Saturday 9 July 2011

MONSANTO: AGENT ORANGE IN THE AMAZON BASIN: IT NEVER WENT AWAY

VIETNAM ERA WEAPON BEING USED

TO CLEAR THE AMAZON

BROUGHT TO YOU BY MONSANTO...AGAIN.

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Noor al Haqiqa
Snippits and Snappits
July 9, 2011

Agent Orange is rearing its ugly head again.

Now it's being used to kill the Rain Forest for profit.

It is not Monsanto doing the destruction directly ~

as always their greedy, short-sighted customers are using the product.

We are losing Earth's greatest biological treasures just as we are beginning to appreciate their true value. Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover a mere 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years. I speak here of South America, but the loss of rain forests in Africa is even more devastating, and the same methods are used with the same results.

SOME OF THE BARE FACTS:

One and one-half acres of rainforest are lost every second with tragic consequences for both developing and industrial countries.

Rainforests are being destroyed because the value of rainforest land is perceived as only the value of its timber by short-sighted governments, multi-national logging companies, and land owners.

Nearly half of the world's species of plants, animals and microorganisms will be destroyed or severely threatened over the next quarter century due to rainforest deforestation.

Experts estimates that we are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest deforestation. That equates to 50,000 species a year. As the rainforest species disappear, so do many possible cures for life-threatening diseases. Currently, 121 prescription drugs sold worldwide come from plant-derived sources. While 25% of Western pharmaceuticals are derived from rainforest ingredients, less than 1% of these tropical trees and plants have been tested by scientists.

Most rainforests are cleared by chainsaws, bulldozers and fires for its timber value and then are followed by farming and ranching operations, even by world giants like Mitsubishi Corporation, Georgia Pacific, Texaco and Unocal.

There were an estimated ten million Indians living in the Amazonian Rainforest five centuries ago. Today there are less than 200,000.

In Brazil alone, European colonists have destroyed more than 90 indigenous tribes since the 1900's. With them have gone centuries of accumulated knowledge of the medicinal value of rainforest species. As their homelands continue to be destroyed by deforestation, rainforest peoples are also disappearing.

Most medicine men and shamans remaining in the Rainforests today are 70 years old or more. Each time a rainforest medicine man dies, it is as if a library has burned down. When a medicine man dies without passing his arts on to the next generation, the tribe and the world loses thousands of years of irreplaceable knowledge about medicinal plants.

THE WEALTH OF THE RAINFORESTS

The Amazon Rainforest covers over a billion acres, encompassing areas in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and the Eastern Andean region of Ecuador and Peru. If Amazonia were a country, it would be the ninth largest in the world.

The Amazon Rainforest has been described as the "Lungs of our Planet" because it provides the essential environmental world service of continuously recycling carbon dioxide into oxygen. More than 20 percent of the world oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest.

More than half of the world's estimated 10 million species of plants, animals and insects live in the tropical rainforests. One-fifth of the world's fresh water is in the Amazon Basin.

One hectare (2.47 acres) may contain over 750 types of trees and 1500 species of higher plants.

At least 80% of the developed world's diet originated in the tropical rainforest. Its bountiful gifts to the world include fruits like avocados, coconuts, figs, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, bananas, guavas, pineapples, mangos and tomatoes; vegetables including corn, potatoes, rice, winter squash and yams; spices like black pepper, cayenne, chocolate, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, sugar cane, tumeric, coffee and vanilla and nuts including Brazil nuts and cashews.

At least 3000 fruits are found in the rainforests; of these only 200 are now in use in the Western World. The Indians of the rainforest use over 2,000.

Rainforest plants are rich in secondary metabolites, particularly alkaloids. Biochemists believe alkaloids protect plants from disease and insect attacks. Many alkaloids from higher plants have proven to be of medicinal value and benefit.

Currently, 121 prescription drugs currently sold worldwide come from plant-derived sources. And while 25% of Western pharmaceuticals are derived from rainforest ingredients, less than 1% of these tropical trees and plants have been tested by scientists.

The U.S. National Cancer Institute has identified 3000 plants that are active against cancer cells. 70% of these plants are found in the rainforest. Twenty-five percent of the active ingredients in today's cancer-fighting drugs come from organisms found only in the rainforest.

Vincristine, extracted from the rainforest plant, periwinkle, is one of the world's most powerful anticancer drugs. It has dramatically increased the survival rate for acute childhood leukemia since its discovery.

In 1983, there were no U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturers involved in research programs to discover new drugs or cures from plants. Today, over 100 pharmaceutical companies and several branches of the US government, including giants like Merck and The National Cancer Institute, are engaged in plant research projects for possible drugs and cures for viruses, infections, cancer, and even AIDS.

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When I was in grade school, I was told that we learn about history so that we don’t repeat the same mistakes twice. Of course by now I know JUST how naïve that was. All one needs to do is consider who has kept our written history for millennia and the truth is apparent, we are never supposed to know the truths hidden behind the mists of time.

However, even in regards to something as inherently evil as usage of something like Monsanto’s deadly Agent Orange, it is apparent that some people didn’t hear the same message, including Brazilian ranchers who are spraying one of this century’s most hazardous pesticides over the Amazon.

This killer was of course used in Vietnam and has an estimated death toll of over 400,000 people.

Why is it even still around?

Well, money of course.

When did the genocidal death-dealing monstrosity known as Monsanto care about anything other than its own profit margins as they rejoice in the collateral damage that moves their genocidal agenda along?

It is not important that one and one-half acres of rainforest are lost every second and that we are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest deforestation.

Agent Orange is one of the most devastating weapons of modern warfare, a chemical which killed or injured an estimated 400,000 people during the Vietnam War ~ and now it's being used against the Amazon rainforest.

According to officials, ranchers in Brazil have begun spraying the highly toxic herbicide over patches of forest as a covert method to illegally clear foliage, more difficult to detect than chainsaws and tractors. In recent weeks, an aerial survey detected some 440 acres of rainforest that had been sprayed with the compound ~ poisoning thousands of trees and an untold number of animals, potentially for generations.

The person responsible has been identified and will suffer the penalties provided for in administrative law of environmental crimes (9605/98), which provides fine of five hundred to two million dollars. For Silvia, the chief substitute for supervision of IBAMA in the Amazon, the action is the work that the institute is doing to control illegal logging in the southern state.

According to Ahmed, IBAMA will continue with the monitoring and enforcement throughout the year, in order to combat environmental crimes and prevent others from entering the list of cities that most deforestation in Amazonia

Officials from Brazil's environmental agency IBAMA were first tipped to the illegal clearing by satellite images of the forest in Amazonia; a helicopter flyover in the region later revealed thousands of trees left ash-colored and defoliated by toxic chemicals. IBAMA says that Agent Orange was likely dispersed by aircraft by a yet unidentified rancher to clear the land for pasture because it is more difficult to detect than traditional operations that require chainsaws and tractors.

Last week, in another part of the Amazon, an investigation conducted by the agency uncovered approximately four tons of the highly toxic herbal pesticides hidden in the forest awaiting dispersion. If released, the chemicals could have potentially decimated some 7,500 acres of rainforest, killing all the wildlife that resides there and contaminating groundwater. In this case, the individual responsible was identified and now faces fines nearing $1.3 million.

According to Cicero Furtado, coordinator of the operation, the situation was raised by the intelligence service of IBAMA which identified that the product would be used as a defoliant to destroy about three thousand acres of forest. "The herbicide was stored in inappropriate location, hidden in the woods and would be sprayed in the forest with the use of aircraft," concluded the engineer.

Three different types of pesticides have been identified: 2,4 - D AMINE 72, U46BR and Garlon 480 in addition to mineral oil, which would be used as a fixative of the herbicide on the leaves. This type of pesticide is used in fields of crops to control weeds, necessitating the issuance of agronomic prescription for the acquisition and application in specific doses, accompanied by an agronomist.

Used improperly, not that there is truly a proper use for such a deadly creation, these poisons can cause serious damage to the environment such as pollution of groundwater, loss of biological diversity in soil, killing animals and insects, among others.

According to a report from Folha de São Paulo, the last time such chemicals were recorded in use by deforesters was in 1999, but officials say dispensing the devastating herbicide may become more common as officials crack down on the most flagrant types of environmental crime.

"They [deforesters] have changed their strategy because, in a short time, more areas of forest can be destroyed with herbicides. Thus, they don't need to mobilize tree-cutting teams and can therefore bypass the supervision of IBAMA," says Jerfferson Lobato of IBAMA.

While Agent Orange was originally designed to clear forest coverage in combat situations, its use became a subject of controversy due to its impact on humans and wildlife. During the Vietnam War, the United States military dispersed 12 million gallons of herbicide, impacting the health of some 3 million, mostly peasant, Vietnamese citizens, and causing birth defects in around 500 thousand children. Additionally, the chemical's effects on the environment have been profound and lasting.

Last month, over three decades after Agent Orange was last used in Vietnam, the US began funding a $38 million decontamination operation there. Meanwhile, in the Brazilian Amazon, the highly toxic chemical is being discovered anew and sprayed over the rainforest.

I shake my head in wonder and confusion at the greed and stupidity of our species. It is not even a question anymore of the serious and catastrophic effects that the destruction of the rainforests will have on the planet and us.

Just a final thought:
Did you know that we in the West never quit using Agent Orange? The same formulation was been given a new name and is used to keep trees and shrubs from growing on powerlines, golf courses, military bases. Think of THAT the next time you are golfing on a smooth green course one early morning and inhaling the fresh misty air. It's cheaper than hiring people to clear those areas every month. If we can't keep our own country from using the poison...how the heck are you going to stop someone from using it in the Amazon?

Monsanto, the vile company founded on Rockefeller money so long ago, has proven time and time again that only money and serving the NWO with its depopulation agenda matter. We the people are just not important.