….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.
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Mother Jones: Hypocrisy of Bill and Melinda Gates
Tell the USDA No GMO apples
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
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?
The History of Land Grabs
This post by Gene Logsdon is powerful. It’s personal, too, as I thought of losing my home and how devastating that was…
Logsdon mentions the Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith; I couldn’t find the exact author Logsdon mentions for the Highland Clearances, but I found this and this that seem to be the same subject.
It was stunning to read Logsdon’s piece on it and how often this has been used as a tool for the wealthy to grab even more for themselves. I thought back to the years I was growing up and how farmers were portrayed as backwards, slow, less sophisticated…and now I wonder at this being planned..
Feminist scholars made a connection between the Puritan Salem witch hunts and wealth. They stated that the women who were hanged were either poor which means low regard in the community, or they were single wealthy women whom owned land. This was significant then because women could not outright own land–they had to inherit it from their fathers or husbands. So the women owning land were a huge threat to the status quo. Land means power…and it came with rights not afforded to the ones without land.
Also, there was a prejudice against the single status of the wealthy women, because women who were married and wealthy were able to escape the noose….while the single ones were not.
The portrayal of farmers as hayseeds, something to look down upon reminded me of what they did with the women after World War II. (as a side note~ I found this amusing blog on the war propaganda.) It’s really stunning how much public opinion can be swayed against our better instincts and interests. One of the things I have read from the Depression survivors is that they didn’t go hungry because many were still in the country and could raise their own food. Now we’re “citified” and don’t have the resources to raise our own food….thereby more dependent on the food stamp program. Ironic, isn’t it??
In addition, I have to wonder at the web of how much this has contributed to climate change–not only adding more toxins to the environment by industry, but by cutting us off from the land–harder to see how we are destroying the environment when we don’t feel as connected to it, eh?
More on Chemtrails, aka geoengineering
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.
Reign of Error; Kochs, et al, planning assault on Ed.
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.
Documentary on Chem trails
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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Oh, beautiful, for spacious skies…
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. 🙂
Bombs, not food, say repubs…
Susie Madrak has this up on the continued republican war against the poor. To say it is demoralizing would be an understatement.
Shall we play the six degrees to Clinton game? He pushed for “workfare” , which required welfare recipients to work for free–truly a corporation’s dream of forcing people to work and not pay any wages or benefits! Slave labor rocks!! /snark
When I asked for assistance after first moving to FW, I was required to do community service for two and a half days. The money I requested? $25. Yes, you read that right— $25, It was a humiliating experience when having to ask in the first place and then being put down by the social worker for having moved to FW without a job. I was, um, hoping to get a job….
The Brits who are conservative are also playing the “we want to help you help yourself” game–
From the last link:
There is no reason to think, however, that the criticisms levelled at workfare won’t also apply to the new scheme. Is, for example, a person spending 30 hours a week picking up litter more or less likely to find a paying job? Research which looked at similar schemes in the US, Canada and Australia found that:
“There is little evidence that workfare increases the likelihood of finding work. It can even reduce employment chances by limiting the time available for job search and by failing to provide the skills and experience valued by employers. Subsidised (‘transitional’) job schemes that pay a wage can be more effective in raising employment levels than ‘work for benefit’ programmes. Workfare is least effective in getting people into jobs in weak labour markets where unemployment is high.”
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Truly disgusting how punitive these people are towards the poor. Why not just have a public hanging and be done with it, already?
Lastly, here is the video someone suggested on crooks and liars:
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