Insurance Policy Against Zika?
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You know the drill:
1. “New Threat Identified!” Be Afraid!
2. “Deadly Danger (sic) Conquered With New Vaccine!” Be Relieved!
3. “Not Enough to Go Around!” Be Afraid!
4. “WAIT! YOU Can’t Have ANY!” Be Very Afraid!
5. “WHEW! With toxic adjuvants we’ve Got Enough Now! ”
“Everybody Line Up!” Be compliant!
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You’d think they’d be embarrassed using the same Game Plan over and over.
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Apparently not.
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Swine Flu – Avian Flu – Swine Flu2 – Zika…. Over and over.
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What’s changed is that we are wise to their game.
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Look, you and I know that Zika is not a threat to mothers, babies, you, me or the Easter Bunny. Their new RUSHED TO MARKET SAVE US ALL FROM ZIKA, ESPECIALLY THE BABIES, “SAVE THE BABIES!!!” Vaccines are dangerous bunkum!
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It’s the vaccines that are the HUGE threat. Especially to the babies!
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June 25, 2010
URGENT KIWANIS ALERT! IF YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE KIWANIS SERVICE ORGANIZATION, http://sites.kiwanis.org/kiwanis/en/home.aspx, YOU MUST TAKE ACTION TO STOP YOUR ORGANIZATION FROM COLLABORATING WITH UNICEF IN “PREVENTING MATERNAL AND INFANT TETANUS”. THIS VACCINE IS THE ONE PIONEERED AND USED AROUND THE WORLD BY WHO TO CREATE PERMANENT INFERTILITY IN WOMEN AND GIRLS. PLEASE CONTACT THE KIWANIS ORGANIZATION AND ALERT THEM TO THIS USE OF VACCINATION. DEMAND THAT THEY SET UP CONTROLS TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE ARE NOT DEPOPULATION VACCINATIONS IF THEY ARE DETERMINED TO AID AND ABET A DANGEROUS ACTIVITY USED TO WEAKEN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/192937.php
Note: the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, VAERS, reports 333451 adverse events associated with vaccines. This number is generally acknowledged to represent between 1 and 10% of all adverse events. ttp://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php
See also:
http://www.akha.org/content/medicaldocuments/tetanustoxoidcanadalabs.html
http://www.generationcedar.com/main/2009/07/population-control-through-tetanus-vaccine.html
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Consider:
POLIO VICTIMS, SIERRA LEONE
CROWD AWAITING POLIO VACCINATION
Stanley Kops….has produced proof positive that the oral polio vaccine has always been contaminated with SV-40, a monkey virus which has been linked by the FDA and other organizations with cancers such as mesothelioma and meduloblastoma. Since 1963, we have been assured that polio vaccines have not contained this deadly contaminant. Stanley Kops shows that not only is this not the case, but that the vaccine regulators who are charged with keeping our families safe, have known all along that SV-40 was never removed from vaccines.
http://www.whale.to/a/sv40a.html
From the CDC: “Inevitable gaps in [Polio] vaccination coverage will give rise to cVDPVs [that is, polio cases caused by the vaccine itself – REL] as long as OPV [Oral Polio Vaccine] use continues”
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5540a3.htm
Polio outbreaks continue to be associated with circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPVs) in areas with low oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) coverage [Emphasis added-REL]. In addition, long-term excretion of neurovirulent immunodeficiency-associated vaccine-derived polioviruses (iVDPVs) can lead to poliovirus spread to contacts. Overcoming these obstacles is challenging. High rates of OPV coverage will prevent all poliovirus spread, including spread of VDPVs, but will not prevent establishment of prolonged VDPV infections in certain persons with B-cell immunodeficiencies (i.e., having defects in antibody production). Inevitable gaps in vaccination coverage will give rise to cVDPVs as long as OPV use continues.
and then consider that Elswood and Stricker, avid proponents of vaccination, presented evidence in 1994 that HIV was disseminated in polio vaccination by WHO in Africa. This evidence has never been refuted.
http://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/dissent/documents/AIDS/Elswood94.html
First, Blame the Victims!
If you read the article below, from the respected Science Daily, you will note that the vaccine establishment acknowledges that the cause of polio is, in many cases, the virus in the vaccine which was supposed to be so attenuated that it could not cause any disease. But the real reason, they assert, is that the people who get polio from the vaccines (mostly children under 5 years of age.
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Polio is the classic case of “Problem, Solutions, Reaction” favored by those who drive systems, in this case, our nations and our freedom, into chaos to control and destroy them. Take an environmental toxicity which co-factors with a virus, create a vaccine which spreads the disease, vaccinate widely, cause ‘epidemics’ of small numbers of cases, scare the wits out of parents and community decision makers with false information, deny for decades that the vaccine CAUSES the disease it is supposed to prevent and then, when the market is flagging because it is clear that the vaccination program has not worked, BLAME THE VACCINE FOR SPREADING THE DISEASE IN PEOPLE WITH VULNERABLE IMMUNE SYSTEMS AND THEN CONVINCE PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY DOCTORS, WHO ARE, IN FACT, THE MOST GULLIBLE OF PEOPLE, THAT THE CURE FOR VACCINE-DISSEMINATED POLIO IS TO VACCINATE MORE PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY KIDS!
Oh, wait! While you are doing that, make sure that the vaccine that spreads polio, in this case, ALSO causes another, deferred, more serious disease, in this case ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA! And perhaps just a bit of HIV thrown in for good measure? Sure. People with HIV, in addition to dying, also get lots and lots of cancer!
THE HOUSE THAT CANCER BUILT
Cancer is the most wildly financially productive disease ever encountered by humans. The 2008 cost of cancer in the US, according to the American Cancer Society, funded by Big Pharma itself, was a walloping $228.1 Billion. How many of those dollars were expended on children with vaccine induced cancer? And what is the non-fiscal cost of a child’s life? I do not know how to do that mathematical computation. And the vaccine industry does not care to do it.
Please visit http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=5706 to learn more about how this works. Then please come back to this article, keep reading and take action!
Polio vaccination is as great a scam as any other vaccination: there is no scientific evidence -none!- that vaccines work to prevent, mitigate or cure any disease. There is vast evidence that they work to weaken the nervous systems and that they intentionally, yes, intentionally, spread diseases which are vast profit sources and shorten lives and eliminate fertility.
We know, from the personal admission of Maurice Hilleman, PhD, or Merck Pharmaceuticals, that the polio vaccine’s leukemia virus contamination has been known for decades while the vaccine was administered to children around the world. I know of nothing to suggest that current polio AND OTHER vaccines are not contaminated with deadly viruses in addition to seriously toxic constituents like mercury and aluminum, Tween 80, human DNA, animal DNA, viruses, formaldehyde, etc. In fact, there is a great deal to document that they are. http://www.thinktwice.com/multiple.htm
And there is also a good deal to document that it is vaccination itself, not just polio vaccination, that causes diseases for which the vaccine allegedly protects the vaccination victim. [Alexa Traffic Rank for http://drrimatruthreports.com/docs/Syringe_of_death.pdf: 149579] http://drrimatruthreports.com/docs/Syringe_of_death.pdf, etc., etc.! http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3198.
So read the article below and then share it with everyone you know. Ask them to take the action steps here and, just in case you have not already taken these steps, once for every member of your family, please take a few moments to do so now. Riding the freedom mouse can save your life and your freedom, all in the same swift, easy action step!
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Now, your activism. First take action below for every member of your family and then forward this email to your entire contact list, asking that they do the same:
1. Call for Congressional Hearing on Autism and Other Environmental Illness: Autism and other environmentally caused diseases, including asthma, MS, at least 85% of all cancers (and much more in children), emphysema, etc., are preventable. Preventable, that is, if Congress takes the bull by the horns, carries out the studies and hearing and then passes legislation to protect the population. Click here, , to demand exactly those actions from the Congress that We, the People, elected and which works for US, the most potent special interest group in existence, 310,000 strong! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3688
2. Stop the Food Fascism Bill, S. 510, which masquerades under the title of the “Food Safety” Bill. It makes food profits safe for the multinationals like Monsanto, and guarantees that your food will be contaminated and controlled by those multinationals, not local farmers, including organic farmers. FDA says we do not have the right to decide what we want to eat. Show them they are wrong!
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3. End GMO Contamination of Your Food, Your Body, Your Planet. FDA FORBIDS GMO LABELING so you have no idea how much of your food supply is contaminated. Worse yet, GMOs are contagious! The foreign DNA spreads within and between species and the contamination cannot be reversed by any technique we have now short of burning the contaminated material. NO significant safety testing is carried our, or permitted, by government agencies. Ban GMOs and set up a commission to find out how much damage has been done and develop new ways to fix the problem before there IS no fix!
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Polio Research Gives New Insight Into Tackling Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus
ScienceDaily (June 24, 2010) — A vaccine-derived strain of poliovirus that has spread in recent years is serious but it can be tackled with an existing vaccine, according to a new study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Vaccine-derived polioviruses can emerge on rare occasions in under-immunized populations, when the attenuated virus contained in a vaccine mutates and recombines with other viruses, to create a circulating vaccine-derived strain.
The researchers behind today’s study say their findings highlight the importance of completing polio eradication. They also say that should wild-type poliovirus be eradicated, routine vaccination with oral polio vaccines will need to cease, in order to prevent further vaccine-derived strains of the virus from emerging.
The study was carried out by researchers from the Medical Research Council Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling at Imperial College London, working with the Government of Nigeria and the World Health Organization (WHO) research teams.
Poliovirus is highly infectious and primarily affects children under five years of age. Around one in 200 of the people infected with polio develop permanent paralysis, which can be fatal.
Polio was virtually wiped out by the early 2000s following a major vaccination drive by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, but since then the number of cases of paralysis reported has plateaued, remaining roughly constant at between one and two thousand each year from 2003 to 2009, dropping only recently in 2010.
The first reported polio outbreak resulting from a circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus, known as a cVDPV, occurred in Hispaniola in 2000. Prior to today’s study, there was little evidence available about the severity and potential impact of this kind of poliovirus.
Although billions of doses of oral vaccine have been distributed in the last decade, just 14 cVDPV outbreaks have been reported, affecting 15 countries. These outbreaks have usually been limited in size.
For the new study, researchers looked at the largest recorded outbreak of a cVDPV to date, which began to circulate in Nigeria in 2005. The authors examined data from 278 children paralyzed by this cVDPV, and compared them with children paralysed by wild-type poliovirus in the country. Their analysis showed that this serotype 2 cVDPV is as easily transmitted and likely to cause severe disease as wild-type poliovirus of the same serotype.
The study also shows that vaccination with trivalent OPV, one of the main types of vaccine currently used to combat polio, is highly effective in preventing paralysis by this serotype 2 cVDPV.
The research shows that it is even more effective against cVDPV than against the wild-type polioviruses that are currently circulating, which can also be targeted with a different vaccine.
The new findings mean that it is particularly vital that efforts to vaccinate children with trivalent OPV continue in Nigeria and neighbouring countries, to protect children against all strains of polio. The scientists hope their findings will help countries to devise the right vaccine strategies to eradicate polio.
Helen Jenkins, the lead author of the study from the Medical Research Council Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling at Imperial College London, said: “Our research shows that vaccine-derived polioviruses must be taken seriously and that we have the right tools to tackle them. We’ve had a lot of success against polio in the past and we’re optimistic that ultimately we should be able to eradicate it completely.
“However, our study shows that we can’t be complacent about the virus. It’s still vital for us to protect children from this dangerous and debilitating disease and we have to make sure we continue to vaccinate as many children as possible in affected countries for as long as wild-type poliovirus continues to circulate,” added Ms Jenkins.
Senior study author Dr Nicholas Grassly, also from the Medical Research Council Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modeling at Imperial College London, added: “There has been some debate about the significance of circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses for the eradication initiative. Our research shows these viruses can be as pathogenic and transmissible as wild-type polioviruses and outbreaks must be responded to with just as much vigour.”
Dr Bruce Aylward, Director of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative at WHO, added: “These new findings suggest that if cVDPVs are allowed to circulate for a long enough time, eventually they can regain a similar capacity to spread and paralyse as wild polioviruses. This means that they should be subject to the same outbreak response measures as wild polioviruses. These results also underscore the need to eventually stop all OPV use in routine immunization programmes after wild polioviruses have been eradicated, to ensure that all children are protected from all possible risks of polio in future.”
This study was funded by the Medical Research Council and the Royal Society.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100623190726.htm
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THE ONE WITH THE BEST SONGS WINS!
FREEDOM STRUGGLES ARE NEVER WON WITHOUT MUSIC. Music takes the concepts of freedom, lubricates it and inserts it directly into the head and the heart. And it is the head and the heart of the people where battles and wars seeking freedom are won. So the Natural Solutions Foundation is taking two steps: first, we have a contest in which your musical and artistic setting of the song I wrote (see below) will be shared with every one of our supporters around the world. Second, we are asking you to perform and share your music and art with us. The rules for sharing your artistic creation with the Natural Solutions Foundation are the same: All decisions are final and all entries are the property of the Natural Solutions Foundation. Entries will be judged on creativity and musical and visual originality.
CONTEST: Set the Song of the Uber-Cartel to Music, make a You Tube video (10 minutes or less) and email it to me at releyes@gmail.com. If your entry is selected, it will be mounted on the Natural Solutions Foundation You Tube channel, www.Youtube.com/naturalsolutions and we’ll feature it on our home page and in a blast! All decisions are final and all entries are the property of the Natural Solutions Foundation. All decisions are final. Entries will be judged on creativity and musical and visual originality.
Bill and Melinda Gates head the largest foundation in the world. Billions of dollars in assets allow Mr. and Mrs. Gates to do whatever good works they choose. The good works seem to be to finish what the Nazis started, but what they lacked the resources to finish: purification of the race. Bill Gates is using his unfathomable wealth to dominate and destroy the world’s population, and he does so right out in the open.
Bill Gates is not the only genocidalist out there: indeed there are a large number of wealthy, influential and powerful people who think that using one set of characteristics or another you can identify the people that you want to be rid of and justify the slaughter of every man, woman and child of the others. The word for that behavior is “Genocide”. Mr. Gates thinks that it is a really good investment.
I sing songs that the the story of struggles to stay alive and lives in other times, other places, but sharing the essential emotions and capacity of being human: I am an unrepentant “folkie”, guitar, banjo, and concertina and all. But I know of no song for a conscious and cold blooded genocialist. I therefore felt that I had to write one.
The following song is a dialogue between Mr. Gates, aged and near death, and his (in actuality, non-existent son). In the song, Bill’s grandfather passed the message to his son and, in turn, Mr. Gates hears it and takes it to the people. All is, however, not lost: Pushback does work!
The Song of the Uber-Cartel needs a melody and some production, which I most definitely do not have time to do. So here’s a neat way to win a 1000 Gift Certificate for www.Organics4U.org, our Organics-only virtual mall! Just send your completed entries to me at releyes@gmail.com.
Headline: Bill Gates To Attend 2010 Bilderberg Conference
Microsoft founder who bankrolls sterilization vaccine programs to give speech on global warming agenda and “the needs of the poorest”
http://www.prisonplanet.com/bilderberg-2010-prisonplanet-com-master-page.html
Headline: Gates Foundation Researches Nanoparticle Vaccines Triggered by Sweat
LONDON — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced 78 grants of US$100,000 each in the latest round of Grand Challenges Explorations. Grants include the development of a low-cost cell phone microscope to diagnose malaria, study of the strategic placement of insect-eating plants to reduce insect-borne diseases, and investigation of nanoparticles to release vaccines when they come in contact with human sweat.
http://www.infowars.com/gates-foundation-researches-nanoparticle-vaccines-triggered-by-sweat/
Headline: Sonic Male Sterilization Program Funded by Bill Gates
Gates recently announced that he would be funding a sterilization program that would use sharp blasts of ultrasound directed against a man’s scrotum to render him infertile for six months. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is gaining a reputation for funding technologies designed to roll out mass sterilization and vaccination programs around the world. One of the programs recently funded by the foundation is a sterilization program that would use sharp blasts of ultrasound directed against a man’s scrotum to render him infertile for six months. It might accurately be called a “temporary castration” technology.
http://www.naturalnews.com/028853_ultrasound_fetus.html
Headline: Gates Foundation Funds Research to Turn Mosquitoes Into Flying Syringes
October 22, 2008 — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded 100,000 dollars each on Wednesday to scientists in 22 countries including funding for a Japanese proposal to turn mosquitoes into “flying syringes” delivering vaccines.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i4hpnz5eOMpxfld81tEZYsC23teg
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Song of the Uber-Cartel
Dedicated to Bill Gates
Rima E. Laibow, MD
June 5, 2010
Intro (Recitative):
I’m getting old, my Son, my days are nearly done and I want to leave this world with nothing left undone.
But my time is running fast and each breath may be my last, so I’ll give you now the gift my Dad to me once passed.
The plan for us is global (some would say, “ignoble”), but the world’s judgment moves us not at all
For centuries we’ve labored to create the world WE favor where our rule is total, and the population small.
We, the New Aristocrats, have no need of teeming peasant brats: they add nothing to mix and use our oil
For the culling is beginning
Our heady plans are spinning
Generations underground, then we rebuild the world we’ve so carefully despoiled.
So take, my Son, our message to the lowly, Useless Eaters of the globe. We, the Masters of the World,
Need only wait a few more years and then there will be none to carp or criticize or peer
Into our rule. Those alive will be our abject slaves. You, among the Masters, reigning evermore through all the coming years.
Uber Cartel Song To The People:
Uber-Cartel wants you to “mach schnell”, German for “hurry up now, my friend”
Diet of death, GMOs straight from hell. Pay us, we’re the piper, piping straight to the end
Too sick to be free, you can only agree: when the bell tolls, it tolls your death knell.
The game is an old one: steal and lie, cheat and kill for gold, glory, land, and total control.
Why waste bullets, purveying ill will, Bill, when you can be loved for your generous soul?
Flying syringes, food that impinges on their immune systems – Just sell them a pill.
Media’s message is “We’re here to help, to bring you the truth, tell you all that you need.”
Reality, though, says, “Don’t let the bitch whelp! Excess useless eaters like animals breed.
Make ‘em all sterile, still alive at their peril, sub-humans all, you just can’t see their pelt!”
We, the Masters, the Ubermenschen* free, have been raised up by God to rule and despoil.
Nine tenths are useless, slaves all the others be. With so few remaining, the earth’s ours to soil
Aristocrats, Neo,
Oh! Once we are free,
Oh! Glory to all, but most of all, ME!”
The doctor standing by heard the plans set to try, realized he, and those loved were all slated to die
When his needful task was done, he called the cell phone of his son, saying “Son, the truth must be revealed or we’ll in the dying try.
The globalists intend to cull us all to end our freedom and our lives, instead to spend our wealth themselves.
Served well by servants, techs, cooks, merchants whose lives on pleasing all their Masters will depend.
But that’s not the bargain free mankind accepts. Their blueprints have been marked and they’ve trained up their adepts.
We are the People, neither burden beasts nor sheeple: we hold freedom’s promise beating in our hearts.
Ring the loud alarm bells, spread the truth well, shine freedom’s light and tell the words of might
Widely in each church, each school and house. Saddle up and mount your fearless Freedom Mouse
Ride it straight to freedom ‘gainst the genocidal plan. Global freedom’s singing to each woman and each man!
*Ubermenschen: German for Superior People, e.g., Master Race
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The following is a briefing on the facts and myths of GMOs which I prepared for members of the Panamanian Government and interested citizens concerning the dangers of genetically modified or, as they are known in Panama, transgenic foods.
The briefing notes the Panamanian legal situation. In Panama, as in the US, GMOs are permitted in the food chain without any labeling at all. This is an ecological, medical and consumer’s rights disaster.
Only strong consumer advocacy, and market pressure against anything which might have GMOs in it (that means avoiding anything which is not labeled “organic” or “GM Free”) will change US policy. But once the environment, or your body, is contaminated with foreign DNA, there is no know way to reverse that process.
Codex, like the US, is totally untroubled by GMOs.
Here is the Myth and Fact Summary
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Summary of Myths and Facts RE: Transgenic Foods
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
May 25, 2008
The provisions of Panamanian Law No. 48 of August 8, 2002 that created the National Commission of Biosecurity for GMOs, in Article 7 – Section 8 – that the Commission “Promote the permanent update of the registries, national and international, of organisms genetically modified based on the precautionary principal.†This principal requires the utmost caution in allowing transgenic products.
The Natural Solutions Foundation urges the Government of Panama to implement this provision of law by imposing an
immediate moratorium on any additional GMO approvals without strict risk analysis and competent scientific proof of
lack of risk.
Myth:
Transgenic crops increase yield, reduce cost and reduce pesticide use. In fact, experience and analysis of the impact of GM crops have shown that none of these commercially useful, but unfounded, assertions is accurate.
Fact:
– Roundup © Ready crops require increasing use of Roundup © since super weeds become resistant to the herbicide
– Additional herbicides and pesticides become necessary to maintain adequate crop status
– Crop yield is often disappointing, in part because Roundup © can cause sudden crop death
– Transgenic crops are more sensitive to drought, an increasing problem in a warming environment
– Studies since 1999 consistently show that economic, social and environmental degradation follow use of transgenic crops
– Pollinator and predator species are seriously impacted by transgenic crops, including both habitat destruction (Roundup ©) and Bt production
Myth:
Panama has no transgenic crops
Fact:
Panama had registered coffee (arabica), yucca, yam, banana, banana tree, sugar cane, taro root, several varieties of rice, maize, pumpkin, kidney bean, sorghum, and strawberry with UPOV, the International organization, as of 2006 and is releasing a long grain transgenic rice in a few days.
Myth:
Transgenic crops are carefully regulated before release in prepared foods or as crops
Fact:
In the US, where virtually all transgenic crops originate, the FDA and USDA operate under a 1992 Executive Order which says that modified and unmodified foods are equivalent. Hence, no safety or other testing is required and both FDA and USDA refuse to require or examine safety testing. Only a patent is necessary to release a food into the food chain and environment. No environmental impact studies or statements are required.
Myth:
Transgenic foods are safe
Fact:
Transgenic foods have unintended and rapidly changing biological impact since the inserted genes, the promoter organisms and the marker organisms are foreign to the genome of the plant and are unstable in it.
– FDA and other US government scientists have issued strong warnings about the dangers of transgenic organisms which have either been suppressed or ignored.
– US Center for Disease Control found that food-related illness increased up to 10 fold since the commercialization of transgenic food
– The only published human feeding study verified that genetic material in transgenic soy transfers into the DNA of intestinal bacteria and continues to function
o Glyphosate (Roundup ©) resistant DNA has been shown to revert and become a glyphosate producer in the gut and in digestive bacteria. Glyphosate is a highly toxic compound associated with infertility, cancer, auto immune diseases and other serious consequences upon ingestion or other exposure
– Every commercialized transgenic organism released into the food supply has already undergone extensive genetic revision and change
– Early understanding of the genome held that its function was fixed and rigid.
– Today we understand that the genome is a fluid and dynamic system.
o Foreign DNA changes the proteins coded for in unpredictable ways with unintended consequences which
may take years to manifest or be identified
o DNA remains active and viable long after the death of the cell or organism
o Transgenic DNA may not be broken down by the digestive tract
o Transgenic DNA transfers to living cells and inserts itself into the genome of plants, bacteria, humans and other
animals through horizontal transfers coding for unknown proteins and leading to antibodies, allergenicity,
– Allergenicity cannot be predicted in advance but all corn, maize and soy tested for allergenicity according to WHO standards have failed because they have allergenicity characteristics
– GM foods which may or may not be allergenic in themselves can confer allergenicity to other foods and tissues
– Transgenic genes are inserted by the same process used by researchers to provide models of unstable DNA and are
inherently unstable
o Safety and quality are impossible to control with unstable genetic material
o Unintended horizontal transfer is impossible to control
o Expression of transgenic genes can change from generation to generation
– Promoter viruses mutate within the genome and have been linked to serious communicable and non communicable diseases:
o Multiple Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
o Cancer (including leukemia)
o Slow viruses
o Auto immune diseases
o Immune suppression
o Morgellon’s Disease
o Allergens
– Soy allergies rose by 50% in the UK soon after transgenic soy was introduced.
– Transgenic soy creates multiple problems in animal studies:
o Cooking increases soy allergens by as much as 700%
o Digestive enzymes are reduced
o Livers show toxic injury which is reversible after switching to natural soy
– Rats fed transgenic canola had livers which were 12-16% heavier
– Bt crops produce huge amounts of Bt which are
o Often insufficient to kill pests
o Sufficiently poisonous to harm beneficial insects
o Provoke strong, sometimes lethal, allergic reactions
– Synthetic genes do not function identically to natural ones with serious/lethal consequences for animals consuming them
– Antibiotic resistant marker organisms are known to have transferred their resistance to other bacteria and somatic cells conferring resistance to formerly clinically useful antibiotics through horizontal transfer
– GM labeling is forbidden in the US. Lack of species specific or
any other identification of GM food makes impossible
o Epidemiology
o Traceability
o Liability
– Bt toxins are significant toxins in themselves. While natural levels of Bt are safe for humans, transgenic Bt crops produce levels up to 10,000 greater and are documented serious
allergens
– Human and animal reproductive failure and sterility are common
consequences of exposure to
o Roundup ©
o GM soy
o GM corn (including an organism patented by Epicyte in 2001 to cause permanent male sterility – organism now
owned by DuPont and Monsanto)
– GM food consumed by animals causes the animals to become transgenic in unknown ways
– When consumed, these otherwise non-transgenic animals provide an unknown, and unregulated source of foreign DNA which then enters the human genome with unpredictable and unintended consequences
– Animal studies show when fed GM chow or feed
o Huge increases in
o Fetal death
o Low birth weight
o Failure to thrive after birth
o Sterility among offspring mated to each other
o Grazing animals die in large numbers
o Animal infertility when out-mated
Myth:
Transgenic crops can be contained in the area where they are planted
Fact:
Transgenic crops contaminate both same-species and other-species plants.
– Monsanto sues about 500 farmers per year for intellectual property rights through “volunteer†seeds trespassing on the farmers’ land via pollen drift and pollinator contamination
– Organic and conventional plants are irreversibly contaminated by
transgenic plants
o Although the US allows 10% GM contamination in certified organic foods (1), compared with most countries’ limits of 0.9% or 1.0%, organic foods sources are still in short supply in the US because of gross contamination of organic crops
o Conventional crops quickly become contaminated
o Louisiana rice crop contaminated with pharmaceutical rice grown by Bayer – many farmers now growing corn instead to avoid contamination
o Pharmaceutical rice by Bayer Cropscience was shipped as human food to at least 30 countries
o All South African corn now contaminated with Monsanto’s MON810 which has not been approved for human consumption and is considered unsafe in Europe
o New Zealand contaminated by 3 years of mislabeled shipment of maize by US
o All Mexican corn now contaminated by US corn
o Super weeds and super pests are prevalent wherever transgenic crops exist