In what should amount to a wildly imaginative narrative created by an overzealous science fiction aficionado, the following agencies, their connections, and past actions are real, none-the-less.
Imagine, if you will, a world in which health sciences, disease control, cancer research, bio-weapons research, vaccine development, biotechnology, food and agriculture, national defense, and chemical companies all work together under the military. Then imagine, if you will, that a certain chemical company under the guise of a life sciences operation, produces an herbicide/defoliant for military use so destructive and highly toxic that contact with it causes cancer, diabetes and birth defects. And then that same chemical/life sciences company partners with a funding corporation whose team members include the ex-partner of the inventor of the world’s first completely synthetic organism, which was recently unleashed in the ocean and has since turned its ever-hungry sites on human flesh. Then imagine that same company with a monopoly on our food supply…
Sound like an episode out of the Twilight Zone or Dr. Who? Well, it’s not. It’s real, and it’s documented.
Fort Detrick and the NICBR
The Fort Detrick National Interagency Confederation for Biological Research (NICBR) is a conglomeration of agencies all under the umbrella of the military industrial complex.
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
The Surgeon General of the Army (TSG)
Administrator, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Director, Office of Research and Development, Science and Technology Directorate, US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Constitution acknowledges that signatories may be expanded in the future to include other agencies or institutes engaged in medical research and/or advanced biotechnology at Fort Detrick.
Signatories to the Constitution have representation on the Fort Detrick Interagency Coordinating Committee (FDICC), which is the primary venue for interagency communication. The FDICC designates subcommittees as necessary to further facilitate effective interagency cooperation among the signatories. The hierarchy of the confederation’s communications and decision making process is depicted below.
According to Veterans Today, “From 1943 to 1969, Fort Detrick was the nation’s center for offensive and biological warfare research, and defensive biological warfare research is still an active part of the installation today.”
The Fort Detrick NICBR mission statement: “The mission of the National Interagency Confederation for Biological Research is to develop unique knowledge, tools, and products by leveraging advanced technologies and innovative discoveries to secure and defend the health of the American people.”
And it seems to have created its own Constitution, a small portion of which can be found at the website:
In May 2002, a working group was formed among the medical research and advanced biotechnology organizations at Ft. Detrick to explore and coordinate areas of common interest. The collaborative efforts of these federal agencies were formalized in the Constitution for the Coordination of Interactions Among Medical Research Organizations Colocated at Fort Detrick, Maryland (the Constitution). The vision of the group was established in the Constitution as follows:
“To enhance public health, medical research, and biotechnology development among research organizations at Fort Detrick by establishing a loose confederation of research organizations who are willing to discuss areas of common interest and, if of benefit to their organizations, work in collaboration to coordinate and synchronize scientific interaction in areas of mutual interest.”
The Constitution also cites the following objectives:
To establish an understanding and a process for coordinating and synchronizing areas of common interest among the federal agencies involved in medical research and/or biotechnology at Fort Detrick in order to encourage most efficient management practices, foster scientific interchange, and maximize productivity of research and biotechnology development among the signatories.
To promote federal interagency coordination in facilities planning, technology sharing, and sharing of expertise among the signatories.
To minimize duplication of effort, technology, and facilities among the signatories.
To improve the ability of the signatory agencies to produce science, technology, and products faster and better at minimum cost.
The Monsanto Connection
To gain a realistic look at just what this “benevolent” agency might be capable of, let’s take a brief look back in (more…)
A friend just told me about this, as she said, “Are the birds getting bigger?“ 200 cows were found dead in a Wisconsin field yesterday. This is cow country so where is the big-headline-media scare?!?
The owner or the cows’ veterinarian said he suspects the cause may be IBR/BVD virus. Authorities say there is no threat to humans or other animals. I don’t know if I can agree given all the other mass animal deaths recently. I guess this is another one of those “look-away-folks, nothing-to-see-here-folks, move-along-now-folks” explanations. DHS is usually changing warning color charts and waving the fear-factor flag on news like this. Their silence is deafening! One suspected case of cow-something like this usually gets major air-time and every letter of the gov alphabet is on alert. 200 large animals dropped dead w/o warning it seems… they were found in a field. If one cow was sick they would separate it from the rest. So if it’s a virus, it appears to be fast moving… more reason to make the headlines. The same theory for the other mass animal deaths could apply here too.
I’m sorry to say we can add another 300 birds to the body count in Alabama and add Turkey to the list of countries because they just reported dozens of dead birds in the northwest province of Bursa. I wonder how many flocks of birds and schools of fish have not been found. There has been no logical explanation by officials and their silence is deafening! I can not shake the scientists in Italy; all of the turtle doves had blue tinged beaks and that would indicate poison or hypoxia. Nor can I forget the timing and murder of biological warfare expert, John Wheeler. USAF called chemtrails a hoax and I call it fraud and deception.
Air, soil, food and water are our most basic needs and chemicals sprayed from jets adversely affect them all. This is an attack on every source of life and it is dead wrong whatever reason the government will soon be forced to explain. It must be stopped! Each of these purveyors of destruction must be removed from office and they must be punished. Business is dependent upon supply and demand; government is supplying the chemical attack but the demander must also be stopped and brought to justice. Former FBI Chief, Ted Gunderson says he has seen the planes they use to spray this crap sitting at the Air National Guard in Lincoln, Nebraska.
The heaviest spraying around my city concentrates in the most populated area and comes on days when people are outside (weekends, holidays and ballgames). It seems the city-people are the target. Could there be another reason? Monsanto is the Microsoft of GMO seed; they supply about 90% of genetically modified seeds so I think it’s a good place to look for a motive. Monsanto and government are partners in research for genetically altered seeds and I believe they are partners in chemtrails also. Please see “Monsanto buys ‘Terminator’ Seeds Company” and “Delta and Pine Land Company”.I noticed something unexpected when I watched a documentary on Monsanto, GMOs and farms, ‘The Future of Food’(2004). The first time I watched the film [having chemtrail awareness] I saw a tie between Monsanto and chemtrails. Rodney Nelson, a farmer in Amenia, North Dakota begins to tell his story about his Monsanto encounter. Monsanto sued him in 2000 just as they have been suing many farmers. The film shows the farmer working in the field and the sky is coated with chemtrails. The many trails are too high for crop dusting and too low for contrails. This farmer was sued by Monsanto and apparently attacked with chemicals sprayed from government planes. I doubt the farmer realized the chemtrails and it is not mentioned in the film (it’s a film about GMOs, not chemtrails). Maybe it was just a fluke but I do not believe in coincidences when it comes to Monsanto. Although I think cities are targets, it appears they give Monsanto the added deed of destructing the food.
Chemtrails have been linked to contaminated air and soil, as well as many illnesses; see the article ‘Symptoms Resulting from Chemtrail Spraying’. I just read it and I can honestly say each of my health problems are found in the list of partial symptoms (I checked off more than half of the 15 categories). I’ve had several years of suffering and not much explanation from the medical field. Based on the countless medical tests I’ve had and the degree of problems, doctors agree I am ill but they have never agreed on any cause but poisoning has been named. I hope this article is read by every medical professional in each of the nations sprayed with destruction.
The “Food Safety Act” was a pointless attack on small farms and their demise will benefit those like Monsanto. The Tester Amendment was added after a hard battle, it did lessen the blow but small farms are not exempt from the regulations if they ship out of state or over 275 miles. The FDA has never traced a food-borne illness to a small farm so they should be completely exempt; we can help if we buy from small local farms (Think Global Act Local).
Corporations control much of the food supply and just like Henry Kissinger said, “Control the food and you control the people”. Corporations are calling the shots in government moreover with each passing law and/or appointment. Obama appointed lobbyist Michael Taylor as senior advisor for FDA Commission on food safety. Michael Taylor was Monsanto’s VP for Public Policy (1998 until 2001). There is a video and an article below that exemplify the danger Monsanto has had on India’s farmers.
Destructive companies like BP et al and protected by the government that is supposed to work for ‘We the People’. The Gulf oil gusher was the worst environmental disaster in US history yet it was never declared disaster by Obama [impact on claimants is big tax debt]. Maybe Obama should appoint Wayward-Hayward to the EPA. Monsanto has the support of government at the expense of a healthy environment for air, food, soil, water and people. Obama’s appointments have only strengthened this control by corporations. We the People are not a priority for GOV Inc., whether by direct or indirect efforts, we are a target.
I have to agree with Germany’s High Court ruling against Monsanto on the GMO issue. As reported, “GE alters the very structure of life that could have irreversible effects. Therefore, the high level of precaution surrounding the cultivation and the commercialization of GMO products is perfectly legitimate.” It is uncertain how our High Court would rule in a case such as Germany’s but I do not have much faith it would be similar. Supreme Court Justice Thomas worked for Monsanto in the 1970s. He also wrote the majority opinion that ruled “newly developed plant breeds are patentable” which companies like Monsanto’s benefit – just another fluke I suppose.
India was Monsanto’s testing ground for genetically modified farming. It failed miserably for the farmers and crops. Monsanto’s altered seeds can not be saved and planted the following year because of their genetic alterations. The prices rose dramatically and the sterilization meant growers must buy more seeds every year. This has been referred to as a “suicide seed”. The reason may come from the fact that over 182,900 Indian farmers committed suicide between 1997 and 2007 (National Crime Records Bureau of India). That estimates to 46 suicides every day or 2 every hour and that happened in Taylor’s time at Monsanto. Obama’s appointed food safety czar in 2009. There are other public officials that previously worked for Monsanto.
Monsanto spent $8.8 million on lobbying in 2008 and $2 million in the first quarter of 2009 (near the birth of HR875 Food Safety Bill) but only $6.1 million total in 2009. It is only a $3 million difference in lobbying dollars that occurred the same year Monsanto would have a former VP appointed to the FDA Commission so maybe it is just another fluke. JP Morgan’s William Daley is Obama’s newly appointed Chief of Staff but I am talking food now so I’ll avoid such nauseating thoughts about our banking woes.
There are many other corporations suspected to be involved in this destruction of our planet. It must take an enormous group effort and insanely high cost to pull off a ‘chemical attack’ of this magnitude. One can only imagine the requirements of research, production and delivery systems. But with the military spraying us and all the tax-favors given to corporations, I suppose you could say we are funding the chemical attack on us. Based on what appears to be the object of spraying, air, soil, food and water… all things we rely upon, maybe the object truly is our destruction. Again, I can’t answer why someone would do these things but the evidence shows it is happening. The expression ‘it takes one to know one’ most definitely applies. I am a “peace loving, nature caring, people doting, devoted parent and fond of life” human being. The Native Americans had it perfectly balanced; respect nature and the land and it will provide every need. People that allow these crimes against humanity and nature are far removed from balanced.
The science is finally catching up to this problem and the evidence mounts; 2010 was a very eventful year in exposing Chemtrails (‘Case Orange’, ‘Rosalind Peterson’ and ‘What in the World are they Spraying?”). The mass animal deaths have people looking up and asking the same question, why? I am sticking by my theory; please read if you haven’t already (see post 01/07/11). My ears are ringing but I also hear lyrics similar to The Carpenters song ‘Close to You’. This is from Chemical-free; Why do birds fall down from the sky, every time jets fly by? Just like me, they long to be chemical-free. I have written the lyrics for a song but I can’t sing worth a damn.
There is a UN Resolution against genocide, and this attack clearly falls under that Resolution but the UN Nations have yet to step up. I applaud Corinne Spence and Gary Richard Arnold for their efforts to put forth new legislation aimed directly at the aerosol attacks. Corrine delivered a draft of the proposed legislation “The Planetary Population and Atmospheric Purity Act” to Congressman Ron Paul and many other groups in various countries. Dr. Ron Paul would be remiss to ignore this serious problem because he has the position to expose this dirty government secret. I understand how hard it is to believe this is happening but we must all rise above the ‘Normalcy Bias’ (see post w/same title). Not only would the spraying end, it would be refreshing to trust in government officials again.
UN Resolution may someday be enforced for this genocide but in the mean time, (more…)
A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (Blackwater’s Black Ops, 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto. Blackwater was renamed in 2009 after becoming famousin the world with numerous reports of abuses in Iraq, including massacres of civilians. It remains the largest private contractor of the U.S. Department of State “security services,” that practices state terrorism by giving the government the opportunity to deny it.
Many military and former CIA officers work for Blackwater or related companies created to divert attention from their bad reputation and make more profit selling their nefarious services-ranging from information and intelligence to infiltration, political lobbying and paramilitary training – for other governments, banks and multinational corporations. According to Scahill, business with multinationals, like Monsanto, Chevron, and financial giants such as Barclays and Deutsche Bank, are channeled through two companies owned by Erik Prince, owner of Blackwater: Total Intelligence Solutions and Terrorism Research Center. These officers and directors share Blackwater.
One of them, Cofer Black, known for his brutality as one of the directors of the CIA, was the one who made contact with Monsanto in 2008 as director of Total Intelligence, entering into the contract with the company to spy on and infiltrate organizations of animal rights activists, anti-GM and other dirty activities of the biotech giant.
Contacted by Scahill, the Monsanto executive Kevin Wilson declined to comment, but later confirmed to The Nation that they had hired Total Intelligence in 2008 and 2009, according to Monsanto only to
keep track of “public disclosure” of its opponents. He also said that Total Intelligence was a “totally separate entity from Blackwater.”
However, Scahill has copies of emails from Cofer Black after the meeting with Wilson for Monsanto, where he explains to other former CIA agents, using their Blackwater e-mails, that the discussion with Wilson was that Total Intelligence had become “Monsanto’s intelligence arm,” spying on activists and other actions, including “our people to legally integrate these groups.” Total Intelligence Monsanto paid $ 127,000 in 2008 and $ 105,000 in 2009.
No wonder that a company engaged in the “science of death” as Monsanto, which has been dedicated from the outset to produce toxic poisons spilling from Agent Orange to PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), pesticides, hormones and genetically modified seeds, is associated with another company of thugs.
Almost simultaneously with the publication of this article in The Nation, the Via Campesina reported the purchase of 500,000 shares of Monsanto, for more than $23 million by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which with this action completed the outing of the mask of “philanthropy.” Another association that is not surprising.
It is a marriage between the two most brutal monopolies in the history of industrialism: Bill Gates controls more than 90 percent of the market share of proprietary computing and Monsanto about 90 percent of the global transgenic seed market and most global commercial seed. There does not exist in any other industrial sector monopolies so vast, whose very existence is a negation of the vaunted principle of “market competition” of capitalism. Both Gates and Monsanto are very aggressive in defending their ill-gotten monopolies.
Although Bill Gates might try to say that the Foundation is not linked to his business, all it proves is the opposite: most of their donations end up favoring the commercial investments of the tycoon, not really “donating” anything, but instead of paying taxes to the state coffers, he invests his profits in where it is favorable to him economically, including propaganda from their supposed good intentions. On the contrary, their “donations” finance projects as destructive as geoengineering or replacement of natural community medicines for high-tech patented medicines in the poorest areas of the world. What a coincidence, former Secretary of Health Julio Frenk and Ernesto Zedillo are advisers of the Foundation.
Like Monsanto, Gates is also engaged in trying to destroy rural farming worldwide, mainly through the “Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa” (AGRA). It works as a Trojan horse to deprive poor African farmers of their traditional seeds, replacing them with the seeds of their companies first, finally by genetically modified (GM). To this end, the Foundation hired Robert Horsch in 2006, the director of Monsanto. Now Gates, airing major profits, went straight to the source.
Blackwater, Monsanto and Gates are three sides of the same figure: the war machine on the planet and most people who inhabit it, are peasants, indigenous communities, people who want to shareinformation and knowledge or any other who does not want to be in the aegis of profit and the destructiveness of capitalism.
Documents reveal that Blackwater has been busy expanding its corporate reach by providing intelligence services for agencies such as the Canadian Military, Netherlands Police and corporations like Monsanto.
Blackwater is a private, mercenary army. They’ve been called the ’shadow army,’ and most notoriously worked for the United States in Iraq, where the company courted controversy. Journalist Jeremy Scahill, who wrote a book about Blackwater, wrote an exclusive for The Nation, revealing general details of the extent of the Blackwater business operations. Scahill managed to obtain documents that, according to Scahill, show
“… entities closely linked to the private security firm Blackwater have provided intelligence, training and security services to US and foreign governments as well as several multinational corporations, including Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and banking giants Deutsche Bank and Barclays, according to documents obtained by The Nation. Blackwater’s work for corporations and government agencies was contracted using two companies owned by Blackwater’s owner and founder, Erik Prince: Total Intelligence Solutions and the Terrorism Research Center (TRC). Prince is listed as the chairman of both companies in internal company documents, which show how the web of companies functions as a highly coordinated operation.”
A spokesperson for Monsanto, reached by Scahill, first denied the relationship with Blackwater, but then admitted that Monsanto had paid Total Intelligence for intelligence reoprts
“… about the activities of groups or individuals that could pose a risk to company personnel or operations around the world which were developed by monitoring local media reports and other publicly available information. The subject matter ranged from information regarding terrorist incidents in Asia or kidnappings in Central America to scanning the content of activist blogs and websites.”
The spokesperson told Scahill he was told Total Intelligence was completely separate from Blackwater. The news that Monsanto hired a Blackwater company for intelligence reports is rocketing around the world via anti-GMO activists. Blogger Rady Ananda summed up the relationship between Monsanto and Blackwater as
“… A death-tech firm weds a hit squad.”
Citing the growing movement to destroy GMO crops, Ananda thought Monsanto was hoping to be able to quell dissent through infiltrating actvist groups that take direct action. Ananda concluded his article saying
“… Monsanto, by hiring a mercenary army and former CIA field agents, is deadly serious about protecting its deadly products. Yet, this contract further discredits the company. The public can now paint an even bleaker picture of the firm that brought us Agent Orange, PCBs, rBST, DDT, aspartame and, now, hitmen.”
Writing on Above Top Secret, Airspoon commented on Monsanto’s hiring of Blackwater, saying (sic)
“The above quote is pretty scary and indicative of how corporate interests are acting against our own, though most of us already knew that. For any of the deniars who tried to refute that such tactics were used, one need only look at the plethora of information coming out about Xe and Blackwater due to the scandal in Iraq. I think that the best thing that could be done, is to boycott these companies as much as possible. Monsanto might be a little hard to boycott for some folks, though the other companies shouldn’t be. In fact, Monsanto shouldn’t be either for most folks. Blackwater (Xe) is one of the most dangerous entities facing the American people. It’s like the enforcement arm of corporate interests that does not have to operate under the same “restrictions” that
Today, President Obama announced that he will recess appoint Islam A. Siddiqui to the position of Chief Agricultural Negotiator, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
Siddiqui is a pesticide lobbyist and Vice President for Science and Regulatory Affairs at CropLife America, an agribusiness lobbying group that represents Monsanto.
Following is a letter sent by 98 organizations to U.S. Senators in opposition to Siddiqui’s appointment, and a fact sheet about him.
Dear Senator:
The following 98 organizations are writing you to express our opposition to the nomination of Islam Siddiqui as Chief Agriculture Negotiator at the office of the United States Trade Representative. Our organizations— representing family farmers, farmworkers, fishers and sustainable agriculture, environmental, consumer, anti-hunger and other advocacy groups—urge you to reject Dr. Siddiqui’s appointment when it comes up for a floor vote, despite the Senate Finance Committee’s favorable report of his nomination on December 23, 2009.
Siddiqui’s record at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and his role as a former registered lobbyist for CropLife America (whose members include Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont and Dow), has revealed him to consistently favor agribusinesses’ interests over the interests of consumers, the environment and public health (see attached fact sheet). We believe Siddiqui’s nomination severely weakens the Obama Administration’s credibility in promoting healthier and more sustainable local food systems here at home. His appointment would also send an unfortunate signal to the rest of the world that the United States plans to continue down the failed path of high-input and energy-intensive industrial agriculture by promoting toxic pesticides, inappropriate seed biotechnologies and unfair trade agreements on nations that do not want and can least afford them.
The United States urgently needs a trade negotiator who understands that current trade agreements work neither for farmers nor the world’s hungry. With farmers here and abroad struggling to respond to water scarcity and increasingly volatile growing conditions, we need a resilient and restorative model of agriculture that adapts to and mitigates climate change and that moves us towards energy-efficient farming.
The most comprehensive analysis of global agriculture to date, the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) states unequivocally that “business as usual is not an option.” We need a new, sustainable model of biodiverse, ecologically-based agriculture that regenerates soil health, sequesters carbon, feeds communities, protects farmworkers and puts profits back in the hands of family farmers and rural communities. Siddiqui’s track record shows that he favors none of these solutions.
We call on the Senate to reject Islam Siddiqui’s nomination and reorient trade policy to serve the interests of family farmers, farmworkers, consumers and the planet.
Sincerely,
[List of 98 organizations below.]
Siddiqui and CropLife: Statements and Positions
Islam Siddiqui was nominated by US President Barack Obama to the position of Chief Agricultural Negotiator at the office of the US Trade Representative. He is currently Vice President of Science and Regulatory Affairs at CropLife America. CropLife is an agricultural industry trade group that lobbies on behalf of Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta and other pesticide and agricultural biotech corporations.
Siddiqui’s statements and positions—both as a public official and as an industry executive— coupled with CropLife America’s
The bill if one looks closely, is fascist. And all the things that people were criticizing the other bills such as HR 875 for - all denied by DeLauro and FWW - turn out to be not only true but worse than the worse that was reported.
For those who want to see a bit of what Waxman will would do to this country, here are some of the provisions, which can be found at FOOD FREEDOM. http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/…
Alarming Provisions:
Some of the more alarming provisions in the bill are:
* HR 2749 would impose an annual registration fee of $500 on any “facility” that holds, processes, or manufactures food.[isn’t this every home in the US, every garden?]Although “farms” are exempt, the agency has defined “farm” narrowly. [What is the definition?]And people making foods such as lacto-fermented vegetables, cheeses, or breads would be required to register and pay the fee, which could drive beginning and small producers out of business during difficult economic times.[Yes. There are laws against this corporate-size-destroys-the-little-guy policy, aren’t there? Are home bread or cheese or lacto-fermented vegetable makers who make for their own families included in this?]
* HR 2749 would empower FDA to regulate how crops are raised and harvested. It puts the federal government right on the farm, dictating to our farmers.[What is missing in pointing out this astounding control, is that it opens the door to CODEX and WTO “good farming practices” will include the elimination of organic farming by eliminating manure, mandating GMO animal feed, imposing animal drugs, and ordering
HR 814 and S 425 provide for individual tracking of every food item (and its ingredients) from sprout or birth to bathroom.
HR 875 creates the “new agency” to be called the Food Safety Administration.
This bill also stipulates a birth to toilet tracking system. However, it does so much more:
It mandates NAIS using the Animal Health Protection Act, claiming NAIS is already an “existing law.” AHPA does not mandate any tracking during inter-state commerce, and therefore, the bill (which addresses this issue) and the assumption are wrong.
875 creates enforceable fines for non-compliance of $1000 to $1 MILLION per violation per day - and includes jail time of 5 - 10 years on the same basis. Further, these penalties are not exclusive - if they can tack on more, they will.
Farmers will be required to allow FSA officials or their representatives “On Notice” access to all places of business, and if their business computer is in their private home, they will come in there, too. No warning, no warrant. Not only this, but farmers must allow (more…)
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