TARP = FED FUNDING FOR GLOBAL CORPORATE RAIDING
Crash the markets, daddy fed says heres the $ clean up!
And they did!
Check out the assets under management for the banks before and after the GFC!
2009 was a bumper year for bank profits and for bonuses!
TARP , supposedly to save the markets, effectively just another wall street tool to plunder the unwitting globally and scoop up stressed assets at cents in the dollar.
p.s. To clearly state it, TARP was a funding lifeline, credit when no-one else could get it, even as life support, allowing the Banksters to buy up big at GFC terrorised pricing for all the asset classes in the World. It was inconceivably profitable, all Wealth for Wall Street!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
fukashima
At what stage would all the waters of the ocean be radioactive, to the point of being toxic to eat fish, crustacean or seaweed?
Friday, March 25, 2011
Powers Broken and Trojan Horses
As we said, the (NSW ALP) powers broken are just that! But it has taken some years to realise it, and, yes, they have satisfactorily jumped ship, with various wheels, mates deals and self interests leaving NSW with shocking accounts, large liabilities and infinitely corruptible development proceedures. Will Rees be that disposed Kleenex or re-emerge today to finally wipe them out? I hope so!
Meanwhile, monsanto gets its trojan horse into Australian agriculture via GM canola. Another organic farmer finds GM RR canola seeds have flooded his fields, but no its not a contaminant. Strangely, RRcanola's glyphosate addiction is a recognised contaminant with 30 year soil half life but who dare publish it? We each only get one career. Meanwhile the USDA has deregulated (allowed) GM RR alfalfa (despite its 27% less mineral nutrients), seemingly because the original non GM strains of alfalfa cannot survive the glyphosate buildup (toxicity) in most all rounded up american soils. Yes, monsanto has coraled the best part of the Americas in an emerging stranglehold, not just under the USDA, but spreading to our quarter of the globe too! Glyphosate poisoning. Woe!
Meanwhile, monsanto gets its trojan horse into Australian agriculture via GM canola. Another organic farmer finds GM RR canola seeds have flooded his fields, but no its not a contaminant. Strangely, RRcanola's glyphosate addiction is a recognised contaminant with 30 year soil half life but who dare publish it? We each only get one career. Meanwhile the USDA has deregulated (allowed) GM RR alfalfa (despite its 27% less mineral nutrients), seemingly because the original non GM strains of alfalfa cannot survive the glyphosate buildup (toxicity) in most all rounded up american soils. Yes, monsanto has coraled the best part of the Americas in an emerging stranglehold, not just under the USDA, but spreading to our quarter of the globe too! Glyphosate poisoning. Woe!
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Nature's Bounty and a Woman Scorned
Ah, isnt Nature bountiful and mysterious.
Take this latest letter from Huber, a researcher into American fields, He was so struck by the details and consequences that he has written a letter to Secretary Vilsack to share the mystery!
(Via FARFA)
One of the American nation’s senior scientists alerted their federal government to a newly discovered organism that may have the potential to cause infertility and spontaneous abortion in farm animals, raising significant concerns about human health. Dr. Don Huber, professor emeritus at Purdue University, believes the appearance and prevalence of the unnamed organism may be related to the nation’s over reliance on the weed killer known as Roundup and/or to something about the genetically engineered Roundup-Ready crops. In a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, the professor called on the federal government to immediately stop deregulation of roundup ready crops, particularly roundup ready alfalfa.
Below is the full text of the letter. FARFA received an electronic copy of the letter from Dr. Huber and they have spoken with him directly to confirm its authenticity. I am reposting that correspondence with some comments following.
January 16, 2011
Dear Secretary Vilsack:
A team of senior plant and animal scientists have recently brought to my attention the discovery of an electron microscopic pathogen that appears to significantly impact the health of plants, animals, and probably human beings. Based on a review of the data, it is widespread, very serious, and is in much higher concentrations in Roundup Ready (RR) soybeans and corn—suggesting a link with the RR gene or more likely the presence of Roundup. This organism appears NEW to science!
This is highly sensitive information that could result in a collapse of US soy and corn export markets and significant disruption of domestic food and feed supplies. On the other hand, this new organism may already be responsible for significant harm (see below). My colleagues and I are therefore moving our investigation forward with speed and discretion, and seek assistance from the USDA and other entities to identify the pathogen’s source, prevalence, implications, and remedies.
We are informing the USDA of our findings at this early stage, specifically due to your pending decision regarding approval of RR alfalfa. Naturally, if either the RR gene or Roundup itself is a promoter or co-factor of this pathogen, then such approval could be a calamity. Based on the current evidence, the only reasonable action at this time would be to delay deregulation at least until sufficient data has exonerated the RR system, if it does.
For the past 40 years, I have been a scientist in the professional and military agencies that evaluate and prepare for natural and manmade biological threats, including germ warfare and disease outbreaks. Based on this experience, I believe the threat we are facing from this pathogen is unique and of a high risk status. In layman’s terms, it should be treated as an emergency.
A diverse set of researchers working on this problem have contributed various pieces of the puzzle, which together presents the following disturbing scenario:
Unique Physical Properties
This previously unknown organism is only visible under an electron microscope (36,000X), with an approximate size range equal to a medium size virus. It is able to reproduce and appears to be a micro-fungal-like organism. If so, it would be the first such micro-fungus ever identified. There is strong evidence that this infectious agent promotes diseases of both plants and mammals, which is very rare.
Pathogen Location and Concentration
It is found in high concentrations in Roundup Ready soybean meal and corn, distillers meal, fermentation feed products, pig stomach contents, and pig and cattle placentas.
Linked with Outbreaks of Plant Disease
The organism is prolific in plants infected with two pervasive diseases that are driving down yields and farmer income—sudden death syndrome (SDS) in soy, and Goss’ wilt in corn. The pathogen is also found in the fungal causative agent of SDS (Fusarium solani fsp glycines).
Implicated in Animal Reproductive Failure
Laboratory tests have confirmed the presence of this organism in a wide variety of livestock that have experienced spontaneous abortions and infertility. Preliminary results from ongoing research have also been able to reproduce abortions in a clinical setting.
The pathogen may explain the escalating frequency of infertility and spontaneous abortions over the past few years in US cattle, dairy, swine, and horse operations. These include recent reports of infertility rates in dairy heifers of over 20%, and spontaneous abortions in cattle as high as 45%.
For example, 450 of 1,000 pregnant heifers fed wheatlege experienced spontaneous abortions. Over the same period, another 1,000 heifers from the same herd that were raised on hay had no abortions. High concentrations of the pathogen were confirmed on the wheatlege, which likely had been under weed management using glyphosate.
Recommendations
In summary, because of the high titer of this new animal pathogen in Roundup Ready crops, and its association with plant and animal diseases that are reaching epidemic proportions, we request USDA’s participation in a multi-agency investigation, and an immediate moratorium on the deregulation of RR crops until the causal/predisposing relationship with glyphosate and/or RR plants can be ruled out as a threat to crop and animal production and human health.
It is urgent to examine whether the side-effects of glyphosate use may have facilitated the growth of this pathogen, or allowed it to cause greater harm to weakened plant and animal hosts. It is well-documented that glyphosate promotes soil pathogens and is already implicated with the increase of more than 40 plant diseases; it dismantles plant defenses by chelating vital nutrients; and it reduces the bioavailability of nutrients in feed, which in turn can cause animal disorders. To properly evaluate these factors, we request access to the relevant USDA data.
I have studied plant pathogens for more than 50 years. We are now seeing an unprecedented trend of increasing plant and animal diseases and disorders. This pathogen may be instrumental to understanding and solving this problem. It deserves immediate attention with significant resources to avoid a general collapse of our critical agricultural infrastructure.
Sincerely,
COL (Ret.) Don M. Huber
Emeritus Professor, Purdue University
APS Coordinator, USDA National Plant Disease Recovery System (NPDRS)
So, Nature again has an answer to those who would tyrranise and bastardise Her. To those who would treat her as a factory mechanism, or a brutalised slave wife, look, see what emerges, 45% miscarriage rate is a pretty good response!
It would seem likely to play into CCD too?? Imagine such pathogens all over our cotton sheets, shirts and tampons! Well maybe its only the BT pesticide thats woven into our sheets, shirts and tampons! It reminds one of Deianeira and Heracles! And that quip,
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned!
Still a very significant issue to follow. Either some Wall Street flukeys are mounting a significant fear mongering front to scare investors out of Monsanto stock in droves at soon to be shocking prices or else we are likely to have enquiry after ugly enquiry, as to how all these GMO safety assessments were fabricated, sterilised and regurgitated through compliant bureaucracies at the behest of powerful peoples to infect GM on greedy eyed farmers, and the unwitting but easily dupable World.
I suspect the latter.
ps It needs be noted GMalfala was deregulated by Vilsack some ten days after recieving Huber's letter. Whether Vilsack's deregulation was in utter disregard or in malevolent one eyed defiance remains to be seen. There are rumours the complications of roundup use have long been known but that the researchers were gagged. These same researchers are now said to be retiring and speaking out (with wall street having crumpled their retirement savings). But, there are many ways to silence opposition, it seems the new world is the same as the old world in this regard. Perhaps Vilsack expects this to be gagable also. Business as usual.
To think of the wave of struggle for better rulers succeeds in Egypt and Tunisia while in America malevolent greed still rules but from behind the mask of corporatism - free trade - government, and we cant get the better of it. A most serious problem.
Take this latest letter from Huber, a researcher into American fields, He was so struck by the details and consequences that he has written a letter to Secretary Vilsack to share the mystery!
(Via FARFA)
One of the American nation’s senior scientists alerted their federal government to a newly discovered organism that may have the potential to cause infertility and spontaneous abortion in farm animals, raising significant concerns about human health. Dr. Don Huber, professor emeritus at Purdue University, believes the appearance and prevalence of the unnamed organism may be related to the nation’s over reliance on the weed killer known as Roundup and/or to something about the genetically engineered Roundup-Ready crops. In a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, the professor called on the federal government to immediately stop deregulation of roundup ready crops, particularly roundup ready alfalfa.
Below is the full text of the letter. FARFA received an electronic copy of the letter from Dr. Huber and they have spoken with him directly to confirm its authenticity. I am reposting that correspondence with some comments following.
January 16, 2011
Dear Secretary Vilsack:
A team of senior plant and animal scientists have recently brought to my attention the discovery of an electron microscopic pathogen that appears to significantly impact the health of plants, animals, and probably human beings. Based on a review of the data, it is widespread, very serious, and is in much higher concentrations in Roundup Ready (RR) soybeans and corn—suggesting a link with the RR gene or more likely the presence of Roundup. This organism appears NEW to science!
This is highly sensitive information that could result in a collapse of US soy and corn export markets and significant disruption of domestic food and feed supplies. On the other hand, this new organism may already be responsible for significant harm (see below). My colleagues and I are therefore moving our investigation forward with speed and discretion, and seek assistance from the USDA and other entities to identify the pathogen’s source, prevalence, implications, and remedies.
We are informing the USDA of our findings at this early stage, specifically due to your pending decision regarding approval of RR alfalfa. Naturally, if either the RR gene or Roundup itself is a promoter or co-factor of this pathogen, then such approval could be a calamity. Based on the current evidence, the only reasonable action at this time would be to delay deregulation at least until sufficient data has exonerated the RR system, if it does.
For the past 40 years, I have been a scientist in the professional and military agencies that evaluate and prepare for natural and manmade biological threats, including germ warfare and disease outbreaks. Based on this experience, I believe the threat we are facing from this pathogen is unique and of a high risk status. In layman’s terms, it should be treated as an emergency.
A diverse set of researchers working on this problem have contributed various pieces of the puzzle, which together presents the following disturbing scenario:
Unique Physical Properties
This previously unknown organism is only visible under an electron microscope (36,000X), with an approximate size range equal to a medium size virus. It is able to reproduce and appears to be a micro-fungal-like organism. If so, it would be the first such micro-fungus ever identified. There is strong evidence that this infectious agent promotes diseases of both plants and mammals, which is very rare.
Pathogen Location and Concentration
It is found in high concentrations in Roundup Ready soybean meal and corn, distillers meal, fermentation feed products, pig stomach contents, and pig and cattle placentas.
Linked with Outbreaks of Plant Disease
The organism is prolific in plants infected with two pervasive diseases that are driving down yields and farmer income—sudden death syndrome (SDS) in soy, and Goss’ wilt in corn. The pathogen is also found in the fungal causative agent of SDS (Fusarium solani fsp glycines).
Implicated in Animal Reproductive Failure
Laboratory tests have confirmed the presence of this organism in a wide variety of livestock that have experienced spontaneous abortions and infertility. Preliminary results from ongoing research have also been able to reproduce abortions in a clinical setting.
The pathogen may explain the escalating frequency of infertility and spontaneous abortions over the past few years in US cattle, dairy, swine, and horse operations. These include recent reports of infertility rates in dairy heifers of over 20%, and spontaneous abortions in cattle as high as 45%.
For example, 450 of 1,000 pregnant heifers fed wheatlege experienced spontaneous abortions. Over the same period, another 1,000 heifers from the same herd that were raised on hay had no abortions. High concentrations of the pathogen were confirmed on the wheatlege, which likely had been under weed management using glyphosate.
Recommendations
In summary, because of the high titer of this new animal pathogen in Roundup Ready crops, and its association with plant and animal diseases that are reaching epidemic proportions, we request USDA’s participation in a multi-agency investigation, and an immediate moratorium on the deregulation of RR crops until the causal/predisposing relationship with glyphosate and/or RR plants can be ruled out as a threat to crop and animal production and human health.
It is urgent to examine whether the side-effects of glyphosate use may have facilitated the growth of this pathogen, or allowed it to cause greater harm to weakened plant and animal hosts. It is well-documented that glyphosate promotes soil pathogens and is already implicated with the increase of more than 40 plant diseases; it dismantles plant defenses by chelating vital nutrients; and it reduces the bioavailability of nutrients in feed, which in turn can cause animal disorders. To properly evaluate these factors, we request access to the relevant USDA data.
I have studied plant pathogens for more than 50 years. We are now seeing an unprecedented trend of increasing plant and animal diseases and disorders. This pathogen may be instrumental to understanding and solving this problem. It deserves immediate attention with significant resources to avoid a general collapse of our critical agricultural infrastructure.
Sincerely,
COL (Ret.) Don M. Huber
Emeritus Professor, Purdue University
APS Coordinator, USDA National Plant Disease Recovery System (NPDRS)
So, Nature again has an answer to those who would tyrranise and bastardise Her. To those who would treat her as a factory mechanism, or a brutalised slave wife, look, see what emerges, 45% miscarriage rate is a pretty good response!
It would seem likely to play into CCD too?? Imagine such pathogens all over our cotton sheets, shirts and tampons! Well maybe its only the BT pesticide thats woven into our sheets, shirts and tampons! It reminds one of Deianeira and Heracles! And that quip,
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned!
Still a very significant issue to follow. Either some Wall Street flukeys are mounting a significant fear mongering front to scare investors out of Monsanto stock in droves at soon to be shocking prices or else we are likely to have enquiry after ugly enquiry, as to how all these GMO safety assessments were fabricated, sterilised and regurgitated through compliant bureaucracies at the behest of powerful peoples to infect GM on greedy eyed farmers, and the unwitting but easily dupable World.
I suspect the latter.
ps It needs be noted GMalfala was deregulated by Vilsack some ten days after recieving Huber's letter. Whether Vilsack's deregulation was in utter disregard or in malevolent one eyed defiance remains to be seen. There are rumours the complications of roundup use have long been known but that the researchers were gagged. These same researchers are now said to be retiring and speaking out (with wall street having crumpled their retirement savings). But, there are many ways to silence opposition, it seems the new world is the same as the old world in this regard. Perhaps Vilsack expects this to be gagable also. Business as usual.
To think of the wave of struggle for better rulers succeeds in Egypt and Tunisia while in America malevolent greed still rules but from behind the mask of corporatism - free trade - government, and we cant get the better of it. A most serious problem.
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