So much about “holodomor no food”, huh?
Thesis: Ukraine controls Donbass
Antithesis: Russia controls Donbass
Synthesis: Tyson Foods, Inc. controls DonbassShocking to no-one, right? Hasn't the privatization of agricultural lands been the entire point of this war?
They've been explicit that they are looking to privatize what nationalized industry still exists in Ukraine (basically only agricultural land) to "improve Ukraine's business competitiveness" and have been working hard to remove any remaining worker protections as well, including banning left wing political groups.
They had a whole conference about it in August: https://mronline.org/2022/08/01/west-prepares-to-plunder-post-war-ukraine-with-neoliberal-shock-therapy/
I think looting Ukraine was a secondary objective to the evil empire whose main concern was crushing Russian ambitions of multipolarity. The plundering is just something yanks and their henchmen do by default when they go somewhere.
They are opportunists -- but they've been running a conference planning the privatization of Ukraine for years: https://mronline.org/2022/08/01/west-prepares-to-plunder-post-war-ukraine-with-neoliberal-shock-therapy/
I think the war serves both purposes, and it's something they've been trying to get to happen since before 2014
I think the war serves both purposes, and it’s something they’ve been trying to get to happen since before 2014
Absolutely. Looting Ukraine and defeating Russia (and by extent weakening an ally of China) are not mutually exclusive goals. They dovetail very nicely with eachother.
Following the 2003 war and invasion of the United States (U.S) war on Iraq, the U.S. government appointed diplomat Paul Bremer, as the head of the occupational authority in Iraq. Bremer issued several Orders for a "rebuilding" effort, one of which was Order 81, aimed at reforming Iraq's seed industry - previously centralized and resulting in a rich seed variety over the pre-war years.
Under the new Order, farmers were prohibited from saving, sharing, or replanting harvested seeds, leading to reliance on major corporations such as Monsanto, Cargill Inc., and Dow Chemical. As a result, since 2005, Iraq has only been able to provide 4% of its seed needs. Hence, with the new regulation, farmers were forced to buy seeds from suppliers, mainly from Monsanto, which without warning, would charge royalties when crops were found to contain their patented genetic material.
Therefore, Order 81 allowed Monsanto to promote the benefits of its seeds to a suffering population without warning farmers of the potential financial risks.
https://ejatlas.org/conflict/order-81s-effect-on-agriculture
:geordi-no: Land reform to privatize farmland at the expense of everyone except the top 1%
:geordi-yes: Land reform to redistribute land from a fruit company to give to peasants
"Mom can we have land reform" "We have land reform at home" land reform at home:
Joseph
StalinBrandon ate all the grain and starved one billion Ukrainians.
I don’t trust anyone who advocates “X reform” because it’s purposefully vague about which directions the reforms should go in
Larysa Boden
Agribusiness lobbyist with surname literally meaning 'soil' is yet another proof we live in a simulation.
That and the fact that the FTX guy's name includes "bank man" really scrambled my eggs
Also cop Derek Chauvin, journalist Karen Swallow Prior and State Department functionary Anne-Marie Slaughter.
Tommy Tuberville really threw me for a loop, too. The man's name is Tom Potatotown and he looks every part that surname implies.
I fuck you not, the junior Rhode Island senator is named SHELDON WHITEHOUSE
Wasn't Swallow Prior also a hardcore anti-abortion activist, that is famous among evangelicals and libs, since she will sometimes break with the Far Rights anti-feminism?
Okay, I wanted to make sure I had the name for this phenomenon right, but found something way funnier on the Wikipedia page because I was bored.
In 2015 researchers Limb, Limb, Limb and Limb published a paper on their study into the effect of surnames on medical specialisation. They looked at 313,445 entries in the medical register from the General Medical Council, and identified surnames that were apt for the speciality, for example, Limb for an orthopaedic surgeon, and Doctor for medicine in general. They found that the frequency of names relevant to medicine and to subspecialties was much greater than expected by chance. Specialties that had the largest proportion of names specifically relevant to that specialty were those for which the English language has provided a wide range of alternative terms for the same anatomical parts (or functions thereof). Specifically, these were genitourinary medicine (e.g., Hardwick and Woodcock) and urology (e.g., Burns, Cox, Ball).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
In the references:
Splatt AJ, Weedon D. The urethral syndrome: experience with the Richardson urethroplasty
:wow:
"If you do not own the land, the risk of cultivating it is immense" :porky-scared-flipped: :stalin-gun-1::mao-aggro-shining:
Like that island in the Pacific that's exploited for its phosphates for fertilizer
Ah yes, rural poverty... Famously not an issue for market based economies.
don’t worry. It quickly turns into urban poverty once a bad year forced them to sell their land
Naomi Klein is a giant lib but she was dead right about the shock doctrine. It comes like clockwork every single time.
You would think someone who knew the pattern could tell when the beam is aimed at China, but hey
And its at real risk of getting a lot hotter. Putting USAID out in front on this is so fucking cynical. Private investors don't want to get burned, so they let the public sector absorb all the risk while staking private claims for all the rewards.
