From Peter Borst:

> Following reports of serious poisoning of honeybees by pesticides across
Europe in 1978 and 1979, agricultural scientists in the Netherlands
supported by colleagues in France, Germany, Switzerland and England set up
the ICP-BR Bee Protection Group

ICP-BR Protection Group. What's in a name, Peter?
This message is circulating today on the list of Bee Life (http://bee
life.eu/en/who/) :
Please understand that beekeepers here have doubts about the objectives of
the chemical companies.
Kind regards,

Ghislain De Roeck,
Belgium.

:

Dear all ... Please take a look at this excellent documentary from
Holland, [1]  'The Murder of the Honeybee' which was made by Dutch TV
company ZEMBLA in 2010.

It is a far, far more incisive and hard-hitting investigation than anything
produced to date in the UK or America ; it reveals how the research company
of Dr Blaquiere (Plant Research International) loosely linked to Wageningen
University, has been used by Bayer and the Dutch Government - to justify the
use of Imidacloprid in Holland, in the face of a mass of peer-reviewed
science from all over the world - which proves the link between
neonicotinoids and mass-bee-deaths.

It is wonderful to watch Blacquiere wriggle on the hook when the interviewer
asks him about his financial relationship with Bayer - which he tried to
evade by laying a big smokescreen, which ZEMBLA blows away via a company
search that reveals how his company has been bought and paid for by Bayer.

The programme reveals the seamless integration between Bayer, the Dutch
government and their tame scientific 'front' agency at Wageningen.  Bayer
has even 'taken over' the Dutch Beekeepers Association - in exactly the same
way it has co-opted and bribed the British Beekeepers Association.

Arguably the same strategy to co-opt government and the universities is
being used by Bayer and Syngenta here in the UK and in North America ; a
Machiavellian combination of bribes and pressure in the form of massive
research grants, coupled with legal threats against any academic who dares
publish any unfortunate facts. (Cf. JS Pettis, C Mullin... )

Someone has loaded it onto Youtube at these three links below - please take
time to watch them -especially the second and third parts 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYv7eyl0JD8
The translation/ sub titles of the first clip  ENDS after 9 minutes - I
suggest you watch it until 9 minutes then switch to the other two parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnWratE1ehk&feature=relmfu
The second part of the programme DOES have full subtitles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt855e_Gs6c&feature=relmfu
The third part also seems to have full subtitles

 [1] PS It's a small world ! Plant Research International (Cf.
http://www.pri.wur.nl/NL/) is loosely linked to Wageningen University NL.
This campus is the home of Pieter A Oomen (PPS, NL) former chairman of the
'intergovernmental group' INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR PLANT-BEE
RELATIONSHIPS BEE PROTECTION GROUP  ...  Alongside Helen M Thompson of FERA
UK who was formerly secretary of the ICB-PR
(cf. http://www.jki.bund.de/fileadmin/dam_uploads/_veroeff/JKI_Archiv/JKI_Ar
chiv_423.pdf). Seeming to share DEFRA's dedication to fauna protection (!)
the 11th international symposium of the ICB-PR in 2011was in Wageningen
NL (Cf. https://secure.fera.defra.gov.uk/beebase/index.cfm?pageid=322).  NB
Bayer, Syngenta and their associates are busily savaging the latest
scientific report from Harvard.

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