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February 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The Obama is now blocking a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by
an environmental group, Public Employees for Environment Responsibility
(PEER), which is attempting to uncover Obama’s connections to Monsanto-linked lobbyists. ~ Madison Ruppert
Keep in mind, Monsanto’s products have been linked to some horrific effects on biological systems like the human body, not the least of which is creating necrosis and significant mutations in critical cell types.
Also quite noteworthy is the fact that Monsanto was actually recently found guilty of chemical poisoning in the case of a French farmer.
The group suspects the Obama White House
of working with these lobbyists to defend genetically engineered (GE)
crops and the attempts to get these GE crops planted in wildlife
refuges across the United States.
Part of the information which is currently being
withheld by the Obama administration is part of an email from January
2011 from a lobbyist to a top White House policy analyst.
This lobbyist was with the Biotechnology
Industry Organization, or BIO, which regularly represents the
interests of companies specializing in GE seeds like Syngenta and the
infamous multinational giant Monsanto.
The White House claims that they had to block portions of the email because it contained information on BIO’s lobbying strategy.
They claimed that if this strategy was released, it could cause damage
to the group’s competitiveness and those of the companies it
represents.
“We suspect the reason an industry lobbyist so cavalierly shared
strategy is that the White House is part of that strategy,” said Kathryn
Douglass, the staff counsel for PEER.
Douglass is arguing that the email should be public record, adding, “The White House’s legal posture is as credible as claiming Coca Cola’s secret formula was ‘inadvertently’ left in a duffel bag at the bus station.”
PEER has been doing phenomenal work exposing the connections between
our government and BIO lobbyists, including the release of internal
emails last July.
The email release revealed
that Peter Schmeissner, a senior science policy analyst and member of
the biotechnology working group at the White House, actually had been
corresponding with a BIO lobbyist about one of PEER’s legal challenges.
The lawsuit, filed by PEER and their allied groups, was quite successful in that it halted the planting of GE crops within the wildlife refuges across northeastern states.
PEER has obviously not given up and they continue to fight the planned plantings of GE crops across the nation.
In some of the emails obtained by PEER
from 2010, it was found that Adrianne Massey, a biotechnology lobbyist
for quite a while, asked Schmeissner if the “interagency working
group” is addressing the legal challenges put forth by PEER.
In addition, Massey forwarded some of the environmental assessments of
the proposed GE crop plots at other wildlife refuges across the United
States. These assessments could supposedly protect GE crop plots in
wildlife refuges from further legal challenges in the future.
The emails obtained by PEER
spurred them to seek out information on the “interagency working group”
referred to by Massey which is known as the White House Agricultural
and Biotechnology Working Group via FOIA request.
The group boasts high-level officials from most of the Obama
administration’s agencies that deal with agriculture and trade, even
the State Department, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to PEER.
These discoveries have led PEER to file a lawsuit against the White
House in an attempt to get the information which was withheld from their
FOIA requests.
This would include not only the Massey email in question but the White
House Agricultural and Biotechnology Working Group’s schedule, the items
on their agenda and their work related to GE crops in general.
An attorney for BIO filed an affidavit which claims that the withheld
portions of Massey’s email contain “mistakenly” forwarded trade
secrets.
“BIO operates in an advocacy environment in which there are many
organizations that oppose the use of biotechnology, particularly in the
agricultural arena, and that seek to persuade federal, state and local
agencies to restrict the technology’s use.
If this information were
released, competitors could imitate or seek to counteract BIO’s
strategy and further their own contrary agendas at the expense of BIO
and its members,” the attorney wrote.
The White House is also claiming that they withheld the information
according to current disclosure law, but PEER isn’t buying it, and
likely rightly so.
Jeff Ruch, PEER’s Director told Truth-Out that he believes that the withheld Massey email actually has the details of a concerted effort being made by BIO lobbyists to have
the White House help make sure that the environmental assessments of
the GE crops on wildlife refuges are so strong that they cannot be
challenged on a legal basis in the future.
This is because groups like PEER regularly challenge the legally
required environmental assessments in order to hold up projects like
planting GE crops on wildlife refuges in court.
Deborah Rocque, an official with the United States Fish and Wildlife
Services (FWS), claimed last year that the FWS had actually been
allowing farming on refuges for years.
Rocque /1307539754″ rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank”claims this is
part of habitat restoration efforts and that the planting of
herbicide-resistant GE crops would actually allow conservationists to
grow ground cover while still killing unwanted weeds with herbicidal
products.
However, even classifying these types of crops as “herbicide-resistant”
is misleading, because in the case of “Roundup Ready” crops produced
by Monsanto the crops actually still absorb all of the incredibly
harmful Roundup but instead of dying, these crops are genetically
engineered to be able to survive the herbicide.
This means that if these products are moved into the food supply, there
are trace amounts of Roundup which actually make it to the dinner
table.
The mere presence of herbicides in the environment is something that
any true conservationist would avoid like the plague, so Rocque’s
statement is laughably nonsensical.
PEER seems to realize the ulterior motive behind the effort to plant GE
crops on wildlife refuges, which they see as an attempt by the Obama
administration to boost exports of the crops.
While European countries remain relatively skeptical about the safety
of genetically modified (GM) foods and some other countries have
actually banned certain seeds, the United States government shares none
of these concerns.
PEER says that the White House and its working group is trying to give
trade partners the impression that the United States government thinks
GE crops are so environmentally safe that they can even be planted on
wildlife reserves.
Such
a vote of confidence could increase the willingness of trade partners
to import the GE crops, which have quite a long list of potential
hazards associated with their use.
Truth-Out has been doing one of the best jobs of keeping track of the United States’ efforts to pressure foreign nations into accepting exports and GE crops, including countries like France and Spain.
Through the release of some WikiLeaks cables, it was found that
essentially United States diplomats were working for companies like
Monsanto by going around the world promoting their GE products.
The first legal challenge relating to the planting of GE crops on
wildlife reserves came after PEER was contacted by biologists with the
FWS who were opposed to the planting of GE crops on said reserves.
Later, PEER actually received an internal email which they believe
shows that Tom Vilsack, Secretary of the USDA, actually was pressuring
FWS to support GE crops.
In the email,
dated January 14, 2011, David Hayes, the Interior Department Deputy
Secretary, relayed to some of the top Interior Department and FWS
officials that, “Apparently Vilsack is somewhat exercised that the
Administration is not being consistent in supporting genetically
modified crops.”
Of course when asked about this high-level pressure, Rocque claimed
that she was completely unaware of any internal pressure coming from the
upper levels of the Obama administration.
This is just more of the “I do not recall” plausible deniability nonsense.
Hopefully PEER’s legal challenges will be treated in a just manner and
we will be able to get an accurate glimpse in the world of corporatism
which is so egregiously damaging our nation.
The case of Monsanto and the American diplomats promotion of their
products is just about the most perfect example of how corrupt our
so-called government has really become.
Madison Ruppert – February 22, 2012 – posted at ActivistPost
Source – EndtheLie
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and has no affiliation with any NGO, political party, economic school,
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