Showing posts with label syngenta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label syngenta. Show all posts

Monday, July 1, 2013

Perp Pics

Please note this blog post was updated with 2 photos - one of Ms. Coba and one of Mr. DiLorenzo - on the second of July)

An anonymous commenter responding to this article  stated: 

'If you are from Oregon or Switzerland, does anyone have photos of those members of the boards of directors??? Photos now become very important. Every name that crops up should have a photo. Thanks'



That's a good idea. I'm certain the folks in the following photos are very proud of the big money they earn for their efforts to re-engineer nature. Therefore they deserve recognition whenever possible. So, without further ado, here are your candidates for Humanitarian of the Year:
Syngenta Chairman Michel Demare

Syngenta CEO Michael Mack

Syngenta Vice Chairman Jurg Witmer

Syngenta Board Member Vinita Bali

Syngenta Board Member Stefan Borgas

Syngenta Board Member Gunnar Brock

Syngenta Board Member Eleni Gabre-Madhin

Syngenta Board Member David Lawrence

Syngenta Board Member Eveline Saupper 

Syngenta Board Member jacques Vincent

Syngenta's Basil headquarters, with 'terrorists' climbing on building

Oregon Department of Agriculture's Director, Katy Soba, is owed a mugshot as well for this quote: "...this is the first time someone has deliberately taken the cowardly step of uprooting high value plants growing in our state. Regardless of how one feels about biotechnology, there is no justification for committing these crimes and it is not the kind of behavior we expect to see in Oregon agriculture." Yeah, whatever. Except I can't find a photo of the woman, as strange as that sounds. Additionally it is somewhat difficult to find pics of the people who serve as board members for Oregonians for Food and 
Shelter - the last thing I want to do is misidentify anyone. 

Thanks to a comment left by anon below, your hungry blogger confused Katy's name. Katy COBA, not Soba (that's a bit embarrassing... no, not for her) and, according to the same comment "Oregonians for Food and Shelter is the pet project of attorney John DiLorenzo (also known as "DiLo")"



So, following are photos of each, then onto the proud folks of Monsanto:


Not to be dissin' Ms. Coba... but her education (a BA) is not as extensive as one usually sees in State Director positions. If anyone knows her maiden name, I'd appreciate it in a comment below



John DiLorenzo, Oregonians for Food and Shelter (and a sales tax as this republican has tried to con the people of Oregon into accepting a sales tax to go with our income and property taxes)


Now, let's take a look at those who sit on Monsanto's Board: 




Hugh Grant. 2010 Chief Exec of the year as named by Chief Executive Magazine (I kid you not). 

Pierre Courduroux, CFO

Tom Hartley, VP and Treasurer

Steven Mizell, token brother, VP Human Resources

Nicole Ringenberg, VP and Controller

Gerald Steiner, VP Sustainability and Corporate Affairs

Brett Begemann, President and Chief Commercial Officer

Dr. Robert Fraley, Exec. VP and Chief Technology Officer

Janet Holloway, Senior VP, Chief of Staff and Community Relations

Kerry Preete, Exec VP Global Strategy

David Snively, Exec VP, Secretary and General Counsel























Saturday, June 29, 2013

The Likely Reason Fields Planted With Monsanto's GMO Sugar Beets Were Torched


Just a few weeks ago we learned that Monsanto's gmo'ed wheat seeds miraculously returned to life, a full twelve years after a test planting in 16 states, including Oregon, afterwhich the GMO wheat seeds were 'wholly destroyed'. 

If you recall, Monsanto and its whor  excuse me, 'professors' claimed that the study involved" 'Very rigorous' protocols (that) controlled the work at agricultural research stations", and at the conclusion of the test planting:  
"GM seeds were burned, buried six feet underground or shipped back to Monsanto", said Oregon State University professor Robert Zemetra. Wide "no-plant" areas were maintained around test sites to prevent pollen movement from the GM wheat to other crops. Testing sites were checked two years after the trials for the presence of "volunteer" wheat plants that might have popped up."

The 'risen from the dead' GMO'ed wheat popping up thru the Earth came at a very inopportune time for Monsanto's operations on in Oregon. 

After years of fighting vocal opposition from neighboring organic and small family farmers, buying politicians with their lobbyists and burrowing their way into Oregon State University's crop sciences department; Monsanto finally swayed Oregon's Department of Agriculture this February into allowing GMO'ed canola seeds to be planted in the Wilamette Valley. (more Here)


But since the 'very rigorous protocols' and burning and burying of the wheat seeds and the 'wide no-plant areas' failed miserably to curb Monsanto's dainty and delicate wheat seeds from springing back to life, just last month the Oregon House passed a bill banning canola seeds from the Wilamette Valley for the next five years. Now it remains to be seen if the Senate will in turn approve the bill and pass it on to the governor for signing. (more Here)

Farmers as far away as Kansas are now suing Monsanto for potentially devaluing the wheat they grow and then sell to foreign markets, and an attempt is being made to combine the lawsuits into a Class Action suit. (more Here)

Lost Cree Lake, Jackson County
And now comes word that an 'arsonist(s)' has set alight Monsanto's sugar beet plants that were, until they were torched, growing in SW Oregon's Jackson County. Note it isn't a local arson squad going after the perpetrators, but rather Federal Agents. Is it a federal crime to burn a field of, let's say, corn? I know if someone sets my home alight not to expect agents to come running from D.C. to solve the crime. But again, we live in a fascist state where corporations run the government and we the idiots foot the bill. Just as curious, why is it that this 'crime' that reportedly took place in 'early June' is only being reported on now, nearly a month after the fact? (By the way, I don't know the answer to this question, yet)


Federal investigators are asking the public to help solve middle-of-the-night crimes that left ruined fields of genetically engineered sugar beets in rural Jackson County.

The crop destruction took place over the course of two separate nights in early June, when an unknown individual or group destroyed about 6,500 sugar beet plants genetically engineered to stand up to the herbicide Roundup on a pair of privately-owned plots of land leased and managed by Syngenta.

The first act of what the FBI considers "economic sabotage and a violation of federal law involving damage to commercial agricultural enterprises," took place during the night of June 8, when about 1,000 sugar beet plants on one property were destroyed. Three nights later, the destruction continued on another property, where another 5,500 plants were ruined. 

"It doesn't look like a vehicle was used. It looks like people entered the field and destroyed the plants by hand," said Paul Minehart, head of corporate communications in North America for Syngenta, a global agriculture corporation based in Basel, Switzerland.
Estimates for the damage were not specified but the financial losses are significant, according to FBI spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele.
A group, Oregonians for Food and Shelter, is offering a reward up to $10,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the culprits. 
Oregon Department of Agriculture Director Katy Coba issued a statement about the sabotage.
“To my knowledge, this is the first time someone has deliberately taken the cowardly step of uprooting high value plants growing in our state. Regardless of how one feels about biotechnology, there is no justification for committing these crimes and it is not the kind of behavior we expect to see in Oregon agriculture,” Coba said.
More than decade ago, environmental saboteurs vandalized experimental crops across the country in a revolt against high-tech agriculture.
Foes of genetic engineering also struck in 2000, when members of the Earth Liberation Front, with roots in Oregon, set fire to agriculture offices at Michigan State University. ELF's position was that genetic engineering was "one of the many threats to the natural world as we know it."
Have information about the destruction? Ring the local offices of the FBI at (541) 773-2942 during normal business hours or call the FBI in Portland anytime at (503) 224-4181

A couple more questions. 

Why is a Swiss agricultural corporation (Syngenta is another of the very evil corporate entities that are thriving in these thoroughly judaified early days of the 21st century) growing Monsanto's crap in rural Oregon? 

And what is 'Oregonians for Food and Shelter'? Why are these Oregonians offering up $10K of their own money to find the heroes  oops - culprits - no ...  may we say .... 'terrorists' who set fire to freaky plants? And, why is setting fire to freaky plants a federal crime? And, just since I'm a bit stoned and in a quizative frame of mind right now, what is NOT
a federal crime these days? (The last one's a question I've no hope of answering - not even the sychopath-in-charge, Eric Holder, can figure that one out). 

I'll not go into great detail here, but instead give you the broad overview of what Syngenta's all about. Formed 13 years ago, Syngenta has very close ties to Monsanto, and some of their business overlaps. According to wiki,
Syngenta is a large global Swiss specialized chemicals company which markets seeds and pesticides. Syngenta is involved in biotechnology and genomic research. The company was ranked third in total seeds & biotech sales in 2009 in the commercial market.[2]Sales in 2010 were approximately US$ 11.6 billion. Syngenta employs over 27,000 people in over 90 countries. Syngenta is listed on both the Swiss stock exchange and in New York. 

Syngenta is an amalgamation of Novartis and Zeneca. Novartis was formed when Geigy, Sandoz and Ciba merged at different times. Sandoz was the pharmacological lab that produced LSD, the drug our federal government was so eager to turn the world on to that they dosed the French town of Pont-Saint-Esprit one fine morning in 1951. The residents didn't seem to take too well to trippin' out - madness and death ensued and the outbreak was blamed on a local baker who must have baked a really funky batch of bread that early morning. I don't know what happened to the baker, but I can't imagine his business survived. Oh well.... have to break a few eggs and all that...

Oh, and why is this fine Swiss corporation growing these altered sugar beets in Oregon? Oh right - because it is against Swiss law to grow GMO crops on Swiss soil. 

And Oregonians for Food and Shelter? Aside from the fact that they came up with a goose-bump inducing name, OFFS really isn't about 'food and shelter' for the masses. Instead it represents corporate interests that just so happen to make a great deal of money cutting trees and growing crops and selling chemicals for business interests to spray on forests and farm and ranch lands. 

FORESTRY & WOOD PRODUCTS:


Eric Geyer, 2012 Chairman, Roseburg Forest Products

Jerry Anderson, Hancock Timber Resource Group

Luke Bergey, Miami Corporation
Ron Borisch, Longview Timber Corp.
Andy Bryant, Yamhill Environmental Services, Timber Division
Mike Fahey, Columbia Helicopters, Inc.
Jake Gibbs, Lone Rock Timber Management Company
David Hampton, Hampton Affiliates
Chris Jarmer, Oregon Forest Industries Council
Greg Miller, Weyerhaeuser Company
Ted Reiss, Seneca Jones Timber Company

AGRICULTURE & FOOD PROCESSORS:

Mark Dunn, 2012 Vice Chair J.R. Simplot Company
Barry Bushue, Oregon Farm Bureau
Jean Godfrey, Columbia Gorge Fruit Growers
Mike Iverson, Oregon Fresh Market Growers Association
Rick Jacobson, NORPAC Foods, Inc.
Jerry Marguth, Oregon Seed Council
Blake Rowe, Oregon Wheat Growers League
Carol Russell, Russell Cranberry Company
Craig Smith, Northwest Food Processors Association
Currently vacant Oregon Association of Nurseries

CHEMICAL, PROFESSIONAL APPLICATORS, ROW:

Doug Hoffman, 2012 Secretary WILCO – Winfield, LLC
Bruce Alber, Past Chair Wilbur-Ellis Company
Curt Dannen, Crop Production Services, Inc.
Mike Diamond, Monsanto Company
Debbie Ego, Rasmussen Spray Service
Danelle Farmer, Syngenta Crop Protection
Cindy Finlayson, Umatilla Electric Cooperative, Inc.
Jim Fitzgerald, Far West AgriBusiness Association
Jerry Harchenko, Pacific NW Aerial Applicators Alliance
Brendan McCarthy, Portland General Electric
Kent Pittard, DuPont
April Snell, Oregon Water Resources Congress
Bryan Stuart, Western Regional Alliance
Andrea Vogt, RISE

All those big names, I'd expect more than a measly $10K reward. Some of these old families have more than $10K in change lost under their couch cushions. 

But the real rub is this:

Syngenta and other growers of Sugar Beets in Southern Oregon are breaking laws and, so far, are not being held accountable: 

Biotech company violated USDA isolation requirements for GM sugar beet crops in Southern Oregon; USDA does nothing

Residents of Jackson County, Oregon have organized an initiative to ban the production of genetically modified plants in the county. Organizers of GMO-Free Jackson County have submitted a county ordinance and are collecting signatures with the aim of putting the initiative on the ballot for an election in 2013 or 2014. The initiative was launched in response to concerns that seeds for genetically modified Roundup Ready sugar beets were being grown in close proximity—and illegally—to producers of organic crops.

Illegal plantings all over the Rogue Valley

Last February, Chris Hardy, owner of Village Farm in Ashland, Oregon, discovered that a neighbor was growing GM sugar beet seeds just one-quarter of a mile from his small organic farm in Ashland, Oregon.
The neighbor was growing the beets under contract with biotechnology company Syngenta for seed production.
The problem was that his neighbor’s GM sugar beet plants could cross pollinate with—and contaminate—Hardy’s chard and table beet plants, ruining their organic status.
“I told him ‘are you serious?’” Hardy said. “I thought this was outrageous.”
Another even bigger problem was that the GM plantings violated US Department of Agriculture requirements, which call for a 4-mile separation distance between GM beets and other Beta seeds, which includes Swiss chard and table beets. From February 2011 until July 2012, GM sugar beets were partially deregulated by USDA and subject to the 4-mile separation distance.
Hardy contacted Syngenta about the violation and a company representative told him that there were other GM beet seed production fields throughout the Rogue Valley in Southern Oregon.
“He said there was a checkerboard of fields ranging in size from one-quarter to 10 acres being grown from South Ashland up to Grants Pass, a distance of about 25 miles,” Hardy said.
Hardy also contacted the USDA’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service about Syngenta’s violation of the 4-mile buffer. The agency sent out an inspector who interviewed Hardy and several other farmers, but nothing resulted from it.
“Syngenta was very cavalier, hopscotching all over the valley,” said Brian Comnes, a retired computer project manager in Ashland and one of the organizers of the GMO-free initiative.
Another organic farmer, Steve Fry, owner of Fry Family Farms in Medford, was forced to destroy a chard crop because he found that a neighbor was growing GM sugar beets 400 yards from his farm. Fry was growing the chard for seed but his customer refused to buy the seed because he was concerned it had been contaminated by the GM beets.
“I can’t grow chard seed because the Syngenta guy is down the street,” Fry said. “Once GMOs are in town, everyone has to go away.”

Collecting signatures to put GMO ban on ballot

Following the discovery of the GM beets, Hardy called a meeting of farmers and citizens in Jackson County to alert them, and they organized GMO-Free Jackson County. In May, the group filed a proposed county ordinance that would make it illegal to grow GM plants in the county.
According to Comnes, the group has already collected the required 4662 signatures to get the ordinance on the ballot, but they aim to get more in case some signatures aren’t valid.
“We’d like to get 6500 by December 8 (the deadline to qualify for the next county election),” Comnes said, noting that the Ashland City Council also backs the initiative.
If they achieve that goal, Ordinance No. 635 would appear on the ballot for the next county election, which could be as early as March 2013 or as late as May 2014. If Jackson County voters pass the initiative, the ordinance would become law a year later, meaning it may not take effect until 2015.
Until then, Hardy says it’s a “crapshoot” for Rogue Valley farmers to grow organic chard and table beets because of the GMO contamination threat.
On top of that, in July USDA-APHIS completely deregulated GM sugar beets so the 4-mile isolation distance to protect chard and table beets is no longer a requirement.
If Jackson County voters pass Ordinance No. 635, the county would become the third in the US to pass a GMO ban, following Mendocino and Marin counties in California who passed similar laws in 2004.
- See more at: http://www.non-gmoreport.com/articles/november2012/illegalgmsugarbeetsoregon.php#sthash.hx5HghHv.dpuf

I did check, but so far I can find no evidence that our heroes at Oregonians for Food and Shelter have ponied up a $10K reward for information leading to the prosecution of Syngenta.... but now you know why hero(es) burned those god damned gmo'ed sugar beets in the first place. 

Unfortunately, though not surprisingly, the FBI hasn't yet published a toll-free number for folks to call to report GMO'ed crops being grown illegally in Oregon or any other American State. Perhaps they simply don't have the funds or manpower for such a costly and encompassing investigation... 


Monday, May 20, 2013

The Pusher

Surely all have seen or read of Bill Gates love affair with vaccines. Over the last decade or so, he's committed about $15 billion of his fortune to inventing new vaccines and seeing vaccines delivered to the most remote corners of Earth. 

The obvious assumption is that Bill Gates likes poor people and wants to see them live healthy, long lives. 

But, Bill's also terribly concerned about the world's ever-increasing population. He's certain that every human on Earth contributes to global warming. He's certain global warming is the single greatest threat his family faces. 

So - if you were incredibly rich, with literally billions of dollars burning a hole in your pocket, and you were also frightened by people because you believe others, simply by being alive, will destroy the Earth, would you therefore give away a great deal of your wealth to insure those others have long life-spans? OR, would you give away a great deal of your wealth to insure those others have artificially shortened life spans?

In order to answer that question, it may be helpful to consider the family that produced Bill Gates. 

Bill Senior was a Seattle lawyer. According to a 2009 Wall Street Journal article, Sr. actually created Jr.'s foundation, the one that is so generous with vaccines: When huge wealth put new pressure on the son, the elder Gates stepped in to start what is now the world's largest private philanthropy. Bill Gates Sr., 83 years old, is now co-chair of his son's $30 billion philanthropy, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He has avoided the spotlight. The public details of his life include little beyond his official biography at the foundation, which says he was a Seattle lawyer, World War II veteran, nonprofit volunteer and father of three...  For the past 13 years, the father has been the sole Gates family member with a daily presence at the foundation, starting it from the basement of his home and minding it while his son finished up his final decade running Microsoft. They now work directly together for the first time.... 



The father's law firm would also end up representing Microsoft, which became the firm's biggest client.
Bill Sr. eased his son's worries about taking Microsoft public when Bill fretted that it would be a distraction for employees. The offering would turn Bill Gates into a billionaire. It also spawned the next challenge for the family.

After the windfall, Mrs. Gates pressed her son to get into philanthropy. At his father's law office late one night, someone present recalls, Bill quarreled with his mother as she urged him to give money away.

"I'm just trying to run my company!" he snapped, says the person in the office at the time. Mr. Gates says that at the time he wasn't opposed to philanthropic work, he just didn't want to be distracted from his duties at Microsoft.
Eventually, she got her son to start a program at Microsoft to raise money for the United Way. He also followed his mother onto the national United Way board in the 1980s.
But as Bill Gates's wealth grew, letters from Seattle-area nonprofits asking for donations piled up. He says he planned to get serious about philanthropy after retiring from Microsoft, or at about 60 years old...
About six months later, standing in a line for a movie with his son and daughter-in-law, Melinda, the elder Mr. Gates again broached the idea of philanthropy. He suggested he could start sifting through the requests for money and give some out.
That plan would be fast-tracked after Mrs. Gates was diagnosed with a rare form of breast cancer. As she battled the disease, she continued to urge her son to do more philanthropy. Ms. Gates passed away in June 1994.
A week later, the software mogul set aside about $100 million to create a foundation that his father could run. Bill Gates Sr. later sat at his kitchen table and wrote the first check, $80,000 to a local cancer program.
In the early days, Mr. Gates Sr., who soon remarried, would scribble a few notes on the most-promising requests for donations. He would then put them in a cardboard wine box that he periodically sent to his son's house. The box would come back with the younger Mr. Gates's responses. Mr. Gates Sr. would then reply to all the grant seekers, sometimes including a $1 million check with little more than a single-page letter of congratulations.
Bill Sr. and a former Microsoft executive managed the foundation, doling out money, overseeing a staff of hundreds and expanding its purview to areas like education and vaccines.
Mr. Gates Sr. says he hasn't lost sight of the fact that he was playing the role of caretaker until his son and daughter-in-law took the helm. And after 53 years, he knows to give his son space.
"He has very fixed ideas of some things," says Mr. Gates Sr. "The dynamic of the family is that you don't cross him on those things, because it's a waste of time." 

Aside from practicing law, Senior worked with a number of NGO's, as well as the Washington State Bar, back in the day:  Gates Sr. takes a special interest in local giving, in part because of his long history as a leader of King County United Way, Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, University of Washington Board of Regents and two dozen other Northwest groups. Gates Sr. also has decades of legal experience as a senior partner of Preston, Gates & Ellis and president of both the Seattle/King County and the Washington State Bar Associations ... we're also told both Junior and Senior employ logic in their foundation's work: Foundation president Stonesifer says Gates shares his son's "impatience with fuzzy thinking, a real eagerness to get to the meat of the matter, the way they pull apart issues and problems. What stands out about Bill Sr. is his decades using these skills as a statesman... Rather than patching a problem, she says, his approach is to tackle its root. 

Though very little has been said about it, we also know, thanks to this 2003 interview with Bill Moyers, that: When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.... 

You likely know of the genesis of Planned Parenthood. Eugenics (against blacks and the poor, especially) was Margaret Sanger's calling card. If interested, you can read more about her here.



So, we know Jr. wasn't really interested in philanthropy (though both his parents spent a great deal of their time volunteering with NGO's) and he was much more interested in running Microsoft. Also, Patty Stonsifer, a former Microsoft VP and later boss of Jr's 'Bill and Melinda Gates' Foundation' says both father and son detest 'fuzzy thinking' and are always eager to 'get to the meat of the matter'. Even if he came to philanthropy rather late, Jr has always professed an interest in 'reproductive health'. 

Taking all of the above into account, now watch this short video: 



The Gates family has also financed the 'Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa' (AGRA), donating over a quarter of a billion dollars to its coffers, and the foundation works closely with Monsanto. 

It is interesting to learn a bit more about AGRAThe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, along with David Rockefeller’s Rockefeller Foundation, the creators of the GMO biotechnology, are also financing a project called The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) headed by former UN chief, Kofi Annan. Accepting the role as AGRA head in June 2007, Annan expressed his “gratitude to the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and all others who support our African campaign.” The AGRA board is dominated by people from both the Gates’ and Rockefeller foundations.

Monsanto, DuPont, Dow, Syngenta and other major GMO agribusiness giants are reported at the heart of AGRA, using it as a back-door to spread their patented GMO seeds across Africa under the deceptive label, ‘bio-technology,’ a euphemism for genetically engineered patented seeds. The person from the Gates Foundation responsible for its work with AGRA is Dr. Robert Horsch, a 25-year Monsanto GMO veteran who was on the team that developed Monsanto’s RoundUp Ready GMO technologies. His job is reportedly to use Gates’ money to introduce GMO into Africa.

To date South Africa is the only African country permitting legal planting of GMO crops. In 2003, Burkina Faso authorized GMO trials. In 2005, Kofi Annan’s Ghana drafted bio-safety legislation and key officials expressed their intentions to pursue research into GMO crops. AGRA is being used to create networks of “agro-dealers” across Africa, at first with no mention of GMO seeds or herbicides, in order to have the infrastructure in place to massively introduce GMO.

The former UN Sec. General, the Rockefeller family, and the Gates Foundation, not to mention Monsanto... Hmmm. 

Which brings us to some recent news out of Africa. 

Turns out dozens of children are ill after receiving the 'gift' of immunization. On December 20, 2012, a vaccination tragedy hit the small village of Gouro, located in northern Chad, Africa. According to the newspaper La Voix, out of five hundred children who received the new meningitis vaccine MenAfriVac, at least 40 of them between the ages of 7 and 18 have become paralyzed. Those children also suffered hallucinations and convulsions.

Since this report, the true extent of this tragedy is coming to light, as parents of these vaccinated children have reported yet more injuries. The authorities in the area are shaken, as citizens set fire to a sanitary administration vehicle in a demonstration of their frustration and anger at the government’s negligence.[1]

“We wish that our children would get their health back,” shared the parent of a sick child.
MenAfriVac is a new vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India Limited. According to The Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP), it is the first vaccine to gain approval to travel outside the cold chain, meaning that the vaccine can be transported without refrigeration or ice packs for up to four days:
“The meningitis A vaccine known as MenAfriVac®, created to meet the needs of Africa’s meningitis belt, can now be kept in a controlled temperature chain (CTC) at temperatures of up to 40°C for up to four days, a decision that could help increase campaign efficiency and coverage and save funds normally spent maintaining the challenging cold chain during the “last mile” of vaccine delivery.”
The data on the MenAfriVac vaccine is further backed by the World Health Organization’s website and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation website.
So, why does this information differ vastly from the information given on the manufacturer’s website? Serum Institute of India Ltd. stated under the section marked STORAGE:
“MenAfriVac should be stored and transported between 2-8ÂșC. Protect from light. The diluent should be stored at 25°C. It is recommended to protect the reconstituted vaccine from direct sunlight. Do not exceed the expiry date stated on the external packaging.”
Mr. M., the cousin of two of the vaccine-injured children, who currently remain critically ill and hospitalized, explained that many of the children reacted within 24 hours of receiving the vaccine. He said that at first the children vomited and complained of headaches, before falling to the floor with uncontrollable convulsions while bent over with saliva coming from their mouths.
He shared that on December 26, 2012,  the Minister of Health and the Minister of Social Security visited Gouro, bringing with them two Members of Parliament. He said that after some discussion, they decided to evacuate approximately 50 paralyzed children to a hospital over three hundred miles away in N’Djamena, the capital city of Chad.
He added that the government responded to the tragedy by paying the parents money in a desperate bid to silence them, further stating that many of the parents are traumatized and confused. (I wonder from which pocket this hush money originated... would the government of Chad be stressed and wringing its hands over the thought of this info becoming public? Doubtful, at best. The ones who'd pay bribes are more likely the ones who financed the vaccines in the first place... and considering the media blackout, I wonder how many other children and their families in Africa are experiencing the same problems after being vaccinated... hundreds? Thousands??)
As reported in La Voix, according to a member of the medical staff, as well as a comment from Dr. Daugla Oumagoum Moto, the director of the Center of International Health Support (CSSI), the reactions that these children have suffered are not typical of this type of vaccine against meningitis, which they say are normally fever, vomiting, and headaches, not the adverse reactions experienced by the hospitalized children...
[Said Mr. 'M':] “In addition, the government and the media have gone silent about the tragedy, while there are still facts requiring clarification whatever contingencies. All this disturbs us and makes us fear the worst effects for the future. For the not knowing of what is going on behind the scenes of the Minister of Health or elsewhere (WHO, UNICEF).  As parents our priorities is that how to tell our children, it is very sad that entire city is paralyzed. We are begging our government act quickly as possible to save our children but it is too slow and lack of motivation. Therefore we call assistance for everyone in the world to intervene.” (his exact words from an email)...


This tragedy raises many unanswered questions. Why were 500 children vaccinated in a region that has only one doctor, who was unable to provide advice or treatment for adverse events until one week later? Why did the manufacturer of MenAfriVac specifically advise that the product should be stored and transported at much lower temperatures than The Meningitis Project claimed? Why were the parents of these vaccine-injured children paid hush money?

Why are vaccines being pushed so strongly in a country which lacks clean drinking water and basic sanitation services? UNICEF blames Chad’s recurrent outbreaks of disease, including meningitis, on this vital, common-sense need. [8] Why have major organizations spent $571 million on a vaccination project, when wells to provide access to clean drinking water have been constructed for less than $3,000 by the International Committee of the Red Cross? 
How can at least 40 children become paralyzed after receiving a vaccine, and no news organizations provide coverage of this disturbing situation? The media has gone completely silent. There appear to be no reports of this incident on any government website. The only available information, apart from this one newspaper report, appears to be buried on a small blog titled Le blog de Makaila, which has been reporting regular updates on the situation. 
 
Where are statements from the involved organizations – WHO, GAVI, PATH, UNICEF and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?  Why has this vaccination program not been suspended? What are these organizations going to do about the atrocity that has happened in Gouro?

All worthy questions.
The Gates family, the Rockefeller family, the United Nations... all teamed together working feverishly to save the lives of the poor... or... working feverishly to cull the poor in an effort to 'prevent global warming'... I know there's nothing sexy about clean, potable water, yet these families, and the UN, say nothing when corporate vampires show up and take over a city or regions water supply and begin charging 10 times what the market was used to bearing... and if there's one thing residents of the third world need more than anything, it is pure water. 

Remember though, we were told by a woman close to both Sr and Jr... they don't like fuzzy thinking. Stonesifer said: 
'...a real eagerness to get to the meat of the matter, the way they pull apart issues and problems. What stands out about Bill Sr. is his decades using these skills as a statesman... Rather than patching a problem, she says, his approach is to tackle its root.'

If you believe global warming is caused by humans... too many 'useless breathers/breeders'... what would you do? Try to save as many of them as possible in hopes that you can later run a successful 'family planning' ruse on them? Or, would you look upon humans as a vector control agent might do upon mosquitoes? Limit their breeding grounds and thru chemicals castrate the males and females and destroy their offspring? 


The power structure, alas, would rather push needles as the cure for what ails this world. Or rather, perhaps, the needle is simply another weapon, this one entrusted to the Gates Clan, to further the elites' war on the poor and middle classes worldwide.