VANDANA SHIVA

Stop Bill Gates’ Takeover of Food and Medicine

Bill Gates is hell bent on controlling global food and health. By funding research and financing public institutions, such as the WHO and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN, Gates is able to force those institutions down a path where they can only use his patented intellectual property.

While pretending to save the world through philanthropy, Gates’ solutions perpetuate and worsen the world’s problems. They may even threaten the future of humanity, as they’re driving us closer to extinction. Through his company, Gates Ag One, Gates is pushing for one type of agriculture for the whole world, organized top, down. This includes digital farming, in which farmers are surveilled and mined for their agricultural data, which is then repackaged and sold back to them.

The answer to the environmental problems we face is not more of the very things that created the problems in the first place, which is what Gates proposes. The answer is organic and regenerative agriculture and real food.

Learn more: Vandana Shiva on the Taking Down of Bill Gates' Empires

PODCAST

Kim Iverson—A Sane Voice in the Mass Media

For the past month I’ve been following the commentaries of Kim Iverson on the national video podcast called Rising. She’s one of the few mainstream journalists today exposing the conventional lies and damn lies about COVID, media censorship, authoritarian social control, deteriorating public health, medical disinformation, Afghanistan, military and Big Pharma profiteering, and Washington corruption.

As Iverson explains in this recent podcast on Joe Rogan coming down with COVID, and then quickly recovering with Ivermectin and other remedies, YouTube won’t allow you to say the word “Ivermectin,” on a podcast, even though this safe, anti-parasitic, anti-inflammatory, and anti-viral drug has been proven safe and effective in preventing and treating COVID more than 30 countries across the world.

See: STORIES, Videos & Art from Doctors, Researchers, COVID-19 Survivors, Artists, Musicians, & Supporters of Ivermectin Around the World

Also see: Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance

Here’s Iverson’s take on why are we forcing vaccines on those who have recovered from COVID and subsequently have strong natural immunity

Iverson on Ivermectin

And finally another commentary on how deteriorating public health and obesity are primary drivers of COVID hospitalizations and deaths

COVER UP QUESTIONS

What Really Happened on September 11, 2001?

After 20 years, many of us are still angry about the lies and the cover ups surrounding 9/11. What really happened? Who was responsible? What caused the Twin Towers and Building 7 to collapse exactly as you would expect from a planned demolition? Why did the government ignore numerous warnings that attacks were about to occur? Where is the list of passengers and hijackers on the hijacked planes, airport photos, and forensic evidence? Under Pressure from victims' families, President Biden has ordered the release of a limited number of 9/11 documents previous classified, but only after 1,800 family members of 9/11 victims told Biden to stay away from the 9/11 anniversary events unless he ordered the declassification of documents.

For more information on what really happened see: https://911truth.org/

Ronnie Cummins and Alexis Baden-Mayer will be participating in events this week in Washington DC as part of the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, looking at what really happened and the deadly pattern of elite control, Deep State cover ups, and panic mongering that has continued through the present COVID-19 crisis.

Join us: Ronnie Cummins to Speak at 9/11 Anniversary Events Exploring the Links Between the 2001 Anthrax Attacks and the Origins of COVID-19

COVID HARDSHIP

More Economic Hardship as Biden and Congress Abandon Post-COVID Unemployed and Renters

Thirty-five million workers lost their COVID-19 unemployment benefits on Labor Day, September 6, and neither Congress nor the Biden administration seem prepared to do anything about it.

As Common Dreams writes: “Despite the ongoing threat posed by the highly transmissible Delta variant, the White House and Democratic lawmakers have provided no indication that they plan to prevent several pandemic-related unemployment programs from expiring on September 6, which—in a cruel irony—happens to be Labor Day.”

Learn more: 'Catastrophe' Feared as 35 Million People Are Set to Lose Jobless Aid in 3 Days

MILITARISM

Since 9/11 US Has Spent 21 Trillion on Militarism at Home and Abroad

Common Dreams reports: “According to State of Insecurity: The Cost of Militarization Since 9/11, a report released Wednesday by the National Priorities Project, the U.S. government's so-called "War on Terror" has "remade the U.S. into a more militarized actor both around the world and at home" by pouring vast resources into the Pentagon, federal law enforcement, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), an agency established in response to the September 11 attacks.”

TRUTH IN LABELING

Food Giants and Giant Claims

You’ve no doubt walked past the shelves in the grocery store with packages touting smiling cows, bright red barns, green grass, and delightful phrases like; “all-natural,” “no hormones,” “cage-free.”

Maybe you picked up the items, and felt a sense of good in the purchase that you were making. You felt you were making the right choice, in a world of factory farms and chemicals.

But is it all a lie?

An article by The New York Times states:

“...some claims may not be what they seem, according to a flurry of litigation by advocacy groups seeking to combat what they describe as a surge in deceptive marketing by food giants. The misleading labels, the plaintiffs say, seek to profit off consumers’ growing interest in clean eating, animal welfare and environmentally friendly agriculture — but without making meaningful changes to their farming and production practices.”

This new article outlines the harm that these claims can produce. Not just to consumers who might feel duped, but to the family- and small-scale farms producing meat and crops with healthy, sustainable, and regenerative methods.

Find a local, regenerative farm with Regeneration International’s Farm Map

STOP DIRTY DAIRY

Danone’s Greed Threatens Factory Farms and Organic Consumers

Beyond Pesticides writes: Groupe Danone, multinational corporate owner of Horizon Organic, has announced that it is terminating its contracts with 89 small-to-medium-sized organic dairy producers in the Northeast as of August 2022. At that point, all of Horizon’s contracted organic dairy farms in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and northern New York may well have no buyers for their milk and will likely face a very uncertain future.

In July 2021, Beyond Pesticides covered a major contributor to this development — the failure of the NOP (National Organic Program) to protect the integrity of organic dairy, which failure has advantaged large producers over smaller operations (see more on this below). This development in a region with historically strong demand for organic dairy products is of concern on several fronts, not the least of which is the fate of these small producers.

Learn more: Danone (Horizon Organic) Threatens the Backbone of Organic Dairy—Family Farms and Their Consumer Supporters

SUPPORT OCA & CRL

Seeding the Regenerative Revolution

In August we asked you, our 300,000 subscribers to Organic Bytes, for donations so we can step-up our truth-telling and our education/lobbying/research/marketplace pressure campaigns to regenerate our health, our food systems, and our planet.

Since then we’ve received over 2100 individual donations over the internet and in the mail totaling over $175,000 dollars.

Thank you so much for your letters of support and your financial contributions.

For those of you who have not yet donated, please help us carry out the organic and regenerative revolution.

Make a tax-deductible donation to Organic Consumers Association, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit

Support Citizens Regeneration Lobby, OCA’s 501(c)(4) lobbying arm (not tax-deductible)

Donate $100 or more and we’ll send you a copy of Ronnie’s 2020 book, Grassroots Rising or a copy of Ronnie's new book, co-authored with Dr. Mercola, The Truth About COVID-19

Click here for more ways to support our work

COVID-19

The Truth About COVID-19

Despite an ongoing blackout by the mass media and censorship by chain retailers and most bookstores, Ronnie Cummins and Dr. Joseph Mercola’s new book, The Truth About COVID-19, with a Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has already sold over 250,000 copies in just four months.

Please help us get our message out to as many people as possible.

If you’ve already purchased a book, please consider purchasing another copy for friends to share.

Read the Foreword, “Wake Up America” by Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Learn more about the book and order your copy

GATES WATCH

Global Grassroots Reject Gates’s GMO Plan for Africa and Corporate Hijacking of Sept. 23 UN Food Summit

US Right to Know states:

“The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent nearly $6 billion on agricultural development programs since 2002, with a key focus on expanding industrial agriculture in Africa. The foundation’s main program, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, works to transition farmers away from traditional seeds and crops to patented seeds, fossil-fuel based fertilizers and other inputs to grow commodity crops for the global market. Leading experts in food security and hundreds of groups around the world have raised concerns about the foundation’s agricultural development strategies for Africa. They argue that a paradigm shift is needed away from high-input, chemical-dependent, corporate-controlled agriculture and toward more diverse, resilient, agroecological farming practices and policies that address social and equity issues.”

On a related front, the World Economic Forum, the Gates Foundation and other private donors, including the Rockefeller Foundation, are key players influencing the controversial 2021 UN Food Systems Summit to be held in NYC on September 23. Hundreds of groups are protesting and boycotting the Summit because of the dominant role of corporate agribusiness and agenda many critics say will further entrench a harmful industrial agribusiness model.

Learn more: UN Food Systems Summit Controversy

REGENERATION

Regeneration International Organizing Global Food Summit on World Food Day, October 16

The United Nations Food Systems Summit has been hijacked by corporate agribusiness and pesticide cartels, so we need to create a different summit to promote agroecological, organic and regenerative food systems.

Regeneration International, in conjunction with steering committee partners such as the Organic Consumers Association, The Global Alliance for Organic Districts, IFOAM Asia, Navdanya, the International Network of Eco Regions, Savory Hub Africa, Via Organica, The League of Organic Municipalities and Cities and BERAS International will be hosting the People's Food Summit on World Food Day, October 16, this year.

It will be a 24 hour global, participatory, virtual summit that will start in Oceania, and move westwards through the time zones of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America.

We will have speakers from every continent to present the truly good news about food production and regenerative systems - including Vandana Shiva, Ronnie Cummins, Andre Leu, Precious Phiri, and others, with panels, discussions and other live events as well as videos and music from every region of the world.

Register here for the free online event

GENETIC ENGINEERING

EU Call for Mandatory Labeling and Regulation of New CRISPR and Gene-Edited Foods

UK activist group Beyond GM quotes EU industry spokespersons “As representatives of key European retailers we insist that the existing EU GMO legislation – with the precautionary principle and transparency requirements as its central pillars – continue to be applied to new GMOs. New GMOs must continue to be regulated in the same manner as old GMOs,” is one of the key demands of the resolution, which also refers to the corresponding ruling of the European Court of Justice of 25 July 2018.

“The food retailers express their great concern that the EU Commission might give in to years of massive pressure from the biotech and seed lobby and immediately initiate deregulation for some or all new genetic engineering techniques.” At the present time the US requires no labeling and minimal or no regulation of new gene-edited or CRISPR foods.

Learn more: EU Supermarkets Eclipse UK Sector With Calls for Strong Regulation of Gene Editing

GATES AND THE WHO

The Gates-Funded World Health Organization is a Corrupt and Criminal Organization

Bill Gates is WHO’s No. 1 funder, contributing more to WHO’s $4.84 billion biennial budget than any member-state government. WHO has strong allegiance to China, and its investigation into COVID-19’s origin was a “fake” investigation from the start. Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO released a statement that it had been in discussions with Facebook to “ensure people can access authoritative information on vaccines and reduce the spread of inaccuracies.”

WHO’s history clearly illustrates its allegiance to Big Pharma and other industries, including downplaying the health effects caused by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and collaborating with opioid giant Purdue.

Given the strong and ongoing evidence that WHO is heavily conflicted and controlled by industry, its fake identity as a guardian of public health needs to be seriously reevaluated.

Learn more: Why the WHO Is a Corrupt, Unhealthy Organization

CARE WHAT YOU WEAR

Help Fight Fast-Fashion Pollution

From Mercola.com: You might have heard of shopping referred to as “retail therapy.” Some have suggested that buying stuff, especially new clothes, can make you feel better. In the past 18 months, many have turned to shopping online and, during lockdowns, it may have seemed like the only thing to do.

However, retail therapy can create several challenges. Many of the positive emotions you get from buying new clothes will quickly vanish, while the excess burden on your credit card and in your clothes closet doesn't. If you are like many people, you may not have considered where your clothes go after you have donated them. Unfortunately, many donated clothes do not end up being worn by people in need or even by people in your own regional area.

Learn more: This Could Help Fight Fast-Fashion Pollution

LITTLE BYTES

Essential Reading and Viewing for the Week

US Funded Wuhan Lab’s Research to Make Diseases More Deadly

America’s 20-Year War on Terror Has Killed up to 929,000 People and Cost Over $8 Trillion: Report

Slow Food, Not Fast Food

Frontline Care Doctor Shares How to End COVID-19

Puppet Master Portfolio: How Blackrock and Vanguard Control the World

India's Ivermectin Blackout

Who is Responsible for Public Mistrust of GMOs? Monsanto, Anyone?

Fauci Lied to Congress, but Will Biden Do Anything?

Twelve Major Central Banks Continue to Fund the Climate Crisis