Showing posts with label GMO. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Test Tube Beef as 'Bloomburgernator' Robots Force Humans to Eat Artificial Foods - Would You Eat it?

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The era of robotic, factory-produced test tube hamburger meat is nearly here. Yesterday, the first stem-cell-grown hamburger "meat patty" was grilled up and consumed by taste testers who declared it edible. The burger cost $332,000 to "grow" in test tubes, a project spearheaded by vascular biologist Mark Post of Maastricht University, reports The Guardian.

That's one expensive burger, of course, but it's only the first step in developing the technology to mass-produce stem cell meat using robotic "Skynet" factories instead of cows. The idea is to have automated factories churning out stem cell beef patties at lower cost and without the need for real animals to roam around eating grass and farting methane into the atmosphere -- a phenomenon that horrifies global warming alarmists.

Animal rights groups are also applauding the idea, as growing meat in factories doesn't require the slaughter of live, conscious animals who feel pain and experience extreme torture during the slaughtering process. But it does require the stem cell meat be continuously bathed in a "nutrient fluid" similar to mammal blood, bringing back images of the human pods in The Matrix. Where, exactly, are the Skynet beef factories going to get all these "nutrient fluids?"

Hamburger of the future: 5% stem cells, 95% genetically modified filler

The average hamburger consumer is utterly clueless about all this, as they don't give a squat what's in their "beef" patties in the first place.

As previous research has shown, the actual meat content in today's fast food hamburgers ranges from just 2% - 15%. So it's not like burger munchers are eating much cow meat in the first place.

This means an actual fast food hamburger served up in the year 2025 might contain 5% stem cell meat and 95% GMO filler ingredients (including MSG, chemical additives, artificial flavors, GMO soy protein, etc.), all served up by a police state Orwellian robot "food enforcer" named the Bloomburgernator.

Will stem cell beef put cattle ranchers out of business?

Cattle ranchers, of course, don't realize this era of "post-cow beef" is rapidly approaching. The idea that factories can create meat without using animals is potentially a death sentence to the cattle industry. (And maybe even a death sentence for humans who eat the stem cell meat, as you can bet it will be genetically modified and laced with chemicals.)

Real beef from real cows won't entirely disappear in all this, of course. There will always be a market for "real beef" from living cows, even if it might become a rare and expensive specialty item. Cows are also really, really good at turning value-less scrubland into a marketable food commodity. No other animal can graze otherwise useless lands and produce such high market value. That's why real cows will always have a place in the economies of Wyoming, Utah, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and all the Great Plains states, no matter how many stem cell soylent green factories come on line.

Beef by Skynet... coming soon!

Don't hold your breath hoping to get a job working at the stem cell beef factory... they're all going to be run by robots!

Source....  http://www.naturalnews.com/041513_stem_cell_beef_Skynet_factories_future_tech.html#ixzz2bCruWJMI


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Thursday, August 1, 2013

Breast Cancer, Parkinson’s, Autism, Alzheimer, Birth Defects, Now Linked to Glyphosate/Roundup Monsanto's GMO's per Scientists

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Another credible study can be added to the list of research that shows how Monsanto’s glyphosate, otherwise known as ’roundup herbicide’ can be hazardous to human health. This time, its been linked to birth defects. Roundup, also known as Glyphosate is a herbicide used to kill weeds. It started to be used en mass by farmers when they realized they could spray it without killing their crops. Of course these are herbicide resistant genetically modified (GMO) crops that have been designed to be resistant to the herbicide.

A group of scientists put together a comprehensive review of existing data that shows how European regulators have known that Monsanto’s glyphosate causes a number of birth malformations since at least 2002. Regulators misled the public about glyphosate’s safety, and in Germany the Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety told the European Commission that there was no evidence to suggest that glyphosate causes birth defects(3).

This study was published by Earth Open Sources, which is an organization that uses open source collaboration to advance sustainable food production. The report was headed by Dr M. Antoniou, Head Gene Expression and Therapy Group, from the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics at King’s College London School of Medicine, UK. Dr. Antoniou was joined by 6 other doctors who have a similar biography. The report provides a comprehensive review of the peer-reviewed scientific literature documenting the serious health hazards posed by glyphosate and Roundup herbicide formulations. http://earthopensource.org/files/pdfs/Roundup-and-birth-defects/RoundupandBirthDefectsv5.pdf

Our examination of the evidence leads us to the conclusion that the current approval of glyphosate and Roundup is deeply flawed and unreliable. In this report, we examine the industry studies and regulatory documents that led to the approval of glyphosate. We show that industry and regulators knew as long ago as the 1980s and 1990s that glyphosate causes malformation – but that this information was not made public. We demonstrate how EU regulators reasoned their way from clear evidence of glyphosate’s teratogenicity in industry’s own studies to a conclusion that minimized these findings in the EU Commission’s final review report (3)(4).

Summary of Report
Multiple peer-reviewed scientific literature documenting serious health hazards posed by glyphosate
Industry (including Monsanto) has known since the 1980′s that glyphosate causes malformations in experimental animals at high doses
Industry has known since 1993 that these effects could also occur at lower and mid doses
The German government has known since at least 1998 that glyphosate causes malformations
The EU Commission’s expert scientific review panel knew in 1999 that glyphosate causes malformations
The EU Commission has known since 2002 that glyphosate causes malformations. This was the year DG SANCO division published its final review report, laying out the basis for the current approval of glyphosate

More Evidence
The report mentioned above outlines an enormous amount of evidence to support the claim that glyphosate is hazardous to human health, but it’s never a bad idea to provide more. Multiple studies are making their way into the public domain that illustrate just how hazardous Monsanto’s glyphosate could possibly be.

Here is another study that shows Glyphosate can cause abnormalities. It was published in 2010 by the American Chemical Society, the research was conducted at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The direct effect of glyphosate on early mechanisms of morphogenesis in vertebrate embryos opens concerns about the clinical findings from human offspring in populations exposed to glyphosate in agricultural fields (5)

Not too long ago, a groundbreaking study revealed that Glyphosate is responsible for fuelling breast cancer by increasing the number of breast cancer cells through cell growth and cell division (1), you can read more about that here... http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/06/14/groundbreaking-study-links-monsantos-glyphosate-to-cancer/  It was also determined that Glyphosate can cause Autism, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease (2), you can read more about that here...  http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/05/10/new-study-links-monsantos-roundup-to-autism-parkinsons-and-alzheimers/  What might be more alarming in recent news is that the EPA raised its allowable concentration of Monsanto’s glyphosate on food crops. You can read more about that here... http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/06/19/epa-raises-allowable-concentrations-of-monsantos-glyphosate-on-food-crops/

Read More and See More Sources..... http://worldtruth.tv/scientists-link-monsantos-glyphosate-to-birth-defects/

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Friday, July 26, 2013

Monsanto Leaves Farmers Around the World Enslaved to Producing Poisonous Foods

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Monsanto will no longer be pursuing approval for the cultivation of new biotech crops in Europe but will instead focus on the import of existing crops. The easing of pressure is tactical, political analyst and author William Engdahl told RT.

The world’s largest seed company has been on a losing streak, especially in India and the Philippines. At the end of last week, Monsanto said that it was due to widespread opposition that it dropped its bid to get more genetically modified crops onto the European market – despite using tricks attempting to secure necessary political backing for their success.

RT:  Does the decision mean a victory for the anti-GMO movement in Europe?

WE: In a word, no. If you look at the fine print of the interview that the European managing director (MD) for Monsanto, Jose Manuel Madero, gave to Reuters, what he said is that they’re withdrawing a request for new approvals in the EU Commission here in Europe, but at the same time they’re going to increase their pressure to import GMO products from the US and other countries into Europe. So this is a tactical move – it’s not a strategic defeat or rollback by Monsanto in any way shape or…beans.

RT: What are the human and environmental risks?

WE: Well, the Mon810 is primarily being planted in Spain right now and the agri-multinationals have dominated the agriculture in Spain for the last 25 years, so they’ve managed to get a foothold in that country. In most other countries there’s a broad-based grassroots opposition to any and every sort of GMO crop – so they just haven’t been able to do it. In France, you have independent scientists in the universities who have come out with studies of Mon810, showing the indications of severe side effects that weren’t reported by Monsanto. So the popular outcry against that in France, Germany, and other countries is such that Monsanto’s unable to get it pushed through. So what they’re doing is resorting to a back doorway of proliferating their GMO in Europe by increasing the emphasis on imports of GMOs - because there they have a loophole in the European laws of labeling. The power feed – the animal feed that’s GMO corn and soy from Monsanto and other companies - is not required to be labeled as containing GMO.

Protesters stand on the Meir in Antwerp on May 25, 2013 during a protest against the American multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation Monsanto. (AFP Photo / Jonas Roosens)Protesters stand on the Meir in Antwerp on May 25, 2013 during a protest against the American multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation Monsanto. (AFP Photo / Jonas Roosens)

RT:  Monsanto though stressed that this does not mean the firm's withdrawing its application to renew the approval for its GM corn MON810. What does that tell us about the company's real intentions?

WE: Well, it’s a pragmatic and tactical move by Monsanto. After Monsanto had a closed-door meeting with the president of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1999, it announced that it was not going to commercialize terminator technology that would have seeds that commit suicide after one harvest, to make sure that farmers would have to come back to Monsanto every year. Seven years later, they acquired the company that had the patent - together with the US government - on terminator or GROTS technology. But by then, the opposition had been disarmed. They thought they’d won a victory. All the anti-GMO NGOs were either sleeping at the switch or looking elsewhere, and there wasn’t a peep of protest. So I suspect they’re trying to do something similar here.

First of all, let’s take the songbook that Monsanto and other GMO companies are using. That GMO crops are the solution to world hunger. Fact is, there is absolutely no patent on GMO crop that increases harvest yield. Long term studies in the US and other countries show that after one or two slight gains in harvest yield – if any at all - the actual yield per hectare or per acre begins to drop. Number two [of the songbook] is that they use less pesticides or herbicides. Well, in fact there’s weed resistance that develops after three or four harvest years of Monsanto roundup spraying, meaning that superweeds grow up and need more – not less - chemicals. So you’re losing on both counts. The thing is a marketing fraud. It’s designed to lock farmers into long-term contracts for their seeds. Once they get that, [farmers] can’t plant normal seeds for at least seven years after they’ve planted GMO and sprayed heavily with roundup. The soils become toxic. So you’re more or less enslaved in this new kind of ‘serfdom,’ as I call it in my book.

RT:  MON-810 maize is the only gene crop currently being commercially cultivated in the EU. However, France, Germany, and Poland have imposed national bans on it. Why are only a few governments siding with the people's push against GM food?

WE: I don’t think it’s supplying cheaper food at all. I don’t think the profit motive is really the key thing in GMO. It’s the idea of a monopoly. The model is developed by the Rockefeller Foundation. Interesting bit of background history: Back in the 1970s they decided to try – even going back to World War II – with Nelson Rockefeller and Norman Borlaug, who was a scientist at the Rockefeller University then - to develop a model for agri-business that they had developed for oil. Namely a globalization cartel control - a quasi-monopoly of the market for food, and that’s the history of the last 30 years worldwide in the food chain. I was just recently in Moscow. The Russian supermarkets are overflowing with imported foods, whereas Russia has some of the best unspoiled topsoil on the planet today. Russia should be growing natural food for its own citizens and avoiding the import bill - but the power of these agri-business multinationals after the collapse of the Soviet Union 20 years ago was such that they managed to get a foothold. You go in, you see Nestle on the shelf, you see Kellogg’s cornflakes – all using GMO corn from the US and so forth. So it’s this  of food that’s really the agenda behind GMO, the patenting of seeds.

Employees of a farm complex on the edge of a cornfield in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia (RIA Novosti / Igor Zarembo)Employees of a farm complex on the edge of a cornfield in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia (RIA Novosti / Igor Zarembo)

 
RT: A recent poll showed that 95 per cent of EU citizens are against GMO crops - so do they have a future in Europe?

WE: I would sincerely hope not. I think fortunately there’s a very strong grassroots movement in Europe. Monsanto and co. – the four companies – have done everything imaginable, including backing appointees to the European Food Safety Administration in Brussels - the so-called neutral scientists that are supposed to rule on citizens’ food safety. The majority of the members of that board are affiliated with Monsanto-financed NGOs. They get their research grants from Monsanto-related cut-outs and so forth. So the tricks and manipulations that Monsanto & co. have used to get GMO into Europe have been enormous, and they haven’t succeeded. I think they’re tactically trying to ease up on the opposition because it’s really growing like a groundswell. Also in the US - for the first time in the last six months, since the worldwide march on Monsanto in May - at least according to the reports I get. But it’s interesting. Monsanto is really not this European thing so much – but worldwide on a losing streak, as I see it. They’ve lost a major court decision in India from the patent office appeals court that denies them the right to pursue patents on certain weather modification traits in all of their seeds for India. They lost a similar appeal when they tried to do it through the back door in the Philippines. In other countries now in the EU, there’s this growing opposition – it’s locked in. The name ‘Monsanto’ means something very bad. Most people don’t have time to research these things as you and I do, but they’ve locked into that message - that soundbite - and with that in mind, anything GMO is verboten.

Source..... http://rt.com/op-edge/monsanto-eu-gmo-engdahl-491/

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Russia Warns Obama on the Threat of Monsanto & GMO's - Lawsuit for Obama Administration, Obama says he Can't Do Anything

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Various media reports have revealed that the recent meeting of President Putin with US secretary of State John Kerry was with “extreme outrage” over the Obama’s administration’s support for monopoly policies of biotech companies including Syngenta and Monsanto.

According to Russian media sources, President Putin was so furious that the Obama administration wouldn’t even discuss Monsanto and GMOs that he refused to meet with John Kerry for three hours about the two nation’s diplomatic missions over Syria.

At the center of dispute between Russia and US is the Neuroactive insecticides also known as neonicotinoids that are destroying the population of bees and are impacting the world ability to grow its own food. Even the European Commission (EC) with countries including Switzerland, Italy, Russia, Slovenia and Ukraine have banned all the bee killing pesticides.
The biotech company Syngenta along with other companies including Monsanto, DuPont, Bayer and Dow are in control of 100% of genetically modified seeds, plants and pesticides known as neonicotinoids.

Many studies show that neonicotinoids are toxic to birds, insects, bees and human beings. In fact, a research by environmental toxicologist Dr. Pierre Mineau shows that a single corn created with neonicotinoids pesticides can kill a bird and studies also show that neonicotinoid contamination levels are beyond the acceptable limit in both surface and underground water in the United States.

EPA under the Obama administration is sued over the deaths of bees

Recently a group of beekeepers and environmentalists are suing EPA over the use of neonicotinoids pesticides that are destroying the bees population and the nation’s food supply chain.
Paul Towers, the spokesperson for the Pesticide Action Network told TakePart that we are suing EPA over its negligence to protect our bees against neonicotinoids pesticides. He also mentioned that “Despite our best efforts to warn the agency about the problems posed by neonicotinoids, the EPA continued to ignore the clear warning signs of an agricultural system in trouble.”

However last year, California almond growers had to bring over one million colonies of bees from South America since California didn’t have enough bees to plant its almonds. Paul Towers has been a strong advocate regarding how the bee shortage last year was a proof that EPA needs to act immediately and ban the use of neonicotinoids pesticides.

Unlike other traditional pesticides, systemic pesticides including neonicotinoids are applied before planting to coat seeds and they remain in the vascular system of the plant and produce toxic pollen and nectar which has led to colony collapse of bees.

Towers also mentioned that this isn’t just California problem. In fact, other states including Ohio needs bees for pollination of more than 70 crops so does Illinois and Carolinas.

As a matter of fact even Russia criticizes US and its policies towards biotech considering that recently Syngenta is charged for covering up the deaths of livestock who were exclusively fed on Syngenta’s GM Bt. http://www.seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-food/GMO-toxicity-bt-corn-Syngenta.php

In fact, Russia has banned the imports of GMO corn after the famous French Seralini study who showed rats with massive tumors after being fed on Monsanto’s GMO corn.

obama Monsanto Act Syngenta’s GM Bt

Yet, in the US, not that we don’t get immediate ban on all the GMOs, the biotech industry exercises its power by spending millions of dollars to defeat GMO labeling movement and releases thousands of fake documents to manipulate the truth about GMOs.


Read More..... http://www.seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-food/Russia-warns-Obama-Monsanto-EPA-sued-over-bee-loss.php


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16 True - Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be REAL

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Are you a conspiracy theorist?  If not, perhaps you should be.  Yes, there have certainly been a lot of “conspiracy theories” over the years that have turned out not to be accurate.  However, the truth is that a large number of very prominent conspiracy theories have turned out to actually be true.  So the next time that you run into some “tin foil hat wearing lunatics”, you might want to actually listen to what they have to say.  They may actually know some things that you do not.  In fact, one recent study found that “conspiracy theorists” are actually more sane than the general population.  So the next time you are tempted to dismiss someone as a “conspiracy theorist”, just remember that the one that is crazy might actually be you.  The following are 16 popular conspiracy theories that turned out to be true…

1. “They Put Cancer Viruses Into Our Vaccines”

When I first heard about this I did not believe it.  And of course not all vaccines contain cancer viruses.  But tens of millions of Americans did receive vaccines with cancer viruses in them, and now we have learned that even the CDC has admitted that this is true.

The CDC has quickly removed a page from their website, which is now cached here, admitting that more than 98 million Americans received one or more doses of polio vaccine within an 8-year span when a proportion of the vaccine was contaminated with a cancer causing polyomavirus called SV40. It has been estimated that 10-30 million Americans could have received an SV40 contaminated dose of the vaccine.

SV40 is an abbreviation for Simian vacuolating virus 40 or Simian virus 40, a polyomavirus that is found in both monkeys and humans. Like other polyomaviruses, SV40 is a DNA virus that has been found to cause tumors and cancer.

2. “ATM Machines Will Someday Use Facial Recognition Technology”

According to the Daily Mail, a new generation of ATM machines is being developed that will use cutting edge facial recognition technology.

Cumbersome and slow cash machines with clunky buttons and tiny hard-to-see screens could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a range of next-generation ATMs.

Ohio-based security firm Diebold has created a touchscreen cash machine that works like a tablet computer, uses facial recognition and QR codes to identify and authenticate users, and has built-in safety cameras.

3. “The U.S. Government And Monsanto Are Teaming Up Against Opponents Of Genetically-Modified Food”

The establishment does not like those that are trying to stand in the way of genetically-modified food.  The following is from a recent Activist Post article.

A shocking new investigative report from the largest daily newspaper in Germany alleges that Monsanto, the US Military and the US government have colluded to track and disrupt both anti-GMO activists and independent scientists who study the adverse effects of genetically modified food.

As revealed yesterday by Sustainable Pulse, on July 13th the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung detailed information on how the US Government “advances the interests of their corporations,” focusing on Monsanto as a prime example.

The report titled, “The Sinister Monsanto Group: ‘Agent Orange’ to Genetically Modified Corn,” described a ‘new fangled cyber war’ being waged against both eco-activists and independent scientists by supporters and former employees of Monsanto, who are described as “operationally powerful assistants” and who have taken up sometimes high-ranking posts in the US administration, regulatory authorities, and some of whom have connections deep within the military industrial establishment, including the CIA.

4. “Someday Scientists Will Be Using Millions Of Genetically-Modified Animals In Scientific Experiments”

Did you know that literally millions of genetically-modified animals are being experimented on in labs all over the globe?

The number of genetically modified (GM) animals used in scientific research in Britain has exceeded the number of ordinary laboratory animals for the first time, according to official statistics that show a 9 per cent overall increase in the use of experimental animals last year.

Some 4,033,310 animals were used in scientific experiments started in 2012, an increase of 322,689, or 9 per cent over the previous year. There were 1.91 million scientific “procedures” used with GM animals in 2012 compared to 1.68.m procedures on normal animals.


5. “Scientists All Over The World Are Creating Extremely Bizarre Human-Animal Hybrids”

Should scientists be creating beings that are part human and part animal?  Well, it is happening all over the planet.  Just check out some of the things that a recent Slate article says is happening in labs around the world.

Not long ago, Chinese scientists embedded genes for human milk proteins into a mouse’s genome and have since created herds of humanized-milk-producing goats. Meanwhile, researchers at the University of Michigan have a method for putting a human anal sphincter into a mouseas a means of finding better treatments for fecal incontinence, and doctors are building animals with humanized immune systems to serve as subjects for new HIV vaccines.

Pretty disgusting eh?

And here are some other ways that scientists are combining humans and animals…

-Rabbit Eggs with Human Cells

-Pigs with Human Blood

-Sheep with Human Livers

-Cow Eggs with Human Cells

-Cat-Human Hybrid Proteins

For much more on this, please see my previous article entitled “Human-Animal Hybrids: Sick And Twisted Chimeras Are Being Created In Labs All Over The Planet“.

6. “Obama Is Making Government Employees Spy On One Another”

Yes, this is actually happening.  In a previous article, I described how Obama is forcing government workers to spy on the “lifestyles, attitudes and behaviors” of their fellow employees.

Federal employees and contractors are asked to pay particular attention to the lifestyles, attitudes and behaviors – like financial troubles, odd working hours or unexplained travel – of co-workers as a way to predict whether they might do “harm to the United States.” Managers of special insider threat offices will have “regular, timely, and, if possible, electronic, access” to employees’ personnel, payroll, disciplinary and “personal contact” files, as well as records of their use of classified and unclassified computer networks, polygraph results, travel reports and financial disclosure forms.

7. “Pro Wrestling Is Fake”

We have all kind of known this for a long time, right?  Well, now someone is actually leaking the results of pro wrestling matches on the Internet before they happen…

A fan has provoked a furor in the world of professional wrestling after leaking the outcomes of 38 WWE matches ahead of the pay-per-view bouts.

The mystery fan, who identifies himself online as Dolphins1925, claims he has obtained the information from a source at Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and is revealing the results to highlight the organisation’s failure to keep its storylines confidential.

Dolphins1925 started posting the results on Reddit’s pro-wrestling forum after another fan launched a “prediction series”, asking users for their picks ahead of the matches. He has since maintained a perfect record, even leaking the results of contests involving wrestling superstars such as John Cena and The Undertaker.

8. “Someday Texas Is Going To Run Out Of Water”

Texas will always have plenty of water, right?

Wrong.

According to CNBC, the water crisis in some areas of Texas is rapidly reaching a breaking point.

Three straight years of blistering drought have strained Texas’ water resources. Some cities like Midland are already steeply raising their water prices. But it’s not just residents of the Lone Star State feeling parched. Texas-based companies are scrambling to reduce their water usage and enact long-term water management plans as a critical business concern.

“As the drought continues, industry’s eyes are opening,” said Jordan Furnans, senior engineer at INTERA, a Texas-based geosciences and engineering firm. Those eyes are opening to discover that more dry years are coming, he said.

There’s a desperate need for water to fuel industrial, chemical and energy operations in some parts of Texas. “If plants shut down, they’re losing millions of dollars per day,” Furnans said.

9. “The IRS Is Specifically Targeting Conservatives”

Only a small percentage of Americans would have believed this particular “conspiracy theory” last year.  But now it is all over the news.  In fact, we have just learned that applications for tax-exempt status from Tea Party groups were ordered to be sent to the only Obama political appointee at the IRS.

IRS employees were ordered by their superiors–including Lois Lerner who pleaded the 5th Amendment against self-incrimination rather than testify in Congress–to send certain Tea Party tax-exemption applications to the office of the IRS’s Chief Counsel, which was headed by William Wilkins, who at that time was the only Obama political appointee at the IRS, according to a letter released today by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

“As a part of this ongoing investigation, the Committees have learned that the IRS Chief Counsel’s office in Washington, D.C. has been closely involved in some of the applications,” reads a letter released today by the House committees on Oversight and Government and Ways and Means.  “Its involvement and demands for information about political activity during the 2010 election cycle appear to have caused systematic delays in the processing of Tea Party applications.”

10. “Fluoride Is Harmful For Your Teeth”

This is a conspiracy theory that was denied for a very long time.  But now even CNN is admitting the truth.

The Department of Health and Human Services and Environmental Protection Agency are proposing the change because of an increase in fluorosis — a condition that causes spotting and streaking on children’s teeth.

11. “Using A Cell Phone Can Cause Cancer”

Can you get cancer from using a cell phone?  Well, an increasing number of studies indicate that this is actually true.

At the highest exposure levels — using a mobile phone half an hour a day over a 10-year period — the study found a 40 percent increased risk of glioma brain tumors.

12. “Prescription Drugs Kill Large Numbers Of Americans”

Every single year, hundreds of thousands of Americans are killed by prescription drugs.  The following is a brief excerpt from a Vanity Fair article entitled “Deadly Medicine“.

Prescription drugs kill some 200,000 Americans every year. Will that number go up, now that most clinical trials are conducted overseas—on sick Russians, homeless Poles, and slum-dwelling Chinese—in places where regulation is virtually nonexistent, the F.D.A. doesn't reach, and “mistakes” can end up in pauper’s graves?

13. “The Elite Want To Dramatically Reduce The Global Population”

Yes, many among the global elite really do want to substantially reduce the population of the planet.  The following quotes are from one of my previous articles.

-David Rockefeller: “The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.”

-CNN Founder Ted Turner: “A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”

-Paul Ehrlich, a former science adviser to president George W. Bush and the author of “The Population Bomb”: “To our minds, the fundamental cure, reducing the scale of the human enterprise (including the size of the population) to keep its aggregate consumption within the carrying capacity of Earth is obvious but too much neglected or denied”

-Barack Obama’s primary science adviser, John P. Holdren: “The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births.”

-HBO personality Bill Maher: “I’m pro-choice, I’m for assisted suicide, I’m for regular suicide, I’m for whatever gets the freeway moving – that’s what I’m for. It’s too crowded, the planet is too crowded and we need to promote death.”

14. “Innocent People Are Murdered, Skinned And Dismembered During Satanic Rituals”

Satanists really do exist, and sometimes they do really, really awful things.  The following is one recent example.

Moises Meraz-Espinoza walked into the Huntington Park Police Department two years ago to report a crime: He had killed his mother.

Officers went to the Maywood apartment that the then-18-year-old factory worker shared with his mother, Amelia Espinoza, 42, and found a gruesome scene. A trail of blood led to the bathroom, where plastic covered the walls and floor. There, they found an electrical circular saw with pieces of bone, blood and flesh stuck to the blade. Nearby, in a freezer, police found skin and muscles stored in plastic bags. The woman’s skull, with all her teeth plucked out, her eyes removed and two upside-down crosses carved into the bone, was stashed in a backpack.

Prosecutors say that Meraz-Espinoza strangled his mother and then skinned, filleted and dismembered her body as part of a satanic ritual.

15. “The NSA Is Spying On Our Phone Calls, Internet Searches And Financial Transactions”

Thanks to Edward Snowden, we have learned much more about how the NSA spies on all of us.  And just this week it has come out that the NSA has no problem snooping on you if you are a friend of a friend of a friend of someone that might be a potential terrorist.

Chris Inglis, the agency’s deputy director, was one of several government representatives—including from the FBI and the office of the Director of National Intelligence—testifying before the House Judiciary Committee this morning. Most of the testimony largely echoed previous testimony by the agencies on the topic of the government’s surveillance, including a retread of the same offered examples for how the Patriot Act and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act had stopped terror events.

But Inglis’ statement was new. Analysts look “two or three hops” from terror suspects when evaluating terror activity, Inglis revealed. Previously, the limit of how surveillance was extended had been described as two hops. This meant that if the NSA were following a phone metadata or web trail from a terror suspect, it could also look at the calls from the people that suspect has spoken with—one hop. And then, the calls that second person had also spoken with—two hops. Terror suspect to person two to person three. Two hops. And now: A third hop.

16. “The Federal Reserve Is A Perpetual Debt Machine That Is Designed To Create Inflation”

The Federal Reserve is a private banking cartel that was created by the bankers and that serves the interest of the bankers.  It was designed to perpetually increase the U.S. national debt and to perpetually create inflation.  Unfortunately, it has done a great job on both counts.  Since the Federal Reserve was created back in 1913, the U.S. national debt has gotten more than 5000 times larger, and the value of the U.S. dollar has fallen by more than 96 percent.

Are there any other “conspiracy theories” that you would add to this list?  Please feel free to join the discussion by posting a comment below.

Source.... http://worldtruth.tv/16-conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-true/

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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Italy & Other Countries to BANS Monsanto GMO Corn with Public Support, So Why Not the USA?

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First India gives Monsanto a run for their ill-gotten money by refusing their patent applications, and now Italy, with the help of three Italian ministries, will try to undo Monsanto. A decree has been signed which will ban Monsanto’s MON810 maize, one of the two genetically modified crops currently legally grown in Europe and sold commercially. The decree is not yet binding as it has to be published in the official gazette, but the public stands behind the three Italian ministers who put forth the document with a resounding 80% against GMO and Monsanto, as evidenced in a public survey.

The agricultural ministry rightfully addressed one of many problems with Monsanto’s GMO crops, stating that they have a ‘negative impact on biodiversity.’ The ban was also signed by the health and environment ministries. That makes three. The ministries stated:

“Our agriculture is based on biodiversity, on quality, and those we must continue to aim for, without games that even from an economic point of view would not make us competitive.”

The three ministries have also notified the European Commission and other states in the EU about this important precedent-setting move to oust Monsanto from the world food supply monopoly that the company is currently trying to browbeat the world with. The ministries have also requested a scientific basis for the final decision from the European Food and Safety Authority – Europe’s version of the FDA, the country’s food safety watch dog.

Individual governments in the EU are able to introduce safeguards and recommendations if they feel the food supply is threatened, or there are environmental risks, however, the Commission must verify them and put them into action. Just last year French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayraul announced that the nation would maintain a key ban on the only remaining GMO currently allowed in Europe - the MON810 maize specifically.

“The protection of Italian distinctiveness must be a policy priority since it determines the existence of ‘Made in Italy’, which is our engine, our future, our leverage to return to growth in the food industry,” Coldiretti’s president, Sergio Marini, said in a statement.

Only five members of the European Union grew Monsanto’s MON810 maize last year, according to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications. Hopefully with the Commission’s approval of this new ban, Italy will kick Monsanto and all GMO crops out of the country completely going forward.

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Thursday, July 11, 2013

Class Action Monsanto Sued after its GMO Wheat Contaminated Farms and Meet the Senators who Received Donations from Monsantos

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According to centerforfoodsafety.org, a class action lawsuit was filed on the behalf of Pacific Northwest wheat farmers and Center for Food Safety (CFS) after Oregon farmers suffered depressed prices of wheat due to discovery of illegal GM wheat resistant to Monsanto’s Roundup.

Apparently, Monsanto’s genetically modified wheat has not been approved for commercial production in the US. After the discovery of Monsanto’s GE crop in Oregon field, other countries including South Korea, Japan and European Union put a ban on US GMO wheat.

Many farmers, health activists and experts have argued that planting GE crops can contaminate organic and conventionally grown crops. It many cases that has been the case and Monsanto’s GE crops have ruined and contaminated the farmer’s original crops. Ironically, Monsanto has been suing farmers for contaminating their crops with GMOs and over the years, hundreds of farmers have been forced to pay Monsanto their biotechnology fee.
However, in this case, Monsanto has been conducting field tests on its genetically glyphostae-resistant wheat in 16 different states from 1998 to 2005 but they never commercialized their crops. In 2004, due to market resistant and major outcry by the public, Monsanto had to give up its persistent on approving GE wheat.

All these year, previous contaminations of GE corn and GE rice have cost farmers over $1 billion in loss. But this time, farmers are waking up that Monsanto can push them through bankruptcy by its reckless and irresponsible GE policies.

The Centers for Food Safety and Washington wheat farmers are representing board of class farmers affected by contamination and demanding that Monsanto should take responsibility towards its action and clean up the GE contaminates. The farmers are also seeking compensation for diminished prices and their loss in export of GE wheat.

“We farmers cannot stand idly while companies like Monsanto destroy our export markets and our economy, these reckless open-air test plots of GE wheat must be put to an end” said Tom Stahl, 4th generation Washington wheat farmer.

Also, Andrew Kimbrell, the executive director for Centers for Food Safety said that “Monsanto has put our farmer’s wheat export market at grave risk. Billions of dollars, and our food supply, is at risk because of Monsanto’s negligence. They must be held accountable”.

According to centerforfoodsafety.org, Martha Crouch, Ph.D., Plant Sciences and a consultant for CFS said that the discovery of unapproved Roundup Ready wheat in an Oregon farm is a proof that Monsanto is incompetent to keep their engineered genes under control.

Stephan Colbert who has had a long history of standing up against corporations like ExxonMobil and Goldman Sachs in his show mentioned how the a defenseless multinational corporation like Monsanto is being unfairly attacked because of a little slip-up of its spontaneous herbicide-resistant “Roundup Ready” wheat with commercial wheat  in a farm in Oregon.

He also pointed out how after the market rejection, the GE wheat crops were supposed to be destroyed back in 2005.

Colbert also said how everyone needs to relax since there’s nothing to fear from Monsanto’s genetically modified un-killable mystery wheat, or what he calls “the amber waves of Franken-grain.”

He also mentioned that people are calling Monsanto’s wheat “Zombie wheat” and the return of the waling bread, yet the Washington policies liek Monsanto’s protection Act is exempting Monsanto from being hold liable in the court of law in case of a lawsuit against GE crops. Recently, Monsanto’s Protection Act was added as biotech rider inside the 2013 Agricultural Appropriations Bill.

According to motherjones.com, Sen. Roy Blunt was the man who pushed the rider into the Agricultural Appropriations bill and he even worked with giant biotech company Monsanto to craft the rider.

According to OpenSecrets, Senator Blunt’s ties to Monsanto shines so bright since Monsanto first stated bribing Blunt back in 2008 by giving him $10,000 donation when Blunt was still serving in the House of representative. In 2010, Blunt ran successfully for the Senate and he was given $44,250 by Monsanto and in 2012 the giant pesticide company, Monsanto enriched Blunt’s campaigns again by $64,250.

But Senator Blunt isn’t the only one on the Congress who is apparently on Monsanto’s payroll. Recently, 71 member of the US House of Representative voted “No” on a farm bill that will allow the states to mandate GMO labeling. All these senates received considerable amount of donations from the giant biotech company Monsanto: http://www.seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-food/march-against-Monsanto-politicians-paid-monsanto.php#MonsantoRepresentative


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