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LITTLE BYTES

Essential Reading and Viewing for the Week

Deep Dish: An Insider Look at Growing your Own Food

Coronamania, Green Acres, and Living Among Lunatics

True or False: Evaluating Agricultural Solutions for Climate Change

Russell Brand: Who is Framing Our Reality?

Twitter Accounts Suspended for “False COVID Information” Have Increased 70%

Meryl Nass: How Do You Know We Are at War?

Wall Street’s Role in the Wheat Crisis

How the Pesticide Industry Tried to Stop a Bill to Protect Bees in Maryland

Joe Rogan Reviews TikTok’s Crazy Terms of Service

Tessa Fights Robots: Pandemism

Why Have So Few Children Been Vaccinated for COVID-19?

Monsanto/Bayer’s Dirty Work: Attack Machine in High Gear

Who Owns Facebook?

Ray McGovern: Media Miss Major Moves on Russia-Ukraine

Humans on Earth Have Inalienable Rights


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GATES WATCH

From the Archives: Bill Gates and Neo-Feudalism by RFK Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy writes:

“Bill Gates has quietly made himself the largest owner of farmland in the United States. For a man obsessed with monopoly control, the opportunity to also dominate food production must seem irresistible… The global lockdowns that Bill Gates helped orchestrate and cheerlead have bankrupted more than 100,000 businesses in the U.S. alone and plunged a billion people into poverty and deadly food insecurity that, among other devastating harms, kill 10,000 African children monthly — while increasing Gates’ wealth by $20 billion. His $133 billion fortune makes him the world’s fourth wealthiest man.

Gates has been using that newfound cash to expand his power over global populations by buying devalued assets at fire-sale prices and maneuvering for monopoly control over public health, privatizing prisons, online education and global communications while promoting digital currencies, high tech surveillance, data harvesting systems and artificial intelligence

Gates has learned to fatten himself on global crises, whether it’s pandemics, climate, famine or mass extinction. Climate change has given Gates an excuse to create monopolies over seed, food and agriculture.

To cloak his dystopian plans for humanity in benign intentions, Gates has expropriated the rhetoric of ‘sustainability,’ ‘biodiversity,’ ‘good stewardship’ and ‘climate.’ These causes are all grim realities that pose existential threats to our children and require urgent attention. However, Gates’ record exposes his benevolent intentions as masquerades for his agenda to maximize personal profit and control.

It’s baffling to me how so many of my friends in the environmental movement have swallowed Gates’ chicanery. In my 40 years as a climate activist, I saw zero evidence of Gates’ funding of genuine climate advocacy; the Gates Foundation is AWOL in the climate wars.

The leading climate groups, National Resource Defense Council, Environmental Defense Fund, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Waterkeepers, etc., receive virtually nothing from the world’s largest philanthropy.

His investment history suggests that the climate crisis, for Gates and his cronies, is no more than an alibi for intrusive social control, “Great Reset”-scale surveillance, and massive science fiction geoengineering boondoggles, including his demented and terrifying vanity projects to spray the stratosphere with calcium chloride or seawater to slow warming, to deploy giant balloons to saturate our atmosphere with reflective particles to blot out the sun, or his perilous gambit of releasing millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in South Florida.

When we place these nightmare schemes in context alongside the battery of experimental vaccines he forces on 161 million African children annually, it’s pretty clear that Gates regards us all as his lab rats.”

Learn more: Bill Gates and Neo-Feudalism: A Closer Look at Farmer Bill


WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

Russell Brand on What Happens in Davos, Where the Global Elite Meet-Up?

In this 10-minute video, Russell Brand interviews Peter S. Goodman, an award-winning journalist and the author of Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World about the annual event sponsored by the World Economic Forum. Do the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world get together every year in this Swiss alpine village to conspire how to run the world? Do these Uber-Capitalists believe their own rhetoric (i.e. “stakeholder capitalism, solving climate change, eliminating poverty”) about improving the state of the world? Do Bill Gates, Black Rock, and the other billionaires, politicians, and celebrities actually believe that they have our best interests at heart?

Watch Russell Brand’s interview with Peter S. Goodman


PUBLIC HEALTH

WHO Calls on Silicon Valley to Censor “Monkeypox Misinformation”

OCA has been forced to censor what we put out over Facebook and other Silicon Valley platforms such as YouTube and Twitter ever since FB in 2020 threatened to cut us off from our two million social media followers (on the OCA and Millions Against Monsanto FB pages). At the same time Senator Elizabeth Warren threatened Amazon with crippling legislation unless they depressed sales of my best-selling book with Dr. Mercola, The Truth About COVID-19. In this climate of government censorship, Barnes and Noble and other bookstores refused to carry our book, which has nonetheless sold over 350,000 copies.

If you subscribe to Google’s Daily News Alert on the Organic Consumers Association, what you get very day in your email box is a lying, slanderous post by the Genetic Literacy Project, a front group for Monsanto and the genetic engineering industry attacking OCA and our allies. Look us up on the industry-controlled Wikipedia site and what you get is more slander and misinformation.

Despite the official censorship, OCA puts out a non-censored edition of Organic Bytes to our 300,000 subscribers like yourself every week. In addition we post numerous articles on our website “newsfeed every day, while airing our non-censored videos and podcasts on Rokfin, a free speech channel. But obviously OCA is not the only truth-telling/activist organization regularly threatened, slandered, and censored.

As Reclaim the Net reports: “The World Health Organization (WHO), an unelected health agency that was given sweeping censorship powers during the COVID-19 pandemic, has called for all social media platforms to work with it to ‘prevent and counter’ monkeypox ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation.’

During a COVID-19 press briefing, WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, claimed that ‘stigma and discrimination can be as dangerous as any virus, and can fuel the outbreak.’

He continued by invoking so-called COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation and urged ‘all social media platforms, tech companies, and news organizations to work with us to prevent and counter harmful information.’

While Dr. Tedros didn’t specify which statements he wanted Big Tech to suppress under his proposed monkeypox misinformation censorship plan, numerous media outlets have complained that those who call monkeypox a “gay disease” or frame monkeypox as “exclusively affecting men who have sex with men” are spreading misinformation.

Tedros didn’t go as far as calling these statements misinformation but he did follow up his call for the censorship of monkeypox misinformation by discussing monkeypox cases and transmission.

‘Although 98% of cases so far are among men who have sex with men, anyone exposed can get monkeypox, which is why WHO recommends that countries take action to reduce the risk of transmission to other vulnerable groups, including children, pregnant women, and those who are immunosuppressed,’ Dr. Tedros said. ‘In addition to transmission through sexual contact, monkeypox can be spread in households through close contact between people, such as hugging and kissing, and on contaminated towels or bedding.’ “

Learn more: Who Calls for Big Tech to Work With It To Censor Monkeypox “Misinformation”


BILLION AGAVE PROJECT

How Mezcal Producers Can Recycle Plant Waste & Produce Valuable Animal Silage

Worldpress reports:

“Mezcal, Mexico’s traditional agave spirit, has enraptured palates across the country and abroad. But as demand soars, a more bitter note emerges: the amount of waste its production generates and the risks that poses for the very environment that sustains it.

Like tequila, mezcal is a distilled beverage produced from agave, a plant native to the arid and semiarid zones of the Americas. Both mezcal and tequila are produced by cooking and fermenting the piña, the heart of the agave, and distilling its juice. The byproducts of these processes are highly polluting, resistant to decomposition, and potentially toxic for aquatic life if dumped in rivers without treatment.

Some farmers and researchers are coming up with solutions to reuse all this waste. Besides protecting the environment, they hope to create jobs along the mezcal value chain. And while the tequila industry grew exponentially in the past decades with little consideration for the environment, most mezcal “palenques,” as mezcal factories are known, are still small, family-run businesses. These solutions could offer an opportunity for mezcaleros to make their product environmentally friendly from the start.”

Read more: How Mezcal Makers Recycle the Spirit’s Vast Waste

Learn more about Regeneration International and OCA’s Billion Agave Agroforestry Project

Via Organica‘s Monthly Newsletter for August 2022


GENETIC ENGINEERING

Synthetic Biology: The Future of Food?

The Environmental Health Symposium writes:

“The notion that high-tech, ‘farm free’ lab food is a viable solution to the food crisis is simply a continuation of the same mechanistic mindset which has brought us to where we are today–the idea that we are separate from and outside of nature.”-Vandana Shiva

“The only consumer we care about with our products is the hardcore meat eater. That’s probably why one of the first of these products, Impossible Burger, was engineered to ‘bleed.’”
-Pat Brown, founder and CEO of Impossible Foods

“My goal in starting this company is to eradicate animal agriculture by 2035.”-Pat Brown, founder and CEO of Impossible Foods

“Demand for vegan meat has soared, with retail sales of plant-based meat alternatives reaching $7 billion in 2020 — an increase of 27% from 2019, according to one report. Going forward, the meat value chain could be simplified dramatically, as ‘clean meat’ labs could take the place of farms, feedlots, and slaughterhouses.” Bloomberg News August 2021

“While we were distracted with Covid-19, lockdowns, mask mandates, and other conundrums, manufacturers of artificial food were busy at work creating the ‘new food economy.’ Since the strategy for getting pesticide-intensive GMO crops onto your plate or your backyard is failing (see Kellogg Commits to Phasing Out Glyphosate by 2025 and Bayer to Remove Glyphosate from Lawn & Garden Roundup Products) the world of evermore frightening fake foods is moving boldly forward.

Called ‘synbio’ (short for synthetic biology), this new technology promises foods that are ‘planet-friendly, low-input, low-carbon, methane-free, heart-healthy, high fiber, plant-based’ through a technology that can create everything from honey to lobster, cheese, milk, chicken, and beef simply from ‘plants.’

The most recognizable synbio is the ‘Impossible Burger,’ known for its apparent similarity to the real thing. Its ingredients are GMO corn and soy, wheat, potato, and coconut. Innocuous enough, yes? What the ingredients don’t reveal is the actual process by which the ‘real beef texture and taste’ is created.

The secret ingredient is a genetically-engineered yeast that produces a heme-like protein also known as soyleghemoglobin. And, as the company, Impossible Foods, declares on their website, ‘that is the science behind the impossible.’ Although growing a form of genetically-modified heme in the lab may sound a bit risky, the site clearly states that this technology is ‘safety-verified by America’s top food-safety experts and peer-reviewed academic journals.’”

Read more: Synthetic Biology – The Future of Food?


FARMING

From Bill Gates to the Great Refusal—Farmers on the Frontline

Colin Todhunter reports:

“Prior to the Industrial Revolution, most humans were engaged in agriculture. Our relationship with nature was immediate. Within just a few generations, however, for many people across the world, their link with the land has been severed.

Food now arrives pre-packaged (often precooked), preserved with chemicals and contains harmful pesticides, micro-plastics, hormones and/or various other contaminants. We are also being served a narrower menu of high-calorie food with lower nutrient content.

It is clear that there is something fundamentally wrong with how modern food is produced.

Although, there are various stages between farm and fork, not least modern food processing practices, which is a story in itself, a key part of the problem lies with agriculture.

Today, many farmers are trapped on chemical and biotech treadmills. They have been encouraged and coerced into using a range of costly off-farm inputs, from synthetic fertilizers and corporate-manufactured seeds to a wide array of weedicides and pesticides.

With the industrialization of agriculture, many poor, smallholder farmers have been deskilled and placed into vulnerable positions. Traditional knowledge has been undermined, overwhelmed or has survived only in fragments.”

Read more: From Bill Gates to the Great Refusal – Farmers on the Frontline


GENETIC ENGINEERING

DARPA, Insects, Mad Science and Us

Tessa Lena writes in Mercola.com:

“Irresponsible use of new and very advanced technologies by the military is life-threatening.

Engineered viruses can be used to edit genes in a target species, including in a heritable manner.

‘Insect Allies’ is a DARPA (U.S. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects) program designed to genetically modify mature plants in a live environment by releasing insects infected with genetically modified viruses.

Some scientists, although on board with genetic modification in principle, are questioning DARPA’s motives and raising concerns.

Researchers in Singapore, as well as DARPA in the U.S. have developed ‘remote-controlled insects.’

The craziest crazies have somehow escaped the asylum and installed themselves in high positions of power. Insane, they are coming up with one bad idea after another and barking orders at us, mad shine in their eyes and saliva coming out of their mouths. They are crazy — and in charge of institutions, schools, newspapers and armies.

They are running around with their high-tech pistols filled with high-tech poisons and their little sadistic CRISPR scissors. They are crazy — yes, they are crazy — and they are killing us slowly, and sometimes not so slowly. Welcome to the future where toxicity is health and the old crazy is the new normal. We are not crazy — they are crazy — and they have been from the beginning. And in 2020, they stopped pretending. What now?

You may think that you have seen it all but here is a great idea. Take some insects, infect them with a genetically modified virus designed to genetically edit mature plants in real time, and release them. Release them into wild and repeat, ‘it’s safe and effective.’

Sweet idea, right? Well, DARPA thought so, and so in 2016, they started a project called “Insect Allies” that is designed to do that. (This is a different project from Oxitec’s controversial release of GM mosquitos.)

DARPA’s official story is that in the name of national security, a good way to protect the American crops from potential threats is to genetically modify them using GM viruses as genetic modifiers and insects as flying syringes. And that they just need to test it!… Some suspicious peasants may foolishly wonder: What will happen in the short term and in the long term to the people who eat those plants, to the people and animals possibly bitten by those insects, to the wild insects who mate with the infected insects, and to all other life in the area and beyond that may get impacted? What ridiculous nonsense. Here is the answer, peasant: No one knows — and importantly, no one cares. Any more questions?”

Learn more: DARPA, Insects, Mad Science, and Us: Nowhere To Hide