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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] U.S. Policy in Africa
  • Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 14:35:53 -0400

On 5/13/2011 11:17 AM, brent@gp.org wrote:
Following is an article that I wrote in fall of 2009. It gives some good
background to current U.S. involvement in Africa.

U.S. Policy in Africa: A New Beginning?

Sept. 18, 2009
By Brent McMillan

The Center for American Progress recently hosted a conversation with
Ambassador Johnnie Carson, Assistant Secretary of State for African
Affairs in Washington DC.

It was news from the BBC radio this morning, probably repeated all day,
that Zimbabwe has elected to turn over farmland (how much?) seized (stolen) from White farmers, not to Black Zimbabweans, but to Chinese farmers.

A friend commented some time ago that for some time the ChiComs have been "acquiring" natural resources in countries that can buy or otherwise dominate. Zimbabwe was one of the low handing fruits, Tibet another. Burma, Nepal and most of Southeast Asia might be considered yet more morsels awaiting harvest, a harvest of others lives, livelihoods, possessions, land and communities; the erosion, if not eradication, of the fabric and quality of their society, their ability to sustain themselves and maintain independence and self-suffifiency.

In the US the AmeriKoms (communism for wealthy capitalists) are doing same in ways you are already familiar with:

Destruction of fishing as a livelihood in Prince William Sound, the Gulf of Mexico and next, through offshore drilling in Alaska, continued irresponsible oil harvest in the Gulf Of Mexico, and the US Eastern Seaboard? The pollution from oil and gas refinery toxic byproducts of the land along the US southern states Gulf coastlines after Katrina
is almost beyond belief. See GASLAND to find out details about this and the impact of natural gas well drilling and fracking.

See a showing of GASLAND!




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