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Showing posts with label Roundup (herbicide). Show all posts
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

21 July - Food & Water Monopolism

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Monsanto War on Farmers

You simply cannot take a seed, put pesticides in the seed genetically and claim you have rights to the whole seed you made.  The only patent Monsanto has is on the pesticide chemical which is Round Up.
Round up is now used in foods such as: GMO corn, GMO sugar beets, GMO soy, GMO alfalfa, and any genetically modified plants.  They are deadly, they cause allergic reactions, they contain carcinogens and they are to be banned universally to protect human health.
Farmers have found that GMO seed causes more harm to regular crops and will destroy the US farmers putting them out of business and encourages large corporate farms to produce GMO foods.
The false premise that the world has food shortages is false, there is plenty of agricultural land in most all of the world’s countries.
Hydroponic food supply is much more acceptable, cleaner, natural and can produce vast quantities of organic foods for mankind.
The courts in the European Union are quickly banning Monsanto’s GMO seed as illegal.
Farm Wars is just beginning.


The courts in Europe have ruled that Conventional breeding of seeds cannot be patented except for in the Supreme Court of the United States which proves where the corruptions is coming from in the so called justice system of America.
According to the Supeme Court of the United States the air can be patented, water can be patented and seeds can be patented in a ridiculous environment where corporate interests are buying up the judicial system that once had integrity and that once stood for justice.
Not in 2011.
Monsanto is now attempting to patent GMO melons in Europe, however their patent is a violation of patent law.
They would have to own and claim rights to the organic melon which they do not possess, for that belongs to nature.
The patent laws exclude all plants that are natural and therefore the patent should be rejected completely. Monsanto holds no legal rights to any seeds that came from natural sources nor does breeding a seed constitute exclusive rights, patent rights and claims to own the seeds entirely.  The effects of Monsanto round up seeds are a terrorist threat to Americans, to human health, to the farming industry and to children raised on pesticide foods.
The basic flaws in Monsanto’s patent claims are many but here is one major flaw:
Monsanto does not own proprietary rights to the original melons - they just put a cosmetic change on the plants -they do not own a monopoly on the original seed of the melon- that is the illegal farce to their claims to patent seeds.  This claim has been legally argued and tainted courts have ruled in favor of it.

Monsanto-Resistant Weeds Take Root, Raising Food Prices 

... steep (and unabated) climb in the number of weeds resistant to multiple types of herbicides. Super-strains of plants like pigweed--which grows three inches a day and is tough enough to damage farm machinery--have emerged, which may dramatically reduce the options for farmers to control them. The alternatives are usually more dangerous chemicals or plowing and mulching fields, undermining many of the environmental benefits biotech crops are supposed to offer. It's "the single largest threat to production agriculture that we have ever seen,” claims Andrew Wargo III, president of the Arkansas Association of Conservation Districts.
Monsanto, which once allegedly led farmers to believe its Roundup Ready crops would not cause weed resistance, has since come around to evidence and is now talking about prevention by diversifying chemical applications and crop rotation.



Massive Ice Flow Break off of Laborador

A massive ice flow broke off off of a glacier a year ago, is heading for the east coast of Canada to Newfoundland.  The massive ice is so large that it would encompass Manhattan. The ice is 20 square miles that formed a larger piece measuring 97 square miles and is another example of global [...]
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Sir Keith Murdoch’s Broken Rules

Sir Keith Murdoch’s Broken Rules Rupert Murdoch the son of Keith Murdoch, has now discredited the newspaper business his father built in Australian and the UK back when he was a journalist. Sir Keith Murdoch was Rupert Murdoch’s father, who became a war correspondence reporter in the early 1900′s and who’s job it was to [...]
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Ted Turner Turns on the Coal Industry

Ted Turner at Milken Institute emphasizes and warns about the reality of climate change which he says will destroy the world. Turners Says to Stop Subsidizing Coal and Oil -We’re Subsidizing the Wrong things, lets get off the Titanic before she sails”. Boone Pickens says we’re stuck with coal for a while”. Billionaires with Brains- [...]
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Donald Trump-Bachmann is Under Rated!!

Donald Trump-Bachmann is Under Rated!! It is surprising what passes for in-depth commentary on the news of the day and reviews of influential people that are asshats which seems to be the norm on CNN these days. We don’t know what will happen to CNN when Anderson Cooper jumps the ship for his own talk [...]
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Hackgate-Louise Mensch-Piers Morgan

Hackgate-Louise Mensch-Piers Morgan In the recent parliamentary inquiry into Rupert Murdoch’s dealings using the News of the World and other media holdings as criminal enterprises engaged in illegal phone hackings some interesting tidbits were revealed by MP Louise Mensch. Her questioning of Murdoch and Murdoch Jr., who mostly spoke for the old man to deflect [...]
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Obama’s Way Out-14th Amendment

Obama’s Way Out-14th Amendment It’s the Ninth Inning, Bases are loaded and Obama has a way out from former President Bill Clinton who said he would evoke the 14th Amendment which gives the President the Constitutional right and the option to raise the debt ceiling without Congress if they try to stop him. The 14th [...]
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Murdoch’s Answers-Apology no Responsibility?

Although it was good theater the UK commission did not resolve the guilty parties involved in R. Murdoch's phone hacking scheme that affected 4,000 or more people. His ties to UK govt are clearly an influence peddling scam, while he holds a monopoly on UK media.
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Chris Matthews Tangles with Joe Walsh

Chris Matthews Tangles with Joe Walsh Yesterday a Hard Ball exchange took place between Chris Matthews and Joe Walsh the Republican Representative  from Illinois who accuses the President of lying.   Another Republican using the term : Lying and yet another kabuki theater show for Americans to close the door on any real change since the [...]
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Liberal Reagan on Paying Debts

In 1987 a very Liberal President by the name of Ronald Reagan refused to sign a Balanced Budget, now 24 years later a repeat game of chicken by Republicans pushes the nation to a default catastrophe.
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Murdoch Hit with Pie

Murdoch Hit with Pie during his testimony in front of the UK Parliamentary Commission this morning. The pie was delivered by a man in the room which was made up of some shaving cream foam. The UK Parliamentary media cameras quickly avoided showing the action, by shutting down the cameras of his full face frontal [...]
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Murdoch Parliamentary Hearing Live

Update: July 19 2011 12:07 EST USA We are attempting to regain a live feed from the UK on the Parliamentary hearing of Rupert and son James Murdoch, with some difficulty. We will resume the hearing coverage as soon as possible. Below is a recap available video to review the questioning of the famous billionaire [...]
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Metro Police Commissioner Quits on Hacking Scandal

Metro Police Commissioner Quits on Hacking Scandal News Update: This Just In: July 17, 2011 10:40 p.m. EST Scotland Yard sat on 11,000 pages of evidence, notes, records from News of the World for four years on 4,000 celebrities, politicians, the Royal Family and just about anyone you can think of and did nothing about [...]
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Murdoch’s Legal Chief Quits Him

Murdoch’s Legal Chief Quits Him Murdoch’s Legal Chief Tom Crone just quit his post as Rupert Murdoch’s head of his legal department after 26 years with News Corp and Murdoch’s business empire.  The question is are the rats leaving a sinking ship as Murdoch likened to the Titanic heading for the iceberg is bad news [...]
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The EVil in Rupert Murdoch

Evil Murdoch is stepping down as CEO of News Corp amidst the phone hacking scandal, his stock prices dropping 7% in Australia today, and shareholders are demanding he step down.
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Fox Spins Away from Murdoch Phone Hacking

Fox Spins Away From Murdoch Phone Hacking The Spin doctors on Fox news are in full force trying to spin the public away from the Murdoch scandal attempting to distract from the criminality of Murdoch enterprises.  The PR firm of Bob Dilenschneider has been hired to do media control and boasts their firm uses social [...]
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Murdoch Laughs at Media

Murdoch Laughs at Media Upon his arrival in the UK Rupert Murdoch seemed oddly amused at reading stories in the paper, regarding the scandal and news of phone hacking from his empire. Actually he seemed surprised that the authorities finally caught up to him and reporters were reporting him instead of other people’s scandals. He [...]
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Murdoch Media Shy

Murdoch Media Shy  For a guy who made billions in the media business, Rupert Murdoch is now media shy, refusing to make comments other than some sorry sound bytes in the UK press.  Yesterday, he took out ads claiming “we’re sorry” regarding the massive hacking operations he headed for years and years both in Britain [...]
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Political Cartoons July 17, 2011

Politicol Cartoons July 17, 2011 The Debt Ceiling and Budget Magic The Recent news in Cartoons from illustrator Gary Varvel who has done a marvelous depiction of US Politics in the way of cartoons. The drawings are just a mere sign of what is going on in Closed Door Meetings between the Obama administration and [...]
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Murdoch’s Girl Arrested-Rebekah Brooks

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Bachmann and Religion

Bachmann and Religion Bachmann and religion has turned out to be a hotbed major issue with Americans, when she officially cast her intention to run for the Republican nomination on June 14, 2011 at the CNN Debates. During the debate, she introduced herself as a business woman (gay reform counseling) , a former tax attorney, [...]
Jun 7, 2011 11:05 PM

IMF Gives 3 Billion Bailout to Mubarak’s Henchmen

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Jun 7, 2011 7:06 PM

Gaga Slips out of Bra

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June 7, 2011  Gaga Slips out of Bra At the CFDA Fashion Awards in NY City -Gaga has another wardrobe malfunction last night and slips out of her bra. Oh My …Gaga…Your Slipping At the after party wrap up, Gaga dressed down and left the Boom Boom Room with a see thru mesh dress and [...]
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Jun 7, 2011 7:06 PM

Obama Slips in the Polls

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June 7, 2011  Obama Slips in the Polls President Obama is taking a hit in the polls since Mitt Romney announced his candidacy for President of the United States and based on the economy, it is the main reason why people are losing their confidence in the Democratic President. If an election were to be [...]
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Jun 7, 2011 7:06 PM

Tiger Woods Quits US Open

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Tiger Woods Quit US Open due to a damaged knee and Achilles Tendon in his left leg which has not healed properly. Doctors advised him to take some rest, but he entered the US Open as still showing signs of the injury.
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Jun 7, 2011 4:55 PM

Is Viagra Causing More Rapes?

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Is Viagra causing more rapes and is it being used as a weapon of war, in Afghanistan, Libya. Increasing evidence that Viagra induces rape, sexual aggression against women and young girls in the Middle East? Did the CIA play a part in Viagra induced rapes?
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Jun 5, 2011 1:09 PM

Fucushima Nuclear Plants Still Leaking Radiation

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May 29, 2011 Fucushima nuclear plants still leaking radiation. Since March 11, 2011 for three months now, the Japanese government has allowed the continuous emission of radioactive material into the atmosphere from the Fucushima reactors. The reason is due to the fact that the government is a shareholder of TEPCO, the Tokyo Electric Power Company [...]
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Jun 4, 2011 10:39 PM

National Debt Forces US Credit Downgrade

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June 4, 2011 National Debt Forces US Credit Downgrade The National Debt and economic regression is causing the Credit Rating of the United States to slip further if the country does not pay its bills. The House of representatives with a republican majority is threatening to vote down raising the debt ceiling which will cause [...]
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Jun 4, 2011 10:48 AM

The Fight Against Monsanto

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The Fight Against Monsanto in the courts, Monsanto is losing claim over patents on original seed, contaminating the food supply with pesticides. The damage has spread to US food exports as other countries will not by tainted, pesticide ridden food and stock thanks to the USDA Tom Vilsack.
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Jun 3, 2011 10:55 PM

Global Strike Planned 2011

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Friday June 3, 2011  Global Strike Planned 2011 A global strike is planned by Anonymous and the announcement first appeared on the social networks Twitter and Facebook late last night.   The Global Strike calls for a series of disruptions in the North American version of the Arab Revolution that was spawned in January starting [...]
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Jun 2, 2011 7:23 PM

We’ve Been Busy Moving

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We've been busy moving at Politicol News-due to our tremendous popularity in the field of politics news online, we had to get a bigger server. We welcome you to join us to celebrate our new digs....
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May 29, 2011 11:06 PM

Sarah Palin-Loves the Smell of Them Emissions

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May 29, 2011  Sarah Palin-Loves the Smell of Them Emissions as she kicks off a cross country mayhem bus tour but today she rode a motorcycle dressed in black leather like a Hell’s Angel’s moll. The words do however speak for themselves: I love the Smell of Them Emissions and we believe she has been [...]
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May 29, 2011 5:12 PM

Funniest Russian News Video-Politicol News

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Funniest Russian News video as reporter tries not to laugh at a Canadian news story of a marijuana grow op, guarded by 13 bears, a raccoon and a pig. Hilariously funny.
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May 29, 2011 3:14 PM

Amanda Knox-Italy’s Failed Evidence

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Amanda Knox-Italy's failed evidence brought to light in appeal case reveals evidence is inconclusive, contaminated or non-existent as experts weigh in on the verdict of guilty. Perugia's prosecutor brought up on abuse of power charges himself. Italian government calls for inquiry.
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May 26, 2011 4:36 PM

Peter Fonda On Traitor-President Obama

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Peter Fonda the Premiere of The Big Fix at Cannes for 2011 commented on his feelings about President Obama. Fonda said he was training his grandsons to shoot long range rifles and mentioned Barack Obama which some interpret as a death threat. The Film documents the deal that Obama made with BP, the lobbying he makes deals with and the corruption in his govenrment.
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May 26, 2011 4:36 PM

Tornadoes Hit Oklahoma Again

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More Updates on yesterday's series of Tornadoes that hit Oklahoma and Alabama with the strength of 175 mile per hour winds and was the strongest category EF 5 ever recorded.
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May 26, 2011 11:58 AM

President Having a Guinness Beer

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President Obama enjoying a Guinness beer in Ireland sparks The Slut Wars with Ed Schultz and Laura Ingraham as they battle out who drank beer in the White House, and why can't Obama just enjoy a beer without criticism.
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May 25, 2011 8:44 PM

New Mac O/S Lion Features

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May 25, 2011  New Mac O/S Lion Features Apple is set to launch their new operating system Lion this summer with features that include the best of iPad including the new Mac App Store. Launch Pad The limitless choice of apps to install in one step from Launchpad which is the launch portal to thousands [...]
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Tornado Devastates Joplin

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Corporate Accountability International

Corporate Water World

Pharmaceutical giant Merck has become the most recent multinational corporation to endorse the United Nations CEO Water Mandate, an initiative that was awarded the Public Eye Greenwash Award.  Public Eye described the Mandate as a club of corporations that profit financially from water as a primary resource while exhibiting "irresponsible and damaging behavior."  Merck is just the latest corporation to join the ranks of Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Dow Chemical, and a host of other environmental offenders.

According to the Polaris Institute the Mandate is nothing more than a greenwashing front. They explain, "companies can easily state that they are working with all of these actors in order to appear involved with solving problems of water scarcity, pollution and over-exploitation, while their damaging production processes can continue unchecked."

“Unfortunately, the United Nations appears to be embracing more and more partnerships with the corporate sector across the board,” said Corporate Accountability International campaign director Gigi Kellett.  “There are strong voices within the United Nations, including some Member states, who are questioning the partnership paradigm adopted by the UN and calling for more transparency and accountability.”  

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Sunday, December 26, 2010

The Real Winner in Iraq is Monsanto

In an effort to reduce corn stem-borer infesta...Image via WikipediaI keep coming back to the same Search terms as above that was the name of the article in the Panelist which they superseded by a video. Rick B made a post directly related

This is Class War
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Forbes 2009 company of the year – Monsanto :(



The World According to Monsanto
Here's a film that's well worth watching. It's long, and the framing device of a woman Googling away her ignorance about one of the world's most powerful corporations is, I think, a little crass. But perhaps because the film maker seems so naive, she has been able to get some of the most important men behind the scenes of the pesticide and genetically modified seed business to explain how they came to wield such power. I doubt that a more polished film crew would have been able to draw out some of the confessions that appear in this nearly-two-hour documentary. Highly recommended.


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During the United States-led invasion of Iraq, in March, 2003, the looting of Iraq’s national archeological museum received considerable attention, but almost no one noted that the country’s national seed bank was destroyed. The bank, in the town of Abu Ghraib, contained seeds of ancient varieties of wheat, lentils, chickpeas, and other crops that once grew in Mesopotamia. Fortunately, several Iraqi scientists had placed samples of the country’s most important crops in a cardboard box and sent them to an international seed bank in Aleppo, Syria. There they sit, on a shelf in a cold room, waiting for a time when Iraq is stable enough to store them again.

Afghanistan’s bank, which contained rare varieties of almonds and walnuts, and also fruits including grapes, melons, cherries, plums, apricots, peaches, and pears—many of which originated in the region—was destroyed in the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban.
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Monsanto buys ‘Terminator’ Seeds Company  F. William Engdahl, August 27, 2006 
GlobalResearch, Financial Sense Online,
321 Gold) The United States Government has been financing research on a genetic engineering technology which, when commercialized, will give its owners the power to control the food seed of entire nations or regions. The Government has been working quietly on this technology since 1983. Now, the little-known company that has been working in this genetic research with the Government’s US Department of Agriculture-- Delta & Pine Land-- is about to become part of the world’s largest supplier of patented genetically-modified seeds (GMO), Monsanto Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri.
The Gene Revolution is not about ‘solving the world hunger problem’ as its advocates claim. It’s about handing over control of the seeds for mankind’s basic food supply—rice, corn, soybeans, wheat, even fruit, vegetables and cotton—to privately owned corporations. 
The advent of commercial GMO seeds in the early 1990’s allowed companies like Monsanto, DuPont or Dow Chemicals to go from supplying agriculture chemical herbicides like Roundup, to patenting genetically altered seeds for basic farm crops like corn, rice, soybeans or wheat. For almost a quarter century, since 1983, the US Government has quietly been working to perfect a genetically engineered technique whereby farmers would be forced to turn to their seed supplier each harvest to get new seeds. The seeds would only produce one harvest. After that the seeds from that harvest would commit ‘suicide’ and be unusable.

There has been much hue and cry, correctly so, that this process, patented ‘suicide’ seeds, officially termed GURTs (Genetic Use Restriction Technologies), is a threat to poor farmers in developing countries like India or Brazil, who traditionally save their own seeds for the next planting. In fact, GURTs, more popularly referred to as Terminator seeds for the brutal manner in which they kill off plant reproduction possibilities, is a threat to the food security as well of North America, Western Europe, Japan and anywhere Monsanto and its elite cartel of GMO agribusiness partners enters a market.

Haiti Refuses Monsanto Seed Donation


 U.S. Declares Iraquis Must Destroy Their Own Seeds

As part of sweeping "economic restructuring" implemented by the Bush Administration in Iraq, Iraqi farmers will no longer be permitted to save their seeds, which include seeds the Iraqis themselves have developed over hundreds of years. Instead, they will be forced to buy seeds from US corporations.

( Iraq - Mesopotamia - had a heritage of thousands of years of selective breeding of seeds )

Seeds under siege: Iraq Order 81


. Iraq’s agriculture is in a mess. Iraq’s agricultural heritage goes back to the time when mankind first domesticated wheat some ten thousand years ago. But this ancient land is fertile no more. The years of Saddam’s corrupt regime have taken their toll as have the crippling years of UN sanctions. Only about half of Iraq's million hectares of land are currently under cultivation. By 1980 Iraq imported about half of its food. By 2002, between 80 and 100 percent of many basic staples -- wheat, rice, sugar, vegetable oil, and protein meals -- were imported.
So the provider has become the importer. The task facing Dr. Al-Sharifi is to make Iraqi fertile again. To assist the Iraqis in their task, the Americans appointed Dan Amstutz, a former executive with the world’s largest grain company Cargill.Amstutz also served as an agricultural Under-Secretary during the Reagan administration, and chief agricultural negotiator for the US during the GATT trade talks.
So here is a man who understands the needs of America’s multi-billion agribusiness, helping the poor Iraqi farmer. It was hardly surprising that when his appointment was announced, it was met by outrage. “Putting Dan Amstutz in charge of agricultural reconstruction in Iraq is like putting Saddam Hussein in the chair of a human rights commission,” said Kevin Watkins, Oxfam’s policy director.
But now Dr. Al-Sharifi has another problem to deal with. “Order 81” is one of the hundreds or so orders left behind by the Coalition Provisional Authority. It may sound rather innocuous, but Order 81 that covers “Patent, Industrial Design, Undisclosed Information, Integrated Circuits and Plant Variety,” is causing a huge stir internationally. The controversy was started last October, when two non-governmental organisations, Focus on the Global South and GRAIN issued a report entitled: “ Iraq's new patent law: A declaration of war against farmers”
The report argued that the Coalition Provisional Authority had “made it illegal for Iraqi farmers to re-use seeds harvested from new varieties registered under the law. What it will actually do is facilitate the penetration of Iraqi agriculture by the likes of Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer and Dow Chemical - the corporate giants that control seed trade across the globe”.
The new patent law also explicitly promotes the commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) seeds in Iraq. And it is this that worries the experts. This month Dr. Al-Sharifi received an email. It was from the Independent Science Panel, whose members include some of the world’s leading scientists on agriculture and genetic engineering. These include Dr Tewolde Egziabher, the head of Ethiopia’s Environmental Protection Authority and Dr. Arpad Pusztai, one of the world’s leading independent researchers into the health effects of GM foods.
The purpose of the email was to “highlight the damage that Order 81 will do to Iraq’s agricultural future”. According to the scientists: “The Order promotes the view that GM varieties are really no different from ‘new’ varieties developed through conventional breeding programmes. This view is scientifically indefensible, and the many unique health and environmental hazards associated with GM crops and foods are now well documented in the scientific literature”. Their closing remarks to Dr. Al-Sharifi were stark: “We consider that the patrimony of your country is at stake here, and that your attitude to Order 81 will affect the lives of Iraqi people for generations to come.”
There is no doubt that Dr. Al-Sharifi will be under intense US pressure to keep Order 81. But will she side with the interests of Iraqi farmers or American agribusiness and the biotech giants? Because the two are not compatible. For biotech companies such as Monsanto, the zeal with which they have tried to impose GM crops and food on the world’s rich and poor alike is staggering. They are backed by the brutal force of the Bush Administration that wants millions of people the world over to eat GM food, whereas millions do not want to.

    
Not My Tribe

Dems pass Monsanto anti real food act

The corporate US House of Lords, aka Senate, passed Big Agra’s “Food Safety and Modernization Act” which aims to further impede the natural agriculture resurgence while shielding the real sources of food contamination, factory animal farms.

Comment from Pilarerecto   (IP: 97.112.144.107)
Time: December 11, 2010, 9:45 am
Let me re-title this commentary slightly to the following …
The Democrats Aren’t Spineless, They Are Conservative: Reflections on Chutzpah, Theirs and Ours
Follow the link for the original title…

Food and Depopulation: Monsanto’s Monopoly (Part 2 of 4)

The purpose of this article is to give a brief outline of how the elites, and the Rockefellers in particular, are using food as a weapon.
Since the Rockefeller family came to power (especially after gaining a monopoly with Standard Oil) they have manipulated our government into ruining our financial system by way of the Federal Reserve, energy through oil dependency and food with GMOs (Genetically Engineered Organisms).  The intention is to rob us blind and kill us.  It’s time to wake up.
It the overarching blueprint for depopulation and total control over America and the rest of the world.  There is no question that Americans are targeted for depopulation: GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) food has saturated American farmlands. GMOs are dangerous and the proliferation of corn crops (used as sweetener, animal feed, processed food, etc) in America is shortening our life spans.(1)  Our water is polluted, containing over 60,000 chemicals, most of which have never been tested for safety.(2)  Our air is toxic, and the US is one of the most targeted areas for chemtrails.(3)  This is just the tip of the iceberg, the things we know about.  The focus of this article is revealing the link between the Rockefellers and their intended use of food as a weapon, which is more powerful than military domination and energy control.
The official name of this program is Agenda 21 Sustainable Development.

John Pilger – The War You Don’t See

We call it the Iraq War, as we did the Vietnam War, but America’s wars aren’t so-named in the host countries. It’s the Iraq Invasion, not War, and Afghanistan Invasion really, now Occupation, Decimation and Holocaust.

What They Won't Show You On Television

"The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance."
John Pilger is a world-renowned journalist, author and documentary filmmaker, who began his career in 1958 in his homeland, Australia, before moving to London in the 1960s. (Excerpt from main website)
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In Tennessee, ACLU = Terrorists

Eric Verlo , December 23rd, 2010  
The Memphis Homeland Security fusion center has a map listing theTennessee ACLU as a “Terrorist Event.” Compound that with what a ranking senator (R-AL) has called the “ACLU DNA.” It goes beyond semantics when the label of terrorist means by executive order suspects can be detained without charges, indefinitely and without an enforceable standard of human rights. Think twice about those giving credence to Vice President Biden’s categorization of Wikileaks as more terrorism than journalism. On the lighter dark side, the CIA has set up a Wikileaks Task Force (WTF), prompting comedian Andy Borowitz to suggest the more apt Stop Terrorists From Uniting (STFU).


Monsanto Hired Mercenary Blackwater To Infiltrate Anti-GMO groups 


The Coming Food Crisis: Global food security is stretched to the breaking point, and Russia’s fires and Pakistan’s floods are making a bad situation worse.


Why Desperate Haitians Want to Kick Out UN Troops


As deaths from the cholera outbreak soar past 1,000, fear is taking hold in neighbourhoods that have been so deprived of any civic investment that sanitation infrastructure often amounts to little more than open sewers filled with rubbish and human excrement.
Despite the billions of dollars in international aid that flowed into this country before the earthquake, these neighbourhoods can be found in any town or city across Haiti. Ten months and more billions later, things are much worse, and after suffering in relative silence, with elections just a fortnight away, many here, it seems, have now had enough.
Chants such as “We refuse to vote while living under tarps”, have been replaced with “UN peacekeepers and cholera are brothers”. The difference now is that in some parts of the country the songs are accompanied by burned-out cars, flaming tyres, broken glass and the coffins of cholera victims blocking movement, forcing aid workers to suspend operations and leaving people to die in the street.
Many accuse the Nepalese UN troops of dumping cholera-infected fecal matter into the Artibonite river, and are now demanding the departure of all UN forces. Officials claim the protests are a politically motivated attempt to disrupt an election timetable they continue to cling to in the face of disaster. If the vote is ultimately postponed, as it surely should be, the international media will no doubt dismiss Haitians as unfit for democracy, still in the grips ofDuvalierest dictatorship or too deeply entrenched in anarchy to organise and manifest their popular will.
It’s a familiar pattern – in the 1980s, when Aids first came to the world’s attention, Haitians were stigmatised as one of the four Hs – homosexuals, hemophiliacs, heroin users and Haitian – having brought the disease to the US. But, like cholera, Aids was not indigenous to Haiti and is only now ravaging the country because somebody else brought it in. And, while Haitians face stigmatisation from their neighbours once again, the world must take its share of the blame.
The real question is: why? Why is there crippling poverty? Why no water, sanitation or medical infrastructure?
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