selling the seeds commercially the following year. India has rules for regulating GMOs since 1989, under the Environment Protection Act. It is mandatory to get approval from the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee under the ministry of environment for GMO trials. The Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology sued Monsanto in the Supreme Court of India and Monsanto could not start the commercial sales of its Bt cotton seeds until 2002. And, after the damning report of India’s parliamentary committee on Bt crops in August 2012, the panel of technical experts appointed by the Supreme Court recommended a 10-year moratorium on field trials of all GM food and termination of all ongoing trials of transgenic crops.

But it had changed Indian agriculture already.

Monsanto’s seed monopolies, the destruction of alternatives, the collection of superprofits in the form of royalties, and the increasing vulnerability of monocultures has created a context for debt, suicides and agrarian distress which is driving the farmers’ suicide epidemic in India. This systemic control has been intensified with Bt cotton. That is why most suicides are in the cotton belt.

An internal advisory by the agricultural ministry of India in January 2012 had this to say to the cotton-growing states in India — “Cotton farmers are in a deep crisis since shifting to Bt cotton. The spate of farmer suicides in 2011-12 has been particularly severe among Bt cotton farmers.”

The highest acreage of Bt cotton is in Maharashtra and this is also where the highest farmer suicides are. Suicides increased after Bt cotton was introduced — Monsanto’s royalty extraction, and the high costs of seed and chemicals have created a debt trap. According to Government of India data, nearly 75 per cent rural debt is due to purchase inputs. As Monsanto’s profits grow, farmers’ debt grows. It is in this systemic sense that Monsanto’s seeds are seeds of suicide.

The ultimate seeds of suicide is Monsanto’s patented technology to create sterile seeds. (Called “Terminator technology” by the media, sterile seed technology is a type of Gene Use Restriction Technology, GRUT, in which seed produced by a crop will not grow — crops will not produce viable offspring seeds or will produce viable seeds with specific genes switched off.) The Convention on Biological Diversity has banned its use, otherwise Monsanto would be collecting even higher profits from seed.

Monsanto’s talk of “technology” tries to hide its real objectives of ownership and control over seed where genetic engineering is just a means to control seed and the food system through patents and intellectual property rights.

A Monsanto representative admitted that they were “the patient’s diagnostician, and physician all in one” in writing the patents on life-forms, from micro-organisms to plants, in the TRIPS’ agreement of WTO. Stopping farmers from saving seeds and exercising their seed sovereignty was the main objective. Monsanto is now extending its patents to conventionally bred seed, as in the case of broccoli and capsicum, or the low gluten wheat it had pirated from India which we challenged as a biopiracy case in the European Patent office.

That is why we have started Fibres of Freedom in the heart of Monsanto’s Bt cotton/suicide belt in Vidharba. We have created community seed banks with indigenous seeds and helped farmers go organic. No GMO seeds, no debt, no suicides.

Vandana Shiva is a philosopher, environmental activist, and eco feminist.Shiva, currently based in Delhi, has authored more than 20 books and over 500 papers in leading scientific and technical journals.She was trained as a physicist and received her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1993. She is the founder of Navdanya http://www.navdanya.org/

Vandana Shiva is a frequent contributor to Global Research.

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Millions of people lost their real (not paper) money "investing" in Silicon Valley companies. For example AOL’s market value went from $226 billion to about $20 billion now.

The money did not evaporate like water, so who got the $$$ that millions of american lost by "investing" in Silicon Valley companies?

I want people to gain experience (and increased compensation) while working - instead of being unemployed or sinking in student's debt. The average student-loan debt last year rose to $27,253 from $17,233 in 2005. 60% of all student loans are owed by people over 30 years old, with 33% owed by people over 40 years old. Default rates are up 31% in the last two years. I personally believe that person who can not pay back his debt is the real slave! I have Ph.D. and do not know how to talk to such a moron like you who believe that the enslavement of our children in student loan debt and handing them the bill for $200 trillion of unfunded entitlement liabilities is a good thing.

Jobs below minimum wage shoud be low cost to the employers:
* no tax of any form,
* no health benefits by the employer,
* at will contract (esealy to get hired and fired),
* no unions.

But the government wants to make sure that you (employer) pay through the nose to do all the paper work, etc, etc for jobs that do not generate much.

The government wants to make sure that you will be taxed for no lesss than the minimum wage per hour.

Thus, businesses replace low wage workers with automation or outsorcing.

At the end everyone, but beaurocrats are enriched!

Source : http://www.batr.org/negotium/013013.html

The long-term goal of Communist Red Chinese is to take over the wealth creation resources of the planet. The quasi merger between the authoritarian Maoists and the global capitalists plays out as a sorry act in the Beijing Red Theater. The performance designed to distract and confuse really has the destruction of Western economies as the climax. The sell out of the West, under the skilled dirty hands of Herr Heinz Henry A. Kissinger, is entering the final stages of a planned implosion. Now that the de-industrialization of America as described in the article, Free Trade Created the Chinese Model, has taken placed, the theft of our natural assets is the next to go. The Chinese exploits the use of U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones. A depiction of the function and working of such Foreign-Trade Zones follows:

"Other countries around the world have Free Trade Zones that are often confused with the U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones program. While there are similarities, the FTZ program is very different from other countries' Free Trade Zone. In a number of "free trade zones" in other countries – particularly those in developing countries – the sole benefit is the avoidance of internal customs duties on products that are re-exported from the Free Trade Zone. Often, the goods are not even allowed to be sold in the country where the Free Trade Zone exists. You often here these zones referred to as "Export Processing Zones". The U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones program not only allows the sale and importation of merchandise to the U.S. Commerce, but in many cases enables companies to reduce or eliminate duties on products manufactured for domestic consumption. This relief from inverted-tariff benefit is one of the key distinctions between the U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones program and other countries Free Trade Zone programs. Generally Free Trade Zones offer significantly less opportunity for benefits and tariff savings. As previously mentioned, in many cases you must actually export all the merchandise you bring into a Free Trade Zone (if it is a Export Processing Zone. In other cases, importation is allowed, but not manufacturing of merchandise. Under the U.S. FTZ program, companies can obtain FTZ benefits such as, duty exemption on re-exports, duty elimination on waste, scrap, and yield loss, duty exemption on damaged, or nonconforming items, reduction in merchandise processing fees (MPF) and brokerage fees through weekly entry, cash flow savings, and relief from ad valorem tax, and the previously described relief from inverted tariffs."

Watch the video, Chinese Move Into Foreign Trade Zones On American Land, for an informative discussion on the effects that allow wholesale entry of Red Chinese companies to operate on American soil.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w2rmuKHlU3A

A previous Jerome Corsi’s Red Alert is available on the WND report, CHINA INVADES U.S. WITH 'FREE-TRADE ZONES' which documents an additional twist to the economic treason that the political class is foisting on our country. "A plan being pushed by the Chinese Central Bank would set up "development zones" in the United States that would allow China to "establish Chinese-owned businesses and bring in its citizens to the U.S. to work." Under the plan, some of the $1.17 trillion that the U.S. owes China would be converted from debt to "equity". As a result, "China would own U.S. businesses, U.S. infrastructure and U.S. high-value land, all with a U.S. government guarantee against loss." Does all of this sound far-fetched? Well, it isn’t. In fact, the economic colonization of America is already far more advanced than most Americans would dare to imagine."

Another Dr. Corsi assertion is outlined in the Market Daily News article; Does China Plan To Establish Chinese Cities And Special Economic Zones All Over America?

"A key argument of Corsi’s book, "America for Sale: Fighting the New World Order, Surviving a Global Depression, and Preserving USA Sovereignty," is that China will not long continue to subsidize the Obama administration’s trillion-dollar annual federal budget deficits without demanding U.S. assets in return." This same news account goes on to document many examples on auctioning off American assets to the Chinese Triad consortium of collectivists. Take the time to review the dirty deeds that passes under the rubric of Free Trade.

The terminal game is as simple as it is devious. China poised to play debt card – for U.S. land states the obvious: "The basic idea is to turn Asian savings, China’s in particular, into real business interests rather than let them be used to support U.S. over-consumption."

Chinese cash reserves used to acquire real assets relies upon the "Interoperability Principle", the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together. What a way to collaborate for the systematic economic liquidation of domestic property. A country that is debt ridden beyond servicing the obligation is already insolvent. What the Beijing regime is confirming is that U.S. Treasury Bonds are paper promises of default.

The People's Republic of China wants to own the business enterprises and not the liabilities of the Dollar. The complicity of the banksters that plot the convergence of the world economy under their monitory manipulation clearly understands that fiat currencies are not real assets. Their partnership with the imperial communists is shaping the model for the American continent.

Stripping of real property as a national resource is a key component in the shakedown and impoverishment of the United States. Financing the national debt has a much higher price than paying the interest.

Turning over operative control of the importation ports is not enough for the "Chinese Diaspora". They want physical possession of the title. Do not be surprised when the money centered banks pass on their ample portfolio of foreclosed property into a Chinese holding company in lieu of T-Bills.

The Foreign-Trade Zones are sentry outposts for the orderly transfer of wealth to the globalist cabal. This process has the full blessing of the criminal political class that masquerades as lawful public officials. America has been sold out to a foreign power that is the brainchild of our domestic traitors.

There are many cool technologies such as this http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html
But, only Google almost patented glasses allowing to watch P0RN with 24x7 reliability.

USA was the land of opportunity. Now there are so many burocratic rules, nasty (lawsuits) customers, and ugly corporation-politician mafia that frozen innovation with patents. You would be better off paciking and going to Asia, where they teach students to work every minute of their life, to obey their masters, and never complain.

CISPA will make data that is presumably already collected legal, so it can be used against citizens in court.

I see a lot of fish and seafood sold in supermarket that is "farmed". It must be profitable, so it is cost effective now and as long I there is a spece for new farmed seafood we will see more products being produced there.

Every job I got in those fields required Linux skills. Please make great user friendly app to tinker with personal genomic data and people will sped hours searching for ancestry and trying to understand how to tune-up their bodies to improve quality of their lifes. Most of the building blocks (software packages) are GPLed and readily available, but the output of such software is hard to understand in current form.

I need 7-passenger vehicle. There is no space left for 3rd row of seats after converting Ford Transit Connect Wagon to CNG.

Another car (not CNG) that is fuel efficient will not be sold in the USA in 7-passenger version (Ford C-Max).

So for 7-passenger vehicles I am left with minivans that use tons of gas.

I do not care if car is better 30MPG because of "MPG illusion": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chart_MPG_to_L-100km_v2009-10-08.svg

From http://www.cars101.com/fuel_economy.html If your car gets an average of 70 MPG you used 214 US gallons driving 15,000 miles and it cost this much per year (divide by 12 for what it costs monthly): 48 mpg (uses 312 US gallons to go 15,000 miles) 45 mpg (uses 333 US gallons) 41 mpg (uses 366 US gallons) 38 mpg (uses 395 US gallons) 35 mpg (uses 429 gals) 33 mpg (uses 455 gals) 31 mpg (uses 484 gals) 29 mpg (uses 518 gals) 27 mpg (uses 556 gals) 25 mpg (uses 600 gals) 23 mpg (uses 653 gals) 21 mpg (uses 715 gals) 18 mpg (uses 834 gals) 15 mpg (uses 1000 gals) 12 mpg (uses 1250 gals) 8 mpg (uses 1875 gals)

Chinese government says the Taiwan is part of China. The trademark in Taiwan is owned by Apple. Will Apple fight to make 9/10 of its workforce happy representing Chinease interests around the world?

These young people will have no time to make any trouble to the government. Do they have any time to think? Or the only thing thay think about is how they hate Apple and other american companies?

... some (I guess less than 10) sporadicaly contained child porn. It saved them several terrabytes of traffic per day. This move started golden age for all kinds of paid internet porn sites. And most of porn is made by Hollywood.