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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: April 1, 2015, 9:31 pm
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Mon Mar 30, 2015 at 10:29 AM PDT
Florida fourth grader gives amazing speech to school board,
audience erupts in a standing ovation
A young lady who will figure things out soon. She is using
critical thinking skills. Good for her.
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The younger generation needs this kind of grit to deal with the
suicidal profit over planet government.
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Syndey suggested changes and railed against a provision she was
asked to sign saying that she wasn't allowed to discuss the test
with her parents:
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: April 6, 2015, 5:34 pm
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2015/04/03
For a Political Revolution
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by Senator Bernie Sanders
Snippet 1
[quote]Meanwhile, as the rich become much richer, the level of
income and wealth inequality has reached obscene and
unimaginable levels. In the United States, we have the most
unequal level of wealth and income distribution of any major
country on earth, and worse now then at any other time since the
1920s. Today, the top one-tenth of 1 percent of our nation owns
almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent, and one family
owns more wealth than the bottom 42 percent. In terms of income,
99 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent.
This is what a rigged economic system looks like. At a time when
millions of American workers have seen declines in their incomes
and are working longer hours for lower wages, the wealth of the
billionaire class is soaring in a way that few can imagine. If
you can believe it, between 2013 and 2015, the 14 wealthiest
individuals in the country saw their net worth increase by over
$157 billion dollars. Children go hungry, veterans sleep out on
the streets, senior citizens cannot afford their prescription
drugs -- and 14 individuals saw a $157 billion dollar increase
in their wealth over a two-year period.[/quote]
Snippet 2:
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And, by the way, if you think that the Republican Party's
refusal to acknowledge that climate change is real, is caused by
human activity and is a severe threat to our planet, is not
related to how we finance campaigns, you would be sorely
mistaken. With the Koch brothers (who make much of their money
in the fossil fuel industry) and big energy companies strongly
supporting Republican candidates, it should not surprise anyone
that my Republican colleagues reject the views of the
overwhelming majorit y of scientists who study climate issues.
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Agelbert NOTE: I agree with much of what Senator Sanders says.
However, I DO NOT agree that the "economy today is much better
than it was six years ago when George W. Bush left office"
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This is NOT about Republicans versus Democrats, as Bernie wants
us to believe.
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That's
mutt and jeff, bad cop, good cop gaming of the masses in defense
of the corrupt satus quo.
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What part of "The U.S.A. is a M.I.C. dictatorship with
Representative Republic/Democracy lipstick" does Senator Sanders
NOT understand?
Some might say he doesn't WANT to understand it because his role
is that of a TOKEN to make people believe the lipstick is the
reality. As much as I like Senator Sanders, I think that
hypothesis has merit. :(
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: May 15, 2015, 5:43 pm
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: May 18, 2015, 7:46 pm
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[quote]The rich white family has an unrivaled aptitude for
crime. Members of rich white families run corporations into the
ground (think Lehman Brothers), defraud stockholders and
investors, sell toxic mortgages as gold-plated investments to
pension funds, communities and schools, and then loot the U.S.
Treasury when the whole thing implodes. They steal hundreds of
millions of dollars on Wall Street through fraud and theft, pay
little or no taxes, almost never go to jail, write laws and
regulations that legalize their crimes and then are asked to
become trustees at elite universities and sit on corporate
boards. They set up foundations and are admired as
philanthropists. And if they get into legal trouble, they have
high-priced lawyers and connections among the political elites
to get them out. [/quote]
The Pathology of the Rich White Family
Posted on May 17, 2015
By Chris Hedges
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The pathology of the rich white family is the most dangerous
pathology in America. The rich white family is cursed with too
much money and privilege. It is devoid of empathy, the result of
lifetimes of entitlement. It has little sense of loyalty and
lacks the capacity for self-sacrifice. Its definition of
friendship is reduced to “What can you do for me?” It is
possessed by an insatiable lust to increase its fortunes and
power. It believes that wealth and privilege confer to it a
superior intelligence and virtue. It is infused with an
unchecked hedonism and narcissism. And because of all this, it
interprets reality through a lens of self-adulation and greed
that renders it delusional. The rich white family is a menace.
The pathologies of the poor, when set against the pathologies of
rich white people, are like a candle set beside the sun.
There are no shortages of acolytes and propagandists for rich
white families. They dominate our airwaves. They blame poverty,
societal breakdown, urban violence, drug use, domestic abuse and
crime on the pathology of poor black families—not that they know
any. They argue that poor black families disintegrate because of
some inherent defect—here you can read between the lines that
white people are better than black people—a defect that these
poor families need to fix.
Peddle this simplistic and racist garbage and you will be given
a column at The New York Times. It always pays to suck up to
rich white families.
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If you are black and
parrot this line, rich white people are overcome with joy [img
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/> They go to extreme lengths to give you a platform. You can
become president or a Supreme Court justice. You can get a
television talk show or tenure at a university. You can get
money for your foundation. You can publish self-help books. Your
films will be funded. You might even be hired to run a company.
Rich white families, their sycophants opine, have tried to help.
Rich white families have given poor people numerous resources
and government programs to lift them out of poverty. They have
provided generous charity. But blacks, they say, along with
other poor people of color, are defeated by self-destructive
attitudes and behavior. Government programs are therefore wasted
on these irresponsible people. Poor families, the sycophants
tell us, will not be redeemed until they redeem themselves. We
want to help, rich white people say, but poor black people need
to pull up their pants, stay in school, get an education, find a
job, say no to drugs and respect authority. If they don’t, they
deserve what they get. And what the average black family ends up
with in economic terms is a nickel for every dollar held by the
average white family.
Starting at age 10 as a scholarship student at an elite New
England boarding school, I was forced to make a study of the
pathology of rich white families. It was not an experience I
would recommend. Years later, by choice, I moved to Boston’s
Roxbury neighborhood when I was a seminary student. I lived
across the street from one of the poorest housing projects in
the city, and I ran a small church in the inner city for nearly
three years. I already had a deep distaste for rich white
families, and that increased greatly after I saw what they did
to the disenfranchised. Rich white people, I concluded after my
childhood and Roxbury experiences, are sociopaths.
The misery and collapse of community and family in Roxbury were
not caused by an inherent pathology within the black family.
Rich people who treated the poor like human refuse caused the
problems. Layers of institutionalized racism—the courts, the
schools, the police, the probation officers, the banks, the easy
access to drugs, the endemic unemployment and underemployment,
the collapsing infrastructures and the prison system—effectively
conspired to make sure the poor remained poor. Drug use, crime
and disintegrating families are the result of poverty, not race.
Poor whites replicate this behavior. Take away opportunity,
infuse lives with despair and hopelessness, and this is what you
get. But that is something rich white families do not want
people to know. If it were known, the rich would have to take
the blame.
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Read the other two pages of this hard hitting, truth filled
article by Chris Hedges at link below:
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Rich white families are also the most efficient killers on the
planet. This has been true for five centuries, starting with the
conquest of the Americas and the genocide against Native
Americans, and continuing through today’s wars in the Middle
East.[/quote]
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[quote]"The rich executed a coup d’état that transformed the
three branches of the U.S. government and nearly all
institutions, including the mass media, into wholly owned
subsidiaries of the corporate state. - Chris Hedges[/quote]
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: June 22, 2015, 12:30 am
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[quote author=Golden Oxen link=topic=5065.msg78765#msg78765
date=1434949871]
Opinion: It does not take GMOs to feed the world
We can feed the world without the kind of farming that depends
on managing weeds with toxic chemicals, and we don’t need costly
chemical fertilizers that slowly destroy soil’s ability to grow
crops while exacerbating climate change.
By Florence Reed, Food Tank June 21, 2015
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A farmer harvests corn at a
field on the outskirts of Faisalabad, Pakistan, June 18, 2015.
Reed argues that the world can grow enough food successfully
without farming methods that use agrochemicals and GMOs.
I grew up in a diversity-loving community. The old adage “it
takes all kinds” was written into my blood…until I said it to a
new acquaintance.
“No,” he replied. “There are some kinds we could really do
without.”
And he’s right. We could do without many kinds of people.
I think the same is true of farming practices—but I have been
hearing something different. I first came across the
“It-Takes-All-Kinds-of-Farming” theory at the 2014 Camden
Conference. The message that came out of one panel was that
organic farming is fine, but that we need all kinds of
agriculture if we are going to feed the world.
To which I say: No. It does not take all kinds.
We can feed the world without the kind of farming that depends
on managing weeds with toxic chemicals rather than with mulch
and weeding. According to a new assessment by the World Health
Organization, glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s
Roundup herbicide, was found to probably be carcinogenic to
humans. We don’t need that. We don’t need costly chemical
fertilizers that slowly destroy soil’s ability to grow crops
while exacerbating climate change.
In fact, I would say we do not need any new farming technologies
until they are rigorously tested and proven harmless. Not when
we have an arsenal of inexpensive sustainable techniques at our
fingertips that can improve soil, protect the environment, and
produce a high yield—without doing any harm.
Some might say my rose-colored glasses are too thick. That if I
believe we can feed the 7 billion people on this planet without
big ag, petrochemicals, and GMOs, that maybe my “kind” is not
needed.
But maybe the naysayers haven’t visited places like Harvest for
the Hungry Garden in Santa Rosa, CA, where over 20,000 pounds of
organic produce is grown annually on a three-quarter-acre lot.
:o Maybe they haven’t visited the hundreds of farms in Central
America whose successes I have had the privilege of sharing.
Before beginning work withSustainable Harvest International, the
families working these small farms were some of the poorest on
our planet. Through working with us, they learn organic
techniques that allow them to produce plenty of healthy food for
themselves and others. Each of these farmers is offered the
opportunity to choose from a large and ever-growing menu of
techniques that we teach—because though it doesn’t take all
kinds, it does take many.
None of the farming practices taught by Sustainable Harvest
International, however, include agrochemicals or GMOs. We
believe it takes only those kinds that produce more food without
contaminating air, water, and soil, endangering the lives of
humans and other species, increasing greenhouse emissions, or
destroying soil’s ability to continue producing food in the
decades to come. For those of you doubting how small farmers
using organic methods can feed the 7 billion, I invite you to
come to Central America with me to witness the power of
small-scale, organic farms.
I hope that those promoting harmful farm products will join us
innovating on the many healthy farming practices that already
exist. Having the courage to change your mind will be rewarded
when you stand up for people and the planet—not only by saying
it doesn’t take all kinds, but by contributing to the kind of
development we truly need.
This is a guest article by Florence Reed, founder and president
of Sustainable Harvest International.
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We can feed the world without the kind of farming that depends
on managing weeds with toxic chemicals, and we don'’t need
costly chemical fertilizers that slowly destroy soil’s ability
to grow crops while exacerbating climate change.[/quote]
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: June 22, 2015, 4:41 pm
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[quote] We can feed the world without the kind of farming
that depends on managing weeds with toxic chemicals, and we
don'’t need costly chemical fertilizers that slowly destroy
soil’s ability to grow crops while exacerbating climate change.
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Yes Agelbert as this article certainly appears to explain.
Hate to admit I to was conned by the piggies and their
chemicals. How the hell can we possibly feed seven billion
people I mused to myself, without modern technology. What a fool
to be conned by those bastards, their poisoning everybody and
destroying the land as well.
I bought some corn on the cob for a summertime treat last week,
it isn't even corn anymore, but dried out white and dull yellow
kernels.
When I remember the big robust bright yellow kernels, bursting
with wholesome nutrition and flavor in my youth I could just
cry.
Fresh Native corn it was labeled and that's what it was, this
stuff today even looks artificial. :-\
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I hear ya. I have, as you know ;D, done a lot of research on
corn in general (and GMO corn in particular) in my EROEI study
of ethanol from various plant products. Corn sucks as an ethanol
source. Sugar cane is 8 times more efficient, but duckweed is
the best. But that's another subject.
We have a HUGE problem with our corn that most people are
unaware of. You have noticed the deterioration in quality and
taste. In order to get decent sweet corn, you have to look high
and low. The heirloom varieties that Native American tribes here
and there grow are your best option for full flavored corn.
You may be interested to know that the miniature corn used in
Asian dishes (I love it even though it has been over 20 years
since I last ate some!) is actually sweet corn picked early.
They have a saying among corn growers (knee high by the 4th of
July) for proper corn crop growth. Well, those who want to grow
their own miniature corn need to know this so they can harvest
(twice) the tiny sweet corn and then eat them fresh, pickle them
or freeze them.
If you like that tiny sweet corn (the common yellow corn we are
accustomed to BUT you can do this with heirloom colored corn
too!), bear in mind that the miniature corn imported from
outside the USA is NOT organic. It might not be GMO, but the
fields are pesticide laden and chemically fertilized.
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Corn is a grass. The fact is that every lawn in America COULD be
used to grow it. But, of course, that's too logical, makes too
much CFS and then what would the lawn fertilizer, pesticide and
power lawn mower fossil fue loving dealers do to make money?
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As a student of our economy, you will probably ask yourself why
miniature corn is not a big product in the USA. After all, many
people love it and it is the same sweet corn that gets big and
is grown all over corn country in the USA.
The answer is, you guessed it, miniature corn must be hand
harvested. Our Big Ag GOONS hate to pay humans to do anything
and prefer trashing the planet with GMO corn, fossil fuel based
fertilizers and massive gas guzzling planting and harvesting
machinery. As your article pointed out, we don't need to do
that. We NEVER needed to do that.
Another thing that all of us need to be concerned with, GO, is
yellow dent corn (field corn). It's a type of corn that is not
edible. Yet, more of THAT crap is grown than any other kind of
corn in the USA! But, you guessed it, we AND OUR CHILDREN are
being fed it in various sneaky ways.
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[quote]Yellow dent or field corn is also made into cornmeal,
corn flakes, hominy, grits, corn starch, corn sugar, corn syrup,
corn oil, corn-oil meal, gluten feed and meal, whiskey and
alcohol. You can be fairly certain you are consuming GMO when
consuming any of the above, unless you seek out organic
options.[/quote]
[quote]Nearly ninety percent of the field corn planted in the
U.S. is genetically modified, in contrast to sweet corn, of
which about 4 percent was genetically modified in 2011.
(4) Although Syngenta’s Bt 'Attribute' seed has been on the
market for over 10 years, it is not widely used, as it is only
sold to commercial growers who sign a stewardship agreement and
also plant a minimum of 20 acres. [size=12pt]But in 2012
[color=red]another company came into the sweet corn market,
Monsanto. Monsanto introduced its first GM sweet corn seed
called 'Performance' with three GM traits; Roundup Ready
herbicide tolerant and two insect resistant traits (corn-borer
and rootworm).
(5) It was rumored Monsanto was ready to produce enough seed to
cover 250,000 acres with its GM sweet corn in 2012 but the
company has not divulged how much it has sold or how much was
planted.
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(6) The 2013 figures are also not available. Wal-Mart has agreed
to sell Monsanto's corn, but Whole Foods, Trader Joe's and
General Mills have pledged not to sell or use it. Be sure to ask
your local farmer what corn he has planted.[/size][/quote]
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I don't need to ask my local farmer what corn he has planted.
Despite Vermont's good move to get food products labeled, the
non-organic farmers here are growing more and more GMO corn.
Unfortunately, Vermont is now GMO corn country.
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If you are interested, I will post my miniature corn research. I
have lots of cool corny ;D pictures with it.
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: June 22, 2015, 10:51 pm
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[quote]If you are interested, I will post my miniature corn
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No thanks AG, I wouldn't understand it.
What I would like to know though is it worthwhile to buy so
called Organic grown corn at a place like Whole Foods and take
the big shafting on their high prices, or is it still a cob of
chemicals and Roundup? I don't trust piggies, even though Whole
Foods has a good reputation. Their stock has not been doing well
lately, and they vow to come up with a solution. We both know
what that means.
The reason I ask is I was getting the shaft paying big bucks for
their cage free eggs. Come to find out the piggies got the law
written where cage free means a chicken allowed to look out his
cell block window for a few minutes every day. a few alternate
net websites Bad Quaker and Jim Corbett that I listen to
occasionally woke me up to that con job.
It's tough staying ahead of the piggies, they have a million
bags of tricks. Comments on Blueberries, organic versus
conventional would be welcomed as well. With three bucks a pint
difference in price, and they sure look alike, my gold bug
instincts about people and money tell me to buy the conventional
and wash them extra thoroughly.
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Yep. Whole Foods is out to get some [s]suckers[/s] customers
with a new line of "affordable" products with some clever name
that they CLAIM will be GMO free and organic. I agree that
anything they say must be taken with a grain of salt.
You mentioned blueberries. As you have surmised, ANY product you
buy requires a certain level of trust by you because, apart from
the obvious appearance of the food, something the retailers have
become experts in packaging so they look great to us, we humans
simply do not have the sensory equipment to tell if something is
GMO or not.
We also cannot tell what level of pesticide residue is on fruit
or veggies.
And we have problems picking out meat too. We see a label that
says "grass fed" beef certified organic. It's just a label.
Somebody might have slapped it on there and the meat is from a
poor cow that was pumped hidden meat "product" prions in the
feed along with HFCS from GMO corn AND lots of GMO yellow dent
(inedible!) corn too! There is simply no way to tell by sight.
:P
The internet has helped avoid some of the pitfalls somewhat.
My wife has discovered a place called Vitacost. It's got a lot
of organic foods including great roasted garlic tomato sauce. I
mention it because, even though we don't get fruit from there,
it's a source you may want to check out. They aren't giving the
stuff away, but the prices are reasonable.
Back to the blueberries. As to fruit, let us understand and be
clear that GMO, at least at present, is a non-issue (tomatoes
technically are fruit and ARE being GMOed so you have to watch
out for them).
Somebody out there is monkeying with banana DNA but it's not on
the market yet.
The issue with fruit is pesticides and chemical fertilizers.
Organic is better, not just because the pesticides aren't used,
but because organic, even though they look exactly the same as
the non-organic, have a higher nutrition content. Fossil Fuel
based Chemical fertilizers are great for making BIG fruit with
LOW nutrient content. So, the YIELD IN WEIGHT helps the farmer
make more money.
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/>But the fruit just ain't the same. Organic fruit, if it's not
mislabeled, is worth the extra expense.
The ISSUE with pesticides is real. But as you pointed out, many
veggies (e.g. celery, broccoli, potatoes, carrots and other
tubers) and fruit that have been sprayed, particularly fruit
with thick skin like mangos, avocados and citrus, can be washed.
BUT, the thin skinned ones like apples, blueberries, gra pes,
etc. will have residue. Peaches suck up pesticides like there is
no tomorrow so you DO NOT EVER want to buy them if they aren't
organic. The skin is alive. It absorbs whatever was sprayed on
the fruit. The pesticide might not go any farther, but it ain't
gonna get totally washed off because it ain't totally on the
surface.
That said, washing is not optional, regardless of the fruit or
the vegetable. There are lots of potentially harmful tiny
critter things (like nematodes and the like) that you get rid of
by washing.
But don't fixate on washing. We wash organic fruits and veggies
too.
Fixate on the nutrition. Find out what the difference is between
organically grown blueberries and non-organically grown ones.
Just Google that and you will then be armed to do the money
math. Yes, there is always some trick that a retailer is trying
to play. But in fruit, you generally DO get what you pay for.
With food like corn, that can be GMO without you knowing it,
avoid the yellow colored corn. There is ZERO GMO corn DNA in the
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Here's a snippet from my research:
Black, red and blue corn is rich in anthocyanins. Anthocyanins
have the potential to fight cancer, calm inflammation, lower
cholesterol and blood pressure, protect the aging brain, and
reduce the risk of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
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We started eating yellow sweet corn because when Washington was
destroying the crops of the Native Americans to help them starve
to death, one of his troops discovered a very yellow variety the
Native Americans were growing and took the seeds back. The more
yellow the corn is, the more carotenoids it contains, since
these compounds provide plants with color. In particular, yellow
corn is abundant in two carotenoids, zeaxanthin and lutein,
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So yellow sweet corn is NOT a nutritional improvement over
colored corn even though it DOES taste somewhat sweeter. But the
bottom line is that you CANNOT get scammed into buying GMO corn
labeled otherwise when it is colored corn. I recommend it. Is it
expensive? Yep. But you really do get what you pay for.
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I know you aren't interested in buying corn seeds but this web
sight has a lot of pictures of the type of corn you may be
interested in eating:
Corn, Mandan Bride Organic Catalog #1355A
(Zea mays) From the Mandan Indians of Minnesota and North
Dakota. Extensive color range includes some attractive striped
kernels. Use as a flour corn or for fall displays. Ears are 6-8"
long on 6' plants. 85-90 days.
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Maybe our Diner in Minnesota can hook you up with some organic
Indian corn sellers. 8)
GO, you have a lot of CFS. Most of food purchasing decisions
involves some footwork, unfortunately. But it has got to be
done. Use your CFS to get the best buy for your HEALTH, not your
pocketbook.
There is an old saying in Spanish that applies quite well to
food:
[quote][font=times new roman]Lo Barato Sale Caro = Buying cheap
things is false economy, cheap things turn out expensive in the
end[/font][/quote]
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: July 14, 2015, 5:19 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: Articles like this should be shouted from the
roof tops, all over the USA, and on a daily basis, until the
Empathy Deficit Disordered Greed Balls running this country into
the ground extract their heads from their profit over people and
planet addicted asses.
[quote] There are 45 million Americans struggling to survive
just like me.
Being stuck in poverty isn't about morals or character. It isn't
about family structure or some "culture" of poverty. And it
certainly isn't about being lazy or stupid. Most poor people are
smart, hard-working, decent, kind, compassionate people. They
are creative and innovative in solving their problems and
creating beauty and ritual in their lives. They care for their
children, disabled, and seniors with tenderness and love; they
play music and write poetry and make art.
They put up with a lot of bullsh it from the public on a daily
basis at their crappy low-wage jobs, but keep on smiling and
telling you to have a great day. They take a lot of Advil and
supplements in order to make up for the fact that they have
little to no health care. They die sooner because of their
struggle; even sooner if they live under Republican
rule.[/quote]
[quote]I especially appreciated the Kossacks who shared their
personal stories of picking up and leaving with the hope of a
better future. They let me know that the problem isn't in me;
I'm not defective. It's not that I lack ability or intelligence
or drive, it's the system here that is broken, shutting me out
at every turn, keeping me down.[/quote]
Sun Jul 12, 2015 at 12:09 PM PDT.
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: September 4, 2015, 6:08 pm
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08/26/2015 11:43 AM
Scotland & Germany Ban GMO Crops
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SustainableBusiness.com News
Update August 26:
Germany will also ban GMO crops. "There's resistance from all
sides, from the public to the farmers," Christian Fronczak, a
spokesperson for the Agriculture Ministry, told Bloomberg. 9 of
Germany's 10 federal states have already declared themselves as
GMO-Free regions.
England plans to go ahead and allow planting, despite strong
citizen opposition.
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Scotland is on a roll on renewable energy, and now it's moving
to protect its land and food.
Growing genetically modified crops will not be permitted in
Scotland, announced Richard Lochhead, the country's Secretary of
Rural Affairs.
This year, the EU passed legislation allowing member countries
to opt-out of growing GMO crops, opening the door for Scotland
to say, NO Thanks.
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Lochhead explains the decision:
"Scotland is known around the world for our beautiful natural
environment - and banning growing genetically modified crops
will protect and further enhance our clean, green status.
"There is no evidence of significant demand for GM products by
Scottish consumers and I am concerned that allowing GM crops to
be grown in Scotland would damage our clean and green brand,
thereby gambling with the future of our £14 billion food and
drink sector.
[quote]
"Scottish food and drink is valued at home and abroad for its
natural, high quality which often attracts a premium price, and
I have heard directly from food and drink producers in other
countries that are ditching GM because of a consumer backlash.
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Unfortunately, the EU law leaves loopholes that Monsanto etc.
can use in litigation, and if the US-EU trade deal passes
(Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) these "legal
weaknesses" can be used to challenge national bans.
In the US, the DARK Act is moving through Congress - Deny
Americans the Right to Know Act - and the GMO industry is
working on Africa. >:(
Scotland also banned another industry this year - Fracking. ;D
A new policy makes efficiency the "preferred fuel" to reach its
goal of 100% renewable energy. It leads on tidal energy and
offshore wind.
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Re: Resisting Brainwashing Propaganda
By: AGelbert Date: October 19, 2015, 2:40 am
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[center]In an earlier era, Vermonters abused opiates[/center]
Oct. 18, 2015, 9:43 pm by VTD Editor
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[center]Quack Doctor, T.W. Wood[/center]
“The Quack Doctor,” by Vermonter Thomas Waterman Wood, shows a
man hawking his patent medicine to a crowd. Wood added a visual
pun, a group of ducks walking and apparently quacking :D
beneath the wagon. [/I]
[I]The doctor’s name, “I.M. Cheatham,”
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is painted on the
side of the wagon. Wood took another shot at this sort of
charlatan by painting the rear wheel to partially obscure the
final three letters of the name. For this painting, Wood used
his native Montpelier as the backdrop, including the archway
that once spanned East State Street. Photo courtesy of the T.W.
Wood Gallery, Montpelier
Gov. Peter Shumlin’s State of the State address in 2014 shocked
many people.
[quote]“In every corner of our state, heroin and opiate drug
addiction threatens us,” [/quote]the governor declared. The
problem was so serious that Shumlin took the extraordinary step
of dedicating his entire address to a single issue.
The image of Vermont beset with a drug addiction crisis was
jarring. It ran counter to the popular perception of the state
as a secluded community immune to the horrors of modern life.
The news might have been less stunning if people had known of an
earlier and equally alarming report prepared by a University of
Vermont dean about opiate abuse by Vermonters. The dean revealed
that, based on his survey of doctors and druggists, Vermonters
consumed an average of one-and-a-half doses per adult per day.
It’s an astonishing figure made all the more stunning by the
fact that the dean believed that, because of the
uncooperativeness of many he surveyed, the true number of doses
was perhaps five times higher.
Don’t feel bad if you missed news of this report, however. It’s
not exactly new. The dean, Dr. Ashbel Parmlee Grinnell, issued
it in 1900.
Historian Gary Shattuck will deliver a lecture entitled “Opiate
Use in Vermont: The Present Reflects the Past” at 7 p.m. on Oct.
20 at the Waterman Memorial Lounge at UVM. This will be the
inaugural Sam B. Hand Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Vermont
Historical Society and the University of Vermont Center for
Research on Vermont and Special Collections. The late Professor
Hand taught and mentored many of the state’s current generation
of historians.
The 115-year-old report is getting fresh attention thanks to
Gary Shattuck, a writer and historian. Shattuck has unearthed
sobering facts about the state’s history of opiate abuse. His
research forms the basis of his essay in the new issue of
Vermont History, the journal of the Vermont Historical Society.
Shattuck will also deliver a lecture on his research at UVM on
Oct. 20.
Like Shumlin’s speech, Shattuck’s findings will surprise many
people, even some longtime Vermont historians. Shattuck has a
way of shining a light into the dark corners of the state’s
past, and finding, well, darkness. A former assistant U.S.
Attorney for Vermont, he is the author of “Insurrection,
Corruption & Murder in Early Vermont: Life on the Wild Northern
Frontier,” a book that detailed the shadowy world of smuggling
during the early 1800s.
Shattuck says it is his nature, and his professional training,
to try to establish facts. “I’m always asking what caused
something to happen,” he says. “That is where I try to live my
life, with primary sources, not secondary ones.”
While researching his smuggling book, Shattuck noted how
prevalent drinking was during the early 1800s. Drinking became
such a problem that the state outlawed alcohol production and
sale in 1852. That left Shattuck wondering: “If prohibition was
supposed to be so successful, what were people doing to get
stimulants?”
The answer, Shattuck found, is that they were imbibing an
astonishing amount of opiates. Vermonters didn’t get their drugs
in illicit, back-alley transactions; they got them from their
doctors, or from their closest general store or druggist.
Vermonters were using opium long before the spike in demand that
Shattuck attributes to the state’s prohibition on alcohol. In
fact, he unearthed references to opium consumption as far back
as 1786, before Vermont was even a state. That year, Eben Judd,
a self-proclaimed doctor, described treating others with opium
and discussing with a doctor in Guildhall how to make opium from
poppies.
Vermonters had a long tradition of self-medicating. Part of the
reason was because many people distrusted elites of any sort, a
feeling that grew out of the anti-Masonry movement, which
started in the late 1820s.
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heroin as an ingredient, was manufactured by a company in
Montpelier. [/I][/center]
Another effect of that distrust was that Vermonters resisted
creating a system for granting medical licenses. Requiring that
doctors first graduate from a medical college in order to
practice smacked of elitism to some, so for decades Vermont’s
Legislature only sporadically monitored who could practice
medicine. When it did require that doctors obtain licenses, the
requirements were minimal. Making matters worse, the state also
had several “diploma mills,” in Rutland, Bennington, Newbury and
Newfane, churning out untrained men passing themselves off as
doctors.
Even many trained doctors were ignorant of the dangers posed by
opiates. Doctors relied so heavily on opium-based medicines to
treat a range of maladies that nationally an estimated 16
percent became addicts themselves. The pharmaceutical industry
and pharmacists were also unregulated and had a perverse
financial incentive to push drugs that guaranteed return
customers, who were literally addicted to the products.
The state Legislature could have remedied these problems with
some careful regulation. But when doctors like Grinnell pointed
out the seriousness of the opiate problem, the Legislature
turned a deaf ear. Lawmakers were myopically focused on alcohol
prohibition as the way to treat society’s addiction problems,
and didn’t take the opiate crisis seriously, Shattuck says.
Doctors relied on opium and opium-based drugs because of their
obvious effectiveness. Unlike most of the other treatments at
their disposal, a dose of opium would quickly quiet a suffering
or agitated patient. As a result, no one questioned the drug’s
inclusion in countless patent medicines.
Vermonters didn’t have to rely on doctors to provide them with
opiates. They could simply buy them at their local general store
or druggist. Untrained clerks sold opium to the public in
various products, such as Allen’s Lung Balsam, Dr. Bull’s Cough
Syrup, Godfrey’s Cordial, Perry Davis’ Pain Killer, Lee’s
Bilious Pills, Bateman’s Pectoral Drops, Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing
Syrup or Dr. Moore’s Essence of Life. No prescription needed.
The Vermont Pharmaceutical Association tried to institute a
mandatory prescription system, but doctors resisted. When
doctors did write prescriptions, some used a code only
decipherable by a favored druggist, who would kick back money to
the doctor.
Vermonters also made the drugs. The state was home to one of the
nation’s largest patent medicine manufacturers, Wells,
Richardson & Co. of Burlington, which employed 200 people.
Shattuck found numerous medicines containing opium listed in 23
pages of the company’s 1878 catalog.
Though some Vermonters tried their hand at growing poppies, most
of the opium in the state originated in Asia Minor and the
subcontinent.
“The problem was that drugs were so readily available and some
doctors didn’t really understand the addiction that they were
responsible for,” says Shattuck.
But some doctors saw the dangers of the powerful and highly
addictive drug. In 1890, Elliot Wardsworth Shipman of Vergennes
wrote that he had witnessed “five victims of this habit” enter
his local drugstore and “purchase what opium and morphine they
desired, within less than two hours time and no questions were
asked.”
Shipman related horrible examples of malpractice, including a
doctor who, when he grew tired of a young woman’s physical
complaints, told her to buy a hypodermic needle and dose herself
with morphine when she felt the need.
Indeed, the development of the hypodermic in mid-1800s
exacerbated Vermonters’ habit of self-medicating with opiates,
as it gave addicts a more efficient way to take the drugs.
By the late 1800s, some in the state pharmaceutical industry
were becoming concerned by the prevalence of opium addiction. At
the annual meeting of the Vermont State Pharmaceutical
Association in 1898, Dr. J.C.F. With said that all druggists
were familiar with opium and morphine users who “under one
pretext or another” ask for their drug of choice. “I have seen a
man get from a druggist an eight-ounce bottle of laudanum (opium
mixed in alcohol), tear the wrapper off and deliberately drink
half the contents,” he said.
With said he feared the man was attempting suicide, but then the
man just wandered off as if this were a regular habit.
Some Vermonters began offering treatments for people addicted to
opiates, alcohol and tobacco. In 1892, the Keeley Institute in
Montpelier started offering three-week sessions for alcoholics.
Four-week sessions were prescribed for morphine addicts.
By the early 1900s, as other states passed laws restricting
opiate use, Vermont gained a reputation regionally for its lax
or nonexistent laws. Addicts from neighboring states began
visiting the state to buy their drugs. The Vermont Legislature
finally acted to tighten state law in 1915, when it passed “An
Act to Regulate the Sale of Opium, Morphine and other Narcotic
Drugs.”
A century later, the state is still wrestling with how best to
protect its citizens from the dangers of addictive drugs.
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