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moxa1: napalm is jellied gasoline. Instability could well be indicative of potential potency. Nitroglycerin is unstable, but for those who know how to handle it and use, it has high value. I'll certainly research this.
Here's a post on Google+.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/106691065782437007837/posts/ak8xHmn8TTU
sumisu: thanks for post, but it's hardly OT. Very soon, I will post a series of articles that I have written on biodiesel. I know of no other plant that produces more biomass from seed to first year harvest than Hemp. (Once established, Kudzu grows more.) Furthermore, the seeds provide over double the protein per acre than soybeans. Decades ago, hemp was used for biofuel, until Ford, et al, suppressed it.
A self-integrated and contained biofuel operation ups the stakes for self-sufficiency possibilities for so many more folks around this world. If the diverse and several governments were not interfering with our natural rights, this board would have hemp as the cornerstone to a sustainable living set-up. Well, that is, of course, excluding friends, in Latin America, who would have to either hire more people or have to peel their own bananas. Snick! Snick!
sumisu: since I was a teenager, in vo-ag, I have engaged in horticultural genetics. I have nothing against hybrids and/or hybrids research. I do favor heirlooms. GMOs have the genetic strand of food plants altered. In terms of Simple 101, it is highly theoretical that any animal, including humans, can effectively properly digest and assimilate the base building blocks for use in the body. We have already seen that challenge with certain hybrid Winter Wheats. This makes it even more dubious for GMOs. This should be Reason #1.
The horrors of what took place today in Connecticut is difficult to even speak about. Yet, my memory is fresh how many in this nation were indifferent to elements of the feral gumit massacring hundreds of folks in Waco and OKC. We don't know what happened today and may never know the real truth. It could be something real simple. It could be abhorrently devious.
We as a people and as individuals have to stop going to these graphic movies, watching the cultural wasteland on TV, and unplug all these first-person shooters video games. They may not be a cause, be we will be better off without them.
Get a life; bake some cookies and take them to homeless people. Hug your children and praise them. Greet everyone with a smile. I dunno; we just can't keep going on the way that we have been doing. Don't wait for the next individual or your neighbor; you do something ... NOW.
Yesterday I started a Chinampas Garden to claim some of the marshy area. I confess to biting off far more than I can chew. Yet, the last two days have been a labor of love. I kept imagining building one or more in Latin America.
This project will take weeks. I plan on just putting in some trees and shrubs in the spring. The trees, especially, will secure the water parameters of the peninsula banks. Here's one source of information: http://midwestpermaculture.com/2012/12/chinampas-gardens/
b4atf: No; Natural News is to blame, but so is AJ.
b4atf: long before Alex Jones, a number of folks and organizations fought fiercely against the NWO. Among them was/is the John Birch Society. The New American still documents its articles. Mr. Jones shed a negative light potentially on Dr Mercola and Jeffery Smith. Their work has produced effective tools to educate large amounts of folks. He did not provide documentation in his article. People shouldn't have to jump through hoops to find out documentation (that's not even referenced); that is even if it is.
Alex Jones wasn't around to help against the Con-Con and those other battles. The warriors in those worked behind the scenes, but still had to dodge bullets. Just because he is blustery does not make him effective.
As far as GMOs, AJ is a Johnny come lately. We can use all the help that we can get, but AJ did NOT help with that article. It fostered distrust. I found the article grossly offensive.
This is not the first time that AJ has gone off on a tangent. He is a megalomaniacal egoist who likes to get in people's faces. Sometimes that needs to be done. Other times, diplomacy is in order. No will accuse AJ of being diplomatic.
Again, I read what he says, but I refrain from using him as a source because of articles like the one in question. So read the article and give us the documentation of his claim. That should be easy for you since you believe that he is so credible. That was my salient point.
toddao: while I would not put it past the likes of Monsanto to set up their own planned opposition, a la Hegel, Mr. Jones provides no documentation; just malicious gossip and it is pointed at the folks who put a lot into fighting GMOs period. There are a number of folks who make the same claim about Alex Jones that he is planned opposition.
In this day and age/era, I have to see verifiable facts. I read what he has to say, but always go to outside sources for reference points. It is articles, like this, that mar his credibility.
moxa1: critical thinking is critical for survival. The more each individual sheds virtually every "accepted" concept and yearns and searches for the truth, then our planet will began to resemble the intended life community.
Years ago, I was asked to take a deep psychological profile. One section was free-style; in that I was to write one-word descriptions of me. The first two words were: survivor and anti-consensus. A man who was not part of the original team was irritated at my words. I explained thing to him. He snapped at me, "So because everyone uses toilet paper, you are forced to conclude that it must be wrong."
My answer was: "Many parts of the world do not use toilet paper. It is an abrasive. Also, in many people's economy, it is a luxury. Many people are washers rather than wipers. So yes, that's an example of what the majority thinks and it is to be challenged and suspected of being in error."
He was not happy with my response, but was unable to refute it. When one tells someone that he/she does not believe in "the germ theory" and that he/she is anti-vaccine, almost all others start backpedaling. Over three decades later, almost of people with my sphere of influence are also anti-vaccine. They did not take that position just to "group" with me, but rather were compelled to study suggested materials and learn the facts for themselves.
We can do this.
sumisu: nope; however, very soon I'll be supplying some video links so folks here can see what I am doing.
DiamondWater: grass for a lawn and a lawn are cultural concepts. For many years, I had a high-end landscaping business. I told clients that grass was the most expensive ground cover and had the highest maintenance. Even back then, I converted many of them to outer mass plantings other than grass. The few lawns that I did had either tons of limestone quarry grit or sand mixed in with the clay, as builders/developers haven't a clue about maintaining existing agronomy. Then I added well-decomposed leaf mold to the surface. With petrol-based fertilizers, the roots of the grass would curl back to the top, as the fertilizers do not leak down. The result would be thatch.
Even though I received many valuable teachings in vo-ag high school and studying horticulture in college, there were mythologies and other information that I had to unlearn. One example was painting tree limbs where they were cut. My journey of knowledge took me many places and caused me to meet the folks at ECHO. http://www.echonet.org/ This was in preparation for me to go to Africa.
Typical and, possibly, traditional USA agricultural and, especially, horticultural practices are far out of alignment with maximum production, ecology, and sustainability of the land. In states, like Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, virtually all the trees are removed for seemingly endless fields of grains and/or legumes. This practice affects the micro-air masses and have long enhanced this area of the nation to become tornado alley. They have decades of soil erosion from sweeping winds.
I am not even talking food forests here, which is a different subject that I hope that you will enjoy exploring. Trees can never be too far away from crops, especially near natural waterways. Trees are the ultimate companion crop, if for no other reason than to provide nesting, etc. for birds and insects.
I do not want you to think that I view grass as evil. However, land has been under constant and increasing siege. Think of available land as what is your bottom-line return on investment (ROI) and return on time ROT). With the advent of peak oil, alone, few people would be hard pressed to have a superior ROI and ROT than utilizing part or all of available land for food production. Of course, there is almost no other means of obtaining frost-kissed parsnips: an almost decadent pleasure.
DiamondWater: I can delete it you truly want it done. However, there was nothing contrary to the tenor, the purpose, and the posters here. We're here to expand each other and learn. Being vulnerable and taking chances helps one with that experience. Have fun.
jawmoke: the Warren Buffets and Bill Gates of this nation are the very ones behind such statism. It makes for a nice ideology-ism drum beat and mob mantra. Meanwhile, they have laid the foundations of genocide in lamestream-media indifference-locations such as Africa with force feeding GMOs and worthless toilets upon the populace. And, of course, they have Susan Rice to do the dirty work and Oprah Winfrey to spread a little PR.
Meanwhile, the sheople accept that the devalued currency even equates to ten years ago. A two-million dollar farm that is inflated by the local tax assessor had a 1990 worth of maybe $100k, at best. The same anal retentive public-consumption political sheople who embrace this also cry out to save our farmlands.
The universe will pay back in spades.
The 8 Most Nutrient Dense Foods on Earth
http://www.organicauthority.com/health/most-nutrient-dense-healthy-foods-on-earth.html
b4atf: they taste like poppy seeds. I sprinkle them on most meals.
jawmoke: cool beans; you must have been reading my posts lately. Snick! Snick!
Okay, here's an opportunity to do something; as small as it may be.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/require-fda-require-labeling-food-contains-genetically-modified-organisms-gmos/LT4LYrmK
Eddie, never give up hope and never give up the battle. The people who put Prop37 together were NOT focused on food labeling. Their ideology-ism and their egos got in the way. Many California voters rejected the initiative because the state was already in a financial morass and the prospect of a massive bureaucracy wasn't so appealing.
Please follow through with my private message to you and you will discover an army that is quickly mobilizing and a number of them who truly realize and appreciate the necessary laser focus for the end objective.
A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (Blackwater’s Black Ops, 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto. Blackwater was renamed in 2009 after becoming famous in the world with numerous reports of abuses in Iraq, including massacres of civilians. It remains the largest private contractor of the U.S. Department of State “security services,” that practices state terrorism by giving the government the opportunity to deny it.
Many military and former CIA officers work for Blackwater or related companies created to divert attention from their bad reputation and make more profit selling their nefarious services-ranging from information and intelligence to infiltration, political lobbying and paramilitary training – for other governments, banks and multinational corporations. According to Scahill, business with multinationals, like Monsanto, Chevron, and financial giants such as Barclays and Deutsche Bank, are channeled through two companies owned by Erik Prince, owner of Blackwater: Total Intelligence Solutions and Terrorism Research Center. These officers and directors share Blackwater.
One of them, Cofer Black, known for his brutality as one of the directors of the CIA, was the one who made contact with Monsanto in 2008 as director of Total Intelligence, entering into the contract with the company to spy on and infiltrate organizations of animal rights activists, anti-GM and other dirty activities of the biotech giant.
Contacted by Scahill, the Monsanto executive Kevin Wilson declined to comment, but later confirmed to The Nation that they had hired Total Intelligence in 2008 and 2009, according to Monsanto only to keep track of “public disclosure” of its opponents. He also said that Total Intelligence was a “totally separate entity from Blackwater.”
However, Scahill has copies of emails from Cofer Black after the meeting with Wilson for Monsanto, where he explains to other former CIA agents, using their Blackwater e-mails, that the discussion with Wilson was that Total Intelligence had become “Monsanto’s intelligence arm,” spying on activists and other actions, including “our people to legally integrate these groups.” Total Intelligence Monsanto paid $ 127,000 in 2008 and $ 105,000 in 2009.
No wonder that a company engaged in the “science of death” as Monsanto, which has been dedicated from the outset to produce toxic poisons spilling from Agent Orange to PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), pesticides, hormones and genetically modified seeds, is associated with another company of thugs.
Almost simultaneously with the publication of this article in The Nation, the Via Campesina reported the purchase of 500,000 shares of Monsanto, for more than $23 million by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which with this action completed the outing of the mask of “philanthropy.” Another association that is not surprising.
It is a marriage between the two most brutal monopolies in the history of industrialism: Bill Gates controls more than 90 percent of the market share of proprietary computing and Monsanto about 90 percent of the global transgenic seed market and most global commercial seed. There does not exist in any other industrial sector monopolies so vast, whose very existence is a negation of the vaunted principle of “market competition” of capitalism. Both Gates and Monsanto are very aggressive in defending their ill-gotten monopolies.
Although Bill Gates might try to say that the Foundation is not linked to his business, all it proves is the opposite: most of their donations end up favoring the commercial investments of the tycoon, not really “donating” anything, but instead of paying taxes to the state coffers, he invests his profits in where it is favorable to him economically, including propaganda from their supposed good intentions. On the contrary, their “donations” finance projects as destructive as geoengineering or replacement of natural community medicines for high-tech patented medicines in the poorest areas of the world. What a coincidence, former Secretary of Health Julio Frenk and Ernesto Zedillo are advisers of the Foundation.
Like Monsanto, Gates is also engaged in trying to destroy rural farming worldwide, mainly through the “Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa” (AGRA). It works as a Trojan horse to deprive poor African farmers of their traditional seeds, replacing them with the seeds of their companies first, finally by genetically modified (GM). To this end, the Foundation hired Robert Horsch in 2006, the director of Monsanto. Now Gates, airing major profits, went straight to the source.
Blackwater, Monsanto and Gates are three sides of the same figure: the war machine on the planet and most people who inhabit it, are peasants, indigenous communities, people who want to share information and knowledge or any other who does not want to be in the aegis of profit and the destructiveness of capitalism.
http://english.pravda.ru/business/companies/14-10-2010/115363-machines_of_war_blackwater_monsanto_billgates-0/
* The author is a researcher at ETC Group
http://worldtruth.tv/?s=monsanto+blackwater — with Karolina Bledowski and Annie Will.
IxCimi: okay it's been a long day for me, but I'm certain that I saw a blip about an earthquake today in Ecuador.
This is horrid and part of the history of the worst corporation:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=81103158
A lot of reading and following through, but one must educate him/her self about the totally evil Monsanto Corporation. http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14381:suit-claims-monsanto-used-st-louis-public-housing-residents-as-guinea-pigs
As much as I despise Monsanto, they are even worse than thought.
http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14381:suit-claims-monsanto-used-st-louis-public-housing-residents-as-guinea-pigs
Well, this is a bit mind boggling.
It has been maintained for decades that Big Labor and Big Business have been in bed together. It is merely another loop of Hegelian methodology. Behold: http://washingtonexaminer.com/is-your-halloween-candy-union-approved/article/2511705?custom_click=rss#.UIrwX8V1fIX
Every candy mentioned is all on the list of GMO candies to avoid beyond the usual warnings of white sugar being a poison. The most evil, corrupt, and ruthless corporation in the world today is Monsanto. Here's the AFL-CIO overtly bedding down with Monsanto, The Great Satan, and condemning the children.
Rhetoric trips up almost everyone. Facts stand the test of time. partisan-ism and ideology-ism are enemies of liberty and freedom.
anejames: to the best of my knowledge, hemp was the first source of commercially effective alternative fuel. Someone else chime in, if I'm wrong on this.
Hemp update from my own reading: I was studying stuff about soybeans and grains when something grabbed my attention. Soybeans are rated as the distant second best protein production per acreage. Hemp has double that amount. The ban on hemp predates GMOs. It is astounding that such an incredibly valuable agricultural, industrial, and commercial plant is "illegal" to grow for legitimate purposes.
Years ago, in my high-end landscaping business, I grew a variety of poppies. None of them produced opium. Opium is far more potentially dangerous than "pot." For that matter, so is Morning Glory. Oh well, in a survival mode beyond chia seeds and buckwheat, one would have to think hemp seeds.
CharlieTuna: I do not know where your ideology lies in this, but what a clever analogy. I may be "borrowing" parts of it to use in other places.
excel: I would grow it. Here's the keys for anyone who would try to also. Start the seeds inside in early winter. As the plants start branching, remove the lower branches. Once transplanted outdoors, continue to remove lower branches. One wants sandy soil with rich leaf mold or compost on top. Think of growing a small tree. The hemp plant will take a lot of water. Its root system will drive deep in a hurry.
The reason for stripping the lower branches is to encourage strong and long strands on the trunk. For first time growers, they will be amazed at how large the plants become and the amount of fiber that is produced. Common sense will dictate that location rotation is in order.
Honeysuckle can grow more in a year, but needs several years to get established and does not produce the amount of vegetative mass that the hemp plant does.
The prohibition to grow the plant is so mind staggering once someone has raised some.
excel: the cash-register media are mega-corporations also. The intensive privileges extended to corporations are paradoxically and even ironically anti-business and anti-true capitalism.
The secret societies simply handed Marx what they held to for centuries. Agribusiness is one of the Ten Planks. Another Plank is public education. Within the dogma of public education is the linear political spectrum mythology. Yet, when one examines history, including events in England as the multinational trading companies secured charters, communism was the front for fascism. The goal was always monopoly.
What we teach and practice here is actually an act of revolution. Education of the masses does work and that is our greatest weapon.
Gates foundation promotes false solutions to hunger in Africa. Not satisfied with his attempted monopoly with crap software, low-life Bill Gates eagerly works for world tyranny and has been promoting the Monsanto monopoly attempts.
It is bad enough what he has already done to Americans. He insists on enslaving and murdering denizens of third-world nations
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/09/25-0
Gates Foundation-Led Green Revolution Promotes False Solutions to Hunger in Africa
Friends of the Earth International warns against damaging industrial farming promoted by the Gates Foundation at the Agricultural Green Revolution Forum 2012, Arusha, Tanzania on 26-28 September.
ARUSHA (TANZANIA) / LONDON (UK) - September 25 - Donors controlling the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) are representing the interests of biotechnology corporations rather than African small farmers, warns Friends of the Earth International on the eve of the annual AGRA Forum in Tanzania.
Multi-million dollar investments from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation -a major AGRA donor- into shares in biotech corporations, and revolving doors between donors and these corporations skew the agenda of AGRA in favor of profit-based, corporate-led farming rather than farming benefiting local people and small farmers. [1]
“It is time African Governments stop bowing to corporate donors and instead put farmers in the driver's seat, and focus on funding ecological methods and preserving local seeds. Africa can feed itself with ecological agriculture and it is small farmers themselves who are the most important investors in farming. Through AGRA, multinational corporations are trying to control our seeds, land, food and then our lives. AGRA is not in the best interest of Africans, it is a trojan horse for agribusiness,” says Mariann Bassey from Friends of the Earth Nigeria.
The bulk of projects funded by the Gates Foundation and its brainchild AGRA favor technological solutions for high-input industrial farming methods. These include patented seeds, fertilizers and lobbying for genetically modified crops. [2]
Evidence from the roll-out of genetically modified crops in other countries shows that these crops push farmers into debt, cause irreversible environmental damage and encourage land concentration. [3]
In March 2011 the UN issued a report urging 'eco-farming' as the best strategy for improving farming in the developing world. The report's author challenged the wisdom of the Gates Foundation’s approach in agricultural development. [4]
“If AGRA carries on with its greenwash revolution, Africans will lose traditional and ecological farming that can feed people in the face of climate change. Instead they will have a toxic system that pushes farmers onto a chemical treadmill. This will be a disaster for their livelihoods and the environment. This is the opposite of what we need,“ says Kirtana Chandrasekaran, Friends of the Earth International Food Sovereignty coordinator.
Sustainable family farming, agro-ecological production models and strong local markets have been recognized as the best way to feed people and to protect the planet. [5]
FOR MORE INFORMATION
In Nigeria :
Mariann Bassey from Friends of the Earth Nigeria and Coordinator for the Food Sovereignty and Agrofuels Program Friends of the Earth Africa, +234 703 44 95 940 or email mariann@eraction.org
In the United Kingdom:
Kirtana Chandrasekaran, Friends of the Earth International Food Sovereignty program coordinator, + 44 79 61 98 69 56 or email kirtana.chandrasekaran@foe.co.uk
NOTES TO EDITORS
[1] For more information read http://www.seattleglobaljustice.org/agra-watch/
[2] For more information read a commentary by Mariann Bassey at http://www.foei.org/en/resources/publications/pdfs/2012/agra2019s-techno...
[3] Governments are being forced to protect farmers and citizens from genetically modified crops to combat biotech corporations’ stranglehold over farmers, and health scares from escalating pesticide use, according to a 2011 report online at http://www.foei.org/en/what-we-do/climate-biodiversity-finance/latest-ne...
[4] For more information read the 2011 UN report 'Agro-ecology and the right to food' at http://www.srfood.org/index.php/en/component/content/article/1-latest-ne...
[5] In April 2008 a study by 400 multi-disciplinary scientists and several international organisations (the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development, or IAASTD) concluded that agro-ecology, local trade and supporting small farmers is the best way forward to combat hunger and poverty.
For more information read the assessment at http://www.agassessment.org/
Serious hope for change in food supply. Check out who is behind this:
http://www.simpletruth.com/
Solar-powered Oven makes fresh water.
http://www.zeitnews.org/natural-sciences/materials-science/solar-powered-oven-makes-fresh-water
sumisu: yes, the whole GMO thing is extremely disturbing, however when folks ask what can be done we have the answers. Many people might pooh-pooh peak oil out of their ease mentality and never examine any facts. The alarm over GMOs not only takes them out of their comfort zone but also opens them to how they can be part of the solution.
In recent weeks, people have come over and checked out my garden. The first thing that hits them is that most of the soil is covered with clovers and creeping Charlie. When they check out the high organic content of the soil, they begin to realize that they can do the same thing while on a smaller scale. I believe the event that impresses them the most is flipping over one of the compost piles and seeing all the worm holes and casts.
So the sum is greater than the parts. With our knowledge, data base of resources, and our example, it is and will be people like us who will thwart the GMOs. People don't see my garden as some fringe case survivalist stand down, they see it as a serene hobby and part of a healthy lifestyle.
In my experiences, the two surest ways to always have plenty of friends is to have a pick-up truck and to grow lots of produce.
Hmmmm, maybe this is the original study:
http://www.biolsci.org/v05p0706.htm
sumisu: I have had more folks wake up and respond to this newly released study that the sum of everything else that I have shared. My next door neighbor used to have honey bees. They all died. We have another neighbor who plants GE corn and soybeans. I told the neighbor about the rats and the tumors and he didn't even want the mental picture. However, he wants to find out what are the solutions.
I was going to post this on a thread I started two weeks ago on LinkedIn. However, the discussion has been shut down. No doubt from the GMO shills who failed to address one point, but just tried to muddy up the water. One was so brazen to claim that bee deaths were from the bee keepers moving the hives and their exposure to monoculture. One would have to be high to make that claim as Monsanto is the undisputed king of monoculture. Just look at their decimation of massive acres of rainforest to plant GE soybeans.
Along with several clovers, I utilize Glechoma hederacea as an interlacing ground cover. It flowers in tandem with the clover to give a good jump start to the bumble bees. This extremely common plant is regarded as a weed by most. It is fragrant. It does not have deep interfering roots. It is easy to rip off excess growth for the compost piles. Folks here are the ones who can appreciate this mentality.
More powerful weaponry in the battle against GMOs:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/333136
Free DVD to view until the 22nd, by Jeffery Smith.
http://geneticroulettemovie.com/