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The £135 Million Cucumber Bailout: UK Taxpayers Forced to Share Compensation Bill for Germany’s E.coli Outbreak
Wednesday, 08 June 2011 10:23
‘British taxpayers are to contribute to an EU bailout worth at least £135million for farmers hit by Germany’s E.coli epidemic. The bill is a direct result of the German government’s failure to get to grips with a crisis that has claimed 22 lives and left thousands sick.
The European Commission proposed a figure of £135million, but the final amount could be two or three times higher.’
UK Government Recruits Doctors to Become Thought Police, Pinpoint Potential Terrorists Among Their Patients
Wednesday, 08 June 2011 08:39
‘Outrageous new “counter-terrorism” measures being proposed in the UK are receiving a public relations backlash because of their extreme, fascist overtones. The UK government’s “Prevent” program, which allegedly aims to protect against terrorism, is being reformulated to recruit doctors to both spy on their patients, then report to authorities those patients suspected of becoming potential terrorists.
In complete contradiction to the private doctor-patient relationship, the new proposals encourage doctors to identify and target patients whom they believe to be “vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism,” and report them to government authorities. Naturally, the UK’s Muslim community stands to be targeted the most under the new guidelines, as doctors who participate in the program will likely falsely accuse and report many of their Middle Eastern patients as potential terrorists.’
At Annual Convention, Psychiatrists Collaborate on Mental Disease Mongering to Boost Profits
Wednesday, 08 June 2011 07:13
‘While sipping drinks from coconut shells, psychiatrists from around the world recently met in Honolulu to discuss more ways to capitalize on human behavior and promote drug dependency. The occasion was the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), held in a Hawaiian convention center lined with mental disorder displays and pharmaceutical booths.
“Hot” topics (potential markets for social control and drug pushing) included:
1) Mental health issues during a woman’s reproductive cycle, such as “treating” pregnant women for bipolar – a disorder said to cause unusual shifts in mood and energy levels. In speaking to Medscape News, an APA committee co-chair, Dr. Don Hilty, called this “a really nice-growing area”.’
US Keeping Secret Stash of Smallpox Viruses at Lab in Georgia to Use for Future Bioweapons
Wednesday, 08 June 2011 07:19
‘You may have heard that smallpox has long been eradicated but what you may not know is that the United States and Russia still maintain stocks of the disease, and the U.S. is still in the business of researching and developing it. The question is, why?
According to the U.S. government, Washington and Moscow recently supported a decision to keep the two stocks intact, arguing that more research needed to be conducted on one of the world’s deadliest diseases. Specifically, researchers say more work is needed in order to come up with a safer version of the vaccine and better treatments for those who are already infected with smallpox.’
FDA Sends US Marshals to Seize Elderberry Juice Concentrate, Deems it ‘Unapproved Drug’
Tuesday, 07 June 2011 07:46
‘Wyldewood Cellars, a Kansas-based producer and distributor of elderberry juice, is the latest raid target of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which recently sent US marshals to the company’s winery in Mulvane to confiscate the “unapproved drug.” According to the rogue agency, Wyldewood had violated provisions in the US Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) that restrict health claims for food items, warranting the sudden invasion.’
Read more: FDA Sends US Marshals to Seize Elderberry Juice Concentrate, Deems it ‘Unapproved Drug’
Food Wars: How European Health Authorities are Using the E.coli Scare to Wage Economic Warfare Against Vegetable Farmers
Tuesday, 07 June 2011 07:35
‘Even as hospitals in Germany are now filling up with people sickened by a super-powerful drug-resistant “superbug” strain of e.coli that looks like it was bioengineered, European health authorities are leaping at the opportunity to spread fear about organic foods while ignoring the obvious true cause of the contamination in the first place — the widespread abuse of antibiotics in animal farming operations.
The e.coli blame game has become a circus of musical chairs. First, they blamed the Spaniards as a form of retaliation for Spain’s resistance to accepting GMOs. This act drove Spanish farmers into bankruptcy through a savage campaign of rumor-mongering. After ravaging the Spanish vegetable farmers, they began to randomly instill widespread fear about a variety of vegetables: First it was cucumbers, then lettuce and then finally tomatoes. And now, the blame has come full circle and is now being cast upon organic sprout growers in Germany!’
Organic farmers expand lawsuit against Monsanto
An ambitious lawsuit against the agricultural firm Monsanto got a little bigger this week, and a lawyer for the plaintiffs hopes that this is only the beginning.
The case was initially filed in March by the Public Patent Foundation (PubPat), a non-profit legal services organization based at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, on behalf of 60 organic farmers and associated organizations. The farmers want assurance from Monsanto that they will not be sued for patent infringement if their farms become contaminated with the company’s genetically modified crops.
On 1 June, PubPat announced that the list of plaintiffs had grown to 83, and that the original complaint had been amended to include a recent exchange with Monsanto’s lawyers. In a letter written on behalf of Monsanto, Seth Waxman, former solicitor general under Bill Clinton and a partner at the law firm WilmerHale in Washington, DC, said Monsanto has no intention of suing the farmers for patent infringement. “Monsanto policy never has been, nor will be, to exercise its patent rights where trace amounts of its patented seed or traits are present in a farmer’s fields as a result of inadvertent means,” he wrote, echoing a statement Monsanto has also made on its website.
But rather than placating PubPat, executive director Daniel Ravicher says he saw a veiled threat in the statement’s ambiguity. Farmers whose crops contain more than a “trace” — whatever that means — of contamination are still vulnerable to action by Monsanto, he argues. Instead, Ravicher wants a legally binding declaration that Monsanto will not sue his clients for patent infringement.
Monsanto could not be reached for comment, but has stated on its website that it views the PubPat lawsuit as a publicity stunt. Ravicher, meanwhile, says he hopes that the lawsuit will have ramifications for future legal cases against the company.
During the ‘discovery’ phase of the lawsuit, when both sides exchange evidence, Ravicher aims to compel Monsanto to hand over confidential data and email exchanges pertaining to in-house research involving its genetically modified crops. Ravicher’s team will parse through the data they collect, likely this fall or winter, looking for any new information about the environmental impact of genetically modified crops.
And if the farmers win this lawsuit, Ravicher says it will free them to pursue future cases against the company without the threat of retribution. If a farmer were to sue Monsanto now for promulgating genetically modified crops that contaminate organic farms, for example, the suit would be tantamount to admitting that the farms are growing, however unwillingly, unlicensed Monsanto crops. Under the current system, Ravicher says such an admission would leave the farmers vulnerable to accusations of patent infringement.
Changing that system depends on whether PubPat’s case succeeds. PubPat will try to convince the judge
that Monsanto’s patent claims on its genetically modified crops are invalid because the crops do not provide a ‘beneficial societal use’. One could imagine Monsanto countering that at least a few of the 15 million farmers who have planted its transgenic crops likely believed the crops to be beneficial.
But the organic farmers could also win their case if they can convince the court that the patents are unenforceable because a farmer cannot stop the wind and insects from carrying seed and pollen from neighbouring fields containing, for example, transgenic canola plants (pictured above).
It may also be wise not to dismiss PubPat too readily these days. In 2009, the organization joined the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups to launch a lawsuit over gene patents that also seemed unlikely to succeed. But a New York district judge ruled in their favour on some counts, and the now famous lawsuit against Myriad Genetics, currently under appeal, sent ripples through the biotechnology industry.
Study Shows that ‘More Than Half’ of Measles Outbreak Cases Had Been Vaccinated
Saturday, 04 June 2011 07:52
‘According to the Irish independent this week, the Health Service Executive in Ireland is warning of a measles outbreak whereby the blame is laid on visits to Europe by children. They claim that 1 in 5 cases, that they ‘had visited Europe or been in contact with someone who had traveled here from the continent in the weeks before they fell ill.’
They go on to state that apparently 42 cases were reported in Ireland this year. Of these, 8 were too young for ‘vaccination’ with ‘almost half’ of the remainder of cases, ‘almost’ half of 34, in children who were ‘unvaccinated’ with the MMR ‘vaccine’.
Doesn’t something in these figures not strike you as a little unusual?
Read more: Study Shows that ‘More Than Half’ of Measles Outbreak Cases Had Been Vaccinated
UK – Insane Mass TB Vaccinations For Babies
Saturday, 04 June 2011 08:56
‘Thousands of babies could be vaccinated against tuberculosis amid concern over soaring rates of infection.
The number of cases has risen by 50 per cent in the past decade and NHS officials fear it is becoming out of control. Doctors and managers of health trusts in London – which has the highest infection rates in Britain – are drawing up plans to vaccinate all babies within six weeks of birth.
Please keep this in mind as they try to demonise organic food – and please share with everyone you know
Saturday, 04 June 2011 10:40
‘The e.coli outbreak in Germany is raising alarm worldwide as scientists are now describing this particular strain of e.coli as “extremely aggressive and toxic.” Even worse, the strain is resistant to antibiotics, making it one of the world’s first widespread superbug food infections that’s racking up a noticeable body count while sickening thousands.
Of course, virtually every report you’ll read on this in the mainstream media has the facts wrong. This isn’t about cucumbers being dangerous, because e.coli does not grow on cucumbers. E.coli is an intestinal strain of bacteria that only grows inside the guts of animals (and people). Thus, the source of all this e.coli is ANIMAL, not vegetable.
But the media won’t admit that. Because the whole agenda here is to kill your vegetables but protect the atrocious practices of the factory animal meat industries. The FDA, in particular, loves all these outbreaks because it gives them more moral authority to clamp down on gardens and farms. They’ve been trying to irradiate and fumigate fresh veggies in the USA for years.’
– NaturalNews.com
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