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http://blogs.healthfreedomalliance.org/blog/2009/07/24/more-on-micahel-taylor-our-new-food-czar/

More on Michael Taylor - Our New Food Czar

Filed Under FDA, Food Toxins, Future of Food, GMO Foods

BTW, is anyone besides me offended by the whole concept of “Czar”? - ed

fox-henhouse1The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke.

Here’s the back story.

When FDA scientists were asked to weigh in on what was to become the most radical and potentially dangerous change in our food supply — the introduction of genetically modified (GM) foods — secret documents now reveal that the experts were very concerned. Memo after memo described toxins, new diseases, nutritional deficiencies, and hard-to-detect allergens. They were adamant that the technology carried “serious health hazards,” and required careful, long-term research, including human studies, before any genetically modified organisms (GMOs) could be safely released into the food supply.

continues, if true, get a goat today.

comments, part of them:

We have forgotten that all we need are 5 things:
Clean Air
Clean Water
Healthy Food
Self-Sufficient communities
and Integrity….none of which governments
give us, all of which we can give ourselves.

Imagine millions of us who realize that, and prepare ourselves by using our money and credit to buy storable food, solar panels, generators, organic seeds, and everything else we need to protect ourselves and our families, participating collectively in withdrawing our support from a government that abandonded us years ago………
The 15th of every month
Don’t Buy, Don’t Comply, Ask Why???

We not only withold buying anything from corporations the 15th, we call congress and tell them we are participating in http://www.taxholiday2009.net and want to know why congress isn’t printing our money without debt and interest.

Then on a predetermined 15th, we not only do those 2 steps, but we also take our money out of the banks, and STAY HOME FOR AS LONG AS IT TAKES, SUPPORTING BOB SCHULZ AT http://WWW.GIVEMELIBERTY.ORG AND CREATING OUR LIVES IN JOY AND OUT OF THE SYSTEM

http://www.taxholiday2009.net

[Reply]
# S. Lindsay on August 2nd, 2009 3:59 pm

Good luck with that! I’ve become so disgusted and lost so much hope lately with all that’s going on, that I dispair of getting it all straightened out ever again! Hope we can ‘fix’the mess!

[Reply]
# david on August 6th, 2009 8:27 am

chemical company’s, banker’s and oil. who’s in control here?

[Reply]

http://blogs.healthfreedomalliance.org/blog/category/natural-solutions/natural-healing/

Discover the Power of Cocoa Powder

Filed Under Natural Healing, Natural Solutions, Nutrition | Leave a Comment

Frank Mangano
Natural News

hot-cocoaA cup of hot cocoa may not do much to cool you down from the summer swelter, but it may cool down your blood pressure. According to a new report filed in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, hypertensive rats fed a moderate dose of powdered chocolate dropped their systolic blood pressure rates by an average of 50 mmHg after a single dose. The cocoa content was 70 percent.

The study’s specimens were mice, some with normal blood pressure, others with high blood pressure. The rats were grouped in a fashion so that rats with normal blood pressure and high blood pressure received one of a range of cocoa doses (as low as 50 milligrams to as much as 600 milligrams of cocoa powder). Read more
Aug
3
Pu-erh Tea is a Chinese Cholesterol Remedy and Overall Health Tonic

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puer-teaFor over 2000 years, a special tea that originates from the Yunnan Province of China has been coveted for its preventative and curative properties. This tea is known as Pu-erh or Yunnan Tuocha. The tea`s cultivation can be traced as far back as the Han Dynasty (202 BCE-220 CE) and was made from the leaves of da ye or broad leaf tea. The leaves of this variety of old wild tea tree when picked, are taken and put through a process of delicate maturation that ends in the creation of what is called maocha. Read more
Aug
3
It Can Prevent Cancer and Blood Clots. Now Red Wine Could Stop Inflammation Too

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red-wineIts antioxidant properties have been linked to preventing blood clots and preventing cancer but now scientists say red wine has another health benefit - fighting inflammation.

New research shows that the drink blocks two key proteins in the body to prevent inflammation, a chief cause of chronic disease.

Red wine contains a powerful antioxidant, resveratrol, which has already been shown to prevent blood clots and combat cancer. Read more
Aug
2
Omega-3s From Fish Oil Protect Against Prostate Cancer

Filed Under Aging, Cancer, Natural Healing, Natural Solutions, Nutrition | Leave a Comment

omega-3-fatty-acids(NaturalNews) A higher dietary intake of omega-3 fatty acids may protect men from prostate cancer even if they have a genetic predisposition to the disease, researchers have found.

“We detected strong protective associations between increasing intake of long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and more advanced prostate cancer,” said lead researcher John S. Witte. “These fatty acids are primarily from dark fish such as salmon.”

“And the decrease in risk may be even more pronounced if one has a high-risk genetic variant,” he said. Read more
Jul
31
Study Finds Vitamin K-1 Cardio-Health Benefits

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broccoli1Supplements of vitamin K-1 may slow hardening of the arteries in people already suffering from the condition, according to a new study.

Subjects receiving a daily vitamin K-1, plus multivitamin supplement experienced six percent less progression of coronary artery calcification (CAC), or hardening of the arteries that leads to atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease, than people receiving only the multivitamin. Read more
Jul
31
Americans Vote With Their Wallets

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Americans Spend $34 Billion on Alternative Medicine, 11% of Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending Goes to Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)

accupunctureAmericans spend almost a third as much money out-of pocket on herbal supplements and other alternative medicines as they do on prescription drugs, a new government report shows. Out-of-pocket spending on herbal supplements, chiropractic visits, meditation, and other forms of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) was estimated at $34 billion in a single year. The estimate was based on responses to a national health survey conducted in 2007 by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Read more
Jul
30
Breast Cancer Discovery: Vitamin A Derivative Normalizes Cell Growth

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S. L. Baker

vitamin-a(NaturalNews) What if a substance was found that normalizes out-of-control cell growth? The result could be a way to treat and prevent cancer. And a new study offers hope that discovery may have already been made. Scientists from the University of Chicago have just published groundbreaking research in the journal Cell which concludes a powerful compound exists that can restore a healthy balance to cell processes. It’s not a new chemotherapy agent or drug but one derived from nature — retinoic acid, a derivative of vitamin A. Read more
Jul
27
Obesity Breakthrough: Citrus Fruit Flavonoid Controls Weight, Causes Fat Loss

Filed Under Body Alkaline, Natural Healing, Natural Solutions, Nutrition, Organic | Leave a Comment

by: Sherry Baker

fruit-heartFlavonoids are compounds found in fruits, vegetables, and certain beverages (including tea, coffee, fruit juices and wine) that have aroused scientific interest in recent years because they seem to benefit the human body in a host of ways — from fighting viruses to preventing inflammation and infections. Research has found certain flavonoids have anti-tumor and anti-stroke properties, too. Now weight control can be added to the list of remarkable ways flavonoids can help promote good health naturally. A new study just published in the journal Diabetes concludes a citrus fruit flavonoid can cause the liver to burn fat and control weight. Read more
Jul
27
Herbal Remedy Really Does Cure a Cold

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echinaceaFans of echinacea have long sworn that it can ward off the common cold, a claim that has been dismissed this as a matter of faith. Now scientists say that the herbal remedy really works, giving believers the pleasure of watching the cynics swallow their words. An analysis of the evidence has found that taking the remedy more than halves a person’s chances of catching a cold and shortens the length of a cold by an average of 1.4 days. Read more
Jul
27
Garlic ‘Prevents Common Cold’

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3 October, 2001

garlicPeople who take a garlic supplement each day are far less likely to fall victim to the common cold than those who do not, research suggests. Although garlic has been traditionally used to fight off and treat the symptoms of the common cold, this is the first hard evidence of its medicinal properties. However, more research will be needed to corroborate the data.

The study found that a daily garlic supplement containing allicin, a purified component of garlic considered to be the major biologically active agent produced by the plant, reduced the risk of catching a cold by more than half. It also found that allicin-containing garlic supplements were effective in treating infections caused by the hospital superbug, MRSA. Read more

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Food Forests

The bible for temperate forest gardening:
http://www.edibleforestgardens.com/about_book

Nice introduction to forest gardens by Mother Earth News:
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Homesteading-and-Self-Reliance/2007-08-01/Plant-Edible-Forest-Garden-Permaculture.aspx

A more thorough introduction to forest gardening:
http://www.edibleforestgardens.com/about_gardening

An excerpt from the book the above information was adapted from, but with a nice table of example plants and additional information:
http://www.nofa.org/tnf/sp02/supplement/edible.php

Wikipedia on forest gardening:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening

Agroforestry Research Trust in England:
http://www.agroforestry.co.uk

Plants for a Future database, an incredible, highly detailed, massive database of useful plants for forest gardens around the world:
http://www.pfaf.org

North American Native Plant Society:
http://www.nanps.org

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Transition Town Sites

Transition Towns in NZ
Transition Towns in the UK
TT Hutt City Wiki
Transition Towns Otaki
New Zealand Transition Towns Google Group
Transition Culture
Transition Towns Handbook
Dynamic Cities Project
Skills Share

Just for the love of it - Skill sharing website

continued.

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http://www.laughingduckgardens.com/ldblog.php/2009/07/25/the-breads-of-summer/

The Breads of Summer
Posted July 25, 2009

I do love crusty toothsome baguettes, perfect for a spot of rillettes, mopping the dressing after a steak salad, or in the morning with a slather of good butter and fruity jam - or a good country loaf for sandwiches. But baking those breads heat up the kitchen - desirable in winter but not in summer.

But when there is will, there is a mean.

We don’t have a bread oven, but we do have a pizza stone and a gas grill. So my husband the baker developed a recipe - based on his no-knead winter bread recipe - that takes 10 to 15 minutes to bake outside on the grill depending what on the bread (flat or buns). Make 2 batches, and total is 20 to 25 minutes of baking - outdoors, not in the kitchen! Add to that 10 minutes of active time to prepare the dough, 10 minutes to shape it, and so about 30 minutes of active time produce a dozen flat breads or 8 to 10 buns which are prefect for sandwiches, burgers, the aforementioned rillettes and of course jam & butter.

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Before you say anything: yes, he prefers to weight his ingredients when baking, but for this bread, weighing is not really necessary because there is plenty room for a little more or less of this or that. And frankly, sometime we are not cooking in our kitchen and we have no scale. So a recipe based on volume can be eminently practical. For those of you not familiar with the US cup system, 1 cup = 240 ml, or roughly 2.5 dl

Buy flour by the 50 lb sack and store the bag in a large metal can (a new trash can for example), therefore making this homemade bread really economical. And enssuring that you almost always have flour on hand. Because beware… it is really good.

and - yoohoo! - he is still tinkering with the dough to see how versatile it is. He has made wonderful flat breads and tonight he is going to make hot-dog rolls. We, after all, need bread worthy of Harmany’s hot dogs. Yoohoo!!!

Keith’s Summer Sandwich Buns

Ingredients:

* 1 tablespoon olive oil
* 2 1/2 cups bread flour
* 1/2 cups whole wheat bread flour
* 1 1/2 teaspoon dry baker’s yeast
* 1 scant teaspoon salt
* 1 cup buttermilk (or combination whole milk yogurt/milk)
* 1/2+ cup water
* 1 generous tablespoon honey

Instructions:

1). Have a large bowl ready to welcome the dough, with the oil on the bottom
2). In food processor put:

* bread flour
* whole wheat bread flour
* yeast
* salt

and mix dry ingredients

3). With the food processor running (dough setting) add:

* oil
* then buttermilk (if buttermilk too thick, cut with some water)

4). Slowly add water until a dough-ball forms. The dough ball should be somewhat wet for a higher rise.

5). Stop food processor, remove oval-plug and add honey. Run food processor (dough setting) for about 30 seconds

6). Use your hands to spread oil in bowl. Having oiled hands makes transferring the dough ball easier.

7). Transfer doughball to bowl, cover. Let dough rise from 2 to 4 hours. 3 is ideal

9). Flour your work area, pat the dough down, about 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick. Lightly flour it. Cut out 8 to 10 pieces of bread using a round cookie cutter (or canning jar ring), kneading trimmings back together for more buns.

10). Set on oiled sheet, or use wax paper

11). Let the flat bread rise about an hour

12). Preheat baking stone on gas grill about 10 minutes: middle burner set to high, side burners to medium

13). Lower middle burner to low, side burners to high. Cook bread (half the buns) at a time for about 8 minutes on baking stone. (Close grill while baking.)

14). After their 8 minutes, move the buns to a basket built (inside shelf) into the gas grill for about 5 minutes to finish them and brown them. Meanwhile, set the remaining uncooked buns on the stone for 8 minutes. Then turn burners off and let the residual heat finish cooking them for 5 minutes.

Note: and to keep using the heat now in the stone, you could follow-up with pizza!

http://www.laughingduckgardens.com/ldblog.php/2009/06/27/elder-blossom-lemonade/

In Season & Fresh from the Garden, the Fields, the Orchards & the Woods

Elder Blossom Lemonade
Posted June 27, 2009

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A plant of our hedgerows and abandoned fields that are being reconquered by the forest, the elder favors the sides of ditches and embankments - especially those with a bit of shade. Oh, it grows well enough in full sun, but it seems to appreciate the extra moisture that accumulates in ditches.

Elder is a plant of the edge - maybe a plant ON the edge - making do with full sun or part shade - unable to decide whether it wants to really be in the meadow. Because of its widespread natural habitat, Sambucus (the botanical name for the genus) plays a role in many folklores: Scandinavians, Mediterraneans, North American Indians all had legends of the Elder … giving rises to conflicting stories of goodness and evil, stories that bellies its sun/shade qualities. At the edge, neither sun nor shade, neither evil nor saintly.

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Even its name - both the common and the botanical name in fact - harks back to old times. The word ‘Elder’ comes from the Anglo-Saxon word aeld, meaning ‘fire’, supposedly because young branches can be easily hollowed out, and were used as pipes to blow on/start a fire. Sambucus is a possible derivation from the Greek , a musical instrument probably made of elderwood. There is a also long history of the plant used medicinally, although such usage is no longer recommended today, because of certain poisonous compounds in all of the plant parts, except for the flowers and the ripe cooked berries (according to my Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs). Still, Elder is a cherished ornamental shrub (or small tree) with its lacy leaves and its creamy masses of flowers; some even have black foliage and pink blossoms. Around here, Sambucus canadensis grows wild and abundantly, so if I want some, I just go on foraging mission. The flat-topped white fragrant ombelles bloom in mid to late June for us (right around the summer solstice): when the elder blooms I know summer has arrived.

And what can you make with the blossoms? Well, elder water, syrup, cordial, wine, vinegar. And with the berries: jam, jelly and pies.

While I don’t buy soda, once in while I want a little something sweet; so I make syrup which can be added to water (flat or carbonated) for homemade soda: more fun, cheaper & in many way healthier than chemical-laden store bought soda. In the fall, cranberry shrub is a bright and tartly pleasant drink that I like making; I want to try my hand at other shrubs this summer (currant? wine berries?) and as you know from here and here, I have this thing with making fruit liqueur. My mom made plenty of fruit & herb liqueurs when I was growing up - and still does (her litchi liqueur is divine, so is her coffee and orange liqueur). Extracting flavor with alcohol must be in my genes, because I remember, when I was still a little girl, steeping herbs and flowers in alcohol to try to make perfume… But that’s another story.

While elder blossom syrup is not a boozy recipe, fear not! You can add elder blossom syrup to a neutral spirit like vodka for an evocative pale spirited lemonade or to sparkling wine. Or you can just mix it with water to make Elder Blossom Lemonade. For my taste, a couple of tablespoons of syrup in 10 to 12 ounces of water does the trick. You can see in the picture how pale my elder blossom lemonade is compared to the syrup.

Pick ripe, fully opened blossoms, once they have a chance to dry from dew - but before it gets too hot in the day. Avoid the ombelles where some of the tiny flowers have already turned brown: they are spent. Since they don’t open all at once, you may have to pick when some of the individual flowers are still in buds. Because of the aforementioned (don’t you love that word) alleged toxicity, I took care to snip off all the blossoms from the stems - that took a long time, maybe an hour, given how tiny the flowers are. But I learned my lesson from making dandelion wine: follow the instructions, even if they take forever to execute; what’s the point of spending time making something and ending up with a drink that’s bitter - or , in the case of elder, worse? This is a case, of do it well, or don’t do it.

Besides that, it’s easy to make, and now, kept in the fridge, th syrup (or concentrate) can be diluted at will with cold water to make a delightful elder blossom lemonade (have not added it to vodka yet…) and I can see using it for fruit salad and maybe even to flavor ice-creams…

Elder Blossom Syrup

yield about 1 quart/1 litter

Ingredients:

* 1 dozen large elder blossom flower heads
* 1 Tablespoon citric acid
* 1 large lemon, preferably organic, washed clean
* 2 cups + 2 Tablespoon/500 ml water
* 2 1/2 cups/ 500 g sugar

Instructions:

1. Snip the tiny flowers off the stem (I ended up with 130 g when I made my syrup), and cram them into a quart size wide-mouth Mason jar or other non reactive lidded container.
2. Add citric acid to jar
3. Peel the lemon, taking care not to take any of the white pith. Add to the jar. Juice the lemon and add to the jar.
4. Mix sugar & water in sauce pan, and bring to boil, stirring occasionally to dissolve sugar. Let boil for 30 seconds.
5. Carefully pour the syrup over in the jar (carefully so as to not break the jar - another reason to use a Mason jar), just a little first, tilt the jar and then add more. Repeat. Let cool and cover. Let sit out for 2 or 3 days (depending on how hot it is. 3 days if it’s cool, two days of it’s warm. More than that and it will start to ferment, and who knows what you’ll get!!!)
6. Strain the content into a clean bottle, using a fennel, a small fine sieve. Press on solids to extract as much liquid and flavor as possible. Cap bottle and store in fridge.

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Locavore log: elder blossoms from the property, lemon from my tree (yes, that’s lemon without an “s” - better than no lemon, no?), water from the well (don’t laugh)

For other accounts on foraging and making drink with elder blossoms check here (Hank in California) and here (El in Michigan. And of course, those two reminded me I should go after Elder this year…

http://www.honest-food.net/blog1/2009/05/24/elderflower-syrup-and-cordial/

http://fastgrowtheweeds.com/2009/06/13/on-hedgerow-foraging/

http://www.laughingduckgardens.com/ldblog.php/2009/05/23/making-radishes-lovable/

Making Radishes Lovable
Posted May 23, 2009

There is somebody in the house who’s not so fond of radishes, especially radish leaf soup or stir-fried radish pods, but I’ve just hit the jackpot!

I made something with radishes where the reaction was: “I can eat radish like that all day long!” I am sure that was an exaggeration, and I won’t serve this at every meal. But I must admit it was good.

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In fact, the current crop of French Breakfast style radishes has peaked: they are gathering strengths to make seeds, and you can tell because the root is starting to a be little hollow. Still… I can’t throw them out.

Thanks to VeggieBelly, I’ve had fresh pickles on my mind - hers was mango, but hey, I don’t have mangoes, I have radishes - and what else do I have growing now? let’s see spring onions and cilantro - lots of cilantro as a matter of fact, and it’s starting to bolt because it did not like the few days above 90F (32C) that we had - so I need to use it.Voila, Quick Pickled Radish Salsa was born! We’ve tried it with several dishes, and we like it best with stir-fry beef, simple pork stew, hamburger steak and served with rice. Definitively need the rice to make up for the saltiness (and heat) of the pickle. And inspired by Marisa of Food In Jars who puts everything in jar, I jarred it. (if the radish salsa is not consumed right away, the radishes will start to turn pink throughout, continue to exude some juice and the texture will change somewhat - still very good - just not the same).

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Quick Pickled Radish Salsa

The quantities are very flexible. I don’t measure. I just grab some of everything: One day I want more cilantro, one day I may want more heat. Anyway, for those who insist on quantities:

Ingredients:

* 1 bunch radishes - it’s OK if they are a little old, or hot (it’s actually a good use for them)- trimmed of roots and leaves
* 1 bunch cilantro
* 3 spring onions (or 3 shallots)
* salt
* a dash vinegar
* optional: a teaspoon of Vietnamese-style hot sauce, or 1 or 2 bird chilies, sliced thinly.

Instructions:

1. Slice the radishes and the bulb part of the spring onion very thinly (also slice the green parts, but set aside).
2. Arrange in layers in a glass jar, salting each layer lightly as you go. Let sit for about 30 minutes to 1 hour.
3. Mince cilantro, including stems.
4. Stir the radish mixture. Add the cilantro, onion leaves, vinegar and chilies if using.
5. Serve with rice (in the picture, hamburger steaks with more cilantro, stir-fried asparagus and plain rice)

Locavore Logs: radishes, cilantro, onions from the garden.

and I am sending this to Marija from Palachinka for Weekend Herb Blogging #184.

The legislature of the state of California has passed a new law to limit many of the gold-panning activities here. <<<

It has happened in other states, I was active in the mining world for years, fought it to no avail, for the ‘elite’ will always win.

If you take the old Gov. issued maps showing actual mineral deposits [ in Arizona, my knowledge area], and lay a Wilderness study Area map over it, you will find the minerals have been taken out of circulation, just as clinton did the coal in Utah.

There is a clause in the Wilderness bill that said after a 20 year period, you could petition Congress to have an area released for mining.

There is also a clause that allows the big companies to maintain their claims on minerals and oil, in the Wilderness areas.

When I questioned why? How?, I was told they could afford to hire and use the latest inventions and not go on the ground, so the area was not disturbed.

Near Lake Mead, in Az, homes were bought by the gov and tore down, so they could call it a wilderness area.

I went to a protest meeting for the homes, an eye opener, folks had bought the land 20 years before for retirement and were of an age to retire, 20 years of building, with a view of the lake, not lake front property and not within walking distance, just on a flat mountain top over looking the lake.

They lost their homes.

One day, when some of the population dies off and it gets down to just a few of the elite and the slaves to serve them, they will open the mining areas and truly be rich.

My opinion.

SILENT NO MORE! 9-12 Delaware Patriots TEA Party Rally

DOVER, DELAWARE

Well, I am back from participating in the MOB! (gee sure seemed like VERY friendly folks to me)

Hot day and many preferred to listen to the speakers from the shade.

Two Senators and our sole Representative were ABSENT!

In fact - While the group was gathered, Our Representative Michael Castle R DE (HAHAHA not even trying to be a RINO) announced that he will NOT be holding any town hall meetings out of 'Safety Concerns'.

Turnout - Unknown (my guestimate 1,000+)
BUT there were 750 there who signed the 9-12 Delaware Patriots (Refer to Glenn Beck's 9-12 Patriots) who signed on to the principles in a giant scroll. After only 2 hours, they had to stop, they had run out of space, people were even signing on the back.
Those with broadband can see it at:
http://www.pixiesites.com/9-12delawarepatriots.avi

Among the speakers was a Physician who made some excellent points. For example - When comparing our current system to the socialized systems, look at the CURE RATE - We far exceed their performance. She pointed out that the electronic medical records are a farce. She suggersted that it was much much better to just have you carry a card in your wallet, the Doctor could then just swipe it and you could put it back in your wallet - under YOUR control!

She also read us a statement from the Medical Association of Delaware AGAINST 0bamacare.

Just from looking and listening, I can tell you that the feelings run deep against what is happening in Government locally as well as Nationally!

If the politicians think they can just barricade themselves in their bunkers and this will all pass, I think they are mistaken. The sentiment is that 'If they won't come to us, we will take our message TO THEM'. They cannot hide - WE THE PEOPLE will not let that happen - Not in OUR Country!

[I have not read this, will try to later...granny]

http://epress.anu.edu.au/china_new_place_citation.html

China’s New Place in a World in Crisis
Economic, Geopolitical and Environmental Dimensions

Ross Garnaut, Ligang Song and Wing Thye Woo (eds)

ISBN 9781921536960 $50.00 (GST inclusive)
ISBN 9781921536977 (Online)
Published July 2009

China’s New Place in a World in Crisis

The world and China’s place in it have been transformed over the past year. The pressures for change have come from the most severe global financial crisis ever. The crisis has accelerated China’s emergence as a great power. But China and its global partners have yet to think or work through the consequences of its new position for the governance of world affairs.

China’s New Place in a World in Crisis discusses and provides in-depth analysis of the following questions. How have China’s growth prospects been affected by the global crisis? How will the crisis and China’s response to it impact China’s major domestic issues, such as industrialisation, urbanisation and the reform of the state-owned sector of the economy? How will the crisis and the international community’s response to it affect the rapidly emerging new international order? What will be China’s, and other major developing countries’, new role? Can China and the world find a way of breaking the nexus between economic growth and environmental sustainability — especially on the issue of climate change?

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Press Release -
“Global Green New Deal” - Environmentally-Focused Investment Historic Opportunity for 21st Century Prosperity and Job Generation “

Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World

UNEP promotes environmentally sound practices globally and in delivering its own activities. This publication has not been printed in hard copy and is only available in electronic format. Our distribution policy aims to reduce UNEP’s carbon footprint.

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Cover page

Credits and acknowledgements

Executive Summary

Part I - Definitions and Policies

Section 1. Definitions, Scope, and Concepts

* Defining and Counting Green Job
* Green and Decent Jobs
* Shades of Green
* Employment Shifts
* Labor, Energy, and Materials Productivity

Section 2. Green Policies and Business Practices

* Opportunity and Innovation
* The Policy Toolbox: Financial and Fiscal Shifts
* The Policy Toolbox: Mandates

Section 3. Toward a New Production/Consumption Model

* Durability and Repairability
* A New Service Economy
* Rethinking Consumption
* A New Approach to Work Hours

Part II - Employment Impacts

Section 1. Energy Supply Alternatives

* Employment Trends in Extractive Industries
* Investment in Renewables
* Renewables’ Employment Potential
* Wind Power
* Solar Photovoltaics
* Solar Thermal
* Biofuels
* Summary

Section 2. Buildings

* Energy Efficiency
* Green Buildings
* Retrofitting
* Energy-Efficient Building Components

Section 3. Transportation

* Aviation
* Road Transport
* Transport and the Wider Economy
* Urban Mobility
* Public Transport
* Rail
* Implications of a Model Shift

Section 4. Basic Industry

* Iron and Steel
* Aluminum
* Cement
* Pulp and Paper
* Recycling

Section 5. Food and Agriculture

* The Environmental Footprint
* Employment Trends
* Opportunities for Green Employment in the Existing Food System
* Beyond the Agro-Industrial Model

Section 6. Forestry

* Employment Estimates
* Avoiding Deforestation
* Afforestation and Reforestation
* Agroforestry
* Sustainable Forestry Management

Part III - Outlook and Conclusions

Section 1. Pathways to a Fair and Just Transition

* The ILO Framework
* Business Approaches
* Trade Union Approaches
* Just Transition in National Contexts
* Greening the Workplace
* Job Losses and Retraining
* The “Flexicurity” Option
* Challenges to Just Transition

Section 2. Conclusions and Recommendations

* Key Job Findings
* Main Concepts
* Real Potential, Formidable Challenges
* Pathways to a Sustainable Future

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Gray Panthers!!!

My thought when I first saw the folks photo, they can be troublesome when riled up.

I am glad you went to the meeting and wish I had been able to do so.

Take a look at this link for ‘new’ ebooks, reprints of old and a few latter published books.

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/new.html

It is so full of books on communism and socialism, that it is difficult to tell what the message is to you and I.

Is it read and join in? or How awful it is is? or get educated?

As you read down they increase and get real thick a couple places.

Even I did not realize how long the Gov had fought them, I knew they were an uprising in the unions at the turn of the century.

Still, it is too many books on any one subject, to see on one page, and make me happy.

Yes, the politicians are worried, they do not like being cornered and expected to tell the truth.

I guess most are going ape over the fact that some of us expect them to read the bill they are voting on.

Back in 1999 there was a caller to the talk shows, who was pushing for us to vote out all sitting politicians and give the newly elected ones a chance to feed at the gravy trough and I agree with him, each day that goes by.

It is beautiful to see Americans that are turning out and protesting.

how’s that hope and change working out....?<<<

People are scared and finding out that ‘hope and change’ was not all it was promised to be.

Somehow, I got off into the left’s version of agriculture the last couple days, the one sure thing is that they are all as scared as can be, about the food in the future.

And I keep running into “One World Food”, and that is what our nonsense bill that is being voted on is all about, one world food, no one will have enough.

Guess that I am one of the left, for I figured out back in the 1980’s that I wanted food that would reproduce every year and the odd fruits that would almost grow wild.

So when I set up the place in the mountains, I planted Mulberries, for the other berries do not grow here and they will and several other native fruits.

And the wild donkeys came and ate the plants, while still young, but I did save 3 or 4 of the Mulberry trees and they produced at about 3 years age.

Things like Jerusalem Artichokes which will go wild. Even Bamboos are food when young.

If I had not got sick and left my mountain, it would by now be a wild food jungle.

That is why I am so taken with the jungle / forest garden ideas and think they should be planted, even if I don’t go back and eat them, someone will.

Years and years ago, we knew where fruit trees were, at old homestead sites and would go and pick the fruit trees.

Now those out of the way spots are parking lots, downtown.

Sure the annual food plants are good, but we need some back up foods growing behind them.

Thank you for the encouraging words.

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?S

[page one of many pages...noted the books calling for a garden
that keeps producing, year after year, goes under several names....granny]

Agriculture (Go to start of category)
S294 .N67 P76 1978 [Info] Conservation and Development in Northern Thailand, ed. by Jack D. Ives, Sanga Sbhasri, and Pisit Voraurai (HTML at UNU Press)
S407 .B4 [Info] Plain and Pleasant Talk about Fruits, Flowers and Farming, by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at MOA)
S413 .P37 [Info] The Farmer’s Land-Measurer, or Pocket Companion, by James Pedder (page images at MOA)
S441 .A358 [Info] Agriculture Fact Book, by United States Department of Agriculture (PDF files with commentary at usda.gov)
S451 .K2 M3 [Info] Winter Wheat in the Golden Belt of Kansas: A Study in Adaptation to Subhumid Geographical Environment (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1944), by James Claude Malin (HTML at skyways.org)
S451 .W6 G31 [Info] My Land, My Home, My Wisconsin: The Epic Story of the Wisconsin Farm and Farm Family From Settlement Days to the Present (1978), by Robert Edward Gard (page images at Wisconsin)
S451 .W8 S4 [Info] A History of Agriculture in Wisconsin (1922), by Joseph Schafer (page images at Wisconsin)
S455 .O5 [Info] Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England (Columbus, OH: J. H. Riley and Co., 1859), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at MOA)
S457 .M3 A5 [Info] General View of the Agriculture of the Isle of Man (1798), by Basil Quayle (HTML at Manx Note Book)
S471 .A82 N48 [Info] The Challenge of Landscape: The Development and Practice of Keyline (1958), by P. A. Yeomans (illustrated HTML at soilandhealth.org)
S471.C6 K5 [Info] Farmers of Forty Centuries: or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan (1911), by F. H. King

* HTML at soilandhealth.org
* Gutenberg text

S471.C6 S781 1988 [Info] The Stubborn Earth: American Agriculturalists on Chinese Soil, 1898-1937 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Randall E. Stross (HTML at UC Press)
S472.A357 K47 1995 [Info] Farming Systems of the African Savanna: A Continent in Crisis, by Andrew Ker (HTML at idrc.ca)
S473 .G48 E69 [Info] Environment, Biodiversity and Agricultural Change in West Africa: Perspectives from Ghana, ed. by Edwin A. Gyasi and Juha I. Uitto (HTML at UNU Press)
S473.K42 M34 [Info] Gender, Land, and Livelihoods in East Africa: Through Farmers’ Eyes, by Ritu Verma (HTML at idrc.ca)
S491 .G413 [Info] Geoponika: Agricultural Pursuits (1805-1906), trans. by Thomas Owen (page images at MSU)
S491 .H77 [Info] The Story of the Soil, from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life, by Cyril G. Hopkins

* frame-dependent HTML at soilandhealth.org
* Gutenberg text

S493 .B3 [Info] Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural Conditions, Practices and Ideals in the United States and Canada (4 volumes; New York: Macmillan, 1907-9), by L. H. Bailey (page images at Cornell)
S494.35 .D48 1998 [Info] Designing an Agricultural Genome Program, by National Research Council Board on Biology and National Research Council Board on Agriculture (page images at NAP)
S494.5 .A45 A37 1982 [Info] Agro-Forestry in the African Humid Tropics, ed. by Lee H. MacDonald (HTML at UNU Press)
S494.5 .A45 S63 1984 [Info] Social, Economic, and Institutional Aspects of Agro-Forestry, ed. by J. K. Jackson (HTML at UNU Press)
S494.5 .B563 N37 [Info] Agricultural Biotechnology: Strategies for National Competitiveness, by National Research Council Board on Agriculture (page images at NAP)
S494.5.I5 N474 2005 [Info] The New American Farmer: Profiles of Agricultural Innovation (second edition; Beltsville, MD: Sustainable Agriculture Network, 2005), ed. by Valerie Berton (HTML and PDF at sare.org)
S494.5 .P73 P73 1997 [Info] Precision Agriculture in the 21st Century: Geospatial and Information Technologies in Crop Management, by National Research Council Board on Agriculture (page images at NAP)
S494.5 .S86 P74 1995 [Info] Regenerating Agriculture: Policies and Practice for Sustainability and Self-Reliance, by Jules N. Pretty (page images at NAP)

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