“. . . her speech in San Diego sent that clear signal to the biotech community: Elect me and we’ll work it out. I’ll control the cash. You’ll issue the fake results. We’ll hit new highs. She would uphold the tradition of Presidency as the seat of unconscionable deception.” J Rappoport
The Times of San Diego reports on Hillary Clinton’s keynote speech to biotech heavy hitters, at the recent BIO International Convention.
The headline is: “Hillary Clinton Cheers Biotechers, Backing GMOs and Federal Help.”
Hillary professes worry that biotech companies are moving their operations out of the US. The answer? Federal subsidies, of course:
“’Maybe there’s a way of getting a representative group of actors at the table to discuss how the federal government could help biotechs with ‘insurance against risk,’ she said.”
In other words, stay in the US, carry out as much research as you want to, and we’ll knock down lawsuits, pay you for your failures, and support you when you lie and claim your results are positive and pose no risk to human health.
The Times of San Diego continued:
“She [Hillary] said the debate about GMOs might be turned toward the biotech side if the benefits were better explained, noting that the ‘Frankensteinish’ depictions could be fought with more positive spin.”
Yes, we need more spin. And with Hillary, we can count on it. Here’s the quote from her speech:
“I stand in favor of using [GMO] seeds and products that have a proven track record…There’s a big gap between the facts and what the perceptions are.”
So true. The media/government fostered perception is that GMO crops are wonderful, whereas the fact is they’re a dangerous failure. (If you need a starter course, refer to gmwatch.org and read the whole site from end to end, including archives.)
In her speech, Hillary cited drought-resistant GMO crops as an example of a breakthrough she championed as secretary of state.
However, in the Union of Concerned Scientists report, “High and Dry,” we have this: “Biotechnology companies such as Monsanto have held out the promise that genetic engineering can…[create] new crop varieties that can thrive under drought conditions and reduce water demand even under normal conditions….
“Though the mid-2000′s saw a surge in field trials for crop varieties with engineered drought tolerance traits, as of 2012 only one such variety—Monsanto’s DroughtGard [corn], containing the engineered gene cspB—had been approved by the USDA.
“The results so far paint a less than spectacular picture of DroughtGard’s effectiveness: USDA analysis of data supplied by Monsanto show that DroughtGard produces only modest results, and only under moderate drought conditions at that. The report estimates that cspB corn would increase the overall productivity of the U.S. corn crop by only about one percent. And DroughtGard does not improve water use efficiency.”
In other words, the whole drought-resistant GMO crop promise is proving to be a dud.
Of course it is, because the strategy of injecting a genetic element that will make crops continue to live in a waterless environment is like pretending plant photosynthesis can thrive in a perpetually dark cellar. It’s a straight-out con, a billion-dollar hustle.
But Hillary happens to be a willing partner in the hustle.
And her speech in San Diego sent that clear signal to the biotech community: Elect me and we’ll work it out. I’ll control the cash. You’ll issue the fake results. We’ll hit new highs.
She would uphold the tradition of Presidency as the seat of unconscionable deception.
Equally important, she’d be the first woman President whose family was teetering on the edge of applying for food stamps. Had to throw that one in there.
Are the Republican any better on the GMO issue? Of course not. Bipartisan support for GMOs is as firm as a rock, from which both blood (decimation of human health) and money can be squeezed.
Jon Rappoport
The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com
Biotech moving out of the country? That would be great. The reality is Russia just banned it entirely and other countries are trying to and the US is their cesspit of corporate control. Now they want to be subsidized by us – on top of our having to buy they deadly stuff because they won’t label it, and on top of killing us with it. They ask a lot. And she’s just the lying so and so who says she cares about women and children, to represent them. Go for it, Hillary. Supporting deadliness suits you.
WE must be the change ourselves. The idea that withdrawal of consent to be governed, simply walking away, this is what worries them. If we refuse to fight each other, if we won’t accept their system, then the slave masters become exposed as the criminals they always were.
I hope now people will see just who is condoning the poisoning of their food supplies. Let’s see if she will feed it to her children. I will bet the new baby coming will never taste the poison she is pushing on the general population. Besides after what happen to the soldiers at the last place she protected is more than enough evidence to the citizens to not seriously consider her for a role s dog catcher let alone leader of this already corrupt nation. We need to throw them all out and start from scratch. Hopefully Liz Warren won’t turn out to be as disappointing as The last great hope who turned out to be a puppet for the gangsters running the terror network in the district of criminals in DC.