A “silly” article? What, now people don’t want to hear what the “Great Green Corporations” are coming up with with to pounce on the great unwashed (and dumb as hell) masses? If this article was posted in Google News, it would be taken as a “very serious informative piece to alert Americans to the fact that there ARE companies out there ‘truly’ engaged in lightning the load on the poor, suffering world and ‘we’ here at the final authority on what people should be doing, thinking and pressuring other idiot consumers to ‘save the world’ unlike all the reckless scumbags out there NOT buying into corporate chicanery.”

The fact that this story, for good or ill, is here on Truthdig, a place that provides feedback areas should actually give some of us a little hope. Not all comments are insightful, educated or elitist (especially mine on all three counts), but judging from the uncensored feedback, I’m pretty sure not ALL Americans are dumb, ill-bred, carny-whores who can’t see a ridiculous attempt to sell the ultimate stupidity to people who want to save a world that is in ZERO trouble. It’s humans and animal life that are in trouble. The “world” herself is fine and will heal after we’re wiped off her bedding.

The fact that there ARE people dumb enough not to even question this “news” of the new “green earth-friendly” phone and will run out and buy one just to crow to anyone they consider less than themselves ... well, I’m voting in the affirmative for this story as well as the comments.

All these comments are so on the mark, it makes one wonder how such a silly article made it onto this site.

Oh yeah: he’s the editor’s son.

Its a shame I put my history on the wrong artcle, so here again.

In about 1910 some Dutch, the royal famelie wash the biggest parts owners, toke Coca plants from South America to the Dutch East Indies, the leaves went to Holland to a small industry just outside Amsterdam, their they made Cocaîne tablets and sold them in enormes quantitys to the German, France? Englisch armys, so most soldiers toke the drugs, here starts the real story.

In the second worldwar, this same company made amfitamine or so called speed for the German army indentic story, soldiers start to be machines, well same dirty story.

This story you find in a book by Conny Braam, the story is absolutly authentic.

SienaI, October 13 at 4:52 am #

For those that have lives and don’t care about the latest cell phones (those silly people that have things to do and girlfriends and such)

For those to whom reading comprehension is more than a catchphrase this thread is about more than the latest technologies. If you can overcome your testosterone perhaps you might get an actual adult to explain this to you.

In Europe their are some countrys who are planting Hemp again, in eastern Europe they are still planting Hemp, some fine agri university’s are training young people to work and find new uses for Hemp.

The by Satan send Monsanto is real the greatest pest we have, they push and push their pseudo natural products, and nobody knows what, they are lobbying every where its like oil on the wather.

Well, I’m sorry to mistype, Xntrk. I’m used to saying “Hawaii” instead of Oahu. Oahu DID have 6 species of snakes and there are still two there, but not in any real numbers. Thanks to the military’s efforts, a LOT of Oahu has been covered in dirt, and not as “natural state” (for pumice anyway) as the Big Isle. Once the snakes started going, the rat population zoomed and so MORE mongeese were brought in. And yes, Oahu did have snakes, mostly accidentally imported by sailing ships taking on cargo in the Caribbean. We got a lot of them too, ‘bra, and they like to hide in cargo! The military housing we lived in? There were snakes and snake holes dug into the imported dirt and yeah, there was leg snapping going on! But we were haole, so no big whoop.

Oh, I forgot to mention what happened to the “green” cup. Lost it last summer to heat. I left it in the car on a hundred degree day and came back to an egregious green lump in the back seat. With a horribly maimed handle. I’m wondering if the phones would do the same?

A phone made out of hemp. Would they call it the Gilligan Model? (Just kidding!)

Hey, if you’re on the Big Isle, Xntrk, ever hear about Jason Scott Lee’s attempt to introduce gardening into the school system? He’s got a good idea having school children plant and harvest on school ground and use the stuff harvested in their school lunches. Just curious if the idea is growing on a few folks there.

WykydRed [and I just a plain old Pinko, Commie] I agree with all that you said, except this:

>>It’s like the human brilliance of Hawaii’s snake “problem”. Tons of snakes, no predators besides man. Lots of people bitten and dead. Sooooo, introduce the Mongoose!... multitudes of broken legs and ankles and feet from stepping in said holes, and houses fall in, usually with people in them.<<

The mongooses were imported to kill the rats, not snakes. Hawaii has no snakes, and never has had. Well, there is one; it’s about the size of a worm, lives underground, and is blind. Not a major problem.

The trouble with the mongoose vs rat scenario is that rats run around at night, and the mongoose is diurnal, so they seldom meet. Now, we have lots of both. They do have some predators. My Pembroke Welsh Corgis hunt both, and kill any they catch.

On the big Island, btw, the holes are naturally occurring because the gas escaping from the lava makes them. The mongoose just take advantage of nature’s largess. Even worse than the holes are the many loose rocks that litter the surface where there is a lot of Lava. It rolls under foot, and is VERY dangerous.

That said,since I have to compost everything I can to create dirt because of the lava, I am all for growing hemp, and pakalolo, for all sorts of pastimes, including recreation. Corn, and the land needed for it and other crops, should be reserved for the people who need food to survive. Even dog and cat food is made mostly from corn anymore. I fear I’ll go blind from trying to read the tiny print used to list the ingredients of both pet and human foods.

It seems our corporate masters are 3 or 4 steps ahead of us, even as we worry about how to protect the environment they are bent on destroying. Paint it GREEN, proclaim it in GIANT letters, and most people think they are environmentalists when all they are doing is enriching Archer Daniel Midland and Montsano!

I wish I were kidding about this, but our bank gave us “green” cups. You know, the kind with handles and lids for car use? They were made of corn! It is actually a “plastic” made from corn oil that looks and feels exactly like very sturdy plastic. The drawback? They melt in the dishwasher! On the top rack! And Dawn makes the “plastic” (same color green as the phone) fragile.

Okay, so we grow corn to make “plastics” from. We grow corn to feed our cars. We grow corn to make filaments for phones and computers and everything else we use so the world will be more “green”. How many people die of starvation because all the growing land is being used for fuel and plastics?

It’s like the human brilliance of Hawaii’s snake “problem”. Tons of snakes, no predators besides man. Lots of people bitten and dead. Sooooo, introduce the Mongoose! That’ll fix the problem, right? A few years later, not many snakes, LOTS of mongeese. So many, in fact, they’re dead all over the road and the dirt places have holes everywhere and houses are dug under. More fuel and resources used to pry up said dead mongeese from pavement, dispose of the multitude of bodies, multitudes of broken legs and ankles and feet from stepping in said holes, and houses fall in, usually with people in them.

The LAST thing to call in to fix something is Human Ingenuity! Start thinking in cold, logical Tribe Mind.

Corn, like soy is one of the most highly genetically altered foods, or GMO’s. It’s been alterned to produce it’s own pesticides, and can withstand massive doses of Herbacides.

Unfortunately, this has created a growing problem with superweeds, that are infesting our country and making agriculture more dificult.

GMO’s also infect other non GMO’s with their pollen, so it’s impossible to find non genetically altered corn in this country. You have to go to South America.

It’s dificult to determine excactly what kind of protein you get in corn, because DNA from wildly different species has been spliced into the mix.
Anything from marigolds to arctic cod hemoglobin.  Incidently Artic Cod Hemoglobin is used in Ice Cream to make it thicker.

There is also concern that the form and shape of normal protein may be affected by this process, since form and shape effects protein synthesis, it’s quite possible that protein disease might emerge from this process, diseases like NVCJD.

Why isn’t everything made of corn? Because it would be stupid and wasteful. We couldn’t find a crop that strips the soil much worse (ok, cotton does). And every time we find a new use for the leaves and stems of corn it means that much less vegetative matter turned back into the soil.

Yeah, it saved a few petrochemicals in manufacture, but they’ll be necessary to grow more corn to make more stuff…it’s zero sum. There are better crops for this sort of application. Johannes mentioned hemp.

We won’t see those because BigAg’s got the corn market sewed up tight. That’s where the research money goes and that’s what the farmers grow. Big Ag like Monsanto makes Halliburton look like the Salvation Army.

An very fine and usefull natural product is HEMP, you can make everything with or out it, and some variety you can smoke in your pipe.

Seventy percent of the corn grown in this nation already goes to cattle feed, even though such feed is not optimal to healthy cows. The more we use edibles for other purposes the hungrier some will be….

Nitpicking?