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Re: Iraq's New Patent Law on Farming
Posted by Doped on Jesus Christ (Guest) - Wednesday, October 20 2004, 4:39:59 (CEST)
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Wow!!!what a coincidence?

Arundhati Roy's in her book-Power poltitics said the following:

Developed countries like the United States, whose hugely subsidized farm industry engages only two to three perecent of its total population, are using the WTO to pressure countries like India to drop agricultural subsidies in order to make the market COMPETITIVE. Huge, mechanized corporate enterprises working thousands of acres of farmland want to compete with impoverished subsistence farmers who own a couple of acres of land.

In effect, India's rural economy, which supports SEVEN HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE, is being garroted. Farmers who produce too much are in distress, farmers who produce too little are in distress, and landless agricultural laborers are out of work as big estates and farms lay off their workers. They're all flocking to the cities in search of employment.

PLEASE PAY MORE ATTENTION TO THE FOLLOWING:

"Trade Not Aid" is the rallying cry of the headmen of the new Global Village headquartered in the shining offices of the WTO. Our British colonizers stepped onto our shores a few centuries ago disguised as traders. We all remember the EAST INDIA COMPANY. This time around, the colonizer doesn't even need a token white presence in the colonies. The CEOs and their men don't need to go to the trouble of tramping through the tropics, risking malaria, diarrhea, sunstroke, and an early death. They don't have to maintain AN ARMY OR POLICE FORCE, or worry about insurrections and mutinies. They can have their colonies and an easy conscience. "Creating a good investment climate" is the new euphemism for third world REPRESSION. Besides, the responsibility for implementation rests with the local administration.



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