In a way, Joao, our enemy is also our best friend. What we need to do is just go straight for the pesticides. The seeds are genetically modified to require the additional purchase of the pesticides and voila! The wonderful world of The Lawsuit Straight Jacket.

The Biofuel Idea is going to kill itself. It’s just that stupid of an idea (everything is going to get prohibitively expensive in lalaland anyway — without adding more fuel to that fire (surely someone’ll get a clue (on the other hand . . . ))).

Unfortunately, we’re looking at a lot of momentum. Pero, you guys have been doing a really great job with the brakes. Good show! We are looking forward to looking forward with you. Obrigado.

It may feel like a row boat now — but those masts are going up fast.

Every opportunity to tar and feather George Soros should DEFinitely be taken advantage of.

RE: Base, Basis. Base is used in Spanish to mean foundation.

Which is slightly amusing because the person who translated the article goes by the name of Roof.

I had issues about changing that.

Bases – could mean the MST farms themselves
Basis – could mean the principles behind them

Who knows?

I have a suggestion, I’ve given it some thought, well. Some suggestions.

First — what if we threw out the whole concept of enemy and embraced instead the concept of challenge?

So, instead of saying our enemies are
1. the oil companies
2. automotive corporations and
3. agribusiness

We would educate everyone to understand the struggle in terms of challenges as follows:
1. fixed energy
2. motive energy
3. food

All of which are going to have to be radically reinvented if we are going to survive the next quarter century.

We should find another word for the people who advise investors to pursue suicidal strategies. “Expert” is way off. Pendejo might be going a bit to far, as would Imbecile.

Terminology like Accelerate Growth is problematic because consensual reality defines that as Getting Rich Quick — and again, that’s way off. And again, we don’t want to go too far. Perhaps Accelerating Exploitation? or Accelerating Throughput, or Profit Margins, Bloating Profit Margins? Amongst ourselves we can say Accelerate Environmental Degradation but I’m thinking in terms of penetrating the Oligarchy’s Fifth Estate – reaching the people within these so-called elites that are capable of understanding peer reviewed science.

New investment models are emerging in the back rooms of international finance. I think we can all see that they are all now having heart attacks over the extent to which they invested in debt based on a huge attenuating job market. They did it blindly and now they’re ready to be paranoid and a lot more thoughtful. Extreme weather events are becoming much more undeniable and frightening. There’s no question, it’s a good idea to speak quite a bit more loudly and dare to have big ideas.

Our biggest “enemy” is probably self-doubt. It is not enough to tell ourselves, “we deserve a living wage and a healthy work environment” and “slavery is wrong”. We need to go a little further and make it very very clear that math, science and the future of life on earth are on our side.

And you guys are doing that. Yay. A big hug to everyone. Each and everyone of those 150,000 landless companeros camped out by the roadside, each and everyone of those 17,500 from far and wide who came to Brasilia to join forces and each and every peasant in each and every one of those 21 farmers organizations in each and everyone of those 31 countries.

The guerrillas of the world love you mucho mucho mucho.

Don’t forget — mucho mucho MUCHO.

Keep those cards and letters coming.

We would educate everyone to understand the struggle in terms of challenges as follows:
1. fixed energy
2. motive energy
3. food

I like it, making the agenda and creating reality rather than chasing the tail of the corporate behemoth.

The automotive industry and the oil companies are really the same, in many ways (those SUVs are being subsidized — they ain’t payin for themselves).

But fixed and motive energy systems also serve a need that needs to be served.

So it seems like a good idea to put two and two together and separate the baby from the bathwater.

But also :

An important part of the Revolutionary strategy, esPECially the Bolivarian strategy, has been to occupy the business models, distribution channels and profit margins of the oil companies in order to re-engineer their goals and aspirations so that they reflect our own.

It’s a good strategy. We don’t want to send mobs to attack it. Cuidado por favor.

I know they are acutely aware of the fine line we are negotiating.

Petrobras on the other hand, should definitely be encouraged to get out of Ecuador because that’s a different strategy emerging — the progress of which should definitely figure prominently in our new airwaves and makeshift classrooms.

Guatemala: Recuperating the Land that Belongs to Us

FN Canadian Mining companies just never quit. Ya basta! Long live the indigenous peoples of Guatemala.