NINA SLEJKO BLOM

psychedelic. adjective. (of a drug) causing effects on the mind, such as feelings of deep understanding or unusually strong experiences of colour, sound, taste, and touch. Psychedelic art or clothing has bright colours and strange patterns.

distortion. noun. 1. the action of distorting or the state of being distorted. "Monsanto and Bayer, Dow and Dupont, Syngenta and ChemChina, all merging, shaking hands ..." synonyms: warp, twist, contortion, bend, buckle, deformation, deformity, curve, curvature, malformation, disfigurement, crookedness ...    2.  the action of giving a misleading account or impression. "Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do.*" synonyms: misrepresentation, perversion, twisting, falsification, misreporting, misstatement, Monsanto, Bayer, Dow, Dupont, Syngenta, ChemChina, Chevron, Gazprom, Nestle, Shell, Trump, Exxon, Putin, Pfizer, ...

kitsch. noun. art, objects, or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way. "Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible.**"

kaleidoscope. noun. a toy consisting of a tube containing mirrors and pieces of coloured glass or paper, whose reflections produce changing patterns when the tube is rotated. - a constantly changing pattern or sequence of elements. "Switzerland-based Syngenta AG is best known for its top-selling herbicide, atrazine; for trying to fool the world into thinking its genetically engineered Golden Rice will save the world; and for taking out bees and other pollinators with its neonicotinoid pesticides."

et cetera. adverb. and others; and so forth; and so on (used to indicate that more of the same sort or class might have been mentioned, but for brevity have been omitted)

* Ronald Reagan
** Phil Angell, Monsanto
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