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Monday, February 28, 2011

FIRST DO NO HARM?? US doctors used citizens as guinea pigs

US doctors used citizens as guinea pigs

Posted By admin On February 28, 2011 @ 9:32 am In U.S. News | 4 Comments

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Feb 28, 2011

Uncovered old pictures provide documents that US doctors working for the government carried out unethical experiments on disabled citizens and prison inmates.

During a meeting in Washington, US officials acknowledged that in the 20th century government doctors had done a series of medical experiments on the country's own citizens that often involved making healthy people sick.

While much of the experiments were carried out 40 to 80 years ago, it is the backdrop for this week's meeting in Washington of a presidential bioethics commission.

The meeting was triggered by the US government's apology last year for federal doctors infecting prisoners and mental patients in Guatemala with syphilis 65 years ago.

However, later on the US officials also acknowledged there had been dozens of similar experiments in America, which often involved making healthy people sick.

An Associated Press review of medical journal reports and decades-old press clippings found more than 40 such studies, which some just amounted to curiosity-satisfying experiments that hurt people but provided no useful result.

The emerged shocking experiments included infecting mental patients in Connecticut with hepatitis, exposing prisoners in Maryland to a pandemic flu virus, injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital, and infecting prison inmates with gonorrhea at a federal penitentiary in Atlanta.

Media never covered most of the newly uncovered studies done from the 1940s to the 1960s. However, in those reported the coverage centered on the breakthrough and not how test subjects were treated.

At that time, many famous researchers believed that it was legitimate to do experiment on people who did not have full rights in society such as prisoners, mental patients or the poor blacks.

However, experts believe that all such studies violated the concept of "first do no harm," that is a fundamental medical principle.

Although, individuals included in these studies were usually described as volunteers, historians and ethicists have questioned how well these people understood what was to be done to them and why, or whether they were coerced.

"When you give somebody a disease — even by the standards of their time — you really cross the key ethical norm of the profession," said Arthur Caplan, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics.

Using prisoners as guinea pigs was continued in the US for decades and even increased significantly late in 1940s and 1950s after the huge growth of drug industries.

This happened while prosecution of Nazi doctors in 1947 led to the "Nuremberg Code," a set of international rules to protect human test subjects. However, many US doctors ignored them for years, arguing that the rule applied to Nazi atrocities and not to American medicine.

In later decades after the new guidelines enacted by the US government limited the human experiments on American prisoners and mental patients, researchers looked to other countries to find new experimental fields.

The target was poor countries that launching clinical trials in them were much cheaper and less limited due to the lack of rules. Even more the situation of the poor nations brought the US researchers and drug companies new opportunities to find patients who were taking no medication, a factor that can complicate tests of other drugs.

While, later additional sets of guidelines were enacted against overseas experiments, some reports still suggest that US industries are continuing their habits of using people instead of animal or lab samples.

During the last 15 years, two international studies sparked outrage. One was likened to Tuskegee. US-funded doctors failed to give the AIDS drug AZT to all the HIV-infected pregnant women in a study in Uganda even though it would have protected their newborns.

The other study, by Pfizer Inc., gave an antibiotic named Trovan to children with meningitis in Nigeria, although there were doubts about its effectiveness for that disease. Critics blamed the experiment for the deaths of 11 children and the disabling of scores of others.

Last year, the US Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general reported that between 40 and 65 percent of clinical studies of federally regulated medical products were done in other countries in 2008, and that proportion probably has grown.

The report also noted that US regulators inspected less than 1 percent of foreign clinical trial sites.

Uncovering what the US doctors had done in Guatemala was an opening for the Obama administration to have the bioethics panel seek a new evaluation of international medical studies.

To focus on federally funded international studies, the bioethics commission has formed an international panel of about a dozen experts. Regarding the Guatemala study, it has hired 15 staff investigators and is working with more historians and consulting experts.

The panel is to send a report to President Barack Obama by September. Any further steps would be up to the administration.

A car that runs 200 miles on compressed air

http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ztFDqcu8oJ4&feature=player_embedded#at=191

A genetic terrorist? After touching your junk, TSA now wants to scan and harvest your DNA

After touching your junk, TSA now wants to scan and harvest your DNA

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor 

(NaturalNews) As if it's not enough for the TSA to feel you up at the airport, now they're experimenting with rapid results DNA scanners that can scan and analyze your DNA using just a drop of saliva. Spit at the TSA agent who is molesting you, in other words, and they can use that saliva to scan your DNA and then store it in a government database.

Why would they want to do that? We can only imagine. Remember, it was 
Alex Jones who broke the story about hospitals secretly taking blood samples of babies and handing them over to the federal government for use in a national genetic database (http://www.prisonplanet.com/newborn...).

The government routinely steals genetic material from people for its own nefarious purposes, as does the 
pharmaceutical industry. For example, the medical industry's so-called "Hela cells" which have been exploited for decades by vaccine and drug companies, were harvested and stolen decades ago from Henrietta Lacks without her permission or consent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa). Hela cells are the foundation of hundreds of billions of dollars in profit for Big Pharma, and they are all based on DNA theft perpetrated by the pharmaceutical industry.

Harvesting your DNA at the airport

Now that the TSA is experimenting with portable DNA scanners, their real agenda becomes apparent: They will use airport security checkpoints to harvest DNA from the public in order to build up their government "bio bank" database of stolen DNA.

Of course, they will assure the public that they aren't storing the DNA information ...and the naked body scanners don't store images, either. Oh yeah, and the TSA's security procedures make 
air travel safer, too, if you can believe that.

Our source for this story is a report called "Genetic Patdown" published at TheDaily.com (
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/0...). That story reveals that a company called NetBio manufactures the portable DNA scanning devices.

That same story also reveals that the 
TSA rolled out these DNA screening devices without even checking with the privacy committee of the DHS. Jim Harper, who serves on that committee, is even quoted in the story saying, "We're plunging into the unknown here."

But we aren't actually. It's not unknown. History has seen this before. It's called 
Nazi Germany. It's called the "Police State" approach to security: Use the power of big government totarget the People as if they were all criminals. Then force them at gunpoint to consent to illegal searches and violations of their privacy. Do it all under the name of "homeland security" -- or Heimatschutz in German -- and keep the American people afraid by terrorizing them with occasional scary-sounding security alerts based on staged terrorism events that are often planned, organized and carried out by the FBI!

The recent Portland "terrorism" 
event, for example, was actually carried out by the FBI itself which recruited and then entrapped an innocent man with a Muslin name (http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2...).

The government agents that carry out these kind of evil schemes -- "Verfassungsschützer" -- are the modern-day equivalent of 
Hitler's secret police. You don't think the name "Homeland Security" was chosen by mere coincidence, do you? (http://www.slate.com/id/2066978/)

"Mass casualty events"

The Homeland Security Newswire publication reveals that, in 2009, DHS awarded grant money (i.e. taxpayer dollars) to a Virginia firm to develop a portable DNA testing device.

A DHS spokesperson named Christopher Miles revealed the purpose of the device, explaining it had applications in "...mass-casualty situations, reunification of 
family members following mass evacuations, identification of missing persons, rapid processing of crime-scene and suspect DNA, and various scientific and educational uses..."

Interesting, isn't it? Back in 2009, they never mentioned "screening the DNA of air travelers at airports." But today, barely two years later, suddenly it's no longer for "reunification of family members" but rather the harvesting of DNA from air passengers -- 
almost certainly without their consent!

After all, since when did the TSA ever ask for your permission to do anything?

And what's the limit for all these privacy invading searchers, anyway? Where does it end? Can the TSA demand 
your blood, your saliva, or even your sperm for its tests? Is it soon going to be a condition of flying that you hand over your bodily fluids to the U.S. government so they can determine whether you might be a "genetic terrorist?"

GATTACA

Hitler would have loved the DNA scanners for his eugenics programs, of course. It would have provided a simple, "scientific" way to determine who was of Jewish descent and therefore who got loaded up and sent away on the rail cars. Fortunately for the world, Hitler didn't have the technology to conduct DNA searches of people. But Janet Napolitano does! And she's already proved that she will go to great lengths to spy on the American people ("if you see something, say something").

I'll tell you where this is all probably headed, if you're interested to know. Before too much longer, we're going to see calls for 
global population controls that deny reproduction "rights" to those who don't fit the genetic profiles preferred by world governments. Genetic screening will be used to identify and then sterilize both men and women who don't fit the correct "genetic profile." These sterilizations will be delivered as vaccine shots -- a move that has already been perfectly described by Bill Gates himself, who says that vaccines are the key technology for "population control" and "reducing world population by 10 to 15 percent." (http://www.naturalnews.com/029911_v...)

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in fact, has been hard at work on 
sterilization technology called "temporary castration" that renders men infertile for six months at a time (http://www.naturalnews.com/028853_u...).

But who should you castrate? It's tough to know. Unless, of course, you have DNA scanners set up at government-run security checkpoints! A "bad" DNA scans earns you a court-mandated 
sterilization vaccination injection right on the spot. Think that's fiction? They're already using similar tactics to draw blood from drivers at DUI checkpoints.

This whole scenario with the DNA scanners and population control eugenics won't happen right away, of course. It's always step by step...
ratcheting up the police state one degree at a time like boiling a live frog. With the recent passenger molestation searches introduced by the TSA, the government was trying to determine just how far they could go without people rioting in response. And it turns out that most people are so brainwashed, so devoid of critical thinking skills, and so ignorant of their own rights and powers that they will do practically anything the government tells them to do. So don't be surprised if coming soon is the government's forced extraction of bodily fluids for DNA scanning.

I suppose the TSA can pull this off while they're reaching down your pants, too, eh?


Author Mike Adams is also the composer of the popular TSA outrage song called "Don't Touch My Junk"
http://www.naturalnews.com/Dont_Tou...

Undercover agent slips through TSA naked body scanner multiple times with handgun

Undercover agent slips through TSA naked body scanner multiple times with handgun

by Jonathan Benson, staff writer 

(NaturalNews) The "enhanced" screening procedures now used by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at the nation's airports has once again been demonstrated as a total failure, this time at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). According to a high-ranking, inside source at TSA, an undercover agent was successfully able to smuggle a handgun through the naked body scanner -- and she did so not only once, but several times. 

The TSA agent who performed the covert test says that none of the 
TSA agents that performed her screenings were at all disciplined for their multiple non-observances of her hidden weaponry. All agents involved in the incident continue to operate the screening machines just as they did prior to the test, she said.

When asked by NBC DFW about the incident, 
TSA offered a stock response that included the statement, "[f]or security reasons, we do not publicize or comment on the results of covert tests," adding that the naked body scanners are an "effective tool to detect both metallic and nonmetallic items hidden on passengers."

"In this case, where they had a test, and it was just a dismal 
failure ... you [sic] got a problem," said Larry Wansley, former head of security at American Airlines. "This was only a test, but it's critically important that (TSA) do something, because if that person failed in the real environment, then you have a problem."

The incident is not the first to show both the failure of TSA agents and their new screening devices. Late last year, TSA failed to identify a loaded pistol in a passenger's briefcase, say reports. The man did not even realize he had the .40 caliber Glock with him, and allegedly made it through TSA and onto the 
airport without obstruction (http://gizmodo.com/#!5714865/the-ts...).

Sources for this story include:

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local-be...

Vitamin D grows hair, prevents the flu and reduces arthritis pain

Vitamin D grows hair, prevents the flu and reduces arthritis pain

by Melanie Grimes
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(NaturalNews) Vitamin D prevents flu. Vitamin D has been shown to help prevent hair loss, reduce back pain, grow bones, prevent osteoporosis, and even prevent dozens of types of cancer. Vitamin D has been called the "antibiotic vitamin" by the journal, Science News, because of its recognized ability to build immunity. An editorial in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published in 2007 entitled "The urgent need to recommend an intake of vitamin D that is effective" was co-signed by nutritionists from around the world, including those from Mount Sinai Hospital, Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women`s Hospital, Tufts University, University of Toronto, University of London, and the University of Helsinki.

Vitamin D Prevents the Flu
Research has shown that vitamin D intake prevents 
the flu. A study published in the journal Epidemiology and Infection in 2007 showed vitamin D significantly reduced the number of viral infections. In the study group of 104 participants, only one person in the entire group came down with an infection, compared to the control group who had three infections EACH. The 104 people who took vitamin D had a total of one viral infection (1:104) compared to the control group who had a total of 312 (312:104).

Vitamin D Deficiency Leads to a Variety of Diseases
Numerous research 
studies have shown that vitamin D deficiency is associated with a wide range of diseases including: acne, adrenal insufficiencies, Alzheimer's disease, asthma, autism, autoimmune diseases, allergies, osteoarthritis, osteomalacia, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, many forms of cancer including colorectal and ovarian, Crohn's disease, chronic fatigue, cystic fibrosis, tuberculosis, depression, seasonal affective disorder (SAD), diabetes, gluten intolerance, Graves' disease, heart disease, hypertension, kidney disease, lupus, multiple sclerosis, obesity, Parkinson's disease, psoriasis, and urinary incontinence.

Vitamin D and Bone Pain
Vitamin D has also been shown to reduce 
back pain in 22 varied studies. Over 3,000 participants showed a reduction in musculoskeletal pain of 48 to 100 percent.

Vitamin D and Hair Loss
Vitamin D is used by the 
hair follicles, which is where hair begins its growth cycle. Research has shown that vitamin D intake can help grow hair and prevent hair loss.

http://www.naturalnews.com/026442_V...
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/art...
http://www.naturalnews.com/029018_h...
http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/li...
http://www.naturalnews.com/027362_V...
http://www.ajcn.org/content/85/3/64...
http://www.virologyj.com/content/5/1/29

Friday, February 25, 2011

SUNDAY/MONDAY TRAINING

"Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period." ~ Lou Holtz 

Ben Franklin asked himself. In the morning he asked, What good shall I do today? At night  he asked, What good have I done today?

It took from Washington to Reagan ( 2 centuries) to to accumulate 2.2 trillion in debt we've added 2.5 trillion in last 19 months! -from C.B.O. & Bureau of the Public Debt.

Irony: $2.5T spent per year on health care and no one is getting healthier. $100B per year on weight loss and no one is losing any weight. ~Miguel Molina 


Instead of asking, 'Why did this happen to me?', ask yourself, '"How can I use this? Where is the gift in this?"~ Jessica Gonzalez-Bazan 


Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. 

To have any public credibility doctors have to honor their medical oath and be reasonably in tune with medical truth. This is exceedingly hard to do if one has bought the pharmaceutical paradigm.


"If you take statin drugs, your odds of benefiting from them is less than 3 out of 100. But your odds of being harmed by them are more than 4 out of 100. For 96 out of 100 people, statin drugs do nothing except make the drug companies rich and pollute the waterways every time you flush the toilet." ~ Mike Adams


Sunday:
Time: Finish your long run by 9:00 AM
 Location: 53rd and Collins Parking Lot (There is a Fire-Fighter/Rescue Station on the side.  Park towards the end, facing the ocean).
Training: LONG RUN.  Boot-camp starts @ 9:05 AM

Monday:
Time: 6:30 AM
Location: Key Biscayne Bridge
Training: HILLS + CORE
'We don't have any special strength-training equipment in Kenya, so we Kenyan runners simply use our own body weight to supply the resistance as we run up hills. The toughness of our hill workouts is the key reason for our success.'

SICK- TSA harassing and searching a 9 year old

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1B3AubsTBo&feature=player_embedded

Alzheimer's breakthrough: scientists discover omega-3s override the bad gene causing Alzheimer's

Alzheimer's breakthrough: scientists discover omega-3s override the bad gene causing Alzheimer's

by S. L. Baker, features writer 

(NaturalNews) Scientists tend to describe their research and findings with facts and figures only, leaving out any emotion. But Prof. Daniel Michaelson of Tel Aviv University's Department of Neurobiology has uncovered something so potentially groundbreaking he called it "exhilarating" in a statement to the press.

What news could have this scientist so excited? A diet high in omega-3s, the fatty acids found in fatty fish like salmon as well as walnuts, appears to significant block the negative effects of the APOE4 gene -- the "bad" APOE gene found in 50% of all Alzheimer's patients and in about 15% of the population. Having the APOE4 gene greatly ups your risk of getting Alzheimer's disease, a dreaded and deadly form of dementia affecting about five million Americans.

Scientists have found that in all there are five molecules known to affect or cause Alzheimer's. But just how dangerous these molecules are is linked to environmental factors including diet and lifestyle.

One of these five molecules, APOE, is created by the apolipoprotein E. gene found in all of our bodies. But, according to Prof. Michaelson, there is a
"good" APOE gene and a "bad" APOE gene, which is dubbed APOE4.

He has used animal studies to investigate the effects of diet and environment on carriers of APOE4. So far, his results show a diet high in omega-3 oils and low in cholesterol significantly reduce the negative effects of the Alzheimer's causing APOE4 gene in mouse models.

"The main take-away message here is that good diets can alleviate the effects of bad genes. Of course nutritionists have had this general idea for a while, but it's nice to be able to show that this approach can be applied to specifically counteract the negative effects of Alzheimer's disease-related genes," Prof. Michaelson said in a statement to the media.

As NaturalNews has previously reported, other researchers have found many natural ways to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's, including drinking green tea (
http://www.naturalnews.com/030984_g...). Walking regularly and briskly for exercise has also been shown to lower the risk for dementia (http://www.naturalnews.com/030180_w...).

The results of Prof. Mchaelson's discoveries with more details are slated to be presented at an international conference in Barcelona, Spain this March.

Editor's note: NaturalNews is opposed to the use of animals in medical experiments that expose them to harm. We present these findings in protest of the way in which they were acquired.

For more information:
http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?pag...
http://www.naturalnews.com/Alzheime...

Combining broccoli with broccoli sprouts doubles anti-cancer effect

Study: Combining broccoli with broccoli sprouts doubles anti-cancer effect

by Jonathan Benson, staff writer 

(NaturalNews) Study after study continues to show that eating broccoli helps to prevent and treat cancer. And a new study out of the University of Illinois (U of I) says that combining broccoli with broccoli sprouts nearly doubles the cruciferous vegetable's anti-cancer effects.

"Broccoli, prepared correctly, is an extremely potent cancer-fighting agent --
three to five servings a week are enough to have an effect," said Elizabeth Jeffery, a U of I professor of nutrition that worked on the study. "To get broccoli's 
benefits, though, the enzyme myrosinase has to be present; if it's not there, sulforaphane, broccoli's cancer-preventive and anti-inflammatory component, doesn't form."

Previous 
research on the cancer-preventing benefits of broccoli have found that overcooking broccoli results in the elimination of up to 90 percent of the vegetable's anti-cancer compounds. (http://www.naturalnews.com/025893_b...). However, gently cooking broccoli in a steamer, not in the microwave, can potentially unlock more of its anti-cancer compounds than are present when eating the vegetable raw. 

Jeffrey and her colleagues compared blood levels of sulforaphane among a group of men who ate 
meals containing either broccoli sprouts alone, broccoli powder alone, or both combined. They found that in just three hours after finishing their meals, participants who ate both the powder and the sprouts had nearly twice as much of the anti-cancer substance in their systems than the two other groups did.

"There was almost a twofold increase in sulforaphane absorption when sprouts and powder were eaten together," said Jeffrey. "It changed the way the subjects metabolized the powder. We saw plasma and urine metabolites much earlier and at much higher levels than when either was eaten alone."

Jeffrey and her team say that
combining other sulforaphane-rich foods like mustard, radishes, arugula, and wasabi, along with broccoli and broccoli sprouts, will increase the benefits even further. But she warns that taking certain broccoli 
supplements in lieu of actual broccoli and broccoli sprouts may not work, as some broccoli supplements do not contain the vital enzyme myrosinase that produces sulforaphane.

Sources for this story include:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_relea...

Monsanto Shifts ALL Liability to Farmers

By Cassandra Anderson
Farmers like genetically modified (GM) crops because they can plant them, spray them with herbicide and then there is very little maintenance until harvest. Farmers who plant Monsanto's GM crops probably don't realize what they bargain for when they sign the Monsanto Technology Stewardship Agreement contract. One farmer reportedly 'went crazy' when he discovered the scope of the contract because it transfers ALL liability to the farmer or grower.
Here is the paragraph that defines Monsanto's limit of liability that shifts it to the farmer:
"GROWER'S EXCLUSIVE LIMITED REMEDY: THE EXCLUSIVE REMEDY OF THE GROWER AND THE LIMIT OF THE LIABILITY OF MONSANTO OR ANY SELLER FOR ANY AND ALL LOSSES, INJURY OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM THE USE OR HANDLING OF SEED (INCLUDING CLAIMS BASED IN CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, PRODUCT LIABILITY, STRICT LIABILITY, TORT, OR OTHERWISE) SHALL BE THE PRICE PAID BY THE GROWER FOR THE QUANTITY OF THE SEED INVOLVED OR, AT THE ELECTION OF MONSANTO OR THE SEED SELLER, THE REPLACEMENT OF THE SEED. IN NO EVENT SHALL MONSANTO OR ANY SELLER BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES." 
G. Edward Griffin, author of 'The Creature From Jekyll Island', and numerous other books and documentary films, and Anthony Patchett, retired assistant Head Deputy District Attorney, Los Angeles County Environmental Crimes/ OSHA Division explain the consequences of the Monsanto contract in the video below.
Monsanto's Technology Stewardship Agreement shifts responsibility to growers for any and all losses, injury or damages resulting from the use of Monsanto seeds. There is no expiration date on the contract. The grower may terminate the contract, but: "Grower's responsibilities and the other terms herein shall survive…"
This includes contamination of other farms. Growers are purchasing seed for Spring planting right now. Alfalfa, America's 4th largest crop, is a particular problem because it is a perennial plant and the seeds may lie dormant in the ground for 10-20 years, and WILL contaminate non-GM plants. Contaminated alfalfa cannot be recalled from the environment. The liability burden can follow the grower for decades. Farmers must be made aware of the danger of being sued before they plant GM crops (especially alfalfa because it is used for cattle feed and will affect dairy farmers).
Currently, Australian organic farmer Steve Marsh, who lost his organic certification due to contamination, is suing his GM crop-growing neighbor for the GM contamination.
Contamination of processing equipment is another risk.
There is evidence from India that GM crops are linked to livestock deaths. The Monsanto Technology Stewardship Agreement contract holds growers responsible for injuries, so this is another potential consequence for farmers planting Monsanto GM crops to consider.
The Monsanto Technology Stewardship Agreement has another clause that farmers will find disturbing: it appears that the growers agree that in order to sell their farm, the new purchaser must also sign a Monsanto Technology Stewardship Agreement. According to a top real estate broker, the contract places a covenant, condition or restriction (CCR) on the farmer's land:
"GROWER AGREES: To accept and continue the obligations of this Monsanto Technology/Stewardship Agreement on any new land purchased or leased by Grower that has Seed planted on it by a previous owner or possessor of the land; and to notify in writing purchasers or lessees of land owned by Grower that has Seed planted on it that the Monsanto Technology is subject to this Monsanto Technology/Stewardship Agreement and they must have or obtain their own Monsanto Technology/Stewardship Agreement."
Environmental attorney Anthony Patchett further elaborated on Monsanto's contract in a letter that states "Monsanto's agreement shifts all liability to the growers, including contamination issues or any potential future liability. All the grower receives is the price of the seed." He further stated that this contract appears to be "Unconscionable". Click here to view the letter.
For more information about the perils of contamination, please go to MorphCity.com to read the interview with alfalfa seed grower Phil Geertson who opposed Monsanto in the GM case heard in the Supreme Court last summer. Geertson said that Monsanto's GM seeds are more expensive and after a few years, weeds can become tolerant to Roundup Ready and other glyphosate herbicides so farmers must return to conventional farming practices anyway. Therefore, there is no benefit to planting GM crops.
You can alert farmers to the hazard of growing GM crops and how growers can be hurt by Monsanto's contract, if you would like to take action in opposing GM crops. Please share this article and video.
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

US & EU Prepare to Buy Off Post-Revolution Governments With Billions in “Aid” (TAXPAYER MONEY)

US & EU Prepare to Buy Off Post-Revolution Governments With Billions in "Aid" (Taxpayer Money)

Paul Joseph Watson

Propaganda Matrix
Wednesday, February 23, 2011


While the United States and Europe orders its own scum public to accept massive public spending cuts along with higher taxes on top of soaring inflation and food prices, it concurrently prepares to buy off post-"revolution" governments in the Middle East and North Africa with billions in "aid" (taxpayers' money) in order to install fresh puppets who will graciously buy huge quantities of arms from the US-EU-Israeli military-industrial complex.

The move is being called the biggest such program since the Marshall Plan, which was instituted to rebuild Europe after World War Two.

"In the US, Bill Richardson, former Governor of New Mexico, a leading Democratic foreign policy thinker and a confidant of President Obama, told The Times: "Western governments need to think of this as a Marshall-Plan-type moment and a dramatic change in the world's security order."

"As senior officials from the EU, US, Japan and Australia prepared for an emergency summit on the Middle East in Brussels this week, Mr Richardson added: "We have to find a way to get on the right side of these democracy movements that are going to explode, and continue to explode," reports the Australian.

In other words, dirty money stolen from taxpayers already laboring under the harshest economic conditions in several generations will be used to buy off whoever takes charge after the globalist-manipulated revolutions that have now reached Libya and threaten to engulf Saudi Arabia.

The Obama White House is already considering a huge aid package which will entice Egypt's business insiders to play ball, "in return for cooperation with Israel's private sector."

A separate $4 billion subsidy program is also in the pipeline aimed at keeping food prices down during "Egypt's transition to democracy," even as record numbers of Americans are forced on food stamps in the United States.

EU foreign policy chief Baroness Ashton, who has never been elected to public office in her life, is also set to launch a European Union-led effort to subvert the revolutions, by using billions in taxpayer funds sequestered by Brussels bureaucrats at a summit designed to "nurture democratic structures" (buy off new dictators), "first in Egypt and Tunisia but potentially in Libya, Algeria, Jordan, Yemen and Bahrain."

Unelected Bilderberg water-carrier David Cameron wasted little time in making nice with Egypt's new post-"revolution" military dictatorship as part of an effort to cash in on the tidal wave of "democracy" now sloshing around the region.

The British Prime Minister led no less than eight (yes – eight!) different defense firms on a tour of the region, even as Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi used weapons bought from British companies to slaughter hundreds of protesters.