Re: [Spiritual-Insights] to those that want to know about hillary this is sick!!!

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Thank you Marty, for sharing this! It confirms for me more why I pray Hillary doesn't get in!!! Love, Joy

[spiritual-Insights] to those that want to know about hillary this is sick!!!

Open Letter to Hillary Clinton from Another WellesleyCollege AlumnaSaturday, February 2, 2008Dear Hillary,By polling logic, I should be your supporter -Democrat, older woman, white, liberal. I was even in a dorm with you incollege. I have pulled for you for years. But something this pastsummer fundamentally changed my responsibility to my childrenand grandchildren. In the time I have left in my life toprotect them and others, I need to speak out.I saw a News Hour piece on Maharastra, India, aboutfarmers committing suicide. Monsanto, a US agricultural giant,hired Bollywood actors for ads telling illiterate farmersthey could get rich (by their standards) from big yields withMonsanto's Bt (genetically engineered) cotton seeds. The expensiveseeds needed expensive fertilizer and pesticides (Monsanto, again)and irrigation. There is no irrigation there. Crops failed. Farmershad larger debt than they'd ever experienced And farmers couldn't collect seeds from their ownfields to try again (true since time immemorial). Monsanto "patents" theirDNA-altered seeds as "intellectual property." They have a $10million budget and a staff of 75 devoted solely to prosecuting farmers. http://www.grist. org/comments/ food/2008/ 01/17./).Since the late 1990s (about when industrial agriculture took hold inIndia),166,000 Indian farmers have committed suicide and 8 millionhave left the land. Farmers in Europe, Asia, Africa, Indonesia,SouthAmerica, Central America and here, have protested Monsanto and geneticengineering for years. What does this have to do with you? You have connections to Monsanto through the Rose LawFirm where you worked and through Bill who hired Monsanto people forcentral food-related roles. Your Orwellian-named "Rural Americansfor Hillary" was planned with Troutman , Monsanto's lobbyists.Genetic engineering and industrialized food and animalproduction all come together at the Rose Law Firm, which representsthe world's largest GE corporation (Monsanto), GE's mostcontroversial project (DP & L's - now Monsanto's - terminator genes), theworld's largest meat producer (Tyson), the world's largest retailerand a dominant food retailer (Wal-Mart). The inbred-ness of Rose's legal representation ofcorporations which own controlling interests in other corporations thereand of corporate boards sharing members who are alsoshareholders of each other's corporations there, is so thorough that it ishard to capture. Jon y, senior executive of the sGroup - one of the largest institutional shareholders of Tyson Foods,Wal-Mart, DP & L - is also Chairman of the Board of DP & L andarranged the Wal-Mart deal. s' s Group staked SamWalton and financed Tyson Foods. Monsanto bought DP & L. Allrepresented at Rose. You didn't just work there, you made friends. Thatshows in the flow of favors then and since. You were invited ontoWal-Mart's board, you were helped by a Tyson executive to make commoditytrades (3 days before Bill became governor), netting you $100,000, s strongly backed Bill for Governor, and then forPresident (donating $100,000). http://www.financia lsense.com/ editorials/engdahl/2006/ 0828.htmlFood and friends, in Clinton terms: Bill's appointed friend Mike Espy, Secretary ofAgriculture, who immediately significantly weakened federal chickenwaste and contamination standards, opening the door to majorexpansion of Tyson's chicken factory farms (www.financialsense.com/editorials/ engdahl/2006/ 0828.html) . Espy resigned, indicted foraccepting bribes, illegal contributions, money laundering,illegal dispersal of USDA subsidies, .... Tyson Foods was the largestcorporate offender. http://www.engdahl. oilgeopolitics. net/GMO/Monsanto/monsanto. html But what Bill did for Monsanto "genetic engineering"goes beyond inadequate concepts of giving corporate friendsinfluence: He unleashed genetic engineering into the world. And thenhe helped close off people's escape from it. Genetic engineering is many orders of magnitudedifferent from "normal" (even polluting) business in itspotential biologic ramifications. The warning myth of Pandora'a Box -letting irretrievable things rush out into nature - has becomereal. The harrowing change to the world from nuclear fission andfusion is the closest parallel. What did Bill do?1. Bill's put Monsanto people in at the FDA, as USAgricultural Trade Representatives, on International BiotechnologyConsultive Forums, and more ... ( http://www.commondr eams.org/headlines/ 072600-03. htm) or http://www.monitor. net/monitor/9904b/monsantofd a.html or http://www.mindfull y.org/GE/ Revolving- Door.htm2. Bill's FDA gave Monsanto permission to market rBGH(a GE bovine growth hormone), the first genetically engineeredproduct let loose on us (or did tomatoes with fish DNA get therefirst?).3. Despite reports of bovine illness and death, Bill'sFDA did not recall it or put warnings on it. Even "a very angry,very vocal nationwide consumer base" had no impact. "http://www.wafreepr ess.org/14/ Envirowatch. html4. Bill's FDA wouldn't even label rBGH as "present" inmilk.5. When dairy farmers tried to label their own milkrBGH-free so the public could choose, Bill's USDA threatened alldairies that their products could be confiscated from stores. , USFDA Deputy Commissioner, was formerly Monsanto's counsel. 6. How were consumers to protect their family, givenBill's FDA enforced public blindness, except to buy only organic?But Bill's FDA tried to close off that last escape, proposing toinclude in "organic" standards, "the dirty three" a : geneticengineering of plants and animals, use of irradiation in foodprocessing and use of municipal sewage sludge as a fertilizer. (Myemphasis.) The FDA backed down. http://query. nytimes.com/ gst/fullpage.html?res= 9C0DEED91E31 F933A1575AC0A96E958 260Had this gone through, Monsanto could have finallylabeled rBGH milk ... as "organic." And animal waste from factoryfarms, a pollution nightmare for Tyson and others, could havebeen sold as fertilizer. USDA head Dan Glickman: "This is probably the largestpublic response to an [Agriculture Department] rule in modernhistory." In fact the response was 20 times greater than anything everbefore proposed by the USDA. http://www.orpheusw eb.co.uk/ john.rose/orglab.htmlPersonally, I resent years of effort to protect mychildren and now grandchildren, from that crap. Politically, Bill sided against small farmers andagainst the public's right to know, and with Monsanto.A snap shot of our food:Oils: Sheep died in India after feeding on Bt cottonfields (http://btcotton. blogspot. com/). We feed ourchildren Bt cotton, as cottonseed oil in peanut butter and cookies. Grains: 49% of US corn acreage was planted in Bt cornin 2007. A French study proved Monsanto's GMO corn causes kidneyand liver toxicity (http://www.organicc onsumers. org/articles/article_4790. cfm). Soft drinks and candy have highly concentratedBt corn, in the form of high fructose Bt corn syrup. The US foodsystem depends most on two crops, soy (90% GMO, 90% of traits owned byMonsanto) and corn, the largest crop (60% GMO, nearly 100% Monsantotraits). "[E]ssentially our entire food supply is geneticallymodified, to the benefit of one company." The Grocery Manufacturers ofAmerica in 2000 estimated that 70 percent of US food contains GMtraits. http://www.organicc onsumers. org/articles/article_9716. cfmMeat: Steroids bulk up athletes. Monsanto steroidsbulk up animals - more weight, more profit. We feed our childrensteroids in meats. Is this why our children are fattening, like Hansel andGretel? Poultry: Bill's USDA weakened chicken waste andcontamination standards and attempted to allow sewage sludge asfertilize crops. I will say more about disease from industrializedpoultry farms waste, at the end of this letter.Milk: Over 30 scientific publications have shownincreased levels of IGF-1 in milk with rBGH increases risks of breastcancer by up to seven-fold, also increasing colon and prostate cancersrisks. Canada, 29 European nations, Norway, Switzerland, Japan, NewZealand, Australia, and South Africa ban U.S. rBGH dairyproducts. Bill's USFDA put no restrictions, no warning labels (notallowing labels at all). (My emphasis.) http://www.sustdev. org/index.php?option= com_content & task=view & id=2127 & Itemid= 35 American children eat that food and drink that milk,Hillary. Coincidentally, American children are increasingly fatand sick. Here, Bill ignored pleas for labeling. Abroad, Billignored intense international objections over the same issue -unlabeled US food exports - badly straining trading relations.Monsanto's "good ole boy," he betrayed American families at the deepestlevels conceivable - their family's health and theirdemocratic right to know. He betrayed our rural life and American familyfarmers - backing corporation deceit and control, over honestyand clean farming.But, Hillary, it is one thing to not label a regularole food product to sell it, and quite another to sell asuspected-dangerous food product (rBGH), but Bill's administration didn't label(or stop) a well-known, terrifying threat - Mad Cow Disease. Bill's FDA's August, 1997 regulation permitted "knownTSE-positive [Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy] material tobe used in pet food, pig, chicken and fish feed," only requiring thelabel to read "Do not feed to cattle and other ruminants" inthe US. Monsanto added to the problem. "There is evidence thatrbST use [Monsanto's GE bovine growth hormone] reduces theuseful lifespan of a dairy cow. ... Given that the incubation period forBSE is at least three to five years and perhaps longer, rbST-treatedcows could harbor "hidden" BSE. That is, they might be infectedbut still asymptomatic when sent to slaughter." (My emphasis.) http://www.consumer sunion.org/ food/bgh- codex.htmBill let TSE into our entire food chain. And who ownedthe feed and slaughter and genetic engineering corporations whichbenefitted? Please, tell me, Hillary, what he could possibly havegotten in friendship or favors, that could ever justify hisexposing millions of people to this? With genetic engineering itself, Bill did something tothe whole world, which tried to object. Words are inadequate toexpress how astoundingly immoral, beyond human bounds and conceitand power, that was. "Even for the biggest "winners," it is like winning atpoker on the Titanic." Jerry Mander: Facing the Rising TideHe had no right. Do you hear that? Bill had sex from Lewinsky. That's "dinkyimmoral." That's chicken feed immoral - excuse the Tyson pun, excusethe TSE-laced pun. Bill let genetic engineering lose on NATUREitself. "Our way of life is likely to be more fundamentallytransformed in the next several decades than in the previous onethousand years.Tens of thousands of novel transgenic bacteria, viruses,plants and animals could be released into the Earth'secosystems.Some of those releases, however, could wreak havoc with the planet'sbiospheres." Rifkin, Biotech Century Bill did this to us, like it was some nothing and he,some big dumb ass Southern boy, just smiling and getting in goodwith the Big Boys, thinking about as much about the consequences ofsomething this immense and about us human beings out here, as hethought about you, when he was unfaithful with . Just one big foolgetting off on the power and used to getting away with things. Terminator genes, developed by DP & L, a Rose Firmclient, prevent seeds from "working" after only one season. Farmers"must" repurchase (patents and suing not certain enough control, itseems). Those "killing" genes pose the apocalyptic risk ofbreaking out into nature. Natural seeds could fail, too. Nature couldfail.Far-fetched? GMO fields are already contaminating normal species (http://www.foodfirs t.org/pubs/ backgrdrs/2002/sp02v8n2. html. Berkeley Professor of Microbiology, Ignacio Chapela,wrote an open letter, warning the Mexican government about just thisbreaking out phenomenon happening in maize (http://www.slogefree.org/newsletter s/News_Item. 2004-12-21. 4353/).And it has already happened with weeds - pesticideresistant GMO seeds break lose and weeds become pesticide-resistantSuperweeds (http://www.newscien tist.com/ article/dn1882-geneticallymodif ied-superweeds- not-uncommon. html).But Bill's USDA spokesman, Willard Phelps said theUSDA wanted the technology to be `widely licensed and madeexpeditiously available to many seed companies.'http://www.globalre search.ca/ index.php?context=viewArti cle & code= ENG20060827 & articleId= 3082"Genetic Engineering is often justified as a humantechnology, one that feeds more people with better food. Nothing couldbe further from the truth. With very few exceptions, the wholepoint of genetic engineering is to increase sales of chemicals andbio-engineered products to dependent farmers." Ehrenfield:Professor of Biology, Rutgers UniversityHillary, one third of the world's bee colonies havecollapsed. Gone. Farmers in India are killing themselves. Farmers andbees. Since organic farmers in India are fine and organic farmersreport no colony collapse, what does these farming catastrophessay about "industrial agriculture" ? Mad Cow Disease is another direct result of industrialagriculture. And now ........ transnational poultry factories are implicated asthe source of bird flu. ... Small scale poultry farms and wild birdsseem not to be the problem [just as small farmers are not the issuein Mad Cow Disease], and yet "initiatives are multiplying to banoutdoor poultry, squeeze out small producers and restock farmswith genetically modified chickens. ... http://www.ens-newswire. com/ens/feb2006/ 2006-02-27- 01.asp "Of the fewoutbreaks that did occur in [Laos], more than 90% broke out in commercialpoultry operations, not free-ranging flocks."http://www.birdflub ook.com/a. php?id=75 Monsanto (and others) is currently working with theUSDA (http://www.farmandr anchguide. com/articles/2006/01/30/ ag _news/updates/ update01. txt)to force small farmers to tag every animal with aglobal tracking device (NAIS - National Animal Identification System).Allegedly related to food safety, Monsanto and others would becreating a vast corporate digital library on every move of smallfarmers' livestock. http://goexcelgloba l.he.net/ ~natpropg/ nonais.htmlBut small farmers do not create the contaminatedenvironments, do not supply the feed, do not grind up diseased animals intofeed (how Mad Cow began) and then sell it. In fact, their farmingmethods, free range and small scale, are significantly healthier andsafer for animals and food than the massive concentration ofanimals by corporate industrial agriculture.Monsanto is also aggressively pushing for state lawsto limit farmers' right to choose what to plant and thepublic's right exclude GE plants from their communities http://www.rense.com/general65/ righto.htmCattle bloated by steroids, lapse and loss of 10,000year old normal seeds, immense pollution from factory farms,deadly-disease- ridden feed, world-wide bee colony collapse, poisoned soiland depleted water supplies, Superweeds (http://www.newscientist.com/ article/dn1882- geneticallymodif ied-superweeds-not-uncommon. html), lawsuits against farmers, loss of family farms, and... India farmers killing themselves in what may be the largest masssuicide in recorded human history (on average ... one farmers'suicide every 30 minutes since 2002 - The Hindu 1.30.08) - that isindustrial agriculture. Monsanto and Tyson are two of the largest industrialagricultural corporations in the world. Industrial agriculture isrepresented by your Rose Law Firm. Your claim to care about food safety is terrifyingdouble-speak given what Bill did and who you take donations from. Youridea of a Department of Food Safety would centralize control offood - in whose corporate connected hands? You talk tough aboutlabeling food - ah, but "foreign" food - a sleight of hand tricking apublic desperate for safe US food. You talk about food safety but Billdegraded food in every imaginable way and prevented minimally sanelabeling.I am a person before I am a woman. Your gender meansnothing. It is a media distraction. Your policies on health and foodand women and children, are meaningless in the face of connectionsthat have threatened those groups profoundly, connections youhave never denounced. Monsanto uses child labor in India, primarily veryyoung girls, exposing them to a lethal pesticide 13-14 hours a day,for pennies in pay. http://www.indiares ource.org/ issues/agbiotech/2003/monsantoun ilever.html But you take donations from theirlobbyists. You say you care about black people but as the poorest people inthis country, they are least able to buy organic and are forced toeat the contaminated foods Bill let into our food system. TheNational Black Farmers Association has a boycott out on all Monsantoproducts. Do you eat organic? So, who are you with, hapless black consumers andblack farmers, or Monsanto? Mothers left to give their children rBGHmilk, or Monsanto? Women exposed to 7 times greater risk of breastcancer, or Monsanto? Desperate farmers in India and young children forcedinto child labor in cottonseed factories there, or Monsanto? Animalssuffering from lives in filthy cages and disgusting feedlots, shot upwith steroids and hormones and antibiotics, or Monsanto? Ourchildren who eat candy with high fructose Bt corn syrup associated withkidney and liver toxicity, or Monsanto? was right about your corporate connections. Ijust didn't understand until I saw that PBS show and read aboutMonsanto, how personally affected my children and grandchildren, andall people around the world, have been.I will not vote for you. I will vote for someone whowill commit themselves to work on behalf of small farmers and realfood and decent treatment of animals and to end thisindustrialized agricultural nightmare that is taking us off a cliff.Linn Cohen-ColeAtlantaSpiritual freedom is my birthright. I am a free thinker. I am able to rise above mentalprejudices and stereotypes of others. I am a free thinker. Nobody and nothing can manipulateme or deceive me. I am a free thinker. I freely choose truth and love. Today, I embrace a greater degree of spiritualfreedom. ____________________________________________________________________________________Never miss a thing. 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