BREAKING: Author Of Mandatory Meningitis Vaccine Bill Caught Taking $420k From Big Pharma

State Senator Kemp Hannon, the author of the recently passed law that will require all seventh and twelfth graders in the state to get meningitis shots, has been caught taking large bribes from pharmaceutical and health companies. 

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By HelenSco / Vaxxter

State Senator Kemp Hannon, Chair of the New York Senate Health Committee, and author of the recently passed law that will require all seventh and twelfth graders in the state to get meningitis shots, has been caught with his hand in the pot, according to the New York Daily News: specifically, the pharma pot. And to no small sum, mind you. His investments in pharmaceutical and health companies is at $100,000 while it is also being alleged that he has received more than $400,000 from the same interest groups. Hannon’s investments are a direct conflict of interest and he should be charged criminally. This is an act of using your position to influence and write laws for the sole result of personal gain.

Sen. Kemp Hannon (R-Nassau County) in 2014 invested in 14 companies that would fall under his committee’s purview.

By comparison, Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried (D-Manhattan) did not report owning any stock in health-related companies. In addition to his investments, Hannon over the past four years also received more than $420,000 from pharmaceutical and other medical interests, records show.

Hannon’s office had no comment. On the part of his 2014 state financial disclosure form dealing with investments, he wrote that sales and purchases were “at sole discretion of the broker.”

If you are representing the interest of the people (which you are if your job title is “Senator), then you have no excuse for this activity. You can’t blame a broker, you know your investments. And even if the broker was given full reign over your financial activity, how could you not explain which investment interest would be direct conflicts with your interest in “helping the people?” This is an excuse and it doesn’t hold water. These investments prove he has a personal interest in passing these laws and that can’t be right. Of course, the caveat is that it is likely technically legal (that’s the crony aspect of politics at work for you).

Back in March, Hannon also secured $65,000 for a hospital with ties to his private firm, again according to the New York Daily News.

Sen. Kemp Hannon (R-Nassau County) sponsored a $30,000 state grant in 2007-08 to Winthrop University Hospital on Long Island, according to state records posted online. The money was to help the hospital continue with outreach programs, according to the records.

In 2008-09, Hannon sponsored another $35,000 grant to the hospital that was for “community health,” records show.

Two other grants, totaling $20,000, went to an organization that was working with Winthrop pediatric residents.

In addition to being a senator since 1989, Hannon since the mid 1980s has been a “special counsel” with the Long Island-based Farrell Fritz PC .

The firm has represented Winthrop University Hospital in cases dating back to 1993, and had cases at the time Hannon secured the two grants.

In addition, the firm’s managing partner, Charles Strain. has served as the unpaid chairman the hospital’s board of directors.

Hannon rules the health care industry in New York with a greedy iron fist, without fear of any consequences or repercussions. This is a complete failure of the system, but of course, not completely uncommon.

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Guess Which University Just Received $1 Million from Monsanto...

by Christina Sarich via Natural Society

Monsanto likes to say that those of us against GMOs don’t use ‘real’ science to support claims that genetically modified crops are unsafe, but what about dirty money that infiltrates universities which supposedly do ‘good’ science on GM crops, soil, and the chemicals which are used to grow them?

A recent New York Times article exposed some of Monsanto’s infiltration into the world of ‘science,’ but a deeper inquiry into the emails coming forward through this article and from U.S. Right to Know public disclosure efforts shows a broader and more troubling picture of influence the agricultural sciences are under.

At just a tip of the glyphosate iceberg there is a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois, Bruce Chassy, who in an August 29, 2011 email to Eric Sachs of Monsanto. He reportedly suggests that the Ag industry trade group CropLife, of which Monsanto and other biotech companies are members, pay his way to do a speaking engagement on the other side of the world.

In a separate email, Monsanto’s Sachs also suggests to Chassy that he participate in an American Medical Association meeting to try to dissuade the AMA from supporting mandatory labeling of GE foods. This is just one of the intriguing relationships between scientists and Biotech that are coming to light.

Then there’s Agrochemical company Dow’s reminder to David Shaw, a Mississippi State University weed scientist, that the company has been very generous to the University. Shaw was urged to submit comments to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to approve Dow’s Enlist soybeans, and provides three pages of helpful suggestions about topics and arguments.

The Enlist crops are resistant to glyphosate and 2,4-D herbicides, and are the industry’s response to the epidemic of glyphosate-resistant weeds caused by the first generation of glyphosate-resistant crops. Shaw even drafted his comments and submitted them back to Dow before sending them forward. Where is the scientific integrity in that?

There are also some emails sent to Professor Mike Owen, a weed scientist at Iowa State from Monsanto, explaining how Owen can counter public concerns over dicamba, another toxic chemical being used to grow GM crops.

There are others to professors at Mississippi State, and who know how many other emails will surface showing that the biotech industry is intent on infiltrating the ‘science’ behind GMO support at any cost.

While this is not bullet-proof evidence of collusion between the industry and academics, it is part of a bigger pattern of exclusion and intimidation that has been linked to biotech industry influence.

There have been numerous “generous” donations from Monsanto to universities, such US$1 million from Monsanto to Iowa State University for the “Monsanto Student Services Wing,” in 2012, Monsanto Student Travel awards, or US$1 million for a community center at the University of Missouri in 2012, among many examples of industry funding of academia.

Does any real proof of the dangers of GMOs get past a wall of scientific and biotech collusion like this one?

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Christina Sarich is a humanitarian and freelance writer helping you to Wake up Your Sleepy Little Head, and See the Big Picture. Her blog is Yoga for the New World. Her latest book is Pharma Sutra: Healing the Body And Mind Through the Art of Yoga.