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The World According to Monsanto – Video Series Part 7 of 10
Shocking stories from USA farmers about Monsanto’s tactics against farmers to enforce their gene patents. USA farmers tell how Monsanto employs their own private investigators to spy on US farmers.
In rural America these people are known as ‘The Gene police’ Monsanto even runs a 1800 Monsanto number so neighbours and others can anonymously ‘dob in a farmer’.
Click on image of USA farmer Troy Roush to watch video …..
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Every Dollar You Spend Makes a Difference – One Way Or The Other.
If you could choose, what sort of Australia would you want to leave behind for your kids and your grand kids? Foreign owned companies control Australia. They plunder our abundant natural wealth and take the profits back to their country and pay tax on it to their government. Think about it?
This video graphically demonstrates that the vast majority of companies in Australia are foreign owned.
Click on image to read and watch the video …….
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Foxes In Charge Of The Hen House
The World Wildlife Fund has revealed plans to accredit beef and set up supply agreements so consumers can choose ‘greener’ products. Australian cattle producers can be sure of one thing, the only outcome of a WWF sponsored accreditation will be less cattle and less cattle producers.
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I bet you wonder how we knew...
Heard It Through The Grapevine.
Here is the tip offs and rumours that have arrived this week.
Great Southern Landlords worried, Nat Pollies Fed Up, Is Tony Windsor a secret Greenie, AWB Landmark in trouble, Rural Lenders Closing on Farmers, ANZ Bank sponsoring Greenies war on farmers, 80 year old lady farmer in wheelchair arrest by Vic gov on her property.
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9,000 Rural Jobs to Go in Kevin Rudd & Penny Wong Water Buyback Scheme.
Richard Haire head of Queensland Cotton said Twynam’s water sale meant the $20 million cotton gin at Collarenebri was no longer viable. Cotton Australia has estimated that every 270 megs (million litres) of irrigation water used generates one full time job….. This will mean that an incredible 9,000 plus jobs will be lost in irrigation towns and communities.
Click on photo of Richard to read more …..
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Agmates – Contributors Articles
Gladstone Workers are Meat In The Sandwich in Rio Tinto BHP Billiton Deal
A fog of uncertainty still surrounds Gladstone’s Rio Tinto workers after the company last week finally rejected the Chinese bid to acquire a $27 billion slice of the action. ….unfortunately at this stage, the Gladstone workers seem to be the meat in the sandwich in what otherwise could be seen as a good deal.
Click on the photo of John to read more …..
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Has Tony Burke Mislead Parliament Saying Wheat Growers $30 a Tonne Better Off Under Deregulation?
QLD grain grower and Agmates member Rowell Walton writes: Nevertheless their (NNF) loss of direction and removal from the mainstream farming community seems to be just deserts for failing their people and it brings me to the question of why Tony Burke would stand in the Australian parliament and assert wheat growers are $30.00 a tonne better off? The Question is Tony, where is your study, who did it and lets have a look at it.
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If we do not increase the size of the economy how do we repay the debt?
Senator Barnaby Joyce writes: This is chapter and verse of Mr Rudd’s loopy economics. We borrow money off people from overseas to buy products off people from overseas and later to pay the interest and principle back to overseas. The goods have no resale value, do nothing to help the Australian economy in the long term but we do take our Nation one step closer to the international bailiff who will change the locks on our nation’s doors.
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Pamper our farmers enough and they will fix global warming
Author, inventor, businessman and Agmates member Allan Yeomans writes: So to eliminate Australia’s past contribution to global warming, and do it quickly, we do two things. First we make chemical fertilizers a non tax-deductible farm expense.
Secondly and simultaneously we pay cash to farmers who increase the humus and organic matter content of their soils. Soil carbon tests are now cheap and easy.
Click on the Photo of Allan to read more …..
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Banks Behaving Badly – Case Study #1 AWB Landmark
Agmates member Roger Crook writes: Australia’s banking culture is rife with corruption and standover tactics and according to one academic, farmers bear the brunt of it. I believe my story is testament to that and I feel compelled to share it.
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Surviving When Debt Turns Bad Part #1.
I have been contacted by Agmates to write a series of articles to assist all members of the Agmates community in these difficult economic times.
The purpose of this series of articles is to provide important information to assist the growing numbers of farmers and business owners who find themselves under serious financial strain.
Click on the image of St Botolph to read more …..
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Kevin Rudds ETS Means Australian Workers to take 10% Pay Cut to Keep Their Jobs
South Australian Liberal Senator Mary Jo Fisher writes:Treasury confirmed in Senate Estimates on Wednesday that real wages will be 10 per cent lower under Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) modelling by 2050.
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Agriculture Saves Australia From Recession – So Why The Hell Is Kevin Rudd Kicking Us To Death?
Central West New South Wales farmer Rob Wass writes: If “Agriculture” has kept Australia out of recession amidst the biggest global recession since the “Great Depression” then why is it that our politicians, in searching for preferences, along with the greens, why are they kicking agriculture to death ?
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Victorian Bushfires – Kinglake – A Survivors Story
Agmates member Ralph Barraclough writes: “I address this heart rendering story of a survivor from King Lake to all the uncaring Labour politicians who see feathering their political nests with Green preferences as a higher priority of the ongoing suffering they have failed to address.”
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Kevin Rudds $1.8 billion Budget Cuts To Youth Allowance Making Our Kids The Dumb Country Cousins
Nationals Deputy Leader in the Senate, Fiona Nash writes: The Rudd Government Youth Allowance axe particularly disadvantages both students from regional Australia and regional Australian universities.That is why a growing number of people from regional Australia are signing the online petition and I urge Agmates readers to add their support.
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