Monsanto will OWN and CONTROL roughly 95 percent of all soybeans and 80 percent of all corn grown in the U.S.

Hi Supporter,

The Associated Press just uncovered a series of confidential commercial licensing agreements that give around 200 smaller companies the right to insert Monsanto’s genes (resistant to their Roundup herbicide) in their corn and soybean plants.

This means that Monsanto will OWN and CONTROL roughly 95 percent of all soybeans and 80 percent of all corn grown in the U.S. Monsanto is blocking competition in the seed industry, forcing farmers into growing genetically modified crops, and all the while increasing seed prices. Now, when farmers buy bags of seed from obscure brand names, they are paying for Monsanto’s seeds.

These practices are at the core of the investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice to determine if Monsanto is violating anti-trust laws.

Sign the FRESH petition to the Department of Justice: break up the food monopoly to free our farmers.

http://action.freshthemovie.com/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=617

This could be the first step towards the government taking long-needed action to help break the corporate control in our farming and food system.

For farmers to survive and thrive, we need the government to take action that restores real competition to the farm economy – not the current situation where a few corporations in the grain, seed, dairy and livestock sectors hold excessive control.

In 2010, the Department of Justice will hold public hearings to discuss anti-trust issues in agricultural production. We want our voice to be heard in this process.

FRESH will deliver your signature and comments to the Department of Justice.

Sign the FRESH petition: free our farmers by busting corporate control of our food system.

http://action.freshthemovie.com/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=617

ana Sofia joanes
Director, FRESH

December 17 is Health Freedom Day in Madison!

 

RE: Legislative Appointments in Madison on Thursday Dec 17
– While attending AB440 Hearing –
– Please forward to your email lists –
To Wisconsin Citizens Interested in Health Freedom:      

Listed below are appointments set up with legislators to present

• Our Health Freedom Bill and 
• Kill SB115/AB440 – Dietary Licensing  –

All the senators and reps are aware that more may be coming to the meetings than just the people that we gave them the names of—so anyone that will be in Madison for the hearing on Thursday and has one of these as their senator or rep should plan on attending the meeting with us. 

Please respond if you can attend:

• Call Karen Hurd’s office (715) 877-3510) or

• Email me (synchaa@gmail.com) so legislative staff can be advised.

To find your legislator: http://www.legis.wisconsin.gov/w3asp/waml/waml.aspx

Thursday, December 17, 2009 Appointments:

9:15 a.m.          Meeting with Sen. Krietlow, Rep. Kristin Dexter, Rep. Jeffrey Wood, Scott Suder’s aide

                                    Chief WIHFC spokesperson:  Karen Hurd

                                    Location:  Sen. Krietlow’s office

 2:00 p.m.          Meeting with Rep. Mary Williams

                                    Chief WIHFC spokesperson:  Marilyn Butterfield

                                    Location:  Rep. Williams’ office

 2:30 p.m.          Meeting with Sen. Robert Jauch, Rep. Mary Hubler’s aide Trevor

                                 Chief WIHFC spokesperson:  Louise Driver

                                    Location:  Sen. Jauch’s office

 2:30 p.m.          Meeting with Sen. Russell Decker’s aide

                                    Chief WIHFC spokesperson:  Marilyn Butterfield

                                    Location:  Sen. Decker’s office

 Time TBA          Meeting with Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, Rep. Jeff Smith, Rep. Chris Danou

                                    Chief WIHFC spokesperson:  Denny Dodge

                                    Location:  Sen. Vinehout’s office

PDF documents for meeting: http://wihfc.com/pdf_documents.htm

Thanks for your dedication to Wisconsin Health Freedom,

Syncha Maniscalco

Director 

Wisconsin Health Freedom Coalition WIHFC.com

A non profit corporation lobbying for consumer choice

 

“I am not afraid” from DOWNSIZER-DISPATCH

* The Records Provision
* The Roving Wiretaps Provision
* The Lone Wolf Provision

D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h

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Three provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act will expire on December 31. Committees in both the House and Senate have approved renewal bills, but the House version includes much stronger civil liberties protections.

Let’s tell Congress to pass the House version, or pass nothing at all and let these provisions expire using our “I am not afraid” campaign. https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/77

Here are my personal comments which you may copy or borrow from . . .

Specifically, please allow the following provisions of the Patriot Act to sunset on December 31:

Selective Memory Honorable Senator Durbin?

In another yet “factual” release, The most Honorable upon high Senator Dick Durbin made this statement in reference to the Guantanamo Bay Detainees movement to the state of Illinois:

“But Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, the second-highest ranking Democrat in the Senate, has insisted the prisoners could be held “safely and securely.

“No one has ever escaped from one of these facilities,” Durbin told a press conference last month.”

One would beg to differ my esteemed friend. In no particular order one finds:

Two Inmates Escape From Central Texas Federal Prison Facility

Two Women Escape from California Federal Prison (affiliated with the Manson Case. Maybe that was not high profile enough?)

John Kenneth Leighnor, Jr.

Murderer Escapes La. Federal Prison

Federal Prison Escapee Captured

Ex-Johnston art dealer back in court on escape charge (He actually surrendered – much like the GITMO Gang would if they should escape I’m sure)

Andrade Case (reviewed by the United States Supreme Court)

In only the last instance could one give Senator Durbin a “pass” on knowing about  the situation.

After all as only the “Second-Highest Ranking Democrat”, he might never have heard of that obscure body of the Judicial Branch.

My Opinion?

You might want to remove your foot from your mouth Sir.

A Suggested Survival List: by Chuck Baldwin

A Suggested Survival List

By Chuck Baldwin

December 15, 2009

This column is archived here:

One does not have to be a prophet to know that we are on the precipice of some potentially catastrophic–or at the very least, challenging–days. In fact, most of us are already in challenging days, and some are already enduring catastrophic events. That is, if one would call being out of work, losing one’s home, facing life-threatening medical conditions without any prospect of medical insurance, several families being forced to live in one house due to homes being foreclosed, etc., catastrophic.

 

The potential for an escalation of cataclysmic events, however, is very real. Only a “blooming idiot” would call someone who attempts to prepare for “the day of adversity” a Chicken Little now. Anyone who does not see the storm clouds on the horizon isn’t paying attention.

For example, can one imagine what would happen if terrorists nuked a major American city or cities? (Once again, I encourage readers to go get the videos of the CBS TV series “Jericho” to get an idea of how quickly life, and even civilization, could change.) Imagine if there was another 9/11-type event. What would happen if some form of Zimbabwe-style inflation hit the US? What would happen if anything disrupted the distribution of Welfare checks, or food to local grocers? Imagine a Hurricane Katrina-style natural disaster in your town. I think people everywhere are beginning to awaken to just how vulnerable we all really are.

As a result, people from virtually every walk of life have recently been asking my thoughts on how they should prepare. Therefore, I will attempt to share with my readers some of the counsel I have given these folks. READ MORE

 

 

CLIMATE CHANGE IS NATURAL: 100 REASONS WHY

UK NEWS

HERE are the 100 reasons, released in a dossier issued by the European Foundation, why climate change is natural and not man-made:

1) There is “no real scientific proof” that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases from man’s activity.

** EXPRESS NEWS: 100 REASONS WHY GLOBAL WARMING IS NATURAL**

2) Man-made carbon dioxide emissions throughout human history constitute less than 0.00022 percent of the total naturally emitted from the mantle of the earth during geological history.

3) Warmer periods of the Earth’s history came around 800 years before rises in CO2 levels.

4) After World War II, there was a huge surge in recorded CO2 emissions but global temperatures fell for four decades after 1940.

5) Throughout the Earth’s history, temperatures have often been warmer than now and CO2 levels have often been higher – more than ten times as high.

6) Significant changes in climate have continually occurred throughout geologic time.

7) The 0.7C increase in the average global temperature over the last hundred years is entirely consistent with well-established, long-term, natural climate trends. 

8) The IPCC theory is driven by just 60 scientists and favourable reviewers not the 4,000 usually cited.

9) Leaked e-mails from British climate scientists – in a scandal known as “Climate-gate” – suggest that that has been manipulated to exaggerate global warming  READ MORE