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| Breaking: Monsanto keeps riding a path of corruption |
(To read about Jon's mega-collection, The Matrix Revealed, click here.)
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Here's a ripe fantasy for you. Imagine this---
You're the head of a multi-billion-dollar global corporation.
You
know your most famous, best-selling product is toxic and can cause
cancer. It's an herbicide used around the world--- not only in public
locations, but even by people spraying their own lawns.
Your
company has recently lost law suits, with gigantic payout penalties,
because you covered up what you knew: the herbicide is carcinogenic.
A fearless reporter has written articles, and now a book, exposing your company. What to do about her?
Among other actions, talk to Google. Maybe they can help. They're like you. They're experts in cover-ups.
Wait.
This isn't a fantasy. It's real. A real newspaper, The Guardian, has
the details. Here are quotes from their new blistering investigation:
"Monsanto operated a 'fusion center' to monitor and discredit
journalists and activists, and targeted a reporter who wrote a critical
book on the company, documents reveal."
"The records reviewed by
the Guardian show Monsanto adopted a multi-pronged strategy to target
Carey Gillam, a Reuters journalist who investigated the company's
weedkiller and its links to cancer. Monsanto, now owned by the German
pharmaceutical corporation Bayer, also monitored a not-for-profit food
research organization through its 'intelligence fusion center', a term
that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies use for operations
focused on surveillance and terrorism."
"Monsanto paid Google to promote search results for 'Monsanto Glyphosate Carey Gillam' that criticized her work."
"The
internal [company] communications add fuel to the ongoing claims in
court that Monsanto has 'bullied' critics and scientists and worked to
conceal the dangers of glyphosate, the world's most widely used
herbicide [Roundup]. In the last year, two US juries have ruled that
Monsanto was liable for plaintiffs' non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), a blood
cancer, and ordered the corporation to pay significant sums to cancer
patients..."
"'I've always known that Monsanto didn't like my
work ... and worked to pressure editors and silence me,' Gillam...said
in an interview. 'But I never imagined a multi-billion dollar company
would actually spend so much time and energy and personnel on me. It's
astonishing.'"
"Monsanto had a 'Carey Gillam Book' spreadsheet,
with more than 20 actions dedicated to opposing her book before its
publication, including working to 'Engage Pro-Science Third Parties' in
criticisms, and partnering with 'SEO experts' (search engine
optimization), to spread its attacks. The company's marketing strategy
involved labeling Gillam and other critics as 'anti-glyphosate activists
and pro-organic capitalist organizations'."
"Gillam, who worked
at the international news agency Reuters for 17 years, told the Guardian
that a flurry of negative reviews appeared on Amazon just after the
official publication of Whitewash [her book about Monsanto], many
seeming to repeat nearly identical talking points."
"'This is my
first book. It's just been released. It's got glowing reviews from
professional book reviewers,' she said. But on Amazon, 'They were saying
horrible things about me ... It was very upsetting but I knew it was
fake and it was engineered by the industry. But I don't know that other
people knew that'."
Boom.
We're talking about
reality-construction here. Or should I say, reconstruction. Companies
that can manipulate the ranking of search results online, and customer
reviews, and professional reviews, and science, paint over the truth
with lies, and the public believes what it is permitted to see.
That's a pretty good description of tons of what is called Fake News.
"Well,
we don't like what this reporter is doing because it exposes us as
naked and culpable and criminal, so let's hide and defame the reporter's
work. Let's move a cloud over it. In time, the reporter's work will
fade out, and we'll still be here. We'll keep pounding out the notion
that we're doing good, we're devoted to public service, we're providing a
marvelous product, we're cutting-edge researchers, and so on. Our
product causes cancer? That's ridiculous. We would never sell such a
product. We're fine people..."
The one big thing this company
has going for it? A major segment of the public doesn't want to believe
something so visible and huge (the company) is committing evil acts
left and right, out in the open. A company isn't like a deranged
individual with a gun who walks into a store and shoots people. No. A
company is an organized and competent and polite entity that BELONGS.
It's part and parcel of the COMMUNITY. The idea that the company could
be guilty of destroying and maiming life on a continuing basis...that
would be tantamount to saying it is an organized-crime operation---which
is absurd.
Yes. It's absurd. Until it's shown to be true.
And
then, on top of it all, suppose the government, which has the resources
and the laws and the agencies to bring this company to justice doesn't
lift a finger, but in fact supports the company with its own official
brand of fake news?
Why, that's a...a conspiracy.
Yes. The dreaded word.
Another absurdity. Until it's shown to be true by the simple act of opening one's eyes and looking.
Shall
we take this a step further? Why not? In for a penny, in for a
pound. We're entering a new phase in the battle to expose high-level,
society-wide, institutional crimes. In part, owing to a recent FBI
"finding" that conspiracy theories can fuel individuals to commit
"terrorist acts," there will be increased propaganda aimed at persons
who unearth actual conspiracies. They will be accused of fomenting
violence. In order to "protect the community" (where have we heard that
before?), there must be a limiter and a monitor on information. The
public must be guarded against false news. Righteous censorship must
prevail. For the greater good, the 1st Amendment must undergo a
reformation.
To understand this, think "money laundering."
Criminal organizations, like drug cartels, have so much cash on hand
they have to find ways to hide it. So they funnel it into friendly
banks and legitimate businesses and shell corporations. Likewise, with
the advent and expansion of the Web, there is so much information
exposing high-level crimes, it must be hidden---but certainly not by its
authors. Agencies of government and secret corporate units and social
media giants must conceal this information by obscuring it and defaming
it and dead-ending it and blacking it out and blaming it for inspiring
heinous crimes. That's the laundering operation, and it extends to
every true conspiracy.
A final note for now---here's a wrinkle on
the laundering campaign. In the defunct subject called Logic, it's
called the Straw Man fallacy. You build up a patently ridiculous icon
to represent a wide field of information, you knock down that icon, and
then you claim it invalidates the whole field. For example, some
pathetic paid agent publishes a piece claiming JFK never died in 1963,
he's living under the name, Jack Kenn, in Brooklyn, on Oswald Street. A
paid blogger jumps on this "conspiracy theory," and in the process
declares that all conspiracy theorists are lunatics. The one becomes
the many.
It's a version of "we're all normal people living
normal lives and here are disruptors who want to take us off course into
a storm and make us believe that official truth is different from
actual truth."
I have news. Millions and millions and millions of people are way past that moronic construction, and they aren't turning back. |
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Jon Rappoport
The
author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM
THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US
Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a
consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the
expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he
has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles
on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin
Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and
Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics,
health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.
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