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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Fwd: The US Hall of Shame



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From: Linn Cohen-Cole <lcohencole@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:43 AM
Subject: Re: The US Hall of Shame
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"The US Hall of Shame" 


by Rick Dresser


The banks and corporations have stolen billions, but when they purchase, they shop for bargain basement prices.


They only paid less than $50 million to buy 115 US Congressmen ready to sell out their own country to agribusiness, and literally put the sovereignty of America and everyone's lives at risk.



115 Congressmen have written Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, a letter urging him not to support the GIPSA rule, which would end agribusiness' rigging of markets in cattle ranching (an E

nron-size scandal and caused by the same people).  That rigging is close to ending

 farming in the US.   

These Congressmen share $48.6 million in Agribusiness Contributions. 

 


Source: http://www.opensecrets.org/index.php

Agribusiness Political Contributions to Signers

Total for 115 Signers

D Total

R Total

$48,605,199

$20,212,782

$28,392,417

Signers on Peterson's Anti-GIPSA rule Letter to Vilsack

Agbiz Political Contributions (career)

Collin C. Peterson , D-Minn.

$1,970,447

Frank D. Lucas, R-Okla.

$1,177,644

Total for two who circulated letter

$3,148,091

Signers

Amount

Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Ariz.

$54,800

Marion Berry, D-Ark.

$1,800,000

Mike Ross, D-Ark.

$673,600

Joe Baca, D-Calif.

$263,900

Dennis Cardoza, D-Calif.

$1,075,309

Jim Costa, D-Calif.

$1,082,996

Sam Farr, D-Calif.

$738,690

John Salazar, D-Colo.

$550,648

Sanford Bishop, D-Ga.

$1,011,696

David Scott, D-Ga.

$443,015

Allen Boyd, D-Fla.

$1,338,090

Walt Minnick, D-Idaho

$245,118

Jerry Costello, D-Ill.

$141,146

Bill Foster, D-Ill.

$24,000

Phil Hare, D-Ill.

$83,081

Joe Donnelly, D-Ind.

$114,428

Brad Ellsworth, D-Ind.

$228,617

Baron P. Hill, D-Ind.

$342,225

Pete Visclosky, D-Ind.

$120,440

Mike Michaud, D-Maine

$190,600

Collin C. Peterson , D-Minn.

$1,970,447

Frank Kratovil, D-Md.

$119,858

Travis Childers, D-Miss.

$175,500

Bennie G. Thompson, D-Miss.

$570,163

Ike Skelton, D-Mo.

$455,836

G. K. Butterfield, D-N.C.

$169,600

Bob Etheridge, D-N.C.

$1,274,518

Larry Kissell, D-N.C.

$98,216

Mike McIntyre, D-N.C.

$842,931

Harry Teague, D-N.M.

$145,800

Scott Murphy, D-N.Y.

$67,550

William Owens, D-N.Y.

$26,750

Steve Driehaus, D-Ohio

$33,775

Dan Boren, D-Okla.

$293,766

Christopher Carney, D-Pa.

$71,808

Mark Critz, D-Pa.

$10,000

Kathy Dahlkemper, D-Pa.

$124,635

Tim Holden, D-Pa.

$648,936

John Spratt, D-S.C.

$494,630

Lincoln Davis, D-Tenn.

$217,517

Henry Cuellar, D-Texas

$466,475

Chet Edwards, D-Texas

$593,298

Ruben Hinojosa, D-Texas

$265,665

Solomon P. Ortiz, D-Texas

$296,350

Ciro Rodriguez, D-Texas

$156,309

Jim Matheson, D-Utah

$100,050

John Boozman, R-Ark.

$225,874

Wally Herger, R-Calif.

$1,247,108

Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.

$394,628

Michael N. Castle, R-Del.

$199,550

Adam Putnam, R-Fla.

$931,919

Tom Rooney, R-Fla.

$182,423

Phil Gingrey, R-Ga.

$134,750

Tom Graves, R-Ga.

$18,805

Jack Kingston, R-Ga.

$1,148,698

Tom Price, R-Ga.

$77,500

Mike Simpson, R-Idaho

$610,232

Tim Johnson, R-Ill.

$792,422

Peter Roskam, R-Ill.

$102,624

Aaron Schock, R-Ill.

$163,715

John Shimkus, R-Ill.

$495,569

Dan Burton, R-Ind.

$254,564

Tom Latham, R-Iowa

$1,329,285

Steve King, R-Iowa

$545,207

Lynn Jenkins, R-Kan.

$113,539

Jerry Moran, R-Kan.

$1,483,621

Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan.

$398,725

Brett Guthrie, R-Ky.

$111,900

Harold Rogers, R-Ky.

$353,510

Ed Whitfield, R-Ky.

$627,921

Charles Boustany, Jr., R-La.

$286,315

Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich.

$254,607

Fred Upton, R-Mich.

$247,709

John Kline, R-Minn.

$416,886

Erik Paulsen, R-Minn.

$162,450

Gregg Harper, R-Miss.

$67,239

Roy Blunt. R-Mo.

$1,212,226

Jo Ann Emerson, R-Mo.

$1,141,584

Sam Graves, R-Mo.

$948,608

Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo.

$188,895

Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb.

$144,096

Adrian Smith, R-Neb.

$338,461

Lee Terry, R-Neb.

$328,752

Virginia Foxx, R-N.C.

$317,932

Walter B. Jones, R-N.C.

$528,071

Steve Austria, R-Ohio

$40,294

Jim Jordan, R-Ohio

$177,650

Robert Latta, R-Ohio

$84,334

Jean Schmidt, R-Ohio

$197,838

Pat Tiberi, R-Ohio

$225,714

Tom Cole, R-Okla.

$127,027

Frank D. Lucas, R-Okla.

$1,177,644

John Sullivan, R-Okla.

$96,650

Greg Walden, R-Ore.

$1,147,360

Bob Inglis, R-S.C.

$98,450

Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.

$163,486

David P. Roe, R-Tenn.

$31,000

Joe Barton, R-Texas

$530,023

Kevin Brady, R-Texas

$268,749

John Carter, R-Texas

$253,919

Mike Conaway, R-Texas

$469,119

Louie Gohmert, R-Texas

$161,086

Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas

$191,716

Michael McCaul, R-Texas

$196,429

Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas

$708,832

Pete Olson, R-Texas

$50,451

Ron Paul, R-Texas

$296,149

Ted Poe, R-Texas

$82,935

Lamar Smith, R-Texas

$349,000

Mac Thornberry, R-Texas

$684,226

Rob Bishop, R-Utah

$57,501

Bob Goodlatte, R-Va.

$1,484,570

Robert Wittman, R-Va.

$54,450

David Reichert, R-Wash.

$162,911

Paul Ryan, R-Wis.  

$294,984

TOTAL

$48,605,199


Wall Street knows what that control over food translates into.  It means the power to cause or fake shortages anywhere and thus price hikes at any time, just exactly as Enron did.  But now that venal politicians are letting the corporations play games with food, they might want to be aware that those they have sold their souls to caused a "silent mass murder" in the developing world for profit, and are arranging shortages here now, through them.  


Given shortages, why isn't Obama simply making a single national call for encouraging everyone to plant a home garden and support local farmers?  Why, instead, did he put Monsanto in charge of the FDA "food safety" division where they are pushing for absolute power over all US food (through S 510 and S 3767)?  They say it's about "food safety" but the man in charge is "someone who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history."


This is a very short list of what is happening, but it can offer the country a preview of what corporate control over their food, and with Monsanto at the helm, means.


Farmers and private food buying clubs

          Why is the FBI in my milk?  


Grain Farmers and Seed Cleaners



"Over the past several years, entities closely linked to the private security firm Blackwater have provided intelligence, training and security services to US and foreign governments as well as several multinational corporations, including Monsanto ...."

Social use of food

Rights

Vandana Shiva:  The Law of Food Fascism

--
"Science is not truth ... it may be learning but what you learn is not necessarily the truth, it's a piece of the truth not the whole.
 
Applied science that divorces itself from the consequences and effects of these isolated truths and says everything else is an untruth is the crux of the problem.
 
There are other valid truths which this kind of hubris refuses to see. Balance for one."
 
Shaharazade at Dailykos



--
Palash Biswas
Pl Read:
http://nandigramunited-banga.blogspot.com/

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