Surprised? Monsanto Openly Wrote Own Monsanto Protection Act

[northstar]

Why was this allowed to happen? American citizens who call, e-mail, tweet or write to their representatives have the potential to make a big difference with this issue. And there are inforgraphics you can post on your FB pages and Twitter feeds to get the word out.

"It should come as no surprise to many of you to find out that Monsanto actually authored the wording of its own Monsanto Protection Act hidden in the recently passed and signed Continuing Resolution spending bill. How could a major corporation write its own laws and regulations, you ask?

Quite frankly I think it’s important to understand that the entire Senate passed the bill containing the Protection Act, but the politician who actually gave Monsanto the pen in order to write their very own legislation is no others than Roy Blunt — a Republican Senator from Missouri. As the latest IB Times article reveals, the Missouri politician worked with Monsanto to write the Monsanto Protection Act. This was confirmed by a New York news report I will get to shortly..."

http://naturalsociety.com/surprised-monsanto-openly-wrote-own-monsanto-protection-act/#ixzz2OykEYZaa

also...
http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/82039-surprised-monsanto-openly-wrote-own-monsanto-protection-act

For those Americans who are tired of your politicians meekly doing the bidding of predatory corporations like Monsanto and other GMO corporations, contact your elected representatives. They do pay attention to each letter they get, and when they get a lot of letters, they pay a lot of attention.

[BrianEn]

Doesn't surprise me. They pretty much do what they want.

[cloud9]

I have lived in the US for 12 years. At the beginning I used to see american people as real warriors and very intelligent and caring people but as time passes I see how a comfortable life makes people a lot lazier. I understand how it happens but at the same time I wish they would be more curios about everything.

Today I saw an old magazine at a doctor's office, the cover had a picture of Romney with the question: Is Romney the next USA's CEO? For somebody on the know this is very explicit, right? Well, a friend of mine was living the building as the same time as I was and I showed her the magazine and made a comment about the USA being a corporation and the president the CEO. Her answer was: Oh, no! If the government or the country were a corporation it would never be managed as it is now, it's impossible!

Well, she was right about the bad management but at the same time she never asked why I thought it was a corporation.

When I listen to american citizens conversations about politics or the state of the country I usually end up living the room, it makes me very sad how they blindly believe in their government and never ever question anything, same about the news they see on tv.

[northstar]

Doesn't surprise me. They pretty much do what they want.

I agree Brian. We are literally watching the biotech multinationals attempting to hold the humanity's food production hostage. Can you imagine what will happen if/when they are successful and they manage to drive all non-GMO farmers out of business? They will literally hold the power of life and death over humanity. They will be able to rule with the politics of starvation.

I'm not a "conspiracy nut" but this stuff is so blatant and so obvious I am shocked that Americans are not rioting in the streets about it.

In addition, GMO biotech corporations are actively attempting to make the world's bee populations extinct. It has been proven that GMO crops are killing bee populations all over the planet and yet "we the people" (the citizens of the world) are doing nothing. We sit back in our armchairs, watching the latest reality TV show while biotech giants make the bees extinct which will make humans extinct.

And we do nothing.

Clearly elected representatives on both sides of the political spectrum are implicated or complicit.

Who will raise their voice about this if we the people stay silent?

Mystery Malady Kills More Bees, Heightening Worry on Farms
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/science/earth/soaring-bee-deaths-in-2012-sound-alarm-on-malady.html?_r=0

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A mysterious malady that has been killing honeybees en masse for several years appears to have expanded drastically in the last year, commercial beekeepers say, wiping out 40 percent or even 50 percent of the hives needed to pollinate many of the nation’s fruits and vegetables.

A conclusive explanation so far has escaped scientists studying the ailment, colony collapse disorder, since it first surfaced around 2005. But beekeepers and some researchers say there is growing evidence that a powerful new class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids, incorporated into the plants themselves, could be an important factor.

The pesticide industry disputes that. But its representatives also say they are open to further studies to clarify what, if anything, is happening.

“They looked so healthy last spring,” said Bill Dahle, 50, who owns Big Sky Honey in Fairview, Mont. “We were so proud of them. Then, about the first of September, they started to fall on their face, to die like crazy. We’ve been doing this 30 years, and we’ve never experienced this kind of loss before.”

In a show of concern, the Environmental Protection Agency recently sent its acting assistant administrator for chemical safety and two top chemical experts here, to the San Joaquin Valley of California, for discussions.

In the valley, where 1.6 million hives of bees just finished pollinating an endless expanse of almond groves, commercial beekeepers who only recently were losing a third of their bees to the disorder say the past year has brought far greater losses.

[northstar]

When I listen to american citizens conversations about politics or the state of the country I usually end up living the room, it makes me very sad how they blindly believe in their government and never ever question anything, same about the news they see on tv.

There is a scary huge amount of mind programming that happens with TV alone, cloud9, not to mention radio. When I say "mind programming" some folks might take exception to that but the folks who run major media have this stuff down to a science. I used to have a prof when I was in university and whenever I would complain about the pernicious effect of TV he would always say "of course that can't be true. People know the difference between reality and what they watch on TV".

Of course he was completely neglecting the fact that the moving pictures and sound that we consume on TV go mostly into our subconscious, which accepts everything it sees as true. And thus we and our kids are hypnotized to believe what is fed to us, and to buy what is advertised.

[tnkayaker]

When I listen to american citizens conversations about politics or the state of the country I usually end up living the room, it makes me very sad how they blindly believe in their government and never ever question anything, same about the news they see on tv.

There is a scary huge amount of mind programming that happens with TV alone, cloud9, not to mention radio. When I say "mind programming" some folks might take exception to that but the folks who run major media have this stuff down to a science. I used to have a prof when I was in university and whenever I would complain about the pernicious effect of TV he would always say "of course that can't be true. People know the difference between reality and what they watch on TV".

Of course he was completely neglecting the fact that the moving pictures and sound that we consume on TV go mostly into our subconscious, which accepts everything it sees as true. And thus we and our kids are hypnotized to believe what is fed to us, and to buy what is advertised.

northstar im sure you realise that there is subliminal flashes of consumerism and all kinds of mili-second flashes, all kinds of sex crap and tons of horrific crap that are programed into some of the shows and stuff most people watch on tv, not to mention the ability of the new flat screens to send the message home even more severely, i know for a fact this is happening, so its on the surface, its in the programming and most ppl dont even know they are taking it in , until they make choices they dont realise they want to make, as its already been programed in,or is being programmed in as we speak, this coupled with blasts of mind co ordinated micro w bursts putting verbal messages in some ppls minds its no wonder we can stay balanced at all, turn the tv off and play with your kids if you have any, we need turn the tv off and get out of the house and do stuff not related to watching tv. its more addictive than crack a study has said recently, no doubt, no doubt, stay well , keep the faith, peace,dennis

[northstar]

northstar im sure you realise that there is subliminal flashes of consumerism and all kinds of mili-second flashes, all kinds of sex crap and tons of horrific crap that are programed into some of the shows and stuff most people watch on tv, not to mention the ability of the new flat screens to send the message home even more severely, i know for a fact this is happening, so its on the surface, its in the programming and most ppl dont even know they are taking it in , until they make choices they dont realise they want to make, as its already been programed in,or is being programmed in as we speak, this coupled with blasts of mind co ordinated micro w bursts putting verbal messages in some ppls minds its no wonder we can stay balanced at all, turn the tv off and play with your kids if you have any, we need turn the tv off and get out of the house and do stuff not related to watching tv. its more addictive than crack a study has said recently, no doubt, no doubt, stay well , keep the faith, peace,dennis

I had my cable disconnected five years ago and my life is 100% better since I stopped watching TV. Since then I have achieved many life goals that I would not have been able to if I was still investing 20+ hours a week into that hypnotic box.

Now back to Monsanto....!! :)

[william r sanford72]

iam a bee keeper and farmer..i live in iowa. i have watched monsanto and others like dupont..slowly work toward just this agenda for years.long befor avalon.this will not go away unless the farmers and consumers act. and i mean boycotts etc. any thing less is a waste of paper and time.look very close at who has and is running these companys..where they come from and where they been and you soon realize just how bad it really is and how long they have been at it.all i can do is hope..and not use any of there crap!!... keep up the good fight..thanks for keepn this and other threads like it going.

[northstar]

iam a bee keeper and farmer..i live in iowa. i have watched monsanto and others like dupont..slowly work toward just this agenda for years.long befor avalon.this will not go away unless the farmers and consumers act. and i mean boycotts etc. any thing less is a waste of paper and time.look very close at who has and is running these companys..where they come from and where they been and you soon realize just how bad it really is and how long they have been at it.all i can do is hope..and not use any of there crap!!... keep up the good fight..thanks for keepn this and other threads like it going.

How are your bees doing, William?

[BrianEn]

iam a bee keeper and farmer..i live in iowa. i have watched monsanto and others like dupont..slowly work toward just this agenda for years.long befor avalon.this will not go away unless the farmers and consumers act. and i mean boycotts etc. any thing less is a waste of paper and time.look very close at who has and is running these companys..where they come from and where they been and you soon realize just how bad it really is and how long they have been at it.all i can do is hope..and not use any of there crap!!... keep up the good fight..thanks for keepn this and other threads like it going.


Where can we as individuals begin. Our food has been totally jacked with. In smaller European countries they have kept gmo off of their plates while we here have allowed it to this far for the conglomerates to totally entrench themselves in the middle. I'm not asking you but everyone reading this thread. I'm pretty much sure that others like me reading this feel alone in their local efforts. I knows their is some waking up in the community towards the approaching food crisises. There is lots of support here for the farmers markets that crop up here. Some grocery stores do offer organically grown produce, but it is up to buy organic in order to support the stores to expand their organic selections.

[northstar]

Thanks for asking Brian!
Sometimes it can feel like we are just small, insignificant individuals trying to fight the mighty international biotech and agribusiness corporations.

However, I do believe that each individual (we the people) have incredible power to make significant changes. The problem is that we the people have allowed ourselves to be hypnotized by mass media, fattened up by toxic food, dumbed down by sub-par education and domesticated in the last many decades.

If only a small percentage of the people reading this took maybe an hour or two to find out the name of their elected representative (no matter what country you live in) and how to get in touch with them, and then compose a short, direct letter stating your concern and requesting that the elected representative take a specific action I truly do believe that in a few short years the perilous situation we are in would begin to change.

I am realistic and I do not believe that elected representatives will immediately become responsive to the demands of we the people. BUT sooner or later, if enough of us enter into this conversation, if we are persistent in our demands, if we refuse to be distracted or bought off or paralyzed by fear, they will HAVE TO START LISTENING TO US.

I would also like to add that I believe it is beyond the scope of one human to fight every bit of archontic evil that humanity faces so I suggest that it is worth your while to look in your heart and ask yourself, what is most near and dear to my heart? What is it worth to me to take a few hours a month to keep up on current events, to get knowledgable, and then to send emails to politicians?

And if that is not comfortable to you, I suggest that simply starting to "speak your truth" is incredibly powerful and potent as a change catalyst. For years I kept my mouth shut about my "fringe" beliefs and experiences, afraid to let my mainstream relatives and co-workers around me know what I really thought. But now I speak up! I no longer care if people who are sleep walking through life think I am weird. Since I started speaking my truth, something remarkable happened. People have started to initiate unusual conversations with me - they want to talk about this stuff, they too are looking for something better than the empty dream peddled to us by soulless corporations.

Personally, I have chosen the cause of the bees which are being systematically made extinct by agribusiness companies like Bayer and Monsanto as my personal "line in the sand". But there are so many other urgent concerns that need spiritual warriors today. Mother Gaia needs us to stop complaining and worrying and start taking action.

[northstar]

Monsanto Update, as this story develops today... I actually think that Pres. Obama and his family are awesome and I'm very disappointed that he signed the Monsanto Protection Act.

Obama Signature On Monsanto Protection Act Ignites Massive Activism

http://naturalsociety.com/obama-signature-monsanto-protection-act-ignites-massive-activism/#ixzz2P3JdRxvO


"Thanks to the alternative news covering every angle of the Protection Act and the absurd fact that Monsanto actually wrote the rider itself, people have now come to fully understand just how deep the corruption goes when it comes to Monsanto’s Big Food monopoly. And it doesn’t exempt the President.

It’s a well known fact that the Obama family actually eats from the White House organic garden which was planted in 2009 and has full time staffers who maintain and harvest organic produce that comes from the garden. Many high level politicians actually refuse to eat anything but organic, as they are fully aware of what’s in ‘conventional’, GMO-loaded items. Yet, despite this knowledge, they are quite eager to push Monsanto’s GMOs and ruthless business model on the citizens of the United States.

And the people are fully aware of the betrayal.

[grampah]

http://rt.com/usa/monsanto-bill-blunt-agriculture-006/

"Obama signs 'Monsanto Protection Act' written by Monsanto-sponsored senator"

(selected key paragraphs)

"If the president’s signature isn’t all that surprising, though, consider the genesis of the bill itself. According to an article published Monday in the New York Daily News, US Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Missouri) “worked with Monsanto to craft the language in the bill.”"

"Sen. Blunt defended his bill to the News, shrugging off suggestions that it set a startling precedent that will affect all US agriculture by firing back, “What it says is if you plant a crop that is legal to plant when you plant it, you get to harvest it. But it is only a one-year protection in that bill.”"

(I knew Roy Blunt personally when he first ran for congress in 1996 since we were on the same campaign trails while I ran to represent a district in the Missouri legislature. What Roy is well known for is "BluntSpeak", Orwellian duplicitious talk, making speeches and statements that are vapid, skirt around issues, yet he consistently wins re-election in Missouri. His hand in this legislation fits his standard mode of operation. Monsanto should be shut down, all executives charged with treason and genocide. I first heard about their poisonous "weed controls" from my neighboring farmers when I lived in farm and cattle country for 18 years.)

[william r sanford72]

thanks for asking about the bees northstar.most people dont ask who no me because they say they get a lecture everytime.if your a bee keeper then you know exactly the state of the enviroment.after about 10 years of not so controlled breeding but mainly wild hives..swarms.and a combination of so called standard breeds.carnolian..buk fast..and italian and 100s of hives crashing i currently have bees that seem to be very mite intolerant..as in hygenic as hell. i stoped using any thing to treat my bees.i stopped requeening the hives that survied and began to let mothernature do its job with a little help from me and a lotta dead hives.but its a losing battle because the ag buisness has all but destroyed there food source combine that with the chemicals.well i cant breed that protection into em..or even protect them really. but yet they survive......so i owe it to em to do what i can to help preserve them.its one of the ways i feel like im giving back and when im working a hive even a pissed off one.its as close to church as i get??sorry about spelling. keep up the good fight.

[northstar]

thanks for asking about the bees northstar.most people dont ask who no me because they say they get a lecture everytime.if your a bee keeper then you know exactly the state of the enviroment.after about 10 years of not so controlled breeding but mainly wild hives..swarms.and a combination of so called standard breeds.carnolian..buk fast..and italian and 100s of hives crashing i currently have bees that seem to be very mite intolerant..as in hygenic as hell. i stoped using any thing to treat my bees.i stopped requeening the hives that survied and began to let mothernature do its job with a little help from me and a lotta dead hives.but its a losing battle because the ag buisness has all but destroyed there food source combine that with the chemicals.well i cant breed that protection into em..or even protect them really. but yet they survive......so i owe it to em to do what i can to help preserve them.its one of the ways i feel like im giving back and when im working a hive even a pissed off one.its as close to church as i get??sorry about spelling. keep up the good fight.


Ahh, William that is music to my ears, especially the part about when you are working a hive it is as close to church as you get!! When I was around my friend's hives I felt the energy of the bees, it was incredible and spiritual. It wounds me to the core the way we humans are allowing agribusiness and biotech corporations to make the bees extinct.

It's funny you know, many people talk about alien intelligences, etc but if they spent some quality time around bees and got to know something about bee hives, they would get to experience a terrestrial "alien intelligence", in my opinion :)

As I said in my message to you, I don't know a lot about bees but the people I know who have healthy hives that they run by biodynamic principles said that one of the big problems is the way the queens were being handled these days. It sounds like you have arrived at that type of healthy solution because your bees are thriving. God bless you and all the beekeepers William!

[northstar]

I knew Roy Blunt personally when he first ran for congress in 1996 since we were on the same campaign trails while I ran to represent a district in the Missouri legislature. What Roy is well known for is "BluntSpeak", Orwellian duplicitious talk, making speeches and statements that are vapid, skirt around issues, yet he consistently wins re-election in Missouri. His hand in this legislation fits his standard mode of operation. Monsanto should be shut down, all executives charged with treason and genocide. I first heard about their poisonous "weed controls" from my neighboring farmers when I lived in farm and cattle country for 18 years.

thanks grampah!
I totally agree that "Monsanto should be shut down, all executives charged with treason and genocide."
I am hoping that the awesome minds and heroic hearts of the people who visit Avalon can spend just a few hours and write, call, tweet or Facebook their elected representatives to say just that.
Together, we the people are a mighty force for change.

[Gardener]

Not everyone is as bad as USA when it comes to GMO, some countries boycot it and here in UK and Europe, Monsanto have majorly reduced their operation and closed biotech centers. The reason being too much opposition, so keep at it, it does work. I watched a couple of trials fields close by me about 8/9 miles away, and saw the crops of maize corn die off every year, failures. Some years they were stunted, some years brown mottled, wilted, all looking very unhealthy. It made me smile at their lack of success.

My own garden has been mainly organic for 25+ years, I'm not a purist, but i do my best. I buy organic as much as possible and despite general price rises, the organic price is coming down and the choice is getting better. Bees are most definitly not as plentiful as they were, but I have a 12ft bed full of comfrey and the flowers are always full of bees. The comfrey leaf harvest goes to make fertiliser, and I get 3 crops a year. Always leaving some to flower for the bees.

The mind set of the corps like monsanto is scarcity based, and their efforts are to provide profitable food for society, not realising/caring that their parasitism is going to destroy the host, mother earths abundant supply; if only they could stop being greedy. Organic food has much more complex nutrition, and much less is needed for satiation.

Prayers for your bees my friend.

[northstar]

Not everyone is as bad as USA when it comes to GMO, some countries boycot it and here in UK and Europe, Monsanto have majorly reduced their operation and closed biotech centers. The reason being too much opposition, so keep at it, it does work. I watched a couple of trials fields close by me about 8/9 miles away, and saw the crops of maize corn die off every year, failures. Some years they were stunted, some years brown mottled, wilted, all looking very unhealthy. It made me smile at their lack of success.

My own garden has been mainly organic for 25+ years, I'm not a purist, but i do my best. I buy organic as much as possible and despite general price rises, the organic price is coming down and the choice is getting better. Bees are most definitly not as plentiful as they were, but I have a 12ft bed full of comfrey and the flowers are always full of bees. The comfrey leaf harvest goes to make fertiliser, and I get 3 crops a year. Always leaving some to flower for the bees.

The mind set of the corps like monsanto is scarcity based, and their efforts are to provide profitable food for society, not realising/caring that their parasitism is going to destroy the host, mother earths abundant supply; if only they could stop being greedy. Organic food has much more complex nutrition, and much less is needed for satiation.

Prayers for your bees my friend.


Yes! One fantastic thing people can do to help the bees is plant flowers! That is great!

[northstar]

Do we really want Monsanto's toxic GMO lab-created products forced into our children's mouths due to lack of consumer choice? Many anti-GMO farmers are simply giving up trying to grow crops like corn and soybeans due to the predatory business practices of Monsanto.

http://www.energygrid.com/ecology/2013/01cs-monsantomonopoly.html

Monsanto's Earnings Nearly Double as They Create a Farming Monopoly




LAST WEEK MONSANTO announced [2] staggering profits from 2012 to celebratory shareholders while American farmers filed into Washington, DC to challenge the Biotech giant’s right to sue farmers whose fields have become contaminated with Monsanto’s seeds. On January 10 oral arguments began before the U.S. Court of Appeals to decide whether to reverse the cases' dismissal last February.

Monsanto's earnings nearly doubled [2] analysts' projections and its total revenue reached $2.94bn at the end of 2012. The increased price of Roundup herbicide, continued market domination in the United States and, perhaps most significant, expanded markets in Latin America are all contributing factors to Monsanto's booming business.

Exploiting their patent on transgenic corn, soybean and cotton, Monsanto asserts an insidious control of those agricultural industries in the US, effectively squeezing out conventional farmers (those using non-transgenic seeds) and eliminating their capacity to viably participate and compete on the market. (Until the end of 2012 [3], Monsanto was under investigation by the Department of Justice for violating anti-trust laws by practicing anticompetitive activities towards other biotech companies, but that investigation was quietly closed before the year's end.)

The seemingly modest objective of the current lawsuit, OSGATA et al v Monsanto, originally filed in March 2011, is to acquire legal protection for organic and conventional farmers from Monsanto's aggressive prosecution of inadvertent patent infringements. But the implications of the suit are momentous. If the DC Court of Appeal reverses the dismissal, a process of discovery will be instigated that could unveil a reservoir of information, access to which Monsanto has withheld from public knowledge — both by not disclosing it and preventing independent research.