Stephan:   I have decided to focus today's SR on GMOs and the transgenic sector because it represents such a clear example of the geopolitical shift we are living through: the Ascendence of the Non-geographical corporate states. NGCSs are not just corporations, in a business sense, that we mean when we say, corporatocracy. These transnational entities are so big and so powerful that they are essentially states, literally countries without geography. They have their own foreign policies; their own goals that may have little to do with the policies of the country where they happen to be based. They control the political structure and write the laws that govern them, and judge them. They are the emerging world powers. This transfer, is not a continuation of the chain of family, to tribe, to village, to duchies and the like, to nations. The NGCS springs from the business world. Its priority is profit. In its most extreme manifestation nothing else really is a factor. Nowhere is the transfer of national power over to the NGCSs clearer than in what is happening in food and water. Parts of this trend are known, but the overarching strategy the NGCSs are following, and the tactics they are using are rarely seen as the coherent whole they are. Monsanto, BASF, Bayer, Dow, DuPont and Syngenta. They are usually described as chemical pesticide companies but, I think, a better way to see them is as a corporate cohort making an aggressive attempt to gain domination over the world's food and water supplies. Notice the hallmarks of this trend, they work their way through all of these stories: The power of lobbying bribery; the superiority of the Non-geographical corporate state over the government of nation states; and, the complete disregard for wellness at every level of that term. If one stands back and looks at these six companies on their own terms, as illustrated by these reports, you will see how astonishingly blatant, and successful, all this is. So really the question becomes not what are these corporate states doing? They're doing just what you'd expect a corporation state to do if profit is the only consideration. The question is: why, while we are still able, are we allowing them to get away with running the world in this manner? -- Stephan