The shocking minutes relating to President Putin’s meeting this past week with US Secretary of State John Kerry reveal the Russian leaders “extreme outrage” over the Obama regimes continued protection of global seed and plant bio-genetic giants Syngenta and Monsanto in the face of a growing “bee apocalypse” that the Kremlin warns “will most certainly” lead to world war.
According to these minutes, released in the Kremlin today by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation (MNRE), Putin was so incensed over the Obama regimes refusal to discuss this grave matter that he refused for three hours to even meet with Kerry, who had traveled to Moscow on a scheduled diplomatic mission, but then relented so as to not cause an even greater rift between these two nations.
At the center of this dispute between Russia and the US…
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Damn…. of all the apocalyptic stories there have ever been, I don’t think anyone thought of bees and GM crops being a flash point.
When and where GM is the result of good science applied prudently, it has fantastic potential. But as a tool of capitalism in the hands of a giant corporation like Monsanto, well, that’s a recipe for disaster.
People have noticed that wars are usually about food, haven’t they?
I’m starting to feel concerned about Monsanto as a potential trigger for war. As I learned (and blogged) yesterday, Japan and South Korea have suddenly decided to stop buying US wheat. The effect on world commodity prices remains to be seen.