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Monsanto Acquires Rights to the Sun (http://www.hastac.org/blogs/kafkaturtle/2012/07/08/monsanto-acquires-rights-sun)

CREVE COEUR, MISSOURI, June 30, 2012 — in a ground-breaking move, Monsanto, a multi-national biotechnology corporation, acquired rights to the sun in a 5-4 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision, led by Clarence Thomas (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Monsanto%27s_High_Level_Connections_to_the_Bush_Administration), was hailed by Monsanto President and CEO Hugh Grant as "good news for food producers, food consumers, and the future of humanity."

Monsanto is known worldwide for its Roundup brand, an herbicide that works in conjunction with genetically engineered seeds.

The decision allows solar energy used by Monsanto-crop farmland — including solar panels, wind turbines and the like — to be taxed at a rate of 10% per kilowatt hour.

Approved in an unprecedented three months, the law will go into effect January 1, 2013.

Companies, organizations and individuals currently using Roundup products will receive one free year of sunlight before the 10% tithe is active.

According to the new regulation, any action to "store, reuse or redirect" sunlight will be a prosecutable offense unless authorized by Monsanto.



Monsanto typically uses lawsuits or the threat of lawsuits to bring compliance. "We feed the world," Grant says, "anyone caught stealing sunlight from us is stealing food from the mouths of millions."

Sunlight, which most life on earth relies on, provides warmth, photosynthesis for plant life, and is used widely on beaches.

Opponents such as Greenpeace and "Sunshine for All," a crowdsourced Facebook movement, vow to fight the ruling.

"First they patent life, then they insert genes into our food supply, now they're hijacking the sun. Monsanto seeks world domination and the Supreme Court is enabling them.

Shame on you, Supreme Court," says Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo.

And shame on "The Monsanto Protection Act" (http://www.gogreennation.org/2014/03/monsanto-protection-act/)

QuoteA budget provision protecting genetically-modified seeds from litigation in the face of health risks was extended for three months in an approved US House of Representatives' spending bill on Tuesday evening.

Called "The Monsanto Protection Act" by opponents, the budget rider shields biotech behemoths like Monsanto, Cargill and others from the threat of lawsuits and bars federal courts from intervening to force an end to the sale of a GMO (genetically-modified organism) even if the genetically-engineered product causes damaging health effects.

There is a solution to corporations, to the psychopathic choices made by Those who stand to profit, but I will not discuss it here.  People get sick around here when I point out how virtually all the issues We discuss have a single solution.

If any have missed the solution, please read the stickies in My forum:

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?board=163.0

Meanwhile, What can We do but bend over?

Your friging kidding?

HARD TO BELIEVE...

YET ANOTHER EXCUSE & WAY TO CHARGE US FOR LIVING & ROB US ALL !

HOW HAVE THEY GOT AWAY WITH IT AMAZES ME...

WHO GIVES THEM THE RIGHT....HAVE THEY DONE A DEAL WITH GOD !  :o

So, after more than one year, how many people were sued for using the Sun?  :)

Going into US Supreme Court opinions of 2012, (the article is dated 6/30/2012) there is no such Monsanto case.

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&navby=year&year=2012

Doom porn, of pure fiction.

Quote from: WarToad on June 30, 2014, 01:19:48 PM
Doom porn, of pure fiction.

Sure, but who cares about the truth?

Things only have to look like they support someone's opinion to be posted as truth. ;D

PS: that quote attributed to Greenpeace only exists on the same sites as this "news" article.

I am hear by claiming all of the air on Earth. It is mine. I will tax you to breathe. This includes all farm animals and pets. Fish stock and even the dolphins in Aquariums. All air breathing animals will be required to breathe through a regulator with a counter. Failure will be met with polluted air for 1 year. ::)

Deuem Air Control Inc.

Quote"anyone caught stealing sunlight from us is stealing food from the mouths of millions."

I contest!! the sun GAVE me the sunlight... I did not steal it or ask for it...furthermore I do not wish any additional sunlight to reach me so I am going to be charging them a fine for any additional sunlight they can not re-direct and I am forced to receive.  :P How you like me now monster-santo?

The sun is a living entity.  Did it agree to this?  Was it even asked?

Shasta

Well someone or some people have laid claim to portions of the moon but not moonlight.  I lay claim to the moonlight....I will probably be charged a nominal fee by those who own the mineral rights.... ;D ;D ;D

Greetings:

Is it true that We stand accused by (gasp!) the lumpenproletariat   ;)  of intentional disinformation techniques?   :P

We thought we had a winner here, to be sure.    ;D

Even after we thoroughly enjoyed An Apology to Phil Spector, of Sorts (http://www.hastac.org/blogs/kafkaturtle/2012/07/08/apology-phil-spector-sorts), we looked further into the writer's credentials and happily gave him a gold star    ::)

QuoteI recently purchased Phil Spector's Back to Mono and was astounded to see how many songs he brought into the world. Each of the songs I was familiar with had had a similar impact on me.

Songs like "Black Pearl" by Sonny Charles and The Checkmates that I hadn't heard for decades and perennial favorites like "Unchained Melody" demonstrate Spector's ability to reach into my heart and stir the frothier emotions of youth:  longing, sadness, and unbridled passion.

Listening to The Ronettes ("Be My Baby" is one of my favorites) and The Crystals ("Then He Kissed Me") I felt transformed to the teenager I was with all the angst and lathered emotions that colored my world.

[...]

Geniuses and Groundbreakers operate in their own universe.
We admire, respect, and maybe even fear them. 
We let them have their own space.
Should we?
Do we have a responsibility to protect them from themselves?
With money comes power and a laissez-faire attitude toward "interfering" with their genius – who are we to inhibit such orbital talents?
Maybe we need to supply the mantle of the Voice of Rationality that they lose along the way.
Maybe we bear an implicit blame for their early deaths and incarcerations.

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Interesting that no one has brought up that this 'exercise in journalism' may be just plain old bait by the Professor... :P

Reminds us of a game that Zorgon (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=216.0) might run...

"Currently Writing and Marketing Instructor at New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, Vermont. Teaching "21st Century Communications," "Critical Issues in Reading, Writing and Research," "Written Expression," and other courses."

It appears he may have made the point, hook, line and sinker.     :P

Thank you, participants.    ;)

He keeps the gold star  :P

So is this a hoax or not?

It's important that I know ASAP.

Quote from: Sgt.Rocknroll on July 01, 2014, 02:37:59 AM
So is this a hoax or not?

It's important that I know ASAP.

IMHO, as the author is a writer par excellence, we think that the story is just that: a story written to gauge public response/apathy to something that the public seems to have an appetite for; being steamrolled by corporate giants and an illegal alien President that is taking America straight to Hell without the proverbial hand basket.   :P

BTW, the real link was the one we added to the Monsanto Protection Act (http://www.gogreennation.org/2014/03/monsanto-protection-act/).

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Hec'el oinipikte  (that we shall live)

tfw
Peace Love Light
Liberty & Equality or Revolution

i had to look it up..no further comment...sigh :(



Lumpenproletariat  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lumpenproletariat is a term that was originally coined by Karl Marx to describe that layer of the working class that is unlikely ever to achieve class consciousness and is therefore lost to socially useful production, of no use to the revolutionary struggle, and perhaps even an impediment to the realization of a classless society.[1] T

he word is derived from the German word Lumpenproletarier, a word literally meaning "miscreant" as well as "rag". The term proletarian was first defined by Marx and Friedrich Engels in The German Ideology (1845) and later elaborated on in other works by Marx. The Marxist Internet Archive writes that " this term identifies the class of outcast, degenerated and submerged elements that make up a section of the population of industrial centers" which include "beggars, prostitutes, gangsters, racketeers, swindlers, petty criminals, tramps, chronic unemployed or unemployables, persons who have been cast out by industry, and all sorts of declassed, degraded or degenerated elements."[2]

In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (1852), Marx gives this description of the lumpenproletariat:

Alongside decayed roués with dubious means of subsistence and of dubious origin, alongside ruined and adventurous offshoots of the bourgeoisie, were vagabonds, discharged soldiers, discharged jailbirds, escaped galley slaves, swindlers, mountebanks, lazzaroni, pickpockets, tricksters, gamblers, maquereaux [pimps], brothel keepers, porters, literati, organ grinders, ragpickers, knife grinders, tinkers, beggars — in short, the whole indefinite, disintegrated mass, thrown hither and thither, which the French call la bohème.[3]

In the Eighteenth Brumaire, Marx rhetorically describes the lumpenproletariat as a "class fraction" that constituted the political power base for Louis Bonaparte of France in 1848. In this sense, Marx argued that Bonaparte was able to place himself above the two main classes, the proletariat and bourgeoisie, by resorting to the "lumpenproletariat" as an apparently independent base of power, while in fact advancing the material interests of the "finance aristocracy".

For rhetorical purposes, Marx identifies Louis Napoleon himself as being like a member of the lumpenproletariat insofar as, being a member of the finance aristocracy, he has no direct interest in productive enterprises.[4] This is a rhetorical flourish, however, which equates the lumpenproletariat, the rentier class, and the apex of class society as equivalent members of the class of those with no role in useful production.[citation needed]

Way too deep for me. ;D

We thought we had a winner here, to be sure.     


i will resort to one of the fine  comments my darling father would make  when one of us kids thought we knew something


so & so  thought he had to fart ..he shi t  himself


sigh

SpaceMaverick may find himself inundated by skyclad pagans wanting to correct his thinking.   We take grandmothe moon and hrr cycles pretty seriously.

Shasta ( eclectic solitary practitioner)

Quote from: thorfourwinds on July 01, 2014, 01:55:01 AM
Greetings:

Is it true that We stand accused by (gasp!) the lumpenproletariat   ;)  of intentional disinformation techniques?   :P

We thought we had a winner here, to be sure.    ;D

Too many words, please just answer this simple question:
were you fooled by it or were you trying to fool other people?
;)

Quote from: thorfourwinds on July 01, 2014, 03:01:59 AM
IMHO, as the author is a writer par excellence,

IMHO, the author completely discredited himself.  He has nothing but shame.  Completely unable to make an arguement against Monsanto with truth and intellect, he wallows in the gutter of lies and deceit to fabricate a story to sway opinion aganst Monsanto for something Monsanto never did.  We think that story is childish and a waste of reading time.  Psy-ops from the anti-corp who should have been above that.  There's enough truth and facts out there to make an honest arguement.  But no.  The author had neither the truth or intellect to make an honest arguement.

Quote from: sky otter on July 01, 2014, 03:41:41 AM


Lumpenproletariat  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lumpenproletariat is a term that was originally coined by Karl Marx  to describe that layer of the working class that is unlikely ever to achieve class consciousness and is therefore lost to socially useful production,

...This is a rhetorical flourish, however, which equates the lumpenproletariat, the rentier class, and the apex of class society as equivalent members of the class of those with no role in useful production.[citation needed]

LULZ!  So Marx, who used the word to disparage a "class" of people, essentially put himself into the same class by using it.    Karma, baby!

Quote from: ArMaP on July 01, 2014, 01:43:27 PM
Too many words, please just answer this simple question:
were you fooled by it or were you trying to fool other people?
;)

"We thought we had a winner here, to be sure."

Quote from: Shasta56 on July 01, 2014, 04:08:05 AM
SpaceMaverick may find himself inundated by skyclad pagans wanting to correct his thinking.   We take grandmothe moon and hrr cycles pretty seriously.

Shasta ( eclectic solitary practitioner)

hehehehehe, Bring it on.....    ;) ;) ;) ;D ;D

You do realize that men are pagans too, right?  And that many of us dames have been practicing the craft since the 1970's?  Just want to be sure you have the cirrect visual.  Lol.

Shasta