PART 3

Hillary Clinton also has close ties with lobby firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Monsanto is one of its main customers. Her campaign treasurer, Joseph H. Villareal, is a consultant to the company and provides strategic advice to clients of the firm on a range of legal and policy issues affecting these clients. Prior to becoming a consultant to Akin Gump, Mr. Villarreal was a longtime associate with Akin Gump, according to the firm's website; [56] Others say that he works for the lobby sector of this firm, but is not registered as a lobbyist. [33]

When Hillary Clinton was still Secretary of State, she nominated this individual as US General Commissioner for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010. [37] Imagine an individual who works or provides advisory services to a lobbying firm representing the government at an international trade event. If she wins the election, she'll probably give him a cabinet job for him. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld recently said that their firm received more than $ 150,000 from Monsanto since the last quarter of 2015 for issues related to biotechnology regulation in India, among other things. [32]

The firm says it has lobbied for Monsanto in the US Senate, the US Congress, the State Department and the Commerce Department for matters related to India during the second quarter of 2016. On the last note on gains made by representing Monsanto in the second half By the firm, ended June 30, was $ 50,000.00. [32]

This lobby firm made $ 560,000.00 last year, representing four companies in the transgenic industry (BIO, $ 80,000, Dow, $ 190,000, Monsanto, $ 200,000, Syngenta, $ 90,000). [35] The pro-transgenic BIO group paid $ 8,000,000.00 in lobbying each year while the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) was being negotiated. They paid $ 80,000 annually to governments to secure patent protection clauses for transgenic plants and facilitate the entry of transgenics into the signatory countries' markets. [36] Akin Group receives an average of $ 200,000 a year from Monsanto several years ago, according to opensecrets.org. The third lobbyist group, which is most associated not only with Hillary Clinton but also Bill Clinton, is the Podesta Group. The Podesta Group was created by John Podesta and his brother, Anthony Podesta, known as Tony Podesta in 1988. This must be the most influential of all lobbying groups in Washington because John Podesta was chief of staff of the White House under President Bill Clinton, an official adviser to President Obama, and now president of Hillary Clinton's campaign. [46,49,50]

It appears in government documents in 2015 that the Podesta Group received $ 150,000 from Monsanto through Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP. Podesta Group charged $ 150,000 for the service (Second Quarter 2015, $ 60,000, Third Quarter, $ 90,000). [44,45] Monsanto's $ 150,000 amount given to the Podesta Group is also shown at opensecrets.org. [47] In addition, BIO, an organization funded by the transgenic industry, gave $ 90,000.00 so far in 2016 to the Podesta Group. [48]

A four lobbyist is Steve Eldmendorf. He owns Eldmendorf Ryan and received $ 60,000 from Monsanto last year through the Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. [57,58] Steve Eldmendorf also serves the Grocery Manufacturers Association against mandatory labeling of GM foods. [13] The Grocery Manufacturers Association is an association of food companies. Monsanto is a member of this organization.

It has to be emphasized that lobby firms that are actively trying to elect Hillary Clinton - Podesta Group, Crawford, Quilty & Mauro and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Ryan Eldmendorf - also help raise funds for her election campaign. [2,13,33]

5) The fame of Hillary's connection with Monsanto and the GM industry is so well known that she was dubbed the Bride of Frakensten in the run-up to the Democratic presidential election this year in Iowa. When Hillary's women voters heard of Hillary's connection to the GM industry in that state, the bulk decided to support Bernie Sanders, according to the Washington Times. [6]

6) As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton promoted 45 times the TPP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), according to CNN. TPP is a trade agreement involving twelve countries (Australia, Brunei, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and the United States.) Although this agreement covers more than 40% TPP is the first trade agreement to include special clauses on transgenics, TPP encourages the export of GMOs, threatens to make GMO labeling illegal, and TPP should ratify the 1991 International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, known as UOPV 91.

UPOV 91 gives seed companies broad rights to plant varieties and prohibits farmers and breeders from saving and exchanging protected seeds - common practices for farmers around the world. It also allows companies to patent varieties of traditional crops and imposes sanctions on farmers who breach seed license agreements. The TPP will force Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico and New Zealand to ratify UPOV 91. [53]

The biotechnology industry organization (BIO), which was funded by the transgenic industry, was an official adviser to the US government. BIO spent $ 8 million in lobbying every year that the TPP was being negotiated to ensure special rights and protection for the GM industry. [53] As the US Chief Negotiator for Agricultural Affairs of this agreement said at the BIO conference in 2016, "For the first time, we have specific language on biotech farming in the TPP." The U.S. Trade Representative said the United States is actively engaged with its trading partners to remove unwarranted trade barriers on GMOs. [53]

Another negative aspect of this agreement, as well as the TTIP (the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), an agreement similar to the TPP being negotiated between the US and the European Community, is that it has a legal clause called Investor - state Dispute Settlement or ISDS , Which leaves companies to sue sovereign governments, before ad hoc arbitration tribunals, for losses of profit resulting from public policies. [12] Representatives from both sides acknowledge that TTIP's primary objective is not to stimulate trade by removing customs duties between the EU and the US, as these rates are already minimal. The main purpose of TTIP, the authorities admit, is to remove regulatory "barriers" that restrict the potential profit margin of transnational corporations on both sides of the Atlantic. However, such "Barriers" actually represent some of our most valuable tools for protecting social standards and environmental regulations, such as labor rights, food safety rules (including restrictions on genetically modified organisms), regulations on the use of chemicals Toxic, digital privacy laws and even Bank guarantees introduced to avoid a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis. This mechanism for resolving disputes between investors and states effectively raises transnational capital to a level equivalent to that of a nation-state and threatens to undermine the most basic principles of democracy. [12] This "Investor-state Dispute Settlement" (ISDS) is unique in its implications, since it raises transnational capital to a legal level equivalent to that of a nation-state. According to the TTIP, therefore, American and European corporations would have the power to question decisions made by sovereign states, demanding indemnities whenever these decisions have Adverse effects on their profit margins.