GAIN-OF-FUNCTION

Stop the Mad Scientists and the Bio-Arms Race

It’s time to stop the microbe madness of engineering and weaponizing viruses, bacteria, insects, and micro-organisms.

The Chinese military and the Pentagon, aided and abetted by Silicon Valley, Big Pharma, and the global economic elite, want us to believe that so-called “dual use” (military and medical) “Gain-of-Function” experiments, now being carried out across the world, giving rise to global epidemics such as Lyme Disease and COVID-19, and deliberate releases such as the 2001 Anthrax attacks, are legal, safe, and necessary. The myth that reckless dual-use science can be carried out safely is a criminal lie with now obvious catastrophic consequences.

It’s time to put human survival ahead of partisan politics, Big Pharma profiteering, and the ongoing superpower biological weapons arms race. It’s time to “bullet proof” the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention and close the loopholes that have allowed bioweapon engineering to be carried out under the guise of bio-defense or bio-medical research. It’s time to implement mandatory global inspections (like we basically have for nuclear weapons), and mandatory, draconian penalties for violations. Otherwise the next pandemic, whether deliberately or accidentally-released, could put an end to us all.

SIGN THE PETITION: Stop the Genetic Engineering of Viruses! Shut Down All Biowarfare Labs Immediately!

DEMOCRACY

Fascism, Witch-Hunting, and Democracy

Charles Eisenstein writes:

“Today, the Western world and particularly the United States appears to be in the midst of a classic… sacrificial crisis. Once-reliable social institutions crumble. The public loses trust in its authorities: political, financial, legal, and medical. The new generation is poorer and sicker than the last.

Few of any political persuasion believe that society is working or that we are on the right track. Reason, markets, and technology have failed to redeem their utopian promise. The gods have failed us, and we glimpse monsters emerging from their shadows: ecological collapse, nuclear Armageddon, the poisoning of our bodies, minds, and world. Simmering differences and rivalries, once subsumed under a general civic consensus, take on a new intensity as each side grows more militant.

As confidence wanes in the state’s capacity to hold evil at bay, latent ritualistic instincts come back to life…”

COVID-19 ORIGINS

Fauci et al. Muzzling the COVID Lab-Leak Theory

Anthony Fauci in front of the Wuhan Institute of Virology

In its September 2019 report, shortly before the COVID-19 outbreak, the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board — a joint arm of the World Health Organization and the World Bank — warned that technological advances “allow for disease-creating micro-organisms to be engineered or recreated in laboratories,” and that the release of such organisms could cause greater devastation than a natural outbreak.

According to the board, accidental release of such manmade organisms could actually be far more devastating than a natural outbreak. “Accidental or deliberate events caused by high-impact respiratory pathogens pose global catastrophic biological risks,” the board stated in its September 2019 report, titled “A World At Risk.”

In passing, the report also mentioned the need to control the flow of information: “A deliberate release would complicate outbreak response; in addition to the need to decide how to counter the pathogen, security measures would come into play limiting information-sharing and fomenting social divisions.”

Learn More: How Fauci, Other Scientists Muzzled the COVID Lab-Leak Theory

GLYPHOSATE

Glyphosate, Gut/Microbiome Health, and COVID

While the scientific community scurries to find solutions to treating this newly emergent virus, such as a COVID-19 vaccine, the elephant in the room to be addressed is why is the U.S. surging in the number of cases while many other countries have leveled off or are declining in numbers?

One likely reason is because the collective microbiome or gut health (which directly affects the strength of our immune system) in the U.S. is so poor.

And why is our gut health so poor? U.S. consumers, on the whole, likely ingest more of Monsanto/Bayer’s glyphosate-contaminated food and water than any other nation in the world.

Glyphosate decreases beneficial bacteria while assisting the growth of pathogens such as clostridial species. Considering the fact that the average daily diet of most Americans is abundant in glyphosate as well as other pesticides and nutrient deficient (from soil depletion), one can appreciate that chronic dosing of glyphosate will result in an underperforming immune system which is unable to meet the challenges of modern day infections.

Learn more: COVID-19, The Gut Microbiota and Glyphosate: What are the Links?

COVID-19

The Panic Pandemic

John Tierney, a former The New York Times reporter, in an article for City Journal analyses the “Panic Epidemic of 2020-21,” writes:

“The United States suffered through two lethal waves of contagion in the past year and a half. The first was a viral pandemic that killed about one in 500 Americans—typically, a person over 75 suffering from other serious conditions. The second… was a moral panic that swept the nation’s guiding institutions.

“Instead of keeping calm and carrying on, the American elite flouted the norms of governance, journalism, academic freedom—and, worst of all, science. They misled the public about the origins of the virus and the true risk that it posed. Ignoring their own carefully prepared plans for a pandemic, they claimed unprecedented powers to impose untested strategies, with terrible collateral damage. As evidence of their mistakes mounted, they stifled debate by vilifying dissenters, censoring criticism, and suppressing scientific research…”

Read more: The Panic Pandemic

REGENERATION

OCA and Allies in Mexico Devise Revolutionary Method to Regenerate Land and Stabilize the Climate

OCA International Director Ronnie Cummins in a regenerative agave field

Mongabay magazine writer, Sue Branford reports:

“In Mexico, a university-educated, small-scale peasant farmer came up with an untried innovative solution that not only restores degraded land to productivity, but also greatly enhances soil carbon storage, provides a valuable new crop, and even offers a hopeful diet for diabetics. The process utilizes two plants commonly found on semiarid lands that grow well under drought conditions: agave and mesquite. The two are intercropped and then the agave is fermented and mixed with the mesquite to produce an excellent, inexpensive, and very marketable fodder for grazing animals.”

Branford quotes OCA’s Ronnie Cummins, a co-director of the Mexico-based Billion Agave Project:

“We think agroforestry is at the cutting edge for agriculture regeneration. About 40% of the world’s terrain is arid or semiarid and different varieties of agave and nitrogen-fixing native trees are already growing in half of these areas. The possibilities are immense.”

Watch: Agave Power with OCA's International Director, Ronnie Cummins

MILLIONS AGAINST MONSANTO

Monsanto’s ‘Willful’ Disregard for Safety

Monsanto/Bayer lost another appeals court decision in the sweeping U.S. Roundup litigation, continuing to struggle to find a way out from under the crush of tens of thousands of claims alleging that Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicides cause cancer.

In a decision handed down recently, the 1st Appellate District in the Court of Appeal for California court states:

“We find that substantial evidence supports the jury’s verdicts. Monsanto’s conduct evidenced reckless disregard of the health and safety of the multitude of unsuspecting consumers it kept in the dark. This was not an isolated incident; Monsanto’s conduct involved repeated actions over a period of many years motivated by the desire for sales and profit.”

Learn More: Court Rules Against Bayer in Roundup Cancer Trial Appeal, Cites Monsanto’s ‘Willful’ Disregard for Safety

SCIENTIFIC TESTIMONY

Monsanto’s Glyphosate Causes Cancer

A former U.S. government scientist testifying in the fourth Roundup cancer trial to be held in the United States told a California jury this week that multiple research studies conducted over many years show an “almost certain” connection between Monsanto glyphosate-based herbicides and cancer.

His testimony, in conjunction with another court ruling (that Monsanto failed to warn the public of cancer risks) has rattled Monsanto/Bayer and its stockholders, setting the corporation up for billions of dollars in additional liability.

Learn more: Scientist Testifies in Roundup Trial

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Battling On

Much of OCA’s work is focused on educating consumers and engaging them in the battle to protect and expand our organic food and agriculture system. But it’s also a battle to protect our health.

Never has that mission been more urgent than now. COVID-19 has taught us how valuable a healthy immune system is—and how a polluted environment and a highly processed, pesticide-contaminated industrial diet compromise our health and leave us vulnerable.

Our job would be easier if we could focus exclusively on food and agriculture. But unfortunately, the corporations that benefit from corrupting the food system, polluting our waterways and degrading our soil, also corrupt our political system.

As long as food and agriculture policy is written by Big Food and Big Ag, our food, our environment—and our health—will suffer.

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