Steven Gaal Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 (edited) A Rash of Deaths and a Missing Reporter – With Ties to Wall Street Investigations http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/02/a-rash-of-deaths-and-a-missing-reporter-%E2%80%93-with-ties-to-wall-street-investigations/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ JP MORGAN VERY GENEROUS TO POLICE DEPARTMENTS ......sound investing ?? http://nypost.com/2013/11/06/ray-kelly-in-talks-for-jpmorgan-job/ Kelly sent Dimon a thank you note in 2010 professing his “profound gratitude” to JPMorgan for donating $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation, the private fund-raising arm of the department. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NEED A JOB ?? (how did this job open up ?? ...the above ??...) http://jpmchase.jobs/new-york-ny/global-security-investigations-senior-manager-regional-investigations/40951899/job/ Title: Global Security & Investigations Senior Manager - Regional InvestigationsLocation: US-NY-New York-1 CMP / 03425Job Number: 130096492JPMorgan Chase & Co.(NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2 trillion and operations in more than 60 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management, and private equity. Global Security and Investigations protects the firm's employees and assets throughout the world. This responsibility includes the development of security and safety policies and procedures, regulatory and legislative compliance, Security guard management and alarm response, crisis management, ATM, branch and corporate building security and customer safety, physical crime investigations, workplace violence, fire and life safety, executive protection, due diligence, pre-employment screening, security operations on a global basis, fraud Investigations and cyber security. Edited February 6, 2014 by Steven Gaal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted February 13, 2014 Author Share Posted February 13, 2014 (edited) Related material ,major corporations pay off police. Sinister Events In Ireland Feb 12th, 2014 by John Donovan. http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2014/02/12/sinister-events-in-ireland/ Edited February 13, 2014 by Steven Gaal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted February 14, 2014 Author Share Posted February 14, 2014 (edited) UPDATE 2/14 14:53 5th banker in less than a month dies mysteriously By: NotForSale2NWOTags: NEW YORK (INTELLIHUB) — Last week we reported on the suspicious string of apparent suicides that has hit the financial industry. Multiple bankers have been found dead in recent weeks. Those who had high profile deaths, like the man who jumped from the top of the JP Morgan HQ building are highly publicized, but overall, very few details about any of these deaths have been made public. Ryan Henry Crane, a 37 year old executive at JP Morgan is the 5th and most recent banker to die in an alleged suicide since January 26th. http://intellihub.com/5th-banker-less-month-dies-mysteriously/ Edited February 14, 2014 by Steven Gaal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Knight Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 So, other than conjecture, and wishful-thinking, what are the actual FACTS here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted February 19, 2014 Author Share Posted February 19, 2014 (edited) So, other than conjecture, and wishful-thinking, what are the actual FACTS here? When one does not ask questions ,one does not learn anything. Investigations are being done. Of course one has to note the information given in POST # 1& 2 :JP MORGAN and Major Corporations VERY GENEROUS TO POLICE DEPARTMENTS. Sometimes it takes a long time for the truth to come out, however, we must be aware and remember events to see patterns of behavior. ========================================================================= February 19, 2014 Does The Trail Of Dead Bankers Lead Somewhere? http://www.wallstreetsectorselector.com/2014/02/trail-dead-bankers-lead-somewhere/ ##########################o########################## Edited February 19, 2014 by Steven Gaal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Knight Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 So, other than conjecture, and wishful-thinking, what are the actual FACTS here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted February 21, 2014 Author Share Posted February 21, 2014 (edited) When one does not ask questions ,one does not learn anything. Investigations are being done. ============================= Banker Source On Dead JPM Bankers- “Knew Each Other & Had Uncovered Something” http://www.silverdoctors.com/banker-source-on-latest-jpm-death-crane-worked-closely-with-jpm-london-banker-pair-had-uncovered-something/#?1#?1#WebrootPlugIn#?1#?1#PhreshPhish#?1#?1#agtpwd ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The “common link” between these bankers began this past year after two JP Morgan whistleblowers confessed that their bank manipulates the gold and silver markets, which led to this past weeks stunning announcement that Europe’s largest bank, Deutsche Bank, would withdraw from the appropriately named gold and silver price “fixing”, as European regulators investigate the manipulation of precious metals prices by Western banks. Deutsche Bank executive Broeksmit, called among the “finest minds” in his field, and Russell Investments Dueker, ranked among the top 5 percent of economists by number of works published, this report says, were at the forefront of the European investigation into JPMorgan gold and silver price manipulation and had as their “inside man” JPMorgan tech guru Magee who oversaw his banks computer systems built for this crime. economic analysts say that if the price of gold and silver were to achieve their “honest” level, JPMorgan would collapse as it does not have the reserves needed to equal the “paper” gold it has already sold, and a JPMorgan collapse would then, in turn, implode the entire global economic system. Even worse, JPMorgan crimes have now reached into the Russia itself after the Russian Central Bank (RCB) yesterday was forced to shut down Moscow-based lenders My Bank and Priroda Bank after they were unable to retrieve their foreign deposits from the British multinational banking and financial services company HSBC due to their imposing restrictions on large cash withdrawals on 24 January. ################# Dead Bankster #1 Mike Dueker : 50-year-old Mike Dueker, who had worked for Russell Investment for five years, was found dead close to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State, says AP. Dead Bankster #2 William Broeksmit: A 58-year-old former senior executive at Deutsche Bank AG, William Broeksmit, was found dead on January 26 in his home after an apparent suicide in South Kensington in central London. Dead Bankster #3 Karl Slym: The next day, January 27, Tata Motors managing director Karl Slym, 51, was found dead on the fourth floor of the Shangri-La hotel in Bangkok. Police said he could have committed suicide. Mr. Slym was staying on the 22nd floor with his wife, and was attending a board meeting in the Thai capital. Dead Bankster #4 Gabriel Magee: Another tragic incident occurred on January 28, when a 39-year-old Gabriel Magee, a JP Morgan employee, died after falling from the roof of its European headquarters in London. Dead Bankster #5 Richard Talley: Richard Talley, 57, and the company he founded in 2001 were under investigation by state insurance regulators at the time of his death late Tuesday, an agency spokesman confirmed Thursday. It was unclear how long the investigation had been ongoing or its primary focus. A coroner’s spokeswoman Thursday said Talley was found in his garage by a family member who called authorities. They said Talley died from seven or eight self-inflicted wounds from a nail gun fired into his torso and head. Also unclear is whether Talley’s suicide was related to the investigation by the Colorado Division of Insurance, which regulates title companies. Missing Oil Markets Reporter David Bird: The case of David Bird, the oil markets reporter who had worked at the Wall Street Journal for 20 years and vanished without a trace on the afternoon of January 11, has this in common with the other three tragedies: his work involves a commodities market – oil – which is under investigation by the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for possible manipulation. The FBI is involved in the Bird investigation. Bird left his Long Hill, New Jersey home on that Saturday, telling his wife he was going for a walk. An intentional disappearance is incompatible with the fact that he left the house wearing a bright red jacket and without his life-sustaining medicine he was required to take daily as a result of a liver transplant. Despite a continuous search since his disappearance by hundreds of volunteers, local law enforcement and the FBI, Bird has not been located. ############ The Banker Purge Continues: Global Banking System is Now Operating at DEFCON1 February 19th, 2014 http://investmentwatchblog.com/the-banker-purge-continues-global-banking-system-is-now-operating-at-defcon1/ Edited February 22, 2014 by Steven Gaal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted April 28, 2014 Author Share Posted April 28, 2014 (edited) Suspicious Deaths of Bankers Are Now Classified as “Trade Secrets” by Federal Regulator By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: April 28, 2014 (Left) JPMorgan's European Headquarters at 25 Bank Street, London Where Gabriel Magee Died on January 27 or January 28, 2014 It doesn’t get any more Orwellian than this: Wall Street mega banks crash the U.S. financial system in 2008. Hundreds of thousands of financial industry workers lose their jobs. Then, beginning late last year, a rash of suspicious deaths start to occur among current and former bank employees. Next we learn that four of the Wall Street mega banks likely hold over $680 billion face amount of life insurance on their workers, payable to the banks, not the families. We ask their Federal regulator for the details of this life insurance under a Freedom of Information Act request and we’re told the information constitutes “trade secrets.” According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the life expectancy of a 25 year old male with a Bachelor’s degree or higher as of 2006 was 81 years of age. But in the past five months, five highly educated JPMorgan male employees in their 30s and one former employee aged 28, have died under suspicious circumstances, including three of whom allegedly leaped off buildings – a statistical rarity even during the height of the financial crisis in 2008. There is one other major obstacle to brushing away these deaths as random occurrences – they are not happening at JPMorgan’s closest peer bank – Citigroup. Both JPMorgan and Citigroup are global financial institutions with both commercial banking and investment banking operations. Their employee counts are similar – 260,000 employees for JPMorgan versus 251,000 for Citigroup. Both JPMorgan and Citigroup also own massive amounts of bank-owned life insurance (BOLI), a controversial practice that pays the corporation when a current or former employee dies. (In the case of former employees, the banks conduct regular “death sweeps” of public records using former employees’ Social Security numbers to learn if a former employee has died and then submits a request for payment of the death benefit to the insurance company.) Wall Street On Parade carefully researched public death announcements over the past 12 months which named the decedent as a current or former employee of Citigroup or its commercial banking unit, Citibank. We found no data suggesting Citigroup was experiencing the same rash of deaths of young men in their 30s as JPMorgan Chase. Nor did we discover any press reports of leaps from buildings among Citigroup’s workers. Given the above set of facts, on March 21 of this year, we wrote to the regulator of national banks, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), seeking the following information under the Freedom of Information Act (See OCC Response to Wall Street On Parade’s Request for Banker Death Information): The number of deaths from 2008 through March 21, 2014 on which JPMorgan Chase collected death benefits; the total face amount of BOLI life insurance in force at JPMorgan; the total number of former and current employees of JPMorgan Chase who are insured under these policies; any peer studies showing the same data comparing JPMorgan Chase with Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup. The OCC responded politely by letter dated April 18, after first calling a few days earlier to inform us that we would be getting nothing under the sunshine law request. (On Wall Street, sunshine routinely means dark curtain.) The OCC letter advised that documents relevant to our request were being withheld on the basis that they are “privileged or contains trade secrets, or commercial or financial information, furnished in confidence, that relates to the business, personal, or financial affairs of any person,” or relate to “a record contained in or related to an examination.” The ironic reality is that the documents do not pertain to the personal financial affairs of individuals who have a privacy right. Individuals are not going to receive the proceeds of this life insurance for the most part. In many cases, they do not even know that multi-million dollar policies that pay upon their death have been taken out by their employer or former employer. Equally important, JPMorgan is a publicly traded company whose shareholders have a right under securities laws to understand the quality of its earnings – are those earnings coming from traditional banking and investment banking operations or is this ghoulish practice of profiting from the death of workers now a major contributor to profits on Wall Street? As it turns out, one aspect of the information cavalierly denied to us by the OCC is publicly available to those willing to hunt for it. On March 24 of this year, we reported that JPMorgan Chase held $10.4 billion in BOLI assets at its insured depository bank as of December 31, 2013. We reached out to BOLI expert, Michael D. Myers, to understand what JPMorgan’s $10.4 billion in BOLI assets at its commercial bank might represent in terms of face amount of life insurance on its workers. Myers said: “Without knowing the length of the investment or its rate of return, it is difficult to estimate the face amount of the insurance coverage. However, a cash value of $10.4 billion could easily translate into more than $100 billion in actual insurance coverage and possibly two or three times that amount” said Myers, a partner in the Houston, Texas law firm McClanahan Myers Espey, L.L.P. Myers’ and his firm have represented the families of deceased employees for almost two decades in cases involving corporate-owned life insurance against employers such as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Fina Oil and Chemical Co., and American Greetings Corp. (Families may be entitled to the proceeds of these policies if employee consent was required under State law and was never given and/or if the corporation cannot show it had an “insurable interest” in the employee — a tough test to meet if it’s a non key employee or if the employee has left the firm.) As it turns out, the $10.4 billion significantly understates the amount of money JPMorgan has tied up in seeking to profit from workers’ deaths. Since Wall Street banks are structured as holding companies, we decided to see what type of financial information might be available at the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), a federal interagency that promotes uniform reporting standards among banking regulators. The FFIEC’s web site provided access to the consolidated financial statements of the bank holding companies of not just JPMorgan Chase but all of the largest Wall Street banks. We conducted our own peer review study with the information that was available. Four of Wall Street’s largest banks hold a total of $68.1 billion in BOLI assets. Using Michael Myers’ approximate 10 to 1 ratio, that would mean that over time, just these four banks could potentially collect upwards of $681 billion in tax free income from life insurance proceeds on their current and former workers. (Death benefits are received tax free as is the buildup in cash value in the policies.) The breakdown in BOLI assets is as follows as of December 31, 2013: Bank of America $22.7 billion Wells Fargo 18.7 billion JPMorgan Chase 17.9 billion Citigroup 8.8 billion In addition to specifics on the BOLI assets, the consolidated financial statements also showed what each bank was reporting as “Earnings on/increase in value of cash surrender value of life insurance” as of December 31, 2013. Those amounts are as follows: Bank of America $625 million Wells Fargo 566 million JPMorgan Chase 686 million Citigroup 0 Given the size of these numbers, there is another aspect to BOLI that should raise alarm bells among both regulators and shareholders. The Wall Street banks are using a process called “separate accounts” for large amounts of their BOLI assets with reports of some funds never actually leaving the bank and/or being invested in hedge funds, suggesting lessons from the past have not been learned. On May 20, 2008, Bloomberg News reported that Wachovia Corp. (now owned by Wells Fargo) and Fifth Third Bancorp reported major losses on failed gambles with BOLI assets. “Wachovia reported a $315 million first-quarter loss in its bank-owned life insurance program, known as BOLI, because of investments in hedge funds managed by Citigroup Inc. Fifth Third said in a lawsuit filed last month that it had losses of $323 million from Citigroup’s Falcon funds, which slumped more than 50 percent in the past year as the subprime market collapsed.” Citigroup’s Falcon Strategies hedge fund had lost as much as 75 percent of its value by May 2008. Following are the names and circumstances of the five young men in their 30s employed by JPMorgan who experienced sudden deaths since December along with the one former employee. Joseph M. Ambrosio, age 34, of Sayreville, New Jersey, passed away on December 7, 2013 at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy, New Jersey. He was employed as a Financial Analyst for J.P. Morgan Chase in Menlo Park. On March 18, 2014, Wall Street On Parade learned from an immediate member of the family that Joseph M. Ambrosio died suddenly from Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Jason Alan Salais, 34 years old, died December 15, 2013 outside a Walgreens inPearland, Texas. A family member confirmed that the cause of death was a heart attack. According to the LinkedIn profile for Salais, he was engaged in Client Technology Service “L3 Operate Support” and previously “FXO Operate L2 Support” at JPMorgan. Prior to joining JPMorgan in 2008, Salais had worked as a Client Software Technician at SunGard and a UNIX Systems Analyst at Logix Communications. Gabriel Magee, 39, died on the evening of January 27, 2014 or the morning of January 28, 2014. Magee was discovered at approximately 8:02 a.m. lying on a 9th level rooftop at the Canary Wharf European headquarters of JPMorgan Chase at 25 Bank Street, London. His specific area of specialty at JPMorgan was “Technical architecture oversight for planning, development, and operation of systems for fixed income securities and interest rate derivatives.” A coroner’s inquest to determine the cause of death is scheduled for May 20, 2014 in London. Ryan Crane, age 37, died February 3, 2014, at his home in Stamford, Connecticut. The Chief Medical Examiner’s office is still in the process of determining a cause of death. Crane was an Executive Director involved in trading at JPMorgan’s New York office. Crane’s death on February 3 was not reported by any major media until February 13, ten days later, when Bloomberg News ran a brief story. Dennis Li (Junjie), 33 years old, died February 18, 2014 as a result of a purported fall from the 30-story Chater House office building in Hong Kong where JPMorgan occupied the upper floors. Li is reported to have been an accounting major who worked in the finance department of the bank. Kenneth Bellando, age 28, was found outside his East Side Manhattan apartment building on March 12, 2014. The building from which Bellando allegedly jumped was only six stories – by no means ensuring that death would result. The young Bellando had previously worked for JPMorgan Chase as an analyst and was the brother of JPMorgan employee John Bellando, who was referenced in the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations’ report on how JPMorgan had hid losses and lied to regulators in the London Whale derivatives trading debacle that resulted in losses of at least $6.2 billion. Related Articles: Swiss Insurers and JPMorgan Have More than ‘Suicides’ in Common A Rash of Deaths and a Missing Reporter — With Ties to Wall Street Investigations Suspicious Death of JPMorgan Vice President, Gabriel Magee, Under Investigation in London JPMorgan Vice President’s Death in London Shines a Light on the Bank’s Close Ties to the CIA As Bank Deaths Continue to Shock, Documents Reveal JPMorgan Has Been Patenting Death Derivatives Edited April 28, 2014 by Steven Gaal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted May 31, 2014 Author Share Posted May 31, 2014 (edited) FTR #792 Caution: Banksters at Work (More Collateralized “Death” Obligations) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ May 11, 2014 Listen: MP3 Side 1 Side 2 Coin of the Realm? Introduction: In FTR #772, we looked at a number of suspicious deaths in and around the financial industry, this as a number of legal investigations into the misdeeds of the “banksters” were proceeding. This program updates that extraordinary mortality rate. One of the surreal, almost hallucinatory financial instruments that were at the center of the 2008 financial collapse were CDO’s–collateralized debt obligations. We wonder if the high mortality rate, the ongoing capital troubles and legal investigations plaguing the firms may be related to these deaths. Are we looking at collateralized “death” obligations? We note that JP Morgan Chase has experienced a particularly high mortality rate. The program begins with an article quoting numerous observers of the investment industry warning that the “too big to fail” financial institutions shouldn’t be subject to criminal proceedings because of the “fallout” that would result. They are referring to damage to the economy. We examine another apparent kind of “fallout” from financial industry shenanigans–corporate executives falling off of rooftops, falling out of the windows of high-rise buildings, falling off of cliffs in their cars and falling off of bicycles after being struck by minivans. The program concludes with a recap of the ending of Miscellaneous Archive Show M11. Recorded on May 23, 1980, the program concludes with a warning about the dangers of economic concentration. Program Highlights Include: The death–allegedly a suicide–of a 52-year-old French banker after she apparently questioned the behavior of her superiors at the institution that employed her. A summation of some of the suspicious deaths in the financial industry that have occurred since the last program on the subject. Details on the death of JP Morgan Chase executive Ryan Crane. The untimely death of John Ruiz, of Morgan Stanley. A synopsis of the bankruptcy of Jefferson, County (Alabama) on which Ruiz worked. Synopsis of the deep corruption in Jefferson County, permitting JP Morgan–among other institutions–to engage in fraudulent activity. The death of JP Morgan Chase corporate attorney Joseph P. Giampapa after being struck from behind by a minivan while riding his bicycle. The murder of the head of a Liechtenstein investment bank, supposedly by a critic of the institution, who then (allegedly) took his own life. The fact that the chairman of Bank Frick & Co. had been Liechtenstein’s Prime Minister from 1993 until 2001. The death of a Mill Valley developer who was under indictment for allegdly defrauding customers of a Sonoma bank. Bijan Madjlessi apparently drove his car off of a 400-foot cliff. The death–ostensibly of a heart attack–by the former finance minister of Canada, who had resigned shortly before dying. Edited May 31, 2014 by Steven Gaal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted July 1, 2014 Author Share Posted July 1, 2014 REALIST NEWS – ANOTHER JP MORGAN BANKER DEAD July 1st, 2014 http://investmentwatchblog.com/realist-news-another-jp-morgan-banker-dead/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Knight Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 So, for comparison's sake, how many.....rail workers have died in the last 6 months?How about.....doctors?How many....homeless men? Again: other than rampant speculation and fantasy, WHAT are the facts? A half-dozen or so people working in a particularly disliked-at-the-moment profession have died in the last 6 months? Pardon my Vietnamese, but So Pho King Wat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evan Burton Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 You should stop asking pertinent questions, Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted July 3, 2014 Author Share Posted July 3, 2014 So, for comparison's sake, how many.....rail workers have died in the last 6 months? How about.....doctors? How many....homeless men? Again: other than rampant speculation and fantasy, WHAT are the facts? A half-dozen or so people working in a particularly disliked-at-the-moment profession have died in the last 6 months? Pardon my Vietnamese, but So Pho King Wat? Homeless men,rail workers and Doctors are not part of multi-Billion dollar transactions that can be derailed by whistleblowers .....Corporations are kingdoms and sometimes the KING KILLS..... ######################################### http://matt-rock.newsvine.com/_news/2010/04/10/4142690-murder-inc-when-corporations-kill +++++++++++++ http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3099/has-a-big-corporation-ever-conspired-to-kill-someone +++++++++++++ http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/09/19/legal-briefing-corporations-can-get-away-with-murder-overseas/ http://menso.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/a-corporation-charged-for-murder/ menso Says: December 10, 2010 at 7:33 am Leaked documents on Royal Dutch Shell are not particularly complimentary; it seems to be in control of the state–>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afL0N191IFI; http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/dec/08/wikileaks-cables-shell-nigeria-spying ==================== http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/17/pharma-behaving-badly-top-10-drug-company-settlements/ http://www.justice.org/clips/theyknewandfailedto.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted July 3, 2014 Author Share Posted July 3, 2014 (edited) Secret studies proving Monsanto sells poison by Jon Rappoport July 3, 2014 www.nomorefakenews.com ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- Claire Robinson has written a stunning article exposing hidden proof Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide is poison: “The glyphosate toxicity studies you’re not allowed to see,” gmwatch.org, July 2, 2014. Glyphosate is the main ingredient in Roundup, Monsanto’s product, which is used in hurricane-like proportions on GMO crops. Robinson doesn’t baldly assert these secret studies prove the poisonous nature of Roundup, but her piece certainly leads to that conclusion. Here are the facts: In China, this year, the Ministry of Agriculture admitted that legalizing the import of Roundup was based on a single toxicology test done in St. Louis. Monsanto then stated, as Robinson reports, “that the study constituted its own commercial secret, adding that the company had never disclosed the study anywhere in the world and did not agree to disclose it now.” Why not? Because the study proved Roundup was safe? Are you kidding? In Europe, two studies on Roundup toxicity are also hidden in the closet. The European Food Safety Authority and German regulators, Robinson states, “have refused… requests to release the studies, on the grounds that they are commercially confidential information.” In other words, the studies are owned by a corporation(s). No problem. Nothing is riding on the results of those studies except the health of the population of Europe. In 2011, a group called Earth Open Source issued a report: “Roundup and birth defects: Is the public being kept in the dark?” Robinson writes: “The report found that industry’s own studies conducted in the 1980s and 1990s showed that glyphosate causes birth defects in experimental animals. While the industry studies themselves are held by the German government and remain secret, the Earth Open Source authors examined Germany’s summary report on the studies, which is in the public domain. This report was submitted to the EU Commission and led to glyphosate’s European approval in 2002.” What?! Germany’s summary report invented various “redefinitions” of birth defects that downplayed their significance, and Roundup was approved for sale. And again, the actual studies are being held secret. Let’s see. Studies on the toxicity of Roundup are hidden by Monsanto and government regulators. The studies are called “corporate property.” That’s the justification. “We own this science and we’re not releasing it. But don’t worry, it’s not important, you’re safe, Roundup is safe, it’s all good.” Here’s the bottom line. If corporate science is used to justify the safety of corporate products, then that science must be made public in every detail, so it can be examined by people who don’t owe their souls to the corporations. Anyone who stands in the way of this happening is a rank criminal. But in this respect, we live in a lawless society. Government protects the corporations and itself. The US Justice Department wouldn’t arrest and prosecute Monsanto executives who hide toxicity data in a million years. But poisoning Americans? No problem. ============ (CORPORATIONS CAN KILL FOR PROFIT,GAAL) Edited July 4, 2014 by Steven Gaal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted July 3, 2014 Author Share Posted July 3, 2014 (edited) Edited July 3, 2014 by Steven Gaal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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