I wonder if Gleick is invited?

What skeptics need to do is what they have done. Join them, Divide them and Conquer them!

Gail Combs says:
March 12, 2012 at 9:06 pm
….. It is third world countries, where children are used as free labor in Subsistence Agriculture, who have sky high birth rates.
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Brian H says:
March 13, 2012 at 12:51 am
Historically true, dat, but it seems there’s something else at work, too. “Sky high birthrates” are actually rare as hen’s teeth now….
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I am well aware of that. I have even read a UN population study where the author was puzzled by the drop in birthrate among subsistence farmers in Africa. But the possible reasons for the drop start getting into the DEEP Conspiracy Theory stuff. http://www.whale.to/m/sterile.html
Then there is the alleged development of spermicidal corn which is a bit close to home, like just down the road aways…. Biolex in Pittsboro NC

….A small California biotech company, Epicyte, in 2001 announced the development of genetically engineered corn which contained a spermicide which made the semen of men who ate it sterile. At the time Epicyte had a joint venture agreement to spread its technology with DuPont and Syngenta, two of the sponsors of the Svalbard Doomsday Seed Vault. Epicyte was since acquired by a North Carolina biotech company. Astonishing to learn was that Epicyte had developed its spermicidal GMO corn with research funds from the US Department of Agriculture, the same USDA which, despite worldwide opposition, continued to finance the development of Terminator technology, now held by Monsanto.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/11/18650455.php

Second Source:

….The corn has been field tested in tests financed by the US Department of Agriculture along with a small California bio-tech company named Epicyte. Announcing his success at a 2001 press conference, the president of Epicyte, Mitch Hein, pointing to his GMO corn plants, announced, “We have a hothouse filled with corn plants that make anti-sperm antibodies.”14
Hein explained that they had taken antibodies from women with a rare condition known as immune infertility, isolated the genes that regulated the manufacture of those infertility antibodies, and, using genetic engineering techniques, had inserted the genes into ordinary corn seeds used to produce corn plants. In this manner, in reality they produced a concealed contraceptive embedded in corn meant for human consumption. “Essentially, the antibodies are attracted to surface receptors on the sperm,” said Hein. “They latch on and make each sperm so heavy it cannot move forward. It just shakes about as if it was doing the lambada.” Hein claimed it was a possible solution to world “over-population.” The moral and ethical issues of feeding it to humans in Third World poor countries without their knowing it countries he left out of his remarks….. http://www.rense.com/general94/gmos.htm </blockquote"
After the press release, the discussion of Epicyte’s breakthrough vanished. The company itself was taken over in May 2004 by a private Pittsboro, North Carolina bio tech company. Biolex acquired Epicyte Pharmaceutical. Nothing more was heard in any media about the development of spermicidal corn. Gee I wonder why? True? False? only Hein knows.
Purchase: http://www.cropchoice.com/leadstry22ba.html?recid=2570
Pittsboro, North Carolina bio tech company. Biolex: http://www.mitsui-global.com/en/portfolio/biolex.html

Richard C and Brian H,
The “Left” “Right” argument is only used to confuse and deflect us because there really isn’t a Left or Right power base. What the “Left” thinks of as the “Right” is the same group that is actually supporting them, promoting them and orchestrating their actions. They are pragmatists looking for the method that will allow them control of land, people and wealth so they have no real liking for “Capitalism” or “Socialism” only power.
This is substantiated by the book Tragedy and Hope 1966 by Bill Clinton’s mentor, Carroll Quigley. (Note Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar)

This radical Right fairy tale,…. like all fables, does in fact have a modicum of truth. There does exist, and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the Radical right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other group, and frequently does so. I know of the operation of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960’s, to examine its papers and secret records… but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known.[6]:949-950
…It was this group of people, whose wealth and influence so exceeded their experience and understanding, who provided much of the framework of influence which the Communist sympathizers and fellow travelers took over in the United States in the 1930s. It must be recognized that the power of these energetic Left wingers exercised was never their own power or Communist power but was ultimately the power of the international financial coterie, and, once the anger and suspicions of the American people were aroused as they were in the 1950s, it was a fairly simple matter to get rid of the Red sympathizers. Before this could be done, however, a congressional committee, following backward to their source the threads which led from the admitted Communists like Whittaker Chambers, through Alger Hiss, and the Carnegie Endowment to Thomas Lamont and the Morgan Bank, fell into the whole complicated network of the interlocking tax-exempt foundations. The Eighty-third Congress set up in 1953 a Special Reece Committee to investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations. It soon became clear that people of immense wealth would be unhappy if the investigation went too far and that the “most respected” newspapers in the country, closely allied with these men of wealth, would not get excited enough about any revelations to make the publicity worthwhile. An interesting report showing the Left-wing associations of interlocking nexus of tax-exempt foundations was issued in 1954 rather quietly. Four years later, the Reece Committee’s general counsel, Rene A Wormser, wrote a shocked, but not shocking, book on the subject called “Foundations: Their Power and Influence.”[6]:954-955 ”

According to Quigley, the leaders of this group were Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Milner… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Quigley

You can keep following the tangled strands of Quigley’s international Anglophile network back to the London School of Economics, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and the Fabian Society.
Of special note is The Third Way philosophy from Professor Anthony Giddens, former director of the London School of Economics. The philosophy is heavily promoted by Tony Blair and Bill Clinton.
http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/imported/centre-left-s-young-turks-seek-neo-conservative-inspiration/51890.aspx
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/298465.stm
http://www.workinfo.com/econhist/thirdway.htm

Spend a week or three reading Bastiat. Here’s a good start:
http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G007
Great, defenders of the Nazis referring Bastiat. What has the world come to.
Gail Combs as usual tells you everything you need to know. I add that third waver Newt Gingrich wrote some kind of introduction for Toffler’s book…there is no left and right, all these guys are on the same program.
The same people that brought Hitler to power are the same people running America today. Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama…makes no difference.
Hitler said he had met the superman, and it scared him. He must have just come from a meeting with his corporate sponsors.
Wake the hell up people.

If he wants to scare people, he should be harping about “peak phosphorus!” Courtesy of colleagues of mine from Univ of WI, Milwaukee:

The fact that so few countries have phosphorus mines stirs more concern. About 90 percent of the world’s known reserves are located in or are controlled by five countries: Morocco, Jordan, South Africa, the United States and China. And China, which recently raised its tariffs on phosphorus, is expected to keep more at home. The declining quality, or purity, of known phosphate rock sources is only heightening anxiety.

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/does-peak-phosphorus-loom

peterhodges says:
March 13, 2012 at 11:35 am
Spend a week or three reading Bastiat. Here’s a good start:
http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G007
Great, defenders of the Nazis referring Bastiat. What has the world come to.

I was defending the Nazis? By noting they were socialists with a hyper-nationalist gloss? What drivel. Please put it where Sol never illuminates.