Wow, every week I think they can’t outdo the photos of the previous week….and yet, they still manage to do just that.
They capture winter’s beauty so well. I love the whale photo…it must be great fun to shoot up out of the water like that. 🙂
I have my own eye candy this morning:
Sunrise.
Warrior Publications has a blog up on the ruling that it’s okay to allow a repeat offender access to its victims…
Part of the problem with the conditions set is that even though Enbridge must carry $950 million in insurance…one cannot replace what is lost with…money. You can’t eat money. You can’t breathe money. You can’t drink money. It won’t make a bit of difference if you have billions upon billions of dollars if you are made ill by breathing particulate, eating food grown in polluted soil, or trying to cleanse your kidneys and liver with petrochemically poisoned water.
Michael Twitty has done it again with this blog on African Soul Fried Rice. Sounds delicious.
I like the fermented aspect of the food. I wondered if he means the bean from the locust tree…so I went looking and found this.
It’s considered medicinal, too….gotta wonder how much wisdom has been lost about our ancient remedies. Thanks, modern medicine, for a bang up job of ignoring past wisdom. /snarky, for sure.
The locust beans are seen as a nuisance here…as is the dandelion. We’ll discover, when it’s too late, that the things we thought were nuisances were healing plants to cure cancer, diabetes, etc.
Michael Twitty also has a blog up on some badass rice growers. Yes, badass rice growers. I *love* that they are bucking the system, the status quo of Big Ag and getting the cold shoulder for it. They are raising rice crops in unconventional ways that thwart the Ag profiteers who want to sell chemicals and bioengineered rice. Heh.
On top of that, the way that they are raising it lowers the arsenic level in rice–very important to lower our exposure to heavy metals.
From the Washington Post article:
Thomet has unwittingly aligned himself with a small group of experimental U.S. farmers and hobbyists, probably no more than 50, who are breaking with a tradition that dates to colonial America. They’re rejecting paddy rice in favor of an increasingly accepted agricultural system that promises to increase crop yields while decreasing water use, chemical dependency and even the amount of arsenic in our grains.
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See, it bothers the status quo when you don’t play along with the technology-is-king mentality. Using one’s brain is not allowed. :p
A self-fulfilling prophecy by AT&T.
This article must have been written by AT&T….or perhaps it’s *cough* nooz placed by their PR dept.
AT&T has failed to maintain the land lines in a way that we were accustomed to before the push for cell phones.
This article barely touches on the problems rural folks would face if land lines are phased out. The service where I’m at is spotty at best. It is in no way as reliable as land lines are. I’ve wondered how many calls I’ve missed. What if an employer tried to call for an interview and kept getting “service not available”?
The elephant in the room that the article fails to mention is the devastating effects of Electro-Magnetic Fields (EMF) on people. As I’ve stated before, mercury poisoned folk are especially sensitive to them. When I was really sick, I could not talk on a cell phone for any length of time without getting a migraine the next day. I can now talk on them for longer periods, but knowing how it impacts me, why would I want to risk that exposure?
Mercola has an article on it here.
Links from the references —
Effects of EMF on rat brains
Cell phone effects on the young.
Europeans take stance on EMF technology.
The truth about wireless technologies.
Cell phones affect neuological and behavioral aspects of mice.
**edited to correct glaring spelling error. Stupid dyslexia.
Wisconsin, bless their little hearts, have drafted a resolution that they are a “TPP-free” zone. The negotiations have been shielded from public scrutiny but the article states that bits have leaked out and…it’s scary as hell–a Monsanto lobbyist is leading the negotiations.
From the article:
Countries, including those in the European Union, could also find it increasingly difficult to ban, or even require the labeling of, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) if biotech companies determine that those countries’ strict policies restrict fair trade and infringe on the companies’ “rights” to profit.
To top it off, corporations would be allowed to resolve trade disputes in special international tribunals, effectively wiping out hundreds of domestic and international food sovereignty laws. Products labeled fair trade, organic, country-of-origin, animal-welfare approved, or GMO-free, could all be challenged as “barriers to trade.”
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It’s an attack on local autonomy….the right to decide what is best for your community.Good Grief, these corporations can.not.get.enough.profits. Greed, greed, greed.
….but there’s one little issue–getting four other states to also require GMO labeling. Nice way to get the GMO labeling crowd off your back while appearing to actually do something.
Really beautiful winter scenes in this week’s batch of photos. Number 11 is really striking….nature never very far…but waiting in the wings…
organic consumers has this up on the latest nonsensical bioengineered frankenfood product…
…because it makes soooo much sense to bioengineer an apple not to turn brown…
Anybody else have deja vu about Alar??
From the story:
But in 2005, the last year results were available, the U.S. Department of Agriculture found pesticide residues on 98 percent of the apples it tested. All the residue was at levels within federal guidelines.
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Yum.
The problem with reports like this is that they try to say the Alar scare was over the top and scaring people needlessly….when they should be scaring people because we’re living in a toxic soup. This has to be part of the reason people are so apathetic towards chemicals being used in their homes, their workplaces, their food, their water, their soil, and their air….
<sigh>
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