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From Strategic-Culture.Org …ROBERT BRIDGE | 30.06.2018 | BUSINESS
Match Made in Hell: Bayer-Monsanto Partnership Signals Death Knell for Humanity
On what plane of reality is it possible that two of the world’s most morally bankrupt corporations, Bayer and Monsanto, can be permitted to join forces in what promises to be the next stage in the takeover of the world’s agricultural and medicinal supplies?Warning, plot spoiler: There is no Mr. Hyde side in this horror story of epic proportions; it’s all Dr. Jekyll. Like a script from a David Lynch creeper, Bayer AG of poison gas fame has finalized its $66 billion (£50bn) purchase of Monsanto, the agrochemical corporation that should be pleading the Fifth in the dock on Guantanamo Bay instead of enjoying what amounts to corporate asylum and immunity from crimes against humanity. Such are the special privileges that come from being an above-the-law transnational corporation.
Unsurprisingly, the first thing Bayer did after taking on Monsanto, saddled as it is with the extra baggage of ethic improprieties, was to initiate a rebrand campaign. Like a Hollywood villain falling into a crucible of molten steel only to turn up later in some altered state, Monsanto has been subsumed under the Orwellian-sounding ‘Bayer Crop Science’ division, whose motto is: “Science for a better life.”
Yet Bayer itself provides little protective cover for Monsanto considering its own patchy history of corporate malfeasance. Far beyond its widely known business of peddling pain relief for headaches, the German-based company played a significant role in the introduction of poison gas on the battlefields of World War I.
Despite a Hague Convention ban on the use of chemical weapons since 1907, Bayer CEO Carl Duisberg, who sat on a special commission set up by the German Ministry of War, knew a business opportunity when he saw one.
Duisberg witnessed early tests of poison gas and had nothing but glowing reports on the horrific new weapon: “The enemy won’t even know when an area has been sprayed with it and will remain quietly in place until the consequences occur.”
Bayer, which built a department specifically for the research and development of gas agents, went on to develop increasingly lethal chemical weapons, such as phosgene and mustard gas. “This phosgene is the meanest weapon I know,” Duisberg remarked with a stunning disregard for life, as if he were speaking about the latest bug spray. “I strongly recommend that we not let the opportunity of this war pass without also testing gas grenades.”
Duisberg got his demonic wish. The opportunity to use the battlefield as a testing ground and soldiers as guinea pigs came in the spring of 1915 as Bayer supplied some 700 tons of chemical weapons to the war front. On April 22, 1915, it has been estimated that around 170 tons of chlorine gas were used for the first time on a battlefield in Ypres, Belgium against French troops. Up to 1,000 soldiers perished in the attack, and many more thousands injured.
In total, an estimated 60,000 people died as a result of the chemical warfare started by Germany in the First World War and supplied by the Leverkusen-based company.
According to Axel Koehler-Schnura from the Coalition against BAYER Dangers: “The name BAYER particularly stands for the development and production of poison gas. Nevertheless the company has not come to terms with its involvement in the atrocities of the First World War. BAYER has not even distanced itself from Carl Duisberg’s crimes.”
The criminal-like behavior has continued right up until modern times. Mike Papantonio, a US attorney and television presenter discussed one of the more heinous acts committed by this chemical company on Thomas Hartmann’s program, The Big Picture: “They produced a clotting agent for hemophiliacs, in the 1980s, called Factor VIII. This blood-clotting agent was tainted with HIV, and then, after the government told them they couldn’t sell it here, they shipped it all over the world, infecting people all over the world. That’s just part of the Bayer story.”
Papantonio, citing Bayer’s 2014 annual report, said the company is facing 32 different liability lawsuits around the world. For the 2018 Bayer liability report, click here.
Before flushing your Bayer products down the toilet, you may want to put aside an aspirin or two because the story gets worse.
One of the direct consequences of the ‘Baysanto’ monster will be a major hike in prices for farmers, already suffering a direct hit to their livelihood from unsustainable prices. “Farmers have already experienced a 300% price increase in recent years, on everything from seeds to fertilizer, all of which are controlled by Monsanto,” Papantonio told Hartmann. “And every forecaster is predicting that these prices are going to climb even higher because of this merger.”
Yet it’s hard to imagine the situation getting any worse for the American farmer, who is now facing the highest suicide rate of any profession in the country. The suicide rate for Americans engaged in the field of farming, fishing and forestry is 84.5 per 100,000 people – more than five times that of the broader population.
This tragic trend echoes that of India, where about a decade ago millions of Indian farmers began switching from farming with traditional farming techniques to using Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds instead. In the past, following a millennia-old tradition, farmers saved seeds from one harvest and replanted them the following year. Those days of wisely following the rhythms and patterns of the natural world are almost over. Today, Monsanto GMO seeds are bred to contain ‘terminator technology’, with the resulting crops ‘programmed’ not to produce seeds of their own. In other words, the seed company is literally playing God with nature and our lives. Thus, Indian farmers are forced to buy a new batch of seeds – together with Monsanto pesticide Round Up – each year and at a very prohibitive cost. Hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers
But should the world have expected anything different from the very same company that was involved in the production of Agent Orange for military use during the Vietnam War (1961-1971)? More than 4.8 million Vietnamese suffered adverse effects from the defoliant, which was sprayed over vast tracts of agricultural land during the war, destroying the fertility of the land and Vietnam’s food supply. About 400,000 Vietnamese died as a result of the US military’s use of Agent Orange, while millions more suffered from hunger, crippling disabilities and birth defects.
This is the company that we have allowed, together with Bayer, to control about one-quarter of the world’s food supply. This begs the question: Who is more nuts? Bayer and Monsanto, or We the People?
It’s important to mention that the Bayer – Monsanto convergence is not occurring in a corporate vacuum. It is all part of a race on the part of the global agrochemical companies to stake off the world’s food supplies. ChemChina has bought out Switzerland’s Syngenta for $43 billion, for example, while Dow and DuPont have forged their own $130 billion empire.
However, none of those companies carry the same bloodstained reputations as Bayer and Monsanto, a match made in hell that threatens all life on earth.
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(you forgot to talk about Rothschild himself having a helping hand in the buy out deal between Monsanto and Bayer.. details below in context )
1901: Monsanto was founded in St. Louis, Missouri by John Francis Queeny, a 30-year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry working at Meyer Brothers Drug Company, using money borrowed from COCA-COLA. ((Certain sites cite the founder of Monsanto as being a Knight of Malta. I haven’t found anything concret, other than a lot of sites who’ve copied pasted the same source material, which in itself shows no sources))
1902: Monsanto manufactures its first product, the artificial sweetener Saccharin, which Monsanto sold to the Coca-Cola Company. The U.S. government later files suit over the safety of Saccharin – but loses.
1917 the U.S. government filed suit over the safety of saccharin as a test case at Monsanto’s request. ((AT MONSANTO’s REQUEST!!!) The suit was dismissed in 1925, ending the government’s unsuccessfulattempts then to prove saccharin as harmful.
During WW2, Francis Queeny couldn’t import chemicals from Europe and stared manufacturing its own chemical products.
1926: Environmental policy was generally governed by local governments, Monsanto Chemical Company founded and incorporated the town of Monsanto, later renamed Sauget, Illinois, to provide a more business friendly environment for one of its chemical plants. For years, the Monsanto plant in Sauget wathe nation’s largest producer of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
In 1929, Monsanto acquires Rubber Services Laboratories. Monsanto also went public and became the largest producer of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
1930s: DeKalb AgResearch Corporation (today MONSANTO) marketed its first **HYBRID** seed corn (maize).
1929 : On the other side of the Atlantic, in Germany, the first chemical / pharmaceutical cartel is founded in order to compete with Rockefeller’s quest for control of the global drug market. Lead by the German multinationals Bayer, BASF and Hoechst, the I.G. Farben cartel was founded with a total number of employees surpassing 80,000. The race for global control was on.
1929, November 29 – The Rockefeller cartel (U.S.A.) and the I.G. Farben cartel (Germany) decided to divide the entire globe into interest spheres – the very same crime Rockefeller had been sentenced for 18 years earlier, when his trust had divided up the U.S. into “interest zones”.
1930s: DeKalb AgResearch Corporation (today MONSANTO) marketed its first **HYBRID** seed corn (maize).
1932 / 33 : The I.G. Farben cartel, equally insatiable, decides no longer to be bound by the 1929 constraints. They support an uprising German politician, who promises I.G. Farben to militarily conquer the world for them. With millions of dollars in election campaign donations, this politician seized power in Germany, turned the German democracy into a dictatorship and kept his promise to launch his conquest war, a war that soon became known as WWII.
1938: Monsanto goes into the plastic business (the year after DuPont helped ban hemp because it was superior to their new NYLON product made from Rockefeller OIL). Monsanto became involved in plastics when it completely took over Fiberloid, one of the oldest nitrocellulose production companies, which had a 50% stake in Shawinigan Resins.
1941 Monsanto’s acquisition of a research and development laboratory called Thomas and Hochwalt. The well-known Dayton, Ohio, firm strengthened Monsanto at the time and provided the basis for some of its future achievements in chemical technology.
1942 – 45 : In each and every country Hitler’s wehrmacht invaded, the first act was to rob the chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries and assign them – free of charge – to the I.G. Farben empire. In order to cement its global leadership with patented drugs, the I.G. Farben cartel tests its patented pharmaceutical substances on concentration camp inmates in Auschwitz, Dachau and many other sites. The fees for conducting these inhumane studies were transferred directly from the bank accounts of Bayer, Hoechst and BASF to the bank accounts of the SS, who operated the concentration camps.
1945 : I.G. Farben’s plan to take control of the global oil and drug markets has failed. The U.S. and the other allied forces won WWII. Nevertheless, many U.S. and allied soldiers had lost their lives during the conflict, and the allies’ reward was little compared to the rewards of others. The corporate shares of the losers, I.G. Farben, went to the Rockefeller trust (U.S.A.) and Rothschild / J.P. Morgan (U.K.).
1947 : In the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, 24 managers from Bayer, BASF, Hoechst and other executives of the I.G. Farben cartel were tried for crimes against humanity. These crimes included: leading wars of aggression, instituting slavery and committing mass murder. In his final pleading, U.S.-Chief Prosecutor Telford Taylor summarized the crimes committed by these corporate criminals with the following words: “Without I.G. Farben, the second World War would not have been possible”.
Amazingly, the real culprits for the death of 60 Million people in World War II – the I.G. Farben executives – received the mildest verdicts. Even those executives directly responsible for the crimes in I.G. Auschwitz only received a maximum of twelve years in jail. Surprised? You shouldn’t be.
Rewind back to 1944 Nelson Rockefeller had already entered the executive branch of the U.S. government. He started off as Under-Secretary of State and ended up a few years later as Special Adviser of President Truman for Special Affairs. In other words, at critical junctures of the 20th century, the Rockefeller interests took direct charge. They decided the post war shape of the world and the distribution of its wealth.
As such, under the influence of the U.S. State Department, the verdicts in Nuremberg against the I.G. Farben managers can easily be explained. In return for taking over the corporate shares of I.G. Farben, and thereby global control of the oil and drug business, Nelson Rockefeller made sure that the real culprits of World War II were not hanged. In fact, and as we shall see, they were needed.
From 1939 to 1945 Monsanto did a lot of research on enriching uranium for the Manhattan project. Later, Monsanto operated the Mound (Ohio) Laboratory as a nuclear facility for the Federal government until the late 1980s, and their Dayton Laboratory was used as a research facility for nuclear-based and other government-funded projects
In 1945, Monsanto used its warfare chemicals in agriculture
1954: Monsanto partnered with German chemical giant Bayer to form Mobay and market polyurethanes in the USA
1955, Monsanto was in the petroleum business having acquired Lion Oil primarily to provide themselves petrochemical raw materials.
1957-1967: Monsanto was the creator of several attractions in Disney’s Tommorrowland. Disney finally tore the house down, but discovered it would not go down without a fight. According to Monsanto Magazine, wrecking balls literally bounced off the gla$s-fiber, reinforced polyester material. Torches, jackhammers, chain saws and shovels did not work.
1959: Monsanto sets up Monsanto Electronics Co. in Palo Alto
From 1961 to 1971 : Monsanto was involved in production of Agent Orange for military use during the Vietnam War and was involved in production of PCBs, DDT and chemical weapons that was sprayed on the Vietnamese civilians and American troops. The US dropped 21 million gallons of defoliants over large swathes of Vietnam, of which 12 million gallons were Agent Orange – a herbicide, which can release dioxin, manufactured for the US Department of Defense primarily by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical.Agent Orange was a mixture of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D and had very high concentrations of dioxin.
1962: Monsanto’s European expansion continued, with Brussels becoming the permanent overseas headquarters.
In the 1970’s, Justice Clarence Thomas, worked as a corporate lawyer for the Monsanto Corporation, thus creating a serious conflict of interest for him when deciding any case involving Monsanto. for exemple :https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-796_c07d.pdf)
1972, The use of DDT was banned by congress so in 1973 Monsanto developed glyphosate molecule for killing weeds and pests.
1977: G. D. Searle hires prominent Washington insider Donald Rumsfeld as the new CEO
1981: Ronald Reagan is sworn in as President of the United States. Reagan’s transition team, which includes Donald Rumsfeld, CEO of G. D. Searle, hand picks Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes Jr. to be the new FDA Commissioner. On January 21, the day after Ronald Reagan’s inauguration, GD Searle re-applied to the FDA for approval to use aspartame in food sweetener,and Reagan’s new FDA commissioner, Arthur Hayes Hull, Jr., appointed a 5-person Scientific Commission to review the board of inquiry’s decision. It soon became clear that the panel would uphold the ban by a 3-2 decision, but Hull then installed a 6th member on the commission, and the vote became deadlocked. He then personally broke the tie in aspartame’s favor. Hull later left the FDA under allegations of impropriety, served briefly as Provost at New York Medical College, and then took a position with Burston-Marsteller, the chief public relations firm for both Monsanto and GD Searle. Since that time Hull has never spoken publicly about aspartame.
In 1982, Rumsfeld had succeeded in getting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to finally approve NutraSweet (aspartame), which had previously been denied FDA approval. (BECAUSE IT BURNS HOLES IN BRAINS)
In 1985 taking the company deeper into pharmaceuticals and the sweetener industry, Monsanto purchased G.D. SEARLE & CO. Donald Rumsfeld followed Searle as CEO and President of Searle between 1977 and 1985. He played an instrumental role in the acquisition of G.D. Searle & Company by Monsanto.
In 1987, Monsanto did its first test on genetically modified crops.
In 1993, Monsanto and NTGargiulo joined forces to produce a (GMO) geneticallyaltered tomato
In 1994, Monsanto released rBGH and rBST growth hormones into the market
In 1995, Monsanto invented a new genetically modified crop that was resistant to its best selling herbecide Roundup.
In 1996 The launch of Monsanto’s first biotech product line.
1996-1999: Monsanto sold off its plastics business to Bayer.
1995-1997 : spin-off of Monsanto’s chemical operations into a new, publicly owned company named Solutia Inc ((which took the sholder of Monsanto’s suits being filed against them for Environmental damage..so basically Solutia (The Solution?) is the dirty company who’s repsonsable for pumping PCBs Dioxins into the environnement.. not Monsanto.. Anything to keep the name clean..Disgusting!!))A flurry of acquisitions completed between 1995-1997 greatly increased Monsanto’s presence in life sciences, quickly compensating for the revenue lost from the spin-off of Solutia. Among the largest acquisitions were Calgene, Inc., a leader in plant biotech, which was acquired in a two-part transaction in 1995 and 1997, and a 40% interest in Dekalb Genetics Corp.,the second-largest seed-corn company in the United States.In 1998, Monsanto acquired the rest of DeKalb, paying $2.3 billion for the Illinois-based company.
1999: Monsanto opens its Beautiful Sciences exhibit at Disneyland… (Its a small small world blah blah blahh blaaah blaaaah)
2000-2002: Monsanto merges with Pharmacia & Upjohn, and changes its name to Pharmacia Corporation
2002: Monsanto entered into an important agreement with DuPont.
As a result of this “agreement” both companies agreed to drop a raft of outstanding patent lawsuits against one another and to share their patented GMO crops technologies. Some commentators see this ‘agreement’ as const1tuting a pseudo-merger by stealth of the two companies’ GMO crops monopolies which are too large to be permitted to merge
2002: The infamous agrochemical and biotechnology division, still known as Monsanto,was spun off as a nominally separate company with Pharmacia originally retaining an 85% share. Monsanto Company became completely separate and independent from Pharmacia on August 13, 2002, when Pharmacia distributed its remaining Monsanto shares to Pharmacia’s stockholders.
2003: Solutia, Inc. (now owned by Pharmacia Corp… which 3 years ago.. was Monsanto.. OOH how they twist and turn in the wind to avoid responsability and liabilty.) files Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2004: Monsanto forms American Seeds Inc holding company for corn and soybean seed deals and begins brand acquisitions.
2005: Monsanto has patent claims on breeding techniques for pigs which would grant them ownership of any pigs born of such techniques and their related herds. Greenpeace claims Monsanto is trying to claim ownership on ordinary breeding techniques. Monsanto claims that the patent is a defensive measure to track animals from its system.
2007, Monsanto acquired Delta & Pine Land Company, a company that had patented a seed technology nicknamed Terminators.
In 2014 Monsanto donated half a million dollars to the Clinton FamilyFoundation while spending more than $3 million on congressional lobbying.Other donors with interests in corporate agribusiness include Coca-Cola ($5m), AstraZeneca ($150k), Dow Chemical ($1m), Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa ($1m), Walmart / Walton Foundation ($2.25m) and the pro-GMO Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which together with Microsoft donated $26m. ((These companies donated to the Clintons, but I put them here so we can seeclearly who we are dealing with here..))Clinton is a firm supporter of Monsanto and other multinational corporations involved with agriculture, and GMOs, which she praised at the 2014 Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) convention in San Diego. In April she appointed long-time Monsanto lobbyist Jerry Crawford as an advisor to her ‘Ready for Hillary’ Political Action Committee
2015 Acting on President Juan Manuel Santos’ recommendation, Colombia’s National Drug Council on May 14 banned aerial spraying of glyphosate. The ruling has implications for beleaguered rural life in Colombia due to far-reaching effects of the chemical. They are due mainly to the aerial spray method of delivering glyphosate, which is unique to Colombia.
September 2016, Monsanto entered into a $66-billion deal to merge with Bayer. Bayer said BofA Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, HSBC and JP Morgan had committed to providing the bridge financing.BofA Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse are acting as lead financial advisers to Bayer, with Rothschild as an additional adviser. Bayer’s legal advisers are Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Allen & Overy LLP. Morgan Stanley and Ducera Partners are acting as financial advisers to Monsanto, with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz its legal adviser.
Monsanto’s business is currently run in two parts: Agricultural Productivity, and Seeds and Genomics (German Eugenics??.. no, sorry, that’s me being stupid..)
ps : Blackwater:
There is some confusion around the topic of Blackwater being bought by Monsanto and it appears that people have having difficulty seeing who bought Blackwater.
.. All I can say is. Internet is being sanitized.
I’ve already looked into this some months ago.. and all the links I’d saved are now coming up as 404 errors..
I’ll put up what I have here, because it’s important and very relevant to Monsanto. I stand by what I claim, I saw the articles, that gave this information.
Blackwater’s work for corporations and government agencies was contracted using two companies owned by Blackwater’s owner and founder, Erik Prince: Total Intelligence Solutions and the Terrorism Research Center (TRC).. and if you want to goggle Blackwater, they call themselves ? first Xe Services, then Academi nowadays.. Enrique ”Ric” Prado is the ’goto’ man for the CIA wet black dirty work that even the CIA says, ’you wouldnt want Amercia’s fingerprints on it’..? Prado and Prince built up a network of such foreigners while Blackwater was at the center of the CIA’s asasination program.
Prado wrote to the DEA sometime in 2007 to explain that ? Prado explained that Blackwater had developed ”a rapidly growing, worldwide network of folks that can do everything from surveillance to ground truth to disruption operations.”
The DEA responded that they might have some work for Blackwater for the Special Operations Division..
? The SOD is a secretive joint command within the Justice Department, run by the DEA. It serves as the command-and-control center for some of the most sensitive counternarcotics and
law enforcement operations conducted by federal forces.
According to internal Total Intelligence communications, biotech giant Monsanto—the world’s largest supplier of genetically modified seeds—hired the firm in 2008–09
Cofer Black (Total Intelligence Chairman) wrote that Kevin Wilson, Monsanto’s security manager, ”understands that we can span collection from internet, to reach out, to boots on the ground on legit basis protecting the Monsanto [brand] name….
Ahead of the curve info and insight/heads up is what he is looking for.” Black added that Total Intelligence ”would develop into acting as intel arm of Monsanto.” Black also noted that Monsanto was concerned about animal rights activists and that they discussed how Blackwater ”could have our person(s) actually join [activist] group(s) legally.”
How did Monsanto get a hold of Blackwater?? New York-based USTC Holdings bought it for an undisclosed sum of money..
USTC Holdings is an investor consortium led by private equity firms Forte Capital Advisors and Manhattan Partners.
Forte Capital Advisors is the baby of long-time Blackwater ally Jason De Yonker. Between 1998 and 2002,
Mr. DeYonker co-managed Xe founder.
Whereas Manhattan Partners, a private equity company, who specialises in taking money from anonymous rich people
in order to buy companies.
@kahlypso You should start a thread in the forum and get it all out there. Very interesting stuff. Nice work.
I have it all where I need it, but if you want, go ahead and have at it sir. When you contrast it with pharma’s history and whodunnits.. (you start getting physically sick.. evil people..)