The Rat of the Week [Video]

Gillian Grannum – This feels almost like a “Believe it or Not” episode. Is it possible American broadcasters once served The People – and ratted out corporate miscreants like Bayer?

Here’s a November 2006 episode 10 years later.

Bayer Exposed ( HIV Contaminated Vaccine )

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Bayer Sells AIDS-Infected Drug Banned in U.S. in Europe, Asia

Unearthed documents show that the drug company Bayer sold millions of dollars worth of an injectable blood-clotting medicine — Factor VIII concentrate, intended for hemophiliacs — to Asian, Latin American, and some European countries in the mid-1980s, although they knew that it was tainted with AIDS.

Bayer knew about the fact that the drug was tainted and told the FDA to keep things under wraps while they made a profit off of a drug that infected its patients. If these allegations are true, then both Bayer and the FDA are at fault for this catastrophe. FDA regulators helped to keep the continued sales hidden, asking the company that the problem be ”quietly solved without alerting the Congress, the medical community and the public,” according to the minutes of a 1985 meeting.

SF Source Octomedia Channel  Feb 2016

Hat tip, A.

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Happy 100th Anniversary, Poison Gas! [Video]

gasJames Corbett – As the world marks the passing of the 100th anniversary of the use of poison gas on the battlefield, James takes a moment to note some of the dark legacy of Bayer that the German chemical/pharmaceutical giant would prefer you didn’t know.

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WIKIPEDIA – Chemical weapons in World War I were primarily used to demoralize, injure, and kill entrenched defenders, against whom the indiscriminate and generally slow-moving or static nature of gas clouds would be most effective. The types of weapons employed ranged from disabling chemicals, such as tear gas and the severe mustard gas, to lethal agents like phosgene and chlorine. This chemical warfare was a major component of the first global war and first total war of the 20th century. The killing capacity of gas was limited, with four percent of combat deaths caused by gas. Gas was unlike most other weapons of the period because it was possible to develop effective countermeasures, such as gas masks. In the later stages of the war, as the use of gas increased, its overall effectiveness diminished. The widespread use of these agents of chemical warfare, and wartime advances in the composition of high explosives, gave rise to an occasionally expressed view of World War I as “the chemists’ war”.[1][2] Continue reading

Pet Care: Think Twice Before Using Conventional Flea & Tick Pesticides

Ana Jadanec – While flea and tick products containing pesticides repel and kill parasites that can potentially transmit disease-causing organisms, they can be harmful to your pet, your child and even adults in your household. It is not without reason that they shouldn’t be used on debilitated, aged, pregnant or nursing animals. Their potential toxicity and a range of harmful effects is obvious, as these products must be applied in the only place the dog is unable to lick or bite – it’s back.

According to Bayer, their products are waterproof and remains effective following a shampoo treatment, swimming or after exposure to rain or sunlight. So just imagine what is transferred onto your hands, lips, or cheeks while you play with, pet or kiss your dog! Furthermore, what does it say about a product that, when left partly unused, you are advised to call your local solid waste agency for disposal instructions, and you are never to place unused product down any indoor or outdoor drain.

Nature is ever changing, ever evolving. Like cockroaches, fleas are highly adaptable to their environment. Each generation that is exposed to the pesticides and chemicals is learning how to adapt, become stronger and more immune to these toxins. By using these products, are we really only killing and repelling fleas, or are we creating the super pests of the future?

BayerUnlike some popular collars described below, the Seresto collar has been carefully designed to control fleas and ticks on pets. It has been tested repeatedly to make sure that it will not cause any kind of harm to you and your pets. The product releases the active ingredients slowly and the low doses can ensure that they are not toxic to your pets. This is also one way to ensure that the doses are well within the safety margins.

Some facts to consider

A pesticide is generally a chemical or biological agent that through its effect deters, incapacitates, kills or otherwise discourages pests. According to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, 9 of the 12 most dangerous and persistent organic chemicals are pesticides. (1) The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) says that approximately 90 percent of American households use pesticides.

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Codex Alimentarius Rises From Auschwitz Death Camp

Gaia Health | July 1 2012 | Thanks, Zen

Codex Alimentarius is a testament to the continuing and increasing power of the titans of world corporations, able to take control of our most basic needs, turning them into profit-driven industries, and pressing us into the slavery of feeding their greed.

Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Its name signifies the horror of Nazi Germany. In its conglomeration of 48 camps, over a million people were exterminated in gas chambers, starved to death, murdered individually, and killed and tortured in horrific medical experiments.

Codex Alimentarius is a modern-day tool for usurping the people’s rights to limit their choices in that most basic of needs: food. The rules set forth by Codex bureaucrats, people who, for the most part, know nothing of nutrition or health, are enforced on humanity by national governments and treaties. Their decisions are based on the instructions of masters from Big Pharma and Agribusiness, corporate entities that are on the verge of taking complete control of the food supply and what’s left of health.

What do these two exemplars of facism, Auschwitz and Codex Alimentarius, have in common?

  • Bayer, pharmaceuticals and agribusiness.
  • BASF, agribusiness.
  • Hoechst, later called Aventis, which became part of Sanofi pharmaceuticals.

These are three of the corporations that comprised the super conglomerate IG Farben. They owned Auschwitz. After World War II, IG Farben was split up, putting Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst back on their own.

Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst presided over the extermination of over a million people. They presided over the starvation and forced labor of even more. They presided over unbelievably despicable medical experimentation initiated in Auschwitz. They sold the gas used to annihilate millions. They set up the medical experimentation to develop drugs. They profited from this misery. It was, in fact, their sole interest in the concentration camp. To them, it was an enterprise, a business whose purpose was to make profits from the misery of millions of people.

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Dying Honeybees: It Was the Insecticides All Along

Jeanne Roberts (Celsias) | Reader Supported News | January 28 2012

BayerWith news that the U.S. honeybee population has been so devastated that some beekeepers will qualify for disaster relief dollars, comes a report from Purdue University that one of the causes of honeybee deaths is – as long suspected – neonicotinoids.

I say one of the causes, because the article does. In fact, the levels of neonicotinoid contamination of the powder used to spread seeds – up to 700,000 times the lethal dose – suggest that this pesticide may be the major, or precipitating, cause, with Varroa mites and other problems simply the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

And this, a myriad of causes, none of them dominant, is what agencies like the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture would have us believe, either because (as some suggest) they are understaffed to adequately investigate Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), or because some of their former (or present) members are in bed with major chemical and genetically modified (GM) seed manufacturers.

The study, by Christian Krupke (professor of entomology) and Greg Hunt (professor of genetics and honeybee specialist), explains that the contaminated powder is residue from the seed treatment. What happens is, corn and soybean seeds are treated with neonicotinoids in a talc base to keep them moving through today’s high-tech vacuum seed spreaders when it comes time to plant.

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