Category Archives: environment

Tell the USDA No GMO apples

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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>

Staley, Farmer’s Advocate

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I found this while looking up farmers for the previous blog.  I thought it was a great historical piece.  He died in 1988….seems like yesterday, but now 25 years past.

Now the only ones with power are Big Ag factory farms.  Why is it that we have no enforcement of antitrust laws??  Can someone tell me?

U.S. wetlands in danger

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80,000 acres have been lost. 

“While they comprise less than 10 percent of the nation’s land area, they support 75 percent of our migratory birds, nearly 80 percent of fish and shellfish, and almost half of our threatened and endangered species. We can’t sustain native wildlife for future generations without protecting and restoring the coastal wetlands that support them,” said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe.

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A commenter from Florida says 60% of their wetlands have been lost.

A depressing aspect is that some would like to attach a monetary value to the wetlands.  In my view, there isn’t any way to adequately do such a thing.  It’s priceless.  When it’s gone, we are too.  And when I say “we”  I mean every living thing–the fish, the birds, the no-see-ums…all those things that are connected.

And this article doesn’t even take into account the pollution of plastic, mercury, and other toxins to the remaining wetlands.

…our “kidneys” are failing because of our neglect and lack of proactive life changes.  It’s so haaard to make adjustments. /snarky and whiny, for sure.

 

Shrimp season canceled

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According to this report, the shrimp season has been canceled due to warmer than normal waters.    And then I wonder how many other fish have been affected…especially those that eat shrimp in their diet.

The comments were sobering, of course:

Its like watching a disaster movie in super slow motion.

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Yep.

More on Chemtrails, aka geoengineering

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There has been a solid mass of clouds in the mornings for the past week.  The only time we used to see this is when it was going to rain or snow–otherwise, we saw clouds separately floating by.  (and they had shapes like turtles and dragons and such :p)

I saw them spraying in the late afternoon, just before it got dark one day this week.  I’m sure they’re spraying at night to make a solid cloud cover.

Also,  when asking the previous question of who is profiting off of this, who has the power to do this, and who pretends to give a rip about people’s health….but the destruction left behind is evidence of the contrary….well, this might shed some light on that.  A lot of money involved with two scientists being judge and jury and eliminating public input—broad public input.  Note the same ones sponsoring tar sands are also sponsoring this–now what is that line you’re feeding me about geoengineering helping global warming??  People who advocate the tar sands are not interested in the environment.  Bitumen is hazardous to the environment, to humans, to animals.

“The stakes are very high and scientists are not the best people to deal with the social, ethical or political issues that geoengineering raises,” said Doug Parr, chief scientist at Greenpeace. “The idea that a self-selected group should have so much influence is bizarre.”

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Word.

The hubris of scientists is amazing.  They actually think they are superior to nature….when nature has repeatedly made fools out of scientists. And as pointed out–who are they to decide if this is the right thing to do?  Arrogant and smug about how Keith is so smart he has it all figured out…including the disasters that await from geoengineering.  Not.

They are making me ill.  They are making others ill.  They have freaking heavy metals in them—which any scientist would know that spraying neurotoxins over people will eventually build up in their bodies and make them ill.  It is no coincidence when I jog with clear blue skies, I feel good afterward.  And if I jog when chemtrails have been sprayed, I feel tired and as the other day illustrates, resulting in a migraine with pale and swollen face.

Let’s take a quick look at some of the things science has brought us:  the application of chemicals for agriculture…and the illnesses that followed.  DDT nearly drove the Eagle to extinction.  Agent Orange not only defoliated Vietnam, but cause multiple birth defects for not only the Vietnamese, but the U.S. veterans, as well.    And let’s not forget the horrible experiment of DES on women.    A good video on it here.

And here’s a summary of scientists behaving badly.  It’s ironic that it mentions Stephen Colbert.    I saw on a promo ad tonight that Colbert is supposed to host David Keith.  He said in a previous show that the guest “better not say anything bad” about Bill Gates because Bill Gates is a friend of Colbert’s.  So, is that how it is, Stephen?  You’re now actively promoting Bill Gates agenda and no one better say anything against megalomaniacal Gates?   Yeah, not too credible.  I gave Colbert waaaay more credit than that.

Oh…and the author better check up on the true nature of Orcas.  They’re not whales, for one thing.  And they only kill in captivity.

…and you want to frack this…?

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Only a heartless person would want to ruin this by fracking….

Reign of Error; Kochs, et al, planning assault on Ed.

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Patrick Walsh has a report up on Reign of Error, by Diane Ravitch.

Oh, and have you heard?  It’s open season on teachers.  The climate that No Child Left a Mind and Race to the Bottom have created—to punish students for not being perfect students and their teachers, who are under tremendous pressures to not have any stupid kids (said facetiously)–has now come to fruition.  I’m sure Bill Gates, Eli Broad, Michelle Rhee, et al, are laughing themselves silly.

Jan Ressenger put up a link to this report from the Guardian on just how far the Kochs and their comrades are willing to go….not only to destroy public education, but continue attacks on working folks and unions…

SPN’s president, Tracie Sharp, told the Guardian that “as a pro-freedom network of thinktanks, we focus on issues like workplace freedom, education reform, and individual choice in healthcare: backbone issues of a free people and a free society.”

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I wonder if she could get the word “free” in there any more…was she wrapped in a flag, too??  Because that would *definitely* mean that this program was patriotic and would strengthen democracy…

...by destroying it…

“it’s for your own good” has to be the biggest lie ever told!

Side note~ someone in the comments section linked to the Yes Men video. Enjoy. (Be sure to click on Part 2–with Surviva-balls.  Hilarious.)

Someone also kindly posted a link to a list of Kraft foods.  Again…where are the antitrust laws?  Why is one food manufacturer able to control so much of the market share?  Not that junk food, which is the majority of crap that Kraft makes, is something healthy..what if folks were able to afford healthy made-from-scratch food…?  We could do some serious damage to Kraft’s bottom line if we refused to buy their junk food and bought only fresh….and we’d be healthier, too.

Center for Media and Democracy has the scoop on SPN.  (As a side note~ I haven’t been getting regular emails of the CMD for a few months now–it’s been spotty at best…interesting.  I’ll have to make a note to keep checking their website for updates.)

True to nature, they hide their lobbying disguised to avoid paying taxes.  Good Grief, these people know how to play the game of getting someone else to pay while they reap the benefits.

The mention of the Goldwater Institute raises huge red flags–Hillary Clinton was a Goldwater Girl.  An excellent blog here on her history…er, her trying to re-write her history…and Bill’s.

The Clintons LOVE poor black people on welfare

• The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) that was dreamt up by past Republican administrations, was actually passed by Congress and signed by Clinton. This act was filled with vindictive measures aimed at the poor. Among other things, it set a five-year lifetime limit for cash assistance and gave the states power to adopt stringent restrictions in several other areas. Another key part of the Act, was the imposition for the first time of lifetime limits on welfare. Once a welfare mother uses up this lifetime limit, set at five years by the federal government, she and her children can never again receive federal cash benefits, no matter how desperate their condition and no matter what happens to the overall economy.
Bill Clinton has certainly laid his Mack game down heavy in the black community. Maybe that’s why the African-American community has been so thoroughly duped by lip service, prominent public appearances and appointments, and an office on Harlem’s 125th (although Clinton certainly hasn’t used it much).

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Ahem.   There are white people on food stamps, as well.  The Clintons, along with the Kochs, et al, don’t like POOR people.  Period.

We can’t talk about Bill Clinton’s love for his “black race” without mentioning Rwanda. You remember what happened in Rwanda? If you don’t, then I suggest you rent the movie “Hotel Rwanda” and be prepared to be thoroughly disgusted. Bill Clinton not only refused to intervene to save over one million people from being hacked to death, but he even declined to convene his Cabinet to discuss the crisis.

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I highly recommend Hotel Rwanda.  Just don’t watch it and Schindler’s List on the same weekend.  I actually had to call my son after watching them both one weekend….I needed to talk to a sane human being…

And let’s not forget this piece on the secretive group Hillary Clinton belongs to.  As I’ve said on many occasions…it never ceases to amaze me how people who call themselves Christian act nothing like Christ.  Who would Jesus bomb, Hillary?

I’ve read this piece before, but this sentence just packed a punch:

It emerged, he [Reverend Don Jones] says, as a third way, a reaction against both separatist fundamentalism and the New Deal’s labor-based liberalism.

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…a reaction against….the New Deal’s labor-based liberalism.  In other words:   unions….working folks….public education…social security…medicaid…..livable wages…(and the environment, too, but that would come later).

…and if you listen carefully to conservative media, you’ll hear subtle and outwardly snide attacks on Roosevelt’s New Deal.  Get it, now?

And this:

Niebuhr and Tillich’s combination of aggressiveness in foreign affairs and limited domestic ambition naturally led Clinton toward the gop. She was a Goldwater Girl who, under the tutelage of her high school history teacher Paul Carlson (whom Jones describes as “to the right of the John Birchers”), attended biweekly anticommunist meetings and later served as president of Wellesley’s Young Republicans chapter.

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…she attended biweekly anticommunist meetings.  Wellesley…if the movie “Mona Lisa Smile” is any indication, is a conservative’s utopia…so Young Republicans chapter there?  Pretty hard to swallow that this was a fluke -a flash in the pan….especially when one turns a critical eye to Hillary’s record.  I mean, if they call themselves Democrats, but act as Republicans…

“Mind conservative but a heart liberal” tells me that she is like so many guys who say they’re “socially liberal, but fiscally conservative”.  What this means is:  I’m selfish and self-absorbed.  And I don’t follow my heart.  I let my purse strings do the thinking for me.   In other words, I choose money over God.  (Jesus said that we could only serve one Master–money or God.  Not both.)

Okay, there is more to write, but I’m really tired from the day and need to call it quits.

 

Documentary on Chem trails

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Well, this is the most documented film on chemtrails that I’ve seen to date.  Lots of stuff to digest…if the nausea from sick feeling doesn’t get you first…

It’s the first segment of seven, so you’ll have to click on the rest at the site.  I recommend clicking on the youtube link to upload the others, as it seems there is a problem with the sound.

In video #3– the woman senator brings up the skyrocketing numbers of Alzheimers and the link to aluminum.  She mentioned the theory that people who drank a lot of soda pop from aluminum cans became ill with alzheimer’s.  She said her father had alzheimers and never drank soda pop.  My Mom didn’t either.   It was always a gripe of mine that my father was adamant against junk food and he never allowed pop in the house when we were growing up (but now I am thankful for his wisdom).

AND–this is a big AND–pop didn’t come in aluminum cans until later–it was manufactured with glass bottles in the 70s and I think early 80s.  If this theory is the case, then why are the pop manufacturers still allowed to use aluminum cans?? If it were true, why wouldn’t aluminum cans be banned?  For that matter, why is plastic still allowed to be used by food manufacturers when it is known that plastics disrupt the endocrine system and cause cancer?

You know, as I am listening to her talk, with the accumulation of aluminum in the brain cells over time, it pops into my head that it was the early 90s that Hughes Aircraft got the patent for spraying…it was about ten years ago–1993–when my Mom started to exhibit some symptoms of Alzheimers.  Like mercury, lead, and other heavy metals, it takes time for it to accumulate to a point that the person can no longer function.  It’s a gradual process of disabling someone….and animals, too.  The deer with neurological diseases popped into my head as I wrote that.

Given that gluten intolerance causes gut inflammation (leaky gut), that allows heavy metal poisoning….and deer love corn, which is GMO…well, it begs the question of whether the deer are suffering from gut inflammation….that nobody is testing for, naturally.  I did a quick search for animals and gut inflammation, and could find nothing.  I don’t know why this wouldn’t be an issue to explore–any animal with corn or soy as a primary diet food should be watched carefully–but we can’t have that–might dip into Monsanto’s profit margin to label their frankenfood as harmful to physical and neurological health.

Gut inflammation and heavy metal poisoning pretty much go hand in hand.  You’re likely to find one with the other.

The video mentions the spraying causing cancer—it is a known fact that mercury causes cancer.

One of the symptoms associated with aluminum toxicity is anemia.  I mentioned in my recent post that I was pale the morning after the skies being sprayed with 26+ chemtrails.  I was as white as a sheet.  I also had the swollen face with pain in my sinuses– a known reaction to aluminum (and mercury), too.  I was jogging the morning of, so I was taking in more air than normal.  This scares me with all the implications of it.  Farmers and anyone who works outside should be alarmed, as well….because the continued exposure will slowly build up.

I’m not sure of the accusations lobbed–there is a lot of money involved in spraying–that much is certain.  And it’s hard not to think about the money trail–who stands to benefit from this?  Who has the resources to pull this off?  Who doesn’t give a rip about the health effects nor have any qualms about killing people?  And if this is a harmless technology, then why deny it is happening?

This is hard to talk about.  It’s disturbing to say the least.  But I’ve seen changes in my health because of the spraying, and because I’m already suffering from mercury poisoning, I’m especially vulnerable to toxins from any source.  I have noticed in FW that there were sooo many people on oxygen, with difficulty breathing.  Most of them were only ten years older than me.  You just didn’t see so much illness as you see today.  I mean, it’s rare that a week goes by that I don’t hear about a young person getting cancer.  Young kids are getting heart attacks, for crying out loud.  You NEVER heard of that unless someone was very ill–it wasn’t a shock because they were in ill health.  Now they’re dropping dead playing sports.

Something is terribly, terribly wrong.

Other Posts:

Globs of gelatin dropping from the skies.

Hughes Aircraft patent granted for the technology.

Anti-fracking activists struck by vehicle

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(I really wanted to take some time off, but there is just too much stuff going on…)

Natives protesting fracking on their land have been run over.  I’m unclear about the first paragraph and whether the persons were run over by SWN vehicles.  In the posted tweets, note the upside down Canadian flag (on the mylar balloon)–I have to wonder if that were purposeful, as they have flown the U.S. flag upside down as a signal of distress.   And support is growing around the world, with Ireland expressing their solidarity with the Elsipogtog.  Bless the Irish 🙂

In this link,  the journalists have rallied around Miles Howe, the journalist arrested three times so far:

The Canadian Association of Journalists issued a press release Monday calling on “the RCMP to either lay charges or stop harassing a journalist working in New Brunswick arrested for the third time on Nov. 28,” referring to Media Co-op’s Miles Howe.

“RCMP behaviour suggests they are unfamiliar with the charter rights of a free press and the allowances those rights permit journalists while covering controversial and volatile situations,” CAJ president Hugo Rodrigues said.

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More here.

This just in:  RCMP arrests Santa.  For shame.

Caption:  “Well, that about sums it up.”  Yep….except the politician needs to be wearing a blazer with all the corporate logos that sponsor him/her on it…..and their pockets full of cash they bribe with…

On a hot summer day, nothing sounds better than a cool drink of water….

(sorry for the visual, but you get the point…contaminated water is unappealing to look at as harmful to the body.)

Ways to help the Elsipogtog.  You can click on the picture to enlarge. More here.

The Warriors send their greetings and Thanks.

Blessings to the defenders of the water and land…