Tuesday, March 24th, Links of the Day

Border security

Global society

Global currency

Meatless society

Expanding nationalized banks to include non-bank financial companies

A link from yesterday, but still important: Sustainability and population reduction

From the department of potentially dangerous and probably under-planned experiements...

Is this the first of many silly experiments to come?

Article link

We still have our right to free speech...

...or do we?

Check out this article from the Wise Up Journal about a man who was arrested for mailing a DVD he produced and narrated to a UK court...

His documentary on YouTube: 7-7 Ripple Effect

Update: Support John Anthony Hill -- Transcript Excerpt from Alan Watt's Show

Tracking Travelers

I'd rather take my chances on another terrorist attack than be tracked to and from my personal and private destination.

Link: All travel plans to be tracked.

UW-Milwaukee Study Could Realign Climate Change Theory

Scientists Claim Earth Is Undergoing Natural Climate Shift - a WISN.com news story

Quote from article:

MILWAUKEE -- The bitter cold and record snowfalls from two wicked winters are causing people to ask if the global climate is truly changing.The climate is known to be variable and, in recent years, more scientific thought and research has been focused on the global temperature and how humanity might be influencing it.However, a new study by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee could turn the climate change world upside down.Scientists at the university used a math application known as synchronized chaos and applied it to climate data taken over the past 100 years."Imagine that you have four synchronized swimmers and they are not holding hands and they do their program and everything is fine; now, if they begin to hold hands and hold hands tightly, most likely a slight error will destroy the synchronization. Well, we applied the same analogy to climate," researcher Dr. Anastasios Tsonis said.

Legislation Alert: Food Safety Act

From my local Farmer’s Market in Austin, TX… Edited only for grammar and spelling…

From Fred & Jackie Pomrenke
Flintrock Hill Farm
Kingsbury, Texas

Friends,

I don’t normally get too worked up about stuff, but if HR 875 & S 425, referred to as “Monsanto’s Dream Bill” (coming out of committee soon and set to fast-track through without debate), are passed we may be well on the way of becoming “Dogs on the short leash of our Government Masters.” While not so evident in Texas, small Farming and small Agribusiness, Farmer’s Markets, etc. are a “Bigger Deal” in other parts of the country. They have been competing successfully in the marketplace and the “big boys” don’t like it. If you are a consumer of food, and who isn’t, then you need to be informed. This will affect some of us much more than others but will affect anyone who eats at some point. They call this a “Food Safety Act,” but it is really a “regulate and harass the little guy out of business act.” This could create trouble even for the Backyard Gardener or anyone who raises food for their own consumption, including raising game animals. This legislation is vague, ultimately resulting in a chosen few controlling the supply. The rest of this email is information I have acquired from other people.

Links:

HR 875 Would Essentially Outlaw Family Farms In The United States

Educating Congress: Do Not Suppress Organic and Small Farmers and Ranchers; Natural Food Products

Didn’t Stalin nationalize farming methods that enabled his administration to gain control over the food supply? Didn’t Stalin use the food to control the people?

HR 875: The food police, criminalizing organic farming and the backyard gardener, and violation of the 10th amendment

HR 875 link: Go to: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/c111query.html and then search for “HR 875.” You should hit on: “Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (Introduced in House)” and a temporary link will be provided.

This bill is sitting in committee and I am not sure when it is going to hit the floor. One thing I do know is that very few of the Representatives have read it. As usual they will vote on this based on what someone else is saying. Urge your members to read the legislation and ask for opposition to this devastating legislation. Devastating for everyday folks but great for factory farming ops like Monsanto, ADM, Sodexo, and Tyson to name a few. I have no doubt that this legislation was heavily influenced by lobbyists from huge food producers. This legislation is so broad based that technically someone with a little backyard garden could get fined and have their property seized. It will affect anyone who produces food even if they do not sell but only consume it. It will literally put all independent farmers and food producers out of business due to the huge amounts of money it will take to conform to factory farming methods. If people choose to farm without industry standards such as chemical pesticides and fertilizers they will be subject to a variety of harassment from this completely new agency that has never before existed. That’s right, a whole new government agency is being created just to police food, for our own protection of course.

Do not take my word for it, read this legislation for yourself.

The more people who read this legislation the more insight we are going to get and be able to share. Post your observations and insights below. Urge your members to read this legislation and to oppose the passage of this legislation.

Pay special attention to:

• Section 3 which is the definition portion of the bill – read it in its entirety.

• Section 103, 206, and 207 – read them in their entirety.

Red flags I found and I am sure there are more:

• Legally binds state agriculture departments to enforcing federal guidelines effectively taking away a State’s power to do anything other than being food police for the Federal department.

• Effectively criminalizes organic farming but doesn’t actually use the word organic.

• Affects anyone growing food even if they are not selling it but consuming it.

• Affects anyone producing meat of any kind including wild game.

• Legislation is so broad based that every aspect of growing or producing food can be made illegal. There are no specifics which is bizarre considering how long the legislation is.

• Section 103 is almost entirely about the administrative aspect of the legislation. It will allow the appointing of officials from the factory farming corporations and lobbyists and classify them as experts and allow them to determine and interpret the legislation. Who do you think they are going to side with?

• Section 206 defines what will be considered a food production facility and what will be enforced upon all food production facilities. The wording is so broad based that a backyard gardener could be fined and more.

• Section 207 requires that a State’s agriculture department act as the food police and enforce the Federal requirements. This takes away a State’s power and is in violation of the 10th amendment.

• There are many more but by the time I got this far in the legislation I was so alarmed that I wanted to bring someone’s attention to it.

I haven’t read any of the Senate’s version of the bill as I have been poring through the House’s version. Here is the link and I hope some of you can take a look and post your observations and insights below. One thing I am pretty sure of is that very few if any Senators have actually read the legislation and when it comes up for a vote they will more than likely take someone else’s word on how they should vote. The other thing I am pretty sure about is that the legislation was probably written by lobbyists and industry experts.

Link to S 425: Go to http://thomas.loc.gov/home/c111query.html and search for “s 425.” You should get the hit “the Food Safety and Tracking Improvement Act. (Introduced in Senate)” and a link should be provided.

Things you can do:

1. Contact your members at 202-224-3121 and ask them to oppose HR 875 and S 425. While you are at it ask them if they personally have read the legislation and what their position is. If they have not read the legislation ask them to read it and politely let them know that just because other Representatives are not reading the legislation and voting on it does not mean that they can do the same.
2. Get in touch with local farmers and food producers by attending a local Farmer’s Market and asking them how business is.
3. Attend a local WAPF meeting. This is a good start to learning about what is going on in farming and local and state initiatives. The website is: http://www.westonaprice.org/localchapters/
4. Check out the Farmers Legal Defense Fund at http://www.ftcldf.org/
5. Find out who sits on your State’s agriculture and farming committee and contact them with your concerns.
6. Continue to contact your elected officials and let them know your position on legislation and why.
7. Get active at the local and state levels. This is the quickest way to initiate change.

Suggested Reading: Alan Watt's "Cutting Through" Series

Here's an excerpt from Volume 2 of the series about "waking up."

You can purchase a copy of the series from Alan's website.

As a preface to understanding, I think it necessary to go through the standard phases of “waking up."

1. An Individual vaguely perceives something is wrong in his/her life. This takes the form of fatigue at trying to "keep up" with real or imaginary crisis, encroachment of government into every aspect of life, increasing taxation and so on. Sometimes it takes the loss of work and the realization that the safety net they contributed to has a gaping hole in the middle.

2. The individual discovers that justice is a joke and that all control mechanisms go up like a pyramid, taking their property, taxes etc. with it. This wealth then is distributed to "help bail-out" or "prop-up" "failing" transnational corporations. Left-overs are channeled via Overseas Developement Corporations to "developing nations," where the loot is pocketed by front-men and their beaurocrats. Crumbs filter down to social services, which, after being guzzled by directors and staff, leave little for the needy except bundles of forms, in triplicate, of course.

3. The individual looks around for others already exposing "the conspiracy." These established champions inform him which "conspiracy" books to read. Having then done so, the individual begins to "expose" the corruption, first to friends, then when friendless, he either publishes what he has gleaned or becomes paranoid and withdraws from society altogether.

Why does the waking-up process fail to spread quickly through society?

1. He is terribly naive. He believes the massive corruption "just happened" to begin in his own lifetime, otherwise mummy or daddy or teacher would have warned him. It does not occur to him that his Parents, teachers etc. were as conditioned as he was.

2. Most people do not wish to know. They, like farm animals, have been domesticated. Wild animals (original) have natural instincts of self-preservation. They sense the evil intentions of predators and they survive by trusting their instincts. Wild herds do not "hang around" when one or more members drops dead. Specially bred sheep do.

3. Pavlovian conditioning/response indoctrination has been fed to every individual, through schooling. The media then takes over. Peoples’ opinions are simply sound-bites from news, talk-shows or quotes from glossy magazines.

4. Trust replaces the instinct of self-preservation. It over-rides memory and logic. Controllers and shepherds encourage trust.

5. When threatened with loss of possessions, property, access to health care, etc., people turn to government(predators) for help, or/and organized religion. Should an individual persist in pushing for his "rights," he will be removed from society and placed in a psychiatric hospital or
prison on any number of pretexes. The alternative is death by "accident," or shot by police while 'resisting arrest.'

Quote of the Day

"Life's tough... It's even tougher if you're stupid."
--John Wayne

Suggested Reading: The Underground History of American Education

The Underground History of American Education, by John Taylor Gatto

Read the entire book online and/or buy a copy to support Mr. Gatto.

Prologue excerpt:

Bianca, You Animal, Shut Up!

Our problem in understanding forced schooling stems from an inconvenient fact: that the wrong it does from a human perspective is right from a systems perspective. You can see this in the case of six-year-old Bianca, who came to my attention because an assistant principal screamed at her in front of an assembly, "BIANCA, YOU ANIMAL, SHUT UP!" Like the wail of a banshee, this sang the school doom of Bianca. Even though her body continued to shuffle around, the voodoo had poisoned her.

Do I make too much of this simple act of putting a little girl in her place? It must happen thousands of times every day in schools all over. I’ve seen it many times, and if I were painfully honest I’d admit to doing it many times. Schools are supposed to teach kids their place. That’s why we have age-graded classes. In any case, it wasn’t your own little Janey or mine.

Most of us tacitly accept the pragmatic terms of public school which allow every kind of psychic violence to be inflicted on Bianca in order to fulfill the prime directive of the system: putting children in their place. It’s called "social efficiency." But I get this precognition, this flash-forward to a moment far in the future when your little girl Jane, having left her comfortable home, wakes up to a world where Bianca is her enraged meter maid, or the passport clerk Jane counts on for her emergency ticket out of the country, or the strange lady who lives next door.

I picture this animal Bianca grown large and mean, the same Bianca who didn’t go to school for a month after her little friends took to whispering, "Bianca is an animal, Bianca is an animal," while Bianca, only seconds earlier a human being like themselves, sat choking back tears, struggling her way through a reading selection by guessing what the words meant.

In my dream I see Bianca as a fiend manufactured by schooling who now regards Janey as a vehicle for vengeance. In a transport of passion she:

1. Gives Jane’s car a ticket before the meter runs out.
2. Throws away Jane’s passport application after Jane leaves the office.
3. Plays heavy metal music through the thin partition which separates Bianca’s apartment from Jane’s while Jane pounds frantically on the wall for relief.
4. All the above.

You aren’t compelled to loan your car to anyone who wants it, but you are compelled to surrender your school-age child to strangers who process children for a livelihood, even though one in every nine schoolchildren is terrified of physical harm happening to them in school, terrified with good cause; about thirty-three are murdered there every year. From 1992 through 1999, 262 children were murdered in school in the United States. Your great-great-grandmother didn’t have to surrender her children. What happened?

If I demanded you give up your television to an anonymous, itinerant repairman who needed work you’d think I was crazy; if I came with a policeman who forced you to pay that repairman even after he broke your set, you would be outraged. Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

I want to open up concealed aspects of modern schooling such as the deterioration it forces in the morality of parenting. You have no say at all in choosing your teachers. You know nothing about their backgrounds or families. And the state knows little more than you do. This is as radical a piece of social engineering as the human imagination can conceive. What does it mean?

One thing you do know is how unlikely it will be for any teacher to understand the personality of your particular child or anything significant about your family, culture, religion, plans, hopes, dreams. In the confusion of school affairs even teachers so disposed don’t have opportunity to know those things. How did this happen?

Before you hire a company to build a house, you would, I expect, insist on detailed plans showing what the finished structure was going to look like. Building a child’s mind and character is what public schools do, their justification for prematurely breaking family and neighborhood learning. Where is documentary evidence to prove this assumption that trained and certified professionals do it better than people who know and love them can? There isn’t any.

The cost in New York State for building a well-schooled child in the year 2000 is $200,000 per body when lost interest is calculated. That capital sum invested in the child’s name over the past twelve years would have delivered a million dollars to each kid as a nest egg to compensate for having no school. The original $200,000 is more than the average home in New York costs. You wouldn’t build a home without some idea what it would look like when finished, but you are compelled to let a corps of perfect strangers tinker with your child’s mind and personality without the foggiest idea what they want to do with it.

Law courts and legislatures have totally absolved school people from liability. You can sue a doctor for malpractice, not a schoolteacher. Every homebuilder is accountable to customers years after the home is built; not schoolteachers, though. You can’t sue a priest, minister, or rabbi either; that should be a clue.

If you can’t be guaranteed even minimal results by these institutions, not even physical safety; if you can’t be guaranteed anything except that you’ll be arrested if you fail to surrender your kid, just what does the public in public schools mean?

What exactly is public about public schools? That’s a question to take seriously. If schools were public as libraries, parks, and swimming pools are public, as highways and sidewalks are public, then the public would be satisfied with them most of the time. Instead, a situation of constant dissatisfaction has spanned many decades. Only in Orwell’s Newspeak, as perfected by legendary spin doctors of the twentieth century such as Ed Bernays or Ivy Lee or great advertising combines, is there anything public about public schools.

Global Warming (or Climate Change) Links

"Rise of sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told'"

"Nobody listens to the real climate change experts"

"The world has never seen such freezing heat"

"Reuters: China promotes abortion to reduce CO2 - People are enemy #1"

"74 years since October snowfalls - Deprogramming global warming"

"Skeptical scientists urge world to 'Have the courage to do nothing' at UN conference"

"We overlooked 193,000 square miles of ice"

"Japan's boffins: Global warming isn't man-made"

"The Green Agenda" - Overview of the agenda, major players, and quote references