You mean these huge seed companies don’t give seed away?? Shocking!

From here:

The report noted that three big companies now control more than half of the global seed market – a position that has sent prices soaring. The report said the average cost of planting an acre of soybeans had risen 325% between 1995 and 2011.

I thought the seed companies were in this game because they love seed and they want to help other folks out.

They’re just trying to corner the market on seed to make money?  That’s fucked up.

I feel really disillusioned by this, but I’m not sure what to do because the Supreme Court which is one of our ‘protectors’ and the most noble of the three branches of our fine government, voted 9-0 to continue this trend of corporate ownership of seed.

They must feel like they’re looking out for us.

 

Our corporate kangaroo Supreme Court

From here:

In an unanimous ruling written by Justice Elena Kagan, the court ruled that the farmer, Vernon Bowman, had infringed on Monsanto’s patent for its GM soybeans when he bought some of those seeds from a local grain elevator and planted them for a second, late-season crop. Monsanto sued, arguing that Bowman had signed a contract when he initially bought the Roundup Ready soybeans in the spring, agreeing not to save any of the harvest for replanting. The seeds are genetically modified to be resistant to Roundup Ready weedkiller.

God bless this unanimous verdict!

I think it’s great one company wants to control all our seeds.  It keeps things more organized and it’s very profitable.

I get worried about nature’s ability to keep the seeds floating around and propagating themselves as they have for however many hundreds of millions of years they’ve been at it.

Sloppy ass, unprofitable nature, Monsanto is gonna take care of you.

 

This should drive the stock market through the roof!

From here:

…unemployment is nowhere close to getting back to normal. The current level of claims is typically associated with a level of unemployment about 4 million workers lower than it currently is, or an unemployment rate of about 5 percent, instead of 7.5 percent.

That suggests that employers aren’t firing people any more. But, they’re not hiring people, either, according to Tuesday’s JOLTS data.

“There are no positive trends here for the job picture,” independent economist Robert Brusca wrote in a note.

Shitty job prospects, lower wages, more human misery, corporate profits higher, go stock market!!!

War machine requires steady stream of enemies and cash

From here:

Excerpt 1:

“Abroad, new threats are rising, even as old threats become more menacing,” said Hewson, speaking at Lockheed’s annual Media Day event in Northern Virginia. “Iran, we know, edges closer to nuclear statehood, and North Korea has already achieved it. The list of threats goes on and on.”

Her not-so-subtle message: It’s a bad time to slash defense spending.

Excerpt 2:

Last year, (Former Lockheed Martin chairman — my add) Stevens described sequestration as a “blunt-force trauma” and suggested the cuts could force Lockheed to lay off 10,000 employees. So far, the company has let go about 50 employees as a result of the automatic cuts, which began taking effect on March 1, Hewson said on Tuesday.

 Lies too.  Don’t forget the lies.  You have to lie about the strength of our enemies so you can sell more weapons.  That happened all through the Cold War.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Al Qaeda was never more than 500 really pissed off dudes sprinkled across the globe.

But hey, we’ll never know, we’re just here to feed the war pigs.

Let’s not rush, that’s still 3% that don’t believe in global warming

From here:

A new study has just come out that looked at nearly 12,000 professional scientific journal papers about global warming, and found that—of the papers expressing a stance on global warming—97 percent endorse both the reality of global warming and the fact that humans are causing it.

I really think we should wait on that last 3%.

And we should definitely approve that dirty ass, shale pipeline Keystone XL.

That’s change I can believe in.

 

It takes a lot of energy and rest to be an evil, war criminal

From here:

Per Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office’s request, a special “rest chamber” was installed in the airplane which took the PM and his wife to Margaret Thatcher’s funeral in London.

According to the report, the chamber included a double-bed and was surrounded by four walls to give the couple absolute privacy.

Maybe they’re really loud when they get their freak on.  Lord knows, any woman that would venture near the private parts of that ill, misshapen bitch ass cretin has to be half deranged herself.

 

Cornel West’s hammer hits nail right on head

From here:

West cited the need for a “democratic counterweight” against what he described as three dominant tendencies on the globe: “financializing, privatizing and militarizing.” He warned that as long as we’re stuck with an “empty” and “shallow” public sphere that has been “colonized” by the “oligarchs at the top,” we’re most certainly headed towards fascism. West remarked that the assassination of citizens without due process and other recent trends paint a grim picture of the effectiveness of our institutions.

Empty and shallow?  He’s being kind.

It’s a fucking wasteland.  You can’t get a conversation going unless you’re a hooker or you have a big bag of dope.

Is there anybody out there?