• About

Keyholejourney Blog – exploring mind-opening concepts

Keyholejourney Blog – exploring mind-opening concepts

Tag Archives: environment

Cancer Claim for Monsanto’s Roundup

01 Tuesday May 2018

Posted by Sherry Swiney in Economics Politics and War, Science

≈ 5 Comments

Tags

conspiracy, environment, Science, wake up

This just in – UPDATE August 11, 2018 – “The verdict is in, and Monsanto is found guilty on all counts!”

After eight weeks of trial proceedings, the jury found unanimously that Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused Mr. Johnson to develop NHL, and that Monsanto failed to warn of this severe health hazard. Importantly, the jury also found that Monsanto acted with malice, oppression or fraud and should be punished for its conduct.

Continue reading
https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/monsanto-roundup-trial-verdict 

===== Original Article =====
The following article came out today.  It’s worth a read.  I wondered if my letter to the Judge on this case made a difference.  Perhaps I’ll never know but suffice it to say, I was prompted to post my letter for all to see.

Weedkiller found in granola and crackers, internal FDA emails show:

The FDA has been testing food samples for traces of glyphosate for two years, but the agency has not yet released any official results https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/30/fda-weedkiller-glyphosate-in-food-internal-emails

More than 200m pounds of weedkiller are used annually by US farmers on their fields. It is sprayed directly over some crops, including corn, soybeans, wheat and oats. Photograph: Marvin Dembinsky Photo Associate/Alamy

06 March 2018

U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria
c/o Susan Y. Soong, Clerk of Court
Office of the Clerk
United States District Court
450 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102-3489

Subject: Cancer Claim for Monsanto’s Roundup Gets Judge’s Scrutiny
Associated Press Article 05 March 2018
A federal judge is reviewing claims that the active ingredient in Monsanto’s widely used weed killer Roundup can cause cancer.
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2018-03-05/judge-weighs-science-behind-monsanto-roundup-cancer-claim
In re: Roundup Products Liability Litigation (MDL No. 2741)

Honorable Judge Chhabria,

If possible, please add this letter to the docket. I am not part of said lawsuit but I am an interested citizen. The following is to aid in the investigation.

The above captioned Associated Press article states:

“The plantiffs’ first witness was Beate Ritz, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles who studies the effects of pesticide exposure. She explained some of the studies she relied on for her conclusion that there is a higher risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma for people exposed to glyphosate-based formulations. Chhabria will not determine if the cancer connection exists, but whether the claim has been tested, reviewed and published and is widely accepted in the scientific community. ‘It’s game over for the plaintiffs if they can’t get over this hurdle,’ said David Levine, an expert in federal court procedure at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.”

This episode reminds me of the DDT battle. It was facts plus anecdotal evidence and public opinion against the makers of DDT. Players in the DDT battle included Monsanto, Dow Chemical and Bayer – who all said DDT and Agent Orange were safe.

Paul Craig Roberts, American Economist writes (June 21, 2012) [emphases are mine]: “With her 1962 book, Silent Spring, Rachel Carson got DDT and other synthetic pesticides banned and saved bird life. Today it is humans who are directly threatened by technologies designed to extract the maximum profit at the lowest private cost and the maximum social cost from natural resources. […] The newest threat comes from genetically modified seeds that produce crops resistant to herbicides. The active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide is glyphosate, a toxic element that now contaminates groundwater in Spain and according to the US Geological Survey is now ‘commonly found in rain and streams in the Mississippi River Basin.’ In 2011 Don Huber, a plant pathologist and soil microbiologist, wrote to the US Secretary of Agriculture about the unexpected consequences of GMOs and the accompanying herbicides. He cited adverse effects on critical micronutrients, soil fertility, and the nutritional value of foods.

He cited the impairment of metabolic pathways that prevents plants from accumulating and storing minerals, such as iron, manganese, and zinc, minerals important for liver function and immune response in animals and people.

He cited toxic effects on the microorganisms in the soil that have disrupted nature’s balance and resulted in large increases in plant diseases. He cited livestock deaths from botulism, premature animal aging, and an increase in animal and human infertility.

In an interview, Huber said that the power of agri-business has made it almost impossible to do research on GMOs and that regulatory agencies with the responsibility of protecting the public are dependent on the industry’s own self-serving studies and have no independent objective science on which to base a regulatory decision.

In short, in order to secure bumper crops for several years, we are destroying the fertility of soil, animal and human life. […] …disastrous consequences of new technologies are unknown at the time that they are employed, when the focus is on the expected benefits. Moreover, these costs are external to the business, corporation, or economic unit.

The costs are inflicted on the environment and on other humans and other animal life. The costs are not included when the business calculates its profit and return on its investment. The external costs of fracking, mountain top removal mining, chemical farming, and GMOs could exceed the value of the marketable products. Businesses have no incentive to take these costs into account, because to do so reduces their profits and could indicate that the full cost of production exceeds the value of the output. Governments have proven to be largely ineffective in controlling external costs, because of the ability of private interests to influence the decisions of government. […] The main lesson that emerges [is that] people today have no better grasp of the consequences of their actions than superstitious and unscientific people centuries ago. Modern technological man is just as easily bamboozled by propaganda as ancient man was by superstition and ignorance. […] In 1962 Rachel Carson caught Monsanto off guard and thus gained an audience. Today she would not get the same attention. Ready and waiting psyops would go into operation to discredit her. […] This demonstrates what little importance economists attribute to external costs and the ability of externalized costs to destroy the productive power of the planet. Thus, the question, “silent spring for us?” is not merely rhetorical. It is real.” http://www.4thmedia.org/2012/06/biodiversity-environment-americans-succumbed-to-propaganda-by-bush-obama-the-likes/

This honorable court already knows that the Monsanto company (soon to be merged with Bayer) is an agrochemical corporation that is not only the leading producer of genetically modified seeds, but the manufacturer of Roundup, the world’s top selling and possibly the most toxic legal herbicide on planet earth–which contains as its primary ingredient-Glyphosate. Monsanto was first to genetically modify plant cells in the early 1980s.

But did you know that the Monsanto company is also infamous for manufacturing DDT, PCBs and Agent Orange* (along with Dow Chemical*) – all deadly combinations of pesticides, including insecticides, that all contribute to cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and major malfunctions of the human central nervous system? Way back around the year 1900, when Monsanto was founded, they initially produced toxic food additives from industrial chemicals, including artificial sweetener saccharin, which has been proven in laboratories to give animals cancer. To top it all off, Monsanto also manufactures synthetic growth hormones for large animal feeding operations (CAFOs) to boost profits, but these hormones directly affect the humans who consume those animals, whether through meat or dairy consumption. Hormone imbalances in humans contribute to cancerous tumor formation [see endocrine system below] and other health detriments that allopathic medicine worsens with chemical, pharmaceutical prescriptions. http://www.truthwiki.org/monsanto/

In 1970, a Monsanto chemist named John E. Franz, reformulated the chemical glyphosate (assigned new purpose) to be used as a systemic herbicide. Solution strengths vary, and the EPA has raised tolerance levels to accommodate more of the health detriment and further the agenda of Monsanto. Various adjuvants for Glyphosate exist under dozens of trade names since Monsanto’s patent expired in 2000. Most of the giant biotech, agrichemical corporations jumped on the bandwagon and want some profits from the world’s top-selling Roundup weed-killer (and human-killer) ingredient. Glyphosate was recently implicated as a “probable carcinogen” (means it causes cancer in animals including humans) by the WHO–the World Health Organization. At least half of all of Monsanto’s profits come from selling this carcinogenic herbicide. (9)

The full 97 page probable carcinogen report may be found here http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol112/mono112-09.pdf

The full 2 page WHO report may be found here
http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/pdf/MonographVolume112.pdf

The new classification by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization, is based on research on human exposure in the U.S., Canada and Sweden and on animal studies that found what the agency called “convincing evidence” that the chemical caused cancer in laboratory animals. A previous IARC study found “limited evidence” linking glyphosate exposures to non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a type of blood cancer, in humans. https://www.ewg.org/release/world-health-organization-labels-glyphosate-probable-carcinogen#.Wp620WrwaUm

Is this “limited evidence” linking glyphosate exposures to non-Hodgkin lymphoma the apparent “game over hurdle” in this instant case?

STUDY: GLYPHOSATE DOUBLES RISK OF LYMPHOMA BY EMILY CASSIDY, RESEARCH ANALYST, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2014 STATES:

“Scientists at the International Agency for Research on Cancer have found what appears to be a strong link between pesticide exposure and a blood cancer called non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Analyzing 44 individual research projects published since 1980, the scientists, writing in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, said that people exposed to the weed killer glyphosate, marked by Monsanto under the brand name Roundup, had double the risk of developing non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Those exposed to 2,4-D, another potent weed killer marketed by Dow Chemical, were 40 percent more likely to develop this disease.

The authors, scientists who work in the IARC Section of Environment and Radiation in Lyon, France, theorized that these pesticides were causing genetic mutations in white blood cells, thereby weakening the body’s immune system and ability to fight off disease. [see endocrine system below]

Previous studies have observed that farmers with exposure to 2,4-D have experienced impaired immune systems.

Last month, EWG reported that research by scientists at the Arctic University of Norway had detected “extreme levels” of glyphosate on genetically engineered soybeans.  https://www.ewg.org/agmag/2014/05/study-glyphosate-doubles-risk-lymphoma#.Wp63IGrwaUl

It’s bad enough to be able to show scientific evidence that glyphosate “probably” causes cancer. Shall we totally ignore what these chemical compounds do to the rest of the human system? Namely the endocrine system.

The endocrine system is a chemical messenger system consisting of hormones, the group of glands of an organism that secrete those hormones directly into the circulatory system to be carried towards distant target organs, and the feedback loops of homeostasis that the hormones drive. In humans, the major endocrine glands include the pineal gland, pituitary gland, pancreas, ovaries, testes, thyroid gland, parathyroid gland, and adrenal glands. In vertebrates, the hypothalamus is the neural control center for all endocrine systems. The field of study dealing with the endocrine system and its disorders is endocrinology, a branch of internal medicine.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_system

The thymus gland secrets the hormones thymosin and thymopoietin that stimulate the production of special lymphocytes (white blood cells) called T-cells, which play an important role in the immune system by attacking foreign or abnormal cells. https://oli.cmu.edu/jcourse/workbook/activity/page?context=0baa004b80020ca6004734c2d434f6aa

Damaged endocrine systems leave the body wide open for diseases including cancer, infertility, diabetes, and many other serious diseases.

ENDOCRINE-DISRUPTING CHEMICALS – IMPACT OF EDCS ON: CANCER | METABOLISM | NEUROLOGICAL SYSTEM | REPRODUCTION

As information (and misinformation) proliferates in the media about endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), so do questions about where they are found and how we might be exposed to them through eating, drinking, breathing, or touching.

Answers to these questions are not always simple. There are nearly 85,000 man-made chemicals in the world, many of which people come into contact with every day. Only about one percent of them have been studied for safety; however, 1,000 or more of these chemicals may be EDCs based on their probable endocrine-interfering properties. Here are the most common EDC types and product categories.

Clothing, Furniture, and Electronics: Safety Comes with EDC Side Effects

Brominated flame retardants (BFRs) are used in electronics, clothing, and furniture such as sofas and mattresses to reduce flammability. Unfortunately, these chemicals also have been linked to abnormal hormone function in the thyroid, which plays a critical role in fetal and childhood development. Adding to the risk of exposure, BFRs often migrate out of their products over time where they may contaminate household dust and food.

Also, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were used in hundreds of industrial and commercial applications due to their non-flammability, as well as chemical stability and insulating properties. Although the EPA banned their manufacture in the United States in 1979, PCBs are still present in insulation, electrical equipment, caulking, oil-based paint, and more, and do not break down readily. In addition to being a long-acknowledged toxicant, PCBs are EDCs. As a class, they have the strongest and longest-known associations with neurological disorders.

Food Contact Materials: A Human Cost to Convenience and Protection
Phthalates interfere with the production of androgen (testosterone), a hormone critical in male development and relevant to females as well. Phthalates are used in hundreds of products, including many food and beverage containers and plastic wraps. People are exposed to these EDCs when they leach into foods or are released when containers are microwaved. Many companies have voluntarily removed phthalates from their products and advertise them as “phthalate-free”. Other plastic containers, which contain phthalates, have the number “3” and “V” or “PVC” in the recycling symbol.

Among the phenol class of compounds considered to be EDCs, bisphenol A (BPA) is one of the best known and most pervasive. In humans, it is linked to reduced egg quality and other aspects of egg viability in patients seeking fertility treatment.

Although BPA was banned in children’s products such as baby bottles, it’s still used in many water bottles and plastic containers and in the epoxy resins that protect canned foods from contamination. In these products, BPA leaching is enhanced by heating or reheating (such as in a microwave), or exposure to sunlight or acidic foods (such as tomatoes).

Children’s Products: Despite Regulations, Risks Still Abound

EDCs are gradually being regulated and banned in children’s toys, games, and accessories such as baby bottles. However, products that are older, manufactured outside of the United States and European Union, or battery-operated may be of particular concern.

Phthalates, which add fragrance to products and make them more pliable, interfere with hormone production, as mentioned above. The European Union has restricted some members of this EDC class since 1999, and the United States has similarly restricture their use since 2008. Phthalates are usually identified on product labels by the specific compound: The eight most common are BBP, DBP, DEHP, DEP, DiDP, DiNP, DnHP, and DnOP.

Lead – long acknowledged as a neurological toxicant – has also been linked with adverse female reproductive functions in animal, in-vitro, and human epidemiological studies. While lead has been banned in house paints, dishes, and cookware in the United States since 1978, this EDC may still be found in a product’s paint – especially in products manufactured in countries which still allow lead-based paint – and in plastics where lead is still allowed for softening and stabilizing against heat.

Studies by the International Persistent Organic Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN), a non-governmental organization working for safe chemical policies in the developing world, reported lead in 18 percent of children’s products in Russia and surrounding nations, 15 percent in the Philippines, and 10 percent in five cities in China.

Cadmium is a natural element used in batteries, pigments, plastic stabilizers, alloys, and coatings. It has in recent years fallen under increased regulation as a carcinogen and pollutant. Cadmium may also be an EDC; research suggests a link to a wide range of detrimental effects on the reproductive system.

Pesticides and Herbicides: Dangerous to Humans as Well

Many pesticides are designed to be toxic to pests’ nervous or reproductive systems and may act by disrupting endocrine systems. Such chemicals are also EDCs because of the similarities between insect and animal endocrine systems.

Chlorpyrifos, an insecticide used in commercial agriculture, is a potent neurotoxicant that causes developmental delays, attention problems, and ADHD in children. It accumulates in soil, water, food, and air, as well as in buildings. That’s why the United States banned its residential uses in 2000, and the effect was immediate: children’s blood levels of chlorpyrifos in New York declined significantly in one year and were reduced to less than half in two years.

DDT, one of the best-known pesticide EDCs, was used extensively worldwide until it was banned in the 1970s by several countries, including the United States and European Union nations. It remains in use in regions such as India and Africa to fight insect-borne disease. Emerging evidence suggests that exposure to this neurotoxin might be associated with breast cancer, preterm birth, early pregnancy loss, reduced semen quality, disrupted menstruation, and problems with lactation.

EDCs can also be found in herbicdes that control plant life. Atrazine, a widely-used herbicide, has been shown to affect the hypothalamus and pituitary glands. Some studies have also proposed causal relationships between glyphosate, used to kill weeds on lawns and farms, and obesity, behavioral, and cognitive disorders. https://www.endocrine.org/topics/edc/what-edcs-are/common-edcs

TOXICOLOGY. 2009 AUG 21;262(3):184-91. DOI: 10.1016/J.TOX.2009.06.006. EPUB 2009 JUN 17. GLYPHOSATE-BASED HERBICIDES ARE TOXIC AND ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS IN HUMAN CELL LINES.  Gasnier C1, Dumont C, Benachour N, Clair E, Chagnon MC, Séralini GE.
University of Caen, Institute of Biology, Lab. Biochemistry EA2608, Esplanade de la Paix, 14032 Caen cedex, France

Abstract
Glyphosate-based herbicides are the most widely used across the world; they are commercialized in different formulations. Their residues are frequent pollutants in the environment. In addition, these herbicides are spread on most eaten transgenic plants, modified to tolerate high levels of these compounds in their cells. Up to 400 ppm of their residues are accepted in some feed. We exposed human liver HepG2 cells, a well-known model to study xenobiotic toxicity, to four different formulations and to glyphosate, which is usually tested alone in chronic in vivo regulatory studies. We measured cytotoxicity with three assays (Alamar Blue, MTT, ToxiLight), plus genotoxicity (comet assay), anti-estrogenic (on ERalpha, ERbeta) and anti-androgenic effects (on AR) using gene reporter tests. We also checked androgen to estrogen conversion by aromatase activity and mRNA. All parameters were disrupted at sub-agricultural doses with all formulations within 24h. These effects were more dependent on the formulation than on the glyphosate concentration. First, we observed a human cell endocrine disruption from 0.5 ppm on the androgen receptor in MDA-MB453-kb2 cells for the most active formulation (R400), then from 2 ppm the transcriptional activities on both estrogen receptors were also inhibited on HepG2. Aromatase transcription and activity were disrupted from 10 ppm. Cytotoxic effects started at 10 ppm with Alamar Blue assay (the most sensitive), and DNA damages at 5 ppm. A real cell impact of glyphosate-based herbicides residues in food, feed or in the environment has thus to be considered, and their classifications as carcinogens/mutagens/reprotoxics is discussed.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19539684
Full 8 page report is available here https://www.gmoseralini.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Gasnieral.TOX_2009.pdf

Hippocrates once said, “All Disease Begins in The Gut.” He also said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” But when our food is tainted by toxic chemicals that change the properties of plants and soil for the sake of monetary profit, where we no longer receive the nutrients required for good health, we become a sick and infertile society. It’s common to overlook the health of our gastrointestinal system, even though it contains 10 times more health-determining bacteria than the rest of our body, protecting us from infection, supporting our metabolism, and promoting healthy digestion and elimination. There is a symbiotic relationship between the gut microbes and the endocrine system. When these two vital systems are disrupted, humans and animals are at high risk of developing diseases. These diseases do not occur in 2 week lab tests run by chemical companies, whereby they can say “There is no evidence of blah blah blah”. In many instances, these diseases develop over time.

HOW GUT MICROBES TALK TO ORGANS: THE ROLE OF ENDOCRINE AND NERVOUS ROUTES Patrice D. Cani1,2,3,∗ and Claude Knauf2,3,4,5,∗∗ – Received 2016 Apr 19; Revised 2016 May 12; Accepted 2016 May 17.

Abstract

Background
Changes in gut microbiota composition and activity have been associated with different metabolic disorders, including obesity, diabetes, and cardiometabolic disorders. Recent evidence suggests that different organs are directly under the influence of bacterial metabolites that may directly or indirectly regulate physiological and pathological processes.

Scope of review
We reviewed seminal as well as recent papers showing that gut microbes influence energy, glucose and lipid homeostasis by controlling different metabolic routes such as endocrine, enteric and central nervous system. These dialogues are discussed in the context of obesity and diabetes but also for brain pathologies and neurodegenerative disorders.

The neurodegenerative diseases that JPND focuses on are:
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other dementias.
Parkinson’s disease (PD) and PD-related disorders.
Prion disease.
Motor neurone diseases (MND)
Huntington’s disease (HD)
Spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA)
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)
http://www.neurodegenerationresearch.eu/about/what/

Major conclusions
The recent advances in gut microbiota investigation as well as the discovery of specific metabolites interacting with host cells has led to the identification of novel inter-organ communication during metabolic disturbances. This suggests that gut microbes may be viewed as “novel” future therapeutic partners.

This article is part of a special issue on microbiota.

Keywords: Gut microbiota, Metabolites, Immune system, Enteric nervous system, Central nervous system, Enteroendocrine cells
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5004142/

THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN PARKINSON’S DISEASE AND CANCER: THE PLOT THICKENS  Transl Neurodegener. 2015; 4: 20. Published online 2015 Oct 26. doi: 10.1186/s40035-015-0043-z

A growing body of evidence supports common genetic mechanisms in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. Mutations in a variety of genes involved in the dysregulation of the cell cycle and protein turnover have been implicated in both PD and cancer.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4620601/

MONSANTO’S ROUNDUP, GLYPHOSATE FOUND TO DISTURB HORMONAL BALANCE [hormones operate by/from the endocrine system]

A group of scientists from the Indian Institute of Science (IIS) has researched the commonly used herbicide, Roundup, and found that it damages the endocrine system and disrupts hormonal balance in rats.

Prof Medhamurthy Rudraiah at MRDG, IISC, and his student Aparamita Pandey say that Roundup can cause imbalances in the synthesis of steroid hormones in male rats. Their paper on the subject was recently published in the journal Toxicology Reports.

Monsanto’s Roundup primarily kills weeds by inhibiting enzymes that synthesize aromatic amino acids (the basic building blocks that make up proteins) essential for plant development.

Most mammals, including humans, do not make the enzymes that would allow us to synthesize these aromatic amino acids. This is largely why Monsanto has claimed that Roundup is considered ‘safe and non-toxic.’ Recent studies, however, have suggested that glyphosate, the primary constituent of Roundup, could be a carcinogen, and could affect the development of the fetus as well as disrupt hormonal functioning.

A correlation study published in the Journal of Organic Systems has even linked glyphosate, the primary ingredient in Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide Roundup, to an enormous increase in chronic diseases across the United States.

Even low exposure rates of as little as 10 mg per kilogram of body weight in rats decreased their testosterone levels and corticosterone secretions. The researchers also found that the effects of Roundup seem to be caused by a decrease in the synthesis or release of the hormone ACTH (Adreno-Cortico-Tropic Hormone) from the pituitary gland. [testosterone comes from the gut

Without ACTH, the adrenal glands are dead in the water – unable to stimulate corticosterone hormone production. When rats exposed to Roundup were injected with ACTH preparation, the deficiency of corticosterone was overcome.

Arun Gopalakrishnan of Public Affairs in Monsanto, told India Express who first published the findings:

“Unless we have a chance to study the report in detail, it would not be fair for us to comment. We will study the report in detail.”

Likely, considering Monsanto’s entire department dedicated to debunking scientists who find fault with their products, the company is busy trying to eliminate the obvious connection between the study on rats and a known effect of Roundup to cause ‘adrenal insufficiency’ in human beings.

This type of hormonal disruption could lead to the potentially-fatal condition which causes fatigue, anorexia, sweating, anxiety, shaking, nausea, heart palpitations, and weight loss.

Scientists have noticed that increasing levels of Roundup in the environment have caused serious endocrine-disrupting health concerns:

“A progressive increase in its prevalence has been observed in humans, while a very few studies relating to xenobiotic exposure and adrenal insufficiency development have been reported.”
http://naturalsociety.com/monsantos-roundup-glyphosate-found-to-disturb-hormonal-balance/

Now let’s connect some dots that our friends at Monsanto, et al (Monsanto, DuPont Pioneer, Syngenta, Bayer, BASF, Dow AgroSciences), have not found necessary to connect.

1. Glyphosate is a non-selective herbicide, meaning it will kill most plants. It prevents the plants from making certain proteins that are needed for plant growth. Glyphosate stops a specific enzyme pathway, the shikimic acid pathway. The shikimic acid pathway is necessary for plants and some microorganisms that live in the soil. Since glyphosate kills most plants, Monsanto had to develop special genetically modified seeds to grow plants that are resistant to glyphosate. This leave us with a three-part health problem that is adamantly denied by Monsanto et al:

a. Dangers of the pesticide that kills natural plants to pollinator insects, animals and humans.

b. Dangers of the genetically modified plants that are eaten by animals and humans.

c. Dangers of the pesticide to soil, air and water that are used to grow food and ingested by eating, breathing and drinking.

2. Contrary to Monsanto’s reports, scientific tests show that glyphosate is an endocrine disruptor.

3. Endocrine system controls hormones and works symbiotically with the gut system.

Endocrine Glands Pictures 3D Diagrams Endocrine System With Labeled Parts – Human Anatomy Lesson – HUMAN ANATOMY CHARTS

4. Malfunctions of any of the systems above cause diseases. Some are minor, many are serious like cancer.

5. It’s interesting to note that the popular treatment for cancers is chemotherapy. This concoction of drugs originated from mustard gas during WWII. Mustard gas, Bis-(2-chloroethyl) sulfide, was first synthesized back in 1860 by one Frederick Guthrie, who first documented the toxic effects of mustard gas by applying his mixture of ethylene and sulfur dichloride to his own skin. It was later mass-produced under the name “Lost” by Bayer (a German company then). Since the 1950s, American medical doctors and oncologists have made a fortune using chemical medicines to stave off a chemically-induced cell corruption known as cancer. Some of the same Nazi scientists that were convicted of mass murder after WWII were hired by companies like Bayer, BASF, and later Monsanto – to engineer chemical additives for foods, chemical preservatives for foods, chemical agents as pesticides for agriculture, and chemical, carcinogenic agents as medicine, fueling the plagued American medical system known as “chronic care management.” During WWII, Dwight D. Eisenhower stockpiled 100 tons of mustard gas on the S.S. John Harvey–stationed in Italy’s Harbor, but the Nazi air strikes destroyed it. Survivors died soon thereafter, and autopsies revealed they suffered from profound lymphopenia (very low white blood cell count), as well as suppression of myeloid cell lines. http://www.truthwiki.org/chemotherapy/

6. Characterized as a deep cover Monsanto “mole” who worked inside the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Jesudoss “Jess” Rowland has helped Monsanto Co. suppress suspicions about how Roundup weed killer is causing cancer in humans. […] In June of 2016, the chairman of the House Science Committee asked U.S. EPA to make four officials available for interviews about the agency’s review of the herbicide glyphosate’s cancer risk. On top of that, the following letter from EPA scientist Marion Copley (who died of cancer) has surfaced in the unsealed court documents originally uncovered by U.S. Right to Know. These documents and full coverage of the review can be read at Glyphosate.news, NaturalNews.com and the original PDF at USRTK website.

One EPA scientist, Marion Copley, literally begs the Monsanto mole Rowland to do his job and protect the public rather than selling out to Monsanto and their profit interests. Copley states in a letter to Rowland:

“For once in your life, listen to me and don’t play your political conniving games with the science to favor the registrants. For once do the right thing and don’t make decisions based on how it affects your bonus.”
http://www.truthwiki.org/jesudoss-c-rowland/

CONCLUSION AND REQUEST FOR BANNING THE USE OF TOXIC CHEMICALS

The use of toxic chemicals in our food supply has gone on for far too long without proper acknowledgement by the companies that are manufacturing them. They are accused of manipulating their lab tests. They are accused of paying off agencies that are assigned to protect the environment and consumers. They are accused of outright lying to the people and the court.

In view of all of the above, and the above only demonstrates the tip of the iceberg of documents available to any researcher worth his or her salt, this honorable court is asked and has a duty to be thorough in its investigation into glyphosate without bias.

Should the court have reliable and honest researchers at hand, it will find the horrible evidence that confirms what people have been saying for a long time is true: Glyphosate is a silent killer of humans, animals, pollinating insects, waterways, soil, and is a damaging air pollutant. Banning the use of glyphosate (and related toxic products) needs to be ORDERED regardless of the consequences to the manufacturers of this product. At the very least the court should ORDER Monsanto et al, to include external costs in their business plan and make them public.

As of September 2017, five countries have banned glyphosate: Flemish government, Malta, Sri Lanka, The Netherlands, and Argentina. Russia placed a total ban on genetically modified animals and crops. As of July 2017, thirty-five other countries have banned genetically modified crops. Global resistance is strong yet the U.S. citizens are not heard. Instead they suffer and die while being called liars about what causes the massive rise in disease to prevail. This issue is reminiscent of Love Canal.

This must come to an end. I pray this honorable court will see the wisdom in this request.

Respectfully,

Sherry Swiney
U.S. Citizen

SCHEDULE I DRUGS vs CANNABIS

27 Tuesday Feb 2018

Posted by Sherry Swiney in Cannabis & Hemp, Economics Politics and War

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

conspiracy, environment, freedom, mind control, spiritual warfare, wake up, war

SCHEDULE I DRUGS vs. CANNABIS

Love it or hate it, use it or fear it, however you slice it, Cannabis does not measure up to a schedule “I” drug.

JUST SO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE

Schedule I
Schedule I drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. Some examples of Schedule I drugs are:

Heroin, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), marijuana (cannabis), 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy), methaqualone, and peyote

Schedule II
Schedule II drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with a high potential for abuse, with use potentially leading to severe psychological or physical dependence. These drugs are also considered dangerous. Some examples of Schedule II drugs are:

Combination products with less than 15 milligrams of hydrocodone per dosage unit (Vicodin), cocaine, methamphetamine, methadone, hydromorphone (Dilaudid), meperidine (Demerol), oxycodone (OxyContin), fentanyl, Dexedrine, Adderall, and Ritalin

Schedule III
Schedule III drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with a moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence. Schedule III drugs abuse potential is less than Schedule I and Schedule II drugs but more than Schedule IV. Some examples of Schedule III drugs are:

Products containing less than 90 milligrams of codeine per dosage unit (Tylenol with codeine), ketamine, anabolic steroids, testosterone

Schedule IV
Schedule IV drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with a low potential for abuse and low risk of dependence. Some examples of Schedule IV drugs are:

Xanax, Soma, Darvon, Darvocet, Valium, Ativan, Talwin, Ambien, Tramadol

Schedule V
Schedule V drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with lower potential for abuse than Schedule IV and consist of preparations containing limited quantities of certain narcotics. Schedule V drugs are generally used for antidiarrheal, antitussive, and analgesic purposes. Some examples of Schedule V drugs are:

Cough preparations with less than 200 milligrams of codeine or per 100 milliliters (Robitussin AC), Lomotil, Motofen, Lyrica, Parepectolin

NOW EDUCATE YOURSELF

CANNABIS AND HEMP – EDUCATE YOURSELF

On this page see the article on “William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), newspaper tycoon and owner of substantial part of timber industry, launched a propaganda campaign against cannabis”

Why would that be important to Hearst? Paper. Make the connection. It is far more economical and environmentally safe to use Hemp to make paper than it to use trees. But that would have put Hearst out of business.

See excerpts of this conspiracy here:

The Truth About Marijuana
BY PETER
Nov 27, 1995

…the acts bringing about the demise of hemp were part of a large conspiracy involving DuPont, Harry J. Anslinger, commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, and many other influential industrial leaders such as William Randolph Hearst and Andrew Mellon. …the Marijuana Tax Act, which passed in 1937, occurred just as the decorticator machine was invented. …”10,000 acres devoted to hemp will produce as much paper as 40,000 acres of average [forest] pulp land.” Competition from hemp would have easily driven the Hearst paper-manufacturing company out of business and significantly lowered the value of his land. The first step in creating hysteria was to introduce the element of fear of the unknown by using a word that no one had ever heard of before… ‘marijuana’. See the Etymology of the word Marijuana.

At this time, DuPont was patenting a new sulfuric acid process for producing wood-pulp paper [which] accounted for more than 80% of all DuPont’s railroad car loadings for the next 50 years. …two years before the prohibitive hemp tax in 1937, DuPont developed a new synthetic fiber, nylon, which was an ideal substitute for hemp rope.

The reasoning behind DuPont, Anslinger, and Hearst was not for any moral or health related issues. They fought to prevent the growth of this new industry so they wouldn’t go bankrupt.

In fact, the American Medical Association tried to argue for the medical benefits of hemp. Marijuana is actually less dangerous than alcohol, cigarettes, and even most over-the-counter medicines or prescriptions.

Watch the film on “How Hemp Threatens the Corporatocracy | Brainwash Update” (5 minutes)

Watch the film on “Cannabis cures – government kills” (15 minutes)

Also see the articles on Hemp for Construction & Industry
Also see the articles on Cannabis for Health

NOW SEE WHAT ONE LOAN ‘APPOINTED’ PERSON IN THE WHITE HOUSE IS DOING AGAINST THE PEOPLE’S WILL AND AGAINST ALL FACT, LAW, AND REASON. What industry is he protecting?

Trump should have accepted Jeff Sessions resignation when he had it in hand but his top advisors were against that.

THE LAW

In American political discourse, states’ rights are political powers reserved for the state governments rather than the federal government according to the United States Constitution, reflecting especially the enumerated powers of Congress and the Tenth Amendment.

HAS JEFF SESSIONS LOST HIS MIND?

HEADLINE NEWS – WEED WAR: SESSIONS ANNOUNCES MARIJUANA CRACKDOWN
Published time: 4 Jan, 2018 18:23Edited time: 5 Jan, 2018 18:13

The Justice Department is revoking an Obama-era policy that discouraged US attorneys in states where marijuana had been legalized from bringing charges in marijuana-related crimes.

“It is the mission of the Department of Justice to enforce the laws of the United States,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in the announcement Thursday. “Therefore, today’s memo on federal marijuana enforcement simply directs all US Attorneys to use previously established prosecutorial principles that provide them all the necessary tools to disrupt criminal organizations, tackle the growing drug crisis, and thwart violent crime across our country.”

REPRESENTATIVE KEITH ELLISON SAYS:
The war on drugs didn’t stop drug usage; it just ruined a lot of lives. Jeff Sessions is reviving it because he believes in using the criminal justice system as an instrument of racial and economic control of poor people and brown people.

JEFF SESSIONS SAYS:

Jeff Sessions Plans to Declare War on Legal Weed
The AP reported on Thursday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions, America’s biggest narc, will rescind Obama-era directives that instituted policies favorable to states that have legalized marijuana.

The move is likely to lead to confusion about whether it is legal to grow, buy or use marijuana in states where it has been decriminalized. Long-standing federal laws prohibit the practice, and still classify marijuana it as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, akin to heroin and cocaine. It is considered to have no medical use.

Sessions has been a vocal critic of marijuana legislation, comparing the drug to heroin and blaming it for spikes in violence. He has hinted that he would crack down on the growing cannabis market.

In May, the attorney general sent a letter to congressional leaders requesting they ditch an amendment in the department’s budget that blocks DOJ from using federal money to prevent states “from the implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession or cultivation of medical marijuana.”

Opponents and supporters of legal marijuana Thursday weighed in on news of the action.

“Jeff Sessions’ obsession with marijuana prohibition defies logic, threatens successful state level reforms, and flies in the face of widespread public support for legalization,” Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, said in a statement. “It’s now time for Congress to put the brakes on Sessions’ destructive agenda by limiting the Justice Department’s ability to undermine states’ decision making.”

Most arrests in the US are for drug possession, and marijuana represents by far the largest share of those arrests, according to the Alliance. The group advocates for policies and attitudes that reduce the harms of both drug use and drug prohibition.

Political satirist, radio host and civil rights activists, Randy Credico told RT criminalizing marijuana is an old tactic used to target the poor and people of color.

“When [president] Nixon kicked it off, [with] the drug war, and then [Governor] Rockefeller kicked it off statewide, 93% of the people who were going to jail on drug charges, either pot or cocaine, were people of color in the state of New York,” Credico told RT. “That was pretty much the same on the federal level. So these laws are used in the enforcement side of it against poor people and people of color.”

Credico was instrumental in helping to repeal the state’s Rockefeller Drug laws, under which someone caught possessing an ounce of marijuana faced a minimum sentence of 15 years if convicted.

Sessions is closely aligned with the private prison industry, Credico pointed out. The private prison stock price was going down towards the end of the Obama administration’s term, but have since skyrocketed under Trump. Ironically, Credico said, Sessions is also a big states’ rights supporter.

More than 60 percent of Americans support making marijuana use legal, according to a Gallup poll. Twenty-nine states have legalized marijuana for medical use, while eight have legalized the drug outright.

California began allowing the sale of recreational marijuana Monday, joining Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Nevada. Massachusetts and possibly Maine are expected to begin sales this year.

“I don’t know what is going to happen to the dispensaries that have opened up in California,” Credico said. “These eight states can certainly try to block his enforcement in federal court until they get something from the [US] Supreme Court or appellate federal court, which I think they will all do.”

“There is going to be a massive crackdown and a massive backlash in the popularity of this president. Even his reactionary supporters smoke pot,” he added. “This should have been behind us 50 years ago, pot should be legal on a national level.”

BERNIE SANDERS SAYS:

Bernie Sanders shreds Sessions for anti-pot policy: Don’t treat marijuana like it’s heroin.

Opponents of legal marijuana celebrated the news that the DOJ will move against the drug.

“It’s pretty clear that the federal policy is going to be that US attorneys will have discretion and the industry can longer hide behind the Cole memo and stay they’re protected,” Kevin Sabet, who worked in Obama’s Office of National Drug Control Policy and now runs the anti-legalization group Smart Approaches to Marijuana told The Hill. “There is an unknown here because we don’t know how this is going to be implemented.”

In 2013, after voters in Colorado and Washington State voted to decriminalize marijuana for recreational use, the Justice Department deliberated about how to handle the contradictions between state and federal law.

The Obama administration decided not to sue such states, and the Justice Department issued a policy memorandum – the “Cole Memo” – to federal prosecutors to de-prioritize marijuana-related prosecutions in such states, unless it involved sales to children or gang-related activity.

Legalization has led to a booming marijuana business in some states, where wealthy growers and even hedge funds have invested millions of dollars in production and sales. Some industry analysts have estimated the North American cannabis market at $10 billion in annual sales.

Source: https://www.rt.com/usa/415013-trump-admin-weaken-marijuana-laws/

In view of all of this ask yourself: Who benefits from prohibition of Cannabis?

KNOW ONE THING FOR SURE

The dark side entities HATE CANNABIS. Why?

1. It’s healing.
2. It’s productive.
3. It’s beneficial to the planet.
4. It’s economical to produce.
5. It’s a boost to the economy.
6. It could save our forests from being devastated for construction materials, clothes, paper, and so much more.
7. It doesn’t need pesticides to grow.
8. It grows almost anywhere.
9. It’s not addictive.
10. It can be spiritual.
11. It can be relaxing.
12. It helps mellow a person long enough not to hate their neighbor. So maybe it could prevent war.

The primary side effects are that you might get the munchies, and you might get a restful night’s sleep, you might feel better, and your physical pain might be reduced, but you won’t be a dangerous person on Cannabis and you won’t suddenly crave heroin. Cannabis should be used responsibly, meaning use it alone – without other drugs and without alcohol.

 

What’s important to know is that there has long been a conspiracy to keep this miracle plant out of the hands of people when our bodies are actually designed for this plant’s amazing properties. Introducing our Endocannabinoid System

As you read this review of the scientific literature regarding the therapeutic effects of cannabis and cannabinoids, one thing will become quickly evident: cannabis has a profound influence on the human body. This one herb and its variety of therapeutic compounds seem to affect every aspect of our bodies and minds. How is this possible?

At our integrative medical clinics in Maine and Massachusetts, my colleagues and I treat over 18,000 patients with a huge diversity of diseases and symptoms. In one day I might see cancer, Crohn’s disease, epilepsy, chronic pain, multiple sclerosis, insomnia, Tourette syndrome and eczema, just to name a few. All of these conditions have different causes, different physiologic states, and vastly different symptoms. The patients are old and young. Some are undergoing conventional therapy. Others are on a decidedly alternative path. Yet despite their differences, almost all of my patients would agree on one point: cannabis helps their condition.

Cannabinoids promote homeostasis at every level of biological life, from the sub-cellular, to the organism, and perhaps to the community and beyond.

Homeostasis is the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes. Homeostasis can be defined as the stable state of an organism and of its internal environment; as the maintenance or regulation of the stable condition, or its equilibrium; or simply as the balance of bodily functions. Wikipedia

TO SEE HOW THE ENDOCANNABINOID SYSTEM WORKS, watch these videos:

For the scientist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gdLh9cCdck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGzG3-Mtmxk

For the layperson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-OEpwgv6aM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jznQfMj9RWM

If you read this, checked out the links, and watched the videos in this article, can you still honestly say that cannabis has no medicinal value? Can you still say it’s a dangerous Schedule 1 drug?

Namaste,
Sherry

Website http://www.keyholejourney.com/home.html
Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnpYyJMGEZxsfJwT_RY6iVw
Bitchute channel https://www.bitchute.com/channel/keyhole-journey/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sherry.swiney.5

Agenda: Redistribution of Global Wealth behind Global Warming Alarmists*

06 Wednesday Apr 2016

Posted by Sherry Swiney in Global Warming, Science

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

climate change, environment, free energy, propaganda, wake up

BECAUSE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW

The following is shared from:
https://hwaairfan.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/agenda-redistribution-of-global-wealth-behind-global-warming-alarmists/
[my comments are in brackets and highlighted]

Manmade Global Warming Hoax

This article is right on the money.

Climate alarmists are thoroughly disingenuous

when they cloak their true goals

of global redistribution of wealth.

This is nothing short of a complete

replacement of Free Enterprise and Capitalism

in favor of Technocracy* – aka Green Economy

and/or Sustainable Development.

[*Note: Remember, Technocracy = social engineering (or conditioned reality). Everyone needs to know who is involved in technocracy and if that’s what you really want. Learn more about Technocracy before buying into it.]

Fraud

While the global warming alarmists have done a good job of spreading fright, they haven’t been so good at hiding their real motivation.

Yet another one has slipped up and revealed the catalyst driving the climate scare.

We have been told now for almost three decades that man has to change his ways or his fossil-fuel emissions will scorch Earth with catastrophic warming. Scientists, politicians and activists have maintained the narrative that their concern is only about caring for our planet and its inhabitants. But this is simply not true.

The narrative is a ruse. They are after something entirely different.

If they were honest, the climate alarmists would admit that they are not working feverishly to hold down global temperatures – they would acknowledge that they are instead consumed with the goal of holding down capitalism and establishing a global welfare state.

Have doubts?

Then listen to the words of former United Nations climate official Ottmar Edenhofer:

“One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy.

This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole,” said Edenhofer, who co-chaired the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group on Mitigation of Climate Change from 2008 to 2015.

So what is the goal of environmental policy?

“We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy,” said Edenhofer.

For those who want to believe that maybe Edenhofer just misspoke and doesn’t really mean that, consider that a little more than five years ago he also said that,

“the next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world’s resources will be negotiated.”

Mad as they are, Edenhofer’s comments are nevertheless consistent with other alarmists who have spilled the movement’s dirty secret.

Last year, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, made a similar statement.

“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,” she said in anticipation of last year’s Paris climate summit.

“This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”

The plan is to allow Third World countries to emit as much carbon dioxide as they wish – because, as Edenhofer said, “in order to get rich one has to burn coal, oil or gas” – while at the same time restricting emissions in advanced nations.

This will, of course, choke economic growth in developed nations, but they deserve that fate as they,

“have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community,” he said.

The fanaticism runs so deep that one professor has even suggested that we need to plunge ourselves into a depression to fight global warming.

[Note: Those in the know understand that saying the way to get rich is by burning coal, oil and gas is an outright lie.  It is “A” way to get rich while destroying the planet and its resources.  If the climate change pundits were seriously concerned, they would be advocating energy technologies that do not pollute.  They would stop suppressing energy breakthrough technology such as cold fusion, wave energy, and a whole host of free energy technologies being developed.]

Perhaps Naomi Klein summed up best what the warming the fuss is all about in her book “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.”

“What if global warming isn’t only a crisis?” Klein asks in a preview of a documentary inspired by her book.

“What if it’s the best chance we’re ever going to get to build a better world?”

In her mind, the world has to “change, or be changed” because an “economic system” – meaning free-market capitalism – has caused environmental “wreckage.”

This is how the global warming alarmist community thinks.

It wants to frighten, intimidate and then assume command. It needs a “crisis” to take advantage of, a hobgoblin to menace the people, so that they will beg for protection from the imaginary threat.

The alarmists’ “better world” is one in which they rule a global welfare state.

They’ve admitted this themselves.

Source*

Related Topics:

Australian PM Advisor on the NWO Climate Change Hoax*

Paris Climate Change Conference shows Road to NWO Weather Control*

Geoengineering Climate Change*

What They Haven’t Told You about Climate Change*

Climate Change in the Universe unravels another Structure*

Secretive U.N. Legal Conference Wants to Outlaw “Climate Change Denial”*

U.N. Plan to Make Legally Binding Climate Change Laws – Worldwide*

U.S. Places “Gag Order” on Weather Agency Employees, Inserts Geo-engineering Propaganda into ‘Common Core’ Syllabus*

Pakistan Gv’t Warns the Country to Prepare for Global Cooling*

Chemtrail, HAARP Space Fence and Weather Warfare*

Government Quietly Admits Weather Modification*

Subscribe

  • Entries (RSS)
  • Comments (RSS)

Archives

  • April 2019
  • January 2019
  • May 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • July 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • January 2016
  • August 2015
  • May 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014

Categories

  • Cannabis & Hemp
  • Economics Politics and War
  • Free Your Mind
  • Global Warming
  • Magicians – Slight of Hand Artists
  • Manipulating Perception
  • Myths Debunked
  • Poems
  • Schizophrenia Visions & Voices
  • Science
  • That's A Lie
  • Time and Cycles

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in

Blog at WordPress.com.

Cancel
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy