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Barcoding Nature: The Largest Global Land Grab in Human History

03/17/22 The commoditization of nature is justified as being driven by the protection of natural resources. But scratch beneath the surface and the greed and avarice is clear to see.

By Meleni AldridgeMelissa Smith Miss a day, miss a lot. Subscribe to The Defender’s Top News of the Day. It’s free. “We abuse land because we see […]

Barcoding Nature: The Largest Global Land Grab in Human History

“We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” — Aldo Leopold

Have you ever heard of a natural asset company or NAC in short (and we’re not referring here to the glutathione precursor, N-acetyl-cysteine)? It won’t surprise us if you haven’t.

We’ve only recently come across the term ourselves and we’re coming to the view that it may facilitate the biggest corporate land grab in recent history. That’s if we, the people, don’t put a stop to it.

If you believe that nature should never become a commodity that’s bought and sold by a powerful few, read on. The fact the moneyed minority feel that they have a right to effectively barcode nature is quite breathtaking in its greed and arrogance.

Though not all that surprising when you look at what’s been happening over the past two years. We really are being called to “clean house” on so many levels.

We’ve created an infographic (see below) to summarize the plans for the exploitation of what’s now being termed, “nature’s economy.”

BUY TODAY: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s New Book — ‘The Real Anthony Fauci’

You can see at a glance the price tag that’s been placed on her head and why suddenly traditional philanthropy — based on giving — has been declared “a total failure” and is being replaced by “investment philanthropy.”

Schwarzenegger accused of breaking promise on Ukraine by ‘world’s strongest girl’ (VIDEO)

21 Mar, 2022 13:27. Today we publish a little from THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WAR. from Russia Today, now banned around the western world.

from Russia Today.. 21st March 2022 shared with thanks

Schwarzenegger accused of breaking promise on Ukraine by ‘world’s strongest girl’ (VIDEO)

Former Arnold Classic powerlifting sensation Maryana Naumova addressed Arnold Schwarzenegger in a video response to the American’s message to the Russian people

Arnold Schwarzenegger (left) and Maryana Naumova

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s much-publicized message to Russians does not reflect the reality of overdue military action in Ukraine, a former teenage phenomenon at the bodybuilding legend’s Arnold Classic has told him while accusing the US over the Gulf War.

Maryana Naumova said she handed Schwarzenegger letters and evidence of turmoil in Ukraine when she met him after bench-pressing 330lb at the Classic as a 15-year-old in 2015.

Now an influencer, Naumova claims Schwarzenegger gave the materials to an assistant and assured her that he would “work on” what she describes as attacks on citizens by the Ukrainian army and neo-Nazis.

In a video message to Schwarzenegger, the Master of Sports of Russia explained that she had been to Ukraine more than 20 times since 2014.ç

Maryana Naumova, world powerlifting champion, responds to Arnold Schwarzenegger's message to the people of Russia. pic.twitter.com/yqCY8IFIdv
— Larissa (@Elhomsy1El) March 21, 2022

Two regions in the historic mining area of Donbass declared independence from Kiev in April 2014, leading to the Ukrainian government launching what it called an “anti-terrorist operation” in response to the formation of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR).

New ‘battalions’ of volunteer fighters – many with nationalist backgrounds – accompanied the troops sent to deal with the rebels.

Stll jailed Öcalan is the key to peace. His ideas are methods, not dogma and he led 2 peaceful Ceasefires

Originally posted on Kurdistan Solidarity Network: Originally published in German.
Interview by Nick Brauns, from German Newspaper Junge Welt: New academy aims to make concepts of the Kurdish movement accessible to those on the European left.
A conversation with Anselm Schindler.
This Friday marks the announcement of the founding of the Academy of Democratic Modernity…
Öcalan’s ideas are methods, not dogma

The academy has emerged as an association of people concerned with the ideas of the Kurdish freedom movement. In this country, too, as a result of solidarity with the struggle for freedom in Kurdistan and northeastern Syria, there is a lot of interest in the theoretical and practical concepts behind the movement.

ADM is an attempt to make these ideas accessible to a wider audience. However, this is not an end in itself for us: we see from the multiple crises we are in that humanity very urgently needs to change. Millions of people around the world are already fighting for this.

We want to show how the ideas of the Kurdish movement can play a part in changing the world.

What was the impetus for founding the academy?

For many years, leftists in Europe have been working with the concepts of the Kurdish movement, which have been discussed in numerous books, and at events and conferences.

How CDC massages its data in order to terrify parents into vaccinating their babies and preschoolers

by Dr Meryl Nass at substack.com shared with thanks, illustrations added.

IF YOU TORTURE THE DATA LONG ENOUGH, IT WILL CONFESS TO ANYTHING–Ronald Coase

This story is about a particularly vile piece of disinformation CDC issued today to push vaccines on the most vulnerable, tiniest humans who can’t say no.

As I have noted periodically for twenty years, and it was

roundly confirmed 4 weeks ago in the NY Times, CDC spins and cherry-picks the data it presents to the public, hiding most of what it has. Then it blames its ‘outdated’ IT systems for the problems, if it gets caught. As the NYT noted,

The C.D.C. has received more than $1 billion to modernize its systems, which may help pick up the pace, Ms. Nordlund [CDC’s spokesperson] said. “We’re working on that,” she said.

Dr. Vinay Prasad discussed several ways CDC generated bogus conclusions in an article titled, “How the CDC Abandoned Science” in the magazine Tablet last month.

CDC is not a public health agency. It is a public propaganda agency that collects a massive amount of data. CDC marshals its huge data library to create presentations that support the current administration’s public health policies.

CDC also has state of the art PR staff, as well as TV studios, and produces videos, radio spots and an enormous number of press releases that are distributed to the media. CDC hosts many journalists at its Atlantia headquarters. Free junkets successfully cultivate US health reporters.

A 2007 Senate oversight report on the CDC noted the agency spent $106 million on the Thomas R. Harkin Global Communications (and Visitor) Center, and summarized its 115 page report with the following: “A review of how an agency tasked with fighting and preventing disease has spent hundreds of millions of tax dollars for failed prevention efforts, international junkets, and lavish facilities, but cannot demonstrate it is controlling disease.”

If reporters want to speak directly to a CDC scientist, they must go through the public affairs office. CDC controls the flow of information out with an iron hand.

CDC may pay for getting its messages out. As we learned last year, it paid Facebook for messaging, while Facebook donated $millions in advertising back to CDC. (Google is not letting me find the link, unfortunately.) Last March, Mark Zuckerberg stated,

We’ve already connected over 2 billion people to authoritative COVID-19 information, and today as access to COVID-19 vaccines expands, we’re going even further and aiming to help bring 50 million people one step closer to getting vaccinated.

While CDC collects data from a much larger sample size, it often, as in the case I am about to discuss, only presents part of its dataset, and/or (as in this case) CDC chooses a specific, limited timeframe from which to select its data.

The story that CDC is crafting today is that tiny children, under the age of 5, have been recently hospitalized at extremely high rates due to COVID, and therefore need to be vaccinated as soon as the vaccine is authorized for them.

Spain betrays Sahara by supporting Morrocan occupation. Algeria shocked and could restrict Gas Supply Eng/Esp/Fr

from Sahara Press Service and elcomunista.net translations thefreeonline

In 2021, Spain imported 43% of the gas it needs from Algeria and 9% of the gas it consumes annually from Russia

Algiers, March 20, 2022 (SPS) Algeria said it was surprised following the declarations of the highest Spanish authorities constituting a “sudden reversal” of position concerning the Western Sahara file, said Saturday a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Community abroad.

“Very surprised by the declarations of the highest Spanish authorities relating to the Western Sahara file, the Algerian authorities were surprised by this sudden reversal of position of the former administering power of Western Sahara, underlines the press release. (SPS)

Spain’s change of position on the Sahara worsens relations with Algeria, the Iberian country’s main natural gas ‘tap’

This Friday it was learned that the Government of Spain has changed its position in relation to Western Sahara and considers the Moroccan proposal for autonomy as the “most realistic basis” to resolve said territorial conflict.