Genetically Modified Bullshit: How the Corporate, Conservative and Liberal Media Consistently Lies to Us

The corporate media consistently lies to us on behalf of the billionaires and has seemingly forever. A good example is Genetically modified crops (GMO’s). They were supposed to be safe and have higher yields than traditionally planted or organic crops.

Last year, a study by the United States National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine showed that GMO crop yields were less than many traditionally planted crops, such as rapeseed and sugar beets. Some GMO crop yields were about the same as traditionally planted crops, such as corn.

The corporate news media also claimed using GMOs would reduce the use of herbicides and insecticides, which is ridiculous since the GMO herbicides and insecticides are genetically placed into the GMO plants, and not sprayed outside the plant, and then you eat those bug and plant killers when you consume the plant. The folks of the corporate news media also don’t want you to know the information in the previous sentence.

When a bug bites into a GMO plant, the Bt toxin genetically placed into the plant kills the bug by swelling up its intestines until it explodes. The Ht toxin or herbicide placed into plants prevents weeds from growing near crops by killing them. You eat the Bt and the Ht toxins when you consume the crop.

In many cases, insects have adapted to the GMO Bt and Ht toxins and forced GMO farmers to use greater and stronger amounts of insecticides and herbicides. This is why herbicide use has grown in the USA, while insecticide use has stayed the same. Now if you count the pesticide genetically placed into GMO crops, it’s likely US insecticide use has grown. By way of contrast, in France, where GMO’s are not allowed to be planted, insecticide use has declined.

Herbicide use in the USA is the upper line, the lower line is herbicide use in Europe

“Safe” was the biggest corporate news media lie when it comes to GMOs. To this day they continue to express this lie to us, as do politicians of both major political parties. The Monsanto Corporation applied to get its GMO’s entered into the US food chain to the United States Food and Drug Administration (USDA) a couple of decades ago, which granted its request on the basis of Monsanto’s own unbiased (I mean that sarcastically) tests of its product on rats. It turns out the tests supposedly lasted all of three months, and the USDA failed to do any of its own testings. The USDA approved the GMO poison for the US food chain.

When an independent French study showed GMOs caused tumors in rats after eating GMOs for more than three months, the US corporate media establishment attacked the study, following the lead of the GMO corporations. Not once did a major US news outlet investigate to see if maybe Monsanto’s testers had a reason to study rats and GMO consumption for more than three months. Odds are the Monsanto researchers knew their product caused tumors in rats, but only after three months of feeding them the GMO poison. So they only supplied the data for the first three months of rats being fed GMOs. See Scientist Who Discovered GMOs Cause Tumors in Rats Wins Landmark Defamation Lawsuit in Paris–Healthnut.com

GMO crops are less labor intensive than traditionally planted crops, and therefore cheaper to grow and more profitable. There lies the reality behind all the liOddes. The corporate news media doesn’t want to offend food advertisers, such as Safeway, Walmart, Albertson’s, Krogers, Nestle, Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, General Mills and many more because they all use GMO’s to increase their profit margins, and keep their share prices higher than they would otherwise be.

In addition, of course, keeping us misinformed helps giant GMO manufacturers like Bayer, which is currently the owner of Monsanto, as well as the powerful Wall Street investment banks, such as Goldman Sachs, Citibank and JP Morgan Chase.

All of these corporations keep the pressure on the corporate news media to keep us uninformed and misinformed about many issues, such as GMOs, which have been linked to tumors, autism, obesity, allergies and many more health issues in humans. Keeping us misinformed and uninformed on behalf of billionaires, hedge funds, both major political parties, major investment banks and food manufacturers is, in fact, their job.

 

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Monsanto and US Government Corruption

How completely corrupt is the US government? It’s been corrupted by big money for decades, and this corruption has put our lives at risk.

According to Ecowatch,

“Monsanto and officials within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are fighting legal efforts aimed at exploring Monsanto’s level of influence over regulatory assessments of the key chemical in the company’s Roundup herbicide, new federal court filings show.

The revelations are contained in a series of filings made within the last few days in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California as part of litigation brought by more than 50 people who are suing Monsanto. The plaintiffs claim they or their loved ones developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma after exposure to Roundup herbicide, and that Monsanto has spent decades covering up the chemical’s cancer risks.”

Numerous other diseases have been linked to Monsanto’s Roundup, as well as their GMO products.

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The Battle over the USA’s Economic Soul Begins: Trans-Pacific Partnership: Obama is Planning to Land the Knockout Punch Against the Middle Class

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a corporate power grab, a 5,544-page document that was negotiated in secret by big corporations while Congress, the public, and unions were locked out.

Multinationals like Google, Exxon, Monsanto, Goldman Sachs, UPS, FedEx, Apple, and Walmart are lobbying hard for it. Virtually every union in the U.S. opposes it. So do major environmental, senior, health, and consumer organizations.

This agreement has virtually nothing to do with trade since tariffs between the twelve nations of the TPP are at historic low. This agreement is really about exporting jobs, raising prices and more bonuses for the 1 percent at the expense of the 99 percent.

The TPP will mean fewer jobs and lower wages, higher prices for prescription drugs, the loss of regulations that protect our drinking water and food supply, and the loss of Internet freedom. It encourages privatization, undermines democracy, and will forbid many of the policies we need to combat climate change.

The worst part is the Investor-State Dispute Settlement provision, which allows a multinational corporation to sue to override any U.S. law, policy, or practice that it claims could limit its future profits. Secret panels of corporate lawyers and corporate lobbyists will decide these cases. Their judgments cannot be appealed, not even to the Supreme Court.

This provision will override your votes on the state and local levels. In other words, President Obama and Wall Street Senator Ron Wyden intend to suppress your voting rights, along with most of the Republican Party led by Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and Orrin Hatch.

Though the Obama administration touts the pact’s labor and environmental protections, the official Labor Advisory Committee on the TPP strongly opposes it, arguing that these protections are largely unenforceable window dressing.

On behalf of Wall Street and rich investors throughout the United States, President Obama is planning to call for a vote on the TPP in the US senate and the US House after the elections in November. Obama signed the TPP, a despicable income and political power redistribution scam, months ago. Wall Street Senator Ron Wyden will likely introduce the TPP in the senate. Wyden is Obama’s and Wall Street’s attack dog in the US senate in their war against the middle class. He has voted to redistribute trillions of dollars from the 99 to the 1 percent over the course of the his career in congress.

To learn more about the TPP, check out Citizen’s Trade Campaign, and Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, Public Citizen. For labor-specific resources, try CWA, http://stopthetpp.org/, and the AFL-CIO, http://www.aflcio.org/Issues/Trade.

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Obama signs THE Deny Americans the Right to Know Act, also known as the DARK ACT

Showing what a complete Wall Street/Corporate Hack he is, on Friday, July 29, Monsanto/Wall Street President Barack Obama signed into law S. 764, which overturns Vermont’s GMO label law and directs the Secretary of Agriculture to come up with a national labeling standard at some point in the next two to three years. Don’t you wish Obama would represent the people, all of them, not just the billionaires who fund the Democratic Party?

Under the new law, you’ll have to scan each product with a smart phone in order to figure out if they have GMOs in them. Obama still continues to lie when he maintains that GMOs have been proven safe. What he won’t mention is that GMOs have been proven safe only by the GMO corporations, such as Monsanto. He apparently refuses to look at the hundreds of independent and often peer reviewed studies which show how dangerous GMOs are. There are even two studies that have been performed by GMO giants, and subsequently leaked, that show how dangerous these things are to human health.

On the other hand, most of the Republicans in the congress voted for the DARK Act.

Check out these links for more information about how ignorant or dishonest your president is about the dangers of GMOs. Let’s face it. GMO’s have insecticides and herbicides in them, and you eat these things. Anybody think that’s healthy? Well, your president does.

A Valuable Reputation–the New Yorker

Busted: Biotech Leader ‘Syngenta’ Charged Over Covering Up Animal Deaths from GM Corn

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The Dark ACT and the Global Food Riots

Monsanto President Barack Obama is expected to sign the DARK Act (Deny Americans the Right to Know Act) this week. Democratic and Republican politicians voted this piece of legislative cover up through both the US house and senate this past week. This is a GMO labeling law that effectively makes it impossible to determine if a product has GMO poison in it without scanning every package.

The reason Wall Street Democrats like Obama and Wall Street Republicans want to protect the GMO industry, and allow it to continue poisoning US citizens is real simple. GMO crops are filled with pesticides and herbicides, making them less labor intensive, and therefore cheaper than non-GMO crops. Much of the milk you drink, the meat you eat, the corn and soy you snarf down, are all loaded with GMOs.

If GMOs in the USA were not part of the human food chain, the price of food would go up considerably and all across the board. The primary economic policy of both major political parties is to consistently redistribute income from the 99 to the 1 percent, which is exemplified by the looming Trans Pacific Partnership, the largest international income redistribution agreement in US history, which is falsely being marketed by its supporters as a trade agreement.

In order to keep you eating and buying cheap plastic crap made in China, given the ever increasing inequality of income devised by both major political parties running the country, your political leaders and the rest of the 1 percent have decided they would rather feed you poison than give you a pay raise to purchase higher costing but healthy food. If they didn’t feed you poison, and then lie about your food’s toxicity, there’d probably be significant internal unrest in the USA.

In other words, GMO poison is supported by the government to keep people from rioting over the high cost of food as their income is repeatedly redistributed to the 1 percent. Such unrest might lead to a dramatic overhaul of the politicians representing the people, and people would be elected that don’t support the continuous redistribution of income from the 99 to the 1 percent. These new politicians might even want to reverse that 35 year old trend of the government redistributing your income to the 1 percent.

As for how poisonous GMOs are, take a look at the photo below. Those are rats fed GMO’s and they began getting those monstrous tumors after eating only GMO poisoned food for a mere three months. That’s what you get for eating herbicides and pesticides. For more information, click Vermont’s GMO Labeling Law About to Go Into Effect–JohnHIvely.wordpress.com

Just imagine, President Obama and the Republican Party leadership continue to claim GMOs are safe, but they know there are plenty of studies showing how unsafe they are.

As for how those rats got to look like that, and to understand the absolute corruption that the billionaires in the US will go to in order to ensure you continue to eat poison, see Professor Seralini’s-team-wins-defamation-and-forgery-court-cases-on-gmo-and-pesticide-research

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Vermont’s GMO Labeling Law About to Go Into Effect

Vermont’s GMO labeling law will go into effect on July 1, 2016. The food industry spent tens of millions of dollars to try to stop this, but they apparently have given up the fight.

Last year, the Koch brothers controlled congressional representative, Mike Pompeo, attempted to get congress to pass the DARK Act, otherwise known as the Deny American’s the Right to Know Act, which would have stripped Americans voting rights across the United States when it came to voting on labeling GMO poisons.

Numerous independent studies link GMO’s to tumors, asthma, cancer, allergies, birth defects, deformities, kidney damage, liver damage, and several other maladies. For example, a French study showed that massive tumors began growing in rats fed only GMO foods after only three months. The industry studies, however, show that they only allegedly tested rats up to three months, which makes one wonder how many other tests the industry tried on rats that lasted longer than three months. See http://www.cbsnews.com/news/study-on-genetically-modified-corn-herbicide-and-tumors-reignites-controversy/. One has to wonder why the USDA approved GMO poison for human consumption back in 1996 considering they only looked at industry studies.

The industry studies, however, demonstrate absolute safety to humans, except for the studies that have been leaked to the public. See Cows Fed GMO Corn Died–Organic Authority. Also see A Valuable Reputation–the New Yorker.

For more information, click on the following link. Vermont GMO Labeling Law Going into Effect–Ecowatch

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Complete Government Corruption: US Regulatory Agencies Redistribute Your Health and Money to the 1 Percent

Glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, is probably causing cancer in humans. That’s according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) panel of cancer experts, which published its latest review of the cancer risks of glyphosate in March 2015.

According to Ecowatch, “Glyphosate was found in 93 percent of the 131 urine samples tested at an average level of 3.096 parts per billion (PPB). Children had the highest levels with an average of 3.586 PPB.

The regions with the highest levels were the West and the Midwest with an average of 3.053 PPB and 3.050 PPB respectively.

Glyphosate residues were not observed in any tap water samples during the early phase of the project, most likely due to phosphorus removal during water treatment.

The results from the UCSF urine testing in America showed a much higher frequency and average glyphosate level than those observed in urine samples in the European Union in 2013. The average level in Europe was around 1 PPB with a frequency of detection of 43.9 percent.

“If consumers had any doubt about the extent to which they are being poisoned by Monsanto’s Roundup, these tests results should put those doubts to rest,” Ronnie Cummins, international director of Organic Consumers Association, said.

“These test results highlight the massive failure of U.S. regulatory agencies, including the EPA, USDA and FDA, to protect us even as they continue to perpetuate the myth that low-level exposure to glyphosate is harmless. We must bring down this poison-for-profit model and build in its place a food and farming system that regenerates and heals, before it’s too late.”

There is a reason for this complete failure. It’s called government corruption to the core. Corporate profits are far more important than human health.

In effect, the US government is redistributing your health to the 1 percent via higher corporate profits, rising share prices and surging dividends, rather than protecting you from the predatory practices of the parasites of Monsanto.

See more at: https://action.organicconsumers.org/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=16052#sthash.9eA7rptQ.dpuf

See more at Glyphosate Found in Urine of 93 percent of Americans Tested–Ecowatch.com

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