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Toxification of chick pea

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This is a sad tale of degradation of global food, thanks to westernisation of the food web – money for peddling poison.

Chickpea used to be a favoured food source for me. In India, a vast group of low income labour class people, in the hundreds of millions, live on a daily diet of ground dried chickpea – called besan. It is also a major food ingredient in Indian cooking across the land and across the economic spectrum, rich and poor.

Today, chickpea is perhaps the most toxic of all food grains, thanks to westernisation of agriculture, profit making for investors. Along with it goes ownership, control and serious manipulation of science research as well as representation of scientific data by the profit making corporations.

In fact, manipulation and corruption is science is one of the base issues for astronomical rise in power of corporations – from Big Pharma, to Agriculture. These have become the new tools of colonisation. The third and fourth pillar of this demonic system are warmongering and profiteering on weapons and deaths, and controlling the finance of the world through banksters and the super rich.

Everything of relevance that goes around the world today, are rooted to these issues.

But back to the chickpea. This grain gotten to be the the most toxic among all main stream food grains for humans that we know about. But, how do I know this is the most toxic grain?

I know this because I am the person that worked for a number of years to get the Canadian government to test all available foods for measuring the most used and most controversial poison in the world food system – glyphosate. No country had tested their foods extensively for presence of this dangerous slow poison that is at the root of my destroyed immunity, till I managed to get the issue on the floor of the Canadian Parliament eight years ago through help of one exceptional MP from BC, Mr. Alex Atamanenko. It is because of him that Health Canada was forced to answer to my query and allocate multiple millions of dollars to conduct the most extensive and so far only regime of treating thousands and thousands of samples of food grown in Canada as well as imported from some 68 countries, for presence of glyphosate and give me a set of all results. It is because of that body of data that I could analyse and come to a number of conclusions, and eventually ended up writing the reference book – POISON FOODS OF NORTH AMERICA. This image is from that book, containing over 400 charts, tables and data, that proves, for example, North America produces far and away the most toxic foods on the face of the planet, is seriously pushing this toxic technology to the rest of the world for owning and controlling the global food web. The data also shows that among all the food grains tested, chickpea happens to be the most toxic of them all. US plant pathologist and US bioweapons biosecurity expert, scientist Dr. Don Huber of Idaho explained to be the reason Chickpea accumulations more glyphosate more than any other grain. He even tried to train farmers of western North America how to avoid glyphosate and still get their pest control needs satisfied by using alternatives such as boron. But, economics drives the push for glyphosate. It is cheaper than boron, and corporations make more profit in use of glyphosate, than by items that are freely available and does not make profit for the agro-corporations.

Glyphosate is the molecule that is the Trojan horse that attacks our microbiome, are the thieves that steal the minerals from the soil and from the food that we eat, destroys our endocrine system the primary reason for runaway autism as well as other ailments such as diabetes.

Of course you will never hear it from your doctor. This is because the medical system, including all spheres of medical research and medical science have been captured by the same group that profits by keeping you sick. Any doctor that dares look beyond what he is taught and does independent analysis and speaks against the system, loses his license to practice medicine, and may even face charges for harming the population through disinformation. And yes, even the courts are in on it.

We have reached a point where doctors destroy health, scientists destroy science, lawyers destroy law, politicians destroy politics, economists destroy concept of economy, news reporters destroy news.

There is no free press, no freedom of expression, and no access to find truth easily. Propaganda goes for news and every pillar of the society is in on it.

Night is being portrayed as day. And if you disagree and question it – you are uncivil, and a danger to society, and deserve to be outcast and perhaps in a concentration camp. This is where we are now.

But, again, back to Chickpea.

The two tables in the image, both from my book, and based on data provided by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), under Agriculture Canada, which is under Health Canada – a wing of the Canadian Government.

The top table of the image shows how all non-organic chickpea from some countries. It is important to check how many samples were collected and tested. High number of samples indicate a lot of the stuff is available in Canada, and a lot of samples could be collected. Therefore the average is a good indication of the grain quality from that country. Low number of samples indicate possibility that the reading is not as reliable. Also, low number of samples mean less amount of the stuff is imported or otherwise available in Canada, and is perhaps less significant for us.

The last two columns are very important. They show how much of the samples are dirty. That means, for example, 85% of samples from the US were containing glyphosate. And, curiously, 15% were still clean (without glyphosate). In other words – if there was a way to find out where those 15% chickpea came from, one could perhaps even manage to find good stuff within USA. But by and large, the highest percentage of chickpea that are toxic, are produced in the US, followed by Canada, Lebanon and India. Curiously and sort of geographically, further you move away from North America, cleaner seems to be its chickpea.


But the real truth is – how much of those farmers have been influenced or coerced or manipulated, to use “westernised” and “modern” agriculture in the lure of providing sufficient food indigenously grown for their population. In general, westernisation has become synonymous to modern and better. If you do not westernise and modernise, you are not only backward, but also an ignorant fool and are going to be starving soon. This is what is being taught to people. Actual story is, you are handing over your food safety, food security and food sovereignty, to a foreigner and to their local collaborators. I do not know how else to say this.

The last column shows the average value of glyphosate in parts per billion. Obviously, the lower the better and higher the worse. And so, USA, Canada, Lebanon and India are bad news, of which USA and Canada are way worse, while they are busy trying to drag the other nations down to their level.

Then there is the question of the “unknown” country. According to CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) and I have communicated with them to understand this category – unknown means food samples where the origin in untraceable. Usually this means foods that are being sold in bulk in markets, in containers without packaging, and where the origin is not mentioned. This usually means food from local Canadian as well as cross border US farms. USA and Canada has an agreement where certain kins of food can be transported cross border free of charge, in bulk, and without need for packaging and mention of origin. A huge quantity of those approved food types regularly cross border between these two nations. Most food grains are included in this approved types. That is mainly why the “unknown” category turns up high in glyphosate content alongside Canada and USA.

 

Covid warriors of India

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Grassroots India is leading the world in a novel way to counter the fear mongering on covid and the creation of fake panic and a medical emergency that is perhaps not warranted.

This small but rising group of people are dealing with covid in a most unusual way. They are offering to treat patients of chronic illnesses including those reportedly suffering from covid, in ways that bypasses allopathic medication altogether, using either alternative methods based on Ayurveda, or Homeopathy, or pure naturopathy that uses no purchased medication whatsoever, but using food, exercise and lifestyle changes as the means to cure illness. Covid patients are being treated by these selfless street warriors and curing them without allopathy, without failure and without charging a dime. I have not seen a similar effort or example anywhere else on the face of earth. To me, this is one critical area where India stands apart in showing a way out of this madness.

A lot of people and groups are worth mentioning here – but two names come first. One is Dr. Biswaroop Roychoudhury’s institutions that simultaneously offers naturopathic cure of ailments including covid, and same time offers to train an ever increasing army of naturopathic paramedics that will fan out across the nation to freely treat covid patients.

Then there are groups like Kheti Virasat Mission of Punjab, promoting organic, pesticide free farming, that has taken initiative in forming a new group – NISA – that stands for Natural Immunisation Support Alliance. It has roped in a lot of stalwarts in alternative medicine and natural health sphere, promoters of Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Naturopathy and regional variations such as Kabiraji etc. The group also includes a sizable number of allopathic doctors with a standing, and controllers of a few chain of hospitals that will treat covid patients.

One of the group leaders – Mr. Umendra Dutt, had invited me into this group. As a result, I have come to learn of a lot of their workings too.

Then comes there is a nascent grassroots movement under the banner of Awaken india Movement – a leaderless synthesis of grassroots organisation across India that overlaps with various other groups in resisting the lockdowns and personal restrictions imposed on people based on test results or vaccine certificate status. Many of these protesting volunteers also overlap as Naturopathic paramedics trained by Biswaroop RoyChoudhury’s institution or another similar one.

But that is only part of the story. There is another part – about the Indian Bar Association joining hands with the AIM members and filing charges at state level and Supreme Court challenges to the government against its arbitrary, anti-people and treasonous laws to ruin India economically and psychologically, to benefit a handful of overseas corporations and crooks.

I myself started interviewing some of these change makers on the streets of India, away from the westernised media limelight and away from the popular social media hashtag threads. I am including a few samples here

Prem Upadhyay of North Bengal, India.

These paramedics, or street warriors of India, are countering the fear of covid in a novel an unique way not matched anywhere else on earth, far as I can see. These people are treating covid patients:

  • Without allopathic medication
  • Without failure
  • Without charging a dime

Their success story is spreading, through word of mouth, bypassing all mainstream media that suppress them, bypassing government channels and bypassing the TV. This is going into rural India even as upwardly mobile urban India remains largely unaware of or blind to, this rising tide.

 

Jagadish Chanda of West Bengal, India.

The first person I interviewed this way was Saurav Bysac of West Bengal, India.

Saurav Bysak, West Bengal, India

I have myself made a few videos, speaking into a camera, announcing this hitherto invisible, near silent India, unknown even to the urban, internet savvy social media travelling upwardly mobile westernised India, which is a national tragedy, in my view.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/DrFUa6EQDWp9/

This is an evolving story.

Tomorrow, Monday Morning India time, I hope to interview another such street warrior, Amber Koiri of Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Watch this space.

I join the Koo family

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Koo is a microblogging app for social media, an alternative to twitter, and originated in India in 2020 because of differences of opinion between the Government of India and Twitter, regarding freedom of choice. According to India, some anti-India terrorist type people from countries outside of India were assuming fake name and fake origin of being from India, in their membership of twitter, and then passing subversive or treasonous plans and recruitment drives in India to foment insurgency and terrorism. The government listed out the names of these members and wanted twitter to ban their accounts. Twitter did not agree. This started a spat that is ongoing.

Meanwhile, someone in India came up with an alternative app for Indians to consider boycotting twitter and supporting home-grown platforms.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/ChQwQBggc8TL/

 Lot of people did join up and the platform is growing rapidly. Initially, it was presumed that the people that supported the current political party that rules India – BJP, formed the bulk of membership. This was also supported by Government officials and politicians of the party as well as the government ministers including the Prime Minister. Then came many celebrities such as actors and sportspeople, followed by journalists and self employed. In general, it was conceived to be supported by the Indian right wing, or the so called pro-Hindutwa group, or people that feel proud of their Hindu origin.

A few people from the west, wanting to stay connected with, or to gain friendship or exposure, too joined up.

It is reported that the Twitter app has over 25 million users while Koo has just under 3 million, but is rising. In some countries outside of India, Koo has apparently become highly used when their respective nations banned the use of Twitter, such as Nigeria. Some high profile ministers of the Indian Government have joined Koo and brought one million and more followers.

 Lately, perhaps the platform is losing some of its pro Hindutwa distinction and attracting some of the middle-of-the-road noncommittal folks too.

I joined up partly out of knee jerk dislike of the controlling social media and IT bigwigs of Facebook, Twitter, Google, & Microsoft, and their apparent censorship when it comes to selective subjects such as covid, Donald Trump, etc. Partly, also was the concern regarding the propaganda on Covid and my desire to tell folks in India that Hindutwa and Covid should not be mixed up. Whatever is the agenda for the Indian government regarding secularism, its politicise on covid was wholly in line with the global dictatorship of promoting a fake propaganda for reasons other than safety from any viral epidemic. 

My time with Koo has been for around six months, of which I have been reasonably active for say four months or so, meaning making on average perhaps one post per day. And in this time, my follower base has risen from zero to almost 500. In Comparison, on Twitter, I have less than 400 followers, after having been there for 12 years.

In the attached graph, one can see there were not much rise in membership in the months of March and April, when I did not make much posts. This is an indication that a post a day ensure steady rise of followers, even if your views are controversial, non-standard, or opposite to the current flow. People will follow you out of curiosity, if what you have to say, is curious.

 Why is this important. Well, I feel covid propaganda is destroying the planet as we knew it, even if the state of affairs were horrible in many counts. Therefore, resisting the ongoing destruction of the human society becomes a primary task of any thinking human, without our own capacity and inclination, and without engaging in violence.

In that, I suspect India would play a crucial role, or it has the potential to do so. That is primarily the reason for my attraction to this app – to try and make a difference, however small.

But there are subtle differences. On Twitter, I post more often and some of my followers have the same interest, such as dislike for industrial chemicals and herbicides in food, or the fact that people are having their free speech curtailed by the social media giants.

On Koo, there is no such discernible pattern. People from differing walks of life seem to follow me at random. The only noticeable pattern is – if I do not make any posts for a few days, my followers do not increase, and in fact begins to drop off. On the other hand, if I make more posts, especially on topics off the beaten path, I gain more followers. The new followers rarely, if ever, click the “like” button or share my posts. So I guess they are more curious about what I have to say, and not necessarily agreeing with me. Neither are they disagreeing enough to voice their opinion.

When it comes to covid – almost 99.99% of the people do believe covid is a deadly virus and one needs to take all precautions possible to avoid getting infected or worse. I seem to be the only voice that spends words of caution about the reality of covid and also about possible harm from vaccine, not just on health, but also economy, freedom and democracy.

Curiously, Koo App has not yet gotten around to sanctioning me or censoring my posts that often ends up criticising the Indian government, or prime minister.

So far, it has been an interesting journey and I have been making more posts on Koo than on Twitter of late.

https://www.kooapp.com/profile/Tony_Mitra

Vegetate under covid restrictions, or live life?

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Question was raised by a friend on Facebook post, about older people in India more or less confining themselves indoor, separated from their world, and just counting days doing nothing – was this a worthwhile mode of existence?

This prompted a response from me, as follows:

Not all your friends are living indoor and doing nothing except count the hours going by.
Yesterday I wrote to Narendra Modi accusing him of ruining India and looting it for the benefit of corporate and NWO overlords and asked him to explain to the people why he should not be tried for treason. I copied it to Prashant Bhushan in Delhi who is representing four like minded citizens suing the Indian Government at the supreme Court for pretty much the same reason.
That, and spending long hours in the sun, growing potato, tomato, pumpkin and a dozen more organic crops in my backyard and conversing with people across the planet- should count for more that just waiting to die of old age.
When I go to buy milk and am requested to wear a mask inside the store, I wear a specially ordered one, keeping my nose out of it and refusing to breathe my own exhalation. The specially printed text on my mask says – THIS MASK IS AS USELESS AS MY PRIME MINISTER.
So I guess I am among the exception that prove the rule.
You take care.

And on a follow up message, I wrote further – 

from my point of view, things are just as bad in the west as they are in the east – in particular, small business, mom and pop shops, small entrepreneurs and self employed people are designed to lose their way of living and go extinct, and all their work is designed to be captured by bigger corporations. In Bengali, there used to be a term – মাৎস্যন্যায় – where big fish eat up all the small fish.
Sitting in any one corner of the world – it might appear that the other bank of the river is greener.
IN my unique perspective of having bridged various lands and in touch with people on the ground in all continents barring Antarctica, I see this as a global phenomenon. IN my assessment, the west is going to take the hardest fall, since its society had gone higher up in the ladder than others, and faces the greatest fall. Many smart people around the world are beginning to see this. Unfortunately, not everybody has an analytical mind and few are able to see beyond the haze. Many believe the TV, or politicians, or are greatly influenced by friends and peer pressure.
I believe the world as we knew back in 2019 is never ever coming back. I also see a systemic collapse happening across the planet, either in stages and planned, or catastrophically and unplanned, that will be like no other global economic collapse known in history.
I also have a suspicion that, among the rubble of the ruins, countries like India will survive better than many others – but not because of the upwardly mobile west-influenced new westernised youth, but the unseen, non-english savvy non-internet browsing other-India. That uncontaminated group is still numerous and not yet extinct in India, but are more or less vanished from the west. It is that crowd, in my judgment, that will emerge as major survivors and pull India up by the bootstraps.
I myself will most likely not be around to see the end result. Very few of us will be.
Meanwhile, we are all in for a hair raising ride. Hang on to your seat belts and sing that Tagore Song –
এবার তোর মরা গাঙে বান এসেছে, ‘জয় মা’ ব’লে ভাসা তরী॥
ওরে রে ওরে মাঝি, কোথায় মাঝি, প্রাণপণে, ভাই, ডাক দে আজি
তোরা সবাই মিলে বৈঠা নে রে, খুলে ফেল্‌ সব দড়াদড়ি॥
দিনে দিনে বাড়ল দেনা, ও ভাই, করলি নে কেউ বেচা কেনা
হাতে নাই রে কড়া কড়ি।
ঘাটে বাঁধা দিন গেল রে, মুখ দেখাবি কেমন ক’রে
ওরে, দে খুলে দে, পাল তুলে দে, যা হয় হবে বাঁচি মরি॥

 

C19, Fauci, & India

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There is a legal challenge to the government of India against implementation of untested and potentially harmful covid vaccines. Four individual citizens have brought that challenge to the government directly in the Supreme Court.
One of the high profile Supreme Court lawyers of India, Mr. Prashant Bhushan, is representing them free of charge.
This is his statement on twitter about Fauci, covid, and HIV.
The 2nd Tweet on a similar issue involving Fauci, Corona and Vaccine
As it happens, a decade ago, the same Mr. Bushan represented a single Indian woman on her Supreme Court challenge against the Government of India on account of introducing untested and potentially harmful GMO crops. As a result of that court challenge, the Government of India has till date not approved of any GMO to be introduced as main food crop.
I interviewed this Mr. Bhushan some five years ago, regarding Canada not having the same constitutional rights for the people to stop the toxification of the land and the people with pesticides such as glyphosate, and what one might do about it etc .
I put that conversation up on Youtube in an 8 minute video at the time.
Meanwhile the circle seems to have come around again, where the same Mr. Bhushan is now engaged on yet another groundbreaking Public Interest Litigation directly against the Union of India on account of flooding the nation with covid vaccines. Here is his statement on Twitter linking Fauci in directly threatening Indian scientists.
I suspect Mr. Bhushan will collect all these evidences in his representation of the situation where western Big Pharma and interest groups have used force to shut off discerning voice and free and fair investigation of aspects that reflect on public health and safety.

These are some of the reasons I suspect india might help turn the corner, but that this movement, if it happens, will not come from tech savvy, English speaking, social media active masses of India (exceptions aside), but from those “backward” people that refuse to follow the TV, the social media and the modern crowd and their peer pressure, and instead use a vanishing commodity – common sense and logic.

Dr. Biswaroop Roychoudhury & friends write to the Prime Minister of India on covid

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There is a perception that India is reeling under covid and more people are dying from it than most other countries. This notion is exacerbated through constant drumming in the media, both inside and outside of India. The real story may well be different. There are a lot of people including friends I know, who say that a number of their acquaintances that died of covid recently had, without fail, taken both doses of vaccine.

Vaccine resistance was already entrenched among many in India, historically. Now that seems to be rising among some sections of the crowd, while others are rushing to get themselves vaccinated. Rush to find oxygen cylinders have skyrocketed and there is a national level shortage to cater to demand. Some experts say this spiking of demand is through irrational panic, driven more by constant fear mongering on media and by politicians, and also by the fact that everybody today has gotten hold of an oximeter, by which you can check your oxygen intake level by sticking a finger into the device. Thus, people who are otherwise doing fine and driven to panic thinking they are dying due to oxygen level showing a percentage point lower than normal.

In the middle of all this, a group of 161 noted doctors in India have collectively written a letter to the Prime Minister, informing them of an alternative view of the situation and notifying him that the covid based personal restrictions and shutdown of economy is both unwarranted and extremely harmful for the future of India’s viability. They are following it up with a legal challenge to the government, unless the government steps back and pulls India back from the socioeconomic brink.

One doctor in that group, Dr. Biswaroom Roychoudhury, a PhD in diabetes, talks for ten minutes into a camera, describing their paint of view, speaking in Hindi.

I transcribed the Hindi talk into English – for consumption by the English speaking world. The video has been uploaded in BitChute and also Rumble.

Here is the link:

The letter by the 161 doctors to the Prime Minister has been copied to all elected members of parliament, all elected members of provincial legislative assembly and all district magistrates.

Further, the note sort of issues a warning, that, if the covid based restrictions, which are both unnecessary and extremely damaging for India, are not lifted by June 1st, the group will challenge both the Prime Minister and the Government in court.

I shall follow up on this developing story.

For those that cannot access the video from BitChute for any reason, may also check it out on Rumble:

 

Decay of the VBU Alumni

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The gradual degradation of Rabindranath’s dream institution, Visva Bharati, has been ongoing for many generations now. It started while Tagore himself was alive but getting too old to oversee all details of administration and had to depend on others. He also saw the financial crisis looming, since he himself was no more able to take Santiniketan students for cultural performance across the nation to raise funds to run the University. He did request Gandhi to help take care of Santiniketan, but I am certain it pained him to do so, because the request essentially meant that he believed VBU would be unable to stand on its own feet and raise funds for its own affairs.

Many famous overseas Universities do not depend on Government funds, but are financed with a combination of help from its financially successful alumni, fees paid by students, and private investment. But Visva Bharati was unable to reach that status for multiple reasons, one of them being the failure of the extents to engage constructively in this very important field and the disinclination of the wealthy industrialists to be involved in the University after Tagore was gone.

Research scholars will add their study on this subject, but part of the problem was – for a lot of selfish people high and low, public funding of the University under the central government was seen as a cash cow that was ideal for milking.

That Visva Bharati was becoming an unproductive milk cow kept fat with public money, became the primary identity of the university. Tagore dreams became expendable.

The overall rot may have multiple roots, but one of them, the negative contribution of its Alumni class, rarely gets discussed. Generations of corrupt, inept people have turned the place into a rats nest. The University administration is well aware of it and the topic is out in papers and TV for quite some time now. Most things are now public, except one – how destructively inept and unprofessional the vaunted Exstudent community itself has been.

That story, of the Rabindra-chanting Practoni Alumni group, is the subject of this blog, representing my own point of view with just a few personal experiences on how I came to this conclusion a long time ago, and have on occasion expressed by views and suggestions to the authorities, both local to the Vice Chancellor and the federal government, through the Chancellor.

 

I am contemplating on sharing this blog, but believe people deserve to know the alternate views of the affairs of the place, since public funds are involved in the running of the University.

I have great respect for my elders including Anandarup Ray, Srila Chatterjee, Alo Roy and others. Our family has known their family for multiple generations. I regret that this blog and my video might highlight areas where I found their conduct not suitable for any institution or group that is aimed at promoting Rabindranath Tagore’s efforts and goals.

Any human can make mistakes. Greatness comes from acknowledging it and correcting the mistakes, and not putting the mistakes under a blanket or defending the mistakes.

At the final count, these elders while all are notable, respectable, but they are not above Tagore. I cannot support anyone, even myself, above Tagore when it comes to Visva Bharati University. It would have been good if we all can acknowledge past mistakes, say sorry to each other, and bring closure to the issue, instead of harbouring ill will and letting Tagore’s vision continue to be degraded by selfishness and pettiness.

বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় আজ অসুস্থ – রবীন্দ্রনাথের আশা আকাঙ্ক্ষা অভিলাষের কবরখানা।আদর্শ বিশ্বনাগরিকের বদলে স্বার্থপর, দুশ্চরিত্র, শ্রমবিমুখ জনসংখ্যা তৈরির কারখানা, কিছু ব্যতিক্রম বাদে।

আমার নিরপেক্ষ বিচারে বিশ্বভারতীকে পুরোপুরি বন্ধ করা দরকার এবং নতুন সংবিধান নির্মাণ করার সময় এসেছে।এবিষয়ে আমি আচার্যকে দুবার চিঠি লিখেছি বেশ কিছু বছর আগে। সেগুলো শেয়ারও করা হয়েছে ফেসবুকে। তখন তার ওপর অন্যদের তেমন মন্তব্য দেখা যায়নি।

কিন্তু সেই খবর বর্তমানে আবার উল্লেখ করাতে শুনলাম কিছু প্রাক্তনীরা নাকি এমনই ছটপট করে উঠেছে যেন তাদের ল্যাজে কারুর পা পড়েছে। বিশ্বভারতীর কি অবস্থা তার বিচারের বদলে, শান্তনু মিত্রের চরিত্র চর্চা হয়ে গেল আলোচ্য বিষয়।

তাই ভাবলাম SASIর শুরুর গল্প থেকে শুরু করে শিল্পসদন ওবদি ঘটনা এবং সমাজকল্যানের অভিজ্ঞতা নিয়ে লিখি – এই প্রাক্তনীদের পরিচয় পত্র হিসেবে। এই প্রাক্তনীরা প্রচুর বড় বড় কথা হাওয়ায় ছোঁড়ে এবং অন্যদের সমালোচনা করা, নিন্দা করা, পাঁচিলে বসে উপদেশ দেওয়া কি করা উচিত অনুচিত তা নিয়ে পাণ্ডিত্ব জাহির করতে সদা অগ্রসর। কিন্তু নিজে কি করতে রাজি প্রশ্ন করলে কাউকে খুঁজে পাওয়া যায়না।

সদ্য পরলোকগত প্রাক্তন ছাত্র তাপস বোস, জিনি আমাকে সাহাজ্য করেছিলেন শিল্পসদনের ব্যাপারে – তার সঙ্গে কিছু বছর পরে ২০১৮ সালে এবিষয়ে আমার সঙ্গে রেকর্ডে কথা হয়, যেটা YouTube থেকে এখানে তুলে দেওয়া হল।

যেই লেখাটা নিয়ে শুনছি চায়ের কাপে ঝড় উঠেছে – সেটা এখানে দেওয়া হল – এটি আগের ব্লগে একবার তোলা হয়েছে আগেই।

 

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The broken spine story

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I was planning to work in my backyard, repairing my vegetable beds, working with the soil and adding compost, fixing the wooden walls for the raised beds etc. BY late February, plants need to go into the ground from starter pots, or seeds need to go into the ground. Time to work.

But, it was raining and it was cold. Not a good time to be working outdoors. I am not worried about covid, but I might catch a cold and in any case, it is not comfortable working in the rain in the middle of winter in Canada.

So – I got remained grounded indoor and started back at reducing my footprint on Facebook. I had already archived all 20,00 or so pictures from it to my hard drive, and deleted all albums from Facebook. However, the timeline pictures, over 4,600 of them, could be archived but could not be deleted. The delete button seems missing for the timeline photos, in a bulk. And I was not going to search out each of those thousands of pictures and try deleting them one by one.

Somewhere in that effort to find a solution, I ended up going through some of the pictures and they brought back pleasant memories.

Here is a 28 months old set of pictures from a trip I made into rural India to talk glyphosate. I am standing at the edge of a large open field in the rural outskirts of a North Bengal small town called Raigunj, in India. Behind me is a giant flat LED Screen. On the table is a MacBook – connected to the flat screen. In the corner, partially seen, is one of the two large standing boom boxes, or large speakers.

In front of me, and invisible in this picture – are a thousand people, including townspeople, villagers and farmers, women and men, sitting on the ground. Behind them is a line of people standing.

I am telling them, in their local language, the dangers of using pesticides as weedkillers in general in agriculture, and RoundUp/Glyphosate in particular. My trip was arranged there by the local organic farming promoting group called F.I.A.M.

On the screen, is a black and white photograph of a child with Spina bifida (Broken spine) a severe birth defect that is suspected to be the direct result of agricultural women, in early stage of pregnancy, being exposed to glyphosate, which seriously interferes with creation of the blueprint for the foetus, based on which the whole human is created inside the mothers womb.

The pictures is from the interior of Argentina, where a GMO tobacco plant, designed with genetically modified tobacco was grown in a Hughe plantation in the middle of a large jungle and away from big towns. The tobacco was designed to withstand being sprayed by glyphosate, which would kill all other weeds, insects and pretty much everything else around the plants but allow the tobacco to grow. Many young women that worked as farm workers were engaged to spray glyphosate over the plants, using sprayers that were carried as backpacks. Some of these women were pregnant at the time, and got exposed to breathing this glyphosate. Some developed serious ailments down the line, often months or even years after the exposure. But many others that were in early phase of pregnancy, gave birth to live babies with severe and almost untreatable birth defects. All were poor living in remote areas away from urban centres. High quality medical care was not available. Nobody told them glyphosate was the likely cause. So the women just took is as bad luck, and cared for the these children the best they could.

Years later, an Argentinian photographer, Pablo Piovano, toured these areas on a motorcycle and with a camera, searching for women that sprayed glyphosate on the tobacco plants to check if any suffered from illness. That is when, years after the fact, a new story began to emerge – newborns with severe birth defects, apart from serious illness and death of elders. He photographed them, interviewed the parents and collected it all to be published, under Spanish name of “Costo humano de las agrotóxicas” (Human cost of agrotoxins). Eventually, I saw a copy of it, and asked permission to use some of the images in my trip to interior India, to warn farm workers against use of glyphosate. I obtained the permission. And thus, this picture became part of my hour long presentation in this rural corner in India back in 2018.

The child in this picture suffers from Spina Bifida (broken spine) and cannot stand up straight. As it happens, cases of Spina Bifida among newborns in India is rising rapidly, at the same speed the use of glyphosate in agriculture is rising. History seems to repeat itself, again and again – in different corners of the planet, all linked to the same item.

Today, going through the images, I thought of sharing it on Facebook. Then, a few days later, I thought it deserved a better place – on my blog, and perhaps in a future book.

To Mamata

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To: Ms Mamata Bannerjee, cm@wb.gov.in
Chief Minister of West Bengal, India
NABANNA (14th Floor), 325, Sarat Chatterjee Road,, Shibpur, Howrah-711102
Date: Saturday, December 5, 2020

Subject:  Covid-19 and destruction of liberty, economy, science and society of Bengal

Honourable Chief Minister Bannerjee,

I was born and schooled in various towns and provinces of India but am now a citizen and resident of Canada. I am an engineer by profession. I write this letter to you conveying my concern involving the way governments including yours is handling the covid-19 situation. I have also expressed the same view to the Prime Minister Trudeau, as well as many other elected politicians here in Canada. I aim to send also another note with the same message to the current Prime Minister of India, Mr. Modi, shortly.

Media and the governments in most nations, barring a few exceptions, are incessantly chanting on a new mantra which claims covid-19 to be an all consuming once in a century pandemic, and that to save mankind, one has to follow strict medical guidelines which up to now include:

  • Shut down of non-essential businesses
  • Denying people’s right to assemble, and enforcing social distancing
  • Wearing a mask in stores and other enclosed spaces in presence of others
  • Use unproven testing schemes to determine if a person is infected or not, irrespective of if the person is sick or healthy.
  • Restricting travel
  • Enforcing quarantine for people either suspected of being infected, or as safety measure after travel.
  • Being prepared to take vaccines as soon as they arrive,

There may be more items to follow. Some politicians are claiming that this covid threat will remain for a few years before things can go back to something faintly resembling normalcy.

However, I have noted that neither my birth country, India, nor my adopted country, Canada, have conducted any in-house independent, transparent and verifiable assessment of the covid threat, and neither have they checked if any of the restrictive measures listed above actually work to prevent movement of any virus from person to person or from air to person. Essentially, governments are putting their national and provincial economy, liberty, wealth and future to the sword, simply based on third party hearsay. Even worse, the World Health Organisation, which categorised covid-19 as a pandemic, have themselves not provided verifiable proof of the dangers of covid or the usefulness of the economic shut downs and personal restrictions.

The burning question in my mind is – why are governments agreeing to commit what to me appears to be little more than a propaganda to destroy selective small businesses, enforce mass impoverishment,  and bring in forced medication for a huge windfall profit for big Pharma. It also looks like a backdoor terrorist attack to destroy the wealth of nations and that of the common man, in an organised massive transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich, while promoting a new age of global dictatorship and shutting down of personal freedom, rights and liberty.

I have tried, and am continuing to try, to get some layer of the Canadian government to commit to assess the covid threat and if no proof of danger is found, to declare this as fake and engineered conspiracy to bring in a new form of fascism to help the corporate takeover of the planet.

Meanwhile I write this note as another appeal to ask you to either conduct your own, unbiased, transparent and verifiable assessment of the reality of the virus called sars-cov-2 that is reported to cause an illness named covid-19, and the usefulness of any of the restrictive measures being enforced, encouraged or allowed by your governments.

If however, your government is following the diktat of the World Health Organisation because it is afraid of financial repercussion of not complying with their suggestions, then your government should have the grit, the spine and the guts to own up to the public, that their society is being blackmailed into covid compliance.

Where governments are not at all coming clean on the covid issue, I cannot help but conclude that the political class are in essence acting treasonous and that the responsible politicians should be in prison.

In closing, I would add that I really do not believe you, as a chief minister of a province, will have the wherewithal, the courage, or the gumption to act upon this letter. It is more convenient to just trash it. In that, I suppose you will do your duty of following the globalist suggestion of keeping the covid issue under a veil of secrecy and obfuscation.

Therefore I intend to also perform my duty as a world citizen – of making this letter public.

If however, miracles still happen, and you decide to conduct your own in-house, honest, transparent and verifiable assessment of the covid threat and let the public scrutinise it, or demand that the Modi government does the same before you will allow Bengal to be put under any restriction – then you shall have performed your own sworn duty of protecting the interest of the people, and also earn my genuine admiration.

Encouraging you to introspect, I remain,

Santanu Mitra
10891 Cherry Lane, Delta, BC, V4E 3L7, Canada, Tony.mitra@gmail.com

Comments welcome. I’d like to interact with folks that might be supportive, or otherwise like to address this question of absence of proof of danger, to discuss or to approach elected politicians.

Glyphosate, Codex & Canada – a letter to PMRA

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To: Peter Chan,
Director General, Health Canada, Pest Management Regulatory Agency – peter.chan@canada.ca
Date: Thursday, July 25, 2019
Cc: Dr Marcos Alvarez marcos.alvarez@canada.ca, Ms Reem Barakat reem.Barakat@Canada.ca, Mrs Nathalie Doré nathalie.dore@canada.ca, Mr Paul Enwerekowe paul.enwerekowe@canada.ca, Mr Alan Schlachter schlachtera@croplife.ca,

Subject:  Codex Committee on Pesticide Residue, MRL for glyphosate

Mr. Chan,

I write this email to you, as your name is mentioned in the document from Codex Alimentarius as the leader of the delegation from Canada that attended the recently concluded 51st session of the Codex Committee on Pesticide Residue, conducted in Macao special administrative region of China in April 2019. The letter deals with rising levels of MRL accepted as safe by both the Canadian Government and the Codex Committee, for various pesticides, but in particular, about glyphosate. This letter is also copied to the other attendees from Canada.

As an introduction, I would mention that I am a Canadian citizen and a retired engineer that was born in India. I had, some years ago during the Harper regime, tried to get Health Canada to get engaged in testing of foods for glyphosate, or at least set up some labs that would test foods for glyphosate in Canada, so the public could spend money out of their own pocket to test how toxic Canadian foods had gotten, if the Government was uninterested. At the time, Canadian labs accessible to the public would only test glyphosate in water and soil. The Harper government initially did not bother to respond to my letter. Then MP Alex Atamanenko took up my case and brought the topic to the floor of the parliament, demanding that the health minister, Ms Rona Ambrose, answered me.

Subsequently, the Canadian Government did influence some labs to get accredited to test various foods for glyphosate and did initiate a large project to test thousands of food samples for measuring residues of glyphosate and AMPA. I obtained a copy of all results through an access to information act appeal to CFIA, analysed the data and published a book on Amazon titled “Poison Foods of North America”. The book shows that CFIA tests indicate seed based crops grown in North America to contain significantly higher levels of glyphosate, and therefore, in my judgment, constituted the most toxic foods on earth. Also, within North America, Canadian crops contained measurably more glyphosate than even US grown crops, making Canada the epicentre of toxic foods on earth, when it comes to glyphosate contamination.

I warned the Government of India early in 2018 to be wary of imported lentils from Canada because of high level of contamination from glyphosate – a molecule that was not approved by India for use in agriculture. This resulted in the issue being discussed in the Indian parliament before the minister of food and the Food Safety Standard Authority of India issuing a directive to test all imported lentils for glyphosate.

In March this year, an English language magazine published in India, “Agriculture World”,  with over 10 million in circulation, Published a lead story authored by me, titled “Glyphosate, a slow moving horror”. I am told some 3,000 copies of that issue had been taken by attendees from India, to distribute among other Codex Committee attendees in Macao, China in April this year, which was also attended by you. Perhaps you saw a copy of the magazine and read the article.

Now, I write this letter to ask you a few questions.

1) Proof of safety of glyphosate
The Canadian Government has not released the safety test raw data and report received by it back in the 1970s, which was submitted by Monsanto, to prove that glyphosate was safe.

I have a separate running case with Health Canada, demanding a copy of all those pages, or be informed in writing that I, a Canadian citizen, do not have the right to see them. I have been assured that I have the right to the documents. However, the government has been dragging its feet for years.

My question to you is – can you help expedite the process, using your position and influence, to release all those hitherto hidden documents and raw data, that are supposed to prove to Canadians that glyphosate did not and does not harm higher animals such as mammals?

2) Periodic raising of Maximum residue Limit (MRL)

Canada has been raising the MRL for glyphosate for individual crops over the years. While one can see the current MRL in various crops from Government published document, I have been trying to obtain a table that shows when MRLs for each crop was raised, from what level to what level, and on which date.

My intension has been to ask the Government for evidence that on each instance, it actually verified that the raised MRL levels were safe. I have reason to suspect that the Government has seen no such data, and has been raising the MRL because earlier limits were already crossed or about to the crossed. In other words, I suspect the Government has been protecting the industry in continuously increasing toxicity levels in foods without any proof that it was safe at any level.

I request you to send me this table of raising of MRLs for glyphosate, so I can seek more information on procedure followed when those limits were raised.

3) I refer to comments submitted by the National Health Federation (NHF) to the Codex Committee (CRD28, April 2019) about establishing the Maximum levels of pesticide residue in food and feed (CX/PR 19/51/5). This 4 page comment, attached as a file to this letter, stresses how the Codex Committee on Pesticide Residue (CCPR) has been lagging in solid science and is becoming increasingly out of touch with consumer demands and the marketplace, particularly with regard to glyphosate.

My question to you is – can you offer a response to this comments by NHF from the point of view not so much of the Codex Committee, but of PMRA and the Canadian Government, which too, like the Codex, has been raising MRL for glyphosate and appears also to be lacking solid science and being out of touch with reality.

Please note, this letter may be shared with the public, to encourage residents to start asking more  questions on deteriorating food safety and resultant rise in ill health and destruction of biodiversity in Canada.

Thanking you

Tony Mitra
(address, phone number, email and signature)