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?
A mini progress report–
I used to play Beethoven’s Ode to Joy regularly on the piano when young. It was about the only classic that my poor mother could get me to play. She wanted me to play the classics, but I wanted to play rock n’ roll. :p So…yeah…never practiced.
I did like “Ode to Joy” , however, and played it well.
Well…something told me to try again to play it–no music, mind you–from memory. I didn’t think I could because I always had music in front of me to play.
But the urge was strong, so I went to the keyboard…and the music began to flow. I still can’t believe it. Let the tears flow…
I’m not able to do the accompaniment yet with the left hand…but I have more confidence now that it will come back.
I’m still waiting for the day that “Classical Gas” comes back. I’ll be bawling then.
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).~~~~~~~~
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.
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.
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I saw recently where James Taylor was supposed to sing the Star Spangled Banner, and started singing “America, the Beautiful”…God Bless him. I want to put a vote in for America, the Beautiful for our national anthem. The Star Spangled Banner sings of war and bombs but America the Beautiful sings of the beauty of our country, the abundance, and the brotherhood (as yet to be realized, but a worthy goal).
A beautiful, crisp morning as the sun rises….now moved across the horizon for the winter sleep…
I saw six deer this morning. Sometimes they will stop and just observe me, but mostly they just run off, with white tails bobbing up…it never ceases to amaze me how they can be standing still in front of a four foot tall fence and leap over it with such athletic grace. They like apples, by the way. A momma deer and baby were seen nibbling apples one morning while they hung from the tree. You’ll see a half-eaten apple on the ground and know that it was lunch for a deer.
I went out the other morning, and the birds were singing as if it were a Spring day. It caught me off guard….this is Fall, right…? :p
There were cardinals singing, Blue Jays sounding the warning, and another bird I couldn’t identify singing its little heart out. Funny.
I’ve seen a bird that is mostly grayish black that at first I thought was a junco, but it’s tail looked like a sparrow’s and it was too big to be a junco.
The hummingbirds have long since sought warmer climates. I miss their antics. They spend more energy fighting over the food, when there is plenty there, rather than conserving the energy they used fighting so they wouldn’t need so much food….I know there is a lesson for mankind in there, somewhere….
You remember the hornet’s nest I mentioned? Something happened to it–we had about three days of rain (no chemtrails to interfere), and then we had really windy days….so it may have been the combination that caused the nest to lose its outer wrap (for want of a better word). It literally had torn off the wrap down to the honeycomb-like inner chambers. I guess birds could have gotten to it, too, but I’ve never seen that. Not that I’ve seen that many hornets’ nest….in my youth, when I lived around the woods, but not since moving to the city.
Here’s an informative blog on hornet’s nests. I learned something today–I saw the honeycombs of the torn hornet’s nest but I did not realize they actually made honey! It makes perfect sense, though, because they need something for the pupae. However, I wanted to double check this, and another site said they did not make honey.
Continuing the search, I found this:
I also learned that the Maya believe hornets/wasps learn the hut owner’s scent and leave them alone….but may go after visitors. Interesting. Hornets generally do leave people alone….unless they mess with them. There was one story of my childhood where one of the neighborhood kids thought it would be funny to poke a hornet’s nest. Um-hmm….you can guess what happened…hornets mad as hell swarmed him. They had to get a hose to get them off. Yep, he never did that again…
I found this interesting blog on hornet nest destruction. Apparently, bears will tackle anything. This site is pretty interesting with discussions on biodiversity. Someone posted a video on biodiversity but it advocates eco-tourism, and setting aside small tracts of land for preservation. I think both of these ideas send the wrong message. Tourism is tourism and the more people that trample the ground, disturbing the wildlife, the more stress they bring to resources and the life forms there–not to mention more pollution by using motorized vehicles. I shake my head at folks who drive up in SUV’s to the parks….the irony seems lost on them on the damage their vehicles cause by consuming gas and polluting with exhaust, which are destroying the nature that they seek.
And the setting aside tracts of land is a noble idea–but in my view, it absolves the rest of the occupants of the land their responsibility to take care of the land they’re on. In other words, it’s like they’re saying “we have this land over here that is being preserved, therefore, you can pollute the hell out of the other land that isn’t in the preserve.” It’s still missing the HUGE point that we cannot separate the land by lines….as much as we have been brainwashed into thinking that it is possible to do just that.
Water runoff polluted with pesticides, herbicides, genetically modified forms, mercury, etc., will migrate from the unprotected land to the protected land. Toxic air will flow over the protected land. There is no way to keep a tract of land pristine while the land surrounding it is poisoned. Just like we see with the nuclear accident in Japan–what happens in one area affects another that has nothing to do with it. We have to see that everything we do affects another–to take care.
Another link someone posted is something near and dear to my heart–natural water filtration a la natural swimming pools. Pretty cool, eh? Last one in is a rotten egg! 🙂
Also, there is a thread on endangered invertebrates. Interesting read.
Have a great Sunday. 🙂
A member of the mercury support group posted a link to this video:
Another member questioned this guy’s assertions, because it seems like he is promoting his website and services and trying to scare people. Good Grief, I wouldn’t be able to eat anything according to this guy. He also fails to mention toxins in the body, and specificallly, heavy metal poisoning, which causes many of the autoimmune symptoms. And he doesn’t advocate for organic food consumption as a way to regain one’s health.
He doesn’t state whether he has additional training with a degree in nutrition, as Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride does, so I’m not as inclined to believe all of his assertions.
Rice is allowed on the GAPS diet, but I react to it. Same with corn. It’s an individual thing that everyone has to figure out for themselves. I get a tell-tale red rash around my neck (redneck, heh) that shows up when I eat something that causes my body to react.
I do agree with his assertions that gastrointestinal symptoms are not the most prominent symptoms, as I did not have huge symptoms there, but do have more of the neurological with the migraines and such.
National Sustainable Agricultural Association has this action alert up on the latest fight for your food, family farms, and organic farms. Again, we have corporate interests battling against….well, stuff that benefits the average person…..like clean air, water, and chemical free food.
Not to mention the diseases sure to come with the filthy practices of the factory farms. (A side note~ chicken manure IS worth some money, if left to season. It’s one of the best fertilizers out there. And natural to boot.)
From the link:
Carole Morison: Perdue showed up on the farm when the Food, Inc. film crew was here. When the company finally figured out who was visiting, we received a letter threatening contract termination for “violating bio-security.” Their threat stemmed from me not having people sign a log book that the company had placed on our farm to monitor our visitors.
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Oh.My.God. Can you say Big Brother? I knew that you could. Violating bio-security? Seriously? bwahahahahaha, that’s rich! How do they figure “security” is involved? “Security” is the new “cloak” word—something to hide behind when you want to coerce people to do something against their better instincts….
And this is yet another example of the Too Big Too Fail as a way to monopolize a market–the detrimental aspects are seen with bullying these farmers to give into their demands “or else”, to unhealthy practices that most folks would find appalling if they knew, to the environmental impact of upsetting the ecology by having so many chickens crammed into such a small space.
And speaking of monopolizing the market, my blog here on Senators who voted against GMO labeling, links to gut inflammation, etc.
This is sobering news. Note that the article doesn’t go into diet, but if GMO’s were introduced in the 90s, and strokes started increasing at that time….is anyone going to look into the connection?
Also, colorectal cancer has increased in youth at the rate of 13% from 1992-2005. The article goes for the easy blame of fast food….without exploring the GMO connection or toxic environment. I’m not saying that fast food isn’t a factor, because it is not healthy, but they need to go more deeply.
Also, neither of these articles explore economic factors where the families buy processed food because it’s cheaper, and the family’s health suffers because of it.
Breast cancer rates among the young, and especially young black women, are rising, too–tripling from 1976 to 2009. Red flags all over the place, folks.
For me personally, one of my lumps has shrunk, the other has stayed the same, a little over a year after discovery. Interestingly, I had read somewhere that women with fibrocystic breast disease respond well to iodine. If you recall, last year, about this time, I had three breast lumps and they were increasing in size. After increasing my iodine, one disappeared and the other stayed the same size.
Within the mercury poisoning group, there is great debate about low thyroid and iodine. Some folks are adamantly against iodine, saying if one has Hashimoto’s (which I suspect I have because it is autoimmune and goes with Celiac), that iodine will make it worse. That hasn’t been my experience. With the shrinking breast lumps, I would say that my intuition has been right in increasing the iodine.
Mercury interferes with iodine absorption. the Barium sprayed from chem trails interferes with iodine absorption. These are most likely factors in the increases in cancer, since the thyroid is a master gland controlling nearly every important body function, from the pituitary to the adrenals, to the gut, to brain function. This is serious stuff, and messing with the environment is coming around to bite us in the arse.
Apparently, there is a square knish shortage due to a factory fire in New York. I had no idea what a knish was until this piece, so thanks for enlightening this writer. It sounds yummy.
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In other food blogs is Michael Twitty’s piece on the life of a slave. A great glimpse into history we don’t usually read about. It’s well written–puts the reader into the daily struggle for them. I was thinking when he wrote about catching the fish, that the fish must have tasted so good being caught in non-polluted waters. And even though the work was hard, it must have been nice to work outside in the sunshine….don’t misunderstand me–I know it was very hard, but I personally really enjoyed working on a farm. I even liked it when the rain came down. I would be weeding the old fashioned way of pulling them, and a grasshopper might leap onto a leaf nearby…..or a butterfly come floating past….birds singing….
Diane Ravitch highlights a blog by David Greene.
From the post:
When Hinshaw compared the rollout of these school policies with incidences of A.D.H.D., he found that when a state passed laws punishing or rewarding schools for their standardized-test scores, A.D.H.D. diagnoses in that state would increase not long afterward.
Nationwide, the rates of A.D.H.D. diagnosis increased by 22 percent in the first four years after No Child Left Behind was implemented.
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Bingo. Greene says it’s not a causal, but yeah, I disagree. It’s certainly one of the causes, in addition to toxins in the environment and probably GMO’s.
And it’s not that the kids are suddenly stricken with this subjective “disease”—rather, they are a) made to feel inferior by testing that isn’t really able to define what their brain cells are capable of (potential); and b) put under pressure by teachers and parents who must teach to the test in order for the school to keep from being downgraded to “failing” in order for them to get the money from the Federal gov’t to keep the school open….and do it all again the next six months….
That is a HUGE burden to put on a kid. For shame.
He links to A World Without Privacy by Joe Nocera of the NY Times. He talks of “The Circle” of a hybrid of internet companies like Google, F_cebook, and Twitter and the information they gather. Even if you don’t subscribe to the last two, your privacy can be taken away from you by family members and friends who do use them. That is probably how Nocera’s acquaintances/colleagues were connected to him.
And they say you should not expect privacy in today’s world. I say, unless you express in writing your willingness for someone else to have private information, then, yes, you have an expectation….and a right to privacy. And giving up the right to privacy should not be coerced, as in, you have to click on this agreement to use our website.
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