Post-Brexit Agrochemical Apocalypse For The UK?

The British government, regulators and global agrochemical corporations are colluding with each other and are thus engaging in criminal behaviour. That’s the message put forward in a new report written by environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason and sent to the UK Environment Agency. It follows her January 2019 open letter to Werner Baumann, CEO of Bayer CropScience, where she made it clear to him that she considers Bayer CropScience and Monsanto criminal corporations.

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Her letter to Baumann outlined a cocktail of corporate duplicity, cover-ups and criminality which the public and the environment are paying the price for, not least in terms of the effects of glyphosate. Later in 2019, Mason wrote to Bayer Crop Science shareholders, appealing to them to put human health and nature ahead of profit and to stop funding Bayer.

Mason outlined with supporting evidence how the gradual onset of the global extinction of many species is largely the result of chemical-intensive industrial agriculture. She argued that Monsanto’s (now Bayer) glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide and Bayer’s clothianidin are largely responsible for the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef and that the use of glyphosate and neonicotinoid insecticides are wiping out wildlife species across the globe.

In February 2020, Mason wrote the report ‘Bayer Crop Science rules Britain after Brexit – the public and the press are being poisoned by pesticides’. She noted that PM Boris Johnson plans to do a trade deal with the US that could see the gutting of food and environment standards. In a speech setting out his goals for trade after Brexit, Johnson talked up the prospect of an agreement with Washington and downplayed the need for one with Brussels – if the EU insists the UK must stick to its regulatory regime. In other words, he wants to ditch EU regulations.

Mason pondered just who could be pulling Johnson’s strings. A big clue came in February 2019 at a Brexit meeting on the UK chemicals sector where UK regulators and senior officials from government departments listened to the priorities of Bayer Crop Science. During the meeting (Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum Keynote Seminar: Priorities for UK chemicals sector – challenges, opportunities and the future for regulation post-Brexit), Janet Williams, head of regulatory science at Bayer Crop Science Division, made the priorities for agricultural chemical manufacturers known.

https://fort-russ.com/2020/07/post-brexit-agrochemical-apocalypse-for-the-uk/

Obama Holdovers with Islamist Connections Still Employed by the DoJ

What’s with all the Obama holdovers who can still be found throughout the Trump administration? It is now just a little over three months before the 2020 presidential election, and despite an alarming amount of evidence of Obama holdovers still in the Washington bureaucracy, working hard to block Trump policies, all too many of these saboteurs are still in place. One of them is an appeaser, capitulator, and Muslim Brotherhood stooge named Eric W. Treene.

The Justice Department’s “Religious Freedom in Focus” is “a periodic email update about the Civil Rights Division’s religious liberty and religious discrimination cases.” It lists as a contact the Special Counsel for Religious Discrimination, Eric W. Treene. I exposed Treene’s subservience to Muslim organizations linked to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood over eight years ago. What’s Eric Treene still doing there?

Back in January 2012, after receiving a huge box (in response to my Freedom of Information Act request) full of documents relating to the Justice Department’s interactions with Muslim groups linked to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, I wrote that what struck me almost immediately was the casual familiarity between the Muslim groups including the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which has admitted its ties to the Brotherhood and Hamas, although it claims that it is no longer connected with either, and senior officials of the Department of Justice, all the way up to Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez. They discuss lunch, vacations, job changes – always with the Muslim Brotherhood groups pushing their narrative, even in these casual exchanges.

Even more striking was the servile demeanor of Eric Treene, who was then listed as Special Counsel for the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, and the demanding condescension of Muslim Brotherhood operatives. Muslim and Arab operatives treat Treene and Co. like an errand boy, asking them for email addresses of other contacts and setting them to perform the most menial gofer duties. The DoJ even takes lunch orders and picks up the tab, and in some cases asks them how much money they need for a little soiree they’re holding. It is astonishing.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/07/obama_holdovers_with_islamist_connections_still_employed_by_the_doj.html

China hits back at Australia-US statement on South China Sea, Hong Kong

The Chinese embassy has angrily reacted to a joint Australia-US statement criticising the regime’s actions in the South China Sea.

The Chinese embassy has angrily reacted to a joint Australia-US statement criticising the regime’s actions in the South China Sea and elsewhere, warning “any attempt to pressure China will never succeed”.

Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Defence Minister Linda Reynolds are in Washington, DC for the Australia-US Ministerial Consultations, or AUSMIN, hosted by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.

In the joint statement following the meetings, the two countries expressed “deep concern” over hot-button issues including Hong Kong, Taiwan, the “repression of Uyghurs” in Xinjiang and China’s maritime claims in the South China Sea, which are “not valid under international law”.

But the Chinese embassy in Australia swiftly hit back in a statement of its own.

“We firmly reject and oppose the unfounded accusations and attacks against China on issues related to Hong Kong, Xinjiang and the South China Sea made in the recent Joint Statement of Australia-US Ministerial Consultations,” it said.

“Their assertions, in disregard of basic facts, violated international law and basic norms governing international relations and grossly interfered in China’s internal affairs.

“We reiterate that the Chinese side is unwavering in upholding national sovereignty, security and its legitimate rights and interests. We are firmly committed to maintaining regional peace and stability. Any attempt to pressure China will never succeed.

“We urge Australia not to go further on the road of harming China-Australia relations, and truly proceeding from its own interests, do more things that are conducive to mutual trust and co-operation between the two countries.”

https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/china-hits-back-at-australiaus-statement-on-south-china-sea-hong-kong/news-story/efb2925d910ea9f32af9385ec581a0d3

Gold Hits Record High, Yields Hit Record Lows After Powell Promise-Fest

As one would expect, markets were dominated today by Powell's words with gold and stocks rising after the FOMC statement

Powell initially promised The Fed will "do whatever it takes for as long as it takes" and stocks and gold spiked.

Everything was fine until Powell reiterated a statement on the pace of recovery slowing and everything reversed.

But then Powell promised to "adjust forward guidance and asset-buying if needed" and the market assumed that if the recovery is slowing that can only mean MOAR!!!!

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https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/gold-hits-record-high-yields-hit-record-lows-after-powell-promise-fest

University of Arkansas Professor Indicted for Wire Fraud and Passport Fraud

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/university-arkansas-professor-indicted-wire-fraud-and-passport-fraud

Mark Zuckerberg Antitrust Hearing: Facebook CEO Grilled About Whether Instagram Buy Was Monopolistic

Mark Zuckerberg was among the tech giant leaders questioned Wednesday by a House antitrust subcommittee. The Facebook CEO was quick to point out in his prepared statement that his company faces significant competition from all sides and that every company represented at the hearing could be put out of business if they fail to innovate. Nevertheless, he faced hard questions backed up by company emails about its alleged attempts to stamp out competition.

Zuckerberg was first engaged by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., on accusations from Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, that Facebook's platform censors conservative voices, singling out the recent restriction of Donald Trump Jr. for sharing a video that encouraged the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19.

This incident occurred on Trump Jr.'s Twitter account, not Facebook.

While stating that this incident occurred on a rival platform, Zuckerberg said that Facebook does not allow posts that might lead to harm. He stated that Facebook would not take down content discussing trials, but would do so for posts claiming that there is an effective treatment for the virus, which there is not.

“We do not want to become the arbiters of truth,” Zuckerberg stated.

Zuckerberg’s testimony became especially heated when House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler questioned the CEO on its 2012 acquisition of photo-based social media company Instagram. An email obtained by the committee showed Zuckerberg calling the platform potentially “very disruptive” to Facebook’s business. Another email said that an acquisition could do away with a competitor, and the CEO replied that this was part of his motivation for the deal.

Zuckerberg denied that Facebook acquired Instagram to stamp out potential competition. He also stated that his company could not have predicted the scale that Instagram would grow.

“It was not a guarantee that Instagram was going to succeed,” Zuckerberg said. “In hindsight, it looks obvious that Instagram reached the scale it has. At the time, it was far from obvious.”

Zuckerberg noted that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2012 declined to challenge the acquisition as anti-competitive. Nadler referred to this as one of the “failures” of the FTC in the past.

The FTC is actively reviewing its ruling from the past decade. If it decides against its previous ruling, it is possible that antitrust enforcement could see Instagram spun off from Facebook.

https://www.ibtimes.com/mark-zuckerberg-antitrust-hearing-facebook-ceo-grilled-about-whether-instagram-buy-3018975

After Ending Police Contract, Minneapolis Schools Quietly Post Job Listings For Security Guards

The public school district in Minneapolis, after cutting their ties with the city’s police in early June, has quietly sought to replace contracted school resource officers (SROs) with privately hired security guards - a move that enraged the teachers union, which wants no policing on campus at all.

In the wake of the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police officers, the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) board of education voted unanimously to terminate its contract with the Minneapolis Police Department, saying it “cannot continue to be in partnership with an organization that has the culture of violence and racism.” As the new school year approaches, however, the MPS found itself in need of a security force to keep campuses safe.

According to an online job posting, the MPS plans to pay between $65,695 to $85,790 for 11 “public safety support specialists (PSSS).” The PSSS won’t be police officers, but are required to have law enforcement degrees and experience. Their list of responsibilities include: breaking up fights, event security, and providing “a bridge between in-school intervention and law enforcement.”

The MPS hiring effort soon came to the notice of Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT), reported local newspaper City Pages. The MFT, which played an active role in prompting the district to cut ties with the police, was furious that it had not been consulted about the plan.

“When we said we didn’t want any more SROs, any more police officers in our buildings, we did not mean, ‘hire a bunch of private security officers and put them in our buildings,'” MFT President Greta Callahan told City Pages.

More than 100 Minneapolis teachers and families participated in a “No Cops In Our Schools” rally on July 19 outside the district headquarters to protest against what they called “rent-a-cops.”

In response, the MPS said they were hiring for PSSS on “an accelerated schedule to ensure we have staff onboard and extensively trained” before Aug. 18, the first day of school.

“Unfortunately, because we used an existing job description to allow us to meet our August 18 deadline, the job description did mention a background in law enforcement,” the district explained in a statement, adding that most of applicants they had interviewed don’t have that experience.

“The most important experience required for the position is understanding and making authentic connections with students so that students do not feel another adult is being brought in to control them,” the district said.

The deaths of George Floyd has caused many school districts to consider stop contracting with local police departments or dismantling their own campus police forces. Protesters in several major cities, notably Chicago, Denver, and Portland, have demanded the removal of resource officers from schools.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/after-ending-police-contract-minneapolis-schools-quietly-post-job-listings-for-security-guards_3441630.html

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The Insane Leading the Blind

On our way to becoming a nation of hobos, the Democratic Party’s Antifa shock troops brought out the lethal weapons this weekend, hoping to provoke a Kent State 2.0 type bloodbath that would clinch the election for the mummified remains of Joe Biden, currently reposing in his basement sepulcher. How’d that work out?

In Louisville, Saturday, just after lunchtime, the self-styled Not Fucking Around Coalition (NFAC) was mustering for action and “inspecting firearms” (according to NFAC comandante Grand Master Jay) when one of said weapons accidently discharged and mowed down three NFAC warriors — nicely demonstrating the hazards of fucking around with loaded weapons.

In Austin Saturday night, one feckless BLM mob marcher name of Garrett Foster brought his AK-47 to the street party. When he pointed it at a motorist trapped by the crowd, he got blown away to that great struggle session in the sky, the surprise of his life, I’m sure.

In Portland, OR, police found a bag of loaded rifle magazines and Molotov cocktails in the nearby park that serves as the rioters’ marshaling yard. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler did not attend the evening’s frolics at the sore beset federal courthouse, having successfully subjected himself to ritual humiliation himself a few nights earlier. After midnight Sunday, police declared the Antifa actions “a riot” and made a few arrests.

Up Seattle way, a federal judge struck down the city council’s order against police using tear gas and pepper spray on rioters just in time for another weekend of rioting. SPD Chief Carmen Best declared, “In the spirit of offering trust and full transparency, I want to advise you that SPD officers will be carrying pepper spray and blast balls today, as would be typical for events that carry potential to include violence.” Hours later, after Antifas smashed the windows of ground-floor businesses, set fire to a construction site, and trashed the SPD’s East Precinct building, pepper spray and blast balls were deployed and forty-five of the mob were arrested (on rioting, assault, and other charges), while twenty-one SPD officers were injured.

Down in LA, Antifas broke into the federal Bureau of Prisons Detention Center. In Richmond, VA, rioters set fire to a city dump truck used as a barrier to protect a police station.

https://patriotrising.com/the-insane-leading-the-blind/

The Federal Coup to Overthrow the States and Nix the 10th Amendment Is Underway

“I don’t need invitations by the state, state mayors, or state governors, to do our job. We’re going to do that, whether they like us there or not.”—Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf’s defense of the Trump Administration’s deployment of militarized federal police to address civil unrest in the states

This is a wake-up call.

What is unfolding before our very eyes—with police agencies defying local governments in order to tap into the power of federal militarized troops in order to put down domestic unrest—could very quickly snowball into an act of aggression against the states, a coup by armed, militarized agents of the federal government.

At a minimum, this is an attack on the Tenth Amendment, which affirms the sovereignty of the states and the citizenry, and the right of the states to stand as a bulwark against overreach and power grabs by the federal government.

If you’re still deluding yourself into believing that this thinly-veiled exercise in martial law is anything other than an attempt to bulldoze what remains of the Constitution and reinforce the iron-fisted rule of the police state, you need to stop drinking the Kool-Aid.

This is no longer about partisan politics or civil unrest or even authoritarian impulses.

This is a turning point.

Unless we take back the reins—and soon—looking back on this time years from now, historians may well point to the events of 2020 as the death blow to America’s short-lived experiment in self-government.

The government’s recent actions in Portland, Oregon—when unidentified federal agents (believed to be border police, ICE and DHS agents), wearing military fatigues with patches that just say “Police” and sporting all kinds of weapons, descended uninvited on the city in unmarked vehicles, snatching protesters off the streets and detaining them without formally arresting them or offering any explanation of why they’re being held—is just a foretaste of what’s to come.

https://patriotrising.com/the-federal-coup-to-overthrow-the-states-and-nix-the-10th-amendment-is-underway/

'Big Tech Is Out to Get Conservatives,' Jim Jordan Warns. He Gave 15 Examples

On Wednesday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) powerfully denounced Big Tech companies for censoring conservatives. At the beginning of a Big Tech hearing, he gave 13 examples — some of which are questionable, but many of which are legitimately worrisome.

“I’ll just cut to the chase, Big Tech is out to get conservatives,” Jordan declared. “That’s not a suspicion, that’s not a hunch, that’s a fact.”

He launched into a long list of examples. PJ Media has organized them chronologically.

May 19, 2016: “Former Facebook employees admit Facebook routinely suppresses conservative views.”

July 2018: “Two years ago, Twitter shadowbanned two members of this committee,” Jordan alleged. He claimed that Twitter shadowbanned Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), and himself. He mocked Twitter’s response claiming “it was just a glitch in our algorithm.”

November 1, 2018: “Facebook silences a pro-life organization’s advertisement.”

April 19, 2020: “Google and YouTube announce a policy censoring the content that conflicts with recommendations of the World Health Organization,” Jordan noted. He reminded the audience that the WHO is the same organization that “lied to us [about the coronavirus pandemic], the organization that shilled for China.”

China’s Coronavirus Lies Have Taken ‘Countless Lives,’ Bred ‘Profound Hardship.’ Trump’s Had Enough

May 27, 2020: “Amazon Smile won’t let you give to the Family Research Council and the Alliance Defense Fund but you can give to Planned Parenthood,” Jordan said, referring to Amazon Smile’s reliance on the far-left smear factory the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to ban the Family Research Council and Alliance Defending Freedom (previously known as Alliance Defense Fund) from Amazon’s charity platform.

May 28, 2020: “Twitter censors President Trump’s tweet on the riots in Minneapolis.”

May 29, 2020: “Twitter censors the White House for quoting” Trump’s censored tweet.

June 4, 2020: “Amazon bans a book critical of the coronavirus lockdowns written by a conservative commentator.”

June 16, 2020: “Google threatens to demonetize and ban the Federalist.”

June 19, 2020: Facebook removes posts from President Trump’s reelection campaign.

June 23, 2020: “Twitter censors the president again for saying he’ll enforce the rule of law against any autonomous zone in Washington, D.C.”

June 29, 2020: “Amazon bans President Trump’s account on Twitch after he raises concerns about defunding the police.”

Twitter Accuses Trump of ‘Glorifying Violence’ in Tweet That Sounds a Lot Like Obama in 2015

July 20, 2020: “Google removes the homepages of Breitbart and the Daily Caller.”

July 21, 2020: Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, the largest state-sponsor of terrorism in the world, tweeted, “The Islamic Republic of Iran will never forget the martyrdom of Soleimani and will definitely strike a reciprocal blow in the United States.” Jordan noted that Twitter did not censor Khamenei, who threatened American citizens, “but the president says he won’t allow an autonomous zone, and he gets censored!”

July 28, 2020: “Just last night, we learned Google has censored Breitbart so much traffic has declined 99 percent.”

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/07/29/big-tech-is-out-to-get-conservatives-jim-jordan-warns-he-gave-15-examples-n727174