(Healingtalks) Highly toxic compounds, associated with “fracking chemicals” had recently been detected by the EPA in local Wyoming groundwaters. Regulations are promised to further protect the public, but perhaps not just stricter rules but an entirely different national and international energy policy is needed.
What is fracking all about
“Hydraulic fracturing” is a natural gas drilling process for pumping presurised water, sand and chemicals underground in order to open the flow of oil or gas to the surface (The Guardian). The chemical mixture is often made up of:
Sodium Chloride
Ethylene Glycol
Borate Salts
Sodium Potassium Carbonate
Guar Gum
Isopropanol (Barnett Shale)
Fracking companies claim that these toxic chemicals are at such low dilutions (0.5%) as to cause no real environmental or health threat. However a millions gallons of water containing half a percent adds up to a huge amount of pollution. Other impacts are to deplete local water resources and to industrialize a rural region, often ruining tourist industries and the feel of living in the country.
The cause and xtent of the fracking problem
Anyone who resides near a natural gas drilling area can tell you fracking threatens and often does pollute groundwater. Corrupt federal politicians, however, allowed hydraulic fracturing to be exempted from the so-called “Safe” Drinking Water Act in 2005, paving the way for the largest gas drilling boom in domestic history (Fox, 2011). The exemption in that bill, known as the “Halliburton Loophole”, allows fracking companies to inject highly toxic chemicals under the ground in huge quantities and not report it to the EPA (Fox, 2011).
According to Prof Tony Ingraffea from Cornell University, Pennsilvania is 3 years into a 30 year full scale plan, with 2000 wells currently and plans to build another 5000 per year for the next 30 years. Massive fracking has thus led to thousands of reported cases of water contamination, with the EPA’s latest findings being but one confirmation.
EPA’s confirmation
On December 7, 2011 the EPA released this report which for the first time put the agency on record as definitively finding that fracking causes severe water pollution.
The report identified fracking as the chief source of poisons in local groundwater, including a major carcinogen, benzene, in the central Wyoming community (Green, 2011).
Health officials last year advised locals not to drink their water found low levels hydrocarbons were found in their wells (The Guardian). At the same time the aquifer or water reservoirs will never be cleaned. The pollution there, for the foreseeable future, appears permanent (Fox, 2011).
Moving more towards renewable energy
This points out we to need to move more toward renewable energy sources and to stop using fossil fuels that can harm the environment and ourselves. According to The National Resources Defence Council(NRDC), we have plenty of other energy resources for a sustainable future:
Wind Energy – In America alone, wind generates enough electricity to power more than 10 million homes, creates steady income for investors and landowners, and helps support over 100,000 manufacturing and ongoing operations and maintenance jobs (NRDC).
Solar Energy - By the end of the decade, solar energy could become cheaper than conventional electricity in many parts of the US. The industry currently creates about 125,000 American jobs (NRDC).
Biogas Energy – In 2010, there were about 160 operational biogas recovery systems on American commercial livestock farms, which produced enough electricity to power the equivalent of 41,000 homes. This gas mixture can be used to generate heat, hot water or electricity, and the leftover digested manure can be used as fertilizer, bedding, mulch and potting soil (NRDC).
Geothermal – Geothermal energy comes from reservoirs of steam and hot water beneath the earth’s surface. It is among the least explored renewable energies in the United States. In 2010, geothermal energy produced just over 3,000 megawatts of energy (NRDC).
In short, it is far better focus on energy solutions that will not threaten us or our environment.
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(Healingtalks) Picture walking through the local streets of your home town and seeing lush lawns full of veggies and flowers, and where the police station grounds grow potatoes and the supermarket parking lot has a mix of herbs.
Welcome to the world of the small Victorian town of Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
Tomorden townspeople have created a community that is really making a difference. Currently there are thousands of vegetables planted in 70 ‘free-help-yourself’ garden beds around town. The amazing success means Tomorden is well on the way to becoming the first town in all of the UK to have self-sufficient food.
Power of female inspiration
Pam and Mary two women who both shared a concern for the state of our world founded this project. They started simply by getting friends, mostly women, together at a cafe.
‘Wars come about by men having drinks in bars, good things come about when women drink coffee together,’ says Mary.‘Our thinking was: there’s so much blame in the world, blame local government, blame politicians, blame bankers, blame technology, we thought, let’s just do something positive instead’.
Knowing that an ingredient to healthy consciousness is healthy food, the team utilized the community spaces available in order to turn their town into an eatable delight.
A community that gets it
With a walk through Tomorden you’ll now find
Raspberries, apricots and apples are now on the canal path
Blackcurrants, redcurrants and strawberries adorn the grounds of a doctor’s office
Beans and peas can be located amid the college lawns
Cherries grow in the supermarket car park
Mint, rosemary, thyme and fennel shoot up by the health center
Potatoes and carrots grow around the police station
‘We’ve filled the flower beds with fennel and they’ve all been taught that if you bite fennel, it tastes like a liquorice…So when I see the children popping little bits of herb into their mouths, I just think it’s brilliant’
The community spirit is thus more alive in Tomorden ‘were in this together’ to nurture each other.
Mary Clear, 56 grandmother of ten and co-founder of Incredible Edible states that ‘by 2018’ the town will have a self sufficient supply of food. ‘It’s a very ambitious aim. But if you don’t aim high, you might as well stay in bed, mightn’t you?
Plant-based revolution
So is the world ready for a plant based or garden revolution?
Similar plans are being piloted in 21 other towns in the UK, and there’s been interest shown as far as Spain, Germany, Hong Kong and Canada. ‘This is a revolution,’ Mary says. ‘But we are gentle revolutionaries. Everything we do is underpinned by kindness’.
Pam says ‘if you’ve got schools, shops, back gardens and verges, you can do it.’
So out goes packaged and processed GMOs and in comes freshly harvested carrots from your neighbors and herbs and fruit from the middle of town.
Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) In September of 2010 the FDA approved the first genetically animal safe for eating. The “product” is a genetically modified Atlantic salmon developed by AquaBounty Technologies named AquaAdvantage Salmon (AAS).
“Improved” salmon
AAS can incredibly grow twice as fast, which is an economic boom. More $$ are to be made, which blinds consciousness not to look at the likely negative impacts.
How this was accomplished
This growth rate was gained by modifying the salmon’s genome, the addition of a growth hormone gene, and an antifreeze gene. AquaBounty claims its salmon is an environmentally sustainable alternative . With AAS, the unnatural modification occurs in that two proteins are being introduced into the salmon’s genetic makeup are from other fish.
Supposed benefits of huge and hugely profitable frankensalmon
Presumed benefits include:
Enviro impact – AAS will be raised in land-based facilities to reduce the environmental impact on coastal areas
Diseases – May eliminate the threat of disease transfers.
Transport – Will allow the harvesters to live near these landbased food facilities, reducing some of the costs of fish transport and the use of fossil fuels, again helping the environment.
Ploy to sell harmful frankensalmon
The above ignores the following:
Health impacts – First there is the issue of safety in eating genetically modified salmon is “are they safe to eat?” There is amply evidence that other genetically modified foods have ill health effects – including causing allergic reactions, digestive disturbances, infertility, and an overall weakening of the immune system. There have been no long term studies, as usual.
Environmental impacts – Then there is the issue of an ultimate environmental impact, especially if the AAS salmon are accidently introduced into the wild. While AAS are designed for land facilities, precautions can never be fool-proof. This is why he Fish and Wildlife Service opposes frankenfish.
AAS salmon are all triploid females, which means that they are not only all female, but sterilized. Sometimes this sterilization doesn’t work. There is a failure of sterilization in .1 to 1% of fish, which is a pretty small number, except fish farms usually contain up to a 1 million fish – and many of these farms are to be established.
Given the size of Frankensalmon
How this could impact wild fish populations is unknown. But given their size, they may be more attractive for mating then a natural Atlantic salmon, which could negatively impact wild salmon populations.
Ultimately these farms should be outlawed. But is established, knowing the industry’s history and arrogance, it is unlikely there will be adequate monitoring to make sure these salmon mutants none escape to the wild. Also the US government has had a nonchalant attitude toward such environmental threats, as evidence by the growing of GMO crops in wildlife preserves. This is especially important in areas where a salmon population is now already present. As the video below shows, there is a real potential for destroying the natural salmon population.
Report by Food and Water Watch report. By the way, I was the original organizer of Food And Water, Inc. many years ago which first was used to oppose food radiation
Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) The biggest story Healingtalks has ever reported about is the current looming death of the US Bill of Rights. The immediate trigger is the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act, but there is far more to this.
Why the media blackout
That you practically don’t hear anything about this – except on the Internet – is indicative of the vast cultural and spiritual illness and corruption of our times. Every major newspaper, TV and radio station should be blaring non-stop about this story. Instead there is a blackout. You have to hunt for it. The main street media have been taken over which is what enabled Congress to be taken over.
This has happened quietly, ever since the passage over the Telecommunication Act of 1996. So in the short run this has been at least two decades in the making. That Telecommunications Act, amending the original one of 1934, allowed for the consolidation of media control and as a death-knoll for the spirit of America. Massing enough votes in Congress, this bill overturned the freedom of thousands of independent media outlets to present the American public’s real spirit, the spirit of 99% of the population having become dominated by the voice of the 1% or really much less.
Main Street news thus could be fabricated and almost completely controlled without challenge (except for later on the Internet).
This especially tried to put a tombstone of the spirit of the 1960′s or what had threatened the dominance of commercial forces. Now through this infamous Act, the elite of our nation gained the upper hand to enact their agenda for America, and for decades to come.
But this development was not just one of two or three decades making as in the chart above. It had really been four centuries in the making, and even more (if one considers the evolution of influences since Greek and Roman times)
Mislead by a corrupt 17th century vision
In my opinion, the root spiritual foundation of western civilization is by now itself ill.
This is why we face such ever more corrupt political and economic forces taking mind-control and overturning our otherwise spirited culture.
The fact is that for the past 400 years we have adopted a mechanical, machine-like, spirit-less and essentially dead and unconscious vision of nature – as introduced with great naivete and at the same time huge arrogance and aggressiveness by 17th century European culture. So am I saying that what brought us computers, planes, cars, refrigerators, TVs and so on is a naive view of nature? This is only when misused in a deeply-penetrating way (which is what a universal view ultimately mandates and requires ) to then harm the core of ourselves. Modern chemical pollution accomplishes something akin.
That new vision, however, and as best expressed in the writings of Sir Isaac Newton, gained immense prestige and influence, enough to overturn the dominance of the medieval order, the Bible-led view that had stood its ground for almost two thousand years. The displacing Newtonian view was what inspired modernity as we know it.
Prior political order overturned at the same time
At first this involved an overturning of the rule of Kings and Queens whose power was delegated by the Roman Catholic Church (or via belief in the authority of the Bible whose truths were borne to light by the Pope and his emissaries on earth). Because of this loss of faith, it became thinkable and possible to eliminate the royalty, and in fact the royal family of Russia was murdered in one nighton July 16-17, 1918, as ordered by Lenin.
And so there was the American, French, and Russian revolutions all of which fought for religious liberties, or for freedom from medieval despotic prior authoritarianism and thereby for a new order – for better or worse.
What led the spirit of those times, at least in America, appears on the brink of failure and collapse. In my view, that collapse was inevitable.
Why? Before answering that question, it is instructive to know how the overturning of the spiritual leadership of the biblical vision in more detail, and what was entailed in the new modern vision coming to dominance. For changes in belief precede the changes in our outer world.
New Heliocentric View of the Cosmos
How the new vision rose to dominance
The Bible, for almost two thousand years, had implied that we lived in a “geocentric” universe (the earth was presumed to be at the center of things) and as it was written in Genesis that “the stars were created to shine upon the earth.” That ancient vision, and its long-held truths, suddenly became challenged by the discoveries of modern science that the earth really rotates around the sun. This was shown via telescopes, and the new philosophies of the “Renaissance” offered to better explain how this happened via symbolic math formulas rather than biblical revelations as the supposed highest and surest authority for objective truth. The universe was suddenly moving like a GRAND CLOCK rather than via the Bible-described divine order.
E=mc2
That vision, which led the new way, upheld the universe moved like a Grand Mechanical Clock, in tick-tock or predictable fashion. The underlying and justifying philosophy for this whole view was codified and expressed in Newton’s Principia Naturalis Mathematica. That book, rarely read but probably second only the Bible in the influence if its message offered to outline the essential and “true” laws of nature – again being “supposedly” and everywhere mathematical.
Of course we are taught almost never taught to think these principles could even possibly be just “supposedly” mathematical. Nature was now absolutely mathematical in is unifying order. The title of Newton’s book was thus translated from the Latin to read and express an arrogance that transcended any “supposedness,” namely as “The Mathematical Laws of Nature.
With this new and exciting cosmic vision being grounded on an inner terra firma or bedrock, showing us a new way to the Oneness of nature (and via formulas like E=mc2) man had found an order of nature more certain than the Bible – and thus mroe to be believed in and followed!
Armed with this transcending knowledge, the Renaissance was born. This meant a “rebirth” of our culture out of the Age of Darkness, of blind faith, and again “supposedly” into the Age of Reason.
Belief in a vision “supposedly” no longer faith-led and no longer merely believed in
Humanity now had god-like truth to become Gods. In short, the new vision was not considered a faith-led view. It was absolutely true. It was objectively true. And only peers who adopted that view could be considered those who truly knew nature.
The mathematicians were thus called “natural philosophers.
But I have grown to become a renegade in regard to all such supposition, assured they were dead wrong – and death-ridden in their understanding in more senses than one.
It is my view that we really got a transferred faith to another false and ultimately dangerous illusion – one that is still followed unquestionably as we revered the truths of chemists, physicists, and astronomers -
no less than then.
Thus Newton could make statements like the “atom” (the indivisible building block of nature and to parallel 1/1=1 as the building blocks of mathematics) formed the truest foundation of our world because that was “what God created on the first day of Creation.” If one reads carefully the literature of that time, the mathematical vision was affirmed by our senses but also justified by faith. This is because they really only could explain how but not why the universe had to be mathematical.
There was never a real overseeing explanation of exactly why – why thus to believe in the mathematical order as reigning universally and to displace all other views including the Bible It was simply enough to know that math symbols could more accurately and predictably describe the movement of the stars. With that justification we could arrogantly extend that justified view everywhere in nature – no matter what the consequences were or where we found ourselves as a result. From that point forward we were to follow mathematical symbols and formulas, as unearthed in lab explorations, to wherever they might lead or mislead us.
But the misleading part was thought unthinkable. This is usually in the nature of a faith-born or belief-laden views
But what if that vision is indeed flawed and misleading? What if we have been fooled through a lack of a deeper understanding of what is consciousness and the interplay of beliefs with that consciousness?
Could it even be possible that for the last 400 years we have essentially been so vastly mislead, and by this hugest of mistakes and beliefs – that the consequences are now coming to roost, to haunt us, and to bring us to a very deadly black flowering and fruition – and endgame for life on planet earth?
In my renegade view, that is exactly what I see happening as the predictable outcomes of our course as we have lived through the 20th and now 21st century.
We face actually a spiritual lesson if you like. And from the ashes of that Newtonian vision’s failure – cosmically, micro-cosmically and socially, a far better understanding is possible, if humanity survives this lesson in foolishness of beliefs, arrogance and utter naivete.
Metastatic skin cancer Industrial air pollution
Welcome to the Industrial Revolution and our Modern Age
Then having discovered this again “supposedly” truer order, man’s rise to dominion over nature was now assured for all times. We were to enter a Utopian age of only unlimited progress, health and well being. We were to re-establish Eden.
This myth then led all of humanity, including the later split between socialists and capitalists as two sides of one coin supporting the Industrial Revolution, its commercial, materialistic society and our overall modern age.
As one contemporary of Newton put it, “Newton knew more about the Cosmos than all of humanity combined,” and the Principia. though understood only by a select few physicists, was to be followed as a new faith that was not a faith.
Little did they understand that if we believe in any ideational or conceptual or symbolic order, we might foolishly recreate thereby rather than objectively discover the world by such means.
Architectural symbol for this same rise of a new spirit and vision
What replaced the medieval vision, the mathematical and mechanical, also became the root spiritual foundation of our modern industrial and commercial culture – whether again led by capitalists following the American Revolution or communists following the Russian – as they both believed in the same root vision – just having alternative ways socially and politically to make it work. Socialism would free us from the tyranny of economic exploitation and capitalism from the tyranny of government.
Architecturally a good part of this is symbolized on Wall Street
There we now find a dwarfing of Trinity Church, built in the 17th century – and which used to be the highest building in NYC – with its steeple pointing to the Biblical God. Trinity was built by the Church of England and again architecturally this meant it represented the dominance of the medieval world over the Americas . George Washington knelt there to pray for an overturning of that order. He and his revolutionaries managed to do just that.
What has been the end result?
Now banking, insurance, brokerage, real estate and other commercial structures dwarf Trinity Church – as did Twin Towers before it came down. These are all boxy, linear, math-designed structures, forming a sharp contrast to Trinity’s medieval architectural design, and representing again new spirit of our modern world. Inside the new buildings we also find boxy, linear, separate offices and separate office cubicles (all of which can be considered symbolic) and where grand social calculations are made by accountants and brokers.
With the leadership of a newly-introduced vision, human beings were indeed supposed to, in the depths of their souls, relate best to each other via money or mathematically – or in exactly the same way that Sir Isaac Newton told us the stars related to each other – and rather than as told by the revelations of the Bible . For the latter was no longer to be absolutely trusted.
Following Newton’s lead, his friend, Sir William Petty, became the first economist in England. Petty laid out a new math-bound, statistical guidance for the modern world, and in his book called Political Arithmetic. It implied that all of humanity should and again must relate to each other, along with nature, mathematically (commercially via money) to live in harmony with the new found divine cosmic order.
This was what Newton, Petty’s friend, had supposedly discovered as the “natural order” of our cosmos – with its central or unifying paradigm being mathematics.
Four centuries later, welcome to the not only science but Wall Street-lead culture of our times.
I personally know that culture, and Trinity Church well, having chosen to live in the belly of the Behemoth for nearly a decade, and as president of two Wall Street securities firms.
The flaw must be deeper….and it is
Newton died a schizophrenic, which should tell us something about his inner vision not necessarily being so firmly grounded in the ocean of our inner consciousness.
The root flaw and corruption of that vision was not exactly what Marx and Engels pointed out in the 19th century (that the means of production were owned by just a few capitalists). The repairs done to the collapsing stock markets in the 1930′s and the rise of socialism and progressive or liberal movements to help labor, the poor and the middle classreally didn’t fix the same problem in the end.
We find a yet more extreme polarization of wealth and the markets near collapse,all over again – and as I would claim, predictably.
The great pacific garbage patch
Our socio-economic and political orders, rooted in the revolutions of the past, are not the only things on the verge of collapse. The survival of many living environments around the planet is being challenged. Rachel Carson back in the 1960′s pointed out that there was this strange and apparent misdirection of the modern world that had promised us endless progress – namely that we were destroying our surrounding living ecologies. She wrote this as Carson herself was dying of cancer. But with all the fixes she proposed or a Carson-inspired environmental movement, decades later we actually find the sale of pesticides and herbicides are astronomically greater!
Our oceans, air, and land terrains are hugely more polluted and threatened then ever before, and increasingly so. Above is pictured the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, said to be twice as large as the state of Texas, and stretching a thousand miles. It is an ugly and toxic manifestation of our recreation of nature.
Thus the taproot flaw must, in my view, be deeper, far deeper – and it is! The mistake lies deep not on the surface, in what we do to create pesticides and herbicides, for example, but rather in the very adapting of the core vision as first polluting our minds, and then as a consequence the outer world surrounding us and the biology within of our own bodies.
Single greatest discovery of my life
one which explains the central flaw of our
modern vision, and how we can move beyond it
The single greatest discovery of my life has been actually several parts to this revelation. First I began to realize, after certain events in my life, that the root essence of nature is really what we experience as life – no matter how rare that might manifest as strongly elsewhere in the universe, and not what is mechanical. Machines never occur naturally anywhere in pristine or untouched-by-man terrains. You won’t find a bicyle in a rainforest unless we have put it there.
How can what never once occurs anywhere naturally represent what occurs everywhere and always. Such a distortion of reality can only be the result of projected and artificial or synthetic beliefs.
So I discovered for myself that rather and instead what is again at the core of nature is life rather than what is mechanical But that is not the end of it. What points to the mechanical and designs machines is mathematics. Or one could say that machines model the mathematical order of things. What then plays the same role in a life-centered view?
Planet Earth
If one watches the video planet earth, the common denominator in all of life is living awareness. We can use a still lengthier spelled out word for what is really a simple phenomenon, namely “consciousness.”
But this begs the question what is the root nature of math-symbols, their pointing paths, and likewise what is the root nature of consciousness – as these two views can guide us to two very different ways of perceiving all things.
In my youth, when my left-brain shut down temporarily after a stroke, and after having been a math prodigy,I learned that this consciousness really forms something special and at the same time precisely distinct – namely “the universal relationship of connectionin nature or the principle of connection itself in nature” – connecting all of nature as One and thus forming the real and true essence of nature – not the illusion-born or surface appearing math-bound order that Newton envisioned, presupposed, and sold to the rest of humankind to follow.
I became , as you can see, a renegade, opposing the vision I had been taught to believe was absolutely true, and especially as a math prodigy. It was like deifying Ayn Rand, the great capitalist writer while working on Wall Street. I very simply grew to be no longer be sure that the mathematical vision of chemistry/physics/astronomy was infallibly true. I went further, much further to characterize the whole vision of Newton as essentially false when imposed upon the depths of nature, or as a powerful reversal illusion. This is why Nobel-prize winning physicists and chemists can come down with Alzheimer’s disease, because their math-bound vision doesn’t extend far enough – not to all the reachers of their inner world and for the guidance of their personal lives – rather than space ships to outer space.
Life being dedicated to healing and the raising of consciousness
Knowing this – that we live in a life and consciousness centered universe, and to the very depths of my soul, has led me to an endless stream of very deeper and greater insights. The most important application of these insights are to he healing arts, helping myself and others heal from a variety of ailments.
Overall it has essentially taught me to revolutionize everything I know about nature and my own life’s guidance. It has led me to a life more dedicated to the healing arts and to the raising of my consciousness and that of others to a higher level.
Rather than making money on Wall Street
Imagine that natural healing comes about through the re-connection of our inner consciousness, our life, and that this is because the essence of consciousness is again a universal relationship of connection.
A better understanding of consciousness, as the universal connective relationship in nature, then guides life to become more whole, more healed, more connected – and rather than, with the mathematical vision, to guide us to develop industrial technology and a fragmentation of vision. All of my naturopathic wisdom on how to heal practically is based on this understanding – with a thousand and one derivative insights. The proof of this vision is actually in the healing arts as applied to depth, systemic, chronic ills – just like the proof of the mathematical view appears in its ideological home turf or when designing machines.
Among the most important and beginning insights, and with absolute certainty for myself is that wedo notessentially live in a mathematical universe – and not as Newton proposed, described and mathematically expressed. This is what physicists, chemists, and astronomers still follow in step. We rather live in a universe a life-and-consciousness centered universe, one that is only superficially mathematical in appearance, but not so in its interior, permeating inner essence. This is why a living organism can break all of Newton’s mechanical “universal laws” of motion.
In fact Newton’s vision, with its reversal of what is essential and what is superficial, is what has so powerfully corrupted our whole economic/political and cultural consciousness about our natural world and ourselves – especially where there is concentrated, centralized power to do so.
To concentrate attention represents separative consciousness, and the corruption of that attention thus happens with centralized government, and by monetary forces that concentrate their influence – causing representative of democracy to be separated from those they represent. We thus need more publicly funded elections to demonetarize the consciousness of our legislators. We need to decentralize government as much as possible, and to re-establish the vitality of local community governance, based on sustainable models of being truly at one with nature
Why don’t we really live in a cosmos whose essence is mathematical?
In short, we really need to overturn the highest truth of the Renaissance, the belief in an essentially machine-like world, just as the Renaissance overturned the highest truths of medieval times, the belief in a divine cosmos as described by he Bible.
Otherwise the road we are on and where we are headed, predictably, will destroy not a little but all of life on earth – because the essence of our central vision of the cosmos, when used to penetrate into the universal core of life harms and undermines that core essence of life. This is the same as a knife cutting a living organism apart. A cutting knife cannot be swung in all directions without doing harm. The mathematical view, like the knife, cannot be swung in all directions as a universal paradigm. It is better used as a servant to the conscious, life-centered, and life-supporting views.
At present our culture leans in the opposite direction toward a most extreme dominance of mechanical view over life (symbolized by genetic engineering)- and which can only lead to our self destruction and the destruction of life on earth.
Still we are inundated with icons (culturally mythologized images) of both physicists who supposedly best and beter understand nature and similar icons (again culturally-mythologized images) of doctors with stethoscopes, who via mechanical view supposedly better undersand our bodies.
The latter view also sees the heart as merely a mechanical pump.
Why is this whole inspiration of the past 400 years, again what has led us to live in an industrial, money-dominated, and pharmaceutical-led “healing” culture, so flawed?
The following may upset those who studied physics and chemistry, if my words are taken seriously, and they are so meant to be.
Let us suppose that math symbols do not really point to the divinely essential order in nature. Where then do they point us? This requires putting consciousness above the pointing path of these symbols rather than following obediently from behind or below, which is itself a huge revolutionary step. What is the more objective, rather than mythologized view of the use of math symbols? What can we perceive when we consciously overview the pointing path of those symbols?
Remember that the 17th century came out of a biblical, or faith-led culture – a faith now transferred to the new math-bound view. There could never be something above God to judge God, and so too with math symbols as ultimate arbiters of reality.
Here we deny this claim and do put our consciousness above as it anyway forms the more real essence by which to perceive and judge our world.
What I have repeatedly seen – with what I call naked, right-brain dominant or raw-wisdom – is that math symbols clearly and unmistakeably and consistently point to certain directions that are not without biases, The form the very highest (or most universal) inner pointing tools for how to separate all elements of consciousness. They are the naturally dominant means to then organize left-brain consciousness, the surface/separative and thereby surface-bound view. When we confuse what is seen as surface appearances with more a more depth view, we harvest illusions and become lost. This is what happens to dementia sufferer. They lose their way in the inner world of consciousness. This is what happens to right-brain damaged patients, who only have the use of the left brain, and thus and again suffer from dementia.
Because one cannot connect a vision of nature universally using universal abstractions of separation, the mathematical, the highest left-brain vision becomes itself demented. It is actually the most deeply irrational and ultimately consciousness-destructive and corrupting of visions – when deeply applied in the midst of living terrains. It does not really objectify perceptions. It does not deeply know or understand our life-centered world. This is why our healing arts are in a shambles and we have multiple, major run-away health epidemics in a consciousness-numbed culture. The fasting growing of these health epidemics are all consciousness ailments – like diabetes, metastatic cancer and Alzheimer’s. With Alzheimer’s especially the consciousness is lost so that memories no longer connect.
All of the above is childishly easy to demonstrate
It takes no PhD or being a math prodigy to sort through any philosophic dumbo jumbo.
We miss the simplest of truths when covered over by complex algebraic or calculus formulas.
If three apples are separate, we can count them
But blend these same apples together to make applesauce, and we cannot count them any longer. Math symbols abstract universal separation – pointing to the opposite principles relative to what is life and consciousness. When universally applied with integrity, which is what the cosmic vision are bound to do ( and nowadays more so to the tiniest nanotechnology levels) that view has to lead to a systemically undermining, corruption or ill consciousness and impinging of life. This becomes a profound insight, why our modern world must change its course if we are to be rescued form our stranded straights.
Thus we cannot do the following:
Build a consciousness uncorrupted culture led by a math-bound vision – If consciousness is the universal relationship of connection in nature, then you predictably and ultimately undermine cultural consciousness via the dominance of a math-bound view of nature to her deepest depths. Why? Because conscious is again the opposite universal relationship of connection in nature, and inside of us! Again there is hardly a more revolutionary statement to make than to say that we undermine the integrity of consciousness through a universal mathematical vision, rather than the claimed opposite stance of the Renaissance. Is this just my fantasy, without any basis in our senses? No one can see this reality in our consciousness challenged culture, and in how nursing home patients fed multiple, math-designed drugs walk the halls like near-dead zombies. One can see this insight in how money can corrupt consciousness. Mirror reverse image or reversal illusion
But the mathematical view does seemed to work Doesn’t it? - At first a math-vision-led culture will seem to make great progress as the vision is applied more superficially – and where it best applies. But later, the same guidance can and will pollute and destroy living nature and the essence of living nature, again corrupting and harming its consciousness. That has been my own overall, life-long insight. The reversal illusion is universal, and between the surface and depth or superficial and essential order of nature. It is like a mirror image reversed, apparently true with a trillion details but at the same time false. This also happened with the reversal illusion of geo- and heliocentricity. Reversal illusions in general are the most powerful, griping and addicting of illusions, why when uncovered this can be shocking and can engender “re-volutions” in thought. Here the reversal illusion of he math-bound view is of much greater significance than the geo-helio reversal, whose discovery catapulted us into the modern world. It is the ultimate and most difficult of illusions to pierce – the quintessential mistaking of surface appearance for depth truth.
Thus an allopathic doctor will initially suppress consciousness-surface symptoms to make it appear that he or she is healing a disease. But eventually it does not heal when systemic. What his or her drugs will do is harm life yet more with so-called “side-effects” which are really main effects. This is why there are no chemical cures for Alzheimer’s disease. The order of inner consciousness and that of life again class oppositely with the math-bound order. We intuit this when whatever is mechanical is anathema to creative/conscious life.
We feel it with conscious pain when our bodies are cut apart, or rendered to become like machines which they are not. Machines are made of separate parts, we and all living things are whole organisms connected via our consciousness, the universal connective relationship. We feel pain as that consciousness rushes to a site of any tear, rip or cut.
This is why a large random mix of chemicals thrown into a compost heap destroys the life of the heap or forms a super-toxic waste site. The same happens ecologically on a wider scale. The very same also happens deep inside of us as we ingest synthetic chemicals, being lured by the marketing pressure and consciousness deceptions of giant pharmaceutical firms. To avoid this view, these pharmaceutical companies test drugs in lab-created environments of separatetest-tube isolations. They don’t test the mathematical view as a connected whole, as with the example, of the compost heap, because that would challenge and undermine their science.
I know all the arguments about positive uses of math and science – Positive uses exist and have validity. But the validity is surface limited, rather than universal or all-integrally and depth true. The vision profoundly lacks integrity and was not well thought through. Yes we can use a thermometer, for example, to measure exactly how far there is a departure from a point of temperature balance. But again, these are double negative applications- to use what is separative consciousness to get back to what is connective or a point of balance. If we alternatively or directly force that separative vision onto the essence of nature, the same life that is helped will be lethally harmed and even to the point of mass extinctions. We see this looming threat on the horizon with many developments, the proliferated of atomic weapons, the ever expanding chemical pollution of our planet, and the rising genetic engineering and nanotechnology applications.
Discovering the ultimate depth essence of nature -The real essence of nature has to be what integrally connectsall things. It cannot be what universally separates all things – no matter how much I would like to follow the lead of Newton.This is similar to chocolate being the essence of a chocolate bar. That essence is not represented by what is on the wrapper of the chocolate bar. It is rather represented by what is inside and connectively throughout. Mathematics remains ever the abstraction of how to separate all elements of consciousness.
When we separate things, we form surface appearances. We cut an apple apart, and surfaces appear which then also start to brown and to decay. The latter, the universally separative understanding, on an inner level, similarly starts to corrupts the universally connective, the more conscious understanding. This is the understanding of nature that lies in between the slices of light that a microscope isolates or separates as 1, 10x, and 1000x. As you cannot glue things together with a chainsaw, you cannot connect a vision of nature with chainsaw symbols that mislead us to cut all perceptions apart. Rather with a universally separative vision of nature, you can best build atomic weapons to destroy the Earth and we can create the means to pollute all of our planet’s living, conscious terrains – without exceptions.
In short, we have been misguided grossly for 400 years
It is paradoxical that the vision which created democracy and lands of liberty and a modern science of nature is also what is now undermining those terrains, as highlighted on a special anniversary date.
Just 210 years ago, on December 15th, 1791, the Bill of Rights became the law of the land. Now we see an overturning of that Bill of Rights on Dec 15, 2011!
But understanding what was presented above, this process has been an inevitable and twice as long-run development (400 years, two hundred past the enactment of the Bill of Rights).
The early fruits of the Industrial Revolution were again, what we can best might call double-negatives which equal only superficial positives – and to be undermined latter as the vision is ever deepened applied and expanded. Thus machines negated and replaced mechanical chores, a double negative that yielded a superficial positive – including a short-term abolishing of slavery. This is why the Renaissance vision was treated with such huge excitement – with the thrilling belief that it would only lead us to endless human progress and the glorious conquest of nature – including our human nature.
Sir Isaac Newton never imaged McDonald’s innovative mechanization of food delivery and what that would do to our health; or Monsanto’s mechanization of what is at the core of life and what it would do to threaten life all over the planet; or Fehmi’s invention of formulas that led to the building of atomic weapons – based on Cartesian coordinate formulas, a vision of space infinitely separated or exploded. Newton never imagined the creation of a Bill of Rights and its later shredding. Blind belief in an order does not yield wisdom or foresight.
Thus a far deeper application of the very same root Newtonian vision, has mislead and misguided us toward a wholesale destruction of life, of free-will and ultimately of cultural consciousness – or a far greater and deeper eventual slavery of humanity.
We are on that doorstep. Make no mistake about it. We have arrived at that doorstep.
What we visualize, we always create
We are ultimately responsible for the world we have created it. And not until we change our root inner vision, or what has led us to where we are today, until we green our inner consciousness and not just our gardens, our outer world will continue on this very same path to the very same ends and unstopped.
What we visualize inside of us, we materialize outside of us.
That is the ultimate law of consciousness and the ultimate challenge.
Greatest story of our times
And so the story unfolds that on December 15th 2011, the US Senate, following the US House of Representatives, passed the National Defense Authorization Bill.
It is a bill that totally historically guts the Bill of Rights.
It is a bill that ends the dominance of the spirit of 18th century America.
The founding fathers were wise but their efforts were not enough to withstand the evil potentials of government and its dominant economic forces. They still underestimated the power of those forces to undermine their noble efforts – to withstand the ever greater evolution of a commercial-dominated culture which we’ve seen in our times.
The real terrorist attack
This new NDA Act destroys the liberty that Americans have fought for, for at least two hundred years. It is the ultimate terrorist act or overturning of our nation.
It allows for the arrest and indefinite detention of any US citizens who are just accused of being a “terrorist” – without the necessity of any trial or proof.
Building 7 Demolition Though Never Hit by a Plane
The fake terrorist attack
This has been enacted during a time when the whole “War on Terror” was fabricated by the Bush administration. The notion that three buildings came down on Wall Street due to a terrorist attack of two planes, and within seconds or in demolition fashion is a public IQ test. It is also a test for how far mass consolidated media can distort and recreate Orwellian reality.
No loin-skill clothed Afghans could ever have challenged a trillion-dollar-a-year-spending military and its air defense system.
Norad, that air defense system, was ordered to be shut down on 9-11. The only true accounts of what happened can be found on the Internet.
Then came the passage of the “Patriot Act” – which the whole primary purpose for staging 9-11.
And now comes the ultimate follow up, the NDA Act – the end game of killing American democracy.
I came from Nazi Germany
Those criminals in our culture who have staged 9-11 studied what happened with the burning of the Reichestag that thus led to the destruction of democracy in Germany.
My family was a survivor of Nazi Germany only because my father read Mein Kampf and saw what was coming. We live in times, that is in an age of drones, where there is no where any longer to run to. So we are forced to remain and stand up to the forces of our times and via an infowar – letting the truth come out.
Hanging together through these tough times
Our commercial culture has created a new brave world were we live ever more separately and in zombie-like ways, dumbed down by drugs and TV addictions. Also the single person living alone has become the highest rising social statistic of our commercial times. This evidences still further a disintegration of society. But ultimately the pendulum must swing the other way.
As Benedict Arnold once stated, and this applies powerfully to our times. a time of deep cultural illness and corruption,…. we must now either hang together or else hang separately. We need to create new local and intentional (conscious) community structures – to rebuild our world out of the ashes of the modern.
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Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) Normally we write just about health issues. However, certain recent political developments are so threatening to the freedom of our culture that they affect the health of all aspects of our lives.
When it comes to politics there is an elite in control. And what has spooked that elite of our country the most?
It is not difficult to figure out.
Trying to control the collective mind
Back in the 1960′s there was a very powerful cultural movement that threatened the soul of modern capitalism. To remedy that threatening climate, bills were soon passed to consolidate control of all the media, setting the stage for an essential killing of America’s spirit. The aim was to guarantee that a 1960′s style or unconventional cultural revolution would never happen again. That effort was highly successful, and has held its ground for nearly four decades. But just as flowers and grass dare to eventually grow through the cracks in cement sidewalks, something new and alive is popping up that threatens to overturn this apple cart.
It’s the freedom of the Internet.
The power of Internet freedom
We have seem its power of the Internet in the Middle East, helping to overthrow authoritarian governments.
Make no mistake about it, the elite in America have gotten the message, and quite a long time ago (considering that they began to build FEMA camps over a decade ago). Their plans have accelerated to retake control in 2012.
This includes the provision in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to allow for indefinite confinement of US citizens just by being accused or suspected of being a “terrorist”
Attempting mind control
A follow up thrust is a bill called SOPA in the House and a parallel bill called Protect IP Act in the Senate.
Thus what began as an attempt to restrain foreign piracy on the Internet has totally changed into a bill to essentially kill the Internet’s freedom. Make no mistake about it. This is a criminal piece of legislation. Congress no longer represents the American people when passing legislation. It represents lobbyists and corporate influence, no matter how malevolent.
Why Congress is moving so quickly on these bills
The answer is simple. If they don’t, and in as little as a year, the elite will lose out big time.
Movements like the citizen effort in California to put on the ballot a bill to label genetically engineered foods will set a trend that will eventually bankrupt Monsanto.
Such uncontrolled public efforts, circumventing Congress, are scaring the daylights or freaking out the elite.
They want to retake and maintain full control. But because their thrust is so malevolent and evil, this time it will require violence.
The combined effort of NDAA’s unlimited detention law, the building of FEMA camps, and now the SOPA/IP Act’s attempt to destroy the Internet – these are all part and parcel of the same big picture to retake control.
SOPA and IP Act thrusts to destroy Internet free speech
Thus the proposed legislation would be an Orwellian power grab by the U.S. Justice Department to be able to shut down any Internet site it wants to, and by fiat. All the “Justice” Department has to do is claim a site violates this law. As with the National Defense Authorization Act, the accusation, without trial, suffices to criminalize the target. There will be no due process in the Courts. It would establish an unbridled “thought police and set a worldwide precedent.
A mere accusation is enough
Again under the proposed legislation, a mere accusation shuts down a site, supposedly because it unlawfully featured copyrighted content. The accusation need not be proven or even accompanied by probable cause. This is similar to how the FDA is threatening and has successfully put out of business natural supplement companies.
Again, all that the government accuser has to do is point a finger at a website and it is dead.
Financial death too boot
Additionally, the bills grant regulators the right to choke off revenue to the owners of these newly classified “rogue” websites by accusing their online advertisers and payment providers as co-conspirators in the alleged “piracy.” Again, no finding of fact would be required – the mere allegation of impropriety is all that’s needed to cut the website’s purse strings. The bill would threaten to make linking illegal, except for the linking from and to government approved (or not disapproved) sites.
Who’s vulnerable to this legislation?
Just about all websites. The bill would criminalize sites like Youtube or even Facebook. The penalty for posting “copyright” material is 5 years in jail!
Don’t be fooled these bills are not at all about protecting copyrights any more than the Clean Air Act was about clean air. The latter was about allowing for more pollution. Know the difference between a pretext and the real reason a bill is being passed.
SOPA and the IP Act are the equivalent of curing a headache with a guillotine.
If they go through Congress, kiss goodbye to America’s freedom of speech. Know the ulterior and clear motive has really absolutely nothing to do with copyrights. There are enough laws on the books for that already. The real goal to kill freedom of expression that is threatening the elite
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Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) December 15th (the day this article was first posted) was the 220th anniversary of when, in 1791, Congress entered into law The Bill of Rights. This represented the soul of America, what brave men and women fought to defend – our liberties. All of that is about to be overturned, no kidding. This is no joke. Besides the fact that the US government has built around 1000 detention centers around the country, and is now staffing them, a friend tells me of another friend in the military who is disgusted about how troops, returning from wars like Iraq, are being trained to turn on the American public with lethal weapons. Again no kidding. This is no joke. How I wish this was just fear mongering.
Forbes details the legal framework behind this development.
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If Obama does one thing for the remainder of his presidency let it be a veto of the National Defense Authorization Act – a law recently passed by the Senate which would place domestic terror investigations and interrogations into the hands of the military and which would open the door for trial-free, indefinite detention of anyone, including American citizens, so long as the government calls them “terrorists.”
So much for innocent until proven guilty. So much for limited government. What Americans are now facing is quite literally the end of the line. We will either uphold the freedoms baked into our Constitutional Republic, or we will scrap the entire project in the name of security as we wage, endlessly, this futile, costly, and ultimately self-defeating War on Terror.
There are still changes swirling around the Senate, but this looks like the basic shape of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. Someone the government says is “a member of, or part of, al-Qaida or an “associated force” can be held in military custody “without trial until the end of the hostilities authorized by the Authorization for Use of Military Force.” Those hostilities are currently scheduled to end the Wednesday after never. The move would shut down criminal trials for terror suspects.
Indefinite detention
But far more dramatically, the detention mandate to use indefinite military detention in terrorism cases isn’t limited to foreigners. It’s confusing, because two different sections of the bill seem to contradict each other, but in the judgment of the University of Texas’ Robert Chesney — a nonpartisan authority on military detention — “U.S. citizens are included in the grant of detention authority.”
An amendment that would limit military detentions to people captured overseas failed on Thursday afternoon. The Senate soundly defeated a measure to strip out all the detention provisions on Tuesday.
So despite the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a right to trial, the Senate bill would let the government lock up any citizen it swears is a terrorist, without the burden of proving its case to an independent judge, and for the lifespan of an amorphous war that conceivably will never end. And because the Senate is using the bill that authorizes funding for the military as its vehicle for this dramatic constitutional claim, it’s pretty likely to pass.
I seriously don’t care if you’re a liberal or a conservative or a libertarian or a Zen anarchist. So long as you aren’t Carl Levin or John McCain, the bill’s architects, you can join the Civil Liberties Caucus. Spencer writes:
Weirder still, the bill’s chief architect, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), tried to persuade skeptics that the bill wasn’t so bad. His pitch? “The requirement to detain a person in military custody under this section does not extend to citizens of the United States,” he said on the Senate floor on Monday. The bill would just let the government detain a citizen in military custody, not force it to do that. Reassured yet?
Civil libertarians aren’t. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) said it “denigrates the very foundations of this country.” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) added, “it puts every single American citizen at risk.”
This is what I mean: Give me Rand Paul and Al Franken any day of the week over the Levins and McCains of the Senate. We need more elected officials with the sensibility of Ron Wyden or Al Franken* on the left, or Rand Paul on the right. Right and left are such shoddy, ad hoc descriptors these days anyways.
What’s truly at stake when we start talking about Big Government and such is far more dangerous and preposterous than high marginal tax rates.
Stripping away our freedoms
We’re talking about the stripping away of our most basic freedoms. We’re talking about a potential state that can call me a terrorist for writing this blog post and then lock me up and throw away the key.
What’s the line from Batman? The night is always darkest just before the dawn. I like to think that’s true, because times seem awfully dark these days.
* Update: Actually,Franken voted for the NDAA so never mind. He’s also sponsoring the PROTECT IP Act which would clamp down on free speech online.
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Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) A healing blog normally is focused on giving you the means to heal yourself, and to ward off the external threats to your health. But there is more happening to our world that can upset our well-being than just a virus.
When I came to the US from Germany some 50 years ago, my family were the lucky survivors of the war. This was when America was the land of the free and the home of the brave – a refuge for those seeking shelter from political and religious tyranny. When my uncle came to the US, shortly before us, he kissed the ground. We all worshiped the Statue of Liberty
Who’s not aware that lots has changed in America?
Lots has happened since, and the change is about to accelerate. If you are not aware of sinister elements of the US government that are preparing for marshal law on our soil – you are not entirely with it. My dad saved his life in 1939 when he read Hitler’s Mein Kampf and knew something evil was amiss. He fled to Poland, then Russia and survived the war. Without his foresight, I would not be alive to write these words.
Germany was then a full democracy. It was also a “high culture” as well- the land of Goethe, Beethoven and Mozart. People said it just couldn’t happen there. Then, like the demolition of Twin Towers, came the burning of the Reichstagand the abrogation of liberties, supposedly to protect Germans like the Patriot Act. Heimland or Homeland Security was initiated there as here (ring a bell?). Many of those who refused to believe this all was happening, especially among Jews, died in the camps in the millions. It may seem unimaginable for something similar to be brewing. But a criminal elite in our country has recently been freaked by the rapidity of Middle East uprisings, unseating tyrants, and by the freedom of information of the Internet, and more recently by the Occupy Wall Street movement. They are taking it seriously.
Thus they have vastly accelerated a plan, more than a decade in the making.
More than just threatening marshal law
When the banks, who pull the strings of Washington government, demanded a bailout as their right, when some Congressmen balked, they threatened marshal law. The banksters are doing the same in Europe now, threatening marshal law if the Euro collapses. But the threats in the past were empty because they weren’t prepared for it, not as yet. As unbelievable as it sounds, they have been systematically planning for it, and soon these banksters who tell Obama, what to do and when, will be ready. Thus we are close to facing times like the demise of democracy in Germany. Don’t kid yourself, thinking that such a view is just one of extremism and unfounded.
Wake up America. Smell the REAL detentions camps that FEMA has already built to house millions of Americans all over the US, 800 camps built under contract by Haliburton beginning in 1999. Now for the first time these are openly being staffed for emergency 72 hour activation. If you are at all spooked, it is a time for a call to action. Should I mention some really have ovens and a store of 500,000 plastic coffins. Now that would be too much to mention.
Legislative key to Americans occupying the camps
The legislative key for operating and occupying these camps is the ‘indefinite detention’ provision’of the National Defense Authorization Act. It is set now been rushed for a vote in the House and Senate. It is an open and dangerous step to establish full martial law in America – and basically to shred the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.
Speaking with the Alex Jones Show today, Congressman Paul went on the offensive against the bill, which is set to be signed into law by President Obama later this week.
Battlefield of NDAA bill – Section 1031
Section 1031 of the NDAA bill, which itself defines the entirety of the United States as a “battlefield,” allows American citizens to be snatched from the streets, carted off to a foreign detention camp and held indefinitely without trial. The bill states that “any person who has committed a belligerent act” faces indefinite detention, but no trial or evidence has to be presented, the White House merely needs to make the accusation.
Paul said he saw significance in “the announcement and the arrogance of it all,” making reference to the Obama administration’s claim that it can now assassinate American citizens anywhere in the world and noting that the passage of the NDAA bill is an effort to codify the policy into law.
This is the biggest news of our times
“This is a giant step – this should be the biggest news going right now – literally legalizing martial law,” said Paul, noting that the subject did not come up at all in any of the Republican debates.
The Congressman also decried the “arrogance” of an attempt to push through via a voice vote an amendment that would have still authorized indefinite detention even if a detainee was found innocent after a trial. The amendment was narrowly defeated by his son, Senator Rand Paul.
“This is big,” emphasized Paul, adding “This step where they can literally arrest American citizens and put them away without trial….is arrogant and bold and dangerous.” Despite speculation that the Obama administration would veto the bill, it emerged yesterday that it was the White House itself which worked to remove language from the bill that would have protected American citizens from indefinite detention under Section 1031. The administration has been working with lawmakers to alter a separate provision, Section 1032, which pertains to the military being required to take custody of individuals.
With the administration’s concerns over Section 1032 now largely resolved, a revised and final version of the bill could be signed into law before the end of the week. “The conferees said they plan to bring the bill to the House floor for a vote as soon as Wednesday afternoon and to the Senate soon thereafter,” reports Politico.
Despite the revisions, the bill still contains language that allows Americans to be detained without trial at a detention center anywhere in the world.
Legislators are intentionally misleading Americans
Republican Congressman Justin Amash has again warned that lawmakers are attempting to mislead the American people by claiming U.S. citizens are exempt from the most dangerous provisions of the bill. “Pres. Obama and many Members of Congress believe the President ALREADY has the authority the bill grants him. Legally, of course, he does not. This language was inserted to keep proponents and opponents of the bill appeased, while permitting the President to assert that the improper power he has claimed all along is now in statute,” writes Amash.
“They will say that American citizens are specifically exempted under the following language in Sec. 1032: “The requirement to detain a person in military custody under this section does not extend to citizens of the United States. Don’t be fooled. All this says is that the President is not REQUIRED to indefinitely detain American citizens without charge or trial. It still PERMITS him to do so,” warns the Congressman.
Super-urgent call to action
Amash is encouraging Americans to contact their representatives and sign a petition expressing their opposition to the NDAA bill, calling it “one of the most anti-liberty pieces of legislation of our lifetime.”
Click here to listen to the interview with Ron Paul in full.
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Based on an article by Paul Joseph Watson, editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show
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Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) You might the headline is just a cute joke but unfortunately it isn’t. The mainstream media doesn’t want you to know any of this story, even though it is one of the most important we have ever reported on, since our inception. It affects everyone’s health as well as liberty and free rights to pursue happiness.
Literally repealing the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights
The US Senate jus voted, as part of the National Defense Authorization Actto essentially repeal the Constitution and its Bill of Rights. The law authorizes the U.S. military to operate on U.S. soil, conduct secret kidnappings of American citizens and throw them in secret military prisons. There they can and will be “legally” tortured, interrogated and even murdered.
Welcome to the NEW AMERICA
All that is required to become a detained outcast from the NEW AMERICA is the accusation that you are somehow linked to “terrorism.” There is no definition of that term, no due process and no evidence required. This has already been voted on by a traitorous U.S. Senate, led by Republicans like Sen. John McCain who should, due to that vote, themselves be in jail.
News Blackout
As with the Constitution-destroying provisions of the “Patriot Act,” you won’t find any depth coverage of this story in mainstream media, which has been bought up, lock-stock-and-barrel by an elite that is simultaneously behind the passage of this law. This is no joke. How and which newspaper and media magnates are involved is another story.
If you thought Bush was bad, just wait until a Republican wins the election in 2012 and then uses this law to declare open war on the American people. Impossible? The massive FEMA detention camps, built by Halliburton, and to hold a million or more American “terrorists” have now been built. This year they even have paid management, and with representatives ready-to-go in every state.
FEMA camps no joke
Where do you think the U.S. military planned to put all these U.S. citizens they round up under this new law? The FEMA camps. There is no longer any doubt!
Detention or concentration camps can’t happen here – think again
We’ve got the entire censored episode of Jesse Ventura’s “Conspiracy Theory” that reveals these FEMA camps in full detail. Watch it now with renewed knowledge of why these internment camps have been constructed across the USA: Learn about FEMA CAMPS!
All this harkens back to World War II and the Japanese internment camps set up on U.S. soil, followed by the military rounding up of Japanese citizens: About Japanese internment camps.
You think they won’t do it again? Why did they just pass a bill declaring the entire USA to be a “battleground” of terrorism – and opening the door for the military occupation of US cities? Your hometown?
On the verge of becoming a military dictatorship
Our liberty and the soul of our country is at stake. Our survival as a free nation. It is time thus for all of us to reaffirm the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Without the Bill of Rights, we are nothing but a military dictatorship, led by bankster criminals?
Time for all to become constitutionalists
The looming scenario is we get this law signed by Obama declaring “I’ll never use it on American citizens.” Then Newt Gingrich gets elected in 2012 and all hell breaks loose. Mike Adams of naturalnews suggests “he might unleash the U.S. military on California pot dispensaries, using armed troops to round up everybody who smokes a little weed, then throwing them in secret U.S. military prisons where they are subjected to torture. No charges, no public defense attorneys, no due process, no accountability whatsoever. All 100% legal because it was voted into law by the traitorous U.S. Senate. You think this couldn’t happen in America? Wake up, people: The Patriot Act was passed with the promise that it would “never be used against Americans” and was only for “terrorists,” right? But now up to 90% of the Patriot Act prosecutions are being leveled against American citizens for things that have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism: See (Looming Destruction of America by Patriot Act)
Power corrupts andabsolute power corrupts absolutely
That’s for certain. Wake up America. Tyranny is at our doorstep.
The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to limit government power. It was prevent secret arrests, torture, assassinations, unlimited detention and other police-state tactics used by nations like Nazi Germany, North Korea, China and Cuba. But with this Senate bill, the USA will become among them, in short order. All the things we in the USA complain about in these other nations will become routine in the US – illegal arrests, torture, etc. – as it will be entirely LEGAL under U.S. law! The complaints against the tyrant dictators in other nations may pale in comparison to what is in store. So will Hillary Clinton organize a United Nations invasion of America to “protect the innocent protestors?” Don’t hold your breath.
List of criminal U.S. Senators who voted for this bill
The U.S. Senators who voted for this bill are criminals to be arrested, since they are the true terrorists who have openly attempted to destroy the very U.S. Constitution they swore allegiance to. The list is mostly of disgusting Republicans. Do they represent your state. Be sure to vote against them come the next election.
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(Healingtalks) Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today announced legislation that would prohibit open-air cultivation of Genetically Engineered - GE pharmaceutical and industrial crops so as to prevent biological contamination of our food supply. The bill would also establish a tracking system to regulate and ensure the safety of the same GE pharmaceutical and industrial crops.
Wise words from Kucinich
“We must take steps to prevent genetically engineered organisms from being grown in a way that could do irreversible damage to our food supply. Under pressure from profit-minded industry, we have already allowed the spread of genetically modified crops into our agriculture at great cost to our economy and with unknown effects on our bodies,” said Kucinich.
History of open field testing
The Department of Agriculture has allowed more than 300 outdoor field trials of plants—including feed crops including corn, soybeans, rice, safflower, barley, alfalfa, mustard greens, peas, sugarcane, tomatoes, and wheat—which are genetically engineered to produce experimental pharmaceuticals, industrial enzymes and novel proteins. Those GE substances are not intended to be incorporated into food or to be spread into the environment or our food supply. Yet there are examples of such contamination, with enormously destructive consequences.
“Many Americans are unaware that crops that are genetically engineered to produce experimental pharmaceutical drugs are being grown in this country in the open, allowing them to contaminate conventional crops without detection. We cannot rely on industry to prevent the unintended spread of genetically engineered organisms,” said Kucinich.
Kucinich’s Genetically Engineered Safety Act and GE Right to Know Act
H.R. 3554, The Genetically Engineered Safety Act, which would prohibit the open-air cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) pharmaceutical and industrial crops. The bill would prohibit
Use of common human food or animal feed as the host plant for a genetically engineered pharmaceutical or industrial chemical.
Would establish a tracking system to regulate the growing, handling, transportation, and disposal of pharmaceutical and industrial crops to protect native ecosystems and traditional farms from the unstudied dangers of growing GE organisms.
Note that the legislation is part of a package of bills introduced by Kucinich, which includes H.R. 3553, the GE Right to Know Act.
“We have taken few steps to ensure that our own genetic experiments are kept in check. This commonsense legislation would simply ensure that our experimentation with genetic engineering and cloning do not disrupt our traditional food supply. When you are talking about the safety and stability of the food supply, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” said Kucinich.
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There is a brand new thrust toward adulterating what goes into our mouths. It is yet another dangerous modification of our food supply, and it involve a universal favorite, chocolate! Could there be anything more evil and disturbing than to mess with this great “ambrosia” or food of the gods?
Shocking as it sounds, this is exactly what’s on the horizon. Plans are under way to genetically modify 70% or more of our global cocoa supply. The campaign involves using hybrid, gene-modified cocoa trees and in collaboration the “Gang of Eight”
MARS (makers of MARS bars)
USDA’s ARS or Agricultural Research Service
IBM
NCGR (National Center for Genome Resources)
Clemson University
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Indiana University
Washington State University (CGD).
Where cocoa is grown
Modern role and prior history of harvesting cocoa
Before going into the details of this terrible plan, lets look at the modern role and prior history of harvesting cocoa.
Cocoa actually ranks among the top ten agriculture commodities in the world. The cocoa industry thereby creates a livelihood for more than 6.5 million farmers in west and central Africa, Mexico, South America and parts of Asia. The first use of cocoa appears to have occurred around 1100 BC (Wiki). In the Americas, this crop has been cultivated for at least three millenniums, especially in Mexico, Central and South America.
So the question arises, if humans have been growing cocoa plants so successfully for so long, why should we ever tinker with this track record? Why fix what’s not broken?
Alluring false promises of GMO research
Researchers claim we can ‘accelerate’ the breeding process of cocoa trees..and that that will benefit the chocolate industry and cocoa growers in West Africa — the home of 70% of the world’s production (CGD). The farmers don’t seem to have any voice in the above. Although CGD boasts better profits for altered plants, then if so at what expense and for lining whose pockets?
Dangers of genetically modified foods
Why worry about genetically modified foods?
In brief, genetic engineering involves a mechanical way of looking at nature that goes against the principles of life. Is not surprising thus that animal-feeding studies have shown that with GMO-altered feed, animal’s immune systems, general health, and the ability to procreate does downhill.
Many HealingTalks articles listed below go into this in much more detail.
Cocoa is a nutrient-rich product that can bring on feelings of great well-being and happiness.
It does this because cocoa containsphenylethylamine, a slight antidepressant and stimulant. Cocoa can also increase the level of serotonine, likewise contributing to a feeling of well-being and happiness as resonating in your brain. This wonder product also contains some essential minerals including:
magnesium,
calcium
iron
zinc
copper
potassium and manganese
vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, C, E and pantothenic acid.
Cocoa keeps your high blood pressure down. It reduces the blood’s ability to clot (CocoaWeb).
And the best way to insure getting all these ingredients is by purchasing organic dark chocolate.
Raw chocolate recipe
Say no to GMOs by going organic. Make this delicious, organic, nutrient-rich desert by yourself and share it with friends and family:
Ingredients:
1 Cup of Raw Organic Raw Cocoa powder
½ Cup of Raw Cocoa Butter or Coconut Butter
1 Teaspoon of Stevia powder
1 Cup of soaked Almonds (Chopped)
Directions:
Use double boil method to melt the butter. Cook gently to about 110 F.
Add Stevia and mix well (Turn off water heat)
Add Cocoa
Poor onto a plate (Which has plastic wrapper)
Finally add nuts proportionately
Call to action
Given this thrust, we need to protect ourselves and our food supplies.
Labeling foods that contain GMOs in not mandatory in America.
However the California GMO labelling initiative that requires labeling can be a true Death Blow to GMOs. Also the Cacao Genome Database (CGD) welcomes your feedback about their cocoa modification project. Tell them you don’t want it and won’t buy such products. Comments can be posted here.
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Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) When Michelle Obama first entered the White House, she wished to share her spirited persona – her style, beliefs, and pet projects. This included growing an organic garden with children and in order to inspire a connection with deeper nature as well as to help a nearby food bank. Not since Eleanor Roosevelt grew a Victory Garden at the White House during World War II had a First Lady again tilled that soil. But it was the first time the garden was distinctively postured as organic, thereby “breaking new ground.”
Ms. Obama teaching a lesson to children
The intention of Mrs. Obama was simply to educate children about growing their own pure, unadulterated whole food – and at a time when the opposite, or processed foods contributed and were causing an epidemic of obesity and diabetes in the United States. This was a valuable lesson in nutrition and growing food to high and pure standards. The Obama White House garden was grown organically and using the methods of farming this country has used for centuries to yield the most nutrition and “clean” foods to Americans.
Setting an inspiring example
- with the whole family involved
The garden was 1,100 square feet, and 23 children from Bancroft Elementary School from Washington D.C., helped her dig the garden and plant the vegetables near the Obama swing set. Barack Obama, the President promised to pull the weeds when necessary and even Michelle’s mother was involved as a supervisor. Michele Obama broke the ground with her own foot, tilled the soil with the children to produce a magnificent garden that yielded fresh, organic and non-pesticide food for her own First Family. Many Americans were inspired because they naturally prefer produce that is locally grown – the way it was a century ago in usually extended-family and small farm settings.
Big Ag and the chemical/GMO industry didn’t see it that way
Quickly, the lobbyists went to work to stop our President’s wife’s blasphemy and they have successfully silenced her – stopping her forever for uttering the following most verboten or banned and banished words:
Organic Food
Organic Gardening
Pesticide-Free Food
The lobbyists correctly instructed Michelle Obama instead to use the term:
“Crop protection food products” – with Round Up, Monsanto GMO seeds and non-traditional chemically agriculture being more essential.
Why Mrs. Obama grew her “nasty” garden
Mrs. Obama noticed the family was eating too much processed foods so that her girls, Sasha and Malia, were gaining weight. Then her pediatrician advised her to have them move away from eating junk foods – those that included excessive salt, sugar and fat.
But Mrs Obama succumbed to “better” advice from political forces
Her family needs soon became secondary to the required political messages enforced by lobbyists who pay big mullah to elect politicians. They silenced her misguided zeal about organic gardening.
Who pulls the puppet strings in Washington, DC.
This so dramatically illustrates the reigning power of lobbyist in the Obama administration. So does the fact that Obama hired Tom Vilsack, a hard-core supporter of GMOs, to head of the USDA.
Michelle should have known better!
Though Mrs Obama caved to lobbyist, she long ago should have known better . Having a nation of healthy children is not what the pharmaceutical industry has in mind for American – especially if the children start out in life to learn such healthy, organic nutrition lessons. The resulting good health would bankrupt the industry’s game. It would put thousands of chemists out of work, adding the the nation’s already strained unemployment roster.
One of the greatest “successes” of the Big Pharma industry is seeing 1 in 4 children regularly taking medical drugs. They are not ingesting organic foods – come on now, what a yuk idea! From a business point of view, half of all teenagers in America wonderfully suffer from some chronic illnesses that needs treatment – like diabetes, obesity and the four A’s, asthma, allergies, autism, and attention deficit disorder. The statistics have doubled over the last 30 years and so have the profits. We don’t want America to go backwards now, do we ? A whole nation shifting to a nutrient rich diet would play havoc with the great gains of pharmaceutical stocks on Wall Street.
Mrs Obama’s dangerous and maverick project thus had to be stopped
Michelle Obama must have been taking hallucinogens when she said: “You can begin in your own cupboard by eliminating processed food, trying to cook a meal a little more often, trying to incorporate more fruits and vegetables.” (2009) The First Lady was thus chastized and corrected by the biggest agriculture corporations. Michele Obama’s garden first yielded 80 pounds of vegetables from seeds before Ms Obama yielded to lobbyists.
The Obama Obama’s infamous organic garden- shame on her!
Whose telling our government what best to do
Mid America CropLife Association (MACA) and organization that lobbies for the pesticide and Big Ag industry sent Mrs. Obama a letter to instruct her about living in a different world than our grandparents. It advised her that their lifestyle was not what most Americans want anymore.
Mrs Obama had to be “set right”
The First Lady should fall in line and serve her family only pesticide-rich foods to promote a future population suffering from cancer and other high-maintenance systemic illnesses. Corporate profit interests must, after all, come first – far before health, safety, eating nutritious foods. Thus Mrs Obama had to be “set right” by MACA. This same group represents Monsanto, Dow AgroScience, Dupont Corporation and so on. The fact that Michelle Obama did not use pesticide-sprayed seeds at all, and did not need to spray chemicals on her plot shows she needs some serious “re-education.” The group advised her not ever to use the word organic or to promote organic gardening in any way.
Better living through chemistry
One shouldn’t believe that pesticides or pesticide-sprayed seeds, plants, foods, and processed foods containing GMOs all are linked to cancer, cardiovascular disease, and birth defects. Rather we should follow the greater leadership of Tom Vilsack - a former defense lawyer for Monsanto. We should applaud that Vilsack was named Secretary of Agriculture by the Obama administration and for reasons not of influence peddling by big agriculture and campaign donations – but because it was the right thing to do.
Obama’s “wisdom” and trying to be with the times stretches only so far
Obama’s wisdom apparently guides him to keep his doors wide open to corporate interests, and so much so they even dominate the kind of garden his wife is allowed to grow and what ends up in his kitchen cupboard or on his dinner plate.If we can force people to have vaccinations, this doesn’t see like such a bad thing.
Still hush, hush, the Obamas are not perfect.
Sometimes they indulge themselves and dine out at an organic restaurant.
Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healthing Talks) As discussed in other blog posts, our “healthcare” system is more a disease-care or management system for profit, using not natural approaches but chemical one with “side-effects” that are toxic.
What chemical medical waste represents
When instead of testing a drug in isolation, as FDA mandated, and only on precision-isolated symptoms without considering multiple-drug interactions – suppose we do something entirely opposite, more holistic. What if we take a large and random mix of chemicals and, without any precision or artificial isolation, throw them into a compost heap to test the overall logic of the whole underlying order of chemistry (and whether to develop a system of medicine that puts chemical drugs into our body to begin with). What we then find is that these chemicals will destroys ALL of life in the heap. A heap is where all plants decay to form to the building materials for all other plants in a near universal circle of unity. This is symbolic of the true order of oneness of nature. But throw in the large random mix of synthetic or unnatural chemicals, and this forms a dangerous supertoxic waste site.
Deep issues involved
Also discussed in other blog posts is that at the core of life is consciousness, and that this consciousness forms a primordial universal relationship of connection in nature – the principle of connection itself. What is the underlying order of chemistry? It is the 17th century ideology that all of nature should be math-organized from which came the whole science of chemistry. Mathematics abstracts how to separate all elements of consciousness, which is why it becomes illogical for that system of understanding to succeed in practice – especially in the healing and environmental arts. Why?
This is because “to heal” is to connect and reconnect ourselves to wholeness.
Thus Big Pharma tries to convince us to imbibe modern synthetic chemicals, representing an order that has proven to fail. How are we convinced? By our education system, media ads and with the help of allopathic doctors trained to be drug-prescribing physicians. Naturopaths, by contrast, advocate the opposite or living an organic lifestyle that avoids this unnatural approach. But allopathic doctors are the dominant healthcare practitioners of our time. They have a casual attitude toward chemicals in the processed foods we eat and surrounding environment. Thus cancer is not treated via detoxification but ingesting yet more chemicals. We are told we should take these deep into our bodies, orally or intravenously and as deep as possible within – as the prescriptive of “good science.” But actually, if we follow the compost heap test’s implications, chemical drugs and the restructuring of our interiors chemically, represents an affront. This why modern medicine has not stop the rising epidemics of chronic illnesses worldwide – cancer, diabetes, arthritis, asthma, and the life. This is why patients in nursing homes given multiple drugs walk the halls like unconscious zombies.
This same harm created to our interiors will extend logically to our exteriors – to all of our surrounding environment globally.
Amount and nature of hazardous medical waste
In the US alone there are millions of tons of medical waste produced each year. It is jeopardizing the health of staff, patients, plus disposal workers and almost anyone coming into contact with hazardous materials discarded by health-care sites, a United Nations human rights expert said today.
Calin Georgescu, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and toxic waste, issued a report in which he warned that the world is not paying sufficient attention to medical waste problems.
“Some 20 to 25 per cent of the total waste generated by health-care establishments is regarded as hazardous and may create a variety of health and environmental risks if not managed and disposed of in an appropriate manner,” he said.
Medical waste can include a wide range of hazardous materials, such as infectious waste, anatomical and pathological waste, obsolete or expired chemical products and drugs, radioactive materials and lastly “sharps” – medical instruments or devices that are discarded.
Rising medical waste problem
The problem is rising quickly in developing countries, where medical waste being is accumulating rapidly as health-care services are expanded, and the oversight to ensure the waste is well-managed may not exist.
“In health-care establishments where hazardous medical waste is incinerated, open burning and widespread deficiencies in the operation and management of small-scale medical waste incinerators result in incomplete waste destruction, inappropriate ash disposal and dioxins emissions, which can be even 40,000 times higher than emission limits set forth in international conventions,” Mr. Georgescu said.
Contaminated sharps attract attention
The Special Rapporteur stated that contaminated sharps attract the most attention. Needle-stick injuries exposed people to blood-borne pathogens such as the hepatitis B and C viruses and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
“However, each type of hazardous medical waste presents hazards that jeopardize the enjoyment of human rights.”
Solutions to medical waste problems
Mr. Georgescu made recommendations to reduce the threat posed by medical waste, including the following:
An international regulatory structure to oversee those who manage and dispose of such waste
Replacing incineration as a primary disposal method with more environmentally-friendly approaches
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Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) Did you know that most turkeys raised in the US are fed a diet of genetically engineered corn and soybean meal in a factory farm?
Why it matters whether your Thanksgiving turkey is bioengineered
When Monsanto’s engineered genes were discovered in the blood of pregnant women and their babies, scientists concluded it must have gotten there through eating GMO-fed animals. And that’s not all. The drugs and chemicals found in the typical non-organic turkey form an almost endless list (1).
What about tofu turkey for Thanksgiving?
Most soy is genetically engineered. Read the label to be sure it is organic. Remember also that the healthiest soy products are both organic and fermented, such as soy tempeh. Also beware that with non-organic products thesoy is often “hexane-extracted” It is bathed in a serious neurotoxin that is banned in organic products.
Thanksgiving dairy
Love mash potatoes with butter, veggies with au gratin or desserts with desserts with whipped cream and ice cream?
Genetically engineered corn is highly toxic, according to Monsanto’s own data and as independently analyzed by scientists. Thus cornbread stuffing is usually bioengineered. High-fructose corn syrup and trans fats also can come from the same GE corn oil. Lastly, Monsanto’s genetically modified sweet corn is now on produce shelves. And GMO corn is already contaminating over 20,000 varieties of corn in Mexico and Central America.
Take action
Sign the Millions Against Monsanto petition to label GMOs and food from factory farms.
Sources for Organics
Local Harvest has local, organic, pasture-raised and heritage breed turkeys.
Raw milk from cows raised on organic pasture is the healthiest
Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) Can you imagine climbing up a limb of a tree and seeing the mathematical Fibonacci Sequence in its branches, and then using that insight to develop far more efficient solar panel arrays?
He’s the 13-year-old genius from Long Island, New York who was a recent presenter at the PopTech conference, where he presented the idea. His solar panel configurations are 20-50% more efficient than traditional solar arrays, especially in low-light conditions or cloudy days in winter or shady spots. “My design is like a tree,” he said, “but instead of having leaves it has solar panels at the ends.”
Award-winning solar invention
Dwyer created a prototype for a science fair with his granddad’s assistance. He ordered the panels online. His efforts won hime the Young Naturalist award this year from the American Museum of Natural History. (You can see a photo of the solar-panel prototype on that museum’s website).
Dwyer’s inspiration from organic nature
This idea for this energy-saving project hit Dwyer on a walk through the woods. “One day…walking through the woods – well, on a winter hiking trip – and I noticed that the tree branches collect sunlight by going up into the air. And I thought: ‘Maybe if we put solar panels on the ends of the branches it would collect a lot of sunlight.’”
He also noted that the tree branches spiral up the trunk in a way that mimics the mathematical Fibonacci Sequence. The sequence was an invention of a medieval mathematician, Fibonacci, and he played with this mathematical sequence to how fast rabbits could reproduce, like 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, and so on. Dwyer noted, in a CNN interview that “The fraction for an oak tree is 2:5, which means five branches spiral around the trunk two times to reach the same starting point. So, if you start out at 75 degrees, and you get five branches to 4go around the trunk twice, then you’ll be back at 75 degrees.”
Dwyer added that he was ” trying to see if the tree design could collect more sunlight… But I also measured open-current voltage and it collected 20% more (than flat-panel solar arrays). ” The panels also collected 50% more light in low-light conditions than flat-panel arrangements.
An invention to change the world?
Who knows if Dwyer’s tree-based solar panels really will change the world – but how cool that a 13-year-old has come up with this idea. At PopTech, he stated, it was “pretty lonely being the youngest one … I don’t know how to start a conversation with an adult yet – so I just have to wait for them to ask me questions, and all that. They just come up to me and go ‘You’re that kid!’
Inspiring youth leadership making solar energy advances
Dwyer is not alone in such an achievement. Recently another 13-year-old, William Yuan, accepted a $25,000 fellowship from the Davidson Institute when he won an award for designing a new, more efficient solar cell — a project he undertook at Meadow Park Middle School in Oregon.
It is greatly inspiring to see our youth paving the way for a future with more efficient and cleaner energy resources.
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(Healingtalks) There is hardly a threat facing our planet that outpaces that of GMOs – genetically modified organisms. No individual more cogently explains this than Jeffrey M. Smith. And a synopsis of the entire case is presented in these four, each 15 minute long videos:
Jeffrey M. Smith:
GMO Threat I
Synopsis:
GMOs – What are genetically modified foods
Crops – 5 main modified crops
Essentially equivalent – Industry introduction with the claim they are not significantly different
Political crimes – Consensus of FDA scientists disagreed but were politically muffled by Bush Administrations; policies continued under Obama
Doctors speak out – 2009 American Academy of Environmental Medicine came out with statement urging their physicians to prescribe only non-GMO diets to all patients because animal studies showed causal reproductive damage, immune system suppression, accelerated aging, insulin/cholesterol production dysfunctions, organ damage and gastro-intestinal harm.
Two main types of GMOs – poison drinking and producing (e,g. herbicide resistant Roundup Ready and BT toxin producing)
General planetary impact: significant increase in lbs of herbicides poisoning our fields
General health impact: studies suppressed by Monsanto that these foods harbor harmfully adulterated proteins, anti-nutrients, and immune system suppressants creating a dangerous “genetic roulette” or health crap game.
Statistics abound: that since the widespread introduction of gmos into our processed food supply, autoimmune diseases, inflammations, and allergies are more prevalent
Debunking ingenuous claim – that BT toxin producing bacteria genetically inserted into our foods are safe because they either biodegrade or wash off. Deadly consequences observed to farmers and farm animals around the world
Undressing further false claims - that Roundup ready crops are safe for our environment and for us to eat.
Jeffrey M. Smith:
The GMO Threat II
Synopsis:
Continuation of debunking false claims for Roundup ready technology; why it causes mineral deficiencies as an essential chelator; disturbs hormones, causes sexual dysfunction, birth deformities or stillbirths and bio-accumulates.
Suppression of GMO research – how scientists who bring to light GMO dangers are gaged, with examples from the UK, Russia and Argentina.
Issue of hunger — demolishes the claim on several major counts that GMOs are a solution for world hunger
Agenda of the biotech industry -What has been the strategy, since 1999, to monopolize or control the planting of all seeds on the planet with two decades.
How GMOs were thwarted in Europe – Jeffrey describes the “tipping point” whereby major food producers all dropped GMO ingredients.
Why and how this can and will happen in the US – outlining the Achilles heel of the industry, what we need to do to create a tipping point
Industry reaction – how “Codex” is trying to thwart this by making non-GMO labels illegal internationally.
Jeffrey M. Smith:
GMO Threat III
Synopsis:
Uniquely dangerous nature of genetic pollution – how it can be permanent, unlike chemical or nuclear pollution that biodegrades; it can’t fully be cleaned up or remediated. Try recalling salmon from the sea, gm mosquitos or pollen from the air. Damage thus may be irreversible.
Depth oflying plus collusion between government and industry - these parties have gotten together to hide the truth from the public, at the altar of making money. The first ever application for a GMO product at the FDA did provide raw research data and the finding were so bad, that it subjected the whole technology to questioning. The FDA reaction. It lied to the public that the findings were so good, no further research need be submitted in the future for any other GMO products except on a industry voluntary basis. And what is submitted reeks of such bad science it is an accumulation of horrendous lies. Examples are given. Essentially the FDA was hijacked and outrageous mythologies were released to the public. These myths are promoted with intense arrogance in the face of not knowing the real long-term consequences of this most dangerous of technologies. The myths and claims were that:
GMOs are safe (when really they are dangerous)
GMOs proven safe (when no proof abounds)
Involve a precise technology (actually a crap-shout roulette)
Can help end world hunger (has very opposite impacts)
Is needed and here to stay – intense myths.
How best to oppose this arrogant lying – Small Non-profit organization’s like Jeffrey’s don’t have the funds to go head on with Monsanto’s corruption of politicians but they can instead and more effectively reach consumers, doctors, and the general public – families in their kitchens
Jeffrey M. Smith
GMO Threat IV
Synopsis:
Continuation of the arrogance – 90 day tests conducted as a guide even though humans may eat GMOs for a lifetime
Threat of terminator technology – how it is designed to devastate agriculture around the world. 1.4 billion farmers rely on annually saving seeds; effort to create bio-serfs/bio-colonialism and the dangerous annihilation of biodiversity
GMO crop contamination- first declared impossible, then called insignificant (neither of which claims are true)
Forcing GMOs on Third World countries, via hunger aide, and to contaminate their crops; how Zambia stood up to the US bully
GMO safety issues – understanding health safety issues as the key to stopping the GMO technology jaugernaut.
Bio-piratism
Death of Bees – How GMO technology is implicated in the death of bees internationally
Summation view of GMO technology – unprecedented dangers to our health and environment
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Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) One of the most extensive libraries on the WW Web with hard-hitting, researched articles and videos. This includes my own groundbreaking book written over a decade ago,50 Harmful Effects of Genetically Modified Foods and my philosophical explanation for why the whole genetic model of Mendel carries false assumptions based on a thanoptic, mechanical, or dead view of nature.
The root problem involves the very core vision that led us (with the arrogant assumption of objectivity) out of the medieval and into the modern world. This refers to the mathematicalvision of nature. The genetic model is simply derivative of a quantified or mathematical view of nature (as Mendel reduced life’s evolution to little more than statistics and where genes served as atomic-like components to be analyzed like the rest of the mechanical model).
As a former math prodigy, I first excelled in physics and then became a renegade from that entire worldview, explaining why that vision only helps us best design machines but otherwise crudely misleads us about nature’s other root essence, and then harms nature when falsely driven ever deeper (and in a marriage with commerce). Overall this does not lead us onto a road of progress as promised (such as GMOs solving our world hunger problems) but rather toward progressive disasters. In fact we are on a road to our own self-destruction as misguided by that root vision, again in a marriage with commerce or the profit motive.
Philosophical issues – the deepest and most significant of all
The philosophical section of the library is at the very end, but it is really the most important and we will add to it in time. There are ways to fully correct the chief flaws of again the root math-based or mechanical/dead vision of nature that ever guides modern life, and as introduced by Galileo, Descartes and Newton. This set the pace for the overall 17-21st century industrial/biotech revolutions. Correcting that vision’s chief flaws is vital for getting us right back on course. And this time we need to stay on course. We need to truly (not following ever deeper illusions) heal our overall relationship with nature.
We are not enlightened about a simple fact that math symbols just abstract universal separation (why these glorified symbols help us build atomic weapons). But the core of nature has, in my experience, a different universal relationship of connection (which the mathematical wisdom reflects in a polar reversal illusion – similar to the illusion of the sun rotating around the earth rather than the opposite being more true.
Imagine for a moment that this is actually the greatest of all illusions and corruptions of our consciousness, and why Monsanto’s routine following of but a monetary or financial goal essentially corrupts their consciousness to deceive the rest of us. Imagine also that without breaking through this illusion of illusions, humanity remains stuck in a fundamental human evolutionary rut.
In this light, I am going to say something very counter-cultural that would make my high school math, physics and chemistry teachers turnover in their graves – namely that it is not accidental that several Nobel-prize winning physicists and chemists have come down with Alzheimer’s disease because their guiding vision does not fundamentally fathom, pierce, or help us understand the root nature of the world we live in.
We fundamentally do not understand the root essence of our world, and as we dig deeper, we screw things up ever more.
So the philosophical issues, rarely known to be important, are actually the most critical and significant of all – and for redirecting the whole of modern life or re-navigating the whole of human consciousness about the nature of nature in our cosmos.
Conclusion
We can still create a Garden of Eden on Earth and rather than ever expanding super-toxic waste sites filled with synthetic chemicals, nuclear waste and Monsanto’s terminator GM seeds.
It is up to us.
This library is meant as a helpful tool in that direction.
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(Healingtalks) The most significant breaking news on the GMOs is the California people’s initiative to gather enough signatures to put this to a historical ballot which would require the labeling of GMOs in foods. Corrupt politicians representing the interests of corporations, not the people, have refused to enact such an initiative even though 90% of Californians support such an effort.
Pathway to Victory
This is the pathway to victory against GMOs, to deal a death blow to GMOs and restore sanity and integrity to our seeds and food crops.
Audio Interview
Naturalnews interviewed Ronnie Cummins from the Organic Consumers Association (www.OrganicConsumers.org), who is a key leader in advocating mandatory GMO labeling. His organization, among many others, is helping to get this initiative on the ballot in California in 2012.
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Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) This week the grassroots Committee For the Right to Know, a wide-ranging coalition of consumer, public health and environmental organizations, food companies, and individuals submitted the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act to the State Attorney General for title and summary, prior to circulation as an initiative measure for the November 2012 election. This is part of a nationwide campaign to also raise consumer awareness and thereby reach a triggering a “tipping point” or sufficient rejection (approximately 5% of consumers) to have GMOs largely removed from the marketplace.
What the Right to Know GEFA Requires
The initiative would require genetically engineered foods (also known as genetically modified organisms, or GMOs) and foods containing GMO ingredients to be clearly labeled, similar to current labels with other nutritional information.
Genetically engineered food is usually plant or meat product that has had its DNA artificially altered in a lab with genes from other plants, animals, viruses or bacteria, in order to produce foreign compounds in that food. This genetic alteration is experimental, and is not found in nature.
Risks of GE Foods
The risk of genetically engineered foods is unclear, and unlike the strict safety evaluations required for the approval of new drugs, the safety of genetically engineered foods for human consumption has not been adequately tested, the group said. Recent studies show that genetically engineering food can create new, unintended toxic substances and increase allergies, cancer risks and other health problems, especially for children.
Experts Agree Labeling Is Necessary
Experts agree that by labeling genetically engineered food, we can help identify foods that cause health problems, the committee said.
“Because the FDA has failed to require labeling of GMO food, this initiative closes a critical loophole in food labeling law. It will allow Californians to choose what they buy and eat and will allow health professionals to track any potential adverse health impacts of these foods,” says Andy Kimbrell, Director of the Center for Food Safety.
Most Common GMO Traits
The two most common genetically engineered traits are the expression of an insecticide in the tissue of “Bt Corn” and the expression of a compound in “Roundup Ready Soy” which enables high doses of Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer to be sprayed while the plant survives.
As much as 85 percent of corn in the U.S. is genetically engineered. BT Corn is currntly regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency as an insecticide.
Worldwide GMO Labeling Movement
Robyn O’Brien, author and founder of the Allergy Kids Foundation says, “I support labeling genetically engineered foods because allergy-sensitive people can exercise caution with essential information to make informed decisions about what they eat.” Fifty countries including the European Union and Japan have laws mandating that genetically engineered foods be labeled, but the United States does not have such a requirement.
Public opinion polls indicate that over 90 percent of California voters support the labeling of genetically engineered foods. Efforts to enact labeling laws in Congress and the California legislature have been blocked by big food and chemical company lobbyists. This measure will take the issue directly to the people to decide whether genetically engineered foods should be labeled.
“These genetically engineered foods have been allowed into our food supply without warning, and they aren’t labeled,” said Pamm Larry, founder of the grassroots movement and the Committee For the Right to Know. “The bottom line is Californians have a right to know what’s in the food we eat and feed our children. It’s time to send a strong, direct message to those who govern us, whether they be agency or elected, that we want genetically engineered foods labeled.”
The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act was carefully and specifically written to avoid any unnecessary burden or cost to consumers or producers. California voters are expected to have the chance to vote on the initiative in November 2012.
The full text submitted to the attorney general can be read below.
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