no mention of monsanto protection act?

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http://www.salon.com/2013/03/27/how_...nuck_into_law/

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Thanks for posting. I hadn't gotten around to it. Just like how NDAA was signed on New Years Eve so most people wouldn't know, Obama signed this one while all were distracted on the gay marriage issue. lol

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Obama sells out U.S. citizens by signing Monsanto Protection Act into law

Food, shelter, and clothing are often considered the three basic needs by humans and the actions by President Obama on Tuesday have now left millions of Americans across the land in shock as the very first tenet has been horrifically jeopardized by his signing the Monsanto Protection Act into law (H.R. 933) as mentioned on the Facebook page for Food Democracy Now.

For those that are new to this situation, the Monsanto Protection Act is the name given to what's known as a legislative rider that was inserted into the Senate Continuing Resolution spending bill.

Using the deceptive le of Farmer Assurance Provision, Section 735 of this bill actually grants Monsanto immunity from federal courts pending the review of any GM crop that is thought to be dangerous.

Under the section, courts would be helpless to stop Monsanto from continuing to plant GMO crops that are thought -- even by the US government -- to be a danger to human health or our cherised environment.

READ MORE: http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-sells-out-u-s-citizens-by-sig...

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I hate bill riders.

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Boom

from progressive liberal Cenk Uygur


"President FRAUD Obama!...He is a giant utter fraud..These are the FACTS and you just don't like the facts. He is a FRAUD!" -Cenk Uygur

"Anger is growing against President Barack Obama the day after he signed into law a spending bill that included a provision opponents have dubbed the "Monsanto Protection Act."

That bill, the HR 933 continuing resolution, was mainly aimed at averting a government shutdown and ensuring that the federal government would continue to be able to pay its bills for the next six months."*

Do you trust Monsanto completely, no matter how they genetically engineer and modify food? Well, President Obama thinks you should, after signing a bill that offers the company and others like it immunity. What does the signing of this bill say about the integrity of our president and bought politicians? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

TYT: Obama Gives Monsanto Get Out of Jail Free Card

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Thanks for posting. I hadn't gotten around to it. Just like how NDAA was signed on New Years Eve so most people wouldn't know, Obama signed this one while all were distracted on the gay marriage issue. lol

Hope/Change
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Obama sells out U.S. citizens by signing Monsanto Protection Act into law

Food, shelter, and clothing are often considered the three basic needs by humans and the actions by President Obama on Tuesday have now left millions of Americans across the land in shock as the very first tenet has been horrifically jeopardized by his signing the Monsanto Protection Act into law (H.R. 933) as mentioned on the Facebook page for Food Democracy Now.

For those that are new to this situation, the Monsanto Protection Act is the name given to what's known as a legislative rider that was inserted into the Senate Continuing Resolution spending bill.

Using the deceptive le of Farmer Assurance Provision, Section 735 of this bill actually grants Monsanto immunity from federal courts pending the review of any GM crop that is thought to be dangerous.

Under the section, courts would be helpless to stop Monsanto from continuing to plant GMO crops that are thought -- even by the US government -- to be a danger to human health or our cherised environment.

READ MORE: http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-sells-out-u-s-citizens-by-sig...

SA210 with the goods.

http://bit.ly/10nSxcs

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"If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it." - Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto, quoted in the Kansas City Star, March 7, 1994


"Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA's job." - Phil Angell, Monsanto's director of corporate communications, quoted in the New York Times, October 25, 1998

http://www.organicconsumers.org/arti...icle_27261.cfm

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tbh

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http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/mpa.asp

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http://www.thetakeaway.org/2013/apr/...modified-food/

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I've read that Monsanto wrote the amendment and Roy Blunt from Monsanto's HQ state slipped it in.

I'm sure RB has been and will continue to "play" for Monsanto in return for "pay", exploiting every opportunity for the corporotocracy to screw America harder and deeper.

Monsanto has several other major GMO crops in the pipelinem will endu p owning the food supply and other patented it sells to apply to the crops.

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I've read [from activist shrills] that Monsanto wrote the amendment and Roy Blunt from Monsanto's HQ state slipped it in.

LOL...

I couldn't help myself...

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Meet the GOPer Who Worked With Monsanto to Sneak the "Monsanto Protection Act" into Law

Anger at the so-called “Monsanto Protection Act” — a biotech rider which protects genetically modified seeds from litigation in the face of health risks — has been directed at numerous parties in Congress and the White House for allowing the provision to be voted and signed into law. But the party responsible for anonymously introducing the rider into the broad, unrelated spending bill had not been identified until now.


As Mother Jones’ Tom Philpott notes, the Senator responsible is Missouri Republican Roy Blunt — famed friend of Big Agrigulture on Capitol Hill. Blunt even told Politico’s David Rogers that he “worked with” Monsanto to craft the rider (rendering the moniker “Monsanto Protection Act” all the more appropriate). Philpott notes:


The admission shines a light on Blunt’s ties to Monsanto, whose office is located in the senator’s home state. According to OpenSecrets, Monsanto first started contributing to Blunt back in 2008, when it handed him $10,000. At that point, Blunt was serving in the House of Representatives. In 2010, when Blunt successfully ran for the Senate, Monsanto upped its contribution to $44,250. And in 2012, the GMO seed/pesticide giant enriched Blunt’s campaign war chest by $64,250.


… The senator’s blunt, so to speak, admission that he stuck a rider into an unrelated bill at the behest of a major campaign donor is consistent with the tenor of his political career. While serving as House whip under the famously lobbyist-friendly former House Majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) during the Bush II administration, Blunt built a formidable political machine by transforming lobbying cash into industry-accomodating legislation. In a blistering 2006 report, Public Citizen declared Blunt “a legislative leader who not only has surrendered his office to the imperative of moneyed interests, but who has also done so with disturbing zeal and efficiency.”

http://www.alternet.org/meet-goper-w...tter820467&t=3

Monsanto buys Blunt, Blunt pays back with legal shield.

"I couldn't help myself"

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Senate funding bill strips controversial provision on genetically modified crops

The short-term spending plan moving through the Senate would eliminate legislative language that allows farmers to continue growing genetically modified crops even if a court has blocked their use.

The Farmer Assurance Provision — dubbed the Monsanto Protection Act by its critics — was inserted into an earlier government funding bill that expires Monday and would have remained in place under the stop-gap funding bill approved by the House last week.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...cd6_story.html

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gmo's you won't see Monsanto employees eating them

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Senate funding bill strips controversial provision on genetically modified crops

The short-term spending plan moving through the Senate would eliminate legislative language that allows farmers to continue growing genetically modified crops even if a court has blocked their use.

The Farmer Assurance Provision — dubbed the Monsanto Protection Act by its critics — was inserted into an earlier government funding bill that expires Monday and would have remained in place under the stop-gap funding bill approved by the House last week.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...cd6_story.html

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don't worrry

bee poisoning will continue

and Monsanto and BigPharma will persist forever for the "self protection/liability shield" laws