Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Pete Vukovich <pvukovic1@yahoo.com>]

Don't forget the mineral wealth after all that helped put Allende out of business. I heard they found a trillion or so bucks worth of metals in Afghanistan, probably based on acquiring data from the original russian survey. Supposedly they've found an oil reserve too. Looks like we'll be spending even more taxpayer dollars and wasting our military to subsidize private industry for years to come, guess that's what they call 'strategically valuable'. Wonder whose doing the 'surveying'???

http://www.wealthdaily.com/articles/afghanistan-mineral-discovery-a-1-trillion-find/2553

http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/672696/cs/1/


--- On Mon, 8/16/10, Tommy Tolson <healinghawk@earthlink.net> wrote:

From: Tommy Tolson <healinghawk@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Growing sustainable models
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Monday, August 16, 2010, 8:20 PM

This is exactly what I mean by policy.

Did you ever get food stamps?  I did, to keep from starving to death in Texas waiting for my disability claim to be granted by the VA (it finally was, in California, in 2002, although I was diagnosed with PTSD in 1994), and the shaming I took for it was an element of a policy of treating poor people like we didn't deserve to live.  I had to re-certify every six months, and I filed a civil rights complaint every time.  Finally, starvation was better than re-certifying.  Policy intended that.

I would like for making war to grab someone else's resources to stop being a legitimate function of government.  In Vietnam (where I turned 19), it was their oil, tin, and rubber.  In Iraq, control of (since simply seizing their oil fields outright wasn't going to fly, with two oil men in the White House) Iraq's oil.  In Afghanistan, it started over Unocal's pipeline (now Chevron's pipeline) in the Clinton administration that the Taliban kept refusing to approve.  9/11 gave the ruling elite cover for bombing what remained of Afghan infrastructure [as they did later (in violation of international law) to Iraq], running the Taliban into hiding, and installing a former Unocal consultant (Karzai) as President.  Foreign policy is something that I think most US citizens have little knowledge about, as it's made by and for an element of an unelected permanent governmental entity, with as little publicity as possible.  Obama appointed Hillary US Secretary of State, but there were big policy decisions made while Hillary was learning the ropes that had nothing to do with either of them.  In Honduras, neither Obama nor Hillary had control over US foreign policy operating in the interests of predatory US businesses.  I wish I didn't know what is done in my name, though, and I figure no one with a conscience wants to, either.

Policy is huge, and, if we aren't at the table as it's made, it's not going to include us, and we're rendered resources to exploit.

US farm policy is as corrupt as foreign policy, and a lot of it is just as secret.  As far as I know, there is no national policy on food security, and this has everything to do with the biotech industry owning the FDA and parts of the Department of Agriculture due to policy concerning campaign contributions.

Smiles.
Tommy

On 8/16/10 2:34 PM, pbunch@cox.net wrote:
> Government does have legitimate functions and guiding society toward what is useful and right is one of them IMHO.
>
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