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  not enough blame to go around

  jesus.  the army corp of engineers is merely one rotted cog in a delapidated wheel of neglect and corruption.  there can never be enough blame to go around for all the groups, agencies, individuals, politicians and general neer-do-wells who contributed to tens of thousands of people dying in new orleans. (that's right--tens of thousands are the numbers of dead people you will never know about for sure because they were left to die in their houses, which are now about to be bull-dozed in an above-ground burial of their thought-to-be-worthless lives and of the culture they represented that gave new orleans part of its flavor and spice.)

  the a.c.e. built a faulty, shoddy levee system at the behest of politicians--federal and possibly state--who funded them to do so.  they are servants just like the traditional service workers who had their houses washed away by a cat 3 hurricane.

  the blame for the murder of all those people in new orleans lies in a much larger, much less easy to alter system of capitalism and power-mongering that breeds greed and kills all symblance of humanity.  every person who could have remembered they were human and that humans like them were about to die in a natural catastrophe, yet didn't do anything to stop the carnage is deserving of some of the blame, whether s/he be a politician or your neighbor who left you behind to care for yourself.  (this country is after all about the 'every man or woman for her or himself' modus operandi, right?)

  when will new orleans get a levee system like denmark?  when more oil and energy producers relocate their businesses and processing plants to the lower ninth ward!  then the property and the city will be truly worthy of building a wall to protect its rich assets. On The Army Corps of Engineers is the real culprit behind New Orleans' devastation posted 3 years, 2 months ago 9 Responses

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  another nail in the coffin

  having read all the comments posted about corporate backing organic farming, i have to say the following;
  

  1.  i am a non-white, non-rich proponent of eating local organic food.  i'll pay whatever i have to pay for it;  my mantra is--pay the organic farmer, or pay the medical/pharmaceutical/insurance industry--take our pick.  i'll pay the organic farmer.

  2.  however, i won't pay walmart.  i'll starve first or eat grass.  walmart is the devil, as is any corporate engagement in organic farming.  once corporations get into the mix, there's not telling what will happen to the food.  actually, several have made very valid comments.  i particularly like the possibility that local grown will become the 'organic standard' as organics will become as rotten as conventionally grown produce.

  3.  who in their right mind could trust walmart to sell true, fresh anything.  walmart in the organic food game only means they will figure out a way to sell sludge grown veggies with an organic label on them.  if you haven't seen the walmart movie, before you buy organics from walmart, watch it.  (can be purchased at www.wakeupwalmart.com.  if after watching that movie you could possibly stomach eating anything walmart sells, well, ok--those beaten women in bangladesh are a damn far ways away, aren't they?  

  4.  the whole point of buying organic for me was the buy clean food, hopefully locally grown, but not grown in sludge, chemicals, etc.  from small farmers who cared about their products and the people who would eat them.  there's no way, it's not in the corporate model, for agribusiness to produce such a crop.  if they could do it, the small organic farmer would have never existed in the first place.

  5.  lord, what am i gonna eat now?  guess if i want clean food, i'll have to grow it myself!  wow, there's a thought!  what if everyone just grew their own veggies and most of their fruit.  recycled their distilled water, composted their own soil, grew the cleanest food possible, indoors even.  now that sounds like a labor intensive, expensive, but fool-proof way to keep agribusiness from taking over the clean food (or local organic) market.  

  well, guess i better go get started.  On Big buyers make organic farmers feel smaller than ever posted 3 years, 2 months ago 25 Responses