Due to the current economic crisis, people are going back to gardening in droves these days. Elizabeth Hart at Reality Sandwich recently posted Grow Your Own, quoting Thomas Jefferson as saying, “Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens…They are the [...]]]> This is the second of three articles.

Due to the current economic crisis, people are going back to gardening in droves these days. Elizabeth Hart at Reality Sandwich recently posted Grow Your Own, quoting Thomas Jefferson as saying, “Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens…They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.” She brings to our attention The Greenhorns, a new documentary about our next generation of young people who are returning to the land and a simpler life.

Our recent financial collapse has often been compared to the Great Depression, with one very important difference: many of our grandparents survived because they knew how to grow food; in today’s world, not only are there many more millions of people, but most wouldn’t know the first thing about farming. Here is a link to a list of some non-GMO seed stores. You don’t need much to get started – a few pots or a rooftop can create a viable garden even for urban dwellers.

Ironically, it’s becoming more and more difficult for smaller, local and organic farmers to survive, even as demand has skyrocketed. Originally published as an editorial in the New York Times last year, My Forbidden Fruits (and Vegetables) by local farmer Jack Hedin tells quite a story. Here’s another article recently from OpEd News: Organic farming booby trapped. The author encapsulates the issue and provides several links below, which lead to various articles on the dismantling of sustainable farming and USDA attacks on non-corporate farmers. In a nutshell, many claim that the government has been working to get rid of organic farming altogether by various means, including forcing farmers to use Monsanto seeds and even raiding small farms and co-ops.

Another similar issue is the increasing vigilance of the USDA, the FDA and other organizations around the world to legislate away our access to natural remedies. I wrote a long while back about Laetrile and the controversy surrounding “Vitamin B17” and its anti-cancerous properties. Some theorize that cancer is a actually a deficiency disease much like scurvy or pellagra, which could be easily cured with “B17”. The substance is found occurring naturally in various foods, including apple seeds and the kernels found inside apricot pits. According to some doctors, it’s of beneficial use, but it’s not legal to prescribe Laetrile for cancer treatment in the U.S. You have to go to Mexico or some other country to find a doctor who will prescribe it.

Also at Reality Sandwich, Laura Jane posted Endocrine Disruptors, Big Pharma, and BHRT, which explains that bioidentical hormones, naturally occurring substances that can make all the difference in the world for some people with deficiencies, could soon be banned. You can’t patent a naturally occurring substance, don’t you know.

It seems as if the FDA is working hard to protect the pharmaceutical companies, rather than ensuring that the populace as access to healthy options. It is currently illegal in the U.S. to claim that any natural substance can cure cancer. Cancer is big business these days for drug manufacturers. Many herbal remedies and even vitamins may soon be more difficult to access, and even become illegal, as may happen also in Canada. Just recently, Natural News reported on the news that the FDA Declares Form of Vitamin B6 a Drug, Effectively Banning Pyridoxamine from Dietary Supplements, and explained, “Now, any nutritional supplements containing pyridoxamine will be considered adulterated and illegal by the FDA, which may raid vitamin companies and seize such products. See the history of FDA raids on vitamin companies here.” This is regardless of the fact that pyridoxamine occurs naturally in various foods.

This will all likely soon become a matter of international law, along with our financial structures and trade agreements. From the Atlantic Free Press: “The Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC), based in Rome, Italy, is an international organization jointly created in 1962 by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) of the United Nations “allegedly” to protect the health of consumers with guidelines for food standards…Codex treats food as toxins.” They are controversially involved in the re-categorizing of herbs and dietary supplements as drugs, making them controlled substances.

Interesting that is so, when man-made chemicals with many known dangerous health effects are allowed to remain in our foods, including aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, MSG/autolyzed yeast, and other food additives and preservatives. I found an abstract for an intriguing scientific paper published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health entitled Persistent toxic chemicals in the US Food Supply. Toxic chemicals can be found in your laundry detergent, skin care products, and meat. The list is long, and it’s becoming difficult to afford organic/non-GMO food for many people. Tricky. How to Afford Eating Organic suggests it could be done, if we cut corners elsewhere and make it a priority.

It’s almost too much to comprehend. Before you know it, you’ll have to buy a license to grow that basil out on your porch. It is such a vital step for our civilization to return to local sustainability in terms of food and energy production. I am not suggesting to give up our global communications or other technologies. Personally I think if we did it right, we could have both. But so far, the government is still protecting large corporate interests over the common man. The revolution should come in the form of local sustainability, not rioting in the streets, which is already in the news around the world, along with a growing number of tent cities in the U.S.

Working together as neighbors, we might be able to avoid a total system collapse and the inevitable martial law that would follow, though some believe this is what They’re aiming for anyway. I’ll believe in the “change” if I see the new administration do something about this travesty. During these times in particular, sustainability, community-based, non-corporate farming, and healthy alternatives should be supported.  

Part III: Our Contaminated World: The Pharmaceutical Darkside coming soon

Here on the Big Island a week or two ago some routine geothermal drilling led to an accidental magma find that wowed scientists. Then, last week someone here told me there had been some changes at Kilauea’s Halemaumau crater, and that the vog might get better. It has been [...]]]>

• Here on the Big Island a week or two ago some routine geothermal drilling led to an accidental magma find that wowed scientists. Then, last week someone here told me there had been some changes at Kilauea’s Halemaumau crater, and that the vog might get better. It has been clearer here the past few days, though it’s hard to tell from the reports. Pele always has been unpredictable.

• No More White Christmas say “climate experts”, but the day before, Canada reported Coast-to-coast White Christmas. In other climate news, scientists say the seas will rise faster than expected. You don’t have to tell the people in the Marshall Islands, whose urban centers are largely under water and in a state of emergency. Earlier this month huge tidal waves devastated PNG.

• Ironically but also, see new documentary on the world’s water: FLOW.

   

• Earthquakes at Yellowstone. Keep an eye on that supervolcano.

   

• Way of the Infinite Explorer at The Cleaver.

• This one’s been passed around quite a bit already, but anyway, from the Financial Times: And now for a world government

• Time Magazine published an article called: Alternative Currencies Grow in Popularity

  Jeromi Corsi reports some analysts believe possible dollar collapse would result in Amero.

• Article on Beethoven and the Illuminati: how the secret order influenced the great composer. Also, Edward VIII’s links to a mystic.

• “Mr. X” from Project Camelot died suddenly this month at age 48. Also, The Intriguing Death of Top GOP Consultant Mike Connell.

• Miles O’Brien leaves CNN after 16 years, in the middle of UFO week?

• More and more seed vaults.

• Swiss watch found in 400-year old tomb in China, scientists baffled. Also, is mainstream science beginning to change their tune? More scientists echo Schoch, others, in dating and original sculpture of the Sphinx.

• Georgia Guidestones vandalized!

• The World’s Largest Rock Sculptures? New discoveries in Peru could raise some historical questions.

• New movie explores transcendent warfare: The Men Who Stare at Goats for 2010

• Harry Shearer’s satire film on the Bohemian Grove, from 2002: Teddy Bears’ Picnic

• 2008 will be just a second longer, as scientists add a leap moment to our slowly slowing planet. Happy New Year everyone.

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• True or false? “An illusion it will be, so large, so vast it will escape their perception. Those who will see it will be thought of as insane…” read more…

   

• “New World Order” being taught in schools: Youtube video

• A friend recently sent me Europac.net and the work of Peter Schiff, who predicted the economic collapse a few years ago

   

• People Said to Believe in Aliens and Ghosts More Than God

• From The Times of India: 26th a bad omen for India

• Been keeping an eye on the seismic monitor around the US West Coast since they did that big California earthquake drill last month. Sometimes that’s a warning in disguise; then today after seeing the 5.1 in SoCal, I read a few predictions about December’s upcoming full moon that jogged that thought again. More on the horizon?

• Also been keeping an eye on Iceland and the vocal protests over the government’s handling of the financial collapse there. Test case scenario? People are frustrated, but word is Iceland is now that much closer to joining the EU and adopting the Euro. Here’s an article in the Chicago Tribune, updating on the current movements of several other countries towards that end as well.

• From the BBC: “Researchers at the world’s largest aircraft maker, Boeing, are using the work of a controversial Russian scientist to try to create a device that will defy gravity.” Boeing has been busy: Boeing Airborne Laser Successfully Activates High-Energy Laser And just in time apparently: Pentagon Should Battle Pirates and Terrorists with Laser Technology

• More rumors of war: from ABC News: World at Risk of Bio, Nuke Attack: It’s ‘More Likely Than Not’ That a WMD Attack Will Occur by 2013, Panel Determines

• …which leads to increased domestic military presence? 20K US troops to be deployed domestically.

• Modern day Malthusians: Wishing catastrophe upon billions

• Indonesian AIDS patients face microchip monitoring…UK: Met Police officers to be ‘microchipped’ by top brass in Big Brother style tracking scheme…(Papers please: Big Brother police to get ‘war-time’ power to demand ID in the street – on pain of sending you to jail)…almost there: Morocco issues biometric ID cards…Israel: Deal for Biometric Identity Cards Finalized

• Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney Prevented From Leaving U.S.

• Food Crunch Opens Doors to Bioengineered Crops

• Running the Numbers: Eye-opening art from Chris Jordan.

• Revenge of the Electric Car, sequel to Who Killed the Electric Car?

• 2012: The movie trailer

Early voting turnout is setting records, and in some locations people are already queuing for hours. Some polling stations may not be able to handle the large [...]]]> If you’re going to vote, and you are offered the opportunity, vote early. Election day promises to be mayhem.

Early voting turnout is setting records, and in some locations people are already queuing for hours. Some polling stations may not be able to handle the large numbers on election day and would have to turn people away, which some suggest is a form of voter suppression. And there will be a lot of unhappy people around if that happens.

Rumors of voter suppression and accusations of election fraud have been getting a surprising amount of press in the mainstream media. I’m watching just such a report on CNN as I write this. The word is out, and Internet watchdogs like The Brad Blog monitor the topic daily and get thousands of hits. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is outspoken on the subject, and along with Greg Palast recently co-authored an eye-opening article about it in Rolling Stone. They cited this now famous quote from Paul Weyrich, which says it all: “I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of the people. They never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”

Please watch this five minute Youtube video, about the truth about ACORN.

Even if you do make it to the polls, there is vast speculation regarding the accuracy of electronic voting machines. In many states there will not even be a paper trail, so a recount would be next to impossible. Not long ago I posted links to the movie Hacking Democracy. It’s well worth a watch. It will be interesting to see any significant result from grassroots movements like Video the Vote and Steal Back Your Vote.

Because so many more people are better informed this time around, some believe if the blues lose, there could be rioting in the streets. Maybe that’s why They brought back that military unit for homeland duty under the aegis of NorthCom, something never before attempted, even ruffling feathers at the ACLU.

But being informed has many levels. The masquerade runs deep. I can see how there are issues to be argued, but behind the scenes the same machine is running the show. This radical article boldly even goes so far as to argue against participating whatsoever.

As it looks to me, things have been going pretty much exactly as planned for the powers-that-be, including the timing of and response to the ‘economic crisis.’ Whatever happens I imagine They will be well prepared to take advantage of the situation.

Take note of the upcoming global summit convening next month to deal with the economic crisis. Whoever ends up being the next president (assuming all goes well between now and inauguration day), will be taking a role in a play already in progress. Come 2009, there could be quite a few “changes” indeed.

I’m under no illusions. But I still can’t wait to see what happens in the next act.

The best leader

follows the will of the people.

• Tao Te Ching #68

   

The Political Charade, Act I: Sheep on a Merry-Go-Round

The Political Charade, Act II: Still Spinning

“I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men.”

“Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.”
Amschel Mayer Rothschild

“I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men.”

Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President, 1913, after the sneaky creation of the (non-governmental) ‘Federal Reserve Bank’

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”

Written by Jefferson in a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802).

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

“The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.”
Henry Ford

…the tension is still building; at least, that’s what we’re all ‘supposed’ to be feeling. Can you rise above it? Can you be the eye of the hurricane?

As far back as I am able to stand back from all of this, I still can’t shake that feeling of imminent disaster. As positive as I struggle to remain, I can’t help but notice all of the dramatic emotions and desperate circumstances that continue to cross my path on a daily basis. And I’m not even talking about politics or the stock market.

On every level it seems, the angst seems widespread and unrepentant. The media continues to inflame the ‘crisis’, burrowing certain words and possible scenarios into our psyches to the extent that we unwittingly end up creating the reality They want, simply as a result of so many fearful thoughtforms crowding together in the noosphere.

The other night I made a point of googling a chocolate cake recipe on the Internet, just so I could feel happiness at my discovery, rather than that pervasive sense of dread that’s been haunting my every click the past few days. Sometimes you just need a little chocolate to make it through.

I almost don’t want to post this stuff. Could just be fomenting discord and spreading negative memes. Notwithstanding the personal risk we take, simply exercising our free speech these days. I should state for the record, I’m not one for physical revolt. I have always believed the Way out is Within. But be that as it may, I feel obligated to pass on what is resonating so strongly with me at this moment. My personal life is currently being flooded with a deluge of questions from every direction, what is going on? What should I do? And I can only say, it is the beginning of something big, both terrible and wonderful, I can’t say how or what exactly, or when it will end or change, but hold on tight and focus on love, that’s all I Know for sure.

Daniel Pinchbeck’s newest article, Meditations in an Emergency, was a bit unexpected, though quite interesting. It’s well worth a read.

Naomi Wolf’s interview, in which she discusses her book Give Me Liberty (sequel to The End of America) and the associated issues of the loss of freedom in our beloved America, was heartfelt and important. Several friends posted or sent me the link recently, and I seriously recommend readers take a look.

Check out the trailer of Wolf’s coming film, The End Of America. Also please note the C-Span blurb from Congressman Brad Sherman regarding the recent threats of total financial collapse and/or martial law, made towards legislators if they didn’t rush to pass the bail-out. The ramifications are enormous; sadly, most Americans will not grasp the gravity of the event that has already taken place in the ‘land of the free’.

Keith Olbermann’s outrage at the current administration’s actions is priceless, and extremely relevant still today. I have to wonder why he’s even still on the air anymore, frankly. He should be dead by now. Else he’s really some kind of double agent.

No doubt They’re spinning us around faster and faster to disorient us, as They manipulate their agenda into action. The October 14^th rumors of an alien landing have perked my ears, though some say it’s just another boy-crying-wolf scenario. On the other hand, if it does happen, especially now, best brush up on Project Blue Beam. Or, perhaps, an episode of The Twilight Zone. Don’t believe everything you see; look for truth within yourself. Be discerning.

Neil Kramer’s recent article at The Cleaver, Into the Fractal Core: Get Ready for the Shift, wraps up with some wisdom relevant to our times: “Greater dimensions of being await. Observe non-attachment. Do not cling to anything, and there shall be no suffering. Easier said than done, some may say, but take the first step. Know in your heart that all is one. Feel the impermanence of all things. Know the indestructibility of your soul. We have chosen to be here now, in this time of revelation, unveiling and transformation. Stand at the centre. You are the change.”

The master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself. -Tao Te Ching # 45