This week, while the internet kept Americans buzzing, it
kept them off the streets. With one poll setting pro-impeachment sentiments at
87%, to the south, people in Puerto Rico showed the U.S. the way. (Perhaps many
in Puerto Rico are still without the internet after Hurricane Maria laid the
island waste in Sept. 2017.) Millions took to the streets in cities, towns and
villages all over Puerto Rico to protest a corrupt, misogynist U.S. stooge Governor.
They did not wait for pundits to pontificate, nor did they wait for bought
politicians who’ve ceased representing them long ago to take the initiative.
In 16 days Gov. Ricardo Rosselló resigned.
Monsanto, U.S. Top Terminator Corporation
This week, while the USDA opened the door to new, untested,
unlabeled GMOs, it’s time to look at Monsanto, the “agricultural company” that killing
bees worldwide to control the world’s food supply,.
Founded by a knight of Malta and named for his Sefardi wife,
Monsanto Chemical Work’s first product was saccharin,
sold to Coca Cola as an artificial sweetener, though the government knew that it
was poisonous, and sued to stop its manufacture, it lost in court. Next Monsanto
introduced polychlorinated biphenyls
(PCBs) an oil that would not burn, recognized for its damage to reproductive,
developmental and immune system disorders. Monsanto was fully aware of its
deadly effects but hid them from the public. It’s still present in nearly all
animal and human blood and tissue cells across the globe. Its plant outside of
East St. Louis is surrounded by the highest fetal death clusters in the state.
In the 1930, Monsanto created its first hybrid seed corn, and expanded its production line with detergents, soaps, industrial cleaning
products synthetic rubbers and plastics, all of them toxic. In 1940 with
uranium research they participated in the Manhattan Project’s first atom bomb,
killing hundreds of thousands in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Its pesticides contain dioxin,
guilty of poisoning the planet’s food and water. Monsanto failed to reveal that
it used dioxin in many of its products
so it wouldn’t have to admit it destroyed the environment.
It’s emblematic of Monsanto’s perseverance that when its
partner, Disney attempted first to break down the “House of the Future”
Monsanto had constructed, impervious to
torches, jackhammers and chain saws—even wrecking balls bounced off the
glass fiber materials, which could only be removed by choker cables biting it off piece by piece
before it could be hauled away.
In the 1960s Monsanto teamed up with Dow to manufacture Agent Orange. contaminating over 3
million people, killing half a million Vietnamese, and thousands of U.S.
servicemen who still suffer from it today—those who haven’t died of it. In
court Monsanto was allowed to present its own research claiming dioxin was
safe, and without any threat to human health, although it knew at the time that
dioxin is a killer. In an internal memo it reflected: “Where do we go from
here? …Go out of business, sell the hell out of [Agent Orange and dioxin] as
long as we can [and] try to stay in
business…”
Partnering with I.G. Farben of Zyklon B fame, Monsanto next introduced aspartame, a neurotoxin. Its parent G.D. Searle came up with over 100
faked studies claiming aspartame is safe, although the FDA revealed that it
causes Alzheimers in humans, and tumors and massive holes in rat brains before
killing them. But Donald Rumsfeld became
Monsanto CEO, using his political influence to sway the FDA. When the FDA product
investigator resigned to join Searle’s law firm, the investigation was dropped.
The FDA’s attempts to keep Nutrasweet off the market were stalled by Ronald Reagan who fired
the investigator, hired a stooge in his place, allowing Nutrasweet to be
approved for human consumption. Now it’s present in 5,000 products, including
diet and non diet sodas, sport drinks, mints, chewing gum, frozen deserts,
cookies, cakes, vitamins, pharmaceuticals, milk drinks, instant tea, coffees,
yogurt and BABY FOOD.
In the 90s Monsanto spent millions—the cost of doing
business—to dump dioxins, and other
carcinogenic products into drinking
water systems. It continued to be
sued for birth defects. injury to plant workers and people living in areas
where it operates. It developed synthetic
bovine growth hormone and sued companies who refused to use it. When farmers refuse to use Monsanto’s terminator seeds, they
are sued and driven out of business although their organic farms are
contaminated through wind drift.It
continued its ecocidal course with GMO
round-up-resistant crops such as soy, corn, wheat and canola oil all of
which are toxic, all of which are banned in the EU, but not in the U.S. GMOs
are engineered to “self-pollinate”. When bees pollinate a GMO plant or flower,
they die of poison. To make sure GMOs crash bee populations, Monsanto bought
out Beelogics a firm researching bee colony collapse.
Monsanto buys up multiple seed companies trying to eliminate
all natural food from the market. But
Monsanto is very careful not to serve GMOs to their employees, claiming it
“believes in choice.” although poor nations and Americans at large do not share
this choice.
In the 2000s U.S. spends hundred of millions to fund Round
up aerial spraying. Fish and animals die by the thousands, human respiratory
distress and cancer spike. Nonetheless, now that the FDA has been captured by
the industry, spraying continues. Monsanto merges with Pharmacia and Upjohn and
rebrands itself as an agricultural company producing safe and nutritious
food. Its Dupont rival, too big to merge
with it, agrees they will mutually drop all patent lawsuits, and share GMO
technologies for their mutual benefit. Meanwhile
Monsanto files frivolous SLAP lawsuits, against farmers infringing on their
terminator seed patents. The Supreme Court
sides with Monsanto each time such suits are appealed. One hundred thousand
farmers in India, bankrupted by GMO crops. drink pesticide so their families
can inherit their death benefits.
Whole Foods in collusion with Monsanto, crams its shelves
with “natural & organic” food loaded with GMOs, pesticides, rBGH, hormones
and antibiotics, delaying as long as
possible any mandatory labeling and coming up with deceptive GMO labeling laws
to confuse the public, and keep it in the dark.
Monsanto and partners Archer Daniels Midland, Sodexo, and
Tyson write and push the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009,
giving corporate factory farms a monopoly to police and control all food grown
anywhere, including private backyards, penalizing individuals who refuse the
use of its chemicals and non-organic fertilizers.
Obama signs the “Continuing
Resolution, aka Monsanto Protection Act,” guaranteeing that no federal court
can stop it from planting GMO crops anywhere they want.
America happens to be Monsanto’s last stand. Why?
Because its practices reflect U.S. domestic and foreign policies. But
people have begun to notice that beyond its obscene profits, Monsanto has an
even bigger fish to fry: the destruction of human health and the entire
planet’s environment.
Despite Monsanto’s
appeals, recent court cases have granted cancer victims affected by use
of its products millions of dollars compensation. And people in general have become more aware
that they must practice politics while grocery shopping by reading the labels
on every packaged product, and by avoiding octopus Amazon’s Whole Foods.
But for people impacted by aerial spraying on industrial
farms, and foreign battlefields, such escape is never guaranteed.
Demand FDA ban
glyphosate at:
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-regulate-monsanto-pesticides-they-are-literally-killing-us?source=2019Monsanto_PA&referrer=group-progress-america&link_id=0&can_id=447ac5b0d7a5124338b20f2bb702d0f8&email_referrer=email_586323___subject_761376&email_subject=what-did-they-know-and-when-did-they-know-it
Save bees from toxic
pesticides at:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/e_s19_july_pesticidebees_efundraiser_27_c4?express_lane=true&amount=27&refcode=express_lane_SLA
If you can't go to D.C. and surround the WH, here are the calls you need please to make NOW.
Identify yourself, ask them to support an immediate impeachment investigation via their subcommittee.
Call to impeach to Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil
rights, and Liberties at:
Chair, Steve Cohen, TN 09 (202) 225-3265
Vice Chair: Jamie Raskin, MD-08 (202) 225-5341
Eeric Swalwell, CA-15 (202) 225-5065
Mary Gay Scanlon, PA-05 (202) 225-2011
Madeleine Dean, PA-04 (202) 225-4731
Sylvia R. Garcia, TX-29 (202) 225-1688
Veronica Escobar, TX-16 (202) 225-4831
Sheila Jackson Lee, TX-18 (202) 225-3816
Ask these other Judiciary Committee members to support an
immediate impeachment investigation at
Chair: Jerrold Nedler, NY-10 (202) 225-5635
Zoe Lofgren, CA-19 (202) 225-3072
Hank Johnson, GA-04 (202) 225 1605
Ted Deutch, FL-22 (202) 225-3001
Karen Bass, CA-37 (202) 225 7084
Cedric Richmond, LA-02 (202) 225 6636
Hakeem Jeffries, NY-08, 202) 225 5926
David Cicilline, RI-01 (202) 225 4911
Ted Lieu, CA-33 (202) 225 3976
Pramila Jaayapal, WA-07 (202) 225-3106
Val DeMings, FL-10 (202) 225 2176
J. Louis Correa, CA-46 (202) 225 2965
Joe Neguse, CA-01
(202) 225-2161
Lucy Mcbath, GA-06 (202) 225 4501
Greg Stanton, AZ-09 (202) 225-9888
Debbie Mucarset-Powell, FL-26 (202) 225-2778
Making 24 calls might take less time and money than a trip to D.C.
Foreign
Puerto Rico’s Gov. Rosselló steps down as party leader, says
he won’t seek re-election, as massive demonstrations block Puerto Rico’s main
highway and force him to resign 16 days later.
National strike against the Ecuadorian Government demands
Assange’s freedom.
Colombia youth bring lawsuit against the president for
failing to protect rights of the Amazon forest, and of future
generations.
Reiwa Shinsengumi make splash in Japanese election debut,
giving voice to people with disabilities.
Costa Rica doubles its tropical rainforest in just 30 years.
Iceland to hold memorial for Okjökull glacier lost to
climate change.
Taliban claims deal on U.S. troop pullout from Afghanistan
is near.
Two dozen world prominent scientists ask UN to make
environmental damage in conflict zones a war crime.
Crying “Climate Emergency,” Greenpeace, UK blocks Johnson’s
motorcade as it makes its way to Buckingham Palace.
Domestic
In response to backlash, Twitter restores Assange activism
account.
Actions to #CloseTheCamps escalate throughout the U.S.
Hundreds return to Fort Sill, OK protesting #45 plan to jail migrant kids at
site.
Sen. Jim Inhofe says plans to hold incarcerated migrant
children at Fort Sill have been put on hold.
Thanks to anti-ICE activism, First Third Bancorp following B
of A, Wells, Chase, Suntrust, and BNP Paribas announces it will no longer
finance the private prison and immigrant detention industry.
Activists pressure Wall Street to drop support for Core Civic and
Geo Group the two largest private prison companies who stand to lose $1.9
billion in financing.
Hermitage, TN community members form human chain to block
ICE from detaining neighbor.
Federal Judge blocks #45’s restrictions on asylum seeking at
the border.
House votes to eliminate subminimum wages, one legacy of
slavery.
Amazon workers, angry about low pay and sweltering heat,
organize.
A federal district court judge declares registration for the
draft requirement for men, but not women is unconstitutional.
California becomes latest state to consider a 2020 ballot
measure assuring parolee voting rights.
Exeter and Nottingham New Hampshire adopt Right to Climate laws
along with a dozen other New Hampshire communities to protect themselves
from corporate polluters from hazard waste dumping.
Toledo Ohio adopts a charter amendment recognizing the rights of
Lake Erie, securing the Lake’s right to exist, flourish, and naturally evolve.
Environmental activists claim victory after Detroit incinerator
closes.
San Juan Islands leads way with six-month educational and outreach
program building support for recognizing their Rights of Nature in law to
protect the Salish Sea.
The White Earth Band of Objibwe adopts Right of Manoomin (wild
rice) law, guaranteeing its legal rights and securing on and off
reservation protection and the clean, fresh water resources on which it
depends.
In California Berkeley leads way banning natural gas
hookups.
Oakland’s Police Commission calls for firing five Oakland
officers involved in shooting of Joshua Pawlik in 2018.
California legislature votes to ban Ticketmaster scalping
software.
House of Reps passes anti-robocall legislation to end
harassment and costly calls.
California’s Gov. Newsom calls out Bureau of Land Management
for proposing oil and gas development in
California’s Central Coast region in conflict with California policies
reducing fossil fuel consumption.
California and four major automakers uphold fuel efficiency
standards in response to #45 fecklessness.
Pushing back against #45’s call for billions of cuts,
progressive advocates make case for expanding Social Security during historic
House committee hearing.
In Iowa, activists confront 2020 candidates about drones and
war making.
Forth Circuit Court of Appeals throws out Atlantic Coast
Pipeline permit to continue construction.
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