The American made
sham election conducted in the 2014 mid-term has opened up America to
billionaire vultures picking America’s carcass clean. While there are many vultures that are
feasting on the corpse of America, the most powerful is Monsanto, and the
vultures have come home to roost.
The historic 2014
mid-term elections in the United States had the lowest number of voters who
were allowed to participate since the 1940’s.
An historic amount of money was funneled into Republican campaigns; $3
billion dollars was funded by a handful of billionaires to purchase the
American government. According to the
ACLU, The Voting Rights Act passed in 1965 guaranteed the fundamental right of
our citizens to choose their own leaders.
Excerpt:
The
Voting Rights Act continues to protect the voting rights of millions of voters
across the country today. This landmark civil rights legislation is a critical
safeguard to ensuring equal access to the ballot and guaranteeing our most
fundamental right as Americans. Since its passage in 1965, the Voting Rights
Act has guaranteed millions of minority voters a chance to have their voices
heard and their votes counted.
Poll
taxes and literacy tests were among the many discriminatory laws that were
enforced to keep African Americans from voting. In an effort to tear down these
historical barriers and to protect the guarantee that the right to vote is not
denied "on account of race, color, or previous condition of
servitude," on August 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting
Rights Act into law.
Section
5 of the Act required jurisdictions with significant histories of voter
discrimination to "pre-clear," or get federal approval from the
Department of Justice (DOJ), for any new voting practices or procedures, and to
show that they do not have a discriminatory purpose or effect.
In
June 2013, in a huge blow to democracy, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the
coverage formula used in Section 5. Section 5 of the Act requires jurisdictions
with significant histories of voter
discrimination to "pre-clear," or get federal approval from the
Department of Justice (DOJ), for any new voting practices or procedures, and to
show that they do not have a discriminatory purpose or effect.
In states where
the legislatures are controlled by the American Legislative Exchange Council
(ALEC), new restrictive voter I.D. laws written by the ALEC bill mill
disenfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters in 2014. In Texas alone, it is estimated that over
600,000 people were denied the right to vote.
From New York Times:
Excerpt:
As New Rules Take Effect,
Voters Report Problems in Some States
Some
longtime voters in Texas reported on Tuesday that they were refused a ballot
because they lacked newly required photo identification. In North Carolina, voters
who showed up at the wrong precinct were unable to vote, reflecting a new
policy. And in Georgia, hundreds of frustrated people called a hotline to say they were
unsure if their voter registrations had been processed, some of the thousands
of would-be new voters who reportedly faced uncertainty.
Yep, no need to
protect the hard-fought rights of citizens to exercise the most fundamental of rights,
the right of the people to select their leaders.
Most of the new policies were adopted by Republican
legislatures in the name of electoral integrity, even though evidence
of voter fraud has been negligible. They are opposed by Democrats who say
tighter rules are aimed at discouraging minorities, poor people and college
students, groups that tend to prefer Democrats, from voting….
In Florida’s Broward County, for example, technical malfunctions and voter confusion about polling sites led to
delays and an emergency request by Charlie Crist, the Democratic candidate for
governor, for a two-hour extension of voting hours. A Florida judge denied the
request….
Florida’s voter
disenfranchisement after years of Republican rule are “epic” with the 2000
Presidential election as the template for voter disenfranchisement
While several of the new laws
have been challenged or ruled unconstitutional by lower courts, the final limits remain to be sorted out by
the Supreme Court.
This Supreme Court would not
exist were it not for the ultimate sham election of 2000. With the government solidly in control of
ALEC sponsored politicians, expect to see more voter restriction laws written
by ALEC.
The Supreme Court allowed
disputed changes to take effect for this election in Ohio, which cut early voting on a Sunday that
was popular with black churches; in North
Carolina, where early voting was curbed and same-day registration abolished; and in Texas, which adopted the
country’s most stringent photo identification rules.
Last year’s Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder,
ending direct federal oversight of
voting laws in regions with histories of discrimination, allowed Texas to proceed with its photo ID
requirement.
A federal district judge —
noting evidence that more than 600,000 registered voters in the state,
mainly poor, black and Hispanic, did not have the specified documents — struck
down the law, calling it the modern equivalent of a poll tax.
So, what are the ramifications
of American made sham elections of 2014?
From The Intercept:
Excerpt:
HOW VOTER SUPPRESSION HELPED
PRODUCE THE LOWEST TURNOUT IN DECADES
On
Tuesday, older, white voters — who traditionally support Republicans — went to
the polls in droves, while turnout among traditionally Democratic groups — the
young, the minoritized, and women — was down. Indeed, overall turnout declined
to an estimated 36.6% of eligible voters, the lowest rate of participation
since the 1940s, despite the $3 billion spent by candidates, political parties,
and super PACs.
Yes,
President Barack Obama’s poor performance and approval rating undoubtedly
played a role in the lower turnout. But the
evidence is piling up that systematic voter suppression, including voter ID
laws and dubious vote-fraud prevention software, played a significant part in
keeping people from casting ballots, as well.
Surprise, surprise. Big winner, Monsanto, the Monsanto sham
election vultures have come home to roost.
An army of ALEC soldiers of fortune, Fortune 500 that is, won elections
across the United States. From Source Watch:
Excerpt:
Monsanto
is considered the mother of agricultural biotechnology. The company produces
biotechnology, genomics and herbicides for corn, cotton, oil seeds, and
vegetables. It produces genetically altered seeds to tolerate its flagship
product, Roundup….
Monsanto
has been a corporate funder of the American Legislative Exchange Council
(ALEC). [4]
ALEC
is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it is much
more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand state legislators
their wish lists to benefit their bottom line.
Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's
operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC task forces
where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with elected officials
to approve “model” bills
Within days of the 2014
mid-term sham election, organic farmers in California were handed a fatal blow,
the ALEC bill mill has proposed wiping out California’s organic farming
community. From San Francisco CBS Local:
Excerpt:
Organic Farmers Object to
California Pest-Management Plan
SAN
FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — With organic food
growers reporting double-digit growth in US sales each year, producers are
challenging a PROPOSED California pest-management program they say enshrines a
pesticide-heavy approach for decades to come, including compulsory spraying of
organic crops at the state’s discretion.
Chief among the complaints of organic growers: The
California Department of Food and
Agriculture’s pest-management plan says compulsory state pesticide spraying of
organic crops would do no economic harm to organic producers, on the grounds that
the growers could sell sprayed crops as non-organic instead.
Oh joy, joy, joy. The corporate celestial heavens have opened
and the Monsanto nightmare of control over the food supply, not only in America
but across the world is fast becoming a reality. Monsanto’s war on organic farmers just won a
major battle in that war.
Well, move over California
according to the New York Times the
U.S.D.A. has just approved GM potatoes for one of ALEC’s members Simplot, the
biggest producer of French Fries for McDonald’s.
Excerpt:
U.S.D.A. Approves Modified
Potato. Next Up: French Fry Fans
A
potato genetically engineered to reduce the amounts of a POTENTIALLY harmful
ingredient in French fries and potato chips has been approved for commercial
planting, the Department of Agriculture announced
on Friday.
Yeah, sounds like
preemptive war on American potato farmers.
The
potato’s DNA has been altered so that less of a chemical called acrylamide,
which is suspected of causing cancer in people, is produced when the potato is
fried.
The new potato also resists
bruising, a characteristic long sought by potato growers and processors for
financial reasons. Potatoes
bruised during harvesting, shipping or storage can lose value or become
unusable.
Yep, that what
it's all about profits.
The
biotech tubers were developed by the J. R. Simplot Company, a privately held
company based in Boise, Idaho, which was the initial supplier of frozen French
fries to McDonald’s in the 1960s and is still a major supplier. The company’s
founder, Mr. Simplot, who died in 2008, became a billionaire….
Bingo, McDonald’s major
supplier of French fries has now gotten the go ahead from our government to
taint the potato crop.
But the
approval comes as some consumers are questioning the safety of genetically
engineered crops and demanding that the foods made from them be labeled. Ballot
initiatives calling for labeling were rejected by voters in Oregon and Colorado
this week, after food and seed companies poured millions of dollars into
campaigns to defeat the measures.
Of course they
don’t want you to know you are buying Frankenstein crops that are genetically
modified and raise serious concerns about their safety. If
Monsanto and the ALEC gang are so cocksure their GM crap is so great, why not
label it and let the American consumers decide if they want to risk their
health eating your product?
Genetically
modified potatoes failed once before. In the late 1990s, Monsanto began selling
potatoes genetically engineered to resist the Colorado potato beetle. But the market collapsed after big potato
users, fearing consumer resistance, told farmers not to grow them. Simplot
itself, after hearing from its fast-food chain customers, instructed its
farmers to stop growing the Monsanto potatoes.
So, in 1990 the
Frankenstein potato market collapsed because people didn’t want GM potatoes, so
don’t tell the people their buying potentially dangerous crap, and problem
solved.
Yes, it pays to
own a government. And you have to wonder how that referendum was worded in Colorado
and Oregon that the people would vote against labeling GM crops. According to Source Watch:
An
issue of growing concern is the Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods [8]. Many
have questioned why it is that while consumers in all of Europe and about fifty
other countries around the world including Japan, India and China are
guaranteed the right to know through strict labeling standards what foods
contain GM ingredients,[22] while
consumers in the United States are denied this same right. Polls
indicate that the great majority of Americans who are aware of the issue want
labels.[23][24]
So, in Japan,
India and China citizens are protected with strict labeling standards that are
denied to the citizens of the “greatest Democracy” in the world.
So let’s take a
look around the world at Monsanto’s successes and failures in poisoning the
food supply. From Global Research:
Excerpt:
The Seeds Of Suicide: How
Monsanto Destroys Farming
“Producing
more, Conserving more, Improving farmers lives.”
These
are the promises Monsanto India’s website makes, alongside pictures of smiling,
prosperous farmers from the state of Maharashtra. This is a desperate attempt
by Monsanto and its PR machinery to delink the epidemic of farmers’ suicides
in India from the company’s growing control over cotton seed supply — 95 per
cent of India’s cotton seed is now controlled by Monsanto.
Control
over seed is the first link in the food chain because seed is the source of
life. When a corporation controls seed, it controls life, especially the life
of farmers…
Through
patents on seed, Monsanto has become the “Life Lord” of our planet, collecting
rents for life’s renewal from farmers, the original breeders…
The
entry of Monsanto in the Indian seed sector was made possible with a 1988 Seed Policy imposed by the World Bank, requiring
the Government of India to deregulate the seed sector…..
In 1988 India was
forced to deregulate the seed sector by the World Bank, nice.
Monsanto’s
seed monopolies, the destruction of alternatives, the collection of super profits
in the form of royalties, and the increasing vulnerability of monocultures has
created a context for debt, suicides and agrarian distress which is driving the
farmers’ suicide epidemic in India. This systemic control has been intensified
with Bt cotton. That is why most suicides are in the cotton belt….
That
is why we have started Fibres of Freedom in the heart of Monsanto’s Bt
cotton/suicide belt in Vidharba. We have created community seed banks with
indigenous seeds and helped farmers go organic. No GMO seeds, no debt, no suicides.
Then there’s this
article in Nation of Change:
Excerpt:
Monsanto’s GMO Seeds
Contributing to Farmer Suicides Every 30
Minutes
“Many
families are now ruined thanks to the mass suicides, and are left to economic
ruin and must struggle to fight off starvation.”
In
what has been called the single largest
wave of recorded suicides in human history, Indian farmers are now killing
themselves in record numbers. It has been extensively reported, even in
mainstream news, but nothing has been done about the issue. The cause? Monsanto’s cost-inflated and ineffective
seeds have been driving farmers to suicide, and is considered to be one of the
largest — if not the largest — cause of
the quarter of a million farmer suicides over the past 16 years.
A quarter of a million
farmers dead because of Monsanto. Let’s
take a stroll over to Mexico and see how Monsanto’s GM Corn/Maise plants are
faring. First of all in December 2013 a
judge in Mexico banned Monsanto’s Frankenstein corn seeds. According to Sustainable Pulse:
Excerpt:
Mexican Judge Throws out Monsanto Appeal to Confirm GM Maize Ban
A
Mexican judge has thrown out the appeals of Mexico’s SEMARNAT (Environment and
Natural Resources Ministry), and Monsanto, who were attempting to overturn a
September court ruling that banned the planting of GM maize in Mexico…
The
Mexican federal government had allowed trial crops of GM maize to be planted in
Mexico since 2009 before the shock decision in September made by the Twelfth
Federal District Court for Civil Matters of Mexico City. Judge Jaime Eduardo Verdugo J. cited “the risk of imminent harm to the
environment” as the basis for the decision.
The
Judge’s ruling means that multinationals such as Monsanto and Pioneer are legally banned from releasing GM maize into
the Mexican countryside.
Well, I guess that should
be that, but what’s this? According to
an April, 2014 article in SustainablePulse, Monsanto wants the judge thrown off the case. I guess the Mexican judicial system hasn’t
been packed with lunatics like in America’s.
Excerpt:
Monsanto Request Removal of
Mexican Judge over GM Maize Ban
Monsanto
have requested the removal of an Appeals Court Judge in Mexico, who ruled
against them in the ongoing legal battle on the prohibition of GM Maize in the
country.
In
December, Judge Marroqun Zaleta threw out the appeals of Mexico’s SEMARNAT
(Environment and Natural Resources Ministry), and Monsanto, who were attempting
to overturn a September court ruling that banned the planting of GM maize in
Mexico.
Monsanto wants to
judge shop for a more favorable judge. In
the meantime, France was rejecting enslaving their farmers to Monsanto’s
Frankenstein seeds. From Global Research:
Excerpt:
Geopolitics of Organic Food:
Russia, China and France Ban GMOs
Russia’s
RT reported in an article titled, “Russia will not import GMO products – PM
Medvedev,” that, “Russia will not import GMO products, the country’s Prime
Minister Dmitry Medvedev said, adding
that the nation has enough space and resources to produce organic food.” The article would quote Russia’s prime
minister who stated specifically, “if the Americans like to eat GMO products,
let them eat it then. We don’t need to do that; we have enough space and
opportunities to produce organic food.”
I agree with
Medvedev, but Americans aren’t eating GM products because they want to, they
don’t know what they are eating because ALEC politicians won’t allow labeling.
The
article would also state that products
in Russia containing more than 0.9% genetically modified ingredients must be
labeled, as opposed to US laws where no labeling is required for genetically
modified products despite steadily growing public opposition to the practice.
All the world
knows that Monsanto’s Frankenstein seeds are a killer, in every way. And what’s really crazy is that on October 30th,
2014 just days before the November 4th election a previously pro-GM Monsanto
scientist has reported to Info Wars GM seeds are a health hazard.
 |
Excerpt:
FORMER PRO-GMO BIOTECH
SCIENTIST ADMITS GMOS AREN’T SAFE, REFUTES CLAIMS BY MONSANTO
Former
Biotech Scientist Speaks Out
In
comes Dr. Thierry Vrain, a former GMO biotechnologist who has come out with a lot of information that should open people’s
eyes about the real dangers of genetically modified foods and crops.
Vrain
will be the first to admit that Monsanto has conducted a lot of studies showing
that GMOs are safe, but he changed his
own tune about ten years ago when he started reading scientific journals from
other countries.
“I
started paying attention to the flow of published studies coming from Europe,
some from prestigious labs and published in prestigious scientific journals,
that questioned the impact and safety of engineered food.”
You know, America
once led the world in science and industry, now after the overthrow of the
United States Government, December 12, 2000 we are just a third world country
when it comes to science and innovation.
Our government is packed with anti-science climate deniers who believe
Jesus rode on dinosaurs.
No longer can
American produce be trusted, because American people are not allowed to have
sunlight when it comes of the integrity of the food products grown in America. How long will it be before American farmers
are committing suicide because American crops are banned around the world for
lack of labeling?
Here
is what he thinks about his former industry now:
“I
refute the claims of the biotechnology companies that their engineered crops
yield more, that they require less pesticide applications, that they have no
impact on the environment and of course that they are safe to eat…
“The Bt corn and soya plants that are now
everywhere in our environment are registered as insecticides. But are these
insecticidal plants regulated and have their proteins been tested for safety? Not by the federal departments in charge of
food safety, not in Canada and not in the U.S.
There are no long-term feeding studies
performed in these countries to demonstrate the claims that engineered corn and
soya are safe. All we have are scientific studies out of Europe and Russia,
showing that rats fed engineered food die prematurely.
But, there was one
bright spot in the November 4th, 2014 election, Maui has banned Monsanto Frankenstein seeds. From WordPress:
Excerpt:
They
got into Monsanto’s face. They accused Monsanto/Dow of spreading poison.
They
didn’t say, “You have a right to know what’s in your food and we’re all nice
people, and reasonable people have a right to disagree.”
They
hit it hard.
The
Maui SHAKA Movement and voteyesmaui.org and other activists won by a very
narrow margin—and instituted a temporary ban on new Monsanto/Dow GMO crops in
Maui County.
Their corporate opposition
spent $300 for every vote they got. And lost.
A
tip of the hat and a bow to Maui County activists.
It would be one
thing if American made sham election results stayed within our shores, but the
election results have a long deadly reach across the world. From TruthDig:
Excerpt:
How
can it be just that so few dictate the lives of so many? I’m not referring to
the 1 percent and the 99 percent. I’m speaking of the voting population in the
United States and in its minions Canada and Britain. Meanwhile, the billions of
people around the world whose lives are directly impacted by the decisions made
by elected officials in these wealthy nations have virtually no voice. The US
Empire is far from democratic. It is authoritarian! It is imperialist! It is
unjust! And a revolution is needed.
So while the world
moves to protect their citizens and environment from Monsanto, America is once
again left behind. With ALEC’s
anti-science politicians doing the bidding of Monsanto, the Monsanto Vultures
have come home to roost.
By Patricia Baeten
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