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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Time Magazine accidentally reveals greater autism fraud « Jon Rappoport's Blog

Time Magazine accidentally reveals greater autism fraud
Sep2by Jon Rappoport
by Jon Rappoport
September 2, 2014

www.nomorefakenews.com

Time Magazine (8/28) is covering the ongoing CDC whistleblower scandal. (“Whistleblower Claims CDC Covered Up Data Showing Vaccine-Autism Link,” by Alice Park)

In one piece of one sentence, without meaning to, the article blows another hole in the 2004 study that whistleblower William Thompson exposed as a fraud.

A hole beyond what Thompson has admitted to in his public mea culpa statement of August 27th.

What Time Magazine revealed demonstrates that the entire study is based on a lie.

Here is the sentence-fragment from the Time article:

“Now one of the authors of a 2004 study that found similar vaccination rates among children with and without autism…”

There it is. For people who can see it.

According to conventional medical researchers, demonstrating that children with and without autism have similar vaccine rates means: vaccines couldn’t cause autism. Because many children who were vaccinated didn’t develop autism.

But suppose you proved that a virus in the bodies of 1000 children caused actual illness in only 160. Would you then say the virus couldn’t be the cause of illness, because some children didn’t get sick?

Not if you were a conventional researcher. You would say, “Well, of course, most children didn’t fall ill. But for those that did, the virus was the cause.”

Applying this line of thinking to vaccines, you could say, “Well, many children who get the MMR vaccine remain healthy. But for those who fall ill and are diagnosed with autism, the vaccine was the cause.”

Naturally, vaccine researchers don’t say that. If they did, they’d never work again.

“So, Dr. X, you’re saying that 1000 children were vaccinated. They all had ‘similar rates’ of vaccination.”

“Yes, correct.”

“And some of these children developed autism, and some didn’t.”

“That’s right.”

“Therefore, vaccination couldn’t be the cause of autism.”

“Correct.”

Let’s consider this situation: A thousand children have a particular virus in their bodies.”

“Sure. All right.”

“Some of those children go on to develop the flu, and some don’t.”

“Yes, that would be a standard situation.”

“Therefore, you’d say the virus couldn’t have caused the flu, because some children didn’t get the flu.”

“No, I wouldn’t say that at all.”

“What would you say?”

“The children who did get the flu—the virus was the cause.”

“But in the case of the vaccine, you didn’t say that.”

“A virus isn’t the same thing as a vaccine. In the case of the virus, we already know it causes the flu.”

“No, Dr. X, you don’t know that. Not by the standard you’re applying to vaccines. Let’s review. If 1000 children are vaccinated, and only some of them develop autism, you say the vaccine couldn’t cause autism, but—“

“I have to go now. I’m late for a meeting at the CDC, where we’re writing up our millionth press release claiming vaccines are perfectly safe.”



It gets much, much worse. Here is the crux:

Researchers conveniently assume that autism is one condition with one and only one cause in all cases.

But there is no conclusive evidence, after all these years, that autism is a single condition. If such evidence existed, you would see it presented, front and center, in the definition of autism, contained the in the psychiatric bible of mental disorders, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).

The evidence would appear in the form of a physical diagnostic test for autism. A blood test, or a brain scan, or a genetic assay.

There is no such definitive test. It isn’t there.

Instead, autism is entirely defined by a cluster of behaviors.

There is a reason for that.

There is no defining diagnostic test.

Therefore, saying autism is a single physical condition is belief and opinion and surmise and “could-be” and “everybody knows”, fabricated as fact.

Therefore, saying “autism” has one cause is also an opinion fabricated as fact.

Therefore, saying that vaccines don’t cause “autism” is meaningless—because the label “autism” doesn’t refer to a specific defined condition.

However, saying vaccines cause damage is true.

Use this label or that label to name the grave damage—the labels don’t matter.

Except to the devious game players who invent the labels and thereby exonerate vaccines.

The 2004 study that CDC whistleblower William Thompson confessed to falsifying—and thousands of other such studies—are all based on the same fundamental fraud.

In a sane world, as opposed to the lunatic world of disease research, you would only declare you’ve found a single condition if you could put forward an accurate physical test for it.

That test would, for every patient examined, show whether he had the condition. Yes or no.

Assuming you could do these things, you could then and only then try to rule out vaccines as the cause of the condition.

Until then, you would remain silent. You wouldn’t construct devious vaccine studies. You wouldn’t lie every day of your research career. You wouldn’t pretend to knowledge you didn’t have. You wouldn’t work hand in glove with paid propagandists to assure the public, and in particular, parents of vaccine-damaged children, that injecting germs and toxic chemicals is safe and effective.

You would remain silent and you would do no harm.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails atwww.nomorefakenews.com

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Activist Post: New Anti Police State App Helps You "See Something, Say Something" in Real-Time

Activist Post: New Anti Police State App Helps You "See Something, Say Something" in Real-Time

Sunday, August 31, 2014

New Anti Police State App Helps You "See Something, Say Something" in Real-Time







Sidekik App

Activist Post



Recent studies have shown that police are held almost completely unaccountable by the current systems of governmental oversight. Perhaps this is the reason why you are 9 times more likely to be killed by a law enforcement officer than a terrorist. Rather than wait for bloated bureaucracy or corrupt government to save the day, we as activists have to find our own solutions. Technology is one of these solutions.



As we have seen, the violent crackdown on independent journalism in Ferguson is a sign of a worsening situation in much of America. More than ever, each citizen needs to become a member of the media and record everything that they see during encounters with the police.



A new smartphone app called Sidekik aims to make it as easy as possible for you not only to record the police and upload that recording offsite, but to put you in immediate contact with legal representation to help you navigate the encounter ... in real-time.



Please view additional details and their Indiegogo campaign video below if you would like to support this new anti police state tool.



What is Sidekik?



Sidekik is a mobile application which will perform two key actions simultaneously. One, Sidekik will activate your smartphone's audio and video recording devices and begin streaming the data to a secure facility. Two, Sidekik will initiate a video call and connect you with an attorney who will represent you in whatever situation you find yourself.



Why is Sidekik Important?



When you are in a critical situation, such as being pulled over by law enforcement, the balance of power is often against you. The fact is that most people don't know their rights or how to enforce them. In addition, without a record of your encounter with law enforcement, the question of what happened during the encounter devolves into your word against that of the officer, which normally results with courts and public opinion in favor of the officer, regardless of what actually occurred. Though many people have begun recording their interactions with law enforcement, the recording is stored on the recording device, which is sometimes confiscated.



Sidekik solves both of these problems. With the activation of the Sidekik app, your smartphone's audio and video recorders will begin streaming to a secure server. If the officer has behaved outside of their bounds and doesn't want evidence of that misconduct available to you, there is simply nothing the officer can do. The audio and video has been stored and timestamped securely, and can be retrieved by you at your convenience.



Within seconds of activating the Sidekik app, you will be connected through a video call to an attorney licensed to practice law in your jurisdiction. Every attorney on the Sidekik network will be well versed regarding your rights during a police encounter and do everything in their power to defend your rights as they interact with the officer on your behalf.



Sidekik is important because it restores balance to a previously unequal interaction. Your rights are worth preserving; all it takes is the tap of a screen.



What we need and what you get



Our crowdfunding campaign has a goal of $250,000. Almost all of this funding will go toward the creation of the Sidekik app, attorney software, and website, which will communicate with each other to provide a seamless Sidekik product for you. There are already apps for streaming video and even apps for notifying your attorney that you need assistance. However, nothing has come close to combining audio/video streaming with video call technology as well as high-end security measures to keep your data protected. This combination of features is complex and expensive to produce. We have partnered with one of the top software design firms in the United States, Zco Corporation, to create this leap forward in app sophistication. Once we begin development with Zco Corporation the clock will start ticking and three months later Sidekik will be fully functional.



The remainder of the funds will be used to set up an office in Reno, Nevada, pay for essential legal services, and cover expenses while we work with Zco during Sidekik development.



With your help we will make Sidekik a reality and provide a powerful tool for people to protect their rights.



Perks



You will receive a number of uses of Sidekik for your contribution, with the number of uses varying depending on the size of the contribution. The months included in each perk will match the number of Sidekik uses. For example, if you contribute $10 you will receive a three month subscription with three uses of Sidekik, while a $100 contribution is good for a two year subscription with twenty-four uses of Sidekik along with a one year subscription (twelve uses) for a friend.



When the Sidekik app is activated, the audio and video devices on the user's smartphone will begin recording and streaming to a secure third party data storage facility. Simultaneously the Sidekikapp will initiate a video phone call, and within a few seconds the user will be seeing and speaking live to an attorney who will represent the user and interact with the police officer on the user's behalf.



Meet the team, read the FAQ, and Donate Here (24 days left):

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sidekik-real-time-representation-and-data-storage



EMF Electromagnetic Field Summit

Monday, September 1, 2014
Free Online EMF Summit Begins September 2nd


Electromagnetic Killing Fields / image source
Activist Post

Join thousands for a free online EMF Summitstarting tomorrow and continuing every Tuesdayuntil December. Each week is a new video interview, which begins Sept. 2nd with Dirty Electricity: How We Can Co-exist With This Powerful Technology and Its Inherent Dangers by Dr. Samuel Milham the physician-epidemiologist who first alerted the world about electromagnetic exposure in various careers and the link to human disease.

Josh del Sol, producer and director of Take Back Your Power, will be on the interview panel along with world-class researchers, scientists, microwave weapons experts and authors such as:


Dr. Olle Johansson, neuroscientist (as in Take Back Your Power) - See Activist Post's article here for more information about Dr. Johansson's courageous work.

Barrie Trower, former consultant to MI5 and MI6
Dr. Martin Blank, researcher of DNA damage caused by EMF
Dr. Ross Anderson, EMF consultant & retired physician
Dave Stetzer, dirty electricity expert and retired military electrician
Dr. Ann Louise Gittleman, acclaimed nutritionist and author
Farren Lander, electropollution consultant

Vaccines cause brain damage: the mothers know « Jon Rappoport's Blog


Vaccines cause brain damage: the mothers know
Sep2by Jon Rappoport


Vaccines cause brain damage: the mothers know

By Jon Rappoport
September 2, 2014
http://www.nomorefakenews.com

I’ve spent many pages laying out how the medical cartel plays semantic games, in order to “prove” vaccines don’t cause “autism.”

There’s a simpler conclusion.

The mothers know.

They know what happened to their children. They don’t need sophisticated analyses. They don’t need disease or disorder labels. They don’t need the very doctors who administered the vaccines turning around and lying to them.

And the lying is vicious. It’s coming out of the mouths of physicians who are indifferent to human life.

Doctors, underneath their layers and layers of hostile fakery, know the truth, too.

So does the CDC. That agency spends billions defending the indefensible.

William Thompson, the CDC whistleblower who recently admitted to gross fraud and lying, in order to exonerate the toxic MMR vaccine…he knows, too.

He knows the fraud is rampant inside the CDC. He knows it isn’t just a matter of one subset of data that was omitted in one study.

The vaccine manufacturers know, too. Long ago, they consummated a deal with the US government to forbid citizens from filing lawsuits as a result of vaccine damage. That was the whole point: vaccines inflict damage; let the federal government and the taxpayer carry the burden of financial compensation.

And the labyrinthine system through which a parent must pass, when filing a petition for compensation, is an affront to human dignity.

In that “court,” the full semantic shell game is on view.

“You say your child was severely damaged by a vaccine? First, you must prove the child developed a recognized and labeled neurological disorder. Then you must prove that a vaccine can and did cause that specific disorder. We have erected all sorts of roadblocks to keep you stymied…”

This is a grotesquery. The people who run this system should be in prison for the rest of their lives.

But regardless, the mothers know. They know when and how and why their child withdrew from the world, and was, afterward, never the same.

It was a vaccine.

An empire can be built, and has been built, to avoid that stark truth.

The CDC is the Orwellian Ministry of Truth of the empire. It lies about case numbers of diseases—inflating them—in order to sell vaccines.

It holds meetings to discuss how to frighten the public into getting vaccines.

It beats the drum every hour of every day to assure us that vaccines are the wonder of modern science. Safe and effective. Safe and effective.

The CDC’s propaganda allies and their chosen experts attack the “anti-vaccine people” as close cousins to terrorists.

At the center of this storm stand the mothers.

They know.

They live with their knowledge. They care for their children, who have been driven out of the futures they would have had by poison.

Nothing can shake the mothers’ knowledge.

Not the doctors, not the fake experts, not the government-compensation overseers, not the CDC, not smooth-talking television anchors, not teachers, not school counselors, not neighbors, not friends, not family.

The mothers know.

And if by some great effort, against odds, as they continue to care for their vaccine-damaged children, they organize and rise up, you who are lying to them and passing them off as inconsequential will know they are coming.

You’ll feel the nightmare you’re perpetuating turn around and engulf you.

And somewhere inside you, you’ll recognize this is what justice is.

Jon Rappoport http://www.nomorefakenews.com

Sunday, August 31, 2014

The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Obama Has No Middle East Strategy? Good!

The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Obama Has No Middle East Strategy? Good!.
written by ron paul
sunday august 31, 2014



Last week President Obama admitted that his administration has not worked out a strategy on how to deal with the emergence of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as a dominant force in the Middle East. However, as ISIS continues its march through Syria and Iraq, many in the US administration believe it is, in the words of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, a threat “beyond anything we have ever seen.”

Predictably, the neocons attacked the president’s speech. They believe the solution to any problem is more bombs and troops on the ground, so they cannot understand the president’s hesitation.

Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Buck McKeon made it clear that fighting ISIS is going to cost a lot more money and will bring US forces back to Iraq for the third time. The post-Iraq, post-Afghanistan peace dividend disintegrates.

Mr. McKeon said last week:

ISIS is an urgent threat and a minimalist approach, that depends solely on FY15 funding or pinprick strikes that leave fragile forces in Iraq and Syria to do the hard fighting, is insufficient to protect our interests and guarantee our safety in time.

What does this mean in practice? If the neocons have their way, the Federal Reserve will “print” more money to finance another massive US intervention in the Middle East. In reality this means further devaluation of the US dollar, which is a tax on all Americans that will hit the poorest hardest.

A new US military incursion will not end ISIS; it will provide them with the recruiting tool they most crave, while draining the US treasury. Just what Osama bin Laden wanted!

McKeon and the other hawks act as if they had only recently become aware of the ISIS. Or if they noticed it, they pretend US policy had nothing to do with its rise.

McKeon also said last week, “ISIS threat was allowed to build and fester over a period of time.”

In fact, US regime change policy in Syria was directly responsible for the rise of ISIS over these past three years. As journalist Eric Margolis observed recently, the emergence of ISIS is the “mother of all blowback.” The neocons who want us to get tougher on ISIS, including a US attack on Syria, are the same ones who not long ago demanded that we support groups like ISIS to overthrow the Assad government in Syria. US-trained and funded “moderates” from the Free Syrian Army joined the Islamist militias including ISIS, taking US weapons and training with them.

Three years of supporting any force that might overthrow the secular government of President Assad has produced a new monster in the Middle East that neocons insist the US must slay.

Why can’t they just admit they were wrong? Why can’t the interventionists just admit that their support for regime change in Syria was a terrible and tragic mistake?

If ISIS is as big a threat as they claim, why can’t they simply ask Assad to help out? Assad has never threatened the United States; ISIS has. Assad has been fighting ISIS and similar Islamist extremist groups for three years.

Why does the US government insist on aligning with theocracies in the Middle East? If there is anything that contradicts the US Constitution and American values it is a theocratic government. I do not believe that a majority in the Middle East wants to live under such a system, so why do we keep pushing it on them? Is that what they call promoting democracy?

A lack of strategy is a glimmer of hope. Perhaps the president will finally stop listening to the neocons and interventionists whose recommendations have gotten us into this mess in the first place! Here’s a strategy: just come home.

Leading Researchers Who Oppose Legal Pot Are Paid by Painkiller Manufacturers | Substance.com

Leading Researchers Who Oppose Legal Pot Are Paid by Painkiller Manufacturers | Substance.com

Now why would companies that make opioids want to line the pockets of marijuana prohibitionists?



Mixing your drugs. Photo via

Let’s face it, many of us would need a little extra incentive to spend our careers standing on the wrong side of history. And a whole bunch of leading researchers who are frequently cited by supporters of marijuana prohibition look to be no different, according to a report by investigative journalist Lee Fang: They’re paid by companies that manufacture painkillers.

The academics on Fang’s list include:

*Dr. Herbert Kleber, director of the Substance Abuse Division of Columbia University’s Department of Psychiatry. Widely quoted and published by mainstream media, and cited by the New York State Association of Chiefs of Police and the American Psychiatric Association to justify anti-pot positions, Kleber has served as a paid consultant for Purdue Pharma, Reckitt Benckiser and Alkermes—the manufacturers of OxyContin, Nurofen and Zohydro, respectively.

*Dr. A. Eden Evins, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and board member of SAM—the anti-legalization organization fronted by Patrick Kennedy and Kevin Sabet. Fang notes a disclosure by the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry that Evin, another widely quoted figure, has been a ”consultant for Pfizer and DLA Piper and has received grant/research support from Envivo, GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer.” Pfizer owns a company that manufactures opioids and is aiming to establish Remoxy as a competitor to OxyContin.

*Dr. Mark L. Kraus, a board member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. In 2012 Kraus submitted testimony against a medical marijuana law in Connecticut. He has been on the scientific advisory panels of pharma companies including Pfizer and Reckitt Benckiser.

A study released this week showed that in the 13 states which passed laws to permit medical marijuana between 1999 and 2010, deaths attributed to opioid overdose (of which there are 16,000 nationally per year) fell 25%. And growing evidence points to the efficacy of marijuana (which has never caused a single overdose death) as an “exit drug,” or substitute for more dangerous substances.

All of which makes the academics’ often-unmentioned financial links awkward, to say the least.

Secret Internal Document Urging Closure of California Nuclear Plant Revealed | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

Secret Internal Document Urging Closure of California Nuclear Plant Revealed | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community.
Secret Internal Document Urging Closure of California Nuclear Plant Revealed


Former plant inspector first raised concerns about seismic safety in 2010
by
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer


Diablo Canyon Power Plant. (Photo: Wikimedia)

In a report written last year but not made public until Monday, a former federal inspector expresses uncertainty over whether California's last operating nuclear plant, Diablo Canyon, could withstand strong shaking from nearby earthquake faults.

In a 42-page document (pdf) filed in July of 2013, Dr. Michael Peck, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s former senior resident inspector at Diablo Canyon, calls for the plant to be shut down “pending demonstration that...safety functions can be met at the higher seismic stress levels.”

Observers criticized the NRC's withholding of the report. Though Peck asked that his dissent—known as a Differing Professional Opinion, written in response to the NRC's decision to let the plant’s twin reactors keep running despite the failure of both plant operator Pacific Gas & Electric Co and the NRC to conduct a rigorous safety analysis and take action to address newly identified seismic risks—be made public, the NRC has not released it; the organization Friends of the Earth posted the document on its website Monday. Also, despite the agency’s requirement that Differing Professional Opinions are to be ruled on within 120 days of filing, the NRC has not ruled on Peck's opinion. Peck says he first raised concerns about the plant's safety in 2010.

“We find it completely disgraceful that the NRC hid these concerns for all these years.”
—Jane Swanson, San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace

In response to the revelations, which the Associated Press reported Monday, California's Senate Environment and Public Works Committee announced it would hold hearings into how the NRC has handled Peck's recommendation.

Diablo Canyon is located on the central California coast, near San Luis Obispo, in close proximity to faults that seismic studies show could trigger an earthquake stronger than the reactors and internal equipment were built to withstand, according to Friends of the Earth.

"Inspector Peck is the canary in the coal mine, warning us of a possible catastrophe at Diablo Canyon before it’s too late,” Damon Moglen, senior strategic adviser at Friends of the Earth, said in a statement. "We agree with him that Diablo Canyon is vulnerable to earthquakes and must be shut down immediately. Rather than the NRC keeping this a secret, there must be a thorough investigation with public hearings to determine whether these reactors can operate safely.”

The AP reports:

The NRC, which oversees the nation's commercial nuclear power industry, and Diablo Canyon owner Pacific Gas and Electric Co., say the nearly three-decade-old reactors, which produce enough electricity for more than 3 million people annually, are safe and that the facility complies with its operating license, including earthquake safety standards.

PG&E spokesman Blair Jones said the NRC has exhaustively analyzed earthquake threats for Diablo Canyon and demonstrated that it "is seismically safe." Jones said in an email that the core issue involving earthquake ground motions was resolved in the late 1970s with seismic retrofitting of the plant.

But Peck's analysis calls specific attention to major fault lines located near the facility, including the recently discovered Shoreline fault less than 700 feet away, which could produce significant shaking during an earthquake—more than was accounted for in the design of important plant equipment. The NRC must take "new seismic information" into account, Peck says, before affirming the plant's safety.

Coming on the heels of this weekend's earthquake in northern California, the Diablo report and the circumstances of its release are particularly worrisome.

“We find it completely disgraceful that the NRC hid these concerns for all these years,” Jane Swanson, spokeswoman for the anti-nuclear group San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, told the San Luis Obispo Tribune. On its Facebook page, the group declared: "Until PG&E can PROVE that the emergency backup systems will function in an earthquake, the facility needs to STOP OPERATING."

Maryland Sheriff to Feds: Try and Take Our Guns, and You’ll Get a Civil War

http://www.tpnn.com/2014/08/30/maryland-sheriff-to-feds-try-and-take-our-guns-and-youll-get-a-civil-war/


Sheriff to Feds: Take Away Our Guns and There’ll Be “Civil War” [WATCH CLIP]

When conservatives think about states that honor the Second Amendment right of all Americans to keep and bear arms, they most likely think primarily of states in the West and Deep South–states like Texas, Arizona, or perhaps North Carolina.

But a surprising number of Democrat strongholds farther to the north, as it turns out, can be just as adamant when it comes to defending their gun rights. Citizens of New York, for example, have defied the a new law requiring gun registration, and local sheriffs have refused to enforce it. Connecticut residents staged a huge protest against gun regulations at their capitol building earlier this year. And a nationalpro-gun organization has won legal victories in such left-leaning states as New Jersey and California.

Now a new report proves that Maryland deserves as spot on that list, as well.

According to a short video available from The Center for Public Integrity, Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis has vowed never to allow the government to impinge upon the Second Amendment rights of his citizens.

“I made a vow and a commitment,” he says. “As long as I am sheriff of this county, I will not allow the federal government to come in here and strip my citizens of the right to bear arms.”
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Lewis says he understands that steps must be taken to keep guns out of the wrong hands. “We need to get guns out of the hands of convicted felons,” he agrees, saying that a “gun in the hands of any bad person” is obviously dangerous.

Click here to learn why one American gun maker challenged Attorney General Eric Holder directly to his face.

That’s a different matter from prohibiting legal gun ownership, however. “[W]e do not need to strip law abiding citizens of their Second Amendment right to bear arms. That I get upset over. I really do.”

The video concludes with Sheriff Lewis’s prediction of what would happen if the federal government attempts to confiscate all guns. “I can tell you this,” he says, “if they attempt to do that, it will be an all-out civil war. No question about it.”



A determined effort by the federal government to confiscate guns from law-abiding citizens can only mean one thing, and it’s the same thing it means whenever a government anywhere around the world has attempted to control all firearms. It means that the right to bear arms is only the first right that the government is preparing to strip from the American people.

No question about it.

Hillary Clinton is Just Plain Wrong on GMOs

Here are a couple more articles for your education on why we don't want this evil- anti-American-wolf in sheep's clothing-Traitor, seen anywhere but in a noose! WAKE UP AMERICA!!! BENGHAZI BENGHAZI BENGHAZI

Hillary Clinton is Just Plain Wrong on GMOs.
By Katherine Paul and Ronnie Cummins
Organic Consumers Association, August 28, 2014
For related articles and more information, please visit OCA's Millions Against Monsanto pageand our Environment and Climate Resource Center page.
Related Article:
http://bangordailynews.com/2014/08/27/opinion/contributors/when-it-comes-to-gmos-which-side-is-hillary-clinton-on/


In her June 25 keynote address to the BIO International Convention in San Diego, Calif., Hillary Clinton voiced strong support for genetic engineering and genetically engineered crops. She earned a standing ovation that day by stating that the biotech industry suffers from a public perception problem and that it just needs “a better vocabulary” in order to persuade GMO skeptics who don’t understand “the facts” about genetic engineering.

And then Hillary proceeded to get the facts wrong.

Why does it matter what Hillary, who holds no public office and has not (yet) declared her candidacy for president, says or believes about genetic engineering and genetically modified crops and foods?

It doesn’t—unless she throws her hat in the ring for the Democratic nomination. And then it matters not just what her position is on GMOs, not just how deep her financial ties to the biotech industry run, not just how much she distorts the facts about the “promise” of biotech crops.

It matters, deeply, to more than 90 percent of Americans, what her position is on laws requiring mandatory labeling of GMOs in food and food products.

If elected, will Hillary support consumers’ right to know? Or will she support the DARK (Deny Americans the Right to Know) Act, a bill introduced in Congress earlier this year, which if passed, will preempt state GMO labeling laws?

Hillary has been coy about announcing her candidacy. But when it comes to clarifying her position on GMO labeling laws, she’s been dead silent.

As she soon heads to Iowa—the testing ground for presidential candidates—Hillary’s presidential aspirations will no doubt become more clear. If she runs, as the pundits predict, it will be up to the GMO labeling movement to demand that she take a stand on GMO labeling laws.

Meanwhile, here’s why Hillary’s speech to the BIO convention was just plain wrong.

Wrong on the science of genetic engineering

Hillary brought the BIO convention-goers to their feet with her call for “a better vocabulary” to win over consumers.

No wonder. After all, that’s the line Monsanto has been feeding the public ever since the public became wise to the lies and false promises of an industry known for its reckless disregard for public health. It’s part of an aggressive, widespread public relations campaign to sugar-coat the facts about genetically engineered foods and the toxic chemicals required to produce them.

As scientists release studies, each one more alarming than the next, revealing the devastating health and environmental hazards of the herbicides required to grow GMO crops—toxic chemicals such as glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, and Dow’s 2,4-D —consumers are connecting the dots between the rise of chronic illness and the unleashing of toxins into the environment (and onto our food).

No amount of “better vocabulary” will be able to counter the science behind the impact of toxic herbicides and pesticides on soil, on the environment, on human health.

But here’s where Hillary’s call for a “better vocabulary” really ran off the rails. Coverage of the convention included a video in which Hillary wrongly equated the age-old practice of seed hybridization with modern genetic engineering, in order to make the case that genetic engineering has been around since the beginning of farming.

Hillary would do well to go back to her science books. Here are the facts, as understood by every biologist. Seed hybridization occurs when the seeds of two compatible parent plants, within the same species, are crossed, either in a controlled environment or in nature. That process is in no way equivalent to genetic engineering, a process that requires human intervention, and consists of changing the genetic code of one organism by inserting into it the DNA from a completely different plant or animal.

Genetic engineering is an unnatural process that can take place only in a laboratory, aided by a human.

Wrong on genetic engineering and drought

In the same video from the June 25 conference, Hillary perpetuates industry claims that as global warming leads to more droughts, GMO crops will feed the world. She does this by focusing on GE drought-resistant seeds—as if engineering seeds for drought-resistance were a major focus on the biotech industry.

It’s not, of course. Drought-resistant seeds and crops make up a miniscule portion of the GMO crop market. Close to 98 percent of GE crops are corn, soy, alfalfa, canola and sugar beets, used to make biofuels, animal feed and processed food products, such as high fructose corn syrup. These crops are engineered to produce their own Bt toxins in every cell or else to withstand massive doses of herbicides, such as Monsanto’s Roundup, which are sold to farmers as companions to their GMO seeds. They have nothing to do with drought-resistance.

In fact, attempts to engineer seeds to thrive during droughts are still in the experimental stages and so far have largely failed.According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, Monsanto’s DroughtGard, the only drought-resistant crop approved so far by the USDA, produces “only modest results, and only under moderate drought conditions.”

Yet to hear Hillary tell it, genetic engineering is all about saving farmers by providing them with magic seeds that thrive without water.

Wrong on genetic engineering and global warming

Toward the end of her video interview, Hillary switched gears to talk about climate change. She endorsed the Obama climate plan and called out the media for giving too much attention to climate-change skeptics.

Hillary believes we must address global warming. Good news.

But there’s just one problem.

A growing chorus of scientists warn that we cannot successfully address global warming unless we acknowledge the huge role that industrial agriculture, with its GMO mono-crop culture and massive use of chemicals, plays in cooking the planet.

If we’re truly serious about averting a global warming disaster, reducing carbon emissions isn’t enough. We have to acknowledge, and harness, potential of organic, regenerative agriculture to reverse global warming by sequestering carbon.

According to groups like the Rodale Institute, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and theAlliance for Food Sovereignty, a transition to sustainable, regenerative agriculture—not genetic engineering—is not only the only way we will feed the world, but absolutely essential if we want to slow global warming.

Hillary is just plain wrong if she thinks we can solve global warming while simultaneously promoting GMO agriculture, here in the U.S. and abroad. That’s why the Organic Consumers Association has launched a petition asking her to rethink her support for biotech, and commit to supporting a transition to a sustainable, organic food and farming system.

As consumers grow more knowledgeable about the link between food produced using toxic chemicals and the declining health of the U.S. population, they are looking more closely at those politicians who side with, and take money from, the biotech industry. Clinton’s ties to the biotech industry date back to the 1970s, when she was a partner in the Rose Law Firm which represented Monsanto.

A recent ABC News poll revealed that 52 percent of Americans believe food containing GMOs are unsafe, while 13 percent are “unsure.”

On mandatory GMO labeling laws, Americans are clear: 93 percent want labels.

Hillary, where do you stand?

Katherine Paul is associate director of the Organic Consumers Association.

Ronnie Cummins is the international director of the Organic Consumers Association and its Mexico affiliate Via Organica.