Tony Benn

Tony Benn calls for revolt against coalition budget cuts in the UK. To read the Guardian article, click on the link below:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/aug/04/tony-benn-coalition-cuts-campaign

Democracy Now! on the latest Wikileaks release

With Amy Goodman,
Daniel Ellsberg-Pentagon Papers whistleblower,
Greg Mitchell-writes the "Media Fix" blog for "The Nation"
and As'ad Abu Khalil-professor of political science at California State University, author of "The Battle for Saudi Arabia".

The truth about farmed salmon

To watch the full documentary, go to:

http://farmedsalmonexposed.org/2009/multimedia.html

The film is also available in Spanish on this site.

Sites to visit:

Pure Salmon Campaign

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

Farmed Salmon Exposed

http://farmedsalmonexposed.org/

The two biggest Norwegian salmon farming corporations impacted in this documentary are:

Marine Harvest and Cermaq

Organic salmon?

Only if you want to believe what you read on the label. In fact, the USDA has not yet issued regulations on organic seafood. There are no internationally agreed standards in place either. 

As for myself, although salmon is my favourite type of fish, I stopped consuming them 8 years ago once I had learned that farmed salmon contains high amount of antibiotics, pesticides (toxic copper sulphate) and synthetic pigments! 

Other toxins in farmed fish are PCB-s, dioxins, toxaphene, dieldrin and mercury.

Ted Rall: US zombie empire

From a culture of production to the culture of consumption

The destruction of America by Chris Hedges

Who killed the electric car?

Isn't that pathetic that we, the supposedly intelligent human race, are still riding gasoline cars, a hundred year old technology that is giving us air pollution, smog, asthma, lung development problems in children and cancer. So why are we still using this ancient technology??

To watch the full documentary, please click here:

Also, for the latest development on batteries, please click here:

China and Russia to quit dollar

"St. Petersburg, Russia - China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade, Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced late on Tuesday."

"Pang Zhongying, who specializes in international politics at Renmin University of China, said the proposal is not challenging the dollar, but aimed at avoiding the risks the dollar represents."

"Wen said Beijing is willing to boost cooperation with Moscow in Northeast Asia, Central Asia and the Asia-Pacific region, as well as in major international organizations and on mechanisms in pursuit of a "fair and reasonable new order" in international politics and the economy."

For the full article, please click here:

Russia ditches the dollar, Germany for next superpower

Russia ditches the US dollar and Putin suggests the Euro to be the next world reserve currency. Max Keiser predicts Germany to be the next superpower.

The UK government decided to give toddlers 6 vaccines in a day

The UK government is recommending 6 vaccines at once for babies (MMR, PCV, Hib, Men C) to boost vaccine uptake. Their so called "safety studies" are based on interviews with a small number of parents!

For the rest of the article, click here: 

Interview with Dr Shiv Chopra

Shiv Chopra is a drug company insider who also worked for Health Canada for 35 years including 18 years as a vaccine expert. In this interview with Dr Mercola he gives his insider knowledge on food safety, the destruction of our food supply and the toxic elements in our food. A must see interview if you are concerned about your health. 

For the transcript of the interview and to read Dr Mercola's comments, please click here:

Bush and Cheney lied about Iran's nuclear weapons capabilities

"Why should George W. Bush have been “angry” to learn in late 2007 of the unanimous judgment of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies that Iran had stopped working on a nuclear weapon four years earlier? Seems to me he might have said “Hot Dog!” rather than curse under his breath.

Nowhere in his memoir, Decision Points, is Bush’s bizarre relationship to truth so manifest as when he describes his dismay at learning that the intelligence community had redeemed itself for its lies about Iraq by preparing an honest Estimate that stuck a rod in the wheels of the juggernaut rolling toward war with Iran."

To read the rest of the article by Ray McGovern on truth-out.org, please click here:

The possibility of war between North and South Korea strengthens the US dollar

Michael Moore meets Wendell Potter

Wendell Potter talks about the smear campaign to discredit Michael Moore and his film "Sicko" by the health insurance industry.

Original author: Michael Moore, transcript available at:
http://www.truth-out.org/michael-moore-meets-wendell-potter-countdown-with-keith-olbermann-video65378

Part 1.



Part 2.


More articles by Michael Moore on truth-out.org:
http://www.truth-out.org/articles/by-author/external/Michael+Moore

Tax reform

Shift the taxation from income tax to land tax (Land Value Tax).
Tax the land according to its value and abolish income tax.

I.V. vitamin C treatment

Dr Mercola's interview with Dr Ronald Hunninghake about intravenous vitamin C treatment and cancer.




To read Dr Mercola's comments, please click here.

10 Organic foods that are worth the money

Excerpt:
1. Apples

A total of 36 pesticides can be found on apples according to the FDA. One test found 7 different chemicals on a single apple. 

2. Baby foods

3. Butter and milk (animal products), also eggs

Dairy cows are fed with grains that are heavily treated with chemicals; animal products can also contain antibiotics and bovine growth hormone. (the meat you eat should also be organic due to the cumulative effect of toxins)

4. Cantaloupes (melon)

Are often contaminated by the 5 longest lasting of chemicals. Dieldrin, still gets taken up by the roots even though it was banned in 1974.

5. Cucumbers

Cucumbers were ranked the 12th most contaminated food and the second in cancer risk due to their pesticide content.

6. Grapes

7. Green beans

There are over 60 pesticides that are registered for use on green beans in the US.

8. Spinach

The chemicals used to treat spinach can cause cancer and can disrupt hormones.

9. Strawberries

Strawberries are one of the most contaminated ones of all produce.

10. Winter squash

Can absorb Dieldrin from soil.

Fruits and vegetables with the highest pesticide load according to the Environmental Working Group:

peaches, apples, sweet bell peppers, celery, nectarines, strawberries, cherries, lettuce, grapes, pears, spinach, potatoes.

Fruits and vegetables with the lowest pesticide load: 

broccoli, eggplant (aubergine), cabbage, banana, kiwi, asparagus, sweet peas, mango, pineapple, sweet corn, avocado, onion

You can read the full article on:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/11/20/10-organic-foods-that-are-worth-the-money.aspx

US bond bubble ready to burst

Are new security screenings affecting your decision to fly?

Take the poll "Are you less likely to fly because of stepped-up security procedures such as full body scans and pat downs?" and see it for yourself. 96% of voters (roughly 75 000 people!) say "They will make alternative travel plans to avoid intrusive security scans and pat downs."

Also read people's comments (303 comments so far).
http://blogs.reuters.com/ask/2010/11/12/are-new-security-screenings-affecting-your-decision-to-fly/?cp=all#comments

Also watch Ron Paul speaking against violating your rights at airports:

Rent-a-mob

The truth about GM seeds and Roundup, the killer, toxic herbicide. 

By Truthout.org

War Over Monsanto Gets Ugly

Tuesday 09 November 2010

A delegation of politicians and community activists gathered on August 7 in La Leonesa, a small farm town in Argentina, to hear Dr. Andres Carrasco speak about a study linking a popular herbicide to birth defects in Argentina's agricultural areas.

But the presentation never happened. A mob of about 100 people attacked the delegation before they could reach the local school where the talk was to be held.

Dr. Carrasco and a colleague locked themselves in a car as the mob yelled threats and beat on the vehicle for two hours. One delegate was hit in the spine and has since suffered lower-body paralysis. Another person was treated for blows to the head. A former provincial human rights official was hit in the face and knocked unconscious.

Witnesses said the angry crowd had ties to local officials and agribusiness bosses, and police made little effort to stop the violence, according to human rights group Amnesty International.

Carrasco is a lead embryologist at the University of Buenos Aires Medical School and the Argentinean national research council. His study, first released in 2009 and published in the United States this past summer, shows that glyphosate-based herbicides like Monsanto's popular Roundup formula caused deformations in chicken embryos that resembled the kind of birth defects being reported in areas like La Leonesa, where big agribusinesses depend on glyphosate to treat genetically engineered crops.

The deformations resulted from much lower doses of herbicide than those commonly found on crops, according to the study.

Biotech chemical giant Monsanto patented glyphosate under the trade name Roundup in the 1970's. The billion-dollar product is a main source of Monsanto's revenue and one of the most widely used herbicides in the world. One Monsanto blogger recently wrote that decades of success has made the Roundup brand name and glyphosate "interchangeable similar to the case of facial tissue and the brand name Kleenex."

Carrasco's report was largely ignored in the mainstream American media, but gained international attention among those opposed to genetically modified (GM) crops like Monstano's Roundup Ready crops, which are genetically engineered to tolerate the glyphosate-based herbicides.

The report is not the first to show that glyphosate herbicides like Roundup are more dangerous than government regulators and Monsanto have claimed, and Carrasco is not the first scientist to face intimidation after challenging the biotech industry, although he is the first to be threatened with violence.

Nevertheless, his report made an impact: journalists covered the results, environmentalists petitioned Argentina's high court to ban glyphosate and the government of the Argentinean province of Chaco began studying an eerie increase in birth defects and child cancer near the soy and rice fields sprayed with thousands of gallons of herbicide.

According to a spring 2010 report released by the Chaco government, an increase in birth defects and child cancer cases coincided with years of agricultural expansion and increased herbicide use in the province. The number of child cancer cases in La Leonesa, the small town where Carrasco and the other concerned citizens were attacked, has tripled from 2000 to 2009 and the number of birth defects in the province nearly quadrupled during that time, according to the report.

The report acknowledges that some local agribusinesses were unlawfully spraying herbicides too close to residential populations, but the Chaco study soon caught the attention of researchers across the world.

In September, an international coalition of scientists released a report citing the attack in La Leonesa and human tragedy in Chaco as proof that Roundup and genetically engineered soy crops are dangerous and unsustainable. The report  provides a conclusive rebuttal to the industry's claims that spraying mutant crops with chemicals is the best way to feed the world. It's just another chapter in an information war that has raged for more than a decade, pitting independent scientists and embattled whistleblowers against the world's biggest biotech and petrochemical corporations.

Roundup and Monsanto 

Monsanto has gained much of its international notoriety - or infamy, depending on whom you talk to - through its Roundup Ready line of crops that are genetically modified (GM) to be immune to the herbicide. To use the herbicide to combat weeds, farmers must buy patented Monsanto GM seeds with the genetic herbicide tolerant trait. Roundup herbicide is then sprayed to kill unwanted weeds, but the patented GM crops are spared.

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The Roundup Ready crop system was first made available in 1996. Since 2000, the percentage of Roundup Ready corn grown in the United States has exploded from 7 to 70 percent and now 93 percent of the soybeans grown in the US are GM, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Roundup accounts for about 40 percent of Monsanto's annual revenues and is sprayed on about 12 million acres of American farmland each year. In April, Monsanto announced the completion of a $200 million expansion of its glyphosate production facility in Louisiana.

Monsanto's Roundup Ready patent runs out in 2014, and the Justice Department began an antitrust investigation of Monsanto this year as its petrochemical competitors like DuPont clamor for a piece of the action. Monsanto has proven its tenacity in such disputes in the past; it forged new legal territory in the past decade, suing small farmers who saved Roundup Ready seeds or simply grew crops infected with GM traits after the patented Monsanto gene drifted and multiplied in their fields.

Superweeds

Monsanto's domination of domestic agriculture has had a startling side effect in the fields: the rise of new glyphosate resistant weeds commonly called "superweeds." Like the GM corn and soy, these weeds have bred themselves to tolerate Roundup and are invading farms across the country.

Monsanto shocked investors and environmentalists in October by announcing a new program that offers millions of dollars in rebates to farmers who combine Roundup with more herbicides manufactured by the company's competitors to combat the glyphosate-resistant weeds threatening GM crops across the country.

The mere presence of superweeds and the fact that Monsanto is now paying farmers to spray additional chemicals that are more toxic than Roundup, is evidence of a complete regulatory breakdown, according to watchdog group Center for Food Safety (CFS).

In his September 30 testimony to Congress on superweeds, CFS senior policy analyst William Freese said that the USDA regulates GM crops and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates herbicides, but there is no regulation of the combined system.

"And it is the system - the invariable use of glyphosate made possible and fostered by glyphosate-resistant seeds, for instance - that is responsible for the growing epidemic of glyphosate-resistant (GR) weeds," Freese said in his testimony. "This is clearly demonstrated by the near complete absence of GR weeds for the first 20 plus years of glyphosate's use and the explosion of weed resistance in the decade since the widespread adoption of Roundup Ready crop systems."

Debate Gets Ugly

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, has long been considered less toxic than other herbicides. The EPA considers glyphosate a noncarcinogen for humans and a chemical of relatively low toxicity.

Monsanto took the EPA's initial evaluation and ran with it, and in 1996, the state of New York filed a lawsuit against Monsanto over an advertising campaign that claimed Roundup to be as safe as table salt.

In recent years, teams of independent scientists like Carrasco's have come forward with studies showing that Roundup and glyphosate is more toxic than the regulators will admit. For years, Roundup critics charged that the "inert" ingredients like surfactants and solvents in Roundup and other glyphosate herbicides make the products more toxic to people and the environment.

Carrasco's report, on the other hand, showed that glyphosate itself caused malformations in embryos similar to those found in humans who live in agricultural areas dominated by genetically engineered crops. The report establishes that the toxic "inert" ingredients made it easier for the glyphosate to invade cells and cause damage.

But Carrasco is not the first scientist to identify this relationship between glyphosate and Roundup's "inert" ingredients.

Jeffrey Smith, GM critic and author of the books "Seeds of Deception" and "Genetic Roulette," told Truthout that many scientists have been verbally threatened and denied tenure for publishing studies critical of Roundup and GM crops.

"The attack [on Carrasco] is the latest in a series of attempts to silence those who have discovered problems with Roundup," Smith said.

Smith rattled off a list of scientists from Russia, Britain, the US, and beyond who have faced some kind of intimidation after going public with research on problems with GM foods and chemical products, including researcher Arpad Pusztai, who was famously relieved from his long-time position at a prominent Scottish research center in 1998 shortly after making public comments on potential problems with GM.

Smith is currently working with an international effort to support Gilles-Eric Seralini, a scientist at the University of Caen in France.

In 2009, Seralini and his team released a study showing that four different Roundup formulations diluted below suggested agricultural levels killed human placenta, umbilical cord and embryo cells.

"This clearly confirms that the [inert ingredients] in Roundup formulations are not inert," Seralini's team wrote. "Moreover, the proprietary mixtures available on the market could cause cell damage and even death around residual levels to be expected, especially in food and feed derived from [Roundup-treated] crops."

Carrasco cited Seralini's work in his groundbreaking study on glyphosate and birth defects.

Monsanto responded by calling Seralini's research "political" and argued that the conditions of the study did not reflect real life conditions. One Monsanto blogger even compared a key "inert" ingredient identified by Seralini's study to household soap.

Seralini and his team took on Monsanto again last year with a counteranalysis of lab data provided by Monsanto on the effects of three GM corn strains on lab rats. Seralini obtained the data after a German court ordered Monsanto to hand it over for review. Seralini's team discovered that the original study poorly constructed and the results reported by Monsanto were misleading.

Seralini had basically refuted Monsanto's ability to formally prove its GM products to be safe and that didn't sit well with his peers who supported the industry.

Pro-GM scientists in France, including Seralini's former colleague Marc Fellous of the French Association of Plant Biotechnology (AFBV), have since made public statements questioning Seralini's credibility and calling him a "merchant of fear," according to Seralini's supporters in the European scientific community.

Smith said that the intimidation of scientists conducting independent research, whether coming from the industry or its researchers, sends a dangerous message to other scientists.

"There is an attitude that, if you dare do research in the field, then you are threatening your work and credibility," Smith said.

As for Carrasco, the attack in La Leonesa did not keep him from speaking out. In September, just one month after being confronted by an angry mob, Carrasco was a featured speaker at the GMO-Free Europe conference. 

Carrasco did not respond to a request for an interview.

Carrasco has his work cut out for him. On October 13, just days before initiating the plan to pay American farmers to use more herbicides, Monsanto announced that two more GM crops were approved in Argentina, according to a press release. Like the US, large Latin American countries like Argentina and Brazil are key growth markets for Monsanto.

This is the challenge facing Carrasco, Seralini, and others who use science to hold the biotech industry accountable for its push for control over the future of agriculture. Their stories show that taking on powerful financial interests of massive global corporations can be a difficult - and even dangerous - task: a war of information between those in search of profit and those in search of truth.

Andrew Wakefield

Andrew Wakefield speaks in the European Parliament about autism and vaccines in Brussels.

Excerpt:

• Autism is not a genetic disease.
• There is a link between autistic symptoms and serious bowel disorders.
• The safety of multiple vaccines is not proved by independent research.
• The accumulative effect of the current vaccine schedule on children is not tested, there were no safety studies done. 
• All children get the same doses of vaccines regardless of their weight and actual state of health. Same is true for newborns; premature babies get the same doses of vaccines as full term babies.
• Animal studies showed that Hepatitis B vaccine causes serious developmental delays in monkeys.
• Mercury and aluminium in vaccines are neurotoxic. Mercury and aluminium together has a synergistic effect, meaning that together they are even more damaging to the brain.
• Recovery from autism is possible.

http://autismfile.com/media/andrew-wakefield-speaks-at-parliament-on-autism/

Chemtrails

Watch the documentary: "What in the world are they spraying?"




For the rest of the documentary, click here.

Gonzalo Lira on the latest EU financial panic

Gerald Celente: This is the beginning of the end of the Euro

Teenagers carry 30% more BPA in their bodies than the rest of the population

"Teenagers may carry the highest levels of bisphenol A – about 30 per cent more than the rest of the population, according to the first national survey about the compound conducted by Statistics Canada, but exposure to the estrogen-mimicking chemical is widespread, with detectible levels in 91 per cent of Canadians." Read the full article here.


It has also been detected in the umbilical cord blood of 90% of newborn babies who were tested!

BPA, a product of the petro-chemical industry, can be found in plastics, baby products, CD-s, in the lining of tin cans, in the lining of the paper they print your receipt on and a whole lot of other products such as flame retardants or white dental fillings!  

It is a well known endocrine disruptor, mimicking estrogen therefore can contribute to hormone related cancers such as breast cancer, prostate cancer and testicular cancer; can damage sperm and therefore can contribute to infertility, it may also be one of the causes of early onset of puberty in girls and can have an effect on early brain and neurological development.

Canada is the first country to ban BPA in baby bottles.

The biggest producers of BPA are Bayer, Dow, GE Plastics, Shell and Mitsubishi, Mitsui (Japan), and Wuxi Resin in China, Kesar in India.

I have known about how harmful plastics are for a long time, but from now on, I will stop using plastic bottles to carry my drinking water around and also will stop buying canned food including fish, sauces, vegetables, etc. 

See also:

http://www.wwf.org.uk/filelibrary/pdf/bpa.pdf
"Research Proves Gender-Bending Chemicals Affect Reproduction"
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/11/18/research-proves-genderbending-chemicals-affect-reproduction.aspx

Watch the documentary, "The Disappearing Male":

Latest analysis from the National Inflation Association

Hyperinflation is guaranteed if US stays on its current path

The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform released last week their 'CoChairs' Proposal' on how the U.S. can achieve $100.2 billion in domestic savings and $100.1 billion in defense savings in fiscal year 2015, for total discretionary spending savings of $200.3 billion. Combined with other steps designed to boost tax revenues, the commission's plan, if implemented, is expected to reduce the projected 2015 U.S. budget deficit by $400 billion to $372 billion. NIA believes it is very unlikely that our representatives in Washington will have the political backbone and courage to implement any of the commission's proposed spending cuts. The truth is, the U.S. is on a path towards exploding budget deficits in the years ahead, that could cause an outbreak of hyperinflation by the end of calendar year 2015.

Many people are asking us when exactly we expect our food price projections to be reached. We can pretty much guarantee you that all of our food price projections will be seen this decade. There is a very good chance of our projections being reached by the end of calendar year 2015 and a slight chance that they will be reached as soon as the 2012 elections. NIA's food price projections are very conservative. They are based on the current purchasing power of the U.S. dollar and do not factor in the likelihood of an outbreak of hyperinflation.

NIA believes that if the U.S. stays on its current path, we are guaranteed to see hyperinflation this decade. The only way it will be possible to prevent hyperinflation is if the U.S. government dramatically cuts spending across the board immediately and if the Federal Reserve raises interest rates from near zero percent (where they have been for nearly two years) to a level that is higher than the real rate of price inflation. Considering that the Federal Reserve still claims to fear deflation and just announced massive quantitative easing, we see very little chance of any major interest rate hikes taking place during the next six months.

Although the commission's proposal includes many large spending cuts including freezing federal salaries for three years (saving $15.1 billion), cutting the federal workforce by 10% (saving $13.2 billion), and eliminating 250,000 non-defense service and staff augmentee contractors (saving $18.4 billion); even if their proposal was implemented it would be too little too late. The commission's proposal calls for its cuts to be gradually implemented beginning in early 2012 and it includes absolutely no meaningful cuts to social security. The only proposed major changes to social security are raising the retirement age to 68 in year 2050 and 69 in year 2075. There is absolutely no chance of the U.S. dollar surviving past the year 2020 unless much more drastic spending cuts than the commission has proposed are implemented within the next twelve months.

The commission says that if we fail to implement their proposed spending cuts, we will likely see interest payments on our national debt reach $1 trillion by 2020. The reality is, NIA believes interest payments on our national debt are likely to reach $1 trillion in 2015. It is currently projected that our interest payments in 2015 will be $586 billion. However, this number is based on a projected 4.1% interest rate on our 91-day treasury bills and 5.3% interest rate on our 10-year treasury bills.

The yield on 10-year U.S. treasuries has risen in recent weeks by 41 basis points to 2.94%, up from 2.53% on November 4th. NIA believes it is likely the 10-year yield will rise back above 4% in the first half of 2011. By 2015, we expect the 10-year yield to be substantially higher then 5.3%. During the 1970s, the last time we had an inflationary crisis like the one we are rapidly approaching, yields on the 10-year bond exploded. When each of the agricultural commodities in our food inflation report reached their real all time highs in the 1970s, the average 10-year bond yield at the time of their highs was 7.47%. With the Federal Reserve likely to be forced to raise the Fed Funds Rate to around this same level, based on our projected public debt in 2015 of $14 trillion, our interest payments will likely rise to $1.046 trillion or 29% of projected tax receipts, and this is a very conservative estimate.

The Federal Reserve's monetary base currently stands at $1.9851 trillion and is projected to rise to $2.5851 trillion by mid-2011 due to the Fed's upcoming $600 billion in quantitative easing. The U.S. M2 money supply rose over the past week by $22.4 billion to $8.7862 trillion. This represents a $1.1648 trillion annualized increase, which would equal 13.25% monetary inflation over the next year. The M2 multiplier, or M2 divided by the monetary base, currently stands at 4.426, compared to a long-term average of 10. Based on a projected monetary base of $2.5851 trillion and a long-term average M2 multiplier of 10, the M2 money supply has a chance of rising as much as 194% to $25.851 trillion over the next few years.

In the short-term, if the M2 multiplier remains at 4.426, it is likely the M2 money supply could rise to $11.4416 trillion next year, up 30.22% from its current level. With the UBS Bloomberg CMCI Food Index currently up 30.5% from its low in August, it appears as though the market has already factored the upcoming 30.22% increase in the M2 money supply into agricultural commodity prices. Even if food manufacturing companies and retailers agree to accept 2/3 of these rising costs in the form of lower profit margins, Americans will still see about a 10% rise in retail food prices come early 2011.

The upcoming food inflation crisis and eventual hyperinflation will come as a direct result of our representatives in Washington trying to prevent a much needed recession by propping up Real Estate prices through bailouts, stimulus plans, tax rebates, and other wasteful programs. The only thing that our elected representatives care about is remaining in power. They only see our current problems and not the problems that will arrive next as a result of their actions. Their goal is to make the average American as dependent on them as possible through massive price inflation, so that the average American is forced to rely on entitlement programs just to survive.

For more info, go to:
http://inflation.us/

US declared financial war on the world

Prof. Dr. Michael Hudson
Tensions growing between the US and China

Free school milk: the white stuff might not be the right stuff

Debate over the free school milk program, arguing that cow's milk may not be as beneficial for our children, especially under fives or babies who were not breastfed long enough. The UK government will not abolish the program. Read the full article here.

One thing is for sure. The white stuff you drink every day-pasteurized and homogenized-even if it is organic, is lacking all the enzymes and beneficial bacteria you need to digest it properly . Without these, your milk basically becomes a dead food therefore I cannot see how it would help improve anybody's health.

Interview with Peter Joseph

Probably millions of people already know who Peter Joseph is. This interview with the founder of Zeitgeist movement is a kind of reminder as the third Zeitgeist film is coming out in January 2011. Watch out for it, it is called "Zeitgeist-Moving Forward".

You can watch the two previous films (Zeitgeist The Movie, Zeitgeist Addendum) here:

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

If you want to know more about the Venus Project and would like to get involved, click on the link below:

http://www.thevenusproject.com/

Who is Peter Joseph? from charles robinson on Vimeo.

S 510

S 510 is voted on in the US senate today. Follow the link to Food Freedom's site and send a live message to your senator if you are concerned about the future of food and your right to your own produce!

Big Bucks, Big Pharma: marketing disease & pushing drugs

Watch also: Sicko by Michael Moore

Paul Craig Roberts on the US military spending

China, Japan and OPEC indirectly financing the pointless wars of the US which are bankrupting America and serve only the military industrial complex.

UK supermarkets urged to label food that isn't GM

Excerpts from the article published on gmwatch.org:

• 70% of the meat and dairy you buy in supermarkets are coming from animals that are fed GM feed.
• The world's second biggest chain, Carrefour launches a new system to mark out such products.  It's gonna be a green stamp saying "Nourri sans OGM" to label animal products such as meat and dairy. 
• 96% of consumers want honest labeling
• 63% of consumers would not buy animals products that are coming from GM fed animals.
• Scientists have found fragments of GM DNA from GM animal feed in products like milk.
• An enzyme, lactic dehydrogenase, was found at significantly raised levels in the heart, muscle, and kidneys of kids fed GM RR soya. This enzyme leaks from damaged cells and can indicate inflammatory or other cellular injury.
• Read Peter Melchett's letter (Soil Association) to Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons, Waitrose and M&S.

This article is proof that here in Europe we have already had GM for years! God knows how long. In the US, organizations who want GM out of the food supply, always mention the EU as a good example of being GM free. This is sadly not true. At the moment we buy mostly organic, as much as possible, but we will keep on eye on this new labeling system in Carrefour, I want to see it happening.

We need proper labeling on all food products! From July this year, GM maize/corn can be legally imported into the EU for consumption, for animal feed and for processing. EU officials say it is safe. If it is safe, I doubt that they will label it. If one GM product is announced to be safe, what will stop the rest from entering the EU? Nothing..

I do hope that Carrefour's approach to GM is genuine and I do hope that other supermarket chains will follow suit!