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Damn Hedges is good. Just started it but this phrase is needed to be teased out.
He called our system inverted totalitarianism. In that it finds its expression through the anonymity of corporatism. It exhibits the tenets of a democracy, but internally it takes over the levers of power and makes the citizen impotent.

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He called our system inverted totalitarianism. In that it finds its expression through the anonymity of corporatism.

This is a natural consequence of the symptoms of sociopathy. Sociopaths must hide their deviancy, because exposure means their deception and manipulation becomes impotent. It is very hard to con someone that knows you are a con-artist. For this reason, transparency is feared by sociopaths. They do everything possible to camouflage themselves, to "blend in" with their surroundings, so that they remain anonymous to their potential victims. What better way than to place impersonal corporations, artificial "persons", between you and your prey? It's fantastic camouflage. They even use shell companies, holding companies, and other artificial business entities to create multiple layers of anonymity. It becomes a hierarchy of anonymity, a structure sociopaths understand well. It's why we often ask, "How deep does this rabbit hole go?"

Good idea to tease this out, Mags.

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The current exhibition of anonymity by the US government/corporatocracy truth speech, is a fine example of how corruption works. And a good definition of a Plutocracy.

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What better way than to place impersonal corporations, artificial "persons", between you and your prey? It's fantastic camouflage. They even use shell companies, holding companies, and other artificial business entities to create multiple layers of anonymity. It becomes a hierarchy of anonymity, a structure sociopaths understand well. It's why we often ask, "How deep does this rabbit hole go?"


Indeed, and just imagine with all those different covers they have, they still have an enormous military to enforce it. This is truly a battle of the minds.

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Challenging Monsanto: Over two million march the streets of 436 cities, 52 countries

Millions of activists around the world have rallied against Monsanto, the biotechnology giant for genetically engineering agriculture and food while suppressing negative scientific research.

Organized by the 'March Against Monsanto' movement, an estimated two million have taken part in the massive event on Saturday spanning six continents, 52 nations, and at least 48 US states.

“It was empowering and inspiring to see so many people, from different walks of life, put aside their differences and come together today,” said Tami Canal, founder and organizer of the global event.

“We will continue until Monsanto complies with consumer demand. They are poisoning our children, poisoning our planet,” she said. “If we don't act, who's going to?”

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The Reality of Chemical Terrorism In Our Food

Is it really that hard for most people to believe that we are being assaulted on a daily basis by chemical terrorism? Genetically modified foods, artificial flavours, colors, preservatives, emulsifiers, and sweeteners all made with toxic chemicals, all of which are proven toxic to human health. We are being bombarded on a daily basis by an astronomical level of toxicity, all controlled by these chemical terrorists on behalf of the food industry. Worse is we let them.

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How many more toxins will we permit in our food supply before we stand united and simply say "we've had enough?" How long will it take until we assertively proclaim that we will not allow any more chemicals or toxins in our foods?

Since food and health regulators cannot properly do their job to protect the public, there will come a tipping point when the people will have to do it for them. We discuss toxic chemicals almost every day, but what percentage of the population is interested enough, curious enough or most of all disciplined enough to actually make the dietary changes necessary to rid all the toxins from the foods they eat? How many people can avoid all processed foods every single day? I would estimate that percentage to be extremely small. Barriers are typically societal pressure, convenience and income. The reality is that we could all have a safe and healthy food industry if we truly wanted it. There are just not enough of us that want it that badly....yet.

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I was reading the label on a portion of carrot cake from Safeway that I was given the other day. Among the bewildering ingredients listed -- propylene glycol. That's automotive antifreeze!

I decided to quit eating carrot cake from Safeway. Plus, I threw it away.

Ethylene glycol is the more toxic form of automotive antifreeze. Thankfully they are not putting that into our food, at least I hope not. Just adding one carbon atom and two hydrogen atoms turns ethylene glycol into propylene glycol. Propylene glycol has low toxicity, meaning it takes a lot of it to kill you (but you can kill yourself with it). It is classified by the FDA as GRAS, or "Generally Recognized As Safe". That means if a little bit doesn't kill you quickly, it must be OK.

Besides feeding humans and dogs propylene glycol, they also put it in the highly toxic oil dispersant Corexit used in the Gulf. Hey, if it's good enough for Corexit, it's good enough for carrot cake!

By the way, when I make homemade carrot cake from scratch, I don't use any chemical additives whatsoever. And taste-wise, it puts the Safeway carrot cake to shame.

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Front Groups Exposed—50 Industry Groups Form a New Alliance to Manipulate Public Opinion About Junk Food, GMOs, and Harmful Additives

If you think it’s tough sorting truth from industry propaganda and lies, get ready for even tougher times ahead. More than 50 front groups, working on behalf of food and biotechnology trade groups―Monsanto being the most prominent―have formed a new coalition called Alliance to Feed the Future.

The alliance, which is being coordinated by the International Food Information Council (IFIC), was created to "balance the public dialogue” on modern agriculture and large-scale food production and technology, i.e. this group will aim to become the go-to source for “real” information about the junk being sold as “food.”

The groups comprising this new alliance represent multi-national food companies, biotech industry, and chemical companies that generate hundreds of billions of dollars worth of revenue from food related sales every year.

On the upside, this alliance and many other industry-sponsored front groups masquerading as non-profits and consumer protection organizations are becoming increasingly exposed for what they really are, and I will point out several of them in this article.

Michele Simon, JD, MPH, policy consultant with Center for Food Safety recently published a report titled: Best Public Relations Money Can Buy: A Guide to Food Industry Front Groups1 also reveals how the food and agricultural industry hide behind friendly-sounding organizations aimed at fooling the public, policymakers and media alike.

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What better way than to place impersonal corporations, artificial "persons", between you and your prey? It's fantastic camouflage.

Elevating corporations to be "persons" was a tragic step in the wrong direction. Elevating dolphins to be "persons" is a hopeful step in the right direction. Kudos to India for leading the way towards respecting legitimate life forms instead of sociopathic abominations.

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How Agriculture Can Provide Food Security Without Destroying Biodiversity

According to conventional wisdom, the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte (pop. 2.5 million) has achieved something impossible. So, too, has the island of Cuba. They are feeding their hungry populations largely with local, low-input farming methods that enhance the environment rather than degrade it. They have achieved this, moreover, at a time of rising food prices when others have mostly retreated from their own food security goals.

The conventional wisdom contradicted by these examples is that high yielding agricultural systems necessarily reduce biodiversity. Sometimes this assumption is extended to become the 'Borlaug hypothesis' after Norman Borlaug, the architect of the green revolution. The Borlaug hypothesis states that the preservation of rainforests, an example of biodiversity, depends on intensive industrial production of sufficient food to allow for the luxury of unfarmed areas (e.g. Trewavas, 1999).

So, since Belo Horizonte and Cuba appear to have defied this logic, what is their secret? Are they succeeding in spite of their commitment to sustainability, or because of it? Or is conventional wisdom simply wrong? These pressing questions are explored in a new review, Food security and biodiversity: can we have both? by Michael Jahi Chappell and Liliana Lavalle, and published in the journal Agriculture and Human Values.

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