2. An Evolutionary Apocalypse? As already mentioned, the U.S. Supreme Court unleashed the corporate rush to tamper with nature through genetically modified organisms, better called "genetic monsters." "Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible." [26] "Assuring its safety is the F.D.A.'s job"--That was the defiant comment of a Monsanto director of communications in 1998. And FDA's job was giving Monsanto a pass and setting off a "ticking time bomb" says Colin Todhunter, an international journalist, in one of his articles. In that article he quotes Rima E Laibow, Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation, as concluding that "we are playing with genetic fire." [27]
My Grade: Unlikely. Evolutionary changes crawl, not race through history. What we are witnessing now are hints of what may lie ahead. We already have artificial animals and other genetically modified monsters. We are witnessing biodiversity shriveling from biopiracy. Will we witness the mutation and eventual disappearance of our own species from genetic bacteria in our food chain? We don't know yet. Guess who's in charge of getting the answer. It's none other than the USDA.
3. A War Apocalypse? Violence begets violence. Because of her military presence, deadly actions, and biased policies in the Greater Middle East,
My Grade: Likely. Unless the U.S withdraws from the Greater Middle East and discontinues its military buildup in the Pacific region more blowbacks can be expected throughout the rest of this century. And who knows if one of them will be our total downfall as a nation. I fervently hope not.
I strongly believe and argue constantly that the model of democracy power or some adaptation of it is the only way to end the corpocracy and all its ominous realities, not just the ones mentioned here. This section will be almost a footnote about this model since I have already written exhaustively about it. The model's genesis was in my book, "The Devil's Marriage," and the model's most recent rendition appears in my website, www.uschamberofdemocracy.com, so only a very short synopsis is given next. [28]
Democracy power is a two-track model. One track represents "democracy strategy" that entails organizing, developing, and unleashing carefully planned political, judicial, and economic reforms across the entire spectrum of American life that the corpocracy controls. The second track represents "democracy muscle," and entails building a massive coalition of existing movements and other activist groups and citizens. The tracks are not parallel. They are interdependent.
The nucleus of the first track would be a virtual network of existing NGOs that have agreed to join the network in turn for it receiving donor funds to defray the start-up and operating costs. There could be several networks--local or regional ones and national ones. Any given network would have a steering council and alliances and resources aimed at the different reform targets such as a l egislative-and-regulatory reform alliance. The steering council would be responsible for developing the strategic plan and delegating it to the alliances for implementation.
The second track would be a fusion of consumer movements; environmental movements; labor movements; media/lnternet-reform movements; Occupy movements; peace/antiwar movements; socioeconomic-justice movements; and movements yet formed. This massive coalition would need some well-known persons as champions of it.
Neither track exists yet but slow progress is being made. I have set the end of 2013 as a likely deadline for getting both tracks either started or well on their way to being started.
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