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Michelle Obama Supports Organic While The President Backs GMO...?

Michelle Obama Supports Organic While The President Backs GMO...?

 

Articles about the Monsanto Protection Act continue to achieve viral status online. The GMO seeds and GMO ingredients legislation has prompted outrage by organic food activists, farmers, the homesteading community, and a host of celebrities. President Barack Obama promised during a 2007 Iowa speech that he would make sure that Americans would know what went into our food; he even went so far as to call food labeling a right.

President Obama’s thoughts on GMO crops must have “evolved” significantly in the matter of just a few years. His support of the biotech rider on HR 933 paints a very hypocritical portrait of the president. Since the Commander in Chief signed the Monsanto Protection Act into law, that must mean he feels genetically modified ingredients, seeds, and crops are entirely safe for both humans and animals to consume.

Just a few months after then-candidate Obama said he would make sure Americans would be aware of  what went into the food that covered our dinner plates, Michelle Obama launched her anti-obesity and healthy eating campaign. Did Mrs. Obama become a cheerleader for GMO crops? No. She became a staunch advocate for organic food. Even in the best of marriages husband and wife do not always agree, or possess crystal clear communication skills.  But, when you are the first family of the United States, your every utterance is highly scrutinized and becomes a part of the public discussion.
While the couple appeared to be on the same page about healthy and safe food choices, the signing of the Monsanto Protection Act seems to indicate that either their paths have diverged or they are both hypocrites. In a twisted act of irony, the same day President Obama signed the GMO ingredients bill, he was likely served organic tomatoes and lettuce in his White House salad.

Michelle Obama’s signature cause is healthy eating, yet the HR 933 biotech rider which essentially allows Monsanto and Dupont carte blanche, carries her husband’s signature. The bee hives and organic garden Mrs. Obama created on the White House lawn were the first time growing activity had occurred since Eleanor Roosevelt’s era.

Earlier press reports indicate that Michelle Obama instructed cooks in the White House kitchen to purchase only organic food for the First Family’s meals. Crops and honey from the First Lady’s South Lawn garden were reportedly even served at several state dinners. Mrs. Obama’s book, American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America illustrates the First Family’s supposed commitment to organic food.

While visiting a non-profit center in New York, Michelle Obama heaped praise upon the menu creators for serving unprocessed and fresh food to needy families. During a speech in front of Department of Agriculture staffers, the First Lady stated that she is a “big believer” in community gardens that offer fresh fruits and vegetables in America and around the world.
Michelle Obama had this to say about the food she chooses to serve to her daughters:
“Well, if it tastes like a real carrot and it’s really sweet, they’re going to think that it’s a piece of candy. So my kids are more inclined to try different vegetables if they’re fresh and local and delicious. And you start reading the labels and you realize there’s high-fructose corn syrup in everything we’re eating. Every jelly, every juice. Everything that’s in a bottle or a package is like poison in a way that most people don’t even know. Now we’re keeping, like, a bowl of fresh fruit in the house.”

During the first large White House gathering the Obamas hosted, the First Lady opted to serve organic wine. All of these actions appear to indicate that the Obamas are totally committed to consuming only healthy organic food – until it came time to review the Monsanto Protection Act. Did President Obama not read the bill before he signed it? Not surprisingly former Monsanto company employees have been placed in key positions at the FDA and USDA during the president’s term in office.

The FDA Deputy Commissioner is none other than former Monsanto Public Policy Vice President Michael Taylor. USDA Commissioner Tom Vilsack was given the Governor of the Year Award by the Biotechnology Industry Organization – Monsanto leaders were on the group’s board. President Obama nominated Elena Kagan to the US Supreme Court. While serving as a federal solicitor general, Kagan argued in support of Monsanto in front of the Supreme Court during the Monsanto vs. Geertson seed case. Monsanto has also exercised their deep pockets when it comes time to donate to political campaigns.

Thanks to her husband’s support of the Monsanto Protection Act, Michelle and the girls will be munching on genetically modified broccoli one day soon.



Sources:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/is-michelle-obamas-natural-food-campaign-designed-to-the-hide-the-white-house-attack-on-organic-food.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/Obama.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/dining/11lady.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.live-the-organic-life.com/michelle-obama.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/devinder-sharma/michelle-obama-can-lead-a_b_568741.html 

Analyst: Germany Secretly Planning to Join BRICS

Analyst: Germany Secretly Planning to Join BRICS

Analyst: Germany Secretly Planning to Join BRICS

NSA surveillance controversy centered on U.S. fear that Europe's economic powerhouse will dump the dollar

by Paul Joseph Watson | July 24, 2014

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Financial analyst Jim Willie sensationally claims that Germany is preparing to ditch the unipolar system backed by NATO and the U.S. in favor of joining the BRICS nations, and that this is why the NSA was caught spying on Angela Merkel and other German leaders.

In an interview with USA Watchdog’s Greg Hunter, Willie, a statistical analyst who holds a PhD in statistics, asserted that the real reason behind the recent NSA surveillance scandal targeting Germany was centered around the United States’ fear that Europe’s financial powerhouse is looking to escape from an inevitable dollar collapse.

“I think they are looking for details on assisting Russia on dumping the dollar. I think they are looking for details for a secret movement for Germany to get away from the dollar and join the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.) This is exactly what I think they are going to do,” said Willie.

Earlier this month, the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), announced the creation of a new $100 billion dollar anti-dollar alternative IMF bank to be based in Shanghai and chaired by Moscow.

Putin launched the new system by saying it was designed to, “help prevent the harassment of countries that do not agree with some foreign policy decisions made by the United States and their allies,” a clear signal that Russia and other BRICS countries are moving to create a new economic system which is adversarial to the IMF and the World Bank.

Offering an insight into the attitude of the western elite towards Russia, comments made by the likes of former US ambassador to Iraq Christopher R. Hill suggest that Moscow is increasingly being viewed as a rogue state. Back in April, Hill said that Russia’s response to the Ukraine crisis meant that Moscow had betrayed the “new world order” it has been a part of for the last 25 years.

In another sign that BRICS nations are moving to create an entirely new multi-polar model adversarial to the west, the five countries are also constructing an alternative Internet backbone which will circumvent the United States in order to avoid NSA spying.

Willie also ties the Germany’s move into last week’s shoot down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which has been exploited by the U.S. and Britain to push for more stringent sanctions on Russia despite the fact that they have had little effect so far and only appear to be harming the trade interests of countries in mainland Europe.

“Here’s the big, big consequence. The U.S. is basically telling Europe you have two choices here. Join us with the war against Russia. Join us with the sanctions against Russia. Join us in constant war and conflicts, isolation and destruction to your economy and denial of your energy supply and removal of contracts. Join us with this war and sanctions because we’d really like you to keep the dollar regime going. They are going to say were tired of the dollar. . . . We are pushing Germany. Don’t worry about France, don’t worry about England, worry about Germany. Germany has 3,000 companies doing active business right now. They are not going to join the sanctions—period.”