Daniel Ellsberg was on CNN last night, commenting on the NSA and Edward Snowden. He asked the question…”Can you charge someone with a crime whom has exposed a crime? What Snowden did was expose a violation of the Constitution. ” (paraphrasing).
“They illegally wiretapped suspected terrorists…but I didn’t say anything because I wasn’t a terrorist….
Now they’re illegally wiretapping me and there’s no one brave enough to speak up….”
From this poem.
Diane Ravitch has a link up to this blog by a teacher fighting for public education. Being hit from all sides, for sure. We’re dealing with a sophisticated network that has $$$ behind it. It’s hard to fight against that, but as Seamus says, I want to be able to look at my children and grandchildren and tell them I fought for public education with all that I had.
(**edited to add tryptophan link.)
organic consumers has a post up on pressuring ten senators who voted against the Sanders’ amendment to allow states the right to label GMO food.
All we’re asking for is the right to know what is in our food! We’re not asking them to ban GMO’s…although that’s certainly a dream of ours…we’re just asking for the right to refuse to eat food that is bad for us.
This is especially an issue for Celiacs, who can be seriously affected by genetically modified food that we cannot digest properly, and will only add to the leaky gut syndrome, possibly causing an emergency situation caused by gut inflammation.
A debate (sort of) here. The increase in gut inflammation since the 30s can easily be attributed to our increased use of wheat flour and undiagnosed Celiac / gluten intolerance. I personally think it has been there, but now is becoming worse because of the GMO’s. It just makes sense to me.
Here’s a trailer to the video by Dr. Smith : Genetic Roulette. Glad to see Dr. Huber of Purdue University featured. He has spoken out about the changes to the bee population. I’m also glad to see other M.D.’s on board with this.
And then there’s this. Holy crap, it’s worse than I thought…! So, even if you stop eating GMO foods, you’re still subjected to this monster via your gut flora. Holy crap.
The above page had a link to the Japan tryptophan disaster, but the link was dead. I found it here.
It’s interesting that tryptohpan, which is a natural amino acid, was banned in supplement form…but it’s quite all right for GMO’s to go without scrutiny or restraint. Many in the natural supplements industry felt that tryptophan was targeted because it was a natural supplement, that competed with Big Pharma. This just adds more credibility to that claim. If you’re Big Pharma or Monsanto, you can get away with it.
Here’s another page on GMO which mentions the Showa Denko incident.
commondreams has this up. Be sure to look at all the videos–well worth the time.
The idea is so simple it’s like “duh!”
I have a quibble, though, with Klein saying that it’s up to the Left to “seize the moment”. There are those who are NOT in the Tea Party on the Right who also need and want to find a solution to the crashes around us. I say this because the Left has not been of the same mind — I was shot down on a progressive website when I advocated buying American so we could put people back to work. I knew that Washington wasn’t going to get off its collective duff and do anything about the job loss. (NAFTA being a good example of monumental job loss.)
I just don’t think people have been given the skills or knowledge to feel confident enough to take over a business if the owners want to sell out. I think it may be a case of learned helplessness? Not believing in yourself can be such a huge obstacle that one stops before even getting started.
Perhaps the “teach-ins” of 2013 should be “Business 101: how to own a business without going belly-up nor bankrupting the environment on your way to the bank…”
The Native Americans learned this a loooong time ago–nature was not a second thought. They did not separate their actions from nature.
It’s still so incredibly stupid that business has ignored the laws of nature, as if we could exist without clean water, clean air and chemical free food…
Well…exist is probably a bad word choice…since we are existing right now…perhaps thriving is the better word. All one has to do is look at folks’ skin and see that we are not thriving, but existing. The skin is such a barometer of what’s going on in the insides…not doing too well by that account.
Anyway, Washington isn’t going to help us…most likely profiting off of NAFTA…so, it’s up to us if we want to save ourselves.
I was flipping through the channels and saw that PBS was going to air a Nature spot featuring Hummingbirds. Ah, I thought, a nice evening’s show.
Nope.
First, the hummers were doing their thing and going from flower to flower to get the nectar. It showed ones with the ruby throat, ones with super-long beaks, and so on.
Then the show flips to the laboratory where a scientist is studying them. The camera zooms into a hummer striking the glass “wall” in its confusion. As the narrator tells the story of the scientist wanting to study the endurance of the hummer, it shows them attaching what looked to be a row of paper clips to the hummer’s feet, as it struggles to fly upward.
Well, that was it for me.
I can’t stand seeing animals caged. I can’t understand why a scientist feels the need to, in essence, torture this bird that was once free to fly wherever it wanted.
And to those who would say, “hey, it’s getting food and is sheltered from predators…what’s the big deal…?”
To that I would say “Freedom is a big deal.”
That bird losing its ability to roam wherever and whenever and just being let alone without someone poking at it –well, that’s what Spirit is about. That’s what feeds the Soul. If that bird could talk, it would tell you the same thing.
Remember Fu Manchu?
The really chilling thing is….we’re not that far behind…
I don’t know why this story wasn’t carried by the mainstream media, leaving Hoosiers in the dark about this monster….on second thought, they did. Unfortunately, this was in the Indianapolis market, but even with cable TV, was out of range for their broadcast area.
And if anyone needs a little reminder of why the conservatives love Hillary Clinton….(you’re asking what?? You’ll notice, as I have, that they will alternatively trash her and then say “she’s not so bad…”. ) And why they luvs them some Bill, too. Teflon. Clinton. From the president who brought us NAFTA, gutting the financial industry protections that were put into place after the Great Depression, the misspent Haiti disaster funds….and on….
(hat tip commondreams)
If they are successful with prosecution, we can kiss our Consitution good-bye. The First Amendment guarantees one the right to speak out to air one’s grievances against the government. I don’t believe that this was the only way that Bin Laden could have gotten his information or even if it was paramount to him attacking us. They attacked us on 9/11 without the help of Manning…but the agencies knew of Osama and their own mistakes allowed the attack. It’s so much easier to make someone else the fall guy when trying to deflect attention from your own mistakes. And I don’t believe the charge of “aiding the enemy” is true in this case. Intention is *everything* in criminal trials and I don’t believe that Manning’s intention was aiding bin Laden, but to highlight what was happening to inform the American public, which was not being informed by the mainstream media.
And if you read to the end, you see that the chilling effect is already taking place…whistleblowers are afraid to come forward with information.
Chilling, indeed.
In keeping up with all the dirty little deeds the Gates Foundation promotes….here is an article on the link between Gates, Monsanto, and Blackwater. Really disturbing.
The article mentions The Nation with Jeremy Scahill—while looking for the Scahill article, I happened upon this with a scathing reply by the authors:
We agree that it will ultimately be up to farmers to decide what is best for them. Our concern continues, however, to be that the choices farmers face is systematically skewed, with some ideas being amplified over others. Any policies that involve redistribution–such as land reform–are off the Gates agenda, despite being a live concern to many African farmers’ movements. This demonstrates our broader point. Despite the foundation’s best efforts to be accountable once the policy has been laid down, the Gates Foundation’s interventions reflect, at heart, the undemocratic vision of a single very powerful and ultimately unaccountable organization.
Sincerely,
RAJ PATEL
ERIC HOLT-GIMENEZ
ANNIE SHATTUCK
www.foodfirst.org
There’s a worldwide protest against Monsanto this Saturday. Info here. You’ll need to scroll down to find your spot in the U.S.
(hat tip to commondreams.org)
This is so inspiring….people are waking up to the monster of genetically modified organisms.
Eagle 
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