Surviving the Middle Class Crash

Howdy! Here I am again, folks. And this time, I’ve decided to lend a hand to all those people who might want to help out those poor, misunderstood people at the American Defamation League (ADL). After all, they need to know just who to target, and I am sure that all you nice folks out there would just love to give these people exactly what they deserve, or is it exactly what they are asking for? Anyway, I just reckon it’s my civic duty to pass this along.

You might be on the ADL hit list if….

You believe that Obama and his administration pose a threat to the future of the United States.

You believe that Obama and his administration are trampling on individual freedoms and civil liberties.

You have a problem with Obama’s economics and social policies.

You don’t like Obama’s health care reform.

You think that the government is eyeballs deep in a eugenics program.

You distrust the government.

You have attended a Tea Party.

You disagree with the agenda at a town hall meeting.

You protest.

You question where Obama was born.

You subscribe to World Net Daily.

You listen to Glenn Beck or Alex Jones.

You think that the government is not looking out for your best interests.

You advocate resisting government-sponsored tyranny.

You belong to Oath Keepers.

You are a 3 percenter or member of a militia.

©2009 Barbara H. Peterson

By Barbara H. Peterson

Farm Wars

Move over, NAIS, here comes NHIS – a National Human Identification System under the FDA. And you thought a tracking system was just for livestock. Well, you are right. To the ruling oligarchy, we the people are just that – livestock to be herded, tracked, culled, and medicated.

Take a look at the following section of HR 3200. READ MORE…

Who’s growing our food?  What’s in it?

Why it isn’t safe!

 

These are the issues that will be discussed at the following place and time:

Venice Center for Peace and Justice (at the Venice United Methodist Church) 2210 Lincoln Blvd, Venice, CA 90291 (1 blk. north of Venice Blvd)

Thursday, November 19 7 PM – Q&A after the presentations

Speakers:

Jules Dervaes, Katherine Green, Nicole Johnson

Dorothy Reik: phone 818-226-6100 Julie Levine: phone 310-455-9389

*Sponsored by the West LA Democratic Club, Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains, Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica, Westwood- Westside, New Frontiers, 4-Star and Culver City Democratic Clubs, Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles, and Westside Progressives

Jules Dervaes is the founder of Path to Freedom, a family-operated, viable urban homestead project established in 2001 to promote a simpler and more fulfilling lifestyle and to sow a “homegrown revolution” against the corporate powers that control the food supply. Since the mid-1980s, Mr. Dervaes and his three adult children have worked at transforming their city lot in Pasadena into a thriving organic garden that supplies them with food all year round. Through the family’s outreach efforts at PathtoFreedom.com and via their popular, award-winning documentary short, Homegrown Revolution, millions of people worldwide have been educated and inspired to pursue a more sustainable way of life.

Katherine Green is, by profession, a television writer and producer. But most recently she’s been involved with researching the state of the food industry in this country. She has edited together a short DVD which helps break down in a provocative and entertaining way what we’re up against in the supermarket–nutritionism, gmo crops, labeling laws, silenced scientists– and how Monsanto fits into the picture.

Nicole Johnson is a researcher, writer and activist living in Ventura County, CA. Her recent work has focused on the sustainable production of wholesome food, agribusiness and the globalized food supply chain, the impact of the industrial food supply on health, and safe drinking water issues. She has published critical articles on the new food safety legislation. As a mother she has the most compelling reasons of all for working to ensure our food and water supply is clean, safe, and toxin-free.

Source: GM Free Cymru

Applicant’s Dossiers Contained Wide-Ranging Fraudulent Research

Press Notice from GM Free Cymru 9 November 2009

For the first time, a GM multinational has pulled two GM corn varieties from the regulatory and assessment process at the eleventh hour (1), after planning for a future income of several billion dollars per year from global sales (2). Monsanto has abandoned its ambitious plans for a so-called “second generation GM crop” rather than accede to a request from European regulators for additional research and safety data (3). (more…)

Welcome to my Walden: This load-bearing straw bale house was built by me, Carolyn Roberts, consultant Jon Ruez, and many friends on evenings and weekends, using natural (straw bale walls, earthen plasters, earthen floor) and recycled materials wherever possible. We passed 23 county inspections. It’s an incredibly sturdy, beautiful and well-insulated house that will last for many years and only cost $50,000 to build (land not included). The straw walls offer insulation from the summer heat, while the earthen plasters and floor give thermal mass to maintain an even interior temperature. A well-insulated ceiling helps, too. The south-facing sunroom heats my home in the winter. I can collect 500 gallons of rainwater in a 1/2 inch rain. A hand-made solar water heater with a small tankless heater as backup provides all my hot water. My electric bills average $35 per month year-round, with no solar panels. Many people thought I was crazy, but this is by far the wisest thing I have ever done, though possibly the most difficult.  (A House of Straw)

I once thought I had a friend. That friend turned out to be not a friend at all, but someone I didn’t really know, just thought I did. I found this out through that person’s actions towards one of the horses I raised from a baby.

I saw hunger in that horse’s eyes when I brought him home from that person’s care. Not just a “hungry for the next meal” look, but the look of starvation.  I spent two days crying after I brought him home. It’s been five days now, and he is on the road to recovery. He is starting to perk up when he sees me, but I still get tears in my eyes when I think about what he must have endured.

A person can have all of the knowledge in the world, and be the smartest person in the world, but unless that person has compassion and really cares about what happens to others, I will not listen to anything he/she has to say. In other words,  if you are abusive, nothing you say means anything to me. I think this is the way most people are. We want to know that the people we associate with care. My horses are my children, and I love them dearly. Starve them and you starve me.

So here is my message to anyone who feels that what they say takes precedence over what they do:

I don’t need your knowledge. Knowledge comes and goes, and what one person knows, another will know. Therefore, I can choose my sources for things I need or want to know. Don’t expect me to forget your actions and listen to your words. Don’t try to talk to me about “important things” when you’ve just committed an act of extreme callousness and cruelty. In fact, don’t talk to me at all. When you can prove that you have grown a heart and care, then I might begin to listen. But I will always remember your actions with every word you speak. And actions speak much louder than words.

Barb