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Russia Warns Obama: Monsanto

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The shocking minutes relating to President Putin’s meeting this past week with US Secretary of State John Kerry reveal the Russian leaders “extreme outrage” over the Obama regimes continued protection of global seed and plant bio-genetic giants Syngenta and Monsanto in the face of a growing “bee apocalypse” that the Kremlin warns “will most certainly” lead to world war.
According to these minutes, released in the Kremlin today by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation (MNRE), Putin was so incensed over the Obama regimes refusal to discuss this grave matter that he refused for three hours to even meet with Kerry, who had traveled to Moscow on a scheduled diplomatic mission, but then relented so as to not cause an even greater rift between these two nations.
At the center of this dispute between Russia and the US, this MNRE report says, is the “undisputed evidence” that a class of neuro-active insecticides chemically related to nicotine, known as neonicotinoids, are destroying our planets bee population, and which if left unchecked could destroy our world’s ability to grow enough food to feed its population.
So grave has this situation become, the MNRE reports, the full European Commission (EC) this past week instituted a two-year precautionary ban (set to begin on 1 December 2013) on these “bee killing” pesticides following the lead of Switzerland, France, Italy, Russia, Slovenia and Ukraine, all of whom had previously banned these most dangerous of genetically altered organisms from being used on the continent.
Two of the most feared neonicotinoids being banned are Actara and Cruiser made by the Swiss global bio-tech seed and pesticide giant Syngenta AG which employs over 26,000 people in over 90 countries and ranks third in total global sales in the commercial agricultural seeds market.
Important to note, this report says, is that Syngenta, along with bio-tech giants Monsanto, Bayer, Dow and DuPont, now control nearly 100% of the global market for genetically modified pesticides, plants and seeds.
Also to note about Syngenta, this report continues, is that in 2012 it was criminally charged in Germany for concealing the fact that its genetically modified corn killed cattle, and settled a class-action lawsuit in the US for $105 million after it was discovered they had contaminated the drinking supply of some 52 million Americans in more than 2,000 water districts with its “gender-bending” herbicide Atrazine.
To how staggeringly frightful this situation is, the MNRE says, can be seen in the report issued this past March by the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) wherein they warned our whole planet is in danger, and as we can, in part, read:
“As part of a study on impacts from the world’s most widely used class of insecticides, nicotine-like chemicals called neonicotinoids, American Bird Conservancy (ABC) has called for a ban on their use as seed treatments and for the suspension of all applications pending an independent review of the products’ effects on birds, terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates, and other wildlife.
“It is clear that these chemicals have the potential to affect entire food chains. The environmental persistence of the neonicotinoids, their propensity for runoff and for groundwater infiltration, and their cumulative and largely irreversible mode of action in invertebrates raise significant environmental concerns,” said Cynthia Palmer, co-author of the report and Pesticides Program Manager for ABC, one of the nation’s leading bird conservation organizations.
ABC commissioned world renowned environmental toxicologist Dr. Pierre Mineau to conduct the research. The 100-page report, “The Impact of the Nation’s Most Widely Used Insecticides on Birds,” reviews 200 studies on neonicotinoids including industry research obtained through the US Freedom of Information Act. The report evaluates the toxicological risk to birds and aquatic systems and includes extensive comparisons with the older pesticides that the neonicotinoids have replaced. The assessment concludes that the neonicotinoids are lethal to birds and to the aquatic systems on which they depend.
“A single corn kernel coated with a neonicotinoid can kill a songbird,” Palmer said. “Even a tiny grain of wheat or canola treated with the oldest neonicotinoid — called imidacloprid — can fatally poison a bird. And as little as 1/10th of a neonicotinoid-coated corn seed per day during egg-laying season is all that is needed to affect reproduction.”
The new report concludes that neonicotinoid contamination levels in both surface- and ground water in the United States and around the world are already beyond the threshold found to kill many aquatic invertebrates.”
Quickly following this damning report, the MRNE says, a large group of group of American beekeepers and environmentalists sued the Obama regime over the continued use of these neonicotinoids stating: “We are taking the EPA to court for its failure to protect bees from pesticides. Despite our best efforts to warn the agency about the problems posed by neonicotinoids, the EPA continued to ignore the clear warning signs of an agricultural system in trouble.”
And to how bad the world’s agricultural system has really become due to these genetically modified plants, pesticides and seeds, this report continues, can be seen by the EC’s proposal this past week, following their ban on neonicotinoids, in which they plan to criminalize nearly all seeds and plants not registered with the European Union, and as we can, in part, read:
“Europe is rushing towards the good ol days circa 1939, 40… A new law proposed by the European Commission would make it illegal to “grow, reproduce or trade” any vegetable seeds that have not been “tested, approved and accepted” by a new EU bureaucracy named the “EU Plant Variety Agency.”
It’s called the Plant Reproductive Material Law, and it attempts to put the government in charge of virtually all plants and seeds. Home gardeners who grow their own plants from non-regulated seeds would be considered criminals under this law.”
This MRNE report points out that even though this EC action may appear draconian, it is nevertheless necessary in order to purge the continent from continued contamination of these genetically bred “seed monstrosities.”
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.
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stop perpetuating Hoaxes!

http://www.snopes.com/politics/conspiracy/monsanto.asp

Are Russia and the US going to start World War III because Monsanto products are killing bees? Everyone on Facebook is outraged! Here is a link to the article with the (presumably) bogus Putin-Obama-Monsanto scandal:

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


Origins: In early May 2013, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and discuss international efforts to resolve the Syrian crisis, as well as political issues involving Iran, North Korea, and Afghanistan. Later that month, an item was circulated on the Internet claiming that Putin had expressed "extreme outrage" over the Obama administration's support of the Monsanto corporation:
The shocking minutes relating to President Putin’s meeting this past week with US Secretary of State John Kerry reveal the Russian leaders "extreme outrage" over the Obama regimes continued protection of global seed and plant bio-genetic giants Syngenta and Monsanto in the face of a growing "bee apocalypse" that the Kremlin warns "will most certainly" lead to world war.

According to these minutes, released in the Kremlin today by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation (MNRE), Putin was so incensed over the Obama regime's refusal to discuss this grave matter that he refused for three hours to even meet with Kerry, who had traveled to Moscow on a scheduled diplomatic mission, but then relented so as to not cause an even greater rift between these two nations.
Many readers encountered this item on news-like web sites such as The Top Information Post or The European Union Times, but those sources were simply unvetted word-for-word reprintings of an article that originated with a single disreputable source, the whatdoesitmean.com political conspiracy site, of which the RationalWiki says:
Sorcha Faal is the alleged author of an ongoing series of "reports" published at WhatDoesItMean.com, whose work is of such quality that even other conspiracy nutters don't think much of it.

Each report resembles a news story in its style, but usually includes a sensational headline barely related to reality and quotes authoritative high-level Russian sources (such as the Russian Federal Security Service) to support its most outrageous claims. Except for the stuff attributed to unverifiable sources, the reports don't contain much original material. They are usually based on various news items from the mainstream media and/or whatever the clogosphere is currently hyperventilating about, with each item shoehorned into the conspiracy narrative the report is trying to establish.
It stretches credulity to the extreme to imagine that, out of the myriad of political issues involving the U.S. and Russia, Vladimir Putin's foremost concern is the death of some bee colonies — and so much so that Putin was reportedly willing to risk the rupturing of diplomatic relations with the U.S. by forcing the American secretary of state to cool his heels for three hours and then threatening to go
to war over the issue. In fact, there is no evidence that Secretary Kerry and President Putin discussed Monsanto at all during their meeting, and, of course, no one has yet produced the "shocking minutes [of the meeting] released in the Kremlin" that supposedly document these incredible claims.

Although environmental and economic issues associated with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) developed by multinational agricultural biotechnology corporations such as Monsanto are legitimate issues of political debate, this particular item is just more anti-GMO scaremongering, not a legitimate news report.

The whatdoesitmean.com site includes other items of similar ilk (i.e., unsubstantiated anti-GMO rumors), such as a 23 May 2013 article claiming that Russian ships were being warned away from the port of Mobile, Alabama, due to multiple deaths "caused by the flowering of genetically modified cotton crops":
The Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) today has issued an "Extreme Danger" warning for all vessels entering or nearing the United States Port of Mobile, located in the State of Alabama, as the death toll rises from what this report claims is an environmental disaster related to the flowering of genetically modified cotton crops located in this region.

According to this report, RS officials became "highly concerned" this past week after the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) reported that at least 2 people have died, and another 5 put in hospital, due to a "mysterious illness" attacking the respiratory systems of those affected and causing flu-like symptoms.
What the Alabama Department of Public Health actually reported was that ten people in the southeast Alabama area fell ill (and two died) from respiratory illnesses caused by known viruses and bacteria, not from an "environmental disaster" or "mystery illness" produced by the flowers of GMO-based cotton crops:
A cluster of respiratory illnesses that initially baffled physicians in southeast Alabama appears to have been caused by a combination of known viruses and bacterium, and not any new diseases.

Ten patients, ranging in age from 24 to 87, were admitted to hospitals in southeast Alabama earlier this month with symptoms of fever, cough and shortness of breath, the cause of which was unknown.

"I’m pleased to report that after our investigation, after getting results from samples we sent to (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), that there is no evidence of any new or unexpected virus or bacteria circulating," Dr. Don Williamson, state public health officer, said at a news conference.

Williamson said three of the patients had bacterial pneumonia and six tested positive for influenza A, rhinovirus — the virus that causes the common cold — or a combination of both. The patients did not have any prior connection with one another, Williamson said.

"There weren’t any new agents," he said. "There weren’t any connections between the patients. There was just a cluster of respiratory illness."
As for what might be causing a "bee apocalypse" (i.e., the large die-offs seen in bee colonies in recent years), scientists don't yet agree on a cause, but one common source of suspicion is neonicotinoid insecticides (which are produced by Bayer, not Monsanto):
The problem isn't an isolated one. Across the U.S., large numbers of bees — about one-third of colonies each year — have been dying for the past six years. Scientists believe the cause is a combination of pesticides, disease and poor nutrition, and some are concerned the annual bee losses are unsustainable. As soon as this year, some warn, there might not be enough bees to pollinate some crops.

A report earlier this year identified a combination of challenges: a growing prevalence of disease in honeybee hives; declining bee nutrition that stems from a diminishing plant variety as agriculture focuses on fewer crops; and the growing use of neonicotinoid insecticide across the rural and urban landscape.

Neonicotinoid insecticides are ubiquitous in urban backyards. They protect flowers, shrubs and trees from pests.

Scientists and apiarists disagree over exactly what's happening, but there is consensus that disease, nutrition and pesticides have created a worst-case scenario for bees.
(what I have been saying for time)



That Malarky originated on one Site!

No confirmation anywhere else!
But it sure makes a great stirring and Fearmongerin'-Topic!
While being absolutely Bullchit!

Deal with the real news in the article. To say that the site is anti monsanto is not groundes for throwing the child out with the bathwater

Deal with the real news in the article. To say that the site is anti monsanto is not groundes for throwing the child out with the bathwater

stop perpetuating Hoaxes!

http://www.snopes.com/politics/conspiracy/monsanto.asp

Are Russia and the US going to start World War III because Monsanto products are killing bees? Everyone on Facebook is outraged! Here is a link to the article with the (presumably) bogus Putin-Obama-Monsanto scandal:

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


Origins: In early May 2013, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and discuss international efforts to resolve the Syrian crisis, as well as political issues involving Iran, North Korea, and Afghanistan. Later that month, an item was circulated on the Internet claiming that Putin had expressed "extreme outrage" over the Obama administration's support of the Monsanto corporation:
The shocking minutes relating to President Putin’s meeting this past week with US Secretary of State John Kerry reveal the Russian leaders "extreme outrage" over the Obama regimes continued protection of global seed and plant bio-genetic giants Syngenta and Monsanto in the face of a growing "bee apocalypse" that the Kremlin warns "will most certainly" lead to world war.

According to these minutes, released in the Kremlin today by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation (MNRE), Putin was so incensed over the Obama regime's refusal to discuss this grave matter that he refused for three hours to even meet with Kerry, who had traveled to Moscow on a scheduled diplomatic mission, but then relented so as to not cause an even greater rift between these two nations.
Many readers encountered this item on news-like web sites such as The Top Information Post or The European Union Times, but those sources were simply unvetted word-for-word reprintings of an article that originated with a single disreputable source, the whatdoesitmean.com political conspiracy site, of which the RationalWiki says:
Sorcha Faal is the alleged author of an ongoing series of "reports" published at WhatDoesItMean.com, whose work is of such quality that even other conspiracy nutters don't think much of it.

Each report resembles a news story in its style, but usually includes a sensational headline barely related to reality and quotes authoritative high-level Russian sources (such as the Russian Federal Security Service) to support its most outrageous claims. Except for the stuff attributed to unverifiable sources, the reports don't contain much original material. They are usually based on various news items from the mainstream media and/or whatever the clogosphere is currently hyperventilating about, with each item shoehorned into the conspiracy narrative the report is trying to establish.
It stretches credulity to the extreme to imagine that, out of the myriad of political issues involving the U.S. and Russia, Vladimir Putin's foremost concern is the death of some bee colonies — and so much so that Putin was reportedly willing to risk the rupturing of diplomatic relations with the U.S. by forcing the American secretary of state to cool his heels for three hours and then threatening to go
to war over the issue. In fact, there is no evidence that Secretary Kerry and President Putin discussed Monsanto at all during their meeting, and, of course, no one has yet produced the "shocking minutes [of the meeting] released in the Kremlin" that supposedly document these incredible claims.

Although environmental and economic issues associated with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) developed by multinational agricultural biotechnology corporations such as Monsanto are legitimate issues of political debate, this particular item is just more anti-GMO scaremongering, not a legitimate news report.

The whatdoesitmean.com site includes other items of similar ilk (i.e., unsubstantiated anti-GMO rumors), such as a 23 May 2013 article claiming that Russian ships were being warned away from the port of Mobile, Alabama, due to multiple deaths "caused by the flowering of genetically modified cotton crops":
The Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) today has issued an "Extreme Danger" warning for all vessels entering or nearing the United States Port of Mobile, located in the State of Alabama, as the death toll rises from what this report claims is an environmental disaster related to the flowering of genetically modified cotton crops located in this region.

According to this report, RS officials became "highly concerned" this past week after the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) reported that at least 2 people have died, and another 5 put in hospital, due to a "mysterious illness" attacking the respiratory systems of those affected and causing flu-like symptoms.
What the Alabama Department of Public Health actually reported was that ten people in the southeast Alabama area fell ill (and two died) from respiratory illnesses caused by known viruses and bacteria, not from an "environmental disaster" or "mystery illness" produced by the flowers of GMO-based cotton crops:
A cluster of respiratory illnesses that initially baffled physicians in southeast Alabama appears to have been caused by a combination of known viruses and bacterium, and not any new diseases.

Ten patients, ranging in age from 24 to 87, were admitted to hospitals in southeast Alabama earlier this month with symptoms of fever, cough and shortness of breath, the cause of which was unknown.

"I’m pleased to report that after our investigation, after getting results from samples we sent to (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), that there is no evidence of any new or unexpected virus or bacteria circulating," Dr. Don Williamson, state public health officer, said at a news conference.

Williamson said three of the patients had bacterial pneumonia and six tested positive for influenza A, rhinovirus — the virus that causes the common cold — or a combination of both. The patients did not have any prior connection with one another, Williamson said.

"There weren’t any new agents," he said. "There weren’t any connections between the patients. There was just a cluster of respiratory illness."
As for what might be causing a "bee apocalypse" (i.e., the large die-offs seen in bee colonies in recent years), scientists don't yet agree on a cause, but one common source of suspicion is neonicotinoid insecticides (which are produced by Bayer, not Monsanto):
The problem isn't an isolated one. Across the U.S., large numbers of bees — about one-third of colonies each year — have been dying for the past six years. Scientists believe the cause is a combination of pesticides, disease and poor nutrition, and some are concerned the annual bee losses are unsustainable. As soon as this year, some warn, there might not be enough bees to pollinate some crops.

A report earlier this year identified a combination of challenges: a growing prevalence of disease in honeybee hives; declining bee nutrition that stems from a diminishing plant variety as agriculture focuses on fewer crops; and the growing use of neonicotinoid insecticide across the rural and urban landscape.

Neonicotinoid insecticides are ubiquitous in urban backyards. They protect flowers, shrubs and trees from pests.

Scientists and apiarists disagree over exactly what's happening, but there is consensus that disease, nutrition and pesticides have created a worst-case scenario for bees.
(what I have been saying for time)



That Malarky originated on one Site!

No confirmation anywhere else!
But it sure makes a great stirring and Fearmongerin'-Topic!
While being absolutely Bullchit!