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		<title>Oil: Then and Now</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert Singer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The year is 2011 and to anyone not in denial, the industrialized nations have entered a period of great calamity: 35 Million Americans on Food Stamps: 12 Percent of U.S. Population on Food Stamps, the highest since records kept in 1969, and that’s before the Obama administration announced a planned three-year budget freeze on government [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The year is 2011 and to anyone not in denial, the industrialized nations have entered a period of great calamity:</p>
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<li>35 Million Americans on Food Stamps: 12 Percent of U.S. Population on Food Stamps, the highest since records kept in 1969, and that’s before the Obama administration announced a planned three-year budget freeze on government discretionary spending.<sup><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/10/oil-then-and-now/#footnote_0_37656" id="identifier_0_37656" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="My Budget 360">1</a></sup> </li>
<li>18 Million empty houses in the United States and 39 million Americans who are no longer working or looking for work, and that’s before Federal Reserve finishes rewriting the rules of American “capitalism” as US Housing, the Automobile Industry and the American Dream are dismantled.<sup><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/10/oil-then-and-now/#footnote_1_37656" id="identifier_1_37656" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="The 31-Year-Old in Charge of Dismantling G.M., David E. Sanger.">2</a></sup> </li>
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<p>“There are now well over 150 million Americans who feel stress over these things on a consistent basis. Over 60 percent of Americans now live paycheck to paycheck.”<sup><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/10/oil-then-and-now/#footnote_2_37656" id="identifier_2_37656" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="The Economic Elite vs. People of the USA, David DeGraw.">3</a></sup> </p>
<p>So then, why are Exxon, Rosneft and Shell pouring out billions into potentially huge, risky prospects above the Arctic Circle?<sup><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/10/oil-then-and-now/#footnote_3_37656" id="identifier_3_37656" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="Arctic Riches Lure Explorers">4</a></sup> </p>
<p>An economy in a state of rigor mortis doesn’t need oil to lubricate an engine that blew up on October 29, 2008, and our way of life won’t come back if the oil industry creates a handful of jobs or we reduce our dependence on foreign oil.</p>
<p>Exxon Mobil Corp.&#8217;s blockbuster $2.2 billion deal to drill for oil in the frigid waters north of Russia with OAO Rosneft makes no cents.</p>
<p><strong>Drill, Drill, Drill hasn’t made economic sense for at least the last 20 years!</strong></p>
<p>Matt Simmons, an investment banker, considered to be a mover and shaker in the oil industry (before he “<a href="http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2010/08/09/matt-simmons-apparently-drowned-at-his-h">apparently</a>” drowned in his bathtub) thought he, “spent his career in the wrong kind of barrels.”</p>
<blockquote><p>It will take 16 trillion dollars to replace the production we now have on line and add to it by 2030. Oil or another form of energy is an indispensable requisite for life as we know it. But over the past 20 years, oil has been a terrible investment. A 15% return on investment (ROI) is what one expects to get from a building. Oil’s ROI has largely been less than 15%. Scotch returns 50% ROI, wine returns 15%.</p>
<p>Why has oil given such a lousy return?</p>
<p>Because spot energy pricing, where oil is bought and sold like a commodity has destroyed long term value for the oil industry. Spot markets make all contracts short term, so no one is looking out for the future.<sup><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/10/oil-then-and-now/#footnote_4_37656" id="identifier_4_37656" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="From a presentation by Matt Simmons at the 2004 Offshore Technology Conference.">5</a></sup> </p></blockquote>
<p>“The not-so-invisible hand of JP Morgan Chase is guilty of the ongoing intentional, not accidental, great crime of manipulating the spot markets, lower, not higher as you would expect. So you could, prior to 2008, ‘save money and live better’ while at the same time pollute the environment.”<sup><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/10/oil-then-and-now/#footnote_5_37656" id="identifier_5_37656" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="Silver, But No Silver Lining.">6</a></sup> </p>
<p><strong>Why has Oil been a “terrible investment”?</strong></p>
<p>Inexplicably, the industry picks the most expensive places on the earth to drill for oil. Chevron spent $2.7 billion over 10 years on just the first phase of a deep-water oil project in the Gulf. Other sub-salt discoveries involve drilling more than 30,000 feet, some of the most expensive wells ever drilled.</p>
<p>On January 7, 2010, the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> published, “Cramped on Land, Big Oil Bets at Sea”: “Big Oil never wanted to be here, in 4,300 feet of water far out in the Gulf of Mexico, drilling through nearly five miles of rock. It is an expensive way to look for oil.”</p>
<p>September 2011, Exxon Mobil announced their latest $2.2 billion blockbuster deal to drill for oil in one of the most dangerous places in the world.</p>
<blockquote><p>Another sign that of the energy industry&#8217;s white-hot interest in exploring above the Arctic Circle despite the challenges. The company hopes to drill their first exploratory well by 2015 and, if everything goes well, could begin production in the region by early next decade. The extreme weather and ice floes during colder months could wreak havoc on oil-industry platforms. Cleaning up an oil spill would be a huge effort. The seas there don&#8217;t support the microbes that can break down oil droplets.<sup><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/10/oil-then-and-now/#footnote_6_37656" id="identifier_6_37656" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="Russell Gold.">7</a></sup> </p></blockquote>
<p>You really don’t need to know a lot about geology or oil to figure out something is wrong here: people living in homeless shelters don’t need cheap oil to go shopping and if they did, “why not go back to the old days and drill oil wells onshore?”<sup><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/10/oil-then-and-now/#footnote_7_37656" id="identifier_7_37656" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="Buy Oil Stocks&hellip; No Matter What, by Chris Mayer">8</a></sup> </p>
<p>Or if oil companies insist on drilling offshore, why not use up the 70 million “offshore acres leases” remaining from the total of 90 million?</p>
<p><strong>Drill, Drill, Drill didn’t make environmental sense in 1973 or 2008</strong></p>
<p>In 1973, America’s solution to the Arab oil embargo and long gas lines wasn’t mass transit, high mileage cars or alternative energy…it was the 800-mile Trans-Alaska Pipeline through some of the most pristine country in Alaska.</p>
<p>Fast forward to September 2008, when the American people, against all logic, (according to the EIA) agreed to drill for oil in the ANWR and give up their last Arctic wilderness because they couldn’t stand paying $4.55 for a gallon of gas.</p>
<p>The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), an independent statistical agency within the Department of Energy, estimated that new oil from ANWR would have only a negligible impact on the world price of oil.</p>
<p>The EIA projection for oil production in the ANWR would amount to 0.4 to 1.2 percent of total world oil consumption in 2030, assuming the U.S. congress approved legislation to drill, back in 2008. </p>
<p><strong>Gasoline prices then and now</strong></p>
<p>Last week (September 5, 2001) gas prices edged higher and are approaching levels we haven’t seen since September 2008. During the past week, prices were $1.01 <a href="http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2011/09/05/2030233/ca-gas-prices-rose-131-centsgal.html#ixzz1X7Cf5jWg">higher</a> than the same day one year ago.</p>
<p><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/anwr-oil.gif"><img src="http://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/anwr-oil.gif" alt="" title="anwr-oil" width="295" height="300" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-37657" /></a>A recurring controversy here in the United States revolves around the question, “should we mine the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska?”</p>
<p>The debate crops up every time oil prices [and gasoline] spike and to my mind seems more appealing every time it’s broached. The region is indisputably beautiful, a pristine wilderness populated by endangered species of wildlife living peacefully in unspoiled natural splendor.”<sup><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/10/oil-then-and-now/#footnote_8_37656" id="identifier_8_37656" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="Oil Drilling in the Arctic.">9</a></sup> </p>
<p>Could the spike in oil and gasoline prices be related to the irrational need to drill in the pristine and untouched places on the Earth?</p>
<ol class="footnotes"><li id="footnote_0_37656" class="footnote">My Budget 360</li><li id="footnote_1_37656" class="footnote">The 31-Year-Old in Charge of Dismantling G.M., David E. Sanger.</li><li id="footnote_2_37656" class="footnote">The Economic Elite vs. People of the USA, David DeGraw.</li><li id="footnote_3_37656" class="footnote"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903895904576542613901928264.html">Arctic Riches Lure Explorers</a></li><li id="footnote_4_37656" class="footnote">From a presentation by Matt Simmons at the 2004 Offshore Technology Conference.</li><li id="footnote_5_37656" class="footnote"><a href="http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article7746.html">Silver, But No Silver Lining</a>.</li><li id="footnote_6_37656" class="footnote"><a href="http://&#x72;&#x75;&#x73;&#x73;&#x65;&#x6c;&#x6c;&#x2e;&#x67;&#x6f;&#x6c;&#x64;&#x40;&#x77;&#x73;&#x6a;&#x2e;&#x63;&#x6f;&#x6d;">Russell Gold</a>.</li><li id="footnote_7_37656" class="footnote">Buy Oil Stocks… No Matter What, by Chris Mayer</li><li id="footnote_8_37656" class="footnote"><a href="http://www.newuniversity.org/2011/08/opinion/oil-drilling-in-the-arctic/">Oil Drilling in the Arctic</a>.</li></ol>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>S.510, Food Control (aka, People Control) for Dummies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Singer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Monsanto,” one of the most powerful multi-national corporations in the world, and arguably a major player in The New World Order conspiracy aimed at controlling millions via the food they eat, probably needs no introduction. The Powers That Be (TPTB, a non-conspiracy acronym) has been trying to get control of our food since 1970.1 Any [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Monsanto,” one of the most powerful multi-national corporations in the world, and arguably a major player in The New World Order conspiracy aimed at controlling millions via the food they eat, probably needs no introduction.</p>
<p>The Powers That Be (TPTB, a non-conspiracy acronym) has been trying to get control of our food since 1970.<sup><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/11/s-510-food-control-aka-people-control-for-dummies/#footnote_0_25183" id="identifier_0_25183" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="G. William Domhoff, a Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz first coined the non-conspiracy acronym TPTB. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Miami. He has been teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz, since 1965. Four of his books are among the top 50 best sellers in sociology for the years 1950 to 1995: Who Rules America? ">1</a></sup> </p>
<p>Any idea who is stopping them? Answer: You</p>
<p>You and I have been doing a great job for years, but Houston, we have a problem. </p>
<p>November 17, 2010: the greatest threat to our food sovereignty in history, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010 (S.510), is on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and the food activists are sitting on the side lines ignoring the pleas for help.</p>
<p>Monsanto uses overt and covert strategies to accomplish their goals. They don’t leave important matters like “food” to chance. Monsanto counted on our apathy from the beginning. </p>
<p>To understand this abnormal behavior, we have to return to the scene of the 2009 crime, when the father of S.510 was introduced into the Congress, HR.875.<sup><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/11/s-510-food-control-aka-people-control-for-dummies/#footnote_1_25183" id="identifier_1_25183" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="Monsanto uses overt and covert strategies to accomplish their goals. Monsanto was behind both sides of the battle over HR.875 in 2009. They don&rsquo;t leave important matters like these to chance.
&bull;	Monsanto&rsquo;s tentacles reach into every aspect of our society: government, private industry, the military, law enforcement and, of course, agriculture. Large, small, organic and non-organic farmers&mdash;and don&rsquo;t forget libertarian grass roots activists&mdash;are all influenced directly and indirectly by Monsanto. In Monsanto&rsquo;s world, there is no room for the family farmer. The company&rsquo;s well-known corporate bullying tactics have made this clear. Just ask Percy Schmeiser, the brave Canola farmer who dared to take on Monsanto.
&bull;	HR.875&rsquo;s vague wording was intentional.
&bull;	Family Farmers (organic and non-organic) are under attack, but not by Congresswoman DeLauro, the author of HR.875 whose husband was a political consultant to Monsanto 10 years ago.
&bull;	The timing of HR.875 coincided with the slow food, Locavore, and urban gardening movements in the United States and, for that matter, any slow food movement anywhere in the world.
&bull;	The E. coli and salmonella outbreaks related to spinach, tomatoes and peanuts are the work of Monsanto&rsquo;s agents: Things don&rsquo;t happen; they&rsquo;re made to happen.
&bull;	Healthy Family Farm owner Sharon Palmer was arrested for selling raw goat milk, and the Ohio food co-op raided Gestapo-style was obviously instigated by Monsanto agents in a move designed to intimidate urban gardeners. ">2</a></sup> </p>
<p>The activists were out in force trying to stop HR.875, the bill That Will Kill All Farms and Eat Your Babies.</p>
<p>The problem was that the opposition to HR.875 wasn’t telling the truth about the bill.</p>
<p>The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) tried to counter the disinformation from the opposition. OCA assured organic advocates that HR.875, the Food Safety and Modernization Act, is only “trying to improve the safety of food products derived from large industrial processing facilities and does not intend to trample organic farmers, backyard gardeners or consumers of fresh local foods.”</p>
<p>But the onslaught from the “controlled” opposition was relentless and continued to spread lies, half-lies and half-truths about HR.875.<sup><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/11/s-510-food-control-aka-people-control-for-dummies/#footnote_2_25183" id="identifier_2_25183" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="April 2009: Snopes on HR 875, Mostly False
It doesn&rsquo;t matter if libertarian grandmother Linn Cohen-Cole, or Paul, a farmer from Wisconsin, were accidental dupes or knowing agents of Monsanto&rsquo;s disinformation campaign.
The very clear and present danger was that our &ldquo;unelected representatives&rdquo; would be forced to sit down and actually read HR.875. But when they do, they won&rsquo;t find a ban on heirloom seeds, farmers markets or backyard gardening, because it isn&rsquo;t there. Does anyone think Monsanto would actually put in writing that we are going to arrest Michelle Obama for planting a garden?
If they did, our representatives wouldn&rsquo;t need a flood of frantic messages hollering that HR.875 is the bill that will &ldquo;kill all farms and eat your babies.&amp;#8221; No, believe it or not, our representatives eat and go to farmers markets just like we do. 
So who was behind the HR.875 disinformation campaign?
The Natural Solutions Foundation (NSF) originated the Linn Cole articles. 
The Organic Consumers Association and other legitimate heath advocates have been questioning the NSF for several years, and the criticism is universally the same: Why does the NSF keep turning out factually inaccurate, hysterically grim articles such as Linn Cole&rsquo;s?
The answers start with the NSF founders, disinformation professionals husband-wife team Albert Stubblebine and Rima Laibow. My conclusion is Stubblebine and Laibow are using the Natural Solutions Foundation&mdash;and Linn Cole&mdash;to undermine the health freedom community by spreading disinformation about HR.875. 
Stubblebine is a retired U.S. Army major general who designed AEGIS, &amp;#8220;a major Homeland Security private initiative.&amp;#8221; Given this background and his ties to the U.S. intelligence community, eyebrows were raised in the health freedom community in early 2005 when, along with Laibow, Stubblebine launched the NSF website and began to promote his wife as an expert on Codex Alimentarius, the commission working to adopt strict new guidelines for vitamin and mineral supplements.
Dr. Rath, founder of the 4.dr-rath-foundation, a legitimate health advocacy group, and the author of A Modern Major General Exposed? writes: &ldquo;It quickly became apparent to experienced health freedom observers that Stubblebine either hadn&amp;#8217;t done his homework properly, or that he and Laibow were intentionally spreading inaccurate and misleading material about Codex and other related dietary supplement issues via their website and press releases.
Moreover, despite repeated concerns being expressed by more experienced health freedom observers, Stubblebine and Laibow continued to disseminate this material, and pointedly ignored requests to remove it from their website.&rdquo;
Dr. Rima Laibow, in her YouTube video &ldquo;Codex Alimentarious &amp;#038; Nutricide,&rdquo; is the source of the false claims that WHO or FAO have Codex &ldquo;epidemiological projections.&rdquo; ">3</a></sup> </p>
<p>Spreading misinformation, misleading or outright false information is not the way to defeat “food safety” legislation. When you make that misinformed, but well-intentioned, call to your Congressman, you are doing exactly what Monsanto wants—coming across as an ill-informed and hysterical extremist. </p>
<p>The Cornucopia Institute and OCA tried to set the record straight with the April 3 press release, Family Farmers Fear Being Run over by Food Safety Juggernaut and sent out a mass e-mail exposing the role of the HR.875 disinformation agents:</p>
<blockquote><p>Subject: RETRACTION: URGENT! Monsanto Bill to Ban Organic Food:<br />
“Monsanto, or one of their proxy groups, is actually feeding libertarian groups disinformation on this bill.</p></blockquote>
<p>Unfortunately OCA was too late. Organic food activists were burned out from the emails faxes and phone calls complaining about HR.875 killing their gardens and eating their babies.</p>
<p>No wonder no one is taking S.510 seriously.</p>
<p>In 2009, you got an email that said:</p>
<blockquote><p>BEWARE THE FOOD POLICE! HR.875/S.425<br />
It Would Nationalize Farming &#8212; Destroy Organics &#8212; Even Attack Your Private Garden! </p></blockquote>
<p>In 2010 the emails say:</p>
<blockquote><p>Really BEWARE of THE FOOD POLICE! S.510<br />
It Would Nationalize Farming &#8212; Destroy Organics &#8212; Even Attack Your Private Garden!</p></blockquote>
<p>We were conned by Monsanto last year with a sophisticated disinformation campaign.</p>
<p>But it’s not too late, especially now that the Senate voted for cloture; <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/850/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5104">click here</a> to oppose S.510 Food Safety and S.3767 FDA Criminal Enforcement legislation.<sup><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/11/s-510-food-control-aka-people-control-for-dummies/#footnote_3_25183" id="identifier_3_25183" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="By a vote of 74 to 25, at noon today, the U.S. Senate voted for cloture on S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, which means it must now be voted on in the full Senate within 60 days. All amendments to the controversial food control bill must be completed by that time. Full article.">4</a></sup> </p>
<p>And don’t forget to take up your hoes and <a href="http://www.pathtofreedom.com">join the 43 million urban gardeners</a> who are forming &#8220;local living sustainable communities,&#8221; like City Repair in Portland. </p>
<ol class="footnotes"><li id="footnote_0_25183" class="footnote">G. William Domhoff, a Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz first coined the non-conspiracy acronym TPTB. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Miami. He has been teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz, since 1965. Four of his books are among the top 50 best sellers in sociology for the years 1950 to 1995: Who Rules America? </li><li id="footnote_1_25183" class="footnote">Monsanto uses overt and covert strategies to accomplish their goals. Monsanto was behind <em>both sides</em> of the battle over HR.875 in 2009. They don’t leave important matters like these to chance.</p>
<p>•	Monsanto’s tentacles reach into every aspect of our society: government, private industry, the military, law enforcement and, of course, agriculture. Large, small, organic and non-organic farmers—and don’t forget libertarian grass roots activists—are all influenced directly and indirectly by Monsanto. In Monsanto’s world, there is no room for the family farmer. The company’s well-known corporate bullying tactics have made this clear. Just ask <a href="http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/09/18/percy-schmeiser-vs-monsanto-the-story-of-a-canadian-farmer%E2%80%99s-fight-to-defend-the-rights-of-farmers-and-the-future-of-seeds/">Percy Schmeiser</a>, the brave Canola farmer who dared to take on Monsanto.<br />
•	HR.875’s vague wording was intentional.<br />
•	Family Farmers (organic and non-organic) are under attack, but not by Congresswoman DeLauro, the author of HR.875 whose husband was a political consultant to Monsanto 10 years ago.<br />
•	The timing of HR.875 coincided with the slow food, Locavore, and urban gardening movements in the United States and, for that matter, any slow food movement anywhere in the world.<br />
•	The <em>E. coli</em> and salmonella outbreaks related to spinach, tomatoes and peanuts are the work of Monsanto’s agents: Things don’t happen; they’re made to happen.<br />
•	Healthy Family Farm owner Sharon Palmer was arrested for selling raw goat milk, and the Ohio food co-op raided Gestapo-style was obviously instigated by Monsanto agents in a move designed to intimidate urban gardeners. </li><li id="footnote_2_25183" class="footnote">April 2009: <a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/organic.asp">Snopes on HR 875, Mostly False</a></p>
<p>It doesn’t matter if libertarian grandmother Linn Cohen-Cole, or Paul, a farmer from Wisconsin, were accidental dupes or knowing agents of Monsanto’s disinformation campaign.</p>
<p>The very clear and present danger was that our “unelected representatives” would be forced to sit down and actually read HR.875. But when they do, they won’t find a ban on heirloom seeds, farmers markets or backyard gardening, because it isn’t there. Does anyone think Monsanto would actually put in writing that we are going to arrest Michelle Obama for planting a garden?</p>
<p>If they did, our representatives wouldn’t need a flood of frantic messages hollering that HR.875 is the bill that will “kill all farms and eat your babies.&#8221; No, believe it or not, our representatives eat and go to farmers markets just like we do. </p>
<p>So who was behind the HR.875 disinformation campaign?</p>
<p>The Natural Solutions Foundation (NSF) originated the Linn Cole articles. </p>
<p>The Organic Consumers Association and other legitimate heath advocates have been questioning the NSF for several years, and the criticism is universally the same: Why does the NSF keep turning out factually inaccurate, hysterically grim articles such as Linn Cole’s?</p>
<p>The answers start with the NSF founders, disinformation professionals husband-wife team Albert Stubblebine and Rima Laibow. My conclusion is Stubblebine and Laibow are using the Natural Solutions Foundation—and Linn Cole—to undermine the health freedom community by spreading disinformation about HR.875. </p>
<p>Stubblebine is a retired U.S. Army major general who designed AEGIS, &#8220;a major Homeland Security private initiative.&#8221; Given this background and his ties to the U.S. intelligence community, eyebrows were raised in the health freedom community in early 2005 when, along with Laibow, Stubblebine launched the NSF website and began to promote his wife as an expert on <a href="http://www.codexalimentarius.net/">Codex Alimentarius</a>, the commission working to adopt strict new guidelines for vitamin and mineral supplements.</p>
<p>Dr. Rath, founder of the 4.dr-rath-foundation, a legitimate health advocacy group, and the author of <em>A Modern Major General Exposed?</em> writes: “It quickly became apparent to experienced health freedom observers that Stubblebine either hadn&#8217;t done his homework properly, or that he and Laibow were intentionally spreading inaccurate and misleading material about Codex and other related dietary supplement issues via their website and press releases.</p>
<p>Moreover, despite repeated concerns being expressed by more experienced health freedom observers, Stubblebine and Laibow continued to disseminate this material, and pointedly ignored requests to remove it from their website.”</p>
<p>Dr. Rima Laibow, in her YouTube video “Codex Alimentarious &#038; Nutricide,” is the source of the false claims that WHO or FAO have Codex “epidemiological projections.” </li><li id="footnote_3_25183" class="footnote">By a vote of 74 to 25, at noon today, the U.S. Senate voted for cloture on S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, which means it must now be voted on in the full Senate within 60 days. All amendments to the controversial food control bill must be completed by that time. <a href="http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2010/11/17/breaking-senate-votes-cloture-on-s-510-m">Full article</a>.</li></ol>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Farms, Hamburgers, and &#8220;Free&#8221; Enterprise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Singer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free enterprise, also called free market, is an economy governed by the laws of supply and demand, not restrained by government interference, regulation or subsidy. Command economy is basically a slave enterprise where supply and price are regulated by the government rather than market forces. The only thing I will agree with about the “law [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Free enterprise, also called free market, is an economy governed by the laws of supply and demand, not restrained by government interference, regulation or subsidy.</p>
<p>Command economy is basically a slave enterprise where supply and price are regulated by the government rather than market forces.</p>
<p>The only thing I will agree with about the “law of supply and demand” is that supply at a downward-manipulated price, can create demand.</p>
<p>Downward manipulation is an uneconomic aberration first discovered in the precious metals market by the noted silver analyst, Ted Butler.</p>
<p>We are conditioned to believe free enterprise supply and demand would lead to inflated prices so the greedy corporations can make more money, but Ted Butler’s research in the silver market concludes the opposite.</p>
<p>The beneficiaries of this type of manipulation are the consumers because corporations can sell their products affordably and still make a profit.</p>
<p>Butler’s investigation has identified JP Morgan Chase, one of the founding members of the Federal Reserve, as the prime suspect, in the “ongoing intentional, not accidental” great crime of keeping the price of commodities low so the middle class can afford the American dream, a nightmare for the planet.<sup><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/11/farms-hamburgers-and-free-enterprise/#footnote_0_11581" id="identifier_0_11581" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="&amp;#8220;The Real Story,&amp;#8221; Theodore Butler; &amp;#8220;Silver But No Silver Lining,&amp;#8221; Atlantic Free Press, Robert Singer.">1</a></sup> </p>
<p>I’ll get right to the point: McDonalds in the 1950s made a profit by selling a product for less than the competition, but a not-so-invisible hand produced cheap calories in great abundance so Ray “Crock” could sell a cheeseburger, fries and a large Coke for a price equal to less than an hour of labor at the minimum wage — and still make a profit.<sup><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/11/farms-hamburgers-and-free-enterprise/#footnote_1_11581" id="identifier_1_11581" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="&amp;#8220;Farmer in Chief, Michael Pollan,&amp;#8221; October 9, 2008, Erwan Frotin, The New York Times">2</a></sup> </p>
<p>You don’t eat the hamburger at McDonalds because it’s a dollar: It’s a dollar to get you to eat it.</p>
<p>How did we get a food system that produced what should be a $35 hamburger downwardly manipulated to $1?<sup><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/11/farms-hamburgers-and-free-enterprise/#footnote_2_11581" id="identifier_2_11581" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="Economist Douglas McDonald estimates that if water subsidies were withdrawn from California livestock producers, the income of the state&rsquo;s other businesses and workers would rise over $10 billion annually (1987 figures).
Other economists have exposed the cost of water subsidies to the meat industry that are hidden in the state&rsquo;s rising prices for water rights, and thus, housing. Fields and Hur calculate the overall price of subsidizing the California meat industry&rsquo;s water to be $24 billion (1987 figures). The Food Revolution by John Robbins, President of the EarthSave Foundation.">3</a></sup> </p>
<p>&#8220;Taxpayer subsidies basically underwrite cheap grain, and that&#8217;s what the factory-farming system for meat is entirely dependent on,&#8221; Doug Gurian-Sherman, a senior scientist in the Food &#038; Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).<sup><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/11/farms-hamburgers-and-free-enterprise/#footnote_3_11581" id="identifier_3_11581" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="Time Magazine, &amp;#8220;Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food,&amp;#8221; Bryan Walsh Aug. 21, 2009.">4</a></sup> </p>
<p>In other words, the Scoundrels behind the Federal Reserve, Rothschild, Rockefeller, Kuhn, Loeb and JP Morgan Chase, underwrite cheap grain and the factory-farming system for meat, so you can get a hamburger for a dollar.</p>
<p>Our current food system—characterized by monocultures of corn and soy in the field and cheap calories of fat, sugar and feedlot meat on the table—is not the product of any free market but rather the result of a specific set of governmental and monetary policies  (from those Scoundrels at the Fed) and the free gift of fossil fuels from the world’s richest man in history and another founding member of the Federal Reserve, John D. Rockefeller.</p>
<p>He didn’t just give dimes away, he gave away his oil so you could get inexpensive fuel and food.</p>
<p>If you fly over Iowa from October to April you will notice the land is completely bare— black—because you are seeing an agricultural landscape created by cheap oil from John D.</p>
<p>Cheap energy enabled the creation of monocultures and vastly increased the productivity both of the American land and the American farmer but at the same time, subsidized monocultures of grain also led directly to monocultures of animals.</p>
<p>Since factory farms could buy grain for less than it cost farmers to grow it, they could now fatten animals more cheaply than farmers could.</p>
<p>So America’s meat and dairy animals migrated from farm to feedlot, driving down the price of animal protein to the point where an American can enjoy eating a hamburger or chicken McNuggets for a dollar.</p>
<p>Taking the animals off farms made no economic, environmental or ecological sense: their waste, formerly regarded as a precious source of fertility on the farm, became a pollutant—factory farms are now one of America’s biggest sources of pollution.</p>
<p>As Wendell Berry has tartly observed, to take animals off farms and put them on feedlots is to take an elegant solution—animals replenishing the fertility that crops deplete—and neatly divide it into two problems: a fertility problem on the farm and a pollution problem on the feedlot. The former problem is remedied with fossil-fuel fertilizer; the latter is remedied not at all.</p>
<p>After World War II, the US government pursued a monetary policy, at the direction of the Fed, subsidizing commodity crops by paying farmers (money created out of thin air) by the bushel for all the corn, soybeans, wheat and rice they could produce. One secretary of agriculture after another implored them to plant “fence row to fence row” and to “get big or get out.”</p>
<p>The chief result was a flood of cheap grain that could be sold for substantially less than it cost farmers to grow because a government (Scoundrel) check helped make up the difference.</p>
<p>As this artificially manipulated cheap grain worked its way up the food chain, it drove down the price of all the calories derived from that grain: the high-fructose corn syrup in the Coke, the soy oil in which the potatoes were fried, the meat and cheese in that burger until the price reached a dollar.<sup><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/11/farms-hamburgers-and-free-enterprise/#footnote_4_11581" id="identifier_4_11581" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="In years past, except in the dead of winter, you would have seen in those fields a checkerboard of different greens: pastures and hayfields for animals, cover crops, perhaps a block of fruit trees. &amp;#8220;Farmer in Chief, Michael Pollan,&amp;#8221; October 9, 2008, Erwan Frotin, The New York Times.
Before the application of oil and natural gas to agriculture, farmers relied on crop diversity (and photosynthesis) both to replenish their soil and to combat pests, as well as to feed themselves and their neighbors.">5</a></sup> </p>
<p><strong>ADM Gets Caught Putting Money In The Cookie Jar</strong></p>
<p><em>The Informant!</em> is a movie about the lysine price-fixing scandals that Archer Daniels Midland found themselves in the center of back in the 90s.</p>
<p>ADM was caught fixing the price lysine, an amino acid and very attractive animal feed additive used to make chickens fat, dumb, and happy, back up, after it was manipulated too far down for anyone to make a profit.</p>
<p>Price-fixing is a crime no matter how many people ADM feeds.<sup><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/11/farms-hamburgers-and-free-enterprise/#footnote_5_11581" id="identifier_5_11581" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="Each day, the 28,000 people of Archer Daniels Midland Company transform crops such as corn, oilseeds, wheat and cocoa into food ingredients, animal feeds, and agriculturally derived fuels and chemicals.
The editors of World Watch state that &ldquo;the human appetite for animal flesh is a driving force behind virtually every major category of environmental damage now threatening the human future&mdash;deforestation, erosion, fresh water scarcity, air and water pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, social injustice, the destabilization of communities and the spread of disease.&rdquo;
Lee Hall, the legal director for Friends of Animals, is more succinct: &ldquo;Behind virtually every great environmental complaint there&rsquo;s milk and meat.&rdquo;">6</a></sup> </p>
<p>From cradle to grave we are brainwashed to believe everything is about profit.</p>
<p>So, in the film, when Mark Whitacre tells the FBI that ADM cheated millions from the consumer by colluding to fix prices, we forget that Americans spend less than 10% of their incomes on food (down from 18% in 1966).  When we eat inexpensive burgers and fries, it’s thanks to ADM downward-manipulating the price of lysine.<sup><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/11/farms-hamburgers-and-free-enterprise/#footnote_6_11581" id="identifier_6_11581" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="Archer Daniels Midland has been sued for colluding to fix prices in the citric acid and high fructose corn syrup markets among others, but their most noteworthy violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the part ADM played in fixing the price of lysine, an amino acid used in animal feed. Lysine is especially good at making chickens fat, dumb, and happy, which makes it a very attractive feed additive. Unlike any other price-fixing conspiracy before or since, ADM&amp;#8217;s involvement in forming and participating in a cartel was meticulously recorded by a mole inside the organization while the crime was being committed, offering an incredible insight into the nuts and bolts of an international corporate conspiracy.">7</a></sup> </p>
<p>Our not-so-free market economy based on consumer products, that is, products we are downward manipulated to want, not need, was never FREE or sustainable. Consumers consume…the resources of the planet.</p>
<p>The huddled masses should be thanking those scoundrels at the Federal Reserve for 60 years of downward manipulating the price of commodities: It resulted in unprecedented prosperity, but don’t forget to blame them because the American dream was an environmental nightmare for the planet.<sup><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/11/farms-hamburgers-and-free-enterprise/#footnote_7_11581" id="identifier_7_11581" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="&amp;#8220;A Sure Thing?,&amp;#8221; Ted Butler Commentary; &amp;#8220;Silver But No Silver Lining,&amp;#8221; Atlantic Free Press, Robert Singer.">8</a></sup> </p>
<ol class="footnotes"><li id="footnote_0_11581" class="footnote">&#8220;<a href="http://news.silverseek.com/TedButler/1226344970.php">The Real Story</a>,&#8221; Theodore Butler; &#8220;<a href="http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/6740-silver-but-no-silver-lining-.html">Silver But No Silver Lining</a>,&#8221; <em>Atlantic Free Press</em>, Robert Singer.</li><li id="footnote_1_11581" class="footnote">&#8220;<a href="http://www.ecoliteracy.org/publications/michael_pollan_farmer.html">Farmer in Chief, Michael Pollan</a>,&#8221; October 9, 2008, Erwan Frotin, <em>The New York Times</em></li><li id="footnote_2_11581" class="footnote">Economist Douglas McDonald estimates that if water subsidies were withdrawn from California livestock producers, the income of the state’s other businesses and workers would rise over $10 billion annually (1987 figures).</p>
<p>Other economists have exposed the cost of water subsidies to the meat industry that are hidden in the state’s rising prices for water rights, and thus, housing. Fields and Hur calculate the overall price of subsidizing the California meat industry’s water to be $24 billion (1987 figures). The Food Revolution by John Robbins, President of the EarthSave Foundation.</li><li id="footnote_3_11581" class="footnote"><em>Time</em> Magazine, &#8220;Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food,&#8221; Bryan Walsh Aug. 21, 2009.</li><li id="footnote_4_11581" class="footnote">In years past, except in the dead of winter, you would have seen in those fields a checkerboard of different greens: pastures and hayfields for animals, cover crops, perhaps a block of fruit trees. &#8220;<a href="http://www.ecoliteracy.org/publications/michael_pollan_farmer.html">Farmer in Chief, Michael Pollan</a>,&#8221; October 9, 2008, Erwan Frotin, <em>The New York Times</em>.<br />
Before the application of oil and natural gas to agriculture, farmers relied on crop diversity (and photosynthesis) both to replenish their soil and to combat pests, as well as to feed themselves and their neighbors.</li><li id="footnote_5_11581" class="footnote">Each day, the 28,000 people of Archer Daniels Midland Company transform crops such as corn, oilseeds, wheat and cocoa into food ingredients, animal feeds, and agriculturally derived fuels and chemicals.<br />
The editors of World Watch state that “the human appetite for animal flesh is a driving force behind virtually every major category of environmental damage now threatening the human future—deforestation, erosion, fresh water scarcity, air and water pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, social injustice, the destabilization of communities and the spread of disease.”<br />
Lee Hall, the legal director for Friends of Animals, is more succinct: “Behind virtually every great environmental complaint there’s milk and meat.”</li><li id="footnote_6_11581" class="footnote">Archer Daniels Midland has been sued for colluding to fix prices in the citric acid and high fructose corn syrup markets among others, but their most noteworthy violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the part ADM played in fixing the price of lysine, an amino acid used in animal feed. Lysine is especially good at making chickens fat, dumb, and happy, which makes it a very attractive feed additive. Unlike any other price-fixing conspiracy before or since, ADM&#8217;s involvement in forming and participating in a cartel was meticulously recorded by a mole inside the organization while the crime was being committed, offering an incredible insight into the nuts and bolts of an international corporate conspiracy.</li><li id="footnote_7_11581" class="footnote">&#8220;<a href="http://www.gata.org/node/6889">A Sure Thing?</a>,&#8221; Ted Butler Commentary; &#8220;<a href="http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/6740-silver-but-no-silver-lining-.html">Silver But No Silver Lining</a>,&#8221; <em>Atlantic Free Press</em>, Robert Singer.</li></ol>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Monsanto Connection</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert Singer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently published an article “Grandmother Scores Huge Victory over Monsanto.” The article was a magnet for controversy because I claimed the best way to fight Monsanto and HR 875 was by growing your own food and saving seeds. Linn Cohen-Cole, the libertarian grandmother at the forefront of the anti-HR 875 campaign called me “dangerous” [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently published an article “<a href="http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/index.php?name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=9643">Grandmother Scores Huge Victory over Monsanto</a>.” The article was a magnet for controversy because I claimed the best way to fight Monsanto and HR 875 was by growing your own food and saving seeds.</p>
<p>Linn Cohen-Cole, the libertarian grandmother at the forefront of the anti-HR 875 campaign called me “dangerous” for fostering complacency by encouraging readers to grow their own food instead of send e-mails and faxes&#8230;that no one reads.</p>
<p>The Cornucopia Institute and the Organic Consumers Association has already assured organic advocates that HR 875, the Food Safety and Modernization Act, is only “trying to improve the safety of food products derived from large industrial processing facilities and <em>does not</em> intend to trample organic farmers, backyard gardeners or consumers of fresh local foods.”</p>
<p>Following the April 3 Cornucopia press release, “<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS153355+03-Apr-2009+PRN20090403">Family Farmers Fear Being Run over by Food Safety Juggernaut</a>,” organic food activists received a mass e-mail exposing the role of Linn Cole in spreading disinformation about HR 875:</p>
<blockquote><p>Subject: RETRACTION: URGENT! Monsanto Bill to Ban Organic Food:</p>
<p>      “Monsanto, or one of their proxy groups, is actually feeding libertarian groups disinformation on this bill.  </p>
<p>      The bill doesn&#8217;t ban organic. When you make that misinformed, but well-intentioned call to your Congressman, you are doing exactly what Monsanto wants—coming across as an ill-informed and hysterical extremist. Monsanto is making a last-ditch effort in this PR war, but they have already really lost it.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Monsanto lost it because 43 million Americans, including First Lady Michelle Obama, have risked going to jail for growing their own food!</p>
<p>This will help you understand what really happened:</p>
<p>   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1. Monsanto is one of the most powerful multi-national corporations in the world. The Global One-World Government New World Order conspiracy, of which Monsanto is a part, is aimed at controlling millions via the food they eat. &#8220;Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people,&#8221; said Henry Kissinger in 1970.</p>
<p>   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2. Monsanto uses overt and covert strategies to accomplish their goals. Monsanto is behind <em>both sides</em> of the battle over HR 875. They don’t leave important matters like these to chance.</p>
<p>   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3. Monsanto’s tentacles reach into every aspect of our society: government, private industry, the military, law enforcement and, of course, agriculture. Large, small, organic and non-organic farmers—and don’t forget libertarian grass roots activists—are all influenced directly and indirectly by Monsanto. The company that rose to power in the 20th century as a leading chemical giant now focuses on agriculture. In Monsanto’s world, there is no room for the family farmer. The company’s well-known corporate bullying tactics have made this clear. Just ask Percy Schmeiser, the brave Canola farmer who dared to take on Monsanto.</p>
<p>   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4. HR 875’s vague wording was intentional.</p>
<p>   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;5. Family Farmers (organic and non-organic) are under attack, but not by Congresswoman DeLauro, the author of HR 875 whose husband was a political consultant to Monsanto 10 years ago.</p>
<p>   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;6. The timing of HR 875 coincides with the slow food, Locavore, and urban gardening movements in the United States and, for that matter, any slow food movement anywhere in the world.</p>
<p>   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;7. The E-coli and salmonella outbreaks related to spinach, tomatoes and peanuts are the work of Monsanto’s agents: Things don’t happen; they’re made to happen.</p>
<p>   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;8. Healthy Family Farm owner Sharon Palmer was arrested for selling raw goat milk, and the Ohio food co-op raided Gestapo-style was obviously instigated by Monsanto agents in a move designed to intimidate urban gardeners.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter if libertarian grandmother Linn Cohen-Cole, or Paul, a farmer from Wisconsin, were accidental dupes or knowing agents of Monsanto’s disinformation campaign. It only matters that the disinformation campaign was discovered before it wounded the health freedom movement.</p>
<p>Spreading misinformation, misleading or outright false information is not the way to defeat “food safety” legislation, because when you make that misinformed but well-intentioned call to your Congressman, you are doing exactly what Monsanto wants—coming across as an ill-informed and hysterical extremist.</p>
<p>The very clear and present danger is that our “unelected representatives” will be forced to sit down and actually read HR 875. But when they do, they won’t find a ban on heirloom seeds, farmers markets or backyard gardening, because it isn’t there. Does anyone think Monsanto would actually put in writing that we are going to arrest Michelle Obama for planting a garden?</p>
<p>If they did, our representatives wouldn’t need a flood of frantic messages hollering that HR 875 is the bill that will “kill all farms and eat your babies.&#8221; No, believe it or not, our representatives eat and go to farmers markets just like we do.</p>
<p>So who is behind this disinformation campaign?</p>
<p>The Natural Solutions Foundation (NSF) originated the Linn Cole articles.</p>
<p>The Organic Consumers Association and other legitimate heath advocates have been questioning the NSF for several years, and the criticism is universally the same: Why does the NSF keep turning out factually inaccurate, hysterically grim articles such as Linn Cole’s?</p>
<p>The answers start with the NSF founders, husband-wife team Albert Stubblebine and Rima Laibow. Now, when I accuse these people of being disinformation professionals, let me explain. I&#8217;m not saying they&#8217;re doing sloppy research, and I&#8217;m not saying they&#8217;re being overzealous. What I am saying is that they are working, for pay, to spread false information and to make their organization look like a legitimate activist group.</p>
<p>My conclusion is Stubblebine and Laibow are using the Natural Solutions Foundation—and Linn Cole—to undermine the health freedom community by spreading disinformation about HR 875.</p>
<p>Stubblebine is a retired U.S. Army major general who designed AEGIS, &#8220;a major Homeland Security private initiative.&#8221; Given this background and his ties to the U.S. intelligence community, eyebrows were raised in the health freedom community in early 2005 when, along with Laibow, Stubblebine launched the NSF website and began to promote his wife as an expert on Codex Alimentarius, the commission working to adopt strict new guidelines for vitamin and mineral supplements.</p>
<p>Dr. Rath, founder of the 4.dr-rath-foundation, a legitimate health advocacy group, and the author of <em>A Modern Major General Exposed?</em> writes: “It quickly became apparent to experienced health freedom observers that Stubblebine either hadn&#8217;t done his homework properly, or that he and Laibow were intentionally spreading inaccurate and misleading material about Codex and other related dietary supplement issues via their website and press releases.</p>
<p>Moreover, despite repeated concerns being expressed by more experienced health freedom observers, Stubblebine and Laibow continued to disseminate this material, and pointedly ignored requests to remove it from their website.”</p>
<p>In my “Scared to CodeX Death” article, I refer to Dr. Rima Laibow when I write: “And although the effects of Codex are devastating and will result in humans dying from starvation and preventable diseases from under-nutrition, any claims that WHO or FAO have released epidemiological projections are untrue.”</p>
<p>Dr. Rima Laibow, to the consternation of those fighting Codex, is the source of the untrue claims about the “epidemiological projections” in her YouTube video “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmrF9KjlGsc">Codex Alimentarious &#038; Nutricide</a>.”</p>
<p>The NSF pair want to discredit HR 875, because when the cleverly worded HR 875 finally goes to committee, Monsanto will unleash a massive PR campaign aimed at, guess who? Linn Cohen-Cole and the other lefties who, according to Monsanto, are spreading false and misleading information about an innocent food safety bill.</p>
<p>Later, the headlines such as “HR 875 doesn’t criminalize small agriculture” will warn the population about health freedom activists who, by spreading misinformation, are threatening our food safety and free speech. Then, HR 875 and the real threat, HR 859, are passed without fanfare.</p>
<p>End of story.</p>
<p>And when the son of HR 875 is born, the one that really makes it illegal to grow your own food and have a garden, activists will gear up for another war, but it will be too late.</p>
<p>The battle cry from Monsanto will be heard loud and clear:</p>
<p>“Remember HR 875! Don’t listen to these reactionaries. They will do anything to cast Monsanto as the Agent Orange-eyed monster. Vote here.”</p>
<p>And the epitaph will be written: “The Grandmother Who Cried Wolf”</p>
<p>So if you want to fight Monsanto, take up your hoes and <a href="http://www.pathtofreedom.com">join</a> the 43 million urban gardeners.</p>
<p>You see, what Monsanto is really afraid of is that we are starting to cooperate with each other and grow our own food. It’s called the Power of Community. </p>]]></content:encoded>
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