From: Linn Cohen-Cole <lcohencole@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:43 AM
Subject: Re: The US Hall of Shame
To: farmon@googlegroups.com
"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
These Congressmen share $48.6 million in Agribusiness Contributions.nron-size scandal and caused by the same people). That rigging is close to ending
farming in the US.
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.
"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
RightsVandana 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
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