Daniel Ellsberg was on CNN last night, commenting on the NSA and Edward Snowden. He asked the question…”Can you charge someone with a crime whom has exposed a crime? What Snowden did was expose a violation of the Constitution. ” (paraphrasing).
“They illegally wiretapped suspected terrorists…but I didn’t say anything because I wasn’t a terrorist….
Now they’re illegally wiretapping me and there’s no one brave enough to speak up….”
From this poem.
Diane Ravitch has a link up to this blog by a teacher fighting for public education. Being hit from all sides, for sure. We’re dealing with a sophisticated network that has $$$ behind it. It’s hard to fight against that, but as Seamus says, I want to be able to look at my children and grandchildren and tell them I fought for public education with all that I had.
(**edited to add tryptophan link.)
organic consumers has a post up on pressuring ten senators who voted against the Sanders’ amendment to allow states the right to label GMO food.
All we’re asking for is the right to know what is in our food! We’re not asking them to ban GMO’s…although that’s certainly a dream of ours…we’re just asking for the right to refuse to eat food that is bad for us.
This is especially an issue for Celiacs, who can be seriously affected by genetically modified food that we cannot digest properly, and will only add to the leaky gut syndrome, possibly causing an emergency situation caused by gut inflammation.
A debate (sort of) here. The increase in gut inflammation since the 30s can easily be attributed to our increased use of wheat flour and undiagnosed Celiac / gluten intolerance. I personally think it has been there, but now is becoming worse because of the GMO’s. It just makes sense to me.
Here’s a trailer to the video by Dr. Smith : Genetic Roulette. Glad to see Dr. Huber of Purdue University featured. He has spoken out about the changes to the bee population. I’m also glad to see other M.D.’s on board with this.
And then there’s this. Holy crap, it’s worse than I thought…! So, even if you stop eating GMO foods, you’re still subjected to this monster via your gut flora. Holy crap.
The above page had a link to the Japan tryptophan disaster, but the link was dead. I found it here.
It’s interesting that tryptohpan, which is a natural amino acid, was banned in supplement form…but it’s quite all right for GMO’s to go without scrutiny or restraint. Many in the natural supplements industry felt that tryptophan was targeted because it was a natural supplement, that competed with Big Pharma. This just adds more credibility to that claim. If you’re Big Pharma or Monsanto, you can get away with it.
Here’s another page on GMO which mentions the Showa Denko incident.
We’re having a discussion on mercury and allergies…and how some folks can be allergic TO mercury, which I believe I am, given the inflammation that I have had–it’s more than the average bear. I decided to look it up and found this page by MELISA medical foundation. I thought I’d pass it along.
Well, if you can’t remember, the NSA might be able to help fill in the memory gap. (hat tip to fatster at FDL.)
This quote from the comments brought a smile to my face in an otherwise somber article:
I’m going to start calling random doctors and other businesses that have nothing to do with me. A little dis-information goes a long way.~~~~~~~~~~
I don’t know everybody is surprised by this–anyone with half a brain could see the continuing violation of Fourth Amendment right to privacy. All in the name of safety. Um-hmmm….there’s no ulterior Nixon-like motive to gain an edge over someone by snooping into their private lives…./snark. I’ve been saying all along that this whole thing smelled of Watergate–only on steroids. Nixon sought the information so he could win at all costs. Fortunately, we had Senator Frank Church to stand up for what was right. Where’s our Church now? Oh, right, drummed out of office by what is now the Tea Party.
Children are so open and innocent…they speak what’s on their minds, as these kids did recently. Heh.
A humble man, for sure. At least, I hope he’s humble and this isn’t an “act”.
There is so much to be said about not revering money and purposely shunning the glitz. (Although I would have a hard time passing up a retreat in what sounds like a beautiful place…I would think that nature around him would help him to stay grounded, and lift his spirits as well. By lifting his spirits, I mean communicating with God–feeling more spiritual there amongst the natural world–therefore more able to connect with God without distractions.)
commondreams has this up. Be sure to look at all the videos–well worth the time.
The idea is so simple it’s like “duh!”
I have a quibble, though, with Klein saying that it’s up to the Left to “seize the moment”. There are those who are NOT in the Tea Party on the Right who also need and want to find a solution to the crashes around us. I say this because the Left has not been of the same mind — I was shot down on a progressive website when I advocated buying American so we could put people back to work. I knew that Washington wasn’t going to get off its collective duff and do anything about the job loss. (NAFTA being a good example of monumental job loss.)
I just don’t think people have been given the skills or knowledge to feel confident enough to take over a business if the owners want to sell out. I think it may be a case of learned helplessness? Not believing in yourself can be such a huge obstacle that one stops before even getting started.
Perhaps the “teach-ins” of 2013 should be “Business 101: how to own a business without going belly-up nor bankrupting the environment on your way to the bank…”
The Native Americans learned this a loooong time ago–nature was not a second thought. They did not separate their actions from nature.
It’s still so incredibly stupid that business has ignored the laws of nature, as if we could exist without clean water, clean air and chemical free food…
Well…exist is probably a bad word choice…since we are existing right now…perhaps thriving is the better word. All one has to do is look at folks’ skin and see that we are not thriving, but existing. The skin is such a barometer of what’s going on in the insides…not doing too well by that account.
Anyway, Washington isn’t going to help us…most likely profiting off of NAFTA…so, it’s up to us if we want to save ourselves.
I normally don’t click on the videos being promoted by the main page of youtube, but something told me to click on this one:
Freaking hilarious. This, my friends, is a pretty good example of why we need arts and music along with math and reading in schools–creativity expressed.
Diane Ravitch has this up on the firing of teacher Mike Weston. He spoke his mind about valid issues in education….and was fired for it.
And, of course, Gates Foundation’s dirty little fingers are in the pie, as well….
Weston spoke out against the Gates’ teacher evaluation test, ironically named Empowering Effective Teachers…gah, how he must have laughed himself silly when thinking up that name….for it is about disabling them, instead…
Note that Weston was questioning the curriculum for those not on the college-bound track. I took the non-college path in high school because I never thought I would be able to attend, and I can say that there is such a chasm there between them. I don’t think dumbing down the kids by not challenging them is the way to go. How are they ever going to know their potential?
More about Mike Weston here.
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