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Tag Archives: Genetic Engineering
Nature Is Not a Machine—We Treat It So at Our Peril
By Jeremy Lent Source: resilience From genetic engineering to geoengineering, we treat nature as though it’s a machine. This view of nature is deeply embedded in Western thought, but it’s a fundamental misconception with potentially disastrous consequences. Climate change, avers … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Environment, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy
Tagged Biology, Climate Change, Consciousness, culture, DNA, Ecology, environment, Genetic Engineering, geoengineering, Life, mechanistic worldview, nature, Philosophy, science, Scientific Revolution, Self-Organization, society, Technocracy
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Was the COVID-19 virus genetically engineered?
By Claire Robinson Source: GM Watch Since the COVID-19 pandemic took off, speculation has been rife about its origins. The truth is that nobody knows for certain how the virus first took hold. But despite that uncertainty, suggestions that the … Continue reading
Posted in GMOs, Health, news, Science, society, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged bioengineering, Bioweapons, coronavirus, Covid-19, Dr Michael Antoniou, Genetic Engineering, GMOs, Nikolai Petrovsky, Pandemic, Public Health, SARS-CoV-2, science
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Offering Choice but Delivering Tyranny: The Corporate Capture of Agriculture
By Colin Todhunter Source: Off-Guardian Many lobbyists talk a lot about critics of genetic engineering technology denying choice to farmers. They say that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies to maximise choice and options. At … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Environment, Health, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Science, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Africa, Agribusiness, Agroecology, Bayer, Big Ag, Biotech, Cargill, Eric Holt-Giménez, Fertilizers, Genetic Engineering, Global Food System, GM Crops, GMOs, Green Revolution, IMF, India, Industrial Foods, Monsanto, Neoliberalism, organic agriculture, Steven Druker, tyranny, Ukraine, Vandana Shiva, World Bank
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Junk Planet: Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe?
By Robert J. Burrowes Is Earth the largest garbage dump in the Universe? I don’t know. But it’s a safe bet that Earth would be a contender were such a competition to be held. Let me explain why. To start, … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Environment, GMOs, Health, media, Militarization, Philosophy, Science, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Air Pollution, antibiotics, Big Agra, Big Pharma, Climate Change, corporate news, Corporations, Deforestation, Dystopia, Earth, environment, Fracking, Fukushima, Genetic Engineering, geoengineering, Glyphosate, GMOs, Groundwater Contamination, Health, Microwaves, Military, Military Waste, Monsanto, Nanoparticles, Nuclear Waste, Pacific Garbage Patch, Pesticides, Plastic, pollution, Processed Foods, radiation, Soil Contamination, Space Junk, Toxic Waste, Vaccines, Water pollution
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The Future of Crime
(Editor’s note: This essay was originally published in G-Spot 14 Winter 1994 and later included in the anthology book Mind Invaders: A Reader in Psychic Warfare, Cultural Sabotage and Semiotic Terrorism [Home, 1997]. Though intended as speculative satire, aspects of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, conditioning, consciousness, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, False Flag, Hackers, History, Humor, Militarization, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Active Shooters, Biopiracy, biotechnology, brainwashing, CIA, Corporate Globalization, Cultural Sabotage, Dualism, Dystopia, Genetic Engineering, Hackers, London Psychogeographical Association, LSD, Luther Blissett, mind control, Mind Invaders, MK Ultra, Multinational Corporations, Nanotechnology, police state, Psychic Warfare, psychopaths, Semiotic Terrorism, Situationists, social control, Social Engineering, State Crime, Stewart Home, surveillance state, technology
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Real Rewilding
By Glenn Aparicio Parry Source: Reality Sandwich In an attempt to circumvent enmity toward genetically modified foods, Danish scientists are proposing what they claim is a precision breeding technique called “rewilding.” It is named rewilding because it mixes current genes … Continue reading
Get Big or Get Out: Complex Systems and Reciprocal Ecocide
By Gary Gripp Source: The Hampton Institute For awhile now I have been saying that the complex systems which supposedly serve us actually serve themselves: they call the tune and we dance as directed. But I haven’t offered a whole … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Environment, GMOs, Health, History, Science, society, Technology, war
Tagged agro-chemicals, Big Agribusiness, Gary Gripp, Genetic Engineering, GMOs, Green Revolution, Monocrops
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