While we were sleeping, or otherwise distracted...

Actually, Food and Water Watch.org has been sending emails to sign petitions to members for about a year now but this is from a different source.  If you want to not be shocked or surprised at what the bad news day user's guide calls, "Stealth Regulation", you could subscribe to them HERE.  The thing is that  President Obama can still stop this.  I only hope he has the courage to do it.

This is from an article on the  Fire Dog Lake  site, thanks to a headsup from Mz M.  :

"In a cleverly worded, but profoundly misleading email sent to its customers last week, Whole Foods Market, while proclaiming their support for organics and “seed purity,” gave the green light to USDA bureaucrats to approve the “conditional deregulation” of Monsanto’s genetically engineered, herbicide-resistant alfalfa.  Beyond the regulatory euphemism of “conditional deregulation,” this means that WFM and their colleagues are willing to go along with the massive planting of a chemical and energy-intensive GE perennial crop, alfalfa; guaranteed to spread its mutant genes and seeds across the nation; guaranteed to contaminate the alfalfa fed to organic animals; guaranteed to lead to massive poisoning of farm workers and destruction of the essential soil food web by the toxic herbicide, Roundup; and guaranteed to produce Roundup-resistant superweeds that will require even more deadly herbicides such as 2,4 D to be sprayed on millions of acres of alfalfa across the U.S.  . . .

In exchange for allowing Monsanto’s premeditated pollution of the alfalfa gene pool, WFM wants “compensation.” In exchange for a new assault on farm workers and rural communities (a recent large-scale Swedish study found that spraying Roundup doubles farm workers’ and rural residents’ risk of getting cancer), WFM expects the pro-biotech USDA to begin to regulate rather than cheerlead for Monsanto. In payment for a new broad spectrum attack on the soil’s crucial ability to provide nutrition for food crops and to sequester dangerous greenhouse gases (recent studies show that Roundup devastates essential soil microorganisms that provide plant nutrition and sequester climate-destabilizing greenhouse gases), WFM wants the Biotech Bully of St. Louis to agree to pay “compensation” (i.e. hush money) to farmers ' for any losses related to the contamination of his crop.' ”

The other side of Piracy, Somalian Style....

Pirates are bad. They really are but there is not where the story ends. It's where it begins that we should be looking at! Why aren't we ever told anything in this country that comes close to what is really happening to people across the planet?

This is the OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY of Somalia. I am posting this here because I'm sick of the local rag, the San Diego Onion.. ooops, Union, not having the common decency to look at the big picture.

Is everyone who can't defend themselves just supposed to roll over and die, like all others have before them, just because a war they have nothing to do with has impacted their lives unto the death?

I hate this local paper. They have no sense.

Searching for Answers?

 

Do you really want to know how we got here without knowing the secret hands that sold our honorable intentions?

This book, and it's companion book, Confessions of An Economic Hitman, all of Susan George's fundamental books,as well as her interviews in "Speaking Freely", and Chalmers Johnson's Trilogy of books in the "American Empire Project" will start you actually knowing what has been happening.

Not only will these books lay it out for you, in a concise and understandable fashion,what was done in your name and with your money-because it was your money - they discuss what can still be done to salvage a workable world from a monumental amount of greed.

Ok, I'm going to the side I believe in..

I'm not going to sit on my arse anymore about what is happening and HAS been happening since Obama fell into the foxhole, hopefully not onto someone's bayonet.

This is a quote from an interview that that dangerous wadical wabbit, Mme. Amy Goodman, did with Noam Chomsky, whom we ALL know is a baaadass radical. He's also one of the best analytical minds on the planet, and, happily for those who care, he chose truth as his medium.

....."Now that—side-by-side with that is something else that’s been happening. There is a significant peace movement in Afghanistan. Exactly its scale, we don’t know. But it’s enough so that Pamela Constable of the Washington Post, in a recent article in Afghanistan, argued that when the new American troops come, they’re going to face two enemies: the Taliban and public opinion, meaning the peace movement, whose slogan is “Put down the weapons. And we don’t mind if you’re here, but for aid and development. We don’t want any more fighting.”

In fact, we know from Western-run polls that about 75 percent of Afghans are in favor of negotiations among Afghans. Now, that includes the Taliban, who are Afghans. In fact, it even includes the ones in Pakistan. There’s the difference—the really troubled areas, now, are Pashtun areas, which are split by a British-imposed line, artificial line, called the Durand Line, which was imposed by the British to protect British India, expand it, and they’ve never accepted it. It just cuts their territory in half. Afghanistan, when it was a functioning state, never accepted it, right through the 1970s.* But certainly, the Afghan Taliban are Afghans. And President Karzai, formerly our man, no longer, because he’s getting out of control—

*(Italics are mine, to put it out plainly that it's a mistake to say, as we do here, "Those people have been fighting amongst themselves forever!" I'm sure you've heard that comment, and it's patently unfair)

AMY GOODMAN: How? How is he getting out of control?

NOAM CHOMSKY: Well, interesting ways. When President Obama was elected, Afghan President Karzai sent him a message, which, as far as I know, was unanswered, in which he pleaded with President Obama to stop killing Afghans. He also addressed a UN delegation and told them he wanted a timetable for the removal of foreign forces. Well, his popularity quickly plummeted. He used to be very much praised for his nice clothes and great demeanor and very much admired by the media and commentators. Now he’s sunk very low. He’s suddenly corrupt and so on.

AMY GOODMAN: You mean in the Western world, the Western press?

NOAM CHOMSKY: In the Western world, primarily in the United States, but in the West altogether. And it directly followed these expressions of opinion, which are very likely those of maybe a majority of Afghans, maybe even more.

In fact, he went even further. He said that he would invite Mullah Omar, the head of the Taliban, to Afghanistan to try to work out a solution. And he added, “The United States isn’t going to like this, but they have two choices: they can either accept it, or they can throw me out,” you know. In fact, that’s what they’re doing. There are now plans to replace President Karzai, to sort of push him upstairs and leave him in a—it’s assumed that he’ll win the next election, so put him in a symbolic position and impose, basically, a US-appointed surrogate who will essentially run the country, because that can’t be tolerated."

IF you would like to read the WHOLE interview, go HERE It contains other things you may not like either, but I'm not focused on them.

I'm just so sick to DEATH of the liars, frankly. I want to just skip along looking for butterflies and pretty posies, but life is being lost, and a lot of it is YOUNG life, and I'll just save the gamboling through the tulips for some other time.