Afwande,
I
absolutely appreciate Science and Technology and I value innovation and
inventions that has brought the use of new technology in modifying and making
modern way of life be appreciated by many and which is not the real challenge to
changing biological and mechanism of mixing and confusing gene of life, theories
and tests that have failed over the years; which is the bone of contention I
don’t agree with.
Science and Technology
equipments are innovations that have passed their test of time and are made
perfect through the required discipline observance and the International
standards put for their qualification. But, I don’t want to take
chances with an incompetent unqualified pilot the fear of flying me
up in the air will be questioned; someone who most definitely will either crash
on take off, or up in the air or even upon landing.
This is what I
disqualify and dispute. That things are
not done the right way the reason for
Africa failing from competing with the rest of the world at par. That
when the test has proved the science of GM is making people impotent and cannot
fire............Why still go for it??? So in my argument that, Nature and
The Production Unit at South of
HUMAN
industrial are is in danger ............and biological science is yet to perfect their invention of how
man and nature was created........ and this is a grave situation
challenging Gods purpose for creation; because at the end of the day, science
have not advanced innovation of human
production to its perfection......but we know how to protect and preserve
the Nature.................Why allow a failed theories that will destroy Nature
and Why shouldn’t we not protect our Human Rights against crime, violation and
abuse????
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
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Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: With GM you cannot fire ............Be Warned .......!!!
From: "anyumba462@yahoo.com"
To: Judy Miriga
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: With GM you cannot fire ............Be Warned .......!!!
Judy, When you use technology to
communicate, you don't think about God. When you flew by plane to the USA, you
didn't think about God. When you use washers n dryers in your basement, you
don't think about God. When Afwande challenges your ignorance about GM you rush
to God. God never made computers, man did through modifying those things which
God created, same to all iphones et al. So why do you jump when GM is mentioned?
Were all these things created by same God who gave human beings the knowledge to
modify them for their own comfort? Sorry I lost you Afwande!
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From: Judy Miriga
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:01:58 -0700 (PDT)
To:
socioeconomicforum50@gmail.com;
youngprofessional_ke@googlegroups.com;
Uchunguzionline; Change
Mombasa;
Mabadiliko
ReplyTo: Judy Miriga
Cc: \"anyumba462@yahoo.com\"
Subject: Fw: With GM you cannot fire ............Be Warned
.......!!!
Afwande,
God's work was made perfect.
Haina makosa. Overhauling Gods' workmanship through
biological gene transfer is to challenge God, ambayo ni kutoa Mungu makosa.
Science in any form, biological,
chemistry or physics go through many stages to produce good result
and thus qualify for good bill. For it to be accepted for
consumption, it has to pass the test of excellence .......which God perfected at
the time of creation and is the reason why we are all alive through
preserving, protecting and sustained Nature over the years.
Changing it require a lot of wisdom, knowledge and understanding,
discipline, value, focus, respect, dignity to bring about the required skills
and talent ...........the type which current crops of African politician leaders
dont have.........
This is why in scientific study, when
you try something and fail, from public protest which has experience adverse bad
effect, you don’t go on with moving the reject from US to Africa for
example. The failed experiments must be completely done with and
trashed............because it has failed the test and is unfit for human
consumption...........But if you go on with what is rendered unfit for human
consumption, you shall be doing worse damage on purpose and knowingly and
this behavior is treated as a crime against
humanity.
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
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Subject: Re: With GM you cannot fire ............Be Warned .......!!!
From: "anyumba462@yahoo.com"
To: Judy Miriga
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: With GM you cannot fire ............Be Warned .......!!!
Stop!
Do we accept test tube babies? Judy the Scientists are using genes God
created "genesis" to produce better species. To modify is not to change perse!
It is to make the same thing more suitable for the purpose at hand!
Afwande!
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From: Judy Miriga
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:57:35 -0700 (PDT)
To:
uchunguzionline@yahoogroups.com
ReplyTo: Judy Miriga
Cc: \"anyumba462@yahoo.com\"
Subject: With GM you cannot fire ............Be Warned
.......!!!
Afwande,
Ndugu yangu Afwande, modification in
simple terms is to change something from its original form. To qualify it, you
can either modifying change from good to bad or bad to good. When
you change the organism of God given gene of different species, you get system
mechanism of both disorganized and disoriented species from that of its
origin and that consequently results in complete change of
appearance, character, behavior and circumstances; the reason for species
getting confused from the change of metamorphosis that finally occurs from the
change.........Shall we therefore credit the workmanship of Scientist that are
in the process of making their theories perfect or shall we go with that of
God………Well, here is where we are tampering with God's creation which he had made
perfect upon creation. This is where science comes to crossroads
with that of Gods perfect creation and instead it is not harmonizing, improving
or making excellent to sustain and make life better for common good of
all. This is where science must re-think itself to get in line to
do good than bad.
Remember God’s commandment of Love and
consider why God gave Satan its democratic rights to live on earth but with
conditions to respect, value honor an dignify Creation or face
consequences..............
The Price of Sin is
death and destruction...............But God is faithful, He will keep His
promise to mankind and will never forsake us........and that, in the midst of
all these, our prayer in wisdom shall be that God should not destroy the world
for the sin of few but have Mercy upon us and help us to overcome trial and
temptations of the wicked and evil ones and guide our steps to safety and
greener pastures…………………..
Cheers !!!
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for
Africa Inc.,
USA
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Afwande,
Ndugu yangu Afwande, modification in simple
terms is to change something from its original form. To qualify it, you can
either modifying change from good to bad or bad to good. When you
change the organism of God given gene of different species, you get system
mechanism of both disorganized and disoriented species from that of its
origin and that consequently results in complete change of
appearance, character, behavior and circumstances; the reason for species
getting confused from the change of metamorphosis that finally occurs from the
change.........Shall we therefore credit the workmanship of Scientist that are
in the process of making their theories perfect or shall we go with that of
God………Well, here is where we are tampering with God's creation which he had made
perfect upon creation. This is where science comes to crossroads
with that of Gods perfect creation and instead it is not harmonizing, improving
or making excellent to sustain and make life better for common good of
all. This is where science must re-think itself to get in line to
do good than bad.
Remember God’s commandment of Love and
consider why God gave Satan its democratic rights to live on earth but with
conditions to respect, value honor an dignify Creation or face
consequences..............
The Price of Sin is
death and destruction...............But God is faithful, He will keep His
promise to mankind and will never forsake us........and that, in the midst of
all these, our prayer in wisdom shall be that God should not destroy the world
for the sin of few but have Mercy upon us and help us to overcome trial and
temptations of the wicked and evil ones and guide our steps to safety and
greener pastures…………………..
Cheers !!!
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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Subject: Re: [uchunguzionline] With GM you cannot fire ............Be Warned .......!!!
From: "anyumba462@yahoo.com"
To: uchunguzionline@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: [uchunguzionline] With GM you cannot fire ............Be Warned .......!!!
Judy Miriga!
You are so naïve and nausetingly ignorant. What do you know about genetic modification?
Genetic revolution is ubiquitous to mankind. Why do you think there are no black goats, sheep, or black camels in the desert? That is genetic modification. Why does you mother keep the biggest cockreel in the homestead to mate with chicken? That is genetic modification. Why did we have "Jagam" before marriage?
Oooof! People just don't know what they are talking about. GM has been practised in its subtle forms for aeons
Afwande!
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Good People,
With Genetically modified food, ok inyal chiwo
mach........you cannot fire........that is why former PM is
campaigning to transfer GM from US to Kenya and the whole of Africa. You must say big NO NO NO
NO................Africa Must Fire.............and GM is an enemy of
Nature............It is also a Crime against
Humanity...........!!!!
Those who have taken GM foods or work in the
farm of GM long enough have their body system function and behavior changed. Many even begin to have sex with animals
because their urge is transformed........
Because the world has rejected Genetically
food, its theorists are now looking for a damping site in Africa and it is another reason for Africas Land
Grabbing. This is the unfinished
business that has kept former PM Raila on his toes; which is why, he frequent
visits to US with different groups of Governors.................!!!
Is this the Emerging Markets Kenya and Africa
look for??? The new Agricultural way of doing farm
business??? To go for GM that make Africans stop firing??? Is this a fair business of "Give and Take" exchange??? Is this it??? What is wrong with former PM of
Kenya???
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
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Tanzania committee says billions lost to corporate tax evasion
More on: Corruption and
governance
Zitto Kabwe, Public Accounts Committee
chairperson, presents a letter addressed to Prime Minister David Cameron to the
British High Commissioner Dianna Melrose in Dar es Salaam, May 2013. Photo by
Muhidin Michuzi
DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson
Reuters Foundation) — The Tanzanian parliament, eager to curb a rising tide of
corporate tax evasion and avoidance, has launched an inquiry into the extent of
illicit financial transfers in Tanzania and ways to stop the flow.
The probe follows a
parliamentary declaration last year that called on the government to investigate
individuals suspected of stashing away ill-gotten wealth in offshore bank
accounts.
Zitto Kabwe, chairman of the parliamentary committee on public accounts, has
said Tanzania is losing about $1.25 billion a year in revenue – equivalent to
five percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) – through corporate tax
avoidance, evasion and corruption.
The money Tanzania
loses through these “illicit transfers” would have a significant impact on the
economy, especially if spent on improving infrastructure, education and health
services, he told a recent conference in Dar es Salaam.
Tanzania was losing
enormous revenues due to ‘bad’ contracts, said Kabwe, as he presented a paper
called 'Curbing illicit financial transfer: a role for parliaments' at the
conference organised by the Tanzania Policy Forum and the Financial Transparency
Coalition.
The outflow stems partly from bilateral investment treaties Tanzania signed
with other countries up to half a century ago when it was newly independent and
had little experience of government or finance, he said.
Some of the biggest
multinationals operating in Tanzania aggressively avoid paying tax there by
using tax havens such as Luxembourg and the Netherlands, he added. Several of
them are registered in London.
“Tanzania has agreements with more than 19 countries, some of them very old.
With the United Kingdom, (we agreed) a tax treaty and investment treaty in 1963.
We only had 12 graduates. Part of the campaign should be to review all these
agreements,” said Kabwe, whose committee will present its report in February
next year.
AGGRESSIVE TAX EVASION
Seven of Tanzania’s top 10 taxpayers in the extractive and communications
sectors use tax havens to the detriment of the country’s economy, he said. Two
of the three largest mobile phone companies in the country are registered in the
tax havens of the Netherlands and Luxembourg, costing Tanzania a large amount of
revenue.
In a letter to British
Prime Minister David Cameron in June this year before a summit of the Group of
Eight most developed economies hosted by Cameron in Northern Ireland, Kabwe
urged global leaders to intervene over what he called the aggressive tax evasion
and avoidance carried out by multinational companies, most of them registered in
the United Kingdom.
“This is a constant
challenge for our country – a challenge that undermines the same foundation of
accountability that we are striving to strengthen and uphold,” wrote Kabwe, who
is also deputy leader of the opposition in parliament.
Africa lost between $597 billion and $1.4 trillion in net resource transfers
away from the continent between 1980 and 2009, according to a joint report
issued in May by Global Financial Integrity and the African Development
Bank.
The data shows that the
outflow – the proceeds of bribery, theft, kickbacks and tax evasion and
avoidance – far exceeded the roughly $80 billion that flowed into Africa in
combined Foreign Direct Investment and aid.
Some experts argue that Africa is a net creditor to the world as there is
more African money stashed in offshore bank accounts and tax havens than the
total of Africa’s foreign debt.
“It is hard to
overstate the urgency of this issue. A large number of African countries are now
on the point of issuing new licences for the exploration of significant oil, gas
and mineral reserves,” said Semkae Kilonzo of the Policy Forum, a
think-tank.
The extractive industries sector is central to the illicit outflows of money
from Africa, according to Kabwe.
Africa lacks a
mechanism to enforce standards of rules to combat money laundering and tax
evasion in eastern and southern Africa, said a Financial Transparency Coalition
(FTC) press statement.
“The encouraging thing
is, we have a real opportunity to introduce new policies that will significantly
reduce the profound damage corruption and aggressive tax avoidance inflict on
hundreds of millions of people.” said FTC Manager Porter McConnell.
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Make corruption a crime against humanity – US lawyer
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir leaves after
the Extra Ordinary session on the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of
the African Union on the case of African Relationship with International
Criminal Court (ICC), in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, October 12,
2013.
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Some financial crimes should be made
crimes against humanity, a respected U.S. lawyer specialising in money
laundering told a conference of experts, calling on them to bring "criminal"
governments to account.
Blum also railed against traditional principles of national sovereignty that thwart efforts to bring international justice.
Teodorin Obiang, the son of Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Nguema Obiang, faces money laundering charges in France and the United States. France has issued an arrest warrant for him.
Obiang, who is Equatorial Guinea’s agricultural minister and second vice-president, says the wealth was amassed legitimately through successful business dealings.
“There are cases where
corruption, rottenness and theft of public funds do become a crime against
humanity,” Jack Blum told 200 experts at the Financial Transparency Coalition’s
conference in Tanzania.
“In a case like
Equatorial Guinea, what goes on in terms of the transfer of wealth out of the
country, and the resulting oppression of most of the citizens of that country,
is a crime against humanity in my view,” added Blum, who worked as a Senate
investigator for many years, as well as a United Nations expert on
corruption.
The Central African nation of 700,000 people is the third-biggest oil
producer in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite its wealth, the majority of its
population lives in extreme poverty.
Equatorial Guinea’s per
capita gross domestic product (GDP) is equivalent to some of the world’s
top-tier economies but it has the 19th highest child mortality rate
in the world, according to 2010 United Nations and World Bank statistics.
“There are more
children dying in infancy as a result of that lack of money than you want to
count. And to me, it’s on a par with a kind of genocide,” said Blum, who is chair of the advocacy group Tax Justice Network
USA.
HOLDING PRESIDENTS TO ACCOUNTBlum also railed against traditional principles of national sovereignty that thwart efforts to bring international justice.
“When you have a
criminal government, what the hell do you do?” he asked. “The question of how to
bring about some proper method of holding people accountable when they are heads
of states is really an essential problem for us to deal with in the years
ahead.”
On Saturday, the African Union called for the prosecutions
of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta by the
International Criminal Court (ICC) to be halted. They are both facing charges of
crimes against humanity for 2007 poll violence.
The Ethiopian government, hosting the meeting, said it was an infringement of national sovereignty to try sitting
presidents.
Bashir, who has been
charged with genocide by the ICC, continues to travel the world despite the court’s order for his
arrest.
Similarly, those accused of financial crimes remain at large.Teodorin Obiang, the son of Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Nguema Obiang, faces money laundering charges in France and the United States. France has issued an arrest warrant for him.
Investigators suspect
he embezzled public funds to buy real luxury estate in Paris and Malibu, a
private jet and a stable of exotic sports cars.
Last year, French police seized a $200 million Parisian building allegedly
owned by Teodorin, revealing millions of euros of art, antiques and fine wines –
in addition to a nightclub and hairdressers.Obiang, who is Equatorial Guinea’s agricultural minister and second vice-president, says the wealth was amassed legitimately through successful business dealings.
His father has been in power for 34 years,
making him the longest-serving African leader following the demise of Libya’s
Muammar Gaddafi.
“How do we deal with
these characters who are running a country who in essence say: ‘Yay. So what? I
stole all the money. It’s mine. Do something. I’m president’,” Blum asked.
“This kind of system that allows that sort
of nonsense is a system we have to really challenge and say everybody has to be
subject to justice for what they do.”
Blum played a central
role in the 1970s Lockheed Aircraft bribery investigation, which led to the
passage of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the investigation of the
Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
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Nigeria: Govt Urged to Consult Small Scale Farmers in Policy Making
By Ben Ezeamalu, 10 October 2013
The Nigerian government has been urged to consult small scale farmers in its
policy making, signing of treaties, and conventions.
"Government and civil society groups should embark on intensive education of grassroots farmers on the provisions of the CBD and related conventions, treaties and policies," read the 11 point resolution presented after the workshop.
"The provisions of the CBD should be fully explained to farmers and citizens as a key tool for biodiversity protection. Government should ensure that GMOs are not brought into Nigeria in the absence of a strict Biosafety Law and in line with the precautionary principle of the Cartagena Protocol."
While calling for strict penalties for defaulters of the provisions of the CBD, the resolution further urged policy makers to ensure that only safe products were allowed into Nigeria and to ensure a strict implementation of the CBD.
The resolution also stated that the current Nigerian Biosafety Bill, pending signature of the President, should be open to farmers and the public for inputs.
"The Nigerian President should not assent to the National Biosafety Bill in its current form (in order) to give opportunity for citizens' and critical stakeholders input in line with the provisions of the Cartagena Protocol which Nigeria is signatory to.
"There should be full transparency on the part of government and her agencies in the labelling, liabilities and redress in the Biosafety laws and in the promotion of practices that support food sovereignty," the resolution added.
The workshop was convened by the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, HOMEF, to build knowledge of participants on the Convention on Biological Diversity process as a foundational tool for defending the environment.
Among the observations by participants at the workshop include the need to educate the average Nigerian farmer on the CBD since it is "technical and not an easy convention to be understood" by them.
Some financial crimes should be made crimes against humanity, a respected
U.S. lawyer specialising in money laundering told a conference of experts,
calling on them to bring "criminal" governments to account.
"There are cases where corruption, rottenness and theft of public funds do become a crime against humanity," Jack Blum told 200 experts at the Financial Transparency Coalition's conference in Tanzania.
"In a case like Equatorial Guinea, what goes on in terms of the transfer of wealth out of the country, and the resulting oppression of most of the citizens of that country, is a crime against humanity in my view," added Blum, who worked as a Senate investigator for many years, as well as a United Nations expert on corruption.
The Central African nation of 700,000 people is the third-biggest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite its wealth, the majority of its population lives in extreme poverty.
Equatorial Guinea's per capita gross domestic product (GDP) is equivalent to some of the world's top-tier economies but it has the 19th highest child mortality rate in the world, according to 2010 United Nations and World Bank statistics.
"There are more children dying in infancy as a result of that lack of money than you want to count. And to me, it's on a par with a kind of genocide," said Blum, who is chair of the advocacy group Tax Justice Network USA.
HOLDING PRESIDENTS TO ACCOUNT
The Ethiopian government, hosting the meeting, said it was an infringement of national
sovereignty to try sitting presidents.
Bashir, who has been charged with genocide by the ICC, continues to travel the world despite the court's order for his arrest.
Similarly, those accused of financial crimes remain at large.
Teodorin Obiang, the son of Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Nguema Obiang, faces money laundering charges in France and the United States. France has issued an arrest warrant for him.
Investigators suspect he embezzled public funds to buy real luxury estate in Paris and Malibu, a private jet and a stable of exotic sports cars.
Last year, French police seized a $200 million Parisian building allegedly owned by Teodorin, revealing millions of euros of art, antiques and fine wines - in addition to a nightclub and hairdressers.
Obiang, who is Equatorial Guinea's agricultural minister and second vice-president, says the wealth was amassed legitimately through successful business dealings.
His father has been in power for 34 years, making him the longest-serving African leader following the demise of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi.
"How do we deal with these characters who are running a country who in essence say: 'Yay. So what? I stole all the money. It's mine. Do something. I'm president'," Blum asked.
"This kind of system that allows that sort of nonsense is a system we have to really challenge and say everybody has to be subject to justice for what they do."
Blum played a central role in the 1970s Lockheed Aircraft bribery investigation, which led to the passage of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the investigation of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
This was part of the
resolutions reached at the end of a workshop on Stopping the False Nutritional
Kite and Understanding the Convention on Biological Diversity, CBD, in
Abuja.
Participants at the workshop noted that small scale farmers are the largest
aggregate investors in agriculture in Nigeria and in the world.
They also noted that
large scale land grabbing was happening in the country without the consent of
farmers and communities.
Participants urged government to make available initiatives that would
enhance agricultural and food preservation techniques."Government and civil society groups should embark on intensive education of grassroots farmers on the provisions of the CBD and related conventions, treaties and policies," read the 11 point resolution presented after the workshop.
"The provisions of the CBD should be fully explained to farmers and citizens as a key tool for biodiversity protection. Government should ensure that GMOs are not brought into Nigeria in the absence of a strict Biosafety Law and in line with the precautionary principle of the Cartagena Protocol."
While calling for strict penalties for defaulters of the provisions of the CBD, the resolution further urged policy makers to ensure that only safe products were allowed into Nigeria and to ensure a strict implementation of the CBD.
The resolution also stated that the current Nigerian Biosafety Bill, pending signature of the President, should be open to farmers and the public for inputs.
"The Nigerian President should not assent to the National Biosafety Bill in its current form (in order) to give opportunity for citizens' and critical stakeholders input in line with the provisions of the Cartagena Protocol which Nigeria is signatory to.
"There should be full transparency on the part of government and her agencies in the labelling, liabilities and redress in the Biosafety laws and in the promotion of practices that support food sovereignty," the resolution added.
The workshop was convened by the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, HOMEF, to build knowledge of participants on the Convention on Biological Diversity process as a foundational tool for defending the environment.
Among the observations by participants at the workshop include the need to educate the average Nigerian farmer on the CBD since it is "technical and not an easy convention to be understood" by them.
Participants also
observed that there were unauthorised genetically modified organisms, GMOs, and
foods in Nigeria and that Nigerians were not aware of their health and dietary
risks.
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Africa: Make Corruption a Crime Against Humanity - U.S. Lawyer
By
Katy Migiro, 14 October 2013
"There are cases where corruption, rottenness and theft of public funds do become a crime against humanity," Jack Blum told 200 experts at the Financial Transparency Coalition's conference in Tanzania.
"In a case like Equatorial Guinea, what goes on in terms of the transfer of wealth out of the country, and the resulting oppression of most of the citizens of that country, is a crime against humanity in my view," added Blum, who worked as a Senate investigator for many years, as well as a United Nations expert on corruption.
The Central African nation of 700,000 people is the third-biggest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite its wealth, the majority of its population lives in extreme poverty.
Equatorial Guinea's per capita gross domestic product (GDP) is equivalent to some of the world's top-tier economies but it has the 19th highest child mortality rate in the world, according to 2010 United Nations and World Bank statistics.
"There are more children dying in infancy as a result of that lack of money than you want to count. And to me, it's on a par with a kind of genocide," said Blum, who is chair of the advocacy group Tax Justice Network USA.
HOLDING PRESIDENTS TO ACCOUNT
Blum also railed against traditional
principles of national sovereignty that thwart efforts to bring international
justice.
"When you have a
criminal government, what the hell do you do?" he asked. "The question of how to
bring about some proper method of holding people accountable when they are heads
of states is really an essential problem for us to deal with in the years
ahead."
On Saturday, the African Union called
for the prosecutions of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Kenyan President
Uhuru Kenyatta by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to be halted. They are
both facing charges of crimes against humanity for 2007 poll violence.Bashir, who has been charged with genocide by the ICC, continues to travel the world despite the court's order for his arrest.
Similarly, those accused of financial crimes remain at large.
Teodorin Obiang, the son of Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Nguema Obiang, faces money laundering charges in France and the United States. France has issued an arrest warrant for him.
Investigators suspect he embezzled public funds to buy real luxury estate in Paris and Malibu, a private jet and a stable of exotic sports cars.
Last year, French police seized a $200 million Parisian building allegedly owned by Teodorin, revealing millions of euros of art, antiques and fine wines - in addition to a nightclub and hairdressers.
Obiang, who is Equatorial Guinea's agricultural minister and second vice-president, says the wealth was amassed legitimately through successful business dealings.
His father has been in power for 34 years, making him the longest-serving African leader following the demise of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi.
"How do we deal with these characters who are running a country who in essence say: 'Yay. So what? I stole all the money. It's mine. Do something. I'm president'," Blum asked.
"This kind of system that allows that sort of nonsense is a system we have to really challenge and say everybody has to be subject to justice for what they do."
Blum played a central role in the 1970s Lockheed Aircraft bribery investigation, which led to the passage of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the investigation of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
Friday, October 11, 2013
History Repeats Itself; #MAM Readies For 2nd Global Event!
Hello MAM
supporters and participants!!
In mere hours, MAM events will start in New Zealand and revolve around the world as we embark on the second March Against Monsanto. This cause has truly united the world! Over 400 cities in 57 countries will take place as we, the citizens of the world, say NO to poison! 3 million people will stand up for the food supply, the environment, and our planet's sustainability. Join an event near you and be a part of this moment in time: http://bit.ly/Oct12MAM This will go down in history books and we would like to thank YOU for supporting a cause that is very much one of the most important of our lifetimes. We would like to express our deep gratitude for all at the national level. MAM has an awesome team that has spent countless hours working hard to make these events an international victory!! We would also like to give a very special thank you to all of our local organizers, whose hard work and selfless dedication has been instrumental in the global success of MAM.
We would like to give a very special thank you to Dr. Vandana Shiva and the Fortnight of Action For Seed & Food Freedom. Dr. Shiva has worked tirelessly for seed sovereignty and food freedom and it an honor to have her speaking at MAM London.
This time, MAM has teamed up with the Children of
Vietnam Veterans Heath Alliance. Agent Orange, a deadly toxin manufactured by
Monsanto, has destroyed the lives of millions. MAM has teamed up COVVHA to allow
the survivors of this horror a platform to tell their stories. Never
before will so many Children of Vietnam Veterans be speaking out at the same
time, on the same day, about how Agent Orange has affected their health, and the
health of their families.
As we set the course of history in motion, please keep in mind that the third March Against Monsanto is already planned for May 24, 2014. Get this information out there so we can all start building our events for Spring. Start promoting while you have an intrigued audience. Contact www.facebook.com/monstanto to set up an event for 5/24/14.
Please be mindful that MAM is a peaceful movement and there will be kids and the elderly in attendance. Have a good, safe time tomorrow!! Take lots of pictures that you can submit to the MAM facebook page.
The world will be watching tomorrow as we take a stand. We will not stand for poison. We will not stand for cronyism. And we thank you for standing up for what is right and marching against Monsanto.
Please Retweeet this:
In mere hours, MAM events will start in New Zealand and revolve around the world as we embark on the second March Against Monsanto. This cause has truly united the world! Over 400 cities in 57 countries will take place as we, the citizens of the world, say NO to poison! 3 million people will stand up for the food supply, the environment, and our planet's sustainability. Join an event near you and be a part of this moment in time: http://bit.ly/Oct12MAM This will go down in history books and we would like to thank YOU for supporting a cause that is very much one of the most important of our lifetimes. We would like to express our deep gratitude for all at the national level. MAM has an awesome team that has spent countless hours working hard to make these events an international victory!! We would also like to give a very special thank you to all of our local organizers, whose hard work and selfless dedication has been instrumental in the global success of MAM.
We would like to give a very special thank you to Dr. Vandana Shiva and the Fortnight of Action For Seed & Food Freedom. Dr. Shiva has worked tirelessly for seed sovereignty and food freedom and it an honor to have her speaking at MAM London.
As we set the course of history in motion, please keep in mind that the third March Against Monsanto is already planned for May 24, 2014. Get this information out there so we can all start building our events for Spring. Start promoting while you have an intrigued audience. Contact www.facebook.com/monstanto to set up an event for 5/24/14.
Please be mindful that MAM is a peaceful movement and there will be kids and the elderly in attendance. Have a good, safe time tomorrow!! Take lots of pictures that you can submit to the MAM facebook page.
The world will be watching tomorrow as we take a stand. We will not stand for poison. We will not stand for cronyism. And we thank you for standing up for what is right and marching against Monsanto.
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with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to
do."
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Stepping Up & Speaking Out, MAM Helps To Empower Agent Orange Survivors
Agent Orange
Awareness
October brings
visions of cider, warm sweaters, shorter days and time with our families. The
colors of foliage quickly turn to yellows, reds, and orange. For people
suffering the long lasting effects of the herbicide Agent Orange, which was
sprayed as a part of Operation Ranch Hand during the Vietnam War, October is a
yearly reminder of the need for continued Agent Orange education. October is
Agent Orange Awareness Month.
Children of
Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance (COVVHA) members are speaking out in
cities all across the United States at the worldwide March Against Monsanto
(MAM) rallies correlating close to World Food Day, Saturday, October
12.
Never before will so many Children of Vietnam Veterans be speaking out at the same time, on the same day, about how Agent Orange has affected their health, and the health of their families. Monsanto was one of the seven chemical companies who manufactured Agent Orange which was laced with one of the most deadly chemicals known to man, dioxin. Monsanto, the other six companies, and the U.S. government, are responsible for the slow burn genocide of Vietnam Veterans, their children and grandchildren. Today, fifty two years after the beginning of spraying in Vietnam the effects of the chemical are still being felt here in the United States, Australia, and in Vietnam.
Children of Vietnam Veterans feel it’s their responsibility to speak out against Genetically Modified Foods manufactured and grown by a chemical company that has killed and sickened their fathers, and created havoc in their own lives. Almost as soon as Vietnam Veterans came home and started their family, reports began to surface about multiple miscarriages and birth defects in their children. Their plea has mostly been ignored. Currently, the only acknowledged birth defect in the children of male Vietnam Veterans is Spina Bifida (not Occulta). However, thousands of Vietnam Veteran’s children believe their father’s exposure is to blame for their birth defects and chronic illnesses and their children’s birth defects and illnesses. Yes, the grand children of Vietnam Veterans suffer in high numbers as well. Children of Vietnam Veterans do not want the horrible legacy they must carry to be repeated in the lives of another innocent population.
Tami Canal, of Salt Lake City, Utah, Founder of March Against Monsanto, invited Kelly L. Derricks, of Philadelphia, PA, Co Founder of Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance to consult with MAM, as the head Agent Orange Educator for the MAM organization. Connecting past history, which is still devastating those Agent Orange has touched, with current concerns over rights to know what is in the food the country is digesting, is a way to build perspective on the dangers of mixing Agrichemical companies and government regulation or lack of regulation.
COVVHA was started for the purpose of Agent Orange Education and empowerment. One of their primary goals are to empower children of Vietnam Veterans to be their own voice in a world that has moved on and forgotten them. The group was started by two children of Vietnam Veterans who have both lost their fathers from Agent Orange illnesses, and themselves suffer from birth defects and illnesses. Matching COVVHA members to local MAM rallies was a natural step encouraging collaboration and information sharing.
COVVHA members went through a short process requiring them to write their own Agent Orange story, become knowledgeable about the history of the chemical herbicide Agent Orange , and current benefits available to children of female Vietnam Veterans (18 + birth defects recognized) and children of Male Vietnam Veterans (one, Spina Bifida, not occulta). They used the information to write a 15 minute speech. Many will be speaking publicly for the first time about their experiences as an Agent Orange survivor. When the COVVHA member completed the necessary requirements, they became COVVHA Certified Speakers. This event is starting the groundwork for a nationwide speaker’s bureau where organizations interested in having an Agent Orange speaker at their event or meeting will be able to find someone locally.
Several COVVHA members wrote speeches, but are too ill to travel. Their speeches will be sent to MAM local events that requested a speaker, but did not have a local COVVHA member. Some of the illnesses children of Vietnam Veterans are suffering from in large numbers include, auto immune diseases, spinal problems, endocrine disorders, cancers, muscle skeletal problems, fertility issues and mental illness. COVVHA has a large private support community made up of only children of Vietnam Veterans to connect members with each other so they can finally know they are not alone.
Agent Orange has left many families grieving through the five decades since the beginning of chemical spraying in Vietnam in 1961. Currently, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs recognizes 14 different illnesses and cancers as presumptive and compensated illnesses for Vietnam Veterans. Any Vietnam Veteran who was in Vietnam anytime between January 9, 1962 and May 7, 1975, including brief visits, or service aboard a ship that operated on the inland waterways has been presumed as exposed to Agent Orange. A veteran may also be eligible if they served along the Korean DMZ between April 1, 1968 and August 31, 1971. Some of the presumed illnesses Veterans can file for, include Type II Diabetes, Hodgkin’s Disease, Prostate Cancer, Ischemic Heart Disease and others. Please contact a local service officer to file a claim for disability, and or survivor benefits. A veteran or family member may reach out to the Vietnam Veterans of America, Disabled American Veterans, The American Legion, or a county service officer to file a claim.
So when your thoughts return to fall and the color orange, remember the children and grandchildren of Vietnam Veterans who continue to fight a war they weren’t drafted for or signed up for. The innocent ones who have been maimed and forgotten, who as adults must now stand up and speak out or continue to be denied until they die like many of their fathers before them. October is Agent Orange Awareness Month; please support those trying to make a difference in their own lives.
Several cities will have COVVHA certified speakers at their MAM event:
San Diego California, Denver Colorado, Hartford Connecticut, St.Petersburg Florida,
Tampa Florida, Rockford Illinois, Ann Arbor Michigan, Kansas City Missouri, St. Louis Missouri,
Princeton New Jersey, Charlotte North Carolina, Columbus Ohio, Coos Bay Oregon,
Lancaster Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Austin Texas,
Salt Lake City Utah, Madison Wisconsin
Author: Heather A. Bowser, LPCC
For More Information:
www.covvha.net
www.march-against-monsanto.com
www.benefits.va.gov/compensation/claims-postservice-agent_orange.asp
Never before will so many Children of Vietnam Veterans be speaking out at the same time, on the same day, about how Agent Orange has affected their health, and the health of their families. Monsanto was one of the seven chemical companies who manufactured Agent Orange which was laced with one of the most deadly chemicals known to man, dioxin. Monsanto, the other six companies, and the U.S. government, are responsible for the slow burn genocide of Vietnam Veterans, their children and grandchildren. Today, fifty two years after the beginning of spraying in Vietnam the effects of the chemical are still being felt here in the United States, Australia, and in Vietnam.
Children of Vietnam Veterans feel it’s their responsibility to speak out against Genetically Modified Foods manufactured and grown by a chemical company that has killed and sickened their fathers, and created havoc in their own lives. Almost as soon as Vietnam Veterans came home and started their family, reports began to surface about multiple miscarriages and birth defects in their children. Their plea has mostly been ignored. Currently, the only acknowledged birth defect in the children of male Vietnam Veterans is Spina Bifida (not Occulta). However, thousands of Vietnam Veteran’s children believe their father’s exposure is to blame for their birth defects and chronic illnesses and their children’s birth defects and illnesses. Yes, the grand children of Vietnam Veterans suffer in high numbers as well. Children of Vietnam Veterans do not want the horrible legacy they must carry to be repeated in the lives of another innocent population.
Tami Canal, of Salt Lake City, Utah, Founder of March Against Monsanto, invited Kelly L. Derricks, of Philadelphia, PA, Co Founder of Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance to consult with MAM, as the head Agent Orange Educator for the MAM organization. Connecting past history, which is still devastating those Agent Orange has touched, with current concerns over rights to know what is in the food the country is digesting, is a way to build perspective on the dangers of mixing Agrichemical companies and government regulation or lack of regulation.
COVVHA was started for the purpose of Agent Orange Education and empowerment. One of their primary goals are to empower children of Vietnam Veterans to be their own voice in a world that has moved on and forgotten them. The group was started by two children of Vietnam Veterans who have both lost their fathers from Agent Orange illnesses, and themselves suffer from birth defects and illnesses. Matching COVVHA members to local MAM rallies was a natural step encouraging collaboration and information sharing.
COVVHA members went through a short process requiring them to write their own Agent Orange story, become knowledgeable about the history of the chemical herbicide Agent Orange , and current benefits available to children of female Vietnam Veterans (18 + birth defects recognized) and children of Male Vietnam Veterans (one, Spina Bifida, not occulta). They used the information to write a 15 minute speech. Many will be speaking publicly for the first time about their experiences as an Agent Orange survivor. When the COVVHA member completed the necessary requirements, they became COVVHA Certified Speakers. This event is starting the groundwork for a nationwide speaker’s bureau where organizations interested in having an Agent Orange speaker at their event or meeting will be able to find someone locally.
Several COVVHA members wrote speeches, but are too ill to travel. Their speeches will be sent to MAM local events that requested a speaker, but did not have a local COVVHA member. Some of the illnesses children of Vietnam Veterans are suffering from in large numbers include, auto immune diseases, spinal problems, endocrine disorders, cancers, muscle skeletal problems, fertility issues and mental illness. COVVHA has a large private support community made up of only children of Vietnam Veterans to connect members with each other so they can finally know they are not alone.
Agent Orange has left many families grieving through the five decades since the beginning of chemical spraying in Vietnam in 1961. Currently, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs recognizes 14 different illnesses and cancers as presumptive and compensated illnesses for Vietnam Veterans. Any Vietnam Veteran who was in Vietnam anytime between January 9, 1962 and May 7, 1975, including brief visits, or service aboard a ship that operated on the inland waterways has been presumed as exposed to Agent Orange. A veteran may also be eligible if they served along the Korean DMZ between April 1, 1968 and August 31, 1971. Some of the presumed illnesses Veterans can file for, include Type II Diabetes, Hodgkin’s Disease, Prostate Cancer, Ischemic Heart Disease and others. Please contact a local service officer to file a claim for disability, and or survivor benefits. A veteran or family member may reach out to the Vietnam Veterans of America, Disabled American Veterans, The American Legion, or a county service officer to file a claim.
So when your thoughts return to fall and the color orange, remember the children and grandchildren of Vietnam Veterans who continue to fight a war they weren’t drafted for or signed up for. The innocent ones who have been maimed and forgotten, who as adults must now stand up and speak out or continue to be denied until they die like many of their fathers before them. October is Agent Orange Awareness Month; please support those trying to make a difference in their own lives.
Several cities will have COVVHA certified speakers at their MAM event:
San Diego California, Denver Colorado, Hartford Connecticut, St.Petersburg Florida,
Tampa Florida, Rockford Illinois, Ann Arbor Michigan, Kansas City Missouri, St. Louis Missouri,
Princeton New Jersey, Charlotte North Carolina, Columbus Ohio, Coos Bay Oregon,
Lancaster Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Austin Texas,
Salt Lake City Utah, Madison Wisconsin
Author: Heather A. Bowser, LPCC
For More Information:
www.covvha.net
www.march-against-monsanto.com
www.benefits.va.gov/compensation/claims-postservice-agent_orange.asp
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Ground Breaking Study Could Spell the End For GMOs
It sounds like science fiction or even quackery. However the
results of this latest study conducted by
Warrenstown Horticultural College and the Chemical & Environmental Science
Dept., University of Limerick, Ireland, say otherwise.
This 35 page report tested the effects of “Vi-Aqua,” a system that electro-magnetically charges water, on a cross-section of vegetation from Rye Grass to ornamental plants of various species. The plant experiment confirmed enhanced vigor of growth and stronger plant structure, which increased damage resistance in the treated specimens.
The study explains, “All vegetation-derived energy on this planet is solar in origin. Only approximately 1% of the solar energy, which impinges on the Earth, is captured. This is through the agency of Chlorophyll in most forms of plant life. Animal life on this planet is critically dependent upon the continued availability of energy donating vegetation for its survival. Since all living organisms have evolved in the presence of a strong natural geomagnetic field the possible influence of magnetic fields on living organisms increasingly has become the subject of research endeavors. The possibility of enhancing plant growth utilizing a natural activity such as magnetism has stimulated research over at least the past six decades.”
The study highlights the effects of the changes of the plants. “Sophisticated tests which measure hydrogen bonding properties indicated that EM radiation reduced the size of hydrogen bonded water networks. In particular the changes in the hydrogen bonding networks affected the solution of naturally dissolved gases in the water. This hydrogen bonding modification slowly decayed to undetectable levels several hours after the treatment was stopped. Modifying hydrogen bonding has had several possible consequences for live plants loosening the hydrogen bonding in cell walls permitted the faster growth of plants due to reduced resistance to cells elongating during the growth process.”
The implications for this technology are optimistic to say the least. If this study can be replicated we could see a major decline in the proliferation of GMOs, because this system can produce very similar resistance in plants simply by making them healthier, hardier and less prone to damage from insects and drought.
by Matt Agorist, REALfarmacy.com
Read more at http://www.naturalcuresnotmedicine.com/2013/09/ground-breaking-study-could-spell-end.html#16Gmh6VS16Q1VHO8.99
It
sounds like science fiction or even quackery. However the results of this latest
study conducted by Warrenstown Horticultural College and the Chemical &
Environmental Science Dept., University of Limerick, Ireland, say otherwise.
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| Image: Raw For Beauty |
This 35 page report tested the effects of “Vi-Aqua,” a system that electro-magnetically charges water, on a cross-section of vegetation from Rye Grass to ornamental plants of various species. The plant experiment confirmed enhanced vigor of growth and stronger plant structure, which increased damage resistance in the treated specimens.
The study explains, “All vegetation-derived energy on this planet is solar in origin. Only approximately 1% of the solar energy, which impinges on the Earth, is captured. This is through the agency of Chlorophyll in most forms of plant life. Animal life on this planet is critically dependent upon the continued availability of energy donating vegetation for its survival. Since all living organisms have evolved in the presence of a strong natural geomagnetic field the possible influence of magnetic fields on living organisms increasingly has become the subject of research endeavors. The possibility of enhancing plant growth utilizing a natural activity such as magnetism has stimulated research over at least the past six decades.”
The study highlights the effects of the changes of the plants. “Sophisticated tests which measure hydrogen bonding properties indicated that EM radiation reduced the size of hydrogen bonded water networks. In particular the changes in the hydrogen bonding networks affected the solution of naturally dissolved gases in the water. This hydrogen bonding modification slowly decayed to undetectable levels several hours after the treatment was stopped. Modifying hydrogen bonding has had several possible consequences for live plants loosening the hydrogen bonding in cell walls permitted the faster growth of plants due to reduced resistance to cells elongating during the growth process.”
The implications for this technology are optimistic to say the least. If this study can be replicated we could see a major decline in the proliferation of GMOs, because this system can produce very similar resistance in plants simply by making them healthier, hardier and less prone to damage from insects and drought.
by Matt Agorist, REALfarmacy.com
Read more at http://www.naturalcuresnotmedicine.com/2013/09/ground-breaking-study-could-spell-end.html#16Gmh6VS16Q1VHO8.99
The study explains, “All vegetation-derived energy on this planet is solar in origin. Only approximately 1% of the solar energy, which impinges on the Earth, is captured. This is through the agency of Chlorophyll in most forms of plant life. Animal life on this planet is critically dependent upon the continued availability of energy donating vegetation for its survival. Since all living organisms have evolved in the presence of a strong natural geomagnetic field the possible influence of magnetic fields on living organisms increasingly has become the subject of research endeavors. The possibility of enhancing plant growth utilizing a natural activity such as magnetism has stimulated research over at least the past six decades.”
The study highlights the effects of the changes of the plants. “Sophisticated tests which measure hydrogen bonding properties indicated that EM radiation reduced the size of hydrogen bonded water networks. In particular the changes in the hydrogen bonding networks affected the solution of naturally dissolved gases in the water. This hydrogen bonding modification slowly decayed to undetectable levels several hours after the treatment was stopped. Modifying hydrogen bonding has had several possible consequences for live plants loosening the hydrogen bonding in cell walls permitted the faster growth of plants due to reduced resistance to cells elongating during the growth process.”
The implications for this technology are optimistic to say the least. If this study can be replicated we could see a major decline in the proliferation of GMOs, because this system can produce very similar resistance in plants simply by making them healthier, hardier and less prone to damage from insects and drought.
by Matt Agorist, www.REALfarmacy.com
Source: realfarmacy.com
Read more at http://www.naturalcuresnotmedicine.com/
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Global #MarchOct12 #TwitterStorm Planned for Tonight at 9PM EST
Proposed Tweets: Main hashtags: #Hashtag,
#MarchOct12
NOTE: Please make new posts instead of
retweeting or sharing. New tweets and new status updates are best
October
12, 2013 #MarchAgainstMonsanto planned for over 52 countries - See more at: http://bit.ly/MAMpress
#O12 #MAM @MarchAgainstM #MarcOct12
Monsanto and GMOs: What you need to
know in 2 minutes http://tinyurl.com/p6be2r3 #MarchOct12 #MAM #O12
@MarchAgainstM
Children’s Vitamin contains Aspartame, GMOs & more... http://tinyurl.com/olxf9h2
#MAM #MarchOct12 #O12 @MarchAgainstM
The Monsanto 71: Senators Who
Betrayed Constituents in Favor of Biotech Dollars http://tinyurl.com/p8hao93 #MarchOct12 #MAM @MarchAgainstM
The
One Ingredient Americans Eat That Is Banned in Most Other Countries http://tinyurl.com/qyldbmq
@MarchAgainstM #MarchOct12 #MAM
Organic & Heirloom Seed Companies List http://bit.ly/1ge55Ng
@MarchAgainstM #MAM #MarchOct12 #O12
Robyn
O'Brien on Kids and Food Allergies from GMOs http://tinyurl.com/nvwkf8n
#MarchOct12 #MAM #O12
American Academy of Environmental Medicine Position
Paper on GMO #MAM #O12 #MarchAgainstMonsanto http://tinyurl.com/q3cvgx @MarchAgainstM #MarchOct12
Alfalfa
crop contaminated with GMOs, Monsanto suspected -http://tinyurl.com/n6vyagy #MarchAgainstMonsanto #MAM #O12
@MarchagainstM #MarchOct12
#MarchAgainstMonsanto Oct 12 - Because either
mankind will #StopMonsanto or Monsanto will Stop Mankind. #MAM #O12
#MarchOct12
#MarchAgainstMonsanto to protect our food supply, spread
awareness about #GMO's and support local farmers #MAM
#O12#MarchOct12
#MarchAgainstMonsanto because "He who controls the food
supply controls the People" - Henry Kissinger #MAM
#O12#MarchOct12
Monsanto is the symptom; Capitalism is the disease,
rEevolution is the cure #MAM #O12 #MarchAgainstMonsanto
#MarchOct12
#MarchAgainstMonsanto – Worldwide, October 12 2013 - list of
events http://bit.ly/16GeWdx #MAM #O12 #MarchOct12
October 12 call
to action video: http://youtu.be/Gae8u4OWD4Q #MAM #O12
#MarchAgainstMonsanto
#MarchOct12
Why is our food being made & modified by the world's
largest pesticide manufacturer? #MarchAgainstMonsanto #MAM #O12
#MarchOct12
How to Win a GMO Debate: 10 Facts on Why #GMO's are Bad http://goo.gl/zDfSG #MarchAgainstMonsanto #MAM #O12
#MarchOct12
#MarchOct12 #Monsanto doesn't allow #GMO' in their cafeteria,
WHY? http://youtu.be/XOINXMp_VjQ
October 12, 2013 #MarchAgainstMonsanto
Ain't nobody got time for GMO,
March Against Monsanto! http://tinyurl.com/csyetxb @MarchAgainstM #MarchOct12 #MAM
#O12
GMO has got to go! Hell no, G-M-O! http://tinyurl.com/csyetxb @MarchAgainstM #MAM #MarchOct12
#O12
You serve me GMO food, I'll pay you with monopoly money. http://tinyurl.com/csyetxb @MarchAgainstM #MAM #MarchOct12
#O12
GMO Food?? No thanks, I like my reproductive organs just the way
they are. #MAM #MarchOct12 http://tinyurl.com/csyetxb
@MarchAgainstM
We will not stand for cronyism. we will not stand for
poison. http://tinyurl.com/csyetxb #MarchAgainstMonsanto #MarchOct12
@MarchAgainstM
The Monsanto Menace: feds see no evil as a strongman seeks
control of US food supply http://bit.ly/15Ju0l3
#MarchOct12 #MAM @MarchAgainstM
Monsanto Found Guilty of Chemical
Poisoning in Landmark Case http://bit.ly/181czkc #MarchOct12 #MAM #MarchAgainstMonsanto
@MarchAgainstM
Monsanto wins landmark patent case in Supreme Court http://bit.ly/13UpkIU
#MAM #O12 #MarchOct12 @MarchAgainstM
Monsanto Protection Act’: Chemical
monopoly writes its own law http://bit.ly/ZhUPrx #MAM #MarchOct12 #O12 @MarchAgainstM
Genetically modified democracy: Monsanto moves to obliterate states'
rights to label GMOs http://bit.ly/10P6yiM @MarchAgainstM #MarchOct12
Why Does
Monsanto Need an Army of Mercenary Soldiers? http://bit.ly/18ihqek
@MarchAgainstM #MAM #MarchOct12 #O12
Former Monsanto employee put in
charge of GMO papers at journal http://bit.ly/10lLlkc @MarchAgainstM #MAM #MarchOct12
#O12
India Farmer Suicides Linked To Crop Failure, Climate Change (VIDEO) http://huff.to/hSa4wZ
@MarchAgainstM #MAM #O12 #MarchOct12
Will Monsanto destroy Mexico's corn? http://bit.ly/TZQ6vs #MAM #MarchOct12 #O12 @MarchAgainstM
Total Disinformation Awareness: Monsanto Suppresses Research On GMO
Crops http://bit.ly/1351Fal
@MarchAgainstM #MAM #MarchOct12 #O12
Anniversary of a Whistleblowing Hero http://huff.to/9NJ0lp @MarchAgainstM #MAM #O12
#MarchOct12
GMO Scandal: The Long Term Effects of Genetically Modified
Food on Humans http://bit.ly/11RB8wL
#MarchOct12 #MAM #O12 @MarchAgainstM
#MarchOct12
The mustard, the okra, the bringe oil, the rice, the cauliflower The World
According to #Monsanto http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-world-according-to-monsanto/
#NoGMO
#MarchOct12 #noGMO 2 million people world-wide
#MarchedAgainstMonsanto May 25! Will it B 20 million Oct,12, 2013 http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/
#MarchOct12 #noGMO Of the $1.3 billion of
taxpayers' money earmarked for Plan Colombia, Monsanto rcvd 25 million http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/
#MarchOct12
Over past century, global water supplies have been contaminated with full gamut
of Monsanto's chemicals http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/
#MarchOct12 Monsanto polluting world's
freshwater resources privately taking ownership filtering it & selling it
back http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/
#MarchOct12
This is a Call to Action for a Non-Hierarchical Occupation of Monsanto
Everywhere http://occupy-monsanto.com/
#MarchAgainstMonsanto
Participants:
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@regulargrrrl
@newsrevo
@globalrevlive
@audiovisiol15
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Doctors Warn
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By Jeffrey M. Smith
7-22-9
COPPER IS THE NEW
SILVER!
Genetically Modified Food
By Jeffrey M. Smith
7-22-9
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Millions take to the streets world-wide to protest against Monsanto and GM
The United States biotech
giant Monsanto says it respects people’s rights to express themselves, but that
its genetically-modified seeds improve farm productivity and food quality.
The US Senate rejected a
bill making it compulsory to label GM foods. Some consumers are worried about
possible health risks.
Demonstrations against
the company took place in over fifty countries on Saturday. Organisers say two
million people took part.
“People have a right to
know what they’re eating, most people do think that they have the right, but
those rights will never be upheld as long as corporations can spend unlimited
amounts of money to influence the outcomes of elections,” said one protesters in
Kansas.
“They have no right to
mess with our food, you don’t turn food into a lab experiment,” added
another.
The ‘March Against
Monsanto’ Movement was started in February.
There are also arguments
that genetically-modified crops can harm the environment.
Monsanto argues that
tests show its food is safe. The same assessment has been made by the US
government and many scientists.
COMMENTS:
-------------------------------------------------------------
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Monsanto and Biotech Giants Launch Website to Combat Anti-GMO Sentiment
A
group of biotech seed companies have launched an online forum to rebuff
disapproval of genetically modified foods across the world. Activists and
consumer groups are skeptical, saying the industry has a ‘track record of being
anything but transparent’.
The
website is said to be partly backed by the biotech US giant Monsanto, DuPont and
Dow AgroSciences, according to Reuters, as well as by other companies whose
products feature ingredients that have been genetically altered in ways the
companies claim improve food production.
Founders
of www.GMOAnswers.com say the website was created “to
do a better job answering your questions — no matter what they are — about
GMOs.” Its launch is part of the biotech industry’s campaign to respond to
concerns for GMO food labeling and tighter regulation in the US.
One
user from Newtown, Pennsylvania identified as Sorgfelt posted a question on the
website asking whether he could trust any research done on GMOs that has the
imprimatur of the Missouri-based Monsanto. His query was prompted after learning
“from
practical experience that, in order to get a job with Monsanto, or do any
research that is supported by Monsanto, or even to publish research on Monsanto
seeds, that all of my work would have to be approved by Monsanto.”
“This
makes it very difficult to have legitimate third-party research to rely on,”
Sorgfelt, whose question has yet to be answered, added.
Meanwhile,
biotech industry players say all they want is dialogue on the issue.
“This…
is an effort to increase the dialogue. That is all we want,” Paul Schickler,
president of DuPont Pioneer told Reuters. “Dialogue
is good. Over time I think we’ll come to a common understanding.”
People
hold signs during a demonstration against agribusiness giant Monsanto and
genetically modified organisms (GMO) in front of the White House in Washington
on May 25, 2013. (AFP Photo / Nicholas Kamm)
Activists
argue that the newly established website won’t help stop the consumer backlash
against genetically engineered foods that has been brewing for years.
“…the
industry has a track record of being anything but transparent. They spend
millions in marketing and lobbying against popular GMO labeling efforts. Their
control of patents has prevented research from being done on the long-term
impacts of biotech crops and food products. This latest public relations blitz
is just more of the same from an industry that is struggling to combat popular
sentiment that genetically engineered foods are unlabeled, untested and
unsafe,” Executive Director of Food & Water Watch, Wenonah Hauter, said
on Monday.
“More
claims from the biotech industry about the safety of genetic engineering are not
a replacement for the clear labeling that consumers are demanding,” he
added.
Concerns over safety of genetic engineering
Protests
against Monsanto have become a frequent event across the globe. Earlier this
month the world’s largest seed-maker said it would drop its bid to grow some of
its genetically modified crops in Europe after a number of European countries,
including France, Germany and Italy, established bans against genetically
modified organisms.
Protesters march
on the Meir in Antwerp on May 25, 2013 during a protest against the American
multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation Monsanto. (AFP Photo /
Jonas Roosens)
The
company’s corporate spokesman explained that Monsanto would offer its biotech
crops only to those who want them.
“We’re
going to sell the GM seeds only where they enjoy broad farmer support, broad
political support and a functioning regulatory system,” Thomas Helscher told
Reuters in May. “As
far as we’re convinced this only applies to a few countries in Europe today,
primarily Spain and Portugal.”
The
company is also looking to gain its share in the corn market in Ukraine. Eastern
Europe, as well as South America, are currently the key growth areas for
Monsanto.
Another
issue raising public concerns is the labeling of GMOs products, which usually go
onto supermarket shelves unmarked.
Last
year, Monsanto and other industry members spent $40 million to defeat a ballot
initiative in California to require labeling of GMO food, Reuters
reported.
The
Natural Products Association, the nation’s largest association for natural
products representing 1,900 food industry players, has recently called for all
foods containing genetically modified organisms to be accurately labeled under a
uniform standard, so consumers can “make
educated decisions about foods they purchase”.
In
March, grocery retailer Whole Foods announced that by 2018, all products in US
and Canadian stores must be labeled if they contain GMOs. This is the first
national grocery store to set a deadline for genetically modified ingredients
labeling.
“We
are putting a stake in the ground on GMO labeling to support the consumer’s
right to know,” co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, Walter Robb, said. “The prevalence
of GMOs in the US paired with nonexistent mandatory labeling makes it very
difficult for retailers to source non-GMO options and for consumers to choose
non-GMO products. Accordingly, we are stepping up our support of certified
organic agriculture, where GMOs are not allowed, and we are working together
with our supplier partners to grow our non-GMO supply chain to ensure we can
continue to provide these choices in the future,” he added.
In
June, Chipotle Mexican became the first US restaurant chain to reveal GMO
ingredients after it begun labeling all the ingredients the grill burrito group
uses that contain genetically modified organisms.
Source:
- See more at: http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/2013/08/monsanto-and-biotech-giants-launch.html#sthash.1GWwAhO0.dpuf
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Op-Ed: Thousands march against Monsanto, GM food
Posted Jun 3, 2013 by Jessica Geyer
Over the last few weekends, thousands of protesters have
taken to the street to march against the seed company Monsanto. The protests
occurred in over 400 cities and 50 countries worldwide.
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- 1 Fido Dido (#)May 27th, 2013 - 06:26 am
- ”The United States
biotech giant Monsanto (who ownes the house and senate on both sides, GOP and
DEMS) says it respects people’s rights to express themselves, but that its
genetically-modified seeds improve farm productivity and food quality..and help
the “poor”...which is bull crap.
More “poor” farmers are losing their land and lifes (see India) through monsanto than the fake global warming (another hype sponsored by monsanto through climate gate eugenics clown bill gates, major share holder of ..yes, Monsanto).
“The US Senate rejected a bill making it compulsory to label GM foods. Some consumers are worried about possible health risks”
The US senate rejected the bill, because Monsanto ordered them to reject the bill, because they are afraid that people WANT TO KNOW WHAT THEY EAT AND DON'T WANT TO BUY THEIR CRAP ANYMORE. - 2 Ayayay (#)May 27th, 2013 - 06:35 pm
- Except, the 30 year Rodale study showed organic farming
outyeilded gmo conventional.
Also, if it's really soil enriched, YOU get enriched too!
permaculturenews.org/2011/10/13/the-rodale-institutes-30-year-farming-systems-trial-report/
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