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Sowing the wind …

A setting sun that perhaps will never rise ..(A taste of things to come? Time to WAKE UP and act before we are all overrun! What is happening in Iraq today could be the template for the new American empire.)

Remember last year when US troops had barely entered Bagdad and the last uranium shell had hit the ground before a new copyright amendment was being fast-tracked? Allegedly supervised by ex RIAA bitch Hillary Rosen and cohorts of US consultants.

Now the US is at it again. Took me almost a month to spot the article which says a lot about how much media attention this has been getting.

.. new legislation in Iraq has been carefully put in place by the US that prevents farmers from saving their seeds and effectively hands over the seed market to transnational corporations. This is a disastrous turn of events for Iraqi farmers, biodiversity and the country’s food security. While political sovereignty remains an illusion, food sovereignty for the Iraqi people has been made near impossible by these new regulations.

The new law in question heralds the entry into Iraqi law of patents on life forms – this first one affecting plants and seeds. This law fits in neatly into the US vision of Iraqi agriculture in the future – that of an industrial agricultural system dependent on large corporations providing inputs and seeds.

The report goes on to say that as many as 97% of farmers in Iraq use the method of saving seed. And further hinting at the ironic history of Mesopotamia (Iraq) being the source of many of the variations of plants that big agricultural companies now force modern Iraqi farmers to buy back.
Way to go. The barbarians have truly come to Babylon. Forcing already poor farmers in a war-torn country, devastated by over ten years of sanctions, to pay for what is rightfully theirs. Oh, waaaiiit, I forgot. America thinks it has the right to extend its policies over the globe, moving like a swarm of locust over unruly nations. And these farmers don’t support the idea of a “free”, “democratic” world where you can’t take a dump without making sure the flushing sound isn’t copyrighted. Hell, they’re probably “terrorists” the lot of them, they don’t speak american and don’t appreciate good old american values. And America is morally superior anyway as we all know, practically infallible, so if they say Iraqi farmers have to pay, then it is the will of Jesus fucking Christ. Well, I tell you that we, the world, will take this shit no longer!
And if all of your sons and daughters should perish on the dark battlefields of Iraq and wherever the jackboot heel of tyranny brings your legions next, it would only serve you right. The price for this treason to mankind should be without measure.



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