I found this website that informs the public of the toxins in their area and who is doing the polluting. A good resource to see what’s happening in your area and the pollution around you that is likely responsible for health issues. (hat tip to Rodale website).
PR Watch has this up on Bayer and Syngenta’s trying to stop efforts to save the bees : HTTP://WWW.PRWATCH.ORG/NODE/12066
(for some reason, my “link” feature is not working on my blog. Also–I clicked on one of my links yesterday, and now they have ads–I have nothing to do with them, and I’m certainly not being compensated for them advertising with my blog. FYI.)
From the article:
The response of Bayer and Syngenta was to unleash a barrage of letters to the food safety agency and the European Commission, followed later by threatened lawsuits.
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This is the heart of the matter—Too Big To Fails can quash efforts against them or their interests just by simply litigating their way out of it., a la Monsanto. They don’t even have to win, but keep their opponents fighting in courts to bankrupt them. Empty what little they may have in their bank accounts, and voila! no more opposition….
More here from Purdue University confirming the neonicotinoids were causing bee deaths: http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?263169-Purdue-university-study-confirms-neonicotinoids-on-maize-killing-honeybees
Traveling across the state, I think I am safe to say I think our drought is over. There is standing water from East to West with many formerly dry creeks now flowing with water. Bless the rains. 🙂
After reading this, I wanted to come back and comment on the fact that she had dementia. Reagan did, too.
Does anyone else wonder at this? What about heavy metal poisoning for the cause? Could the meanness of the world be caused by toxicity? We know it’s a known fact of mercury poisoning that anger and rage come with it. The Mayo Clinic’s site on dementia–note that heavy metal poisoning is way down on the list. It mentions low thyroid, which is good, but depressingly doesn’t mention diet.
More here from someone who recovered from dementia after adopting a gluten-free diet.
Finally, here’s a report on the connection between criminal behavior and high levels of heavy metals. So much grief caused by toxins…and yet, it’s ignored by the medical profession, the corrections system, the public, etc….
Mark Fiore has a (not so) comical view on the pipelines that create *thousands* of jobs and don’t pollute our land…/snark
…so when they’ve polluted land too much land that wipes out good farm land and the wildlife/plants that help our orchestra of an eco system….will that be enough in profits, yet…?
The comments here are priceless on Margaret Thatcher’s passing. Gah, I used to think so well of this woman in my repub daze. Arrgh.
And even if I had the money, I would not have seen Meryl Streep’s version of her. I was afraid that the worst would not come out, and from the comments on the movie, my guess was accurate. Trying to make her into someone to admire? Wow, Streep has gone so far away from Silkwood.
The comments on feminists praising Thatcher as being a woman that “made it” is spot on. One doesn’t have to look any farther than Hillary Clinton to see that.
I mean, really, Clinton makes a big deal about being asked about her clothes, and there are feminists who applaud that thinking she’s being assertive. Pfft. Men are asked about the suits they wear. I wouldn’t know what an Armani suit was if not for that. And a man could not walk into a courtroom, to use the above example, in jeans and flannel shirt and expect to be given the same consideration from a judge that he would if he were wearing a suit. Men notice other men’s suits, but they’re not as obvious about it. It may come out as “hey, nice suit” and left at that.
Should a person be judged by appearance? Absolutely not.
In my personal observation, we are becoming worse about judging folks by the outside instead of the inside. Our cultural programming, from watching shows like Survivor, among other things, buys into the notion that others are superior. Some see clothes as an indicator of superiority. I remember that it wasn’t so much so before we moved away from an agricultural (family farm) culture. I remember when Levi’s became the preferred jean and you were “uncool” if you didn’t have those jeans. Uncool = lesser person. This also coincides with “poor person”, btw….
Somehow our culture became twisted along the way and “rich people” became associated with “good people”. Being poor, one comes to assess folks not on their bank accounts, but on their actions. What do they do with their funds? Do they help others or spend their time degrading others and, like the Kochs, do their best to make sure that they have it all?
Anyway, Margaret Thatcher and Ronnie Reagan were the architects of what we’re dealing with today–the culture of greed. “I’ve got mine, screw you.” or “I’ve got mine, and I want yours, too.”
…of destruction to human beings and the environment…
And President Obama signs the Monsanto Protection Act. WTH?
From the Union of Concerned Scientists link:
In 2008—the last year a federal Farm Bill was completed—the company reported a whopping $8.8 million in lobbying expenditures (see table below) intended to influence decisions in Congress, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and other federal agencies.
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$8 million. Just for lobbying, folks….that’s not counting the money spent on persecuting farmers. It was common for farmers to keep seeds to plant crops with–nothing was wrong with that….until Monsanto made it illegal…and one has to ask why? Why are they allowed to persecute farmers for saving seed? In some cases, such as Percy Schmeiser, a farmer doesn’t even have to have purchased the poisonous seeds….
Don’t forget the Hoosier farmer fighting this Goliath in the Supreme Court.
One of the articles I passed over with my search made a statement that Monsanto’s seeds are popular with farmers…perhaps that is what the problem is…and where the solution lies…NOT purchasing seeds from Monsanto. I think it is going to take a helluva boycott on the part of the farmers to bring this giant to its knees. It’s obvious by now that the gov’t is not going to do the right thing and regulate this poisonous agriculture or the corporation responsible for it. And Monsanto is doing its best to destroy the family farm.
What a fight on our hands….
Common dreams has this up on fracking and all the hazards it entails. Hey, just as long as Dick Cheney gets his cut, all is well…
More here.
And here.
And the best Congress money can buy….
Let’s not forget the other consequences of fracking– earthquakes.
From PR Watch:
Frankenfish salmon coming to your table, whether you like it or not.
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…because they couldn’t destroy voter access by destroying ACORN….
…note the “guilty until proven innocent” mindset that seems to be the way things have become in the U.S. instead of innocent until proven guilty.
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More on the dangerous food industry trying to keep you from knowing what the hell is in your food or how badly they treat the animals.
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Take action against Fix the Debt.
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Promoting “activist” judges….conservative activist, that is….
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