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Joseph P. Farrell Giza | Death Star<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
I\u2019ve been having difficulty during this Ukrainian war situation trying to remain objective. Frankly, I hate what the West is doing to, and through, the Ukraine, and I\u2019m sickened at the degree of the corruption of the Ukrainian puppet governments. Really\u2026 there\u2019s no other way to qualify the post-Maidan governments other than as puppets. We do not need to re-rehearse here what has transpired already regarding the biolabs, what they were doing, the Azov battalions, and so on.<\/p>\n
But one of the things lurking in the background of this unnecessary war \u2013 unnecessary because the west is ultimately responsible for bringing it about \u2013 is the issue of agriculture and GMOs, genetically modified organisms or food crops.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been pointing out for some time that the policies of the Ukraine and of\u00a0 the Russian Federation are diametrically opposed on the issue, the Ukraine in favor of GMOs, and willing to allow the planting of GMO crops and willing to allow special corporate \u201cprivileges\u201d for GMO companies like Mon(ster)santo, now owned by the German chemicals giant Bayer, and Russia, which has basically put a moratorium on GMOs until genuine inter-generational testing can be done. One has only to do a search on this website for my many blogs about the subject.\u00a0 Indeed,\u00a0many<\/em>\u00a0years ago on the late George Ann Hughes\u2019\u00a0Byte Show<\/em>, I mentioned the special privileges that the Ukrainian government had extended to Mon(ster)santo and other GMO corporations, including special port privileges along the Black Sea, including the recently hotly contested port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov.<\/p>\n To put the point succinctly,\u00a0one <\/em>of the many agendas driving this war is the issue of GMOs, and finally, someone else is taking notice according to this article shared by V.T.:<\/p>\n THE FIGHT OVER LAND AND GENETICALLY ENGINEERED AGRICULTURE<\/a><\/p>\n The article pulls no punches and states this thesis with a much-needed clarity and concision. Referring to the reversal of a moratorium on farmland sales in the Ukraine, the article notes that a similar phenomenon is driving the consolidation of farmland into fewer and fewer private hands as is occurring in this country, and then it mentioned the culprit behind the scenes:<\/p>\n An earlier administration in Ukraine had instituted the moratorium in order to halt further privatization of The Commons and small farms, which were being bought up by oligarchs and concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. As documented in a series of critical reports over ten years by the\u00a0Oakland Institute<\/em>\u00a0based in California*,*\u00a0the moratorium on land sales in Ukraine aimed to prevent the acquisition and consolidation of farmland in the hands of the domestic oligarch class and foreign corporations.<\/p>\n The marketization of farmland is part of a series of policy \u201creforms\u201d that the International Monetary Fund stipulated as a precondition enabling Ukraine to receive $8 billion in loans from the IMF.<\/p>\n Even amid the pandemic there has been \u201cwide-ranging opposition from the Ukrainian public to reversing that ban, with over 64 percent of the people opposed to the creation of a land market, according to an April 2021 poll.\u201d<\/p>\n Additionally, the IMF loan conditions required that Ukraine must also reverse its ban on genetically engineered crops, and enable private corporations like Monsanto to plant its GMO seeds and spray the fields with Monsanto\u2019s Roundup. In that way, Monsanto hopes to break the boycott by a number of countries in Europe of its genetically engineered corn and soy. It is the thesis of this essay that agricultural competition over land use between the U.S. and Russia\u2014two gigantic capitalist countries with the most powerful nuclear arsenals in the world \u00a0 \u2014is a neglected but important force driving the war in Ukraine. \u00a0(Emphasis added)<\/em><\/p>\n The article then mentioned the concern behind GMOs, and incidentally, in so doing, reprises the statements of the Russian government in rejecting GMOs until genuine long-term intergenerational and impact studies can be done:<\/p>\n U.S. Agriculture relies on two main inputs: Migrant Farm Labor and the monocropping of genetically engineered corn, soy, and other crops designed to tolerate-and thus be saturated with Monsanto\u2019s cancer-causing herbicide roundup.\u00a0 The government\u2019s regulatory process is broken, if it ever worked properly at all: Corporations such as Monsanto, Bayer, Dow, Dupont, Syngenta, Novartis, BASF and other pesticide and pharmaceutical manufactureres are allowed to mask the truth about the dangers of their products.<\/p>\n They are facilitated in this by the complicity of federal (and global) regulatory agencies, allowing them to intentionally thwart the precautionary principle where the introduction of a new product or process whose ultimate effects are disputed or unknown, that product or process should be rejected.\u00a0 We need to support the developement of international movement opposing the subservience of government agencies to the giant corporations.<\/p>\n Six years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to seize economic opportunities around the growing of food by opposing genetically engineered agriculture and Monsanto\u2019s Roundup, the world\u2019s most widely used herbicide; he initiated a program to eliminate pesticides and genetically engineered crops from Russia\u2019s fields. The goal was to out-compete the U.S. and Canada as the world\u2019s number one and two grain exporters by going organic, which mattered especially in Europe with its stricter laws regarding the import and planting of GMOs.<\/p>\n Monsanto had planned to open its first plant in Russia, but in June 2016 Russia\u2019s State Duma adopted a government bill banning the cultivation and breeding of genetically modified plants and animals, except as used for scientific research purposes. A few weeks later, Putin signed federal law No. 358 prohibiting cultivation of genetically engineered crops. The law also made it illegal to breed genetically engineered animals on the territory of the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n Putin had said he envisioned a future in which Russia would become \u201cthe worlds largest supplier of ecologically clean and high-quality organic food.\u201d\u00a0 He called on the country to become completely self-sufficient in food production: \u201cWe are not only able to feed ourselves taking into account our lands, water resources; Russia is able to become the largest world supplier of healthful, ecologically clean and high-quality food which the Western producers have long lost, especially given the fact that demand for such products in the world market is steadily growing\u201d.<\/p>\n To put all this more succinctly, if I had my choice, walking into my local supermarket to purchase vegetables, between produce and grain grown in Russia and that grown here, I\u2019d easily pick that grown in Russia. And to his credit, Mr. Putin recognized the essential need for \u201cecologically clean and high-quality food which the Western producers have long lost\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n The only problem with Mr. Putin\u2019s remarks is that they were far too kind. Ecologically clean and high-quality food was not \u201clost\u201d in the West; it was deliberately\u00a0killed<\/em>\u00a0by a corrupt corporatacracy, by big Agribusiness or, as we call it here on this website, \u201cI.G. Farbensanto\u201d, and an equally corrupt and corporately-penetrated Federal bureaucracy, by legal fictions and pseudo-scientific nonsense like the doctrine of \u201csubstantial equivalence,\u201d a magical doctrine that simultaneously allowed corporations like Mon(ster)santo to bring their GMO seeds and products to market with a minimum of testing, by the argument (for example) that GMO corn looked and tasted like ordinary corn and was therefore \u201csubstantially equivalent\u201d and need not therefore go through a laborious testing process, while at the same time allowing them to\u00a0patent<\/em>\u00a0their products, sue farmers whose fields were infested with their products (through no fault of the farmer), and so on. You\u2019ll notice the parallel with the actions of Big Pharma during the covid planscamdemic. Indeed, in many cases the corporation names are the same, as the article notes.<\/p>\n For the Russians and their government, this is\u00a0the<\/em>\u00a0issue with GMOs, their long term effects are unknown, and they \u2013 wisely adopting the Precautionary Principle \u2013 refused to put their population at risk just for the sake of increasing profits:<\/p>\n The 2016 laws were designed to implement Putin\u2019s earlier proposals \u201cto protect the Russian market and consumers from GMO products, as their use could have unforeseen consequences.\u201d\u00a0 As reported in\u00a0Farmers Weekly in June 2015,\u00a0Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich announced that Russia would not use GM technology to increase productivity in agriculture. \u201cRussia has chosen a different path. We will not use these technologies,\u201d Dvorkovich said. <\/em><\/p>\n As a result of this decision, Russian products will be \u201csome of the cleanest in the world in terms of technology use,\u201d Dvorkovich continued. A bill for a full ban on the cultivation of GM crops is currently making its way through the Duma.<\/p>\n Farmers Weekly<\/em> continues: \u201cRussian Agriculture Minister Nikolai Fyodorov also believes Russia must remain a GM-free country.\u00a0 At a meeting of deputies representing rural areas organized by United Russia, he said the government will not \u2018poison their citizens.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>United Russia is Russia\u2019s largest politcal party, holding 2\/3 of the seats in the state Dumas.\u00a0 (Emphasis added)<\/p>\n Just the opposite happened in the Ukraine, as it became captive to the almighty dollar, and the corruption that comes with it:<\/p>\n This was a far differet response than provided by the government of Ukraine.\u00a0 Despite large protests against GMOS and the foreign corporate land grab, and despite the fact the Ukrainian law had prohibited private sector farmland ownership, Ukraine\u2019s government negotiated a multi-billion dollar loan from the International monetary Fund that stipulated a removal of the blocks to GMO production that was \u201cTransforming millions of pristine acres into [a] poisoned wasteland. Eco-genocide for profit.\u00a0 Monsanto\u2019s dirty hands are hugely involved.\u201d<\/p>\n Ukraine\u2019s agricultural success is crucial for its economy and ability to reduce its economy and ability to reduce its dependence on Russia, The New York Times explained in May 2014.\u00a0 The Times continued:<\/p>\n \u201c\u201dWestern interests are pressing for change\u2026 As part of (an IMF loan agreement), the country\u2019s government must push through business reforms that \u201clet agribusiness and other corporate sectors operate freely.<\/p>\n In a recent article for\u00a0The Real Agenda News,\u00a0<\/em>Luis R. Miranda takes it a step further: \u201cBig multinationals want to exploit Ukraine\u2019s potential. Especially Europe\u2019s richest farmland.\u201d In retaliation for Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis back in August 2014, Russia extended its list of countries that it would subject to a food import ban. Far from the sanctions hurting Russia\u2019s economy as Monsanto and other pesticide-producing corporations expected (and hoped). Over the decade Russia succeeded in its plan to become the world\u2019s number one exporter of wheat and other grains. Putin claimed that Russia\u2019s success in that regard was due in part to the preference of much of the world for non-GMO food.<\/p>\n The article continues by noting that GMOs have become a weapon in the USSA\u2019s arsenal and that GMO production has been imposed on nations as a result of US \u201cpolice actions,\u201d and summarizes the long battle of Mon(ster)santo to penetrate the Russian market in spite of the positions of Mr. Putin\u2019s government.<\/p>\n When one turns to the Ukraine and the recent war, the financial motivations \u2013 billions of dollars for IG Farbensanto are at stake \u2013 become clearer:<\/p>\n \u201cThe World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) is [sic] helping biotech run the latest war in Ukraine,\u201d writes Christina Sarich in Natural Society. \u201cMake no mistake that what is happening in the Ukraine now is deeply tied to the interests of Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, and other big players in the poison food game.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Exposed by the California-based\u00a0Oakland Institute<\/em>\u00a0in 2014, the World Bank and IMF provided a loan of $17 billion to Ukraine.<\/p>\n Hidden from mainstream media exposure in the U.S., the World Bank and IMF loan \u201chas opened up Ukraine to major corporate inroads,\u201d writes Joyce Nelson in\u00a0The Ecologist<\/em>.\u00a0\u201cLoan conditions are forcing the deeply indebted country to open up to GMO crops, and lift the ban on private sector land ownership. U.S. corporations are jubilant at the \u2018goldmine\u2019 that awaits them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n It is worth reading more from this 2014 report in\u00a0*The Ecologist\u2014*years before Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022. The information provided is shocking\u2014and unreported here in the U.S.\u00a0While some in the U.S. understand that the 2014 political battles in Ukraine were over the expansion of NATO and control over energy pipelines to Europe, there was, and still is, an equally large but hidden global battle over GM grains, land ownership and usage, and \u201cfood pipelines.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>(Emphases added)<\/p>\n One does not need to go much farther than this to understand the GMO component of the current war; at stake is a basic and fundamental vision of our world, and our food. It was Ludwig Feuerbach, I believe, who made the observation that man is what he eats, and for IG Farbensanto, man is a rough ashlar of DNA \u2013 a\u00a0massa damnata<\/em>\u00a0of \u201craw\u201d genetic material \u2013 to be genetically engineered and whipped into better shape, and one way to do so is through genetic manipulations of the food supply. So today\u2019s high octane speculation comes in the form of a warning: let us not forget that the monsters like the Baal Gateses at IG Farbensanto have also proposed putting their quackcines into GMOs, i.e., making GMO foods include their injections.\u00a0 Let us also not forget that the USSA and the Ukraine were caught red-handed doing bio-research in the biolabs concentrating on Slavic peoples, and there is no other way to interpret this than as a form of biowarfare research. So couple it all together: biolabs, biowarfare research, GMOs, quackcines and you end up with quite a few reasons for concern\u2026<\/p>\n \u2026 and the Ukraine is once again the test bed for all this corruption, and the USSA is the source of it.<\/p>\n See you on the flip side\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Posted in\u00a0GMO Scrapbook<\/a><\/p>\n For a deeper dive\u2026.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n IG Farben Cabal companies<\/a> (off shoots) that are creating GMO Foods and pesticides.<\/p>\n IG Farben: Pharmaceutical Conglomerate (1916 to 2015)<\/a><\/p>\n