What are GMOs

For those who don’t know, GMOs (genetically modified organisms) are living organisms whose genetic material has been artificially manipulated in a laboratory which causes unstable combinations of plant, animal, bacteria and viral genes that do not occur in nature. There are two types of GMOs: pest producers which kill insects by taking a gene from a bacterium and injecting it into the DNA of a seed, which produces a toxin lethal to insects (ie, Monsanto’s BT corn); and an herbicide resister which after altering a plant’s gene makes it immune to weed killers (ie Roundup-ready soy).

Are GMOs safe?

Noted climate scientist Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institute for Science at Stanford has finally popped the question. In an article entitled “One Known Way to Cool the Earth” on the February 16, 2015 USA Today opinion page, Caldeira writes: “There is basically only one way known to cool the Earth rapidly.” He explains the method “…is to reflect more of the sun’s warming rays back to space.”
  What will it take to do this? According to Caldeira, only “A small fleet of airplanes could do what large volcanos do – create a layer of small particles high in the atmosphere that scatters incoming sunlight back to space. Cooling the Earth this way, could be fast, cheap and easy.”
  The reality is that the U.S. government has been spraying for well over a decade and a half in plain view while attacking anyone pointing it out. They’ve been making a chemical haze of clouds and putting a sunscreen in the sky. Small white planes, some of them associated with Battelle Memorial Institute, have been creating clouds in a criss-cross pattern in the sky.

“…Cuba's voice is a voice that must be heard in the United States of America. Yet it has not been heard. It must now be heard because the United States is too powerful, its responsibilities to the world and to itself are too great, for its people not to be able to listen to every voice of the hungry world.” ~ C. Wright Mills, Listen, Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba, 1960.

What can I be sure of after only one week in Havana? Very little. There are exceptions to every pattern, and sometimes more exceptions than patterns. But a few claims, I think, are possible:

1. The sea and this island in it are stupendously beautiful even to someone longing for people and places up north.