Monday, August 22, 2011

A global corporate youth brigade: using social networks for evil...

Young people today would never respond to an invitation to join a Nazi Youth brigade. But they have responded to social networks to be connected to their friends and are responding in the millions to fun projects to save the world. But have they looked closely at who is behind social networking and to what uses it is being put already?

Social networks are using knowledge of everyone's friends, what everyone is doing, and now starting to use social networks for harm.

A "vast green army" is being organized by Cornell and IBM. Cornell is tightly bound to Monsanto, so its projects to get young people to locate all plant and animal species in the world and GPS map them, and even in backyards, is worrisome, to say the least since it can be used for anti-ecological corporate purposes. It could help Monsanto to locate, patent and control nature, even more than they already do - and all for free, all under the name of "ecological fun" or saving the planet, by using naive, caring young people to do the investigative work for them. Monsanto is presently defoliating the Brazilian rainforest and has been doing that in Colombia for years, and is pushing laws to make it a felony to whistleblow on agribusiness (itself). More...

Don't miss:
  1. Agrochemicals, energy plants and GMO crops killing people India's Punjab... 
  2. When food is used as a weapon to reduce world population...
  3. Facebook's "Like" button becomes illegal in German state...
  4. Facebook witch-hunt for London rioters...
  5. Google+: one hell of a Trojan horse...
  6. Big Banana: in Cameroon, local people are "collateral damage" 
  7. Earth Hour, a despicable hoax...
  8. Murdoch and the rule of the oligarchy, and how politicians are controlled... 

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