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Monsanto Investigator in Illinois Laughs They Are Doing 'Rural Cleansing'

by Linn Cohen-Cole     Page 1 of 2 page(s)

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As of last night, a US marshall, 2 state police and a county police are all over Mr. Hixon's area, serving notices to farmers that they are being sued by Monsanto.  They arrive in pairs, with two cars parked a quarter mile and half mile down the road.  They've served 3 so far and said "a bunch more are coming."  No telling how many will be served since Hixon has between 200-400 farmers he cleans seeds for and these farmers have been repeatedly threatened by Monsanto thugs for the last two months, getting "visits," letters, and calls daily.

Farmers report that a Monsanto investigator laughed that they were doing "rural cleansing."

Steve Hixon is a seed cleaner in southern Illinois.  He has equipment that takes the plant materials and "cleans" it so that the seeds are separated out and can be given back to farmers to save for the next season.  It's a mechanized step up from farmers hand picking seeds off their own plants, which, with hundreds of acres - or even 10 - would not be easy to do.

Mr. Hixon has the non-distinction of being attacked by Monsanto.  He is far from alone.  Monsanto has been picking off seed cleaners across the Midwest, having already done its thuggish thing in Pilot Grove, Missouri, and in Indiana, attacking Maurice Parr, destroying business for all of them. 

Mr. Parr reports that when he was sued, the first think out of the judge said was how "honored to have a fine company like Monsanto in my courtroom."

"Shortly after someone broke into Mr. Hixon's office and he found his account book on his truck seat where he would never have left it, evey one of his remotely located and very scattered customers had three men (described as goons with "no necks") arrived at each farm, going out onto it without permission ...  Mr. Hixon and state police who were called in, believe a GPS tracking device may have been put on Mr. Hixon's equipment."  Click here.

In 2002, when Mr. Hixon was at the state legislature for a meeting, he said he told a Monsanto representative there, "If you guys wnt to tak over the seed industry so bad, you ought to buy guys like me out."  The Monsanto agent is supposed to have responded "We'd rather put you out of business, it's more fun that way."

Mr. Hixon says that when he is cleaning seeds, he is pouring $13,000 a hour into the local economy, which right now is being hit.  A fence company has gone out of business and other businesses are in trouble.  And in using seeds that have been cleaned, those seeds have carbon footprint, by Mr. Hixon's figures, less than a fraction of 1% of that of GMO seeds delivered over 1000s of miles at 5 miles a gallon that semis require to run. 

But Monsanto's GM-soy and other seeds have a much heavier carbon footprint that the absurd transport of seed across the country by semis.  Petroleum-based pesticides are the essence of genetic engineering, and Monsanto has a poorly known history of their relation to warfare.

"Huge excesses of nitrogenous compounds that accumulated during World War I provided the basis for the beginnings of the mass production of synthetic nitrate fertilizers. DuPont -- now the sole owner of the world's largest seed company, Pioneer HiBred -- was the largest manufacturer of gunpowder in the United States during the early 19th century and the first World War. Monsanto increased its profits 100 fold during the World War, from $80,000 to well over $9 million per year, supplying the chemical precursors for high explosives such as TNT.

"In the 1930s, chemists working for the German company Bayer discovered the highly poisonous properties of organophosphate compounds. .... As all of German industry became absorbed into the growing Nazi war machine, Bayer's organophosphate compounds were developed simultaneously as agricultural pesticides and as nerve gases for military use. These included such notorious chemical warfare agents as sarin, soman and tabun gases, all of which are still manufactured today. ...

"In the 1930s, scientists at the Swiss J. R. Geigy Company were searching for new compounds to disinfect seeds and prevent moths from feeding on wool. ... These researchers' key discovery was that DDT ... could accomplish both of their desired ends and more. ... DDT was seen as the "atom bomb of insecticides," capable of permanently eliminating various pest species.

"After World War II, DDT became the most widely applied chemical in human history .... The widespread use of DDT -- for both agricultural and household uses -- led to a dramatic shift in the chemical industry's approach to pest control ... was in many ways a direct outgrowth of its wartime origins. ...

"During the 1960s, Monsanto was a leading manufacturer of the herbicide 'Agent Orange,' which was used by U.S. military forces to obliterate the dense jungles of Vietnam. Today Monsanto's Roundup-family herbicides play a central role in the U.S. "drug war" via its widespread use to eradicate coca and poppy plants in Colombia and other countries...."

The shift to genetically engineered food seems a welcome change from such a history.  But it appears there has been no change, only a more thorough and disguises means of ensuring its sales.

"Of all of Monsanto, DuPont and Dow's agricultural products, genetically engineered food crops might appear to be the least tainted with immediate wartime origins. But this technology emerged from a period when the future of chemical agriculture appeared very much in doubt. With the rapid expansion of the agrochemical industry during the post-World War II era, these companies and their European counterparts had established a profound degree of control over agricultural practices.

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Monsanto to own all the seeds

It was Monsanto that went into Baghdad and stole all the seeds from Iraqi Seed Bank. Didn't think their seed bank needed liberating, too.

What kind of monster is Monsanto? "Who is like the Beast? Who can make war with it?"

Thanks for the article Linn. We'll write someone. 

 

by Jenny Miner (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 85 comments [4 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:58:47 PM

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Reply: Can't bear about Iraq, at so many levels.

You're welcome and thank you for helping spread the word.  It's so obvious how horrible they are, but people need to learn before we can stop them.

by Linn Cohen-Cole (76 articles, 1 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 189 comments [12 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:19:57 PM

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Reply: Dennis Kucinich

Congressman Dennis Kucinich

He is our only hope!

The only vegan in congress!

 

by Laurie Mitchell (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 69 comments [6 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 15, 2009 at 6:18:28 PM

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The war outside is raging ...

No more do we sit in denial and say it can't happen here, it's happening here and now. If we don't continue to talk and more importantly act, soon, very soon, we won't be able to.

There is a reason they're doing what they're doing, and it's not good.

by Mr M (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 66 diaries, 2845 comments [654 recommended, 27 rejected]) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:50:51 PM

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Reply: Hi Mr. M.

It's a relief not to hear more of how terrible things are.  I get overwhelmed.  So, just focusing on what I can do.  Hope you'll pass this on.

Thanks for commenting.    

by Linn Cohen-Cole (76 articles, 1 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 189 comments [12 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:21:56 PM

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please continue

I knew how Monsanto was trying to enforce a patent on life, resulting in thousands of suicides by farmers in India who had lost their land because they could no longer use the seed from their own harvest, but I had not heard about Illinois. Monsanto's greed knows no bounds, and thankfully, will eventually kill the proverbial goose.

You are among a very few who are bringing this to light. Monsanto is killing its own market. Another result of corporate irresponsibility to humanity. Corporations have lost any connection with life in their absolute devotion to profit. Sadly, by the time they have all the money it won't be worth anything and they will have destroyed their own reason for existing.

by martinweiss (41 articles, 6 quicklinks, 13 diaries, 503 comments [3 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Jan 11, 2009 at 2:39:34 AM

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Reply: It's not money they're after ...

... they want control, and ultimately our deaths.

Monsanto is a tool, a means to and end. Listen to what that agent from Monsanto said to the farmer in regards to buying him out, "We'd rather put you out of business, it's more fun that way."

This isn't just business, this denotes something deeper, if it was just greed, they'd just buy them out, but it's not, they want people to suffer. Take a look at CODEX Alimentarius in their business plan where it states that when their mandatory initiatives go into effect starting 12/31/09 3,000,000,000 people will die in the first year. How does that play into making money? It's obvious they have another agenda.

Everything mega-corporations are doing is geared to the End Game. To fulfill eugenics program that is looking to eliminate "useless food eaters." Any money they make along the way is all good and well, they use that to pay-off those goons that enforce their demented polices, but is certainly it isn't their only goal.

by Mr M (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 66 diaries, 2845 comments [654 recommended, 27 rejected]) on Sunday, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:34:45 AM

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Reply: Yes depopulation is coming

The question is "what are they waiting for" and why have they let us consume ourselves to death all these years?

maybe they like humans and want them to enjoy themselves before they die.

by Laurie Mitchell (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 69 comments [6 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Jan 16, 2009 at 5:49:40 AM

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What are they doing...exactly?

 

 What is the basis of their suit that they are serving---is it just commencing now....?

 cant there be a counter complaintthat the basis of the suit is as in the article..intended putting out the competition?

by Eliot Gould (16 articles, 0 quicklinks, 28 diaries, 200 comments [3 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:08:19 AM

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Reply: The suit will be patent infringement, that farmers

were saving Monsanto's seeds which supposedly they have no right to do, having signed contracts to that effect, though many farmers around the country have not signed.  Hixon will likely be sued for cleaning the seeds and encouraging farmers to infringe on the patents though there is no way for him to tell mutant Monsanto seeds from normal God-Goddess-Nature-gave-them-to-us-all seeds. 

In India, Vandana Shiva is leading a Seed Satyagraha, like what Gandhi did with salt, urging people to break the colonial monopolistic control by not obeying the laws.  She has gotten some huge number of farmers to pledge to this.

Here in this country where the human rights issues involved have not yet dawned, farmers are cowed by the prospect of losing everything just in being sued and often settle since they have so little chance in court - usually in St. Louis where Monsanto is and where judges are well buttered by it.

 

Seed Satyagraha:   click here

Patents On Lifeforms And Amendments In India's Patent Law

By Vandana Shiva

 

Clearly, we must re-examine the need to grant patents on life forms anywhere in the world. As we continue to assess this situation, in the meantime it may be advisable to:

 

1. Exclude patents on all life forms.

 

2. If (1) is not possible, then we must exclude patents based on traditional/indigenous knowledge and essentially derived products and processes from such knowledge.

 

3. At the very least, we must insist on the country of origin to disclose the biological source and associated knowledge, and obtain the consent of the country providing the resource and knowledge, to ensure an equitable sharing of benefits."

 Patent protection implies the exclusion of farmers' right over the resources having these genes and characteristics. This will undermine the very foundations of agriculture. For example, a patent has been granted in the U.S. to a biotechnology company, Sungene, for a sunflower variety with very high oleic acid content. The claim was for the characteristic (i.e. high oleic acid) and not just for the genes producing the characteristic Sungene has notified others involved in sunflower breeding that the development of any variety high in oleic acid will be considered an infringement of its patent.

 

Thus a company can introduce traits through genetic engineering, and then claim monopoly on the trait even in traditional varieties through a product patent. A product patent in effect says that it does not matter how a property was created, came into existence, whether a result of evolution, or farmers breeding, or genetic pollution is patent infringement and theft.

 

Our saline resistant rices, our high protein wheats are all vulnerable to biopiracy through product patents. And our farmers are liable to be sued for piracy if farmers rights are not explicitly protected in future amendments of the Patent law.

 

Thirdly, genetic pollution is inevitable. Monsanto will use the patents and pollution to claim ownership of crops on farmers' fields where the Bt. gene has reached it through wind or pollinators. This has been established as precedence in the case of a Canadian farmer, Percy Schmeiser, whose canola field was contaminated by Monsanto's "Round up Ready Canola," but instead of Monsanto demanded $200,000 fine for "theft" of Monsanto's "intellectual property". Thousands of U.S. farmers also have been sued for contaminated crops. Will Indian farmers be blamed for theft when Monsanto's GM cotton contaminates their crops? Or will the government wake up and enforce strict monitoring and liability?

 

In countries, where plant patents are not allowed, patenting genes is available as an opening for patenting properties and characteristics of the plant, and hence having exclusive rights to those properties and characteristics. This is how Monsanto was able to establish monopolies on seeds through patents on genes in Canada, even though Canada does not allow patents on life forms.

 

These issues on patents and lifeforms and seed monopolies will not disappear. They will have to be addressed in W.T.O. and in the Indian parliament. The Patent debate is not over, it has just begun. And in changing the distorted, unjust, illegitimate "intellectual property" regime of W.T.O. local and national actions will be as relevant as international negotiations. After all, it was Gandhi picking up a handful of salt on Dandi beach that shook up the British empire. That is why following Gandhi's Salt Satyagraha.

 

Millions of farmers have made a commitment through the Seed Satyagraha (Bija Satyagraha) to not obey seed patent laws just as Gandhi refused to obey the British Salt laws. The Congress Government is currently reenacting Gandhi's 1930 Dandi March to break the Salt laws. While the Government enacts a historical march for freedom while imposing Patent laws for seeds that are more far reaching than the Salt laws, we have been undertaking a real Satyagraha against the seed Patent laws. Five million peasants have taken a pledge to not obey laws for patent monopolies on seeds and plants.

 

On 2nd April we handed over to the Prime Minister pledges from Seed Satyagrahis across the country who have declared that seed saving and seed sharing is our duty. We will not allow patents on seeds to turn our duties into crimes of intellectual property. We will stay free, and we will continue to defend freedoms of farmers and the freedoms of all species and lifeforms."

by Linn Cohen-Cole (76 articles, 1 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 189 comments [12 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:47:45 PM

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NOTHING TO SEE...MOVE ALONG

Monsanto has nothing to worry about as long as they have news networks like Fox (et al) to cover theur asses for them, as demonstrated here:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axU9ngbTxKw

 

As long as we keep our noses stuck to the tube, mega corporations will continue to do whatever they please. And if we don't take steps to stop them, we deserve what we get.

by Sonny Knox (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 11 comments) on Sunday, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:05:00 AM

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Not laughing now

What if Monsanto's victims used "cleansing" on the Board and executives of Monsanto?

Or worse?

OH MY...

by Jet Graphics (5 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 42 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:10:20 AM

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Corporations steal their right to steal.

Corporations steal their right to steal.

by John Hanks (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1760 comments [39 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:38:19 AM

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excellent article Linn

And if this article concerns you all please start by notifying Obama that he absolutely MUST replace Tom Vilsack as Secty of agrigulture.. NOW!  There is not a moment to waste. Those that control the food & water supply, control everything.

Read about Vilsack here.

by jersey girl (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1201 comments [734 recommended, 12 rejected]) on Sunday, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:40:40 AM

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re Vilsack link

The link in my previous comment does not work...

 Try this one

by jersey girl (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1201 comments [734 recommended, 12 rejected]) on Sunday, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:43:06 AM

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Monsanto Investigator in Illinois Laughs

Monsanto and their Ilk need to go directly to jail.

They are the War Criminals of Food Production.

by Rolland Miller (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 227 comments [78 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Sunday, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:13:49 PM

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Family Farms

I have been a farmer in Idaho and have friends that still are. All of us have heard of the court cases that Monsanto has brought against farmers for having their patented seeds in their fields, either by pollination from bees or contamination from seed cleaners after harvest. American farmers are a dying breed; the agrarian society that we started here in the States is quickly being replaced by Agribusiness companies like Mansanto. With Obama''s nomination of Vilsack, for Secratary of Agriculture, family farms are in real jeopardy of a more direct assault. GMO seeds are implanted with a pesticide that the plants genes reproduce to be more resistant to pests, or round-up to make the plants more resistant to herbicides. Pests are animals, like us and are affected by these chemicals. Help save the family farming industry, help save natural seed, stop being guinea pigs and unite around the family farmer.

by Daniel Venzon (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2 comments [1 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Jan 11, 2009 at 1:40:17 PM

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Montsanto

Montsanto, just seeing that name in type haunts me. I have visions of little pac men with ferocious teeth, gobbling up the worlds agriculture at top speed. Brazil's sugar cane (does ethanol come to mind) is now under their control. And the poor Chilean farmers are being threatened and bullied so Montsanto can take over that countries agriculture as well. click here I have a friend in the mid west who is an independent organic sheep farmer. Not only has she been battling Leukemia for five years, but her sheep are dying off as well. Her farm is surrounded by organic produce farms that are loosing more and more crops because of GMO contamination. Her neighboring farms have been repeatedly vandalized by who they call the "Montsanto Mobsters". In the states that grow Christmas trees, the local folks have a saying, "never live down hill from a tree farm". Montsanto's DDT was used for years on those farms until the rate of birth defects, brain tumors and rare cancers went sky high. And yet, 12 years after the usage of DDT was discontinued, their well water continues to test positive for DDT. In case some of you haven't seen this. December 2008 news tid bit. It's just one summary of their evil deeds, but with a little surprise ending. Monsanto Drops Milk Growth Hormone Business It appears chemical giant Monsanto has lost their milk hormone growth battle and have sold their Posilac business. For several years, retailers have slowly stopped carrying milk coming from cows treated with hormone growth, a.k.a. rBGH. The beef with rBGH? Many farmers and animal advocates believe this growth hormone is harmful to cows and many mothers worry that it might actually cause cancer in humans - all this just to get cows to pump up their production of milk by one gallon a day? Starbucks, Walmart, -- other countries banned the usage of the treatment. All the while Monsanto battled several states -- Pennsylvania being one of them -- over milk labeling issues asking states to put on labels that there's no difference between the two m ilks (Huh?). I guess when Walmart dumped them, they decided that's a battle too big to be won, and they gave up. But buyers beware... the reported buyers are the makers of Prozac and Cialis - Eli Lilly. Here's their "vision" of the product from their press release. Wanna play it safe? BUY ORGANIC MILK!!!! While we still can. They are masters at the process of elimination. I agree, this cannot be about profits. This is far more evil.

by Jade P. (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 36 comments [4 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Jan 11, 2009 at 2:04:52 PM

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Where in Southern Illinois?

What town?  What county?  What court?  What judge?  

 I need to know, please. 

by wagelaborer (6 articles, 1 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 307 comments [34 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:28:36 AM

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The Price of Unbridled capitalism

This is one more reason why corporations need to be strictly controlled and their size greatly limited.  The last two decades have shown that big corporations are inherently lawless and completely unethical.  We are paying the price for our worship of unbridled capitalism.

Tell me if you think this clip is too weird:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Paq_fIxPCM

by Perry Logan (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 557 comments [74 recommended, 3 rejected]) on Monday, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:39:48 AM

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PLEASE

If you don't  like what Monsanto is doing and what sane person does?  Please demand Obama DUMP TOM VILSACK and instead pick someone friendly to the organic farmer.  It is obvious Vilsack is not.

by jersey girl (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1201 comments [734 recommended, 12 rejected]) on Monday, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:33:52 AM

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Another REALLY Inconvenient Truth
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This is a radio interview about GMOs (Bob is me, Robert Singer).

You may be interested, I will make it an OPED article later.

Gary: Bob thanks for coming again to my show, last week we learned that biofuels whether they are made of food or non food will not decrease global warming or reduce our dependence on foreign oil, so what does the Governor flying back and forth to Sacramento have to do with this?

Bob:   Gary it is too bad we don’t have more time because I bet some of your listeners already know the answer and we could have them call in.  The short answer is the Al Gore Movie Inconvenient Truth got everyone thinking about Green House Gases and climate change and because those airplane trips he makes are unnecessary Governor Swartznegger realized he would be criticized for putting all that extra co2 in the atmosphere.   So he pays someone in another country to either plant trees that are suppose to suck up co2 out of the atmosphere and/or get them to change their use of fossil fuel to an agrofuel like biodiesel.  That process is called buying carbon offsets.

Gary: My guess this is someone if a poor country, does he have to do this, and is it mandatory?

Bob: the Carbon credit economy is in the third world, and no it is not mandatory yet, but I think that is coming.

Gary: can you tell us exactly how this works?

Bob: Every time the governor flies to or from Sacramento there is a way to calculate how many of tons of co2 he puts in the atmosphere. The company he purchases Carbon Credits contracts with a farmer in another country to plant trees that take co2 out of the atmosphere and get the truck drivers in that country to switch from fossil fuel diesel to biodiesel.  The trees they plant are the Africa Palm oil because they are the best and cheapest source of biodiesel.  Biodiesel offers many environmental benefits over diesel from petroleum, including reductions in air pollutants

Gary: Ok so in the end he doesn’t add to the global warming problem – of course he didn’t take it away either, imagine how much he would save if he moved and bought carbon credits.

Bob: well not quite the irony here is Carbon Credits, just like corn and switchgrass ethanol they don’t slow climate change they actually make it worse.
Planting trees for carbon credits is known as a plantation forest that numerous negative affects for the people living in the area economically and environmentally including deforestation and deforestation puts far more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the entire world's fleet of cars, trucks, planes, trains and ships combined.  I am going to let that sink in for a minute – we are not getting less global warming by carbon credits, a Plantation forest accelerates climate change more than the entire world's fleet of cars, trucks, planes, trains and ships combined and here is why.
Plantation forests are nothing like natural or native forests. More akin to a field of maize, plantation forests are hostile environments to nearly every animal, bird and even insects. Such forests have been shown to have a negative impact on the water cycle because non-native, fast-growing trees use high volumes of water. Pesticides are also commonly used to suppress competing growth from other plants and to prevent disease outbreaks, also impacting water quality.  Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and many other countries have been cleared to grow oil palms and the Oil palm has become the world's number one fruit crop, well ahead of bananas.  Carbon credits encourage poor people in third world countries to cut down their natural forests that are taking co2 out of the atmosphere and replace them with these predator trees that do nothing except allow the Governor to not feel guilty for not moving to Sacramento.

Gary: I get it everything we have been talking about, corn, switchgrass ethanol and now planting oil palm trees is going to increase global warming and you said last week this is a strategy to get us to accept Genetic Modified Organisms.  But you said last week they are already in the processed foods we eat and I hear the farmers like them because they yield more crops and simplify the system of farming and reduce labor costs. So, why would the US government, the biotech and the agrofuel industry and one of the companies we love to hate: Monsanto go to so much trouble to expand GMOs with a failed biofuel policy? 
 
Bob: Gary that is the question anyone listening to this show should be asking.  First even though GMOs have contaminated food crops across the globe they haven’t achieved the saturation the industry and Monsanto would have you believe. GMOs are not a done deal because consumer rejection in Europe is stronger than ever, and farmer's movements in the developing world especially in Brazil are vehemently opposed.  So fuel crops are an ideal way to expand GMOs exponentially throughout the world and as we discussed once the GMO genie is out of the bag cases of contamination of the food crop cousins will expand exponentially as well.

Gary: So we will be eating more GMO food produced cheaply is that bad?

Bob: Well if you don’t mind having your food controlled by Monsanto it isn’t a problem. The danger of an agronomically flat, GMO world is that it leaves our food systems vulnerable to climate change events and pest and disease outbreaks.  We are in this position because the Monsantos of the world have bought up all the seed companies and they only want to sell their high tech GMO seeds.

Gary: so how are we and the farmer insecure, why don’t the why don’t the farmers just save his seeds rather then buy new seeds each year, how would Monsanto know?

Bob: Monsanto uses some pretty strong fear and intimidation practices to ensure tight control over their seed. Hiring private investigators, intimidation, threats, drawing out lawsuits to bankrupt farmer co-ops etc. But I bet I know what you are thinking, once GMOs are everywhere in the world how can Monsanto afford to hire enough GMNO police.

Gary: right -

Bob:  they don’t have to they have a better plan but before I answer here is a famous quote from a public figure we don’t trust, Henry Kissinger, he said in 1970: "Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people."  So if Monsanto’s goal is control the world population by controlling the food supply, you don’t want a bunch of angry farmers taking your seeds and planting them year after year in some kind of revolution.  You talk about a revolution on your show and how to get it started, would you say people in the world would rise up and start a revolution of the could not get any food?
Gary: Right on, man watch out when the people get hungry

Bob: Monsanto has the solution, it is the one seed one crop GMO, they have developed a GMO that grows a crop just once and the seeds from the plant cannot be used again.  Of course they can’t use it yet but no farmer would be dumb enough to fall for that trick. 
But it would not be hard to implement that strategy.  The GMOs the farmers buy today and the ones that will be used to grow energy could have a self-destruct gene in the seed.  Once they are planted or infect all the crops globally they simply spray an herbicide that tells the seed to self-destruct.  Because this sounds like science fiction and I ran it by Annie Shattuck at the foodfirst institute in Oakland an expert in bioteches and she agrees they have the technology to unlock the seeds DNA and keep it from producing, here is what she says:
“We don't know for certain if this is true. Because genetically homogeneous systems are so vulnerable (think Irish Potato Famine) it almost doesn't matter. If a new disease arrives, climatic changes, a bad year, etc. the whole crop is gone. They don't need a self-destruct gene. In natural systems, diversity = resilience.  By eliminating agricultural biodiversity, we become more dependent on the corporate/industrial model of agriculture, increasingly controlled by a global monopoly. Now we find ourselves in the midst of a food crisis and the biotech firms are using the opportunity to declare that only their technologies can save us, even though the market concentration brought on by biotech and green revolution got us into this vulnerable position in the first place”

Gary: wow, what I think you just said is the Oligarchy gets Monsanto to develop a GMO that has characteristics that are superior to existing hybrids and sell them around the world to farmers willing to buy them. But because of widespread skepticism among western nations  there is a reluctance to let you use them globally. So you lay low until the corn ethanol policy which could never succeed in the first place runs its course and the president of the United States says last Tuesday the answer to all our problems is either to let him drill in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve or grow switch grass.
Since fuel crops are not destined for your stomach but your gas tank why should anyone mind.  And now the genie is out of the bottle and GMOs with or without their self-destruct gene are everywhere.  Kissinger, the Neo-conservatives and Neo-liberals all support trade agreements that force open the markets of small developing countries to make them compete with highly subsidized agriculture in the global north. This makes countries more dependent on food aid and export markets.  So all they need to launch the new world order and one world government is control the world food supply. GMOs are the key to controlling the world’s food supply.

by Robert Singer (31 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 138 comments [4 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Monday, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:02:54 AM

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Remember

We can thank Monsanto for

Saccharin sold to Coca-Cola 1879 (Coal tar cancer suspect)

Polystyrene / PCB's -killers

DDT - killer

Agent Orange - killer

Recombinant DNA - HGH For cattle - killer

MON863 - Killer Corn

and the dumping of their toxic wastes worldwide.

Go Obama- we can't wait to die

by Patrick Lafferty (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 557 comments [316 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Monday, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:35:54 PM

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Robert & Patrick

Monsanto = killer of all forms of life.  Most people have no clue.  Robert great interview.  Discussions like that should be on msm.  Shows like "countdown with keith olbermann" should feature such issues.   I used to be a huge fan of Keith's when he was blasting the bush crime family for shredding the constitution. But I haven't watched him since he became a shill for Obama.  Anyone still watch?  If so, has Keith taken to bashing any of Obama's cabinet picks?  If so, I'll tune him in again.

Patrick, I intend to take the list you posted and distribute it to my email list. It paints a very poisonous picture of the people controlling or trying to control our food supply.

Thanks to both of you.   I feel such a kinship to people who see the big picture.  It seems there are so few of  us.

by jersey girl (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1201 comments [734 recommended, 12 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:44:06 AM

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Reply: Thanks JG

Twenty five years ago my conspiracy issues started with the AMA and my grandfather. He had spent his life on nutrition and the herbal medicines that cured diseases. The AMA and PHARMA have made trillions of dollars stealing lives. They have spent billions keeping a lid on the natural sciences, nutrition, hyperbaric (O2 Therapies), fasting and herbal cures. Find the data on Steve McQueen and his ordeal to get the treatments that could have saved him.  Fluoride was the biggest scam ever perpetrated on our water supply and I am looking into the Chemtrail issues as an added carsonogenic. I still believe that this is the largest criminal organization in the country from mainstreet to the FDA and CDC. Aids and Ebolavirus were developed in US and Canadian Laboratories and unleashed in Zaire, Rhuwanda and Suddan in the mid 1970's. Then the Smucks let it get out of containment.

Eugenics through food, water, vaccines and over the counter drugs, diet foods and supplements are the tools now. I have taken no medicine since 1983. I eat no processed food, no dairy and 75% intake is organic. I swear on my mother, I have not had a sick day in twenty five years and I drink coffee and smoke some.

I wait for cancer so I can cure myself and send a message to these scabs. We don't need you! We need our food and water supply left alone and our rainforests and farmland free of Cargill, Monsanto, Altria, Unilever, Smithfield and Tyson destroying it.

We tell the Pilgrim Society, United Nations, Kissingers and those other cretins who have said publicly we need to decrease third world population, Well, from starvation, disease, AIDS and Ebolavirus and wars that you inflict, it is predicted at this pace to kill 3.5 billion on the next 50 years. How's that for an African 911?

http://puddydunne.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/please-pass-me-the-guar-gum/

by Patrick Lafferty (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 557 comments [316 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:00:46 PM

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The World According to Monsanto

is a film that describes this illegal activity as well as many others around the world as it tries to become the agricultural power behind all throwns.  Check out www.monsantofilm.com & responsibletechnology.org

by Penel (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 53 comments) on Tuesday, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:28:16 AM

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Reply: Disney, Monsanto and illuminati

EPCOT Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, the Monsanto House, the brainwashing illuminati, Mickey Mouse and eugenics. "It's a small world after all" until they kill off 70%, then it looks bigger..they take the children, they brainwash the children, they poison the children. "Why? Because we like you...M - O - U - S - E.

by Patrick Lafferty (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 557 comments [316 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:16:08 PM

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Finally!

Mr. M has made a comment I was a little hesitant to, but it needs to be taken very seriously.  That is, the Illuminati plan to cull the population.  They ARE the dark ones.  However, people are becoming aware of their deadly game and Light growing from us and elsewhere are finding the shadows where their cowardly negativity hides.  Earth is in the process of ascension and throwing off these low vibrations.  This is the storm before the calm and they will not win. 

by Joni Greever (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 76 comments [12 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:01:48 AM

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This is nothing more than exactly what he said it is ...

... "rural cleansing", but it's really much more than that, it's about "cleansing" us all.

Monsanto is much like an army using soft kill weapons to kill it's enemy. This isn't about greed, at least not at it's core. It's about Eugenics. And as these farmers go, we go. Food is the weapon and we are the targets.

Those that wish us dead are pushing their agenda  more openly and aggressively than ever, and who can blame them? Not only has no one stopped them, they haven't even been slowed down. And they will continue to murder us in every way possible until they reach that magic number of 500,000,000.

But they'll fail. Not at murdering us, of that I have not doubt, but at re-framing from killing. They won't stop. Once they have their NWO in place they'll turn on one another. It's their nature to keep on killing, they enjoy it too much to stop. Even the over 4/5ths of that 500 million they will keep around for their demented pleasure won't be enough to fulfill their appetite for death.

But of course the real kicker is that they'll wind-up killing themselves with the very distortion of Nature that they have created. Not even these reptilian cretins will be able to survive in this twisted version of a Dr. Monroe's Island they've made out of this world. In the end they'll choke to death in their own toxic soup, and this planet will go back to having to rid itself of whatever slime we've placed upon it before anything crawls out of that toxic sludge to form another life form, if that would even be possible, and we can only hope doesn't repeat the same mistakes.

by Mr M (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 66 diaries, 2845 comments [654 recommended, 27 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:24:55 PM

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Organize

The only hope for this country, this world, and this planet, is for farmers, consumers, citizens to organize themselves and keep their eye on the ball. Montsanto and their breed( Halliburton, Blackwater, General Electric) resort to every dirty trick in the book to distort, confuse, and blur the issues.

Is it not crystal clear at this point we need a 360 degree change in our attitude toward each other and the planet if we are to survive? Human greed is our biggest challenge.

by nakedtruth (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 52 comments [7 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:35:18 AM

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