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Multinationals make billions in profit out of growing global food crisis
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Geoffrey Lean
The Independent
May 4, 2008
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Giant agribusinesses are enjoying soaring earnings and profits out of the world food crisis which is driving millions of people towards starvation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. And speculation is helping to drive the prices of basic foodstuffs out of the reach of the hungry.
The prices of wheat, corn and rice have soared over the past year driving the world’s poor – who already spend about 80 per cent of their income on food – into hunger and destitution.
The World Bank says that 100 million more people are facing severe hunger. Yet some of the world’s richest food companies are making record profits. Monsanto last month reported that its net income for the three months up to the end of February this year had more than doubled over the same period in 2007, from $543m (£275m) to $1.12bn. Its profits increased from $1.44bn to $2.22bn.
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May 4th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Cain : ”Am I my brother’s keeper?” Blood money for blood sacrafices. Chin up! Have faith! It’s almost over.
May 4th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
…Ah-bdi… This is so…b…bdi…blatantly discusting and rotten to the core , that the only thing to say is thank God for the 28…bdi…hellish planets in this universe !!! ( according to the very scientific ancient Vedic scriptures )
May 4th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
disgusting and rotten are traits the NWO pride themselves on.
5. Direct heirs will often be set aside from ascending the throne if in their time of training they exhibit frivolity, softness and other qualities that are the ruin of authority, which render them incapable of governing and in themselves dangerous for kingly office.
6. Only those who are unconditionally capable for firm, even if it be to cruelty, direct rule will receive the reins of rule.
May 4th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
KLC -> WE HAVE TO HAVE STANDARDS. WE’VE BEEN AT THIS RULING THING FOR QUITE TIME, I THINK IT’S SAFE TO SAY WE KNOW WHAT WE’RE DOING. BE WELL CITIZENS.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Did somebody fart! Oh yeah….no.4.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
OH MY, IT’S LUGNUTS -> OUR FRANCOPHONE LITTLE FRIEND. GOOD TO SEE YOU’RE STILL HERE FIGHTING FOR THE CAUSE OF GLOBAL GOVERNMENT. TELL ME, HOWS THE WEATHER TODAY AT MOMS HOUSE? HAVE YOU EVEN BEEN OUTSIDE TODAY?
HAHAHAHAHA
WE LOVE THE CELLAR DWELLERS. SO EASY TO HACK INTO THEIR SYSTEMS.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Food prices should be:
Bananas = $2each banana
Apples = $1 each
Rice = $10 lbs
Meat products = 4 times more expensive
Juices = $5 a litre
and so on..
We should starve out all the poor, so that we are left with only middle class and the rich.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
luggnutz Says:
May 4th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Did somebody fart! Oh yeah….no.4.
Also his Slinky’s kinked, that can be devestating.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
OWN~NWO Body by Fisher, brains by Mattel.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
OWN~NWO Says:
KLC -> WE HAVE TO HAVE STANDARDS. WE’VE BEEN AT THIS RULING THING FOR QUITE TIME, I THINK IT’S SAFE TO SAY WE KNOW WHAT WE’RE DOING. BE WELL CITIZENS.
I know I know…. its a rough life being an ruler. that clamouring mob always bitching and moaning about something.
3. In order to distract people who may be too troublesome from discussions of questions of the political we are now putting forward what we allege to be new questions of the political, namely, questions of industry. In this sphere let them discuss themselves silly!
12. All our newspapers will be of all possible complexions — aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, even anarchical – for so long, of course, as the constitution exists …. Like the Indian idol “Vishnu” they will have a hundred hands, and every one of them will have a finger on any one of the public opinions as required. When a pulse quickens these hands will lead opinion in the direction of our aims, for an excited patient loses all power of judgment and easily yields to suggestion. Those fools who will think they are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own camp will be repeating our opinion or any opinion that seems desirable for us. In the vain belief that they are following the organ of their party they will, in fact, follow the flag which we hang out for them.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
KLC -> WHILE WE MAY AGREE WITH SOME OF THE POINTS YOU BRING UP, LET IT BE KNOWN THAT THESE PARAGRAPHS YOU POST ARE NOT OF OUR WRITINGS, AND SEEM TO BE MERELY SARCASTIC IN NATURE. WE WOULD NEVER COMPARE OURSELVES TO VISHNU, OR ANY MINORITY BASED RELIGIOUS OR IDOLATROUS FIGURE. LIKE I SAID, WE HAVE STANDARDS, AND WE ABIDE BY THEM IN THE STRICTEST FORM. BE WELL CITIZENS.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
OWN~NWO Says: WE LOVE THE CELLAR DWELLERS. SO EASY TO HACK INTO THEIR SYSTEMS.
We like you too even if you are an ANAL DWELLER.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
JOKER -> YOU MADE A FUNNY! YOU GET A GOLD STAR FOR THE DAY. NOW RUN ALONG, MOMMY HAS YOUR GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH WAITING!
May 4th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
WOOK ALL HIM LIKE ME!!!!
May 4th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
OWN~NWO
no doubt the person who posted “the article” added in their own blend of sarcasm …I would too
regardless “the paragraphs” remain the same, whether embellished or not, obviously the means justifies the end.
goyim ~ hahahahahhahaha!
May 4th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Remain calm all, The cheese slid off his cracker He will be fine soon.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
OWN~NWO is Proof that evolution CAN go in reverse.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
it be ok OWN(the fag)NWO we’s unda stand dat you’s belt doesn’t go through all the loops.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
JOKER -> WHOSE SOCIETY IS GOING IN REVERSE? IT WOULD SEEM THAT YOU SELFISH AMERICANS ARE NOT HAPPY SEEING AND EXPERIENCING HOW THE OTHER HALF OF THE GLOBE HAS HAD TO LIVE FOR DECADES. ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE. IT WILL GET WORSE. $4 FOR A GALLON OF GAS WILL SEEM LIKE A BARGAIN IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE. LAUGH IT UP JOKER. HAHAHAHAHAHA
May 4th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
OWN(The Fag) NWO Forgot to pay his brain bill. Now we know what happened.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
His antenna doesn’t pick up all the channels
May 4th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
OWN(The Fag)NWO is Several nuts short of a full pouch, bet his mouth ain’t
May 4th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
BOY, WE ARE SO GLAD WE DEVELOPED WORDPRESS. MAKES IT SO EASY TO FIND PEOPLE.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Warning: Objects in mirror are dumber than they appear.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
OWN~NWO Says:
May 4th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
BOY, WE ARE SO GLAD WE DEVELOPED WORDPRESS. MAKES IT SO EASY TO FIND PEOPLE.
Gee i am waitin do you want me to warm you a few didos
May 4th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
JOKER IS THE TYPICAL ‘TRUTHER’. IT IS SIMPLETONS LIKE HIM THAT MAKE THE WHOLE ‘TRUTHER’ MOVEMENT LOOK INFANTILE AND IGNORANT. THANK YOU JOKER, YOU ARE A PRIME EXAMPLE AND REASON FOR WHY IT IS SO EASY FOR US TO INTEGRATE YOUR COUNTRY INTO THE GLOBAL SYSTEM.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
OWN~NWO Says:
ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE. IT WILL GET WORSE. $4 FOR A GALLON OF GAS WILL SEEM LIKE A BARGAIN IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE. LAUGH IT UP JOKER. HAHAHAHAHAHA
36. How clear is the undeveloped power of thought of the purely brute brains of the GOYIM, as expressed in the fact that they have been borrowing from us with payment of interest without ever thinking that all the same these very moneys plus an addition for payment of interest must be got by them from their own State pockets in order to settle up with us. What could have been simpler than to take the money they wanted from their own people?
37. But it is a proof of the genius of our chosen mind that we have contrived to present the matter of loans to them in such a light that they have even seen in them an advantage for themselves.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
KLC -> YOU HAVE STRAYED. WE DO NOT ALIGN OURSELVES WITH THE JEW. ANOTHER ‘CONSPIRACY THEORY’ THAT WE ALLOW TO PROPAGATE IN ORDER TO KEEP YOU ‘SHEEPLE’ CONFUSED AND DISTRACTED.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
OWN~NWO Says:
May 4th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
JOKER IS THE TYPICAL ‘TRUTHER’
I not a truther I AM A CLOWN. GET IT RIGHT FAG.
Do you ever wonder what life would be like if you’d had enough oxygen at birth?
May 4th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
OWN(THE FAG) NWO Don’t you have a terribly empty feeling – in your skull?
May 4th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Do you still love nature, despite what it did to you?
May 4th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
SORRY JOKER/CLOWN. I AM HERE TO DISCUSS ISSUES, NOT PLAY THE WIGGER VERSION OF DIRTY DOZENS. I SEE THE MERCURY IN YOUR VACCINES HAS DONE ITS JOB.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
OWN(THE FAG) NWO Have you considered suing your brains for non-support?
May 4th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
OWN~NWO Says:
BOY, WE ARE SO GLAD WE DEVELOPED WORDPRESS. MAKES IT SO EASY TO FIND PEOPLE.
find people?? you make it sound as if the goyim are hiding?? theres no places left to hide on this planet for the goyim…the only ones hiding are the NWO….and they remain secret & hidden because why?…………. scared of the goyim perhaps?
without the goyim slave mob to kick around…they have no basis for manipulation.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
OWN~NWO Says:
May 4th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
SORRY JOKER/CLOWN. I AM HERE TO DISCUSS ISSUES, NOT PLAY THE WIGGER VERSION OF DIRTY DOZENS. I SEE THE MERCURY IN YOUR VACCINES HAS DONE ITS JOB.
I SEE THE OVER LOAD OF CUM IN YOUR MOUTH DID ITS JOB.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
This is genocide while-u-wait
now we REALLY need an army of people, going to feed the hungry, wherever they are
May 4th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
He is living proof that man can live without a brain!
May 4th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
OWN~NWO Says:
KLC -> YOU HAVE STRAYED. WE DO NOT ALIGN OURSELVES WITH THE JEW. ANOTHER ‘CONSPIRACY THEORY’ THAT WE ALLOW TO PROPAGATE IN ORDER TO KEEP YOU ‘SHEEPLE’ CONFUSED AND DISTRACTED.
communism, zionism, nazism…same s--- different pile.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
OWN(THE FAG) NWO I am sorry, it is not your fault. Your not stupid; just possessed by a retarded ghost.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
OWN(THE FAG) NWO Here’s 20 cents. Call all your friends and bring back some change!
May 4th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
I’d like to see things from your point of view but I can’t seem to get my head that far up my ass.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
People are eating mud pies.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
OWN(THE FAG) NWO will done playing with you, but i only have one more thing. We all know You’ve been married three times and still have the same in-laws. PLEASE STOP THE CHILDREN BEG YOU.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
2007 study revealed 98% of WordPress blogs are exploitable – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress
May 4th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
I’m a fudge-packing felcher and the only verbal diarrhea on this thread is the KY slime coming out of my mouth. Excuse me while I go snowball my Dad.
May 4th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Da
Joker Says:
May 4th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
I’m a fudge-packing felcher and the only verbal diarrhea on this thread is the KY slime coming out of my mouth. Excuse me while I go snowball my Dad.
Good one OWN (THE FAG) NWO. just wish i was dat smart to steal a screen name.
May 4th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Not playing with a full deck? Hell, he’s not even in the game! Get real OWN (THE FAG) NWO.
May 4th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
why is it news that agg and seed companies are making more profits in the food shortage.
would it be news that gun companies would benfit from a crime wave?
May 4th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
watch the movie Damien: Omen II, It has an underlying plot which deals with world famine. One of the lines from the movie even says, ” Theres a great deal of money from famine”, or something like that. Also watch The Omen III.
May 4th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad help set a new world order
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.a.....=351020101
May 4th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Summit County judge orders Taser references deleted from medical examiner’s rulings
Saturday, May 03, 2008Karen FarkasPlain Dealer Reporter
Akron- Summit County Medical Examiner Lisa Kohler must delete any reference that Tasers contributed to the deaths of three men, a Summit County Common Pleas judge ordered Friday.
The deaths of Dennis Hyde and Richard Holcomb, who were on drugs and in an agitated state when police shot them with Tasers, should be ruled accidental, visiting Judge Ted Schneiderman wrote in his ruling. Any reference to homicide or “electrical pulse stimulation” should be deleted from death certificates and autopsy reports, he said.
The order to change the ruling in the death of the third man, Mark McCullaugh, could be more far-reaching.
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McCullaugh, who had a history of psychiatric illness, died in Summit County Jail on Aug. 20, 2006, during a struggle with deputies who used Tasers and pepper spray. Five sheriff’s deputies were indicted in his death.
Schneiderman ordered Kohler to rule McCullaugh’s death undetermined and delete any references to homicide and the death possibly being caused by asphyxia, beatings or other factors.
That pleased Sheriff Drew Alexander. The deputies, three charged with reckless homicide and two with felonious assault, are on unpaid leave.
“This supports my initial beliefs that my employees acted appropriately,” Alexander said in a statement.
Schneiderman’s order regarding McCullaugh goes far beyond the focus of the case, said John Manley, of the prosecutor’s office, who represented Kohler.
“The purpose of the hearing represented a singular and very narrow issue on whether or not the successful deployment of the Taser Model X26 could contribute in any way to the cause of death,” Manley said. He may appeal.
Kohler’s rulings were controversial because few coroners have said the Taser was a factor in deaths. Other coroners typically cite other contributing factors, such as drug use, heart disease and cardiac arrhythmia due to illegal drug use.
Hyde, 30, died Jan. 5, 2005, during a struggle with Akron police. Three officers used Tasers. Hyde, of Hartville, had broken into a house through a window. He was on methamphetamine and suffered blood loss from cuts from the window.
Holcomb, 18, of Akron, died May 28, 2005, after he attacked a Springfield Township officer in a field. She shot him four times with her Taser. Kohler ruled Holcomb was also in a psychosis from using methamphetamine and Ecstasy.
Taser International maintains the weapon is not a factor if police use it and the suspect later dies. Numerous experts testified on its behalf at the four-day hearing in April.
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“Taser International believed from the beginning that these determinations of cause of death must be supported by facts, medical research and scientific evidence,” spokesman Steve Tuttle said in a prepared statement Friday.
As of mid-April, 68 wrongful-death or injury lawsuits have been dismissed or judgments entered in favor of Taser, according to the company. The company has not lost any product-liability lawsuits.
“It was an interesting case and an uphill battle,” said Manley. “Taser is quite a force to be reckoned with and does everything to protect their golden egg, which is the Model X26.”
To reach this Plain Dealer reporter:
kfarkas@plaind.com
May 4th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Just remember to let the turd sink to the bottom. Even if Spanky got himself a translator on budget ( one who has not finished high-school) and thinks he can swim in french, il manque le bateau quand meme. Il faut pas oublier, don’t forget. Let all spying children (NSA or others) EARN THEIR PAY. With a little patients, you can sit back, link up different comments, and realize it’s the same gang of monkeys quoting from the same college psychology text book ( because they couldn’t prevent 9-11…but all of a sudden…..THEY THINK THEY KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOING AGAIN!!!). En plus, ils demontre tous une vrai manque d’imagination, due probably to years of mind and genital manipulations, so we really should feel sorry for them if anything. Great day for truthin’ though , eh???
May 4th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Hi luggnutz
May 4th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Hi Issac, I see the child attempted to imitate our friend Joker. Goes to show they are very boring kids with not mnay toys OR brain cells to share. Try again Spanky. On switch la schedule!!! Shift Change! How are you today Issac???
May 4th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
luggnutz
A lot of plant’s today is SCK
May 4th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
luggnutz
Putin plays Violin
May 4th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
LUGGNUTZ did you see this?? The federal Conservatives have quietly killed a giant information registry that was used by lawyers, academics, journalists and ordinary citizens to hold government accountable. http://canadianpress.google.co.....99xAJitWrg
May 4th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Why would anyone kill themselfs without taking a few of these pep’s out too!
May 4th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
The “NEW WORLD ORDER” is about enslavement of mankind, threats, intimidation, harassment,
rapes, murder and Contol over every person at all times. It is about living for only the “Superclass” needs. It has nothing to do with no wars, no destruction, in fact it has to do with
the destruction of the soul. “One World and One Dream” is about their Dream and there World,
not the peoples of the Worlds Dreams and hopes. The criminals seek to use energy, food and money to keep people without hope all there lives. They have wrote about this a thousand times
and more. The man below even tells you this, if you do not agree you will be elimanted. Sounds
Peaceful! does it not? Yes! the criminals will elimante anyone who really seek peace!, that is why
the villify real “Peace Groups” and people seeking truth!, Why! because these people proclaiming
Peace on Earth are from the Blackest dark hole in the world. Pure Scum! who think only a 300
million dollar house or a 500 million dollar yacht or a 400 million dollar plane are more important
then the health of the people of the world. Through food shortages, gas shortages and money
control they harm mankind. Now they want to control your air and your water so you cannot
even drink to survive. The word is “Evil” pure and plane.
May 4th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
KLC, Thanks million. RED ALERT. POSSIBLE FALSE FLAG OPERATION IN CANADA. GOVERNMENT ELIMINATES ACCOUNTABILITY REGISTRY.
The Canadian Press
Tories kill Information registry used to hold government accountable
2 days ago
OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives have quietly killed a giant information registry that was used by lawyers, academics, journalists and ordinary citizens to hold government accountable.
The registry, created in 1989, is an electronic list of every request filed to all federal departments and agencies under the Access to Information Act.
Known as CAIRS, for Co-ordination of Access to Information Requests System, the database allowed ordinary citizens to identify millions of pages of once-secret documents that became public through individual freedom-of-information requests over many years.
But in a notice last week to civil servants on the Treasury Board website, officials posted an innocuous obituary: effective April 1, 2008, “the requirement to update CAIRS is no longer in effect.”
A spokesman for Treasury Board confirmed Friday that the system is being killed because “extensive” consultations showed it was not valued by government departments.
The consultations concluded “the valuable resources currently being used to maintain CAIRS would be better used in the collection and analysis of improved statistical reporting,” said Robert Makichuk.
Public Works, which has operated the database, spent $166,000 improving it in 2001. As recently as 2003 federal officials had been working on a publicly accessible, online version.
Monthly paper lists have also been made available since the 1990s for public consultation at a central federal office in Ottawa.
In the meantime, a Canadian academic put the database on his website and opened it to public use, allowing citizens to quickly search thousands of requests for key words.
Alasdair Roberts, a political scientist at Syracuse University in New York, built a version of the database by requesting the CAIRS electronic records through an Access to Information Act request, and updated the site monthly.
CBC journalist David McKie took over the work in 2006 using another publicly accessible website (http://www.onlinedemocracy.ca).
Users searching key words cannot access the documents themselves, only the wording of the original access-to-information request, the date, the department, a file number, and general information about the requester, whether media, business, academic or other.
But by citing that file number, a citizen can approach the appropriate department and request copies of the already released documents.
CAIRS was originally designed as an internal government tool to manage the flow of often embarrassing information. Particularly sensitive requests from news media or opposition politicians would often be red-flagged for special handling that frequently delayed release.
But requesters soon began to mine the database to discover obscure documents, fine-tune the phrasing on new requests, and even to do statistical studies – effectively turning the tool against government.
If departments and agencies are no longer required to update the CAIRS database with new requests, its value as an accountability tool will quickly diminish, critics said.
“This is terrible and I consider this to be yet one more step in making records less accessible,” said Michel Drapeau, a lawyer, frequent user and co-author of a standard reference work on access law.
“To do this now after the CAIRS’ usefulness has been proven over and over again is indicative of the extent to which government will go to stifle the access regime.”
New Democrat MP Dawn Black, whose office uses the database regularly, condemned the Tories for shutting down the system.
“It’s another example of the Harper government’s talk about accountability and transparency – they talk the talk, but they don’t walk the walk.”
The Conservative government has a mixed record in the area of freedom of information. The Federal Accountability Act broadened the access legislation to cover new entities, such as the CBC, Via Rail, Canada Post and even the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada, who’s the ombudsman for the system.
At the same time, long delays for responses, along with heavy censorship of documents, have become endemic.
The number of complaints received by the information commissioner in 2007-2008, for example, soared to 2,387 – more than 1,000 higher than the previous year. The level is the second-highest on record, next to the 2,821 received in 1988 – 2,242 of those from a single complainant.
May 4th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
RED ALERT. POSSIBLE FALSE FLAG OPERATION IN CANADA. GOVERNMENT ELIMINATES ACCOUNTABILITY REGISTRY.
CBC NEWS
Tories kill access to information database
Last Updated: Friday, May 2, 2008 | 9:19 PM ET Comments189Recommend275
CBC News
The federal Conservatives have quietly killed an access to information registry used by journalists, experts and the public that users say helped hold the government accountable.
The Coordination of Access to Information Requests System, or CAIRS, is an electronic list of nearly every access to information request filed to federal departments and agencies.
Originally created in 1989, it was used as an internal tool to keep track of requests and co-ordinate the government’s response between agencies to potentially sensitive information released.
Now, users mine the database to do statistical studies, fine tune phrasing on new requests and discover obscure documents — often using the information against the government.
“It was really a tool designed to make government more open,” said CBC investigative journalist David McKie.
“Now that it appears as though this is no longer going to be available it is very disappointing indeed and people are really wondering what the real motivation is.”
Last week, a notice to civil servants from Treasury Board stated that effective April 1, “the requirement to update CAIRS is no longer in effect.”
A Treasury Board official confirmed to the Canadian Press on Friday that the system is being killed because “extensive” consultations showed it wasn’t valued by government departments.
Instead, “valuable resources currently being used to maintain CAIRS would be better used in the collection and analysis of improved statistical reporting,” said Robert Makichuk.
Since 2006, McKie has operated a website that publishes the monthly reports released through CAIRS on a publicly accessible website, http://www.onlinedemocracy.ca.
He took over from Alasdair Roberts, a political scientist at Syracuse University in New York, who built a version of the database by requesting CAIRS electronic records through access to information requests and then updated the site with the monthly reports.
The online database allows the public to quickly search thousands of requests from over the years by typing key words into a search engine.
The documents are not available online, only the wording of the original access to information request, date, department, file number and general information about whether the requester was with the media, business, academic or other.
But users can then make a written request for a copy of the already released documents by citing the file number.
Monthly paper lists have also been made available since the 1990s for public consultation at a central federal office in Ottawa.
Public Works, which operates the database, spent $166,000 improving it in 2001. Federal officials in 2003 had been working on a publicly accessible online version.
“To do this now after the CAIRS’ usefulness has been proven over and over again is indicative of the extent to which government will go to stifle the access regime,” said Michel Drapeau, a lawyer who frequently uses the system and is a co-author of a reference work on access law.
“This is terrible and I consider this to be yet one more step in making records less accessible,” he told Canadian Press.
New Democrat MP Dawn Black also condemned the Tories for shutting down the system.
“It’s another example of the Harper government’s talk about accountability and transparency — they talk the talk but they don’t walk the walk,” said Black, who said her office often uses the database.
May 4th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
my friend passed that info onto me…so I checked it out on google news.
I “knew” you’d be interested in it too
May 4th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Sorry, I thought this was about high food prices. I guess everyone will be happy when your gallon of milk cost the same as a gallon of gas. How does $10.00 a gallon sound? Guess farm animals are tired of working for low wages and they are demanding a raise…….
May 5th, 2008 at 2:45 am
http://911essentials.com has a link to the short video called The Monsanto Story about 1/3 of the way down the page on the right side …. all you will ever need to know about these scum bags and how they have been waging war on humanity for years.
May 5th, 2008 at 5:10 am
Makes you laugh how every mainstream article says how the IMF and world bank are calling for somthing to be done, when they caused the problem. At least this article got somthing right which is the price of food is too high and not the production of food being the problem. Thats exactly it the price is too high because the world banking system is printing so much fiat money its debased the value of peoples labor to such an extent they cannot afford to buy food. And this will happen in America and Europe one day it has to because we live under this same system and every day our labor is being reduced in value.
May 5th, 2008 at 6:43 am
I call on Steven Harper to justify his job and existance as our ‘Suppossed’ Prime Minister. My point being, in the last 4 years, if George Bush Jr says jump, Mr Harper asks ‘How high?’. Bush wants police state, we have police state. Bush wants tasers, we get tasered. Bush wants the armies together, without referendum we get joint armies together. Bush wants tougher crime laws, we get tougher crime laws. Bush wants privitization of agriculture, we get our wheat board attacked. Bush wants oil, we rip up Alberta and kill nature. Bush wants marijuana illegal while CIA imports cocaine, we make pot illegal AGAIN while REAL BAD DRUGS still get spread on our streets and neighborhoods. Bush wants to change laws to hide illegality of his actions, we change our laws to hide what Mr Harper does for him. So in essence, we don’t really have a prime minister. We are a 51st superstate under Feuheur Bush. But don’t ask Canadian citizens to do something about it. they’ll just complain for 5 seconds then get back to the next episode of lost while their 200$ check to UNICEF passes.
May 5th, 2008 at 6:46 am
so many good comments.. hardly can read them all -.-
May 5th, 2008 at 8:08 am
…Ah-bdi…This is such a discusting and clear cut example of how…bdi…rotten the zionist scams are , that the plants…ah-bdi…really did some overtime on this site !!!
May 5th, 2008 at 10:51 am
We must all boycott Monsanto. DO NOT BUY ROUNDUP. This herbicide is at the base of the Roundup Ready seeds.
When you spray it on your own little plot of grass, you are spreading the area that NOTHING but “Roundup Ready Seeds” will grow upon.
Think Edward Bernays: “How can I get the entire world to carry out my dastardly plan of OWNING the entire food supply? Sell it to the public, yes let them PAY ME to have the priveledge of spraying MY POISON on every yard in America, and whereever else I want to market it.” (France, for another)
Ingore the commercials that incite to Machoism-saw one last night.
A few weeds are nothing, compared to being MONSANTO’S COMPLIANT BITCH, and starving to death.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:04 am
LUGGNUTZ
Why do you take up so much of infowars space? Why the f--- don’t you just get a luggnutz.com website and then type ONE comment thats links to your web site. That way 90% of the people on this website don’t have to see the stupid s--- you wrote which half the time has nothing to do with the article. GET A LIFE, OR BETTER YET A JOB.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:15 am
SJKHFJKSD Says:
LUGGNUTZ
Why do you take up so much of infowars space? Why the f--- don’t you just get a luggnutz.com website and then type ONE comment thats links to your web site.
we happen to like luggnutz articles….its a sharing information website…get over yourself.
TXGIRL
monsanto must DIE!!!!!!! people people people don’t be so lazy and pull your own weeds….geeez!
did you read about the 100,000 farmers in India who have killed themselves in the last decade because of those wretched monsanto terminator seeds
May 5th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Hey PLANT…you get a GD life you sneak thief coward.
72
SJKHFJKSD Says:
May 5th, 2008 at 11:04 am
LUGGNUTZ
Why do you take up so much of infowars space?
May 5th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Lugg is one of us you neocon.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Alex, you spill your guts on your show and hesitate on national TV? Come on.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:27 am
#71, klc: I don’t know the details of the terminator seed. Was it addressed in the Monsanto movie (google) I didn’t catch it.
Please inform me.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:30 am
SJKHFJKSD, awwww. Did I take away someone toy car? It’s a big sandbox, but if you feel crowded, you can always go play in another. When Alex writes me and tells me to go away I will. Until then…..
Henry Kissenger: Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.
Keep proving your bosses right! Nous, on continue de soumettre la verité, désole les enfants creux!
May 5th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Warren Buffett sells insurance & made a killing AFTER Katrina. He’s NWO, Gates mentor.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:31 am
And 2 jobs a wife and 3 kids are enough. But I’m sure all those aspartame fried mini-cells know SOOO much more than me……..NHAT!!!!!
May 5th, 2008 at 11:37 am
I guess I pissed off the NSA code bitches earlier. You can tell by his name. Same as those that post the stupid ”Great pic blah-blah-blah- shortcut”’ crap. Les enfants.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Alex, when you drop ‘down’ a bit play “I feel good” James Brown (?) a good snap back song. Use it anyway.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:38 am
TXGIRL Says:
May 5th, 2008 at 11:27 am
#71, klc: I don’t know the details of the terminator seed. Was it addressed in the Monsanto movie (google) I didn’t catch it.
Please inform me.
its a 6 page article in Vanity Fair says 05/2008 so it must be new…I just happened to stumble upon the article while searching for terminator seeds on google….I had read an article on google news about …over 100,000 India farmers commit suicide.
http://www.vanityfair.com/poli.....anto200805
wretched terrible company that monsanto…
May 5th, 2008 at 11:40 am
#81, klc, thanks for the link
May 5th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
The pulled Monsanto movie off of google video. It needs to be posted if anyone knows who has it?
May 5th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Investigation
Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear
Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination.
by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele May 2008
Gary Rinehart clearly remembers the summer day in 2002 when the stranger walked in and issued his threat. Rinehart was behind the counter of the Square Deal, his “old-time country store,” as he calls it, on the fading town square of Eagleville, Missouri, a tiny farm community 100 miles north of Kansas City.
The Square Deal is a fixture in Eagleville, a place where farmers and townspeople can go for lightbulbs, greeting cards, hunting gear, ice cream, aspirin, and dozens of other small items without having to drive to a big-box store in Bethany, the county seat, 15 miles down Interstate 35.
Everyone knows Rinehart, who was born and raised in the area and runs one of Eagleville’s few surviving businesses. The stranger came up to the counter and asked for him by name.
“Well, that’s me,” said Rinehart.
As Rinehart would recall, the man began verbally attacking him, saying he had proof that Rinehart had planted Monsanto’s genetically modified (G.M.) soybeans in violation of the company’s patent. Better come clean and settle with Monsanto, Rinehart says the man told him—or face the consequences.
Rinehart was incredulous, listening to the words as puzzled customers and employees looked on. Like many others in rural America, Rinehart knew of Monsanto’s fierce reputation for enforcing its patents and suing anyone who allegedly violated them. But Rinehart wasn’t a farmer. He wasn’t a seed dealer. He hadn’t planted any seeds or sold any seeds. He owned a small—a really small—country store in a town of 350 people. He was angry that somebody could just barge into the store and embarrass him in front of everyone. “It made me and my business look bad,” he says. Rinehart says he told the intruder, “You got the wrong guy.”
When the stranger persisted, Rinehart showed him the door. On the way out the man kept making threats. Rinehart says he can’t remember the exact words, but they were to the effect of: “Monsanto is big. You can’t win. We will get you. You will pay.”
Scenes like this are playing out in many parts of rural America these days as Monsanto goes after farmers, farmers’ co-ops, seed dealers—anyone it suspects may have infringed its patents of genetically modified seeds. As interviews and reams of court documents reveal, Monsanto relies on a shadowy army of private investigators and agents in the American heartland to strike fear into farm country. They fan out into fields and farm towns, where they secretly videotape and photograph farmers, store owners, and co-ops; infiltrate community meetings; and gather information from informants about farming activities. Farmers say that some Monsanto agents pretend to be surveyors. Others confront farmers on their land and try to pressure them to sign papers giving Monsanto access to their private records. Farmers call them the “seed police” and use words such as “Gestapo” and “Mafia” to describe their tactics.
When asked about these practices, Monsanto declined to comment specifically, other than to say that the company is simply protecting its patents. “Monsanto spends more than $2 million a day in research to identify, test, develop and bring to market innovative new seeds and technologies that benefit farmers,” Monsanto spokesman Darren Wallis wrote in an e-mailed letter to Vanity Fair. “One tool in protecting this investment is patenting our discoveries and, if necessary, legally defending those patents against those who might choose to infringe upon them.” Wallis said that, while the vast majority of farmers and seed dealers follow the licensing agreements, “a tiny fraction” do not, and that Monsanto is obligated to those who do abide by its rules to enforce its patent rights on those who “reap the benefits of the technology without paying for its use.” He said only a small number of cases ever go to trial.
Some compare Monsanto’s hard-line approach to Microsoft’s zealous efforts to protect its software from pirates. At least with Microsoft the buyer of a program can use it over and over again. But farmers who buy Monsanto’s seeds can’t even do that.
The Control of Nature
For centuries—millennia—farmers have saved seeds from season to season: they planted in the spring, harvested in the fall, then reclaimed and cleaned the seeds over the winter for re-planting the next spring. Monsanto has turned this ancient practice on its head.
Monsanto developed G.M. seeds that would resist its own herbicide, Roundup, offering farmers a convenient way to spray fields with weed killer without affecting crops. Monsanto then patented the seeds. For nearly all of its history the United States Patent and Trademark Office had refused to grant patents on seeds, viewing them as life-forms with too many variables to be patented. “It’s not like describing a widget,” says Joseph Mendelson III, the legal director of the Center for Food Safety, which has tracked Monsanto’s activities in rural America for years.
Indeed not. But in 1980 the U.S. Supreme Court, in a five-to-four decision, turned seeds into widgets, laying the groundwork for a handful of corporations to begin taking control of the world’s food supply. In its decision, the court extended patent law to cover “a live human-made microorganism.” In this case, the organism wasn’t even a seed. Rather, it was a Pseudomonas bacterium developed by a General Electric scientist to clean up oil spills. But the precedent was set, and Monsanto took advantage of it. Since the 1980s, Monsanto has become the world leader in genetic modification of seeds and has won 674 biotechnology patents, more than any other company, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data.
Farmers who buy Monsanto’s patented Roundup Ready seeds are required to sign an agreement promising not to save the seed produced after each harvest for re-planting, or to sell the seed to other farmers. This means that farmers must buy new seed every year. Those increased sales, coupled with ballooning sales of its Roundup weed killer, have been a bonanza for Monsanto.
This radical departure from age-old practice has created turmoil in farm country. Some farmers don’t fully understand that they aren’t supposed to save Monsanto’s seeds for next year’s planting. Others do, but ignore the stipulation rather than throw away a perfectly usable product. Still others say that they don’t use Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds, but seeds have been blown into their fields by wind or deposited by birds. It’s certainly easy for G.M. seeds to get mixed in with traditional varieties when seeds are cleaned by commercial dealers for re-planting. The seeds look identical; only a laboratory analysis can show the difference. Even if a farmer doesn’t buy G.M. seeds and doesn’t want them on his land, it’s a safe bet he’ll get a visit from Monsanto’s seed police if crops grown from G.M. seeds are discovered in his fields.
Most Americans know Monsanto because of what it sells to put on our lawns— the ubiquitous weed killer Roundup. What they may not know is that the company now profoundly influences—and one day may virtually control—what we put on our tables. For most of its history Monsanto was a chemical giant, producing some of the most toxic substances ever created, residues from which have left us with some of the most polluted sites on earth. Yet in a little more than a decade, the company has sought to shed its polluted past and morph into something much different and more far-reaching—an “agricultural company” dedicated to making the world “a better place for future generations.” Still, more than one Web log claims to see similarities between Monsanto and the fictional company “U-North” in the movie Michael Clayton, an agribusiness giant accused in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit of selling an herbicide that causes cancer.
May 5th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Food Security, etc. – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_security
This manufactured crisis is part of the plan. Food is being used as a weapon to starve people, or make them very ill through GM crops, etc.
May 5th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
folks come to your senses! big is always better! i am perfectly happy with my genetically modified corn flakes while i pour my $4 dollar a gallon milk over these golden brown treats. Monsanto makes a hormone they inject into cows so they produce more milk. Isn’t that good for the price of my milk, Ben @ Jerry’s Ice Cream? Have you ever tried plucking a chicken? They have chickens without feathers, now that keeps the cost of my jumbo sized bucket of KFC down.
May 5th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
#86, Count of Monsanto, go ahead and enjoy your Franken-Corn Flakes with Monster Milk. You can have my bowl too.
Pretty soon you will have Franken Genes growing out of your ear or other orifice, and there will be no reversal, and you won’t get help at the hospital, since you will be on the Do Not Treat List.
May 5th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
hey!
May 5th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
by the way, German media reports it’s a hoax. Artificial scarcity to raise food prices. It’s on tageeschau.de, the main German news source.
May 5th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
PLEASE DO NOT CONFUSE FACTS: THE NUMBER OF INDIAN FARMERS WHO HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE FALLS FAR SHORT OF 100,000. MAYBE 10% OF THAT NUMBER AT THE MOST. AND THAT DUE TO THE DEBT THEY HAVE INCURRED, NOT DUE TO WHAT THEY GROW. INDIA DOES NOT HAVE A GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY PROGRAM LIKE THAT OF THE UNITED STATES, WHERE A FARMER GETS PAID REGARDLESS OF CROP YIELD.
May 5th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
#88 Hi Frank….. #87 TXGIRL bit rough on “The Count of Monsanto” Franken Flakes and Monster Milk real cute… Going to Walmart in search of it right now. I heard they have pandora’s boxes on sale at Walmart. That would be in the food section!
May 5th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
#91, Herb’s Side, the Count was joking and I was joking back. Humor, it breaks up the dismal facts we face.
What flavor is pandora’s box & how do you cook it/them?
May 5th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
lol frankenflakes..
May 5th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
TX….how do you cook it…..it cooks you from the inside out…….I am against what you are against and by the way Herb and I are one
in the same
May 5th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
#94 Count/Herb, Oooohhh, I see split personality, eh? ZSweet, I think a couple of peeps here do that too.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Of course Good! and Evil! does exist and it now exist more because of this global
elite that has used subversion, intimidation, harassment and murder even against small people.
For these people even a small voice speaking out is not allowed. Not even a different opinion
can be expoused. Using NSA/CIA/Homeland Security/FBI and others as the personal protection
force for the corporations and government subversives seeking Dictatorship in America. When
un-controlled power becomes a regular method, when the bully that is 300lbs full of muscle can
gather five other friends of similar intelligence “Low” will beat up the kind and smarter person just
because they have power and have aligned evil together to gain there agenda.
What is Success? is it successful to want to harm and use all people, is success your
power over other people? is success planning world starvation? is success breaking regular people
because you own the oil companies, you own the commodities traders, you own the banks that move
the money, and you own the military to threaten anyone who does not agree, even down to using
space weapons against just citizens. When people who have the power to change the world for better
use all power to change the world for worse! When these people who claim to be the brighter brains
in the world, seek to enslave mankind because of there fear that brighter minds will emerge and upset
there power now have access to military satellites to track,harm and attack anyone that is not part
of there group, then there is no really free markets, there is really no America, there is really no Freedom,
there is really no United States of America, there really is only slavery, murder and genocide of the
people of the world. Yes! they are immoral!!!! They really care not about morality, they care only about
power.
Let me tell you this is about bringing in all countries into “Freemasons” to be part of the group
that sells there soul, by being influenced to sell out there country to the higher powers, once they allow
there pension funds to be robbed, once they allow there banks to be robbed , once the allow
fraud in there government they these “Freemasons” who think they are part of the group and got rich,
find out they have sold out there country to those that have compromised them, by getting them to take
money and favors now come in and wipe out the people of there countries through what they call innovative
financial products such as sub-prime and derivatives market to churn the money of governments like they
used to churn individuals. The power is now controlling the fate of not only United States but even now
they have probably broke Japan, on purpose because it was a powerful Asian country that was not part
of the Bilderberg group. Of course I have not seen any Japanese Princess marry a English Monarch.
Even countries that loved America like the Japanese, with everything American being worshiped were
taken to the cleaners. Me knowing the truth and the plans for the world, when walking Japan and seeing
these Kind and good! people laugh and be friendly, my heart becomes darkened by what the “New World Order” will do to them. The vultures have already along time ago started to wipe these people
clean, along with the regular Americans that fought and died for Freedom, they the Japanese have become
victims to the American Dream and the good! of America. Unfortunately it was a big scam to rob them
also. These people who do these things have no feeling for people or mankind, these are just evil criminals
who seek there own reward.
What really! matters to them is the 500ft yacht, the 300 million house, the 400 million plane
with a throne to Mecca, The island in Dubai, the Mansion in Sun City, the island off Bermuda,the homes
on the cost of France. Of course there is “One World and One Dream” Theirs. I know that was lie because even Martin Luther King had more then one Dream I guess that is why! he was killed. Kennedy
had big Dreams for America, Just think with minds of those that were not so greedy and narcissistic, we could have created “Joy for the World” but what was created was “Hell on Earth” for those that do not
believe in Slavery and genocide.
You know what this is really about do you not? It is about weakness, not power, it is about those that really want you to believe they are intellectual genius, but can only remain in there
position now through space weapons and torture. Great Mind?
May 6th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
they are going to starve the poor and middle class,
we are the ‘useless eaters’.
this is the biggest reason.
isn’t it time for a REVOLUTION finally??
May 6th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
so what do you think TX lady? it might not be so bad after all as long they do not genetically alter my cheese wiz or my Yuengling.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Yea …. well most of the people in Austin, Houston, Dallas, SA are pigs … basically most of Texans are really really fat, ugly and stupid … in fact they are so f**king fat in Houston it disgusts me to go to professional eating buffets where cellulite, flip-flops and goombas inhabit.
We need a food shortage …
f**king drive up BBQ windows in Austin … hey can I have a side order of grease with that extra bacon/cheese sausage plate .. and the BBQ place in Elgin … oh my …. and all that mexican sour cream smothered in guacamole … guzzled with massive shiner bocks and long island ice teas.
They should just have grease injection machines at places like the Oasis or strip center central in the midst of Dell land or Pville.
But omg … GM corn tortillas … no cat’t do it .. maybe a bladder buster diet coke with dilute the evil effects we be healthy ….