Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Monsanto+Obama- Can someone please help?

I know that my brothers  and dad and probably sister in laws, and probably just about everyone except the littlest nieces and nephews are smarter then me on many things.  And you guys are super on top of the political hot buttons, so maybe you can help me out.   I have been reading and reading- looking for unbiased info (probably none out there, but these are two fairly straight forward).  Can someone please tell me why our government is protecting Monsanto, and why this is a good thing.  Of all the things out there right now, I think this is the most scary to me.
 
Russia blasts Obama for protecting Monstano and their Bee's.

http://topinfopost.com/2013/05/28/russia-warns-obama-Monsanto

Most perplexing in all of this, the MRNE says, and which led to Putin’s anger at the US, has been the Obama regimes efforts to protect pesticide-producer profits over the catastrophic damaging being done to the environment, and as the Guardian News Service detailed in their 2 May article titled “US rejects EU claim of insecticide as prime reason for bee colony collapse” and which, in part, says:
“The European Union voted this week for a two-year ban on a class of pesticides, known as neonicotinoids, that has been associated with the bees’ collapse. The US government report, in contrast, found multiple causes for the collapse of the honeybees.”
To the “truer” reason for the Obama regimes protection of these bio-tech giants destroying our world, the MRNE says, can be viewed in the report titled “How did Barack Obama become Monsanto’s man in Washington?” and which, in part, says:
“After his victory in the 2008 election, Obama filled key posts with Monsanto people, in federal agencies that wield tremendous force in food issues, the USDA and the FDA: At the USDA, as the director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Roger Beachy, former director of the Monsanto Danforth Center. As deputy commissioner of the FDA, the new food-safety-issues czar, the infamous Michael Taylor, former vice-president for public policy for Monsanto. Taylor had been instrumental in getting approval for Monsanto’s genetically engineered bovine growth hormone.”
Even worse, after Russia suspended the import and use of an Monsanto genetically modified corn following a study suggesting a link to breast cancer and organ damage this past September, the Russia Today News Service reported on the Obama regimes response:
“The US House of Representatives quietly passed a last-minute addition to the Agricultural Appropriations Bill for 2013 last week – including a provision protecting genetically modified seeds from litigation in the face of health risks.
The rider, which is officially known as the Farmer Assurance Provision, has been derided by opponents of biotech lobbying as the “Monsanto Protection Act,” as it would strip federal courts of the authority to immediately halt the planting and sale of genetically modified (GMO) seed crop regardless of any consumer health concerns.
The provision, also decried as a “biotech rider,” should have gone through the Agricultural or Judiciary Committees for review. Instead, no hearings were held, and the piece was evidently unknown to most Democrats (who hold the majority in the Senate) prior to its approval as part of HR 993, the short-term funding bill that was approved to avoid a federal government shutdown.”
On 26 March, Obama quietly signed this “Monsanto Protection Act” into law thus ensuring the American people have no recourse against this bio-tech giant as they fall ill by the tens of millions, and many millions will surely end up dying in what this MRNE report calls the greatest agricultural apocalypse in human history as over 90% of feral (wild) bee population in the US has already died out, and up to 80% of domestic bees have died out too.

Monsanto Illegally seize's and destroy's bees.

http://www.southmilwaukeenow.com/blogs/communityblogs/209038121.html

9 comments:

  1. This is the first I have heard about this issue, but I completely reject the first article, after its appalling grammar mistakes (seven very basic ones in the first three paragraphs alone), and the fact that its second menu link at the top of the page is "Conspiracy."
    I don't know much about politics or the environment, but to be quite honest, this doesn't look like anything different than what has been happening since the beginning of politics and environmentalism - corporations ignoring environmental impact, environmentalists and scientists being outraged, and politicians helping out their friends.

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  2. I, unfortunately, haven't heard anything about this. But I agree that the sources are unreliable. Both of the sources are web pages where anyone can post anything they'd like. Blog style, if you will. These are unvetted and largely unpublic and thus individuals can write whatever they'd like. As such, I wouldn't give any credence to the arguments unless you found them on Fox or CNN. (Both still biases, Conservative and Liberal, respectively, but are much more publicly vetted and more accurate.)
    Besides the subject of sources, I see the story two ways. First, I agree with Liz. I wouldn't be surprised if politicians were protecting large corporations. That's how politics goes. Second, however, we can't pin this on Obama and his "regime." There's no evidence (besides him signing the bill) that he participated or even condoned this. It sounds like another mud slinging attack by right wingers. Additionally, the article even sites that the provisions protecting Monsanto were put in by House Republicans, and that Senate Democrats knew little of it. I'm not defending Obama or his performance, I'm simply stating that politicians helping out corporations shouldn't be used as attacks against him.
    Anyway, long. Sorry. That's what I get out of it.

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  3. I am not attacking or blaming either democrats or republicans (in fact stupid republicans blocked an revisement just last week) I am simply annoyed that the government is siding with a large company over it's people's health (I just read an article from Bloomberg- does that count more?). Knowing the media- they'll spin it how ever they want (hello, Washington right now is full of "spin") but somehow I don't think that we are getting the full answer on any of it. It worries me that I can't trust anyone or anything out there to just "be" what it says it is.

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  5. thanks Mike and Liz for the great thoughts!

    ...and a complete side note, there was actually a report on this morning news (before I read the article) that talked about how Montana is concerned about our dwindling bee population and they are starting studies on it.

    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/05/24/eu-pushes-through-restrictions-on-pesticides-aiming-to-protect-bees/

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  6. Lest anyone think, based on these comments or previous conversations, that Mike and I are Obama-defenders or Democrats, I would like to clarify that we both fall in the middle of the political spectrum in general, and adjust our leanings on an issue-by-issue basis.
    I agree with you, Jen, that it is frustrating to never have a completely unbiased (or even completely honest) portrayal of what things are, but I think there is something to be learned from every situation, including this one. While the facts of the issue are murky (as always), I think this shows that party lines these days mean very little - supporting a large corporation (and one who is disregarding environmental impact) is traditionally seen as a Republican move. But here is a great example of why placing support and votes based solely on political party is a bad idea - politicians are going to do what's best for them as individuals (generally of course), whether that means stubbornly sticking to partisan ideals, or breaking with tradition to support a benefactor.
    Which is why I figure it's best not to place hope in any politician or candidate anymore. Obama supporters who touted him as the savior of the country have been disappointed throughout his presidency, and I'm sure whoever the next savior is will be a disappointment as well. So I've stopped looking to politicians as saviors, and realized that as long as my hope is in THE Savior, things'll work out in the long run, even if it all just looks like a big mess now.

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  7. All good Liz- I think that I am a lot like you and Mike. It's just that I can rarely find a democrat that votes the way I want hthem to on my top three.
    1) Abortion
    2) marriage
    3) guns
    Quite frankly- finding ANYONE that votes and sticks with their morals is a rare thing. I think you should start a news station liz- and make it all unbiased.
    Do you have any good ideas though? Seems like any politician is easily corruptible, and that there just isn't much we can do.

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  8. Oh- and I LOVE having these conversations with you guys- makes my brain work and pretend that I am an adult, not just a bathroom scrubber!

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  9. I have no idea what this is.....but after reading it, seems like just another thing that people want to fight about. It probably will come and go without another thought in a couple of months. Just political drama.

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