Cover Image: The tens of millions of yards of polluted mud-flats that remain in the now drained Klamath lakes (Copco and Iron Gate Lakes) portend a future of catastrophic pollution down river for decades. Photo: William E. Simpson II
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My favorite philosopher is American Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914). He taught me a lot. Among them was his disdain for Rene Descartes. He showed how Rene’s thought processes might have given birth to the insane academic’s political correctness. Single inference thinking vs the truth from multiple sources for verification. Cartesians get one screwball idea and take it to destruction – usually of beauty and common sense.
“…a 2001 moratorium on the sale of land to foreigners had always represented an obstacle to unrestrained privatization. As post-Maidan governments turned again to the IMF for financing, aid was conditioned on a series of land reforms that would finally allow foreign corporations to acquire vast tracts of the country’s farmland. In 2020, Zelenskyy gave in to the IMF’s demands and finally repealed the moratorium. ‘Agribusiness interests and oligarchs will be the primary beneficiaries of such reform,’ said Olena Borodina of the Ukrainian Rural Development Network.
‘This will only further marginalize smallholder farmers and risks severing them from their most valuable resource.’ But the World Bank could barely contain its excitement, gushing: ‘This is, without exaggeration, a historic event.’ Even though the new law isn’t set to come into force until next year, US and Western European agrobusinesses have already bought up millions of hectares of Ukraine’s farmland — with 10 private companies reportedly controlling most of it.”
In . . . “The whole Ukraine goes for sale -massive profit opportunities being created by the war’ — July 17, 2023Source: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2023/07/17/the-whole-ukraine-goes-for-sale-massive-profit-opportunities-being-created-by-the-war/