Seems simple enough, yet so ultimately powerful.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
OpEdNews
Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Monsanto-s-dream-bill-HR-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-090309-337.html
March 9, 2009
Monsanto's dream bill, HR 875
By Linn Cohen-Cole
To begin reversing GM contamination will require ending the power biotech companies such as Monsanto exert over our government and through that, over our food. HR 875, was introduced by Rosa DeLauro whose husband Stanley Greenburg works for Monsanto. The bill is monstrous on level after level - the power it would give to Monsanto, the criminalization of seed banking, the prison terms and confiscatory fines for farmers, the 24 hours GPS tracking of their animals, the easements on their property to allow for warrantless government entry, the stripping away of their property rights, the imposition by the filthy, greedy industrial side of anti-farming international "industrial" standards to independent farms - the only part of our food system that still works, the planned elimination of farmers through all these means. The corporations want the land, they want more intensive industrialization, they want the end of normal animals so they can substitute patented genetically engineered ones they own, they want the end of normal seeds and thus of seed banking by farmers or individuals. They want control over all seeds, animals, water, and land. Our farmers are good stewards. That is who is threatened by Rosa DeLauro's bill (and because of that, we all are). At a time in this country when wise stewardship and the production of anything real - especially good food - is what is most needed, it is our best stewards whom Rosa DeLauro threatens, under the cruelly false name of "food safety." And now Monsanto wants its own employee, Michael Taylor - the man who forced genetically engineered rBGH on us (unlabeled so us, unaware) when the Clintons placed him over "food safety" in the 90s - back in government, this time to act with massive police power as a "food safety tsar" from inside the White House. HR 875 would give him immense power over what is done on every single farm in the country and massive police state power to wield over farmers and punishments to break them at will. The following quotes show Monsanto and its biotech ilk are not "stewards" at all. Their inhuman focus on profit has led to inhuman, insane, sickening products that require intense corruption of democracy and science institutes and media, to foist them on country after country which don't want them. It is our farmers who stand between us and this outrage which masquerades as science, as food, as normal business, as government. And it is or farmers who need not only protecting and but actual freeing from government intrusion, control and harm. Vegetarians and vegans do not identify with farmers who raise animals but what is at stake here is critical for all of us. "First they came for the Jews" is an apt reminder of what matters in standing with each other because the overwhelming bureaucratic burdens, the recording over every single thing done on a farm, the warrantless inspections, the end of farmers markets, the criminalization of seed banking, the ten years in prison for stepping out of line in any way, will next be applied not to animals breaking out of fence onto a neighbors' farm, but for such things as not spraying pesticides on an organic farm to eradicate earthworms (now listed as an invasive species) because the government's "food safety tsar" has deemed it necessary. It is totalitarian control (and HR 875 epitomizes it) which we stand against, and now it is aimed with ferocity at farmers with animals. Stopping it now keeps all farmers safe. Rosa DeLauro and Stanley Greenburg have a great deal to account for in attempting through a mislabeled bill with hidden intent to wipe out our farmers and harm all of us. HR 875 gives Monsanto greater power and opens doors wider to the following ... |
Farmers on Hunger Strike Against GMOs in Poland
- GM Watch, March 19, 2009
Straight to the Source
Two days ago Danuta Pilarska, another organic farmer and chairperson of The Organic Farmer's Union, joined her. Yesterday, both women, together with other members of the Coalition for a GMO Free Poland, joined a meeting of the Polish government's Agricultural Committee in the Senate in Warsaw. The committee was discussing the future of GMO in Poland.
After a few hours of debate Edyta concluded "There's no political will within the Polish government to stop corporations from illegal planting of the GM maize variety MON 810 - and to ensure that Poland is kept GMO free. This opens the possibility of the widespread planting of MON 810 during this year. So we don't have another choice other than to stay here and fight!"
Today, the fasting ladies, supported by other members of the Coalition, have been protesting in front of the Ministry of Agriculture in Warsaw.
See photos http://icppc.pl/pl/gmo/index.php?id=470
* Dear friends - we and they need your support!! Please send your personal letter of support for Danuta and Edita's brave action to the Polish Ministers (see below). The goals of our fasting ladies and the Coalition for a GMO Free Poland are:
1. To reinforce the BAN of all GM plants and - and as a fast-track - ban the maize MON 810.
2. To introduce labelling of all GM foods and gradually withdraw these foods from the market.
3. To introduce a BAN of GM animal feeds.
4. To use social/public funds (tax payer's money) to support traditional and
organic farming.
Please send a copy of your letter to:
The Prime Minister - Donald Tusk
The Chancellery of the Prime Minister
Al. Ujazdowskie 1/3
00-583 Warszawa, Poland
e-mail: cirinfo@kprm.gov.pl
fax. +48 22 6252637
and a copy to us, please!
ICPPC - International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside,
Miedzynarodowa Koalicja dla Ochrony Polskiej Wsi
34-146 Stryszów 156, Poland tel./fax +48 33 8797114
biuro@icppc.pl
www.icppc.pl
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
No Pants 2k8
900 New Yorkers participate in the 7th annual No Pants! subway ride. Way to cool.
I love that there is still much creativity and fun in the world.
Seek it out, live it, and enjoy the hell out of life.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
About Sustainopreneurship
Sustainopreneurship means "Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Sustainability", or "Business with a Cause". In short, it means to solve a sustainability-related problem by creating/finding a sustainability innovation and take the solution to the market by creative business organizing, and venturing with respect to the needs fulfillment of current and future stakeholders.
Sustainopreneurship means "Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Sustainability", or "Business with a Cause". In short, it means to solve a sustainability-related problem by creating/finding a sustainability innovation and take the solution to the market by creative business organizing, and venturing with respect to the needs fulfillment of current and future stakeholders.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
the ways to 'Give them Wings'
Caught up in the laws. Who me? NeverI say! I go my won way, always have always will. I am an independent thinking person, leading my self in my own way. but hey, look where that has gotten me. 58 years further down the road and still searching for the answers to what do I do with this life? Does it take 58 years to admit to yourself that you have made choices all along the way already. Choices that have set you life in motion on a daily basis to arrive at this place that is all so familliar and yet not quite comfortable. I have become after this life of resistance and rebellion, just that rebellious and unhappy with the status quo. Not just with "the world" but with my own world.
I have been ignorant of the laws. What laws? The laws of the universe. The natural laws that govern everything and everyone whether you consciously participate or not.
Getting up on the "wrong side of the bed" can set into motion a wrong kind of day, in which you set the mood for the entire day. Is it ment to be that this will just be a "bad" day. The "law" actually says, it's up to me. It's not in the air, not someone else getting in my way, not going to somehow automaticaly be a bad day. By the laws of the universe "I" am creating that day just the way I order it to be. As if I, following the laws, have no choice but make it what it is.
And that is exactly what I have chosen to do, to make it a miserable day. I, me and my subconscious, my spirit, my true self will it to be by participating in the belief that this is what the day is making of itself. When the reality is that I am believeing that this is the way it is. No! I have believed in it. I am living it as if that is the only way, and so I have manifested my own fate for this day. "I" have created it all. "I" have believed that this is way it is going to be and it is so.
My participation in a crappy day has created a crappy day because that is the choice I made.
There is another way. There are laws that give me the freedom to create a different reality . To follow a different direction. To stop and step out of bed from a new angle. It may be ever so slight a change, but even a 1 degree change of direction on the 360 degree circle is infinitely different when followed to its conclusion.
I have taken a new direction and will explore the possibilities and new conclusions, because the ruts in the old path are too deep to see any goals or outcomes that I can live with. It is not jsut me on the path any more. I am a part of a much bigger picture and outcome. I have a family, friends , community and world to be a part of.In a much grander fashion then the rebellious and resistant fellow I once knew, I am reborn as a seeker, a student and facilitator of huge potentials and worlds of possibilities. I am living the laws with new respect and acceptance. I can live with the knowledge that we all are participants whether we are consciously aware or not and I choose consciousness. I want to not only see the path before me but to activily create it. It is mine and I own it. This life is mine and not one moment more to waste.
I LOVE MINE!
Caught up in the laws. Who me? NeverI say! I go my won way, always have always will. I am an independent thinking person, leading my self in my own way. but hey, look where that has gotten me. 58 years further down the road and still searching for the answers to what do I do with this life? Does it take 58 years to admit to yourself that you have made choices all along the way already. Choices that have set you life in motion on a daily basis to arrive at this place that is all so familliar and yet not quite comfortable. I have become after this life of resistance and rebellion, just that rebellious and unhappy with the status quo. Not just with "the world" but with my own world.
I have been ignorant of the laws. What laws? The laws of the universe. The natural laws that govern everything and everyone whether you consciously participate or not.
Getting up on the "wrong side of the bed" can set into motion a wrong kind of day, in which you set the mood for the entire day. Is it ment to be that this will just be a "bad" day. The "law" actually says, it's up to me. It's not in the air, not someone else getting in my way, not going to somehow automaticaly be a bad day. By the laws of the universe "I" am creating that day just the way I order it to be. As if I, following the laws, have no choice but make it what it is.
And that is exactly what I have chosen to do, to make it a miserable day. I, me and my subconscious, my spirit, my true self will it to be by participating in the belief that this is what the day is making of itself. When the reality is that I am believeing that this is the way it is. No! I have believed in it. I am living it as if that is the only way, and so I have manifested my own fate for this day. "I" have created it all. "I" have believed that this is way it is going to be and it is so.
My participation in a crappy day has created a crappy day because that is the choice I made.
There is another way. There are laws that give me the freedom to create a different reality . To follow a different direction. To stop and step out of bed from a new angle. It may be ever so slight a change, but even a 1 degree change of direction on the 360 degree circle is infinitely different when followed to its conclusion.
I have taken a new direction and will explore the possibilities and new conclusions, because the ruts in the old path are too deep to see any goals or outcomes that I can live with. It is not jsut me on the path any more. I am a part of a much bigger picture and outcome. I have a family, friends , community and world to be a part of.In a much grander fashion then the rebellious and resistant fellow I once knew, I am reborn as a seeker, a student and facilitator of huge potentials and worlds of possibilities. I am living the laws with new respect and acceptance. I can live with the knowledge that we all are participants whether we are consciously aware or not and I choose consciousness. I want to not only see the path before me but to activily create it. It is mine and I own it. This life is mine and not one moment more to waste.
I LOVE MINE!
Sunday, April 09, 2006
The RIGHT OPPORTUNITY ?
How many people are truly satisfied with their jobs or careers? How many people feel they are truly appreciated by their employer or paid their real worth?
The fact is that earning a living is a stressful and often unrewarding business. Our jobs may pay us enough money to do some of the things we want, but thevery fact that we have jobs in the first place limits the very freedom we seek.
What most people want from life is:
Success
Happiness
Financial independence
Freedom
How to become successful?
Why aren't we achieving our goals? When most people think of achieving financial success and the incredibly fulfilling lifestyle that it brings, they soon realize that there are only a limited number of options available to them.
They can either get a better job, or a second job, which pays them more money, they can start a business of their own, they can make investments, or they can set out to win the lottery.
Unfortunately, all of these approaches have their drawbacks...
Working for someone else is never a good way to make money because in a highly competitive, free market economy there will always be some people who are willing to work for less money than others, meaning employers have no real need to offer particularly high salaries to get the talent and skills they need
Starting your own business is fraught with hassle, usually requires a lot of money to set up, and involves a high level of risk - 8 out of 10 small businesses fail within 3 years - not to mention more hard work and even longer hours
• Investing in property and on the stock market brings no guarantee of financial rewards - particularly in today's volatile world it is just as easy to lose money as make it, so the risks are high, even if you have a considerable amount of knowledge
Winning the lottery is a dream shared by millions, but the odds of hitting the jackpot are incredibly high - one in 14 million with the UK National Lottery, and nearly one in 80 million for EuroMillions and US Powerball
Unless you are very, very lucky, or a genius in your field of expertise, none of the above would seem to be a very good route to success, happiness, financial independence and freedom.
What do we ideally want?
In an ideal world, we would all be able to do what we want, when we want, and have enough money to do it.
We can either accept that life is simply not like that, or we can make an effort to get as close to this ideal as we can. The best and most realistic option would be to work for yourself, to work when you want to work, and in so doing earn as much money as you need.
What we are looking for is a business that:
Can be started for a very small amount of money
Can be operated in our spare time without jeopardising our existing career or business
Doesn't require staff, premises or expensive overheads
Offers high rewards for our efforts
And provides a genuine way for us to achieve our goals and realise the unlimited potential within us all - and still leave us free to work as and when we please
A proven business model
There exists a business model that has been used for over eighty years by some of the world's biggest and most respected companies.
It is a proven, robust, fair and well-established business model that gives everybody the chance to achieve their financial and personal goals. It is a business model that has given rise to a multi-billion dollar industry, one which has created more self-made millionaires than any other business in history.
It is called network marketing.
How many people are truly satisfied with their jobs or careers? How many people feel they are truly appreciated by their employer or paid their real worth?
The fact is that earning a living is a stressful and often unrewarding business. Our jobs may pay us enough money to do some of the things we want, but thevery fact that we have jobs in the first place limits the very freedom we seek.
What most people want from life is:
Success
Happiness
Financial independence
Freedom
How to become successful?
Why aren't we achieving our goals? When most people think of achieving financial success and the incredibly fulfilling lifestyle that it brings, they soon realize that there are only a limited number of options available to them.
They can either get a better job, or a second job, which pays them more money, they can start a business of their own, they can make investments, or they can set out to win the lottery.
Unfortunately, all of these approaches have their drawbacks...
Working for someone else is never a good way to make money because in a highly competitive, free market economy there will always be some people who are willing to work for less money than others, meaning employers have no real need to offer particularly high salaries to get the talent and skills they need
Starting your own business is fraught with hassle, usually requires a lot of money to set up, and involves a high level of risk - 8 out of 10 small businesses fail within 3 years - not to mention more hard work and even longer hours
• Investing in property and on the stock market brings no guarantee of financial rewards - particularly in today's volatile world it is just as easy to lose money as make it, so the risks are high, even if you have a considerable amount of knowledge
Winning the lottery is a dream shared by millions, but the odds of hitting the jackpot are incredibly high - one in 14 million with the UK National Lottery, and nearly one in 80 million for EuroMillions and US Powerball
Unless you are very, very lucky, or a genius in your field of expertise, none of the above would seem to be a very good route to success, happiness, financial independence and freedom.
What do we ideally want?
In an ideal world, we would all be able to do what we want, when we want, and have enough money to do it.
We can either accept that life is simply not like that, or we can make an effort to get as close to this ideal as we can. The best and most realistic option would be to work for yourself, to work when you want to work, and in so doing earn as much money as you need.
What we are looking for is a business that:
Can be started for a very small amount of money
Can be operated in our spare time without jeopardising our existing career or business
Doesn't require staff, premises or expensive overheads
Offers high rewards for our efforts
And provides a genuine way for us to achieve our goals and realise the unlimited potential within us all - and still leave us free to work as and when we please
A proven business model
There exists a business model that has been used for over eighty years by some of the world's biggest and most respected companies.
It is a proven, robust, fair and well-established business model that gives everybody the chance to achieve their financial and personal goals. It is a business model that has given rise to a multi-billion dollar industry, one which has created more self-made millionaires than any other business in history.
It is called network marketing.
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Fear Free Retirement
I have been bumbling about the work world for a few years now, confronting the dire reality of dwindling wages and a total lack of security in the job market. So I decided it was time for a major change. After years of surfing the net for the perfect onlline business, I have been fortunate the have been guided to an incredible free marketing and lead generation system developed by a couple of long time marketing guru's Mike Darling ( President, Inetekk. com) and Tom Prendergast CEO, Inetekk.com). Their system is free to all with a wonderful community of free trainings taught daily by an army of experienced volunteers. This system can be found at http://howardf.veretekk.com.
Within the Veretekk Automated Marketing SystemTM I am starting and activating a powerful self-replicating business building system at http://givethemwings.globalwon.bz which has been designed to promote the Globalwon opportunity, and is available to everyone for free.
More on all of this later.
I have been bumbling about the work world for a few years now, confronting the dire reality of dwindling wages and a total lack of security in the job market. So I decided it was time for a major change. After years of surfing the net for the perfect onlline business, I have been fortunate the have been guided to an incredible free marketing and lead generation system developed by a couple of long time marketing guru's Mike Darling ( President, Inetekk. com) and Tom Prendergast CEO, Inetekk.com). Their system is free to all with a wonderful community of free trainings taught daily by an army of experienced volunteers. This system can be found at http://howardf.veretekk.com.
Within the Veretekk Automated Marketing SystemTM I am starting and activating a powerful self-replicating business building system at http://givethemwings.globalwon.bz which has been designed to promote the Globalwon opportunity, and is available to everyone for free.
More on all of this later.
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