Monsanto

partial reprint of an article by David Swanson

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been taken over by an outside organization. The organization is called Monsanto. Monsanto is, of course, the world's largest biotech corporation.  These are the people who brought us Roundup weed killer and the resulting superweeds and superbugs, along with growth hormones for cows, genetically engineered and patented seeds, PCBs, and Agent Orange, which Monsanto now wants us to use as herbicide on genetically engineered corn and soybeans. 

This chemical company - responsible for environmental disasters that have destroyed entire towns, and a driving force behind the international waves of suicides among farmers whose lives it has helped ruin - 

has monopolized our food system largely by taking over regulatory agencies like the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A recent study links Roundup to autism, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's.   

While Hungary has just destroyed all Monsanto genetically engineered corn fields, and Peru has also banned GM seeds, the USDA takes an entirely different approach toward the chemical giant. The USDA has, in fact, never denied a single application from Monsanto for new genetically engineered crops.  Not one.  Not ever.

Monsanto's growth hormones for cows have been approved by Michael Taylor, a former Monsanto lobbyist turned USDA administrator and FDA deputy commissioner.  This was after Margaret Miller, again, a former Monsanto employee, oversaw a report on the hormones' safety and then took a job at the FDA where she approved her own report.

Islam Siddiqui, another former Monsanto lobbyist, wrote the USDA's food standards, allowing corporations to label irradiated and genetically engineered foods as "organic."
Genetic use restriction technology, colloquially known as "terminator technology", produces plants that have sterile seeds. If put into use, these seeds prevent farmers from implementing the age-old basic farming method of planting seeds they harvest, requiring them to repurchase seed for every planting, because the terminator seeds are sterile! 

The recently passed and signed law nicknamed the Monsanto Protection Act strips federal courts of the power to halt the sale and planting of genetically engineered crops during a legal appeals process.  The origin of this act can be found in the USDA's deregulation of Roundup Ready sugar beets in violation of a court order.  The USDA argued that any delay would have caused a sugar shortage, since Monsanto holds 95% of the market. 

Monsanto's board members have worked for the EPA, advised the USDA, and served on President Obama's Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. Clearly, an investigation of large-scale government corruption by this singularly destructive corporation is long overdue. Why do the people need to hold protest marches against these kinds of company dealings? How can the USDA fall down to endangering people instead of looking after them? 

Is this just one more step in the Government versus the People movement? Can anyone in Government explain this? Why is the mainstream media not asking the questions? It's not just the hippies protesting anymore, it is the people. YOU are the people, and you need to be heard.

Be afraid folks. It is all true. 

Is anyone running anything?

We just had two terrorists caught by the RCMP charged with conspiracy to blow up a Via Rail train. 
And it turns out now that Canada tried to deport one of them in 2004, Raed Jaser. Of course the operative words is tried. 

Jaser was arrested in August 2004 after authorities issued a warrant for his removal from Canada. He was allegedly working illegally and had used numerous aliases.

Jaser was born in the United Arab Emirates, but when he had a deportation hearing, he said he was a stateless Palestinian in his refugee application, so couldn`t be deported anywhere. Jaser came to Canada with his parents and two brothers in March 1993, flying into Toronto's Pearson Airport from Germany, where the family says it faced persecution. He came into Canada on false French documents.

Unlike his parents and siblings, Raed Jaser was unable to obtain Canadian citizenship because of criminal convictions, including acts of fraud in 1997 and unspecified offences in 2001, according to immigration records. But he had nowhere else to go and appeared to want to remain in Canada.
Jaser staved off deportation and become a permanent resident of Canada.

We heard the usual comment from other Muslims. “It’s a shock, actually,” worshippers from his mosque told news media, “It’s really a shock because you don’t expect a Muslim, a person from Islam -- which means peace -- to be doing those kind of things.”

I beg your pardon, but methinks the perception among non muslims is that we DO expect them to be involved in terror plots, as they are all around the world. Who else bombs things on a regular basis?

And one wonders what part CSIS has played, if any, in this arrest of two potential bombers in our midst?

So the impression left with many observers of Canada's political workings, is that no one is actually doing anything to protect the law abiding citizens in this country from terrorist infiltration because we are far too lenient and soft and acquiescent to the whims of illegal immigrants, and gullible to accept their lies.

Perhaps we need some extraordinary action in these circumstances, like simply forgetting our soft courts and the cost of trying to deport terrorist threats out of Canada. We should just get our JTF2 guys to kidnap the man, put him on a plane, give him a parachute, put a boot to his back over Israel or the winter Atlantic or hyena country in Kenya, and shove him out the door. 

In case you didn`t get it, these guys were here to KILL us!

Make sure there`s a hole in that chute.

Fast. Efficient. Correct and time and cost effective for the taxpayers of Canada. 




 Addenda - Immigration Minister says he will review rules on deportation now.

MI-5 and Police catch terrorists.

Four men have been jailed in a home-made bomb plot case in Britain. 

The four were arrested in April 2012 and pleaded guilty at Woolwich Crown Court to engaging in preparation for acts of terrorism. The court heard that the young men had arranged terrorism training in Pakistan, debated obtaining weapons and how best to raise funds for their plans. 

The judge said: "In each of their cases, their persistent commitment to terrorist activity, in a number of different ways, over a significant period of time and, in each case, their willingness to take practical steps to obtain terrorist training abroad, marks them out as particularly dangerous.  
This, coupled with the fact that, after their houses had been searched, and they were obviously under serious suspicion, they nonetheless continued to access material consistent with the mindset which informed their previous preparatory activities, persuades me that they continue to be 'dangerous' to such a degree that I should exercise my discretion to pass an extended sentence."

Zahid Iqbal, 31; Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, 25; Umar Arshad, 24; and Syed Farhan Hussain, 21; all from Luton, admitted discussing a possible attack on the town's Army base. 

The four smiled and giggled as the court was played recordings of conversations in which they discussed travelling to Pakistan for terror training, buying guns and making explosives.
They discussed how to make a homemade bomb, based on instructions available in an English-language jihadist magazine. Yes I get it too, how could there even BE a magazine like that? 


Their conversations were secretly recorded in an intelligence led joint counter-terrorism  police - MI5 operation into the movement of individuals from the UK to Pakistan "for extremist purposes linked to al-Qaeda."

Their target was a Territorial Army base and the plan was to send in a bomb in a toy car under the gate. 

The police or MI-5 would not comment on when and how they first came under suspicion.

 I wonder what MI-5s first clue was?

Vote for me?

I want your vote, Quebec? There were NO Canadian
flags at the 2013 NDP convention in Montreal.

I want your vote, Canada. overkill in red?
But the convention was in Ottawa, not Montreal.

                                                                                         

Only blue skies ahead? Who's kidding who?

My federal vote choice was just depleted again?


Or has it? There are plenty of choices left! All of which give you about the same voice as shouting 'Help!' in Canada's Arctic. The echo might be a polar bear, unless they're extinct already, at least you can be confidant of providing the poor bear with a warm meal.

• Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party of Canada
• Bloc Québécois
• Canadian Action Party
• Christian Heritage Party of Canada
• Communist Party of Canada
• First Peoples National Party of Canada
• Green Party of Canada
• Libertarian Party of Canada
  

• Marijuana Party
• Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada
• Online Party of Canada
• Pirate Party of Canada
• Progressive Canadian Party
• Rhinoceros Party
• United Party of Canada
• Western Block Party

Depressing, isn't it?

Just wondering .... ?

I'm wondering why the US Department of Homeland Security, would need to buy 1.6 BILLION rounds of .40-caliber hollow point bullets. 
They ordered paper targets too. Like, sure we believe they're going to be used for training. Hollow point is way too expensive to use for paper potshots. Hollow point ammo has been outlawed in war since 1899, because it is designed to expand upon entry and cause maximum organ damage! These bullets don't just go through you, they tear you apart from the inside.

DHS also wants to buy 750 million rounds of 357 mag able to penetrate walls.  They are also buying Kevlar helmets and riot gear and bullet proof checkpoint booths. And many of these are 'no bid' contracts. Like the new 5 year, $4.5 million contract with Heckler and Koch, and they followed that up with literally the same deal with Sig Sauer Arms. Some contracts are even classified to conceal the facts. Others estimate that 2 billion rounds are enough to wage a 20 year war ....  in America!

And here's an odd one, the National Weather Service is also buying 46,000 rounds of hollow points. Are they going to shoot the clouds? These are .40 jacketed hollow point bullets, noted for their strength. Hmm.

AR 15

Back to Homeland Security. So they have purchased almost 2 billion rounds of ammunition now, and that's not all; they added 7000 assault rifles last fall. Do you feel more secure? Are they worried about Ted Nugent coming after them? All he probably wants is to know if it's gonna rain next week for his cookout!  And at least some of those millions of rounds are frighteningly designated as 'sniper' rounds.

And there's an argument that the government is showing its hypocrisy by essentially saying AR15s (aka M16 or M-4 military) are good 'personal defense' weapons for them, while not for American citizens. When civilians own semi-automatic rifles, they somehow become “assault weapons.” Isn't this exactly what those NRA guys keep telling us?

Hmm. Even such staid institutions like Forbes Magazine is wondering if we need to talk about this sudden armament of a US Government agency, have a 'national conversation', they say. Yet you can't find a word in the Main Stream Media. And that's another big HMM.

MRAP armored fighting vehicle

We're told by some that the federal government is stockpiling bullets in preparation for 'civil unrest.' One wonders what the unrest will be about? One wonders what would trigger a mass civil unrest?

But don't you worry, rumor is that they have bought 2700 armored MRAP fighting vehicles too, and they'll make you feel safe. Look, you can ever see the word, 'Rescue' on them. Hoping you won't notice the gun ports. This is not your Dad's Rambler station wagon. And Eddie Murphy won't be stuffing bananas up those tailpipes. What's scary is that these vehicles were designed for Afghanistan, but are to be used in the streets of America. Perhaps along with those mini drones hunting with thermal imaging technology and RPGs.

I feel a little unresty.

Does the word DEpopulation mean something to you?

Just wondering.

Zeitgeist. Grass roots truth?

If you want to watch contrived fiction, go to the theater for your dose of mindless entertainment or propaganda where the good guys always win or love blossoms in the end. Or settle into your sofa to watch TV about mind sinking people like the Kardashians, or swamp guys or censored sitcoms. Or baseball. Make popcorn. But don't think.

Yet if you lean to wondering about what your world is coming to, you just might want to take the time to see a film by Peter Joseph, called Zeitgeist available free to view on YouTube. Maybe it'll make you think. Something which, after seeing this movie, you might consider dangerous. But it just might prod you into asking questions. 

Zeitgeist - The Movie

The movie by Peter Joseph is going around a lot right now. I watched it. Some of it replicates the film, Loose Change, a documentary about 9/11 also freely available on the web. (Loose Change is the number one viewed film on YouTube, with Zeitgeist number two.) And if Zeitgeist makes you ask one question, or do your own research into that question, to seek your own answer, it can only be good.

Zeitgeist is a great word. It seems to imply deep philosophical thinking, as if Nietzsche was involved or something. And we look for some Freudian explanation. Zeitgeist seems to emerge from a today-time of turmoil or despair in humanity. Zeitgeist means a spirit of the age and is the current intellectual fashion or dominant school of thought among a certain demographic that typifies and influences the culture of a particular period in time. The time is now. 
But you might even have to be brave to watch this one, the good guys aren't winning, it is not mindless entertainment, no screaming teenagers here, no comforting conclusion, but perhaps it is mindful entertainment that challenges your beliefs. Instigates a world consciousness. Forces you to think. 
If you can do that, be brave and watch. 


You might also watch this interview with Peter Joseph, who is a thinker about society in the mode of Julian Assange with an innate brilliance. - Peter Joseph interview

Dumb Down TV

Gypsy Sisters, Big Bang Theory, The Bachelor, Access Hollywood, Yes to the Dress, How I Met Your Mother, Real Housewives of Wherever, TMZ, Duck Dynasty, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, Faster Than a Redneck?, Monday Nite RAW, UFC, Pawn Stars, Hogs Gone Wild, Swamp People, Mike and Molly, Storage Wars, The Office, etc etc ad nauseum. 
Inanity and infinity are in the same direction, you get there by clicking your remote. Don't miss the turn or you might find insanity.

Is there any doubt there is a conspiracy to 'dumb down' North America? The conspiracy is not the people out here believing in something strange going on. It is somewhere in there causing the strange to go on!

 But whatever, something strange IS going on.