Free Trade Leaves World Food In Grip Of Global Giants

I am pleased to see this one made it here. thanks for posting it.<br />
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There is a tie in within the following articles and it is my hope those who read here will go and connect the dots.<br />
There is a small group of individuals at the helm of the United States and they should not be confused wit the oft used and misleading "the Americans" I tis NOT the Americasns nor the Swiss of "Jews" or any other colour of fiction presented to draw attention away from a well planned agenda of corporate controt (banks are corporations)<br />
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For the peoples of the world to not get what has been and will continue to take place is to give permission to their own demise.<br />
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Start saving seeds folks. Next thing they will make it illegal to do so, just watch. By stealing the genetic material of plants they will then have the world's population under their thumbs. If these criminal scum could licence the air and force us to buy it, they would.

Too late!

terminator seed is here
MONSANTO SEEKS MONOPOLY ON LIFE The 1998 Award for Corporate Knavery goes to Monsanto, for its efforts to squash free speech, enslave the Third World, and generally force all humanity to rely upon them for our very survival. (When do they find time to sleep?)
Most controversial is a new type of seed that produces crops with sterile seeds. This makes farmers dependent upon the commercial seed market, since they will no longer be able to save seed from harvest, a practice common in developing countries.

Monsanto's defense is that farmers don't have to buy the new seed, but often government rules or commercial credit forces farmers to grow certain crop varieties such as wheat, cotton, and soybeans which could include the new technology. Biologists point out that even farmers that don't buy the "Terminator" seeds are at risk of sterile crops because of easy cross-pollination from their neighbor's fields.

Another important angle is that Monsanto does not own this technology outright; it was developed jointly with the USDA, which is expected to shortly grant Monsanto an exclusive patent. (For more on USDA, see story above.)

The company also made the news as the long-running scandal over Monsanto's bovine growth hormone (BGH) took a new twist: Two TV reporters lost their jobs for preparing a report on the topic. BGH, which is used to make dairy cows produce more milk, contains a substance that sometimes accelerates tumor growth. Perhaps more significant, the FDA (part of USDA) has refused to require labeling of milk from BGH-treated cows.

Monsanto lawyers pressured the station and the Fox network for editorial control of the story, such as substituting "human health implications" for the word, "cancer." Even though the reporters say that 73 rewrites of the script changed it to include pro-BGH statements that were misleading or inaccurate, Monsanto still threatened to sue. The two journalism veterans, with a combined 45 years of experience, were fired for insubordination and the story was killed.

REFERENCES:
Reporters Sue TV Station, Claim Firing Over Suppressed Story
Enviros Stop Monsanto Deal With Respected "Peasant's Bank"
Monsanto Biotech Ads Blitz Europe
"Terminator" Seed Nears Approval
Angry Biotech Firms Slam Monsanto For Industry's Bad Image

now if terminator posts can be developed for the anon trolls...

I saw those two journalists a few years ago being interviewed on The Nature of Things if I'm remembering correctly. It's infuriating to see the manipulation and coverups that are going on all over the place.

I consider it a crime against humanity to force developing nations to grow GM seeds as a condition for financial assistance. I consider it a crime against humanity to alter our food seeds at all. No one should be able to patent seeds or alter seeds that will become the only source of seeds on the planet. We're all nuts if we keep voting in people that support this kind of destruction to the planet.

I have posted an article about the need for a corporate death penalty and this company would be one of the first on my very long list of criminals. Hopefully it will be up on the site soon. Although I think that government officials that are complicit in these crimes also should be included in the accountability "death penalty".

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"Yeah, well, [Mr. President] we used all five fingers because that's the way our mittens are made." Antonia Zerbisias

These scoundrels should be acountable, trouble is their power over us prevents that. Thus we have a situation like this: "Kill someone and you are a murderer, kill 100,000 someones and you are a great president."

Water is next on the list of corporate cartel control. Availability will be based on the ability to pay. That doesn`t affect us, you say? Au contraire! Even in North America, the price will be driven so high that many here will be denied access to water. Various governments around the world, including Canada`s, refuse to recognize water as a human right!

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US Declares Iraqis Must <br />
Destroy Their Own Seeds <br />
Edited by Iman Khaduri<br />
<a href="http://abutamam.blogspot.com">http://abutamam.blogspot.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca">www.globalresearch.ca</a><br />
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For the record: "U.S. declares Iraqis can not save their own seeds" <br />
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"As part of sweeping "economic restructuring" implemented by the Bush Administration in Iraq, Iraqi farmers will no longer be permitted to save their seeds, which include seeds the Iraqis themselves have developed over hundreds of years. Instead, they will be forced to buy seeds from US corporations. That is because in recent years, transnational corporations have patented and now own many seed varieties originated or developed by indigenous peoples. In a short time, Iraq will be living under the new American credo: <br />
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Pay Monsanto, or starve ." <br />
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"The American Administrator of the Iraqi CPA (Coalition Provisional Authority) government, Paul Bremer, updated Iraq's intellectual property law to 'meet current internationally-recognized standards of protection'. The updated law makes saving seeds for next year's harvest, practiced by 97% of Iraqi farmers in 2002, and is the standard farming practice for thousands of years across human civilizations, to be now illegal.. Instead, farmers will have to obtain a yearly license for genetically modified (GM) seeds from American corporations. These GM seeds have typically been modified from seeds developed over thousands of generations by indigenous farmers like the Iraqis, and shared freely like agricultural 'open source.'" <br />
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Iraq law Requires Seed Licenses November 13, 2004 <br />
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"According to Order 81, paragraph 66 - , issued by L. Paul Bremer , the people in Iraq are now prohibited from saving seeds and may only plant seeds for their food from licensed, authorized U.S. distributors. <br />
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The paragraph states, "Farmers shall be prohibited from re-using seeds of protected varieties or any variety mentioned in items 1 and 2 of paragraph of Article 14 of this chapter." <br />
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Written in massively intricate legalese, Order 81 directs the reader at Article 14, paragraph 2 to paragraph of Article 4, which states any variety that is different from any other known variety may be registered in any country and become a protected variety of seed - thus defaulting it into the "protected class" of seeds and prohibiting the Iraqis from reusing them the following season. Every year, the Iraqis must destroy any seed they have, and repurchase seeds from an authorized supplier, or face fines, penalties and/or jail time." <br />
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As per an Iraqi proverb, the day will come, sooner rather than later, when the Iraqis will shred Bremer's Laws, soak them in water and offer the glass to Bremer to drink. <br />
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<a href="http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KHA501A.html">http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KHA501A.html</a> <br />
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Iraqis Can't Save Seed<br />
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By Bud Landry<br />
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"U.S. Declares Iraqis Can't Save See," by David Deschesne <br />
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According to Order 81, paragraph 66 -, issued by L. Paul Bremer , the people in Iraq are now prohibited from saving seeds and may only plant seeds for their food from from licensed, authorized U.S. distributors. <br />
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The paragraph states, "Farmers shall be prohibited from re-using seeds of protected varieties or any variety mentioned in items 1 and 2 of paragraph of Article 14 of this chapter." <br />
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Written in massively intricate legalese, Order 81 directs the reader at Article 14, paragraph 2 to paragraph of Article 4, which states any variety that is different from any other known variety may be registered in any country and become a protected variety of seed - thus defaulting it into the "protected class" of seeds and prohibiting the Iraqis from reusing them the following season. Every year, the Iraqis must destroy any seed they have, and repurchase seeds from an authorized supplier, or face fines, penalties and/ or jail time. <br />
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This is the freedom that comes with the American form of democracy? <br />
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<a href="http://magic-city-news.com/article_2812.shtml">http://magic-city-news.com/article_2812.shtml</a> <br />