Headline August 15th, 2012 / You are Commanded...

"You Are Commanded.....!"

Whoever provide the world's seed, controls the world's food supply. In 2000, or about, Monsanto started buying up conventional seed companies. In 2005, Monsanto paid dollars 1.4 billion for Seminis, which controlled 40% of the U.S. market for lettuce, tomatoes, and other vegetable and fruit seeds. 

Just after, it announced the acquisition of the country's third-largest cotton seed company, Emergent Genetics, for dollars 300 million. It is now estimated that Monsanto seeds account for over 90% of the U.S. production of Soybeans. Monsanto's acquisitions then fueled explosive growth, transforming Monsanto into the largest seed company in the world. 

Monsanto spends more than dollars 2million a day, Yes, a day, in research to identify, test, develop and bring to market innovative new seeds and technologies that farmers want, Darren Wallis the company spokesman disclosed. 

That is true but so is the fact that, Monsanto relies on a shadowy army of private agents in the American heartland to strike fear into Farm Country. Monsanto answers this charge as such: One tool in protecting our investments is patenting our discoveries and, if necessary, legally defending those patents against those who might choose to infringe upon them. 

Monsanto obligated to those who do abide by its rules to enforce its patent rights on those who 'reap the benefits of the technology without paying for its use.' But many compare Monsanto's hard line approach to Micrsoft's zealous efforts to protect its software from pirates. 

At least with Microsoft the buyer of a program can use it over and over again. But Farmers who buy Monsanto's seeds can't even do that. For centuries -millennia- farmers have saved seeds from season to season: they planted in the spring, harvested in the fall, then reclaimed and cleaned the seeds over the winter for re-planting the next spring. 

Monsanto has turned this very ancient practice on its head. For nearly all of its history the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had refused to grant patent on Seeds, viewing them as lifeforms with too many variables to be patented. But 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a five-to-four decision, turned seeds into widgets, thus, laying the groundwork for a handful of Corporations to begin taking control of the world's food supply. 

The Founder Samurai, The Rising Samurai, celebrated our Independence Day, by focused and smart hardwork! The World Student Society For Computers, Internet And Wireless has just about 'Reconciled its Total Optima' for forward integration.

Timing has to be right. Samurai B Team is sparring away to take SDT to greater heights, very soon! So, lets replenish our reservoir of faith! When we serve others selflessly, we fulfill within ourselves what is our very very best!

Good night & God bless!

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