USDA Press Release

July 28, 2008

The U.S. Department of Agriculture today issued an interim final rule for the mandatory country of origin labeling (COOL) program that will become effective on Sept. 30. It will be formally published in the Federal Register on August 1 – but the PDF document can be viewed online at the Federal Register at the following page:

(There is lots of wiggle room within this 233 page document)

http://federalregister.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2008-17562_PI.pdf

Source: www.usda.gov

The current Administration has emphasized that states play a key role in homeland security and provide the first line of defense in protecting critical infrastructure, health, and safety which is known in the Legislature as the much used and abused Emergency Clause. Government maintains that, “protecting the nation’s food and agriculture industry demands the coordinated effort of public, private and university partners in the same way that all of these stakeholders have cooperated for decades on issues of food safety, animal health and plant protection.” These are the very same Public-Private Partnerships that have been used extensively throughout history amalgamating industry with government to form corporatism government. “In the area of food safety, for example, the statistics are surprising: while this is the shared responsibility of all partners, an estimated 80% of all food safety inspections are conducted by state and local agencies.” It is common sense, those engaging in agriculture, those who know what is quality and safe, inspect the fruit of their labors. With an 80% inspection rate government is profiteering off the backs of farmers and consumers providing a dismal public food safety record, as can be seen by the recent tomato debacle.

An Inventory and Assessment

The National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is one tool that government that applies a fuzzy math algorithm to incrementally sway the public to adopt regionalization and then to accept global domination of the food supply.

In Phase I of NAIS, Premises Identification, people get used to the idea of yet another number allocated to their private property. Later that number gets transferred for another purpose. Phase II of the NAIS is the electronic identification of livestock. For most people the image of livestock brings to mind rural landscapes spotted with animals, far from their real world, therefore electronic identification is acceptable to urban populations. Application of the, “It doesn’t affect me,” principle chips away at yet another American freedom. In Phase III of NAIS, tracking & surveillance of animal life from birth to death, manufactured fear of agro-terrorism or food contamination is induced. With these simple three phases of NAIS our state and country sovereignty is erased while regionalization and commerce restriction is embraced.

This is an older document which provides the historical background of the Yukon to Yellowstone (Y2Y) Initiative just one of the many incestuous groups or organizations, affiliations, and individuals who are promoting regionalization of the West resulting in creation of other tools such as NAIS for further global control.

Regionalization of the West

Who are the collaborating drivers forging global government? Is your state among the following the pack of globalist lemmings? Embedded within this document and its links one will find the big picture with unending rabbit trails.

Participating Collaborators in Western Regionalization

The upcoming legislative season will see a new push for the Y2Y (Yukon to Yellowstone) project and other regionalization programs such as NAIS that chip away at your right to property ownership and the transference of large parcels of land to global governance.

10 Minute Citizen: Look up environmental legislation in your state and contact your Representatives and Senators, federal and state, and say NO to globalization (NAIS and Y2Y).

Can the ‘imminent’ pandemic be far off when lawyers begin their pandemic pandemonium preparation?

96 pages-Legal Pandemic Checklist

On May 2, 2008, Health Lawyers, with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) convened a public interest dialogue session to discuss the role of the health-care sector in community pan-flu preparedness.

The healthcare attorneys are preparing for the next pandemic and believe that the coming pandemic will not be adequately and easily handled despite our modern healthcare system.

Emergency planning is being accepted by attorneys as a prerequisite for effective disaster preparation and unless these elements are considered, evaluated, and addressed in advance, response to public emergencies such as pandemic influenza will be severely handicapped.

Just what facets of the pandemic are healthcare attorneys addressing?

• Train parents in the community regarding issues related to consent to treatment for their children in the event of an influenza pandemic or other mass-casualty situations.

• § 264(b), adding “influenza caused by novel or reemergent influenza viruses that are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic” to the list of communicable diseases for which the CDC is authorized to detain individuals).

• Establishing a “crisis standard of care” for emergencies such as pandemics where health-care demands exceed available resources.

This is your euthanasia or culling triage.

• Health-care organizations need to know what possible sources of immunity are available, understand the scope of provider liability statutes within their states.

• An influenza pandemic may require the health-care organization to rapidly expand its facility or take over other nearby buildings, called “surge facilities,” in order to meet a high volume of infected patients.

• Security concerns including the ability to secure medications, controlled substances and limited resources?

• The systems are in place to determine chronic co-morbid conditions and concomitant medication use when patients are seen by medical practitioners and establishments.

Your preexisting conditions and medications are subjected to a complex algorithm to determine if you will have access to medical treatment and resources during a pandemic- INSTITUTE FOR ALGORITHMIC MEDICINE Comorbidity Index and Score of Charlson.

• State or local laws authorize governmental or emergency response officials to require non-health-care providers to assist during an influenza pandemic, including authority to commandeer equipment and other assets.

Such as the USPS dispensing medications and other services during a pandemic under CDC Cities of Readiness

• Applicable state or local public health authority authorized to order compulsory examination, treatment, or vaccination during a disaster, a state of emergency, or a public health emergency.

• Ordering of these examinations, treatments, or vaccinations to take place at the organization’s facility, will the government agency ordering these activities pay the costs of the procedures or provide the materials and supplies necessary to conduct these activities?

• In an effort to target key actors in pandemic response and planning, the checklist is divided by specific actors: healthcare facilities, healthcare providers, patients, and state and federal government agents.

For an in-depth discussion of the federal and state laws and regulations affecting workforce management issues, see American Health Lawyers Association, Teleconference Series, Planning for Pandemonium: Pandemic Flu and Other Disasters, at Part III (Jan. 23, 2006).

• Healthcare provider outsourcing to a third party or “partnering” with other similar employers outside of its region in the event that the effect of the pandemic is geographically limited and staffing support is required.

Outsourcing…might this be an international ‘partner’?

• Issues related to the licensing, credentialing, and insuring of staff.

• The potential liability to the organization created by accepting unlicensed out-of-state healthcare professionals in response to an influenza pandemic?

• Consideration that the Secretary of DHHS may need to waive federal healthcare program physician licensure requirements

• Problematic consideration: long term care facilities, which generally do not have the resources or training to care for acutely ill individuals.

• Will the facility be able to obtain sufficient quantities of respiratory support equipment to care for residents with acute respiratory distress secondary to pandemic influenza (e.g., ventilators)?

Quietly, away from public scrutiny, an insidious philosophical proposal has been introduced and is being deployed known as the One Health Initiative. One Health is a strategy which attempts to address contemporary health issues that is supposedly created by the convergence of human, animal, and environmental domains. The basic premise of One Health is that the planet’s resources are limited. Therefore animal and human must vie for these restricted resources. In actuality, One Health promotes euthanasia, futile care, and mass culling of populations. One Health supports the idea of sustainable life, a system that mandates a life unit must be a productive and viable unit to warrant its existence and the resources that particular life unit consumes.

Winter 2008 Hopkins-CEPAR

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plans to use 14 weather satellites to keep tabs on the Earth’s changing environment—so scientists can get a head start on tackling possible pandemics.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Defense will receive a daily stream of data that experts can use to predict and track infection outbreaks caused by such deadly viruses as Ebola and West Nile.

NASA’s Applied Science Program revealed its satellite project at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in Philadelphia this November.

Climate, rainfall and vegetation play a critical role in whether infectious diseases—and the vectors that spread them— can thrive. NASA already has a project to monitor outbreaks of malaria, which sickens 300 million to 500 million people and kills between 1 million and 3 million around the world each year.

The Armed Forces Research Institute of Medial Sciences in Thailand and the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit in Indonesia combine NASA’s satellite reports on their regions to monitor the environmental conditions that affect malaria transmission in Southeast Asia, as well as other tropical and subtropical areas.

NASA’s eye in the sky malaria surveillance gives public health organizations additional time to respond to outbreaks and helps focus the use of pesticides to control the spread of drug resistant strains of the disease.

The remote sensing technology in NASA’s satellites also supplies data about possible plague vectors, such as insects or rodents, in areas around the world and in Western U.S. states such as Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah that are susceptible to outbreaks of plague and Hantavirus, a potentially deadly disease spread by rodents. With satellite provided information on the rainfall, vegetation and topography of these areas, scientists can forecast the food supply of disease transmitting vectors within the region and their potential for threatening humans.

Since plague also is seen as a potential bioterror weapon, the NASA surveillance program helps scientists determine if an outbreak is the result of natural causes or bioterrorists.

Highlights from the recent GAO Report on Food Safety

• Imported food makes up a growing share of the food supply.

• Consumers are increasingly eating foods that are raw or have had minimal processing and that are often associated with foodborne illness.

• Changing demographic patterns mean that more of the U.S. population is, and increasingly will be, susceptible to foodborne illness.

The traditional food and agriculture industry in the United States key to the economic, social and political fabric of our country. Farming and ranching are the foundations of our $1 trillion food and fiber business. This vast industry generates almost 15 percent of the total economic activity in the nation, as well as providing almost 18 percent of the country’s jobs.

Shortly after the September 11, 2001 our country designated agriculture as critical infrastructure and highlighted food safety issues in light of terrorism, in the agricultural community known as agro-terrorism. Before modified and weaponized plant and animal pests arrived on the scene farmers dealt with unsavory pests as they occurred. Historical methods of eradication were effective with few exceptions. Most in agriculture prefer a limited regulatory system as it is the farmer who knows his animals and crops best to distinguish if indeed there is an accidental or intentional pest or contaminant in the food supply. Unfortunately, our representative government has raised concern on the prospect of an intentional, or terrorist, attack on our food and agriculture and has partnered with the media and industry to industry alarm consumers. Now that the genie is out of the bottle farmers and policy-makers have to consume time, effort and money to deal with a threat that is contrived. The result is higher food prices and reduced availability.

On July 17th it was announced that there is a new animal welfare scheme that takes the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) to a new level. Phase III of NAIS is tracking and surveillance. According to global agriculture controllers animal welfare is one of the things that would be monitored and tracked. How long has your horse been in the pasture? Have you massaged your pet today? Are your animal’s vaccinations compliant? How many flies landed on your cow today? The guidelines can go on forever and be a living document that is reworked at the whim of those in power.

The Animal Welfare Approved program will provide financial incentive through a grant program for up to $10,000 to farmers who will comply with the farm welfare mandate dictated by global standards and apply those standards to their farms. The announcement was made by the President of the Animal Welfare Institute Cathy Liss and Director of the Animal Welfare Approved program Andrew Gunther. There are 600 farms currently enrolled in the program which promotes animal well-being, sustainability, and humane family farms according to global definition. Only those farmers who participate in the program and feather their next with the devalued greenback’s will be classified as conscientious farmers, participants in good husbandry, only if you choose to exclusively raise your animals with their standard of compassion. The Animal Welfare Approved, whose accreditation was recently endorsed by the World Society for the Protection of Animals as having the most stringent animal welfare standards, is attempting to set the standard on how farm animals should be taken care of. One of the headlines of this website is ‘Shopping for Animal Welfare’ and as you can guess it is sponsored by the UN.

Expansion of Governance and Food Control through NAIS

The National Animal Identification System (NAIS) has followed other global programs in the march to expansion of government and manipulation of the population into a fear mode which results in the acceptance of draconian security regulations. This expansion and manipulation follows a well exercised and refined military model which we have been examining and is currently being implemented by military and quasi-military forces around the world.