George Orwell’s Guide To The News by Adrian Salbuchi

George Orwell’s Guide To The News

by Adrian Salbuchi
Published 29 November 2011 by RT

The Western mainstream media falsifies the news resorting to euphemisms, half-truths and lies in the best (worst) style of George Orwell’s novel 1984. We all live in the unreal world of “Newspeak” used by the Global Power Elite to control our minds.

Man gets confused when things that happen around him and to him, or which are done in his name, cannot be properly grasped, understood or made sense of. Normally, such confusion leads to inaction. If you’re lost at night in the middle of a forest but you can still see the stars, then a bit of astronomical knowledge will at least quickly tell you which way is north. But if it’s cloudy or you’re ignorant of the constellations in starry heaven, then you might as well light up a fire and do nothing until dawn…. You’re Lost!

Today, mainstream media coverage uses programmed distortion, confusion, even outright lying when its Money Power masters order it to support the “official story” on any major political, economic or financial process. When looked at closely, however, the “official story” of things can be seen to be inaccurate, misleading, often hardly believable if not downright stupid.

Examples of this: Iraq’s inexistent WMD’s leading to the invasion and destruction of that country; global mega-banker bail-outs with taxpayer money; irrational US diplomatic, military, financial and ideological alignment to Israeli objectives; “we-killed-Osama-Bin-Laden-and-dumped-his-body-into-the-sea”; and the wide array of “whodunits” surrounding 9/11 in New York and Washington, 7/7 in London, the AMIA/Israeli Embassy attacks in Buenos Aires in 1992/1994, and – of course – that all time favorite: who shot JFK…?

These are but a few of the paradigmatic cases that have at least served to trigger millions of people to wake up and think with their own minds instead of the mainstream media’s! But unfortunately the vast majority of such cases are not so clear-cut. The vast majority of Newspeak lies are like knots, difficult to untie as they carry built-in complexity resembling Gordian Knots. And, as with all Gordian Knots, you need to cut right through them, and this requires swift and precise action plus a good measure of intellectual courage.

To give an example of what we say, let’s take a quick look at how a “Newspeak” operation works. It requires sequential planning, it requires time, it requires proper logistics, it requires “credible” spokespeople in public and private sectors, it requires choosing the right words and images at the right time and in the right circumstances.

So, let’s say the Global Power Elite – working through the governments of the US, UK, EU into which they are deeply embedded, and joint-venturing with a wide array of media outlets, defense companies, oil companies, security and construction companies, and powerful lobbies – decide that they wish to overrun and destroy a specific country… Libya, for example…

How do they ensure that “the international community” will just quietly look on (except for the still relatively small minority of voices that are increasingly raising hell against them)?

The Seven Step Mainstream Media Country Destruction Guide

1. First, they start by targeting a country ripe for “Regime Change”, and brand it a “rogue state”; then…

2. They arm, train, finance local terrorist groups through CIA, MI6, Mossad, Al-Qaeda (a CIA operation), drug cartels (often CIA operations) and call them “freedom fighters”; then…

3. As mock UN Security Council Resolutions are staged that rain death and destruction upon millions of civilians, they call it “UN sanctions to protect civilians”; then…

4. They spread flagrant lies through their “newsrooms” and paid journalists, and call it "the international community’s concerns expressed by prestigious spokespeople and analysts…” then…

5. They bomb, invade and begin to control the target country and call it “liberation”; then…

6. As the target country falls fully under their control, they impose “the kind of democracy that we want to see” (as Hillary Clinton before visiting Egypt and Tunisia on March 10, 2011), until finally…

7. They steal appetizing oil, mineral and agricultural reserves handing them over to Global Power Elite corporations, and impose unnecessary private banking debt and call it “foreign investment and reconstruction.”

Their keynotes are: Force and Hypocrisy, which they have used time and again to destroy entire countries, always in the name of “freedom”, “democracy”, “peace” and “human rights”. Utmost force and violence is used to achieve their ends and goals.

Their Elders recommended this many decades ago in a blueprint for World Domination written on a hoary manuscript of old…

“What did you say…? That you don’t want to be ‘liberated’ and ‘democratized’?!?”

“Then, take this Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Hanoi, Berlin, Dresden, Baghdad, and Basra!! Take that Tokyo, Gaza, Lebanon, Kabul, Pakistan, Tripoli, Belgrade, Egypt, El Salvador and Grenada!! And take that, Panama, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Somalia, Africa!!”

Always bombing people to smithereens… Always, of course, in the name of “freedom”, “democracy”, “peace” and “human rights”

Adrian Salbuchi is a political analyst, author, speaker and radio/TV commentator in Argentina.

http://www.asalbuchi.com.ar/

This article's source is:

http://rt.com/news/media-lies-global-elite-447/

A Garden Among The Flames - A Poem by Ibn 'Arabi

"The movement which is the existence of the universe is the movement of love."

"It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature."

 

"If the believer understood the meaning of the saying 'the colour of the water is the colour of the receptacle', he would admit the validity of all beliefs and he would recognise God in every form and every object of faith."

Ibn 'Arabi

 

A Garden Among The Flames

O Marvel,
a garden among the flames!

My heart can take on
any form:
a meadow for gazelles,
a cloister for monks,

For the idols, sacred ground,
Ka'ba for the circling pilgrim,
the tables of the Torah,
the scrolls of the Qur'án.

I profess the religion of love;
wherever its caravan turns along the way,
that is the belief,
the faith I keep.

Ibn 'Arabi

To read more poetry by Ibn 'Arabi please click on the link below:

http://www.ibnarabisociety.org/poetry/ibn-arabi-poetry-index.html

Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi 1165 -1240AD

Mystic, philosopher, poet, sage, Muhammad b. 'Ali Ibn 'Arabi is one of the world's great spiritual teachers. Known as Muhyiddin (the Revivifier of Religion) and the Shaykh al-Akbar (the Greatest Master), he was born in 1165 AD into the Moorish culture of Andalusian Spain, the centre of an extraordinary flourishing and cross-fertilization of Jewish, Christian and Islamic thought, through which the major scientific and philosophical works of antiquity were transmitted to Northern Europe. Ibn 'Arabi's spiritual attainments were evident from an early age, and he was renowned for his great visionary capacity as well as being a superlative teacher. He travelled extensively in the Islamic world and died in Damascus in 1240 AD.

He wrote over 350 works including the Fusûs al-Hikam, an exposition of the inner meaning of the wisdom of the prophets in the Judaic/ Christian/ Islamic line, and the Futûhât al-Makkiyya, a vast encyclopaedia of spiritual knowledge which unites and distinguishes the three strands of tradition, reason and mystical insight. In his Diwân and Tarjumân al-Ashwâq he also wrote some of the finest poetry in the Arabic language. These extensive writings provide a beautiful exposition of the Unity of Being, the single and indivisible reality which simultaneously transcends and is manifested in all the images of the world. Ibn 'Arabi shows how Man, in perfection, is the complete image of this reality and how those who truly know their essential self, know God.

Firmly rooted in the Quran, his work is universal, accepting that each person has a unique path to the truth, which unites all paths in itself. He has profoundly influenced the development of Islam since his time, as well as significant aspects of the philosophy and literature of the West. His wisdom has much to offer us in the modern world in terms of understanding what it means to be human.

http://www.ibnarabisociety.org/index.html

Treason From Within: The Road towards a Police State in America by Dr. Andrew Bosworth

 

Treason From Within: The Road towards a Police State in America:  Defense Authorization bill allows for military detentions of American citizens in the US.

by Dr. Andrew Bosworth

Global Research Canada, 28 November 2011

 

Preparing for the Final Takedown?

There is a shocking piece of legislation working its way through Congress. A Defense Authorization bill for 2012 allows for military detentions of American citizens on American soil. These can be indefinite detentions, with no trial.

The American Civil Liberties Union statement (more of an alert) on November 23, 2011 deserves special attention:

“The U.S. Senate is considering the unthinkable: changing detention laws to imprison people — including Americans living in the United States itself — indefinitely and without charge.”

“The Defense Authorization bill — a “must-pass” piece of legislation — is headed to the Senate floor with troubling provisions that would give the President — and all future presidents — the authority to indefinitely imprison people, without charge or trial, both abroad and inside the United States.”

“If enacted, sections 1031 and 1032 of the NDAA would:

1)  Explicitly authorize the federal government to indefinitely imprison without charge or trial American citizens and others picked up inside and outside the United States;

(2)  Mandate military detention of some civilians who would otherwise be outside of military control, including civilians picked up within the United States itself; and

(3)  Transfer to the Department of Defense core prosecutorial, investigative, law enforcement, penal, and custodial authority and responsibility now held by the Department of Justice.”

“The bill was drafted in secret by Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) and passed in a closed-door committee meeting, without even a single hearing.”

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is the nation’s oldest organization of its kind, emerging from the American Union Against Militarism, which opposed the US entry into World War I in 1917.

Without endorsing everything the ACLU has done, it is possible to recognize this organization as careful. It is not prone to wild exaggeration.

Fortunately, there is some resistance to the NDAA for 2012 bill, to this Department of Defense power grab, including by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif), the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

In fact, Sen. Feinstein appeared quite alarmed:

“I will stop reading here, but again, I want to emphasize this point. We are talking about the indefinite detention of American citizens without charge or trial. We have not done this at least since World War II when we incarcerated Japanese Americans. This is a very serious thing we are doing. People should understand its impact.”

To read the rest of this article and for more information, please click on the links provided below:

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27907

http://multipolarfuture.com/

Congress to Vote on EXPLICITLY Creating a Police State - 27 November 2011

 

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27886

R.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N! I Am Not Dead

Heretic Productions present: "R.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N! I Am Not Dead"

Let the wolves know that in our tribe
If the father dies, his gun will remain
Even if all the men of the tribe are killed
Our son will remain.
Leave the silver bullet in my heart,
fall to prayer in my blood,
and hush, my father
--I am not dead.
More light than mass,
I rise through you,
breathe with your eyes,
stand in your shoes, on the rooftops,
in the streets, march with you
in the cities and villages of our country
shouting through you, with
you.
I am thunder on your tongue.
To slaughter us
Why did you need to invite us
To such an inelegant party
En Garde motherfucker, the tide is rising

The Mega Banks: Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, et. al. Control Europe's Political Landscape

"While this transpires 70% of Americans are unaware of the seriousness of what is taking place in Europe  Wait until 2012.... If the six European countries default on their debt, US banks cannot possibly stay solvent. The knack on contagion could take the US banking system down with it."

The Mega Banks: Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, et. al. Control Europe's Political Landscape

by Bob Chapman

Global Reasearch Canada, 27 November 2011

In Europe each time a new player is presented we find he is a Goldman Sachs’ alumnus. Recent entries are Mario Monti “appointed” PM of Italy, Lucas Papademas “appointed” PM of Greece and Mario Dragahi “appointed” President of the European Central Bank. The banks blatantly control governments and agencies presenting us with an oligarchy, which controls most of the nations on the planet. In America politicians are bought and paid for. In Europe there is a different mind set, a shared worldview of bureaucrats, technocrats, politicians and the elite bankers of world government and domination. What has happened in this process is that Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and other mega-banking has retained power for decades. They control all the players in the field, so the outcome is always in their favor. The bankers and others in turn are paid via billions of dollars in bonuses. Banks are now bank holding companies having become that to avoid failure as brokerage firms. That is the case in the US, UK and Europe.

One of our subscribers in Brussels sent us a copy of “A European Mechanism for Financial Stability.” The present danger is seen in sovereigns heavily in debt and the heard effect of hedge funds. They say they won’t allow speculators to govern their societies. If they are serious why don’t they ban them from their markets? A universal ban would be even better and they could throw in derivatives for good measure.

Europe still does not have a longer-term structural solution to their debt crisis and none is in the offering. Germany cannot sell its total tranche of bonds and Mrs. Merkel says that if Germany can only sell 65% of its bonds how can Eurobonds or bonds of the six insolvent nations sell theirs? The debt crisis is burrowing even deeper like a large worm undermining the entire continent. Worse yet, we just found out that the Bundesbank usually holds back bonds for market making operations, thus, they only sold about half of the issue. If the crisis continues to deepen Germany and the other euro zone nations will have to reexamine where they are headed. As we know all currencies and debt rates are increasing, which ties the banks of all the participants, including the solvent ones. Even with the German bunds, who is going to want to hold debt in a country that will have to guarantee one-half or more of the debt of other countries? At the same time the call goes out for strict supervision and enforcement of budget discipline. We have lived in these countries and that is not possible for any sustained period of time.

The Spanish election turned out as well as could be expected Calling for a vote on November 20th, the anniversary of Generalisimo’s death, turned out to be the kiss of death for Socialist PM Joe Luis Zapatero. There are too many people who liked Franco. The PP is a pro business party and already governs 11 of 17 of the country’s autonomous regions. If PP beats the Socialists in their stronghold in March, the PP will be in power for a number of years. Zapater’s legacy to the PP will have its work cut out for it with 22% unemployment and almost 7% yields to contend with. They will have to also try to restore the country’s AAA rating. Many voted for the lesser of two evils.

To read the rest of this article, please click on the link provided below:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27890

Keiser Report - 26 November 2011: Unemploy Wall Street

That's a great idea Max.

This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss unemployed Wall Streeters looking for financial firms that practice 'integrity and honesty' and hedge fund managers crying 'boohoo' that JP Morgan has seized their MF Global funds. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Danny Schechter about plunder, the crime of our time, inspiring an economic justice movement.

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The Video Congress Does Not Want You To See

Now, I know whose lead the politicians in the EU and in Sweden followed.

http://governmentgonewild.org/

Citizens' Initiative to Ban Chemtrails - Suffolk Co., NY

Wake Up Nations

Citizens' Initiative to Ban Chemtrails - Suffolk Co., NY

by Rady Ananda 

Global Research Canada  25 Novevber 2011

 

Suffolk Co. NY to hear proposal to ban chemtrails

On Dec. 6, New York’s Suffolk County government will hold a public hearing on a proposal to ban aerial spraying of aluminum oxide, barium, sulfur, and other salts into the air over the county without first filing an Environmental Impact Statement with and receiving approval from the county’s Department of Health Services, Division of Environmental Quality.

Exempted from the proposed ban are aerosol spraying operations for agriculture, and for lyme disease, Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), West Nile virus (WNV), and other disease vector control operations.

The hearing will be held at the Riverhead Legislative Auditorium, Evans K. Griffing Building, 300 Center Drive in Riverhead, NY at 2:30 pm.

If the public is able to convince legislators of the risk from such geoengineering operations, the legislation will then be voted on at the Dec. 20th session. Otherwise, the proposed ban will be tabled indefinitely.

Initiated by Cindy Pikoulas and her husband Jim, along with Siobhan Ciresi of Long Island Sky Watch (LISW), with the assistance of chemtrail opponent Rosalind Peterson of Agriculture Defense Coalition, the bill was finalized and proposed by legislator Edward P. Romaine (1^st District). (Full text below.)

Involved in Suffolk County government since 1989, Romaine is a fiscal conservative who prioritizes saving farmland and protecting the environment. In August, he organized Long Island’s first countywide farmers market, along with the Long Island Farm Bureau.

Romaine has represented the 1^st District (eastern end of Long Island) continuously since 2005. He serves on the Environment, Planning & Agriculture Committee, which voted on Nov. 28 to submit the proposed law banning such aerial spraying to a public hearing.

The Piloulases and Ciresi will speak on Dec. 6 and are urging people to “pack the hearing” to show support for the ban.

“If this proposal becomes law in Suffolk County, Long Island, it would be the first in the nation. It would be a starting point for others to follow,” said LISW in a press release.

“Eventually, our governments would have to investigate why our trees are dying in record numbers; why our waters contain toxic levels of aluminum, barium and strontium; why 90% of us are vitamin D deficient; why our crops are failing; and where all of this crazy weather is coming from.”

Cindy Pikoulas of LISW spoke with New York Sky Watch radio on Nov. 20, when she advised that tree samples from Suffolk show high levels of barium, strontium and aluminum. She is asking Long Islanders to have their water and trees tested for these chemicals in order to build a body of evidence that would spur investigations by health and environment authorities.

In addition to attending the Dec. 6 hearing, Long Islanders can contact their county legislators via http://legis.suffolkcountyny.gov/legislators.html

To read the entire article, please click on the link provided below:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27866

For more information on Chem Trails, please click on the link below:

http://aircrap.org/

 

Keiser Report - 24 November 2011: Corruptify!

This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss taxpayers in the West being pepper-sprayed with toxic debts while in China fraudsters receive five fingers of death. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Gregor Macdonald about Warren Buffett's investment in Japan and the cost benefit analysis of the energy policy of invading resource rich nations in order to liberate their oil.




http://www.abetterwaytogovernbritain.co.uk/

 

My Wish To All Those Who Find Their Way To My Blog.

Best wishes to all to use as you will.

Listen now!  Listen to the sounds of life.  Feel the vibrations, feel the tones, feel the notes that caress and bring comfort to your human bodies and minds.  Remember again these beautiful notes that make up this song of life, this song sung by the most beautiful of voices, these voices that lie dormant in you, waiting to be heard again, these voices waiting to sing again.  Waiting to sing their songs of creation, their songs of love, their songs that awaken again that which is best within yourself and within all of Mankind.

M.N. Hopkins

Never Alone Lyrics - Lady Antebellum

In a time when we have been divided and conquered by those who use fear as their tool, a few stand for the many and get kicked in the ass for their efforts.


This one is dedicated to all those who have found the love and courage to relight the flame of freedom in many Lands.  Best wishes.


M.N. Hopkins

Fight For The Future Of Internet Freedom on Tuesday, November 29, 2011. Make It The Perfect Storm of Telephone Calls To Congress

The Internet Censorship Bill took a massive beating last week (yeah, you did that!) but drug companies, movie studios and the Chamber of Commerce do *not* go down easy.

Now-- get this-- they're telling Congress it's a "jobs" bill.

This is dangerous.  Everyone in Congress is desperate to do something to create jobs.  Now the most powerful lobbies in Washington are banging down their doors, saying "this is your (only) chance to pass a jobs bill."

Since Congress is away for the holiday, there's one priority: sign up  as many people as possible for a massive call-in day when Congress returns.

Click here to join in, by committing to call your Senator

Since the House's "SOPA" has such a bad name (yes, you did that) lobbyists are moving their weight behind the Senate version, PIPA ("The PROTECT IP Act"). The Senate's censorship bill is just as bad; it's only missing a few of SOPA's extra-crazy provisions, like the ones that could send you to jail for singing a pop song on YouTube.  The website blocking provisions are all there.  Still, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid thinks that with the attention on SOPA, he can sneak PIPA through quickly when Congress returns.

Reid needs to know this bill won't move forward without a fight.  That's why we're organizing a call-in day for Tuesday, using the same tools that our heroes at Tumblr used last week.  It's kind of perfect.  While Congress rests we've got 5 full days to sign up friends, colleagues, Twitter followers-- everybody.  Then on

Tuesday we'll unleash a storm of phone calls.

Click here to sign up, and then get others signed up too.

This weekend, instead of nobly vegging out on the internet, you can fight for the future of the internet and freedom of speech.  Every ounce of time you spend counts.

Signups now, phone calls Tuesday.  Start your engines.

Holmes Wilson
Fight for the Future / AmericanCensorship.org

P.S. Are you a Tumblr user?  We just put up a special section with extra-easy instructions for Tumblr users to add a "Stop Censorship" button to their site:  http://americancensorship.org/#tumblr


www.americancensorship.org

Anonymous - What We Are Capable Of

The boys & girls are busy.

Bread, Freedom, & Social Equality by Ramy Essam

I hope the youth of Egypt can get it right and pick the kind of nation they choose to live in. It's not for me to comment on their struggle. I only intend to wish them well.  Best wishes to the people of Egypt for whatever way they chose.   It's the same dream of freedom that we all share in our shared humanity.

Goldman Sachs and Europe's "Inside Job"

Update:  27 November 2011:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27872

Many Feel This Way - Fear Is the Great Divider and Isolator Of Humanity

And Love and Kindness, the great Liberator and Unifier of Mankind.

M.N. Hopkins

I found this card on Pam's blog and thought that I would share it with all who visit here.

If you wish to visit Pam to see what she's blogging about, please click on the link below:

http://notesalongthepath.com/

Saldremos a la lluvia - Manola Garcia

Enjoy.

Keiser Report: Monsanto and the Seeds of Evil

This time, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, about the US State Department's genetically modified retaliation against France, more missing billions in Afghanistan and shopping frenzies in Britain. In the second half of the show, Max talks to author and blogger, James Howard Kunstler, about shopping stampedes and revolutionary times.

You might wish to view this also for more information:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6EUGyXj2aw&feature=related

Special Comment - Mayor Bloomberg, Oops, What Have You Done! - Countdown with Keith Olbermann

11-15-11 4 - Special Comment - Mayor Bloomberg - Countdown with Keith Olbermann


Tried to add the transcript here, but it was too long. I have, however, added closed captions, and you can find the full transcript (and much, much more) at The Countdown Library, here:


http://www.countdownlibrary.com/2011_11_15_archive.html

Nigel Farage: A Voice of Truth in the EU

It's so unusual to hear someone speaking in a direct and honest manner in the EU Parliment or in fact in any Parliment or Congress on any continent.

Take some time to listen, these events are rare indeed.

Anti-European flag used in Iceland - Image by Ivan Sache, 12 September 2010

Words of Encouragement - Have No Fear Of What Is To Come



http://maximopanes.com/

7 November, 2011 Message:  Have No Fear Of What Is To Come.

Have no fear of what is to come.  For, the night is dark, but with the dawn comes a new light that refreshes and enlivens and reminds you once again of your own true inner nature as well as the true nature of all within human form.

We say to each of you. To weary not, to not be deceived, but to be certain, to be sure and to have a confidence again.

We know these days have been hard on you as your longings grow.  Your longings for a better way of living within your human communities.

The call has gone out and Love has returned, though you see it not.  Yes, love of self and love of Man and Woman.  Love of your Lands and love of each other.

This is the Love that we speak of this day.  This is the Love that arrives with the dawning of a new age.

Trust in your own inherent strength and abilities.  Trust in your Self and not ego self.  Trust in the coming of a new age in which Mankind again flourishes upon your planet.

The end of slavery is nearing.  The ending of the dark ages.  A new Light arrives, a new way of being together in human community.

Once again, Man and Woman responsible for each other and respectful of their home, this Earth.  There is non other for humankind.

Your Lands, your world, yours is the responsibility to nurture and to grow.

M.N. Hopkins

What Does Nourish Mean To You ?

Some Food for the Soul.

Enjoy

http://www.nourishlife.org/

Only Breath - A Poem By Rumi

A beautiful poem set to beautiful music.

Enjoy.

Cottage Food Laws On the Rise In The USA

Cottage Food Laws On the Rise

November 14th, 2011  By Susie Wyshak

In a Maine airport shop, I beeline for the local food souvenirs, my eye roving from a set of Stonewall Products over to several local blueberry jams. More than I expected, in fact. One comes from Out on a Limb, a small home jam-making operation that got started thanks to Maine’s cottage food law.

Today about 31 states have so called “cottage food laws,” allowing legal home-based food production on a small scale. The alternative is renting a commercial kitchen, which can cost $10 per hour, more often $25 or higher. Many of the laws passed recently thanks to grassroots efforts by bakers and jam makers eager to generate extra income, build a food community, control their cooking environments, and/or work at home. State guidelines differ, usually prohibiting riskier foods such as refrigerated items.

As a petition gathers momentum in California, along with a Facebook group, I took a look at the challenges and success of a few food entrepreneurs operating under cottage food laws in a time where local food reigns and career “Plan Bs” have become more like Plan A.

In most states, proponents have faced uphill battles. Two key objections tend to pop up:

It’s not fair to businesses that invest in commercial facilities.

As with the food truck versus restaurant battles, yes it’s more competition. I was thinking about a baker in Los Angeles who makes beautiful decorated cookies out of her bakery. If suddenly hundreds of home bakers could do the same without the overhead costs she might possibly need to drum up more commercial business to keep the bakery going.

But it’s also worth looking at the positive economic impact. Denay Davis, who runs a resource website for home bakers, believes “little food crafters are simply not a threat. It’s about sharing with other people, having control, and building relationships–not making a killing.” Etsy sellers exemplify typical cottage food law businesses, although many states only allow selling homemade goods locally, not online.

Retirees can supplement limited incomes. “If this was my only income I’d be earning about 40 percent of what I need. I didn’t have to make any capital investments. It’s a nice retirement job for me,” said Beth-Ann Betz, who bakes Middle Eastern pastries.

The laws also help those needing gluten-free or nut-free environments. “We’re gluten-free at home,” says Michigan baker Julie Rabinowitz. “So it’s easier to bake with confidence at home, without having to pay hourly to scrub someone else’s kitchen free of gluten.” The Michigan law caps her Tasty Sans Gluten sales at $15,000. It’s a delicate balance as commercial kitchens can run $12,000 a year. “My farmers’ market customers worry about price increases when I move to a commercial kitchen,” she adds.

Anni Minuzzo, California food consultant and former biscotti company owner, likes the idea of a cap. “It’s more fair to businesses who start out paying for a kitchen.” A cap also forces those who have outgrown their home kitchen to expand. Lori Jordan knows that “in the future if we want to grow beyond New England, we will have to move to a bigger place and hire more people.”

To read the entire article and for other information and links relating to this subject of food freedom, please click on the link provided below:


http://civileats.com/2011/11/14/cottage-food-laws-on-the-rise/

Death by Medicine - The New Sick Paradigm

Internationally renowned natural health physician and Mercola.com founder Dr. Joseph Mercola shows a video that American medicine frequently causes more harm than good and it is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States.

http://www.mercola.com/


You might wish to look at this information also:

At between 780,000 and 1,000,000 deaths per year the American Medical System is the leading cause of death in the U.S.A.  This ahead of heart disease at 700,000 and cancer at 550,000.  To see the research paper that studied the research and government statistics see:   http://www.whale.to/a/null9.html

For a PDF version of this see:  http://www.webdc.com/pdfs/deathbymedicine.pdf.

For an update on this 2003 study see: http://www.leadingcauseofdeathprescriptiondrugs.com/, and in case you are wondering, things are getting much worse ... 

You might also wish to view this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t-Y0_VND8Q

Chemtrails For Dummies: What in the World Are They Spraying (2011)

The Chemtrail/Geo-Engineering Coverup.

By now everyone has seen crisscrossing streaks of white clouds trailing behind jet aircraft, stretching from horizon to horizon, eventually turning the sky into a murky haze. Our innate intelligence tells us these are not mere vapor trails from jet engines, but no one yet has probed the questions: WHO is doing this and WHY. With the release of this video, all of that has changed. Here is the story of a rapidly developing industry called Geo-engineering, driven by scientists, corporations, and governments intent on changing global climate, controlling the weather, and altering the chemical composition of soil and water -- all supposedly for the betterment of mankind. Although officials insist that these programs are only in the discussion phase, evidence is abundant that they have been underway since about 1990 -- and the effect has been devastating to crops, wildlife, and human health. We are being sprayed with toxic substances without our consent and, to add insult to injury, they are lying to us about it.

Produced by G. Edward Griffin,
Michael Murphy, and Paul Wittenberger

For everthing you will wish you didn't know on Chem Trails please click on the link below:

http://aircrap.org/

Xavier Rudd ~ Better People

Can we be better? Yes, there is always room for kindness.

The G20 and Financial Globalization

Here are two other articles that will shed more light on this economic crisis:

Towards Economic Collapse: Europe’s Debt Crisis has Spiraled out of Control

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27623

Time For An Economic Bill Of Rights

http://webofdebt.wordpress.com/time-for-an-economic-bill-of-rights/

Maine Farmer Heads Group Challenging Genetics Giant



Organic seed potato farmer Jim Gerritsen heads a trade association that is suing chemical giant Monsanto.

Photo by Charlotte Hedley

 Maine Farmer Heads Group Challenging Genetics Giant

By Avery Yale Kamila akamila@mainetoday.com
Staff Writer

A fight to maintain consumer choice and farm independence has landed Maine farmer Jim Gerritsen on Utne Reader's list of "25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World," published in the November/December edition of the magazine on newsstands now.

Gerritsen, wife Megan, and their four children run the Wood Prairie Farm in Bridgewater, which produces and sells organic seed potatoes to kitchen gardeners and market farmers in all 50 states. Gerritsen is also president of the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association, and it was that role that led to the Utne recognition.

The nonprofit organization created a stir in food and farming communities when, with legal backing from the Public Patent Foundation, it filed a lawsuit in March against the chemical and biotechnology giant Monsanto. OSGATA has since been joined in the lawsuit by 82 other seed businesses, trade organizations and family farmers, which together represent more than 270,000 people.

The lawsuit questions the validity of Monsanto's patents on genetically modified seeds, and seeks protection from patent-infringement lawsuits for the plaintiffs should their crops become contaminated with Monsanto's transgenic crops.

"The viewpoint of Monsanto is that (in such a situation) we have their technology, even though we don't want it and it has zero value in the organic market," Gerritsen said. "We think they should keep their pollution on their side of the fence."

Laws prohibit certified organic crops from containing genetically modified ingredients, and Monsanto's patents prohibit farmers from growing its seeds unless purchased from the company. Yet pollen doesn't heed certification or patent laws, and regularly drifts from transgenic crops to contaminate nearby non-genetically altered ones.

To add insult to injury, Monsanto has a reputation for suing or threatening to sue farmers for patent infringement in cases involving its genetically altered seeds, action reported in numerous media outlets as wide ranging as the Columbia Daily Tribune, CBS News and the New York Times.

Despite this well documented legal tactic, Monsanto spokesperson Thomas Helscher stated in an email: "Monsanto has never sued and has publicly committed to not sue farmers over the inadvertent presence of biotechnology traits in their fields. The company does not and will not pursue legal action against a farmer where patented seed or traits are found in that farmer's field as a result of unintentional means."

"Inadvertent" and "unintentional" are the key words here, but for farmers to prove that Monsanto's transgenic seeds are unwanted invaders in a court of law is an expensive and time-consuming endeavor. A 2005 report from the Center for Food Safety, an organic-food and sustainable agriculture advocacy group, contends that Monsanto had at that time filed 90 lawsuits against American farmers. The report also contends that the corporation employed 75 people armed with a budget of $10 million devoted "solely to investigating and prosecuting farmers."

To read the entire article, please click on the link provided below:

http://www.pressherald.com/life/foodanddining/maine-farmer-heads-group-challenging-genetics-giant_2011-11-09.html

I found this article at the website of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association:

http://www.mofga.org/

Servers Of The Divine Plan - Free Dounload In Several Languages

Servers of The Divine Plan -  Front Book Cover

 

MANKIND AND PLANET EARTH HAVE TODAY ARRIVED at a critical juncture in their evolutionary journey. At the close of this 75,000 year major cycle, a New World is about to be born. The memories and higher faculties of certain individuals are just today returning to them, and they are beginning to recall the purpose of their incarnation, their duty to humanity and to planet Earth. They are becoming aware of the close attendance of legions of incorporeal divine Emissaries, the exalted ranks to which they inherently belong. They are remembering that they are an essential part of a vast collective effort and tremendously important task, the scope of which stretches back across millions of years and a myriad of past lifetimes upon Earth and elsewhere, all geared toward the forthcoming and conclusive glory. In their remembrance, they are perceiving that they are about to realise the grand consummation of a vital phase of the Divine Plan for Earth, the solar system and beyond. The Servers are awakening, and they are taking up their positions as agents of the New Spirit in order to play an active role within today's expanding world-consciousness around the planet.

 

For a free download of this book in English, Dutch, Spanish, German, French or Italian please click on the link provided below:

 

http://www.thenewcall.org/book_download.htm

Perfect Storm of Internet Censorship

In recent weeks the governments of Britain, Israel, the US, Japan, India and China have reported alleged cyber attacks by foreign militaries, hackers, and malicious software like Duqu, a virus similar to the Stuxnet cyber weapon constructed by Israel and the US for use against Iran's nuclear program. Although the nature and origin of the attacks or even whether they took place at all cannot be independently confirmed, the supposed threats are being used to propose punishing new legislation aimed at stifling internet freedoms and are igniting new rivalries in what many see as the battlefield of the 21st century: cyberspace.

Find out more about the coming battle for internet freedom in this week's edition of GRTV Behind the Headlines

TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES:

 http://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corbettreport.com%2F%3Fp%3D3110&session_token=7ZUho8Jn2AMrX5krKuQ1ju8NOfB8MTMyMTExMTAxOUAxMzIxMDI0NjE5

Rökkurró - Sólin Mun Skína

Some nice music from Iceland.

Enjoy.

CCHR: Drugging Our Children—Side Effects

This is a very serious problem and one that is a crime in my eyes.  This is a video for parents to view and ponder over.

I found these figures from a Swedish site claiming:  25 procent av alla barn är psykiskt sjuka! (25 % of all Children in Sweden are psychologically sick).   This was a statement made in 2007 and the basis for a study.  I wonder which Drug Company funded that study?

Here' the link to the article in Swedish:

http://www.peterularsson.se/protestera-mot-den-psykiatriska-massundersokningen-av-barn-i-sverige/

"Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment." —Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus & co-founder of CCHR
20 million children are taking psychiatric drugs, and parents, legislators and the general public are not being given the documented risks from international drug regulatory agencies and medical journals.  

CCHR has created a one of a kind psychiatric drug database containing all international warnings and studies on psychiatric drugs in an easy to search online database. People can search for drugs like Ritalin, Adderall, Prozac, Zoloft, Seroquel (any brand name drug) or by drug class such as antidepressant, antipsychotic or stimulant. They can also search all adverse reactions to psychiatric drugs that have been reported to the U.S. FDA between 2004-2008.

http://www.cchrint.org/psychdrugdangers/

Uqualla Speaks The Speak Of Spirit from Sedona

I did some searching to see what this 11-11-11 business was all about and found this video.  I liked this mans clear and direct way of speaking so I thought I'd include it on my blog.  When he spoke about the Mother Earth and communication with Spirit, he made a lot of sense.

Even if you are not so keen about this 11-11 song and dance of late, don't let that stop you from listening to this man speak to you.

What will you be doing 11-11-11?

Vande mataram - A.R.Rahman - Expressing His Love of The Homeland

This is a song that a young man from India picked out for me so I could hear music from his homeland.

Even though I don't understand a word of it, I can feel the love of the Land and the people in this video.

Thanks, Prasanjit Mandal. Good choice.

Xavier Rudd - Fade Generation - Some Food For Thought

ESM - European Stability Mechanism For Dummies - Totalitarian Treaty of Debt

Here's another video on the ESM that explains it in a very clear manner. Worth a view.

ESM - The New European Dictator

Economic Dictatorship. The European Stability Mechanism (ESM)

by Rudo de Ruijter and Jozeph Muntenbergh

Global Reasearch Canada, November 5, 2011

Ooops, yet another Mechanism put into place so that a few of wealth and power can be above the law.  There goes more of our Pension funds and Social Services away from citizens and into the pockets of a powerful few as member States tax teasuries are redirected into the pockets of Banksters.


Welcome to Totalitarian Europe.

The ESM is the new European dictator. Whenever it wants, and as often as it wants, it can simply request the Euro Countries to pay billions of euros within 7 days. They can ruin any government within a week!!! Read more on http://www.courtfool.info/

For more information, please click on the link below:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27483

Politicians Are Just Like Us - A Guest Post by Michael Brine.

Humanity United

The whole world is in an ever increasing mess as you are only too well aware. On the local political scene it is all part of the competitive conditioning of our societies.  Add to that the growing population pressures across the world - less felt perhaps here in Canada - but we do feel the ever increasing unraveling of other societies overseas. This unleashed frustration demonstrated by these 99 %ers is just a further indication of this escalating unhappiness and frustration.

Our politicians are just other us's who are locked into this competitive mold of conditioning, as we all are. They are just more visible by the public nature of their job - perhaps even more so simply because of that.

I think the ever increasing unravelling of our collective past ways of living and interacting with each other within this competitive mind mould way we have been raised in, is coming to a head. Once the shit hits the proverbial fan, metaphorically speaking, and the ensuing chaos that will result - indeed what we are already witnessing - it will bring us to our collective knees across the globe.  From that will eventually emerge a new beginning, as we look over our dying global corpse and shake our heads and say:  "Never again. Rulers have divided us.  Religions have divided us.  Let us learn from this bloodshed and ask for our collective forgiveness from each other - for we are all in this together." 

You cannot build a new building on a rotten foundation.  Nor the 'Blame Game' raise us from the dead - only sadness and a deeper understanding that we are in fact all the same - or as some would say, "All are one - You are me and I am but a reflection of you".  Then holding hands walk away - and never look back as a fresh breeze begins to gently ruffle us and the embers and fumes of the past desolation subside into the mists of time but never to be forgotten." 

Michael Brine

http://missionignition.net/btb/index.php

wild.brine621@gmail.com

The Icelandic Example? - An Interview With Michael Hudson

Iceland was one of the hardest hit nations in the immediate aftermath of the September 2008 economic meltdown.  Asked by their own government to pay Britain and Holland for bailing out their Icesave-exposed banks, the people overwhelmingly said, "No!"  Do the actions of the Icelandic people present an example for the rest of the world as we see the global economy teetering on the edge of collapse?  Find out on this week's GRTV Feature Interview with Michael Hudson.

Guest Post: Global Warming Debate And The Native Americans - Part 2 by Tom Mills

One of the Wupatki Ruins North of Flagstaff and there directional markers (Ball Courts).  Windows line up with the winter and summer solstice.

Global Warming Debate And The Native Americans - Part 2 by Tom Mills 

As we debate if global warming is real, what caused it, and who’s to blame, Mother Earth is not waiting for an answer.  I believe she is starting to wobble.

Figure 1
Thanks to http://solarimg.org for this image.  

If you placed a marker on the exact North Pole and then marked its location in space, the mark would give you the circular figures you see on figure 1.  From January of 2010 until February 2011 the earths North Pole formed a near perfect circle.  After April 2011 the circle began to tighten and around September 2011 the pole began to rock back and forth, if I am interpreting this correctly. 

On September 15, 2011 we had three 6.0 or greater earthquakes, all at the same time, located in Japan, New Zealand, and Cuba: http://www.longislandpress.com/2011/09/15/three-earthquakes-new-zealand-cuba-japan/  and my question would be, did the earthquakes cause the earth to move in its orbit or did the earths orbit change and cause the earthquakes?  Based on the lessons I have learned from the Hopi Indians, I think the earth tweaked as it changed its orbit and that is what caused the earthquakes. 

So, why did the earth tweak?  Scientist say (Peter Clark Oregon State University in his report to the journal Science)  “when the ice is removed (from the poles), it appears the underlying land would rebound, and the earth’s axis of rotation defined by the North and South Pole would actually shift about one-third of a mile, also affecting the sea level at various points.”

My Hopi friends say that the Creator told them, “I have planned for the day when man forgets his purpose and goes against My laws.  I have reserved the water, in the form of ice and snow, for My own use as a weapon for punishment to be applied when mankind gets out of control.  This will be a Judgment Day.  Mankind will no longer deserve to live on this land which I made for him.  Afterward, I will regenerate the Earth.”  Page 516 Dan Evehema, Hotevilla 1993. 

This is not the first time the poles have melted and the earth has shifted according to Hopi history.  In fact the Hopi believe that the current time we are living in, is the forth time, so the poles have melted in regular intervals at three previous times.  Charles Hapgood in his book, Path of the Poles, with a forward by Albert Einstein, thinks that the poles have been in four different locations in the past 100,000 years.   

If this was the case then many of the ancient structures (Stonehenge, The Avenue of the Dead, The Mayan Temples, Baalbek, Tiahuanaco, Angkor Wat in Cambodia, etc) built in the past should be lined up with the different pole locations:  http://mondovista.com/changingnorthx.html  and therefore give proof to this theory.  This could also be the reason that these structures are such a mystery to us, they don’t line up with north, south, east or west or any solstice or star at this time.

Yesterday there were floods in Thailand, droughts in Texas, and record snow falls on the east coast.  Weather patterns and season are changing, moisture from the melting poles is changing our world, the lose of weight on the polar region is starting to effect the earths orbit, the earth is starting to wobble, and still we argue if global warming is real.

So in the end, I do not think it will matter if global warming was caused by man or mother nature, we are all going to pay if we don’t start looking for solutions to stop the  polar ice caps from melting.  

Thomas O. Mills

Author:  The Book of Truth A New Perspective on the Hopi Creation Story
              Stonehenge, If This Was East.
 
tmills1870@aol.com

If you are new to my blog and haven't read part 1 of this global warming debate, please click on the link below:

http://mnhopkins.blogspot.com/2011/06/hopi-creation-story-and-global-warming.html

For more information that relates to the above article,  please click on the two links provided below:

http://mondovista.com/changingnorthx.html

http://www.longislandpress.com/2011/09/15/three-earthquakes-new-zealand-cuba-japan/




      

Sweden Versus Julian Assange For Dummies

There is a new website in Sweden that has a great deal of information with regards to the Swedish Justice System and their case against Julian Assange.  Must reading for anyone intestested in the history of the charges brought against him as well as the history of this court case.

Today is the day of the APPEAL JUDGEMENT TO BE DELIVERED 09:45 2nd NOVEMBER 2011 at the Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London

Here is the link to the new site with everything you ever wanted to know about Julian Assange and the Swedish Judicial Systems case against him:


http://www.swedenversusassange.com/

Desde el fin hasta el principio - un poema

Desde el fin hasta el principio - un poema

Cuando todo ha sido dicho y hecho por esta vida

Y nosotros nos bañamos en la luz de la creacion en el mas alla

Recordaremos con añoranza nuestros actos

Seremos recividos al llegar tanto por enemigos como amigos

Pues, el juicio de nuestro ego se habra desdeñado de nuestro ser como las hojas de los arboles

La dicha de vivir se levantara y nosotros conoceremos el Amor que nos aludio cuando en forma humana

Entonces sabremos lo que somos y porque hemos venido al lugar de nuestro nacimiento y porque nos retiramos de la tiniebla en el lugar de nuestra muerte

Entonces, estaremos en paz y en amor con todad los seres vivientes hasta el proximo tiempo cuando descenderemos al mundo del olivo

This poem was translated from it's orginal in English to Spanish by Miguel Angel Torres.  If you wish to read the orginal in English, please click on the link below:


http://mnhopkins.blogspot.com/2011/06/from-endings-to-beginnings-poem.html