{"id":53939,"date":"2015-02-23T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=53939"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:26:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:26:04","slug":"ukraine-agrees-to-monsanto-land-grab-for-17-billion-imf-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/02\/ukraine-agrees-to-monsanto-land-grab-for-17-billion-imf-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Agrees To Monsanto Land Grab for $17 Billion IMF Loan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Typical agricultural landscape of Ukraine, Kherson Oblast. Credit: Dobrych (Flickr)\/CC-BY-SA-2.0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) are\u00a0helping biotech run the latest war in Ukraine. Make no mistake: what is happening in the Ukraine now is deeply tied to the interests of Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, and other big players in the poison food game.<\/p>\n

Monsanto\u00a0has an office in Ukraine.<\/a>\u00a0While this does not shout \u2018culpability\u2019 from every corner, it is no different than the US military\u2019s habit to place bases in places that they want to gain political control. The opening of this office coincided with land grabs with loans from the IMF and World Bank to one of the world\u2019s most hated corporations \u2013\u00a0all in support of their biotech takeover<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Previously, there was a ban on private sector land ownership in the country \u2013 but it was lifted \u2018just in time\u2019 for Monsanto to have its\u00a0way with the Ukraine.<\/p>\n

In fact, a bit of political maneuvering by the IMF gave the Ukraine\u00a0a $17 billion loan<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 but only if they would open up to biotech farming and the selling of Monsanto\u2019s poison crops and chemicals \u2013 destroying a farmland that is one of the most pristine in all of Europe. Farm equipment dealer, Deere, along with seed producers Dupont and Monsanto, will have a heyday.<\/p>\n

In the guise of \u2018aid,\u2019 a\u00a0claim has been made<\/a>\u00a0on Ukraine\u2019s vast agricultural riches. It is the world\u2019s third largest exporter of corn and fifth largest exporter of wheat. Ukraine has deep, rich, black soil that can grow almost anything, and its ability to produce high volumes of GM grain is what made biotech come rushing to take it over.<\/p>\n

As reported by The Ecologist, according to the Oakland Institute:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhereas Ukraine does not allow the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture, Article 404 of the EU agreement, which relates to agriculture, includes a clause that has generally gone unnoticed: it indicates, among other things, that both parties will cooperate to extend the use of biotechnologies.<\/em><\/p>\n

There is no doubt that this provision meets the expectations of the agribusiness industry. As observed by Michael Cox, research director at the investment bank Piper Jaffray, \u2018Ukraine and, to a wider extent, Eastern Europe, are among the most promising growth markets for farm-equipment giant Deere, as well as seed producers Monsanto and DuPont\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The nation WAS Europe\u2019s breadbasket \u2013 and now in an act of bio-warfare, it will become the wasteland that many US farmlands have become due to copious amounts of herbicide spraying, the depletion of soil, and the overall disruption of a perfect ecosystem.<\/p>\n

The aim of US government entities is to support the takeover of Ukraine for biotech interests (among other strategies involving the prop-up of a failing cabalistic banking system that Russia has also refused with its new alignment with BRICS and its own payment system called SWIFT). This is similar to biotech\u2019s desired\u00a0takeover of Hawaiian islands<\/a>\u00a0and land in Africa.<\/p>\n

The Ukraine war has many angles that haven\u2019t been exposed to the general public \u2013 and you can bet that biotech has their hands in the proverbial corn pie.<\/p>\n

Read:\u00a0Former Pro-GMO Biotech Scientist Admits GMOs are NOT Safe<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 popularresistance.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are helping biotech run the latest war in Ukraine. Make no mistake: what is happening in the Ukraine now is deeply tied to the interests of Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, and other big players in the poison food game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-balkans-eastern-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}