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A quick premise for the people that do not know who Monsanto is and what is high fructose corn syrup:
Monsanto is the leading producer of biochemical products and the world's largest seed company. It has monopolized agriculture and our food with its genetically engineered corn, soy and cotton.
From this GM corn, a substance is made: High fructose corn syrup; it's found as an ingredient in almost every conventional food. It's used as a sweetener, flavor enhancer, preservative and is cheap.
More and more studies are showing the dangerous effects of this substance that not only feeds humans but is used to feed livestock, pigs, chickens, fishes and even our precious bees!
This genetically engineered food has been deteriorating people's health for over 40 years since its introduction to our agriculture.
It was engineered to work in conjunction with the herbicide "Roundup" which contaminates water, soil and kills all plants and animals.
Ironically, this industry is heavily subsidized by the government; our tax money are put to work against us and to enrich corporations like Monsanto, Syngenta, Dow, Bayer etc.
You can learn more about who owns nature here (excellent publication):
http://www.etcgroup.org/upload/publication/707/01/etc_won_report_final_color.pdf
Said this, since 2006, billions of bee colonies have died for no apparent reason. This phenomenon has affected the world's food production, and has been titled "Colony Collapse Disorder" (CCD). As you might know already, bees are responsible for 1/3 of the world's food production, and it is one of the world's most important natural assets.
We think of the CCD for the bees as the cancer for humans.
We believe that one of the main causes of the massive dying off of bees is high fructose corn syrup. Learn more about the importance of bees:
http://www.pan-europe.info/Resources/Articles/A_World_Without_Bees.pdf.
Other causes are pesticides, antibiotics, parasites, pathogens, livestock-like practices (bigger hive cell sizes, migratory stress, antibiotics, various chemicals used), drought, etc.
Also, as a result of this diet, the honey that gets produced is essentially high fructose corn syrup and honey mixed together; there isn't such a thing as "pure" or "natural" honey.
Now, why would beekeepers feed this poison to bees? Simply and tragically because it is a money saving solution, the quick fix mentality and the adoption of short sighted solutions.
Who's behind all of this?
The corporations that control corn, soy, cotton, also control nature, control our economy and society just like the fossil fuel industry does. Corporatism is killing nature and people, represents our current economy and laws, and is the new Nazism or form of imperialism.
What's the solution?
A healthy environment and organic beekeeping are the answer to this problem, learn more here: http://www.bee-hexagon.net/files/file/fileE/Organic/ProgramAbstracts.pdf
This can only be achieved if we steer away from a chemical based agriculture and embrace an organic agriculture where principles of permaculture, sustainability and biodiversity are implemented.
You can start by supporting the organic market, you can call your congress representatives and pressure them to subsidize organic agriculture and abandon our current system: https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml.
More than that, you can sign the petition that can stop this all:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/bring-down-monsanto-monopoly/
Save our planet, all of us and our dear bees now!
Article from:
http://organiclegion.org/pt/Commercial-Bee-Farms-Feed-GM-High-Fructose-Corn-Syrup-to-Bees/blog.htm
More info on the CCD: http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/docs.htm?docid=15572
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder
A study on the HFCS and bees:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090826110118.htm
Photo by bcJordan:http://www.flickr.com/photos/28568408@N03/2667935792/
P.S.: If you are an artist and would like to donate/volunteer your artwork to us, you can submit it to: http://organiclegion.org/artthatmovestheworld.htm.
We are looking right now for a drawing or picture showing/suggesting Hitler/Nazism and GMO Corn. Thank you.
Join the Organic Movement:
http://current.com/groups/organicgreen/A quick premise for the people that do not know who Monsanto is and what is high... more
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Malaria is a disease that can easily be prevented. However, because of the lack of resources in many third-world countries, the disease continues to spread.
Please help this teenager's nonprofit raise money to help end the spread of malaria.
Every click counts so please spread the word.Malaria is a disease that can easily be prevented. However, because of the lack of... more
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By playing this game, trees will be planted throughout the world!
Every answer you give helps plant a tree: 1 answer =1 leaf, 15 leaves = 1 branch, 20 branches =1 tree
I thought this website was awesum & wanted to share it with my fellow Current watchers.
How many trees can we plant together?!
How does this game work?
Answer4Earth has a vast collection of questions at varying degrees of difficulty. There are easier questions well-suited for children in grade-school learning elementary subjects and harder questions that will challenge even the smartest people in the world.
Answer4Earth automatically adjusts to your level of difficulty. When you begin, you are assigned an initial starting level based on a few classification questions. You then determine a more exact level for yourself as you play. Answer two questions in a row correctly and you go to a harder level. When you miss a question, you drop to an easier level. This challenging two-to-one ratio works best for keeping you at the outer boundary of your realm of knowledge, where the game becomes most meaningful and the most learning takes place. There are 20 levels in all, but it is rare for people to reach the higher ones.
Additionally, for each question you get right you earn a leaf. Collect enough leaves and they will turn into branches, which eventually turn into a full tree. This is not a fake "virtual" tree. This is a real live tree that will be planted on the face of the Earth, due solely to the fact that you played this game.
Start playing, save the environment!
By playing this game, trees will be planted throughout the world!
Every answer you... more
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This Video is Amazing!!! I seen it on Youtube and since I like these type of Universe Mystic cosmic stuff maybe you guy's might as well like it. If you wanna give your idea's and thought's on it. give a little piece of your mind and share a comment. Thank you.This Video is Amazing!!! I seen it on Youtube and since I like these type of Universe... more
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So is Nibiru real? Do you guys agree or disagree on the notion of the world ending in 2012, or is this just some big hype like the y2k? And let's say there really was a Planet X (NIBIRU) coming in the next four years? What's on it and what's gonna become of the human race? Are we gonna survive and get on with our day to day lives or is this society gonna crumble and fall like the towers of Babylon? Hmmmm? I guess we won't know until we start seeing the first real stages of this notion and internet hype? Until then we just go on with our lives in this society which we call normal? But what can we really call normal? No one knows. Just be happy, live free and fight for love, peace, happiness, and no globalization - everyone is their own person. And everyone has their own thoughts and dreams and wants, needs, brain, skills, form of style, feelings and maybe, just maybe one day everyone can live in harmony. I pray to God it happens. Well let me know what you think. I'm new to this site and wanna make a difference and wanna hear what people think. Thank you, I'm just me, Skipcando again thank you.So is Nibiru real? Do you guys agree or disagree on the notion of the world ending in... more
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The founders of the Turtle Island Project believe residents of Earth are facing a Kyros moment because of the abuse of the environment.
Kairos is Greek for seizing the moment.
The Turtle Island Project promotes respect for the planet, nature, wildlife and fellow humans.
Turtle Island Project founders say we can learn a lot from Earth-based cultures like the Celts and Native Americans.
Dr. Cairns said a former of chanting called jubilation (that he demonstrates in this video) helps him focus on the problems he wants to tackle - plus demonstrates the interconnection between humans and the Earth.
TIP volunteer media advisor Greg Peterson reports
TIP website:
http://www.turtleislandproject.org
Turtle Island TV (blipTV)
http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv/
Turtle Island TV (youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse
Turtle Island (myspace)
http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject
Turtle Island Project websites/Blogs:
http://groups.msn.com/WhisperingTurtle
http://turtleislandproject.wordpress.com/
email:
TurtleIslandProject@charter.net
White Buffalo Calf Woman Society:
http://www.wbcws.org
Solastalgia is a term by Glenn Albrecht to describe profound sadness over the effects of the long-term drought in Australia
Glenn Albrecht, environmental philosopher, University of Newcastle:
http://healthearth.blogspot.com/
http://healthearth.blogspot.com/2007/03/solastalgia-new-concept-in-human.html
http://home.iprimus.com.au/tammie1/Publications%20-%20Journal%20Articles.htm
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/news/2006/09/newsyndrome.html
Solastalgia:
http://vector1media.com/spatialsustain/?p=255
http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2005/12/solastalgia.html
http://watershed.typepad.com/watershed/drought/index.html
http://www.greendaily.com/2008/01/07/word-of-the-day-solastalgia
http://fermiparadox.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/solastalgia-or-thre-sadness-of-climate-change/
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Huston Smith: Scholar, writer and a Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus Syracuse University
http://ethics.sandiego.edu/video/Kenan/Smith/index.html
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Species Extinction/Endangered Species
http://www.ecosyn.us/ecocity/Challenges/index.html:
http://eelink.net/EndSpp
http://www.animalinfo.org/rarest.htm
http://www.unep-wcmc.org/
http://www.teamhumanity.com/News-Environment08012004.htm
http://www.planetguide.net/book/chapter_5/extinction.html
http://www.sciencenewsden.com/2007/riskofextinctionacceleratedduetointeractinghumanthreats.shtml
http://www.grconnect.com/murals/html/n2252462.html
Voluntary Human Extinction Movement - Plus Graphic by Nina Paley:
http://www.vhemt.org/aboutvhemt.htm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20030721/carbon.html
http://www.zeroextinction.org/charts.htm
http://www.nhbs.com/averting_extinction_tefno_63272.html
Robert Camacho:
http://www.robertcamacho.com/paintingpic4.htm
http://www.archbold-station.org/fai/species4.html
Eco Kids
http://www.ecokidsonline.com
Kyros (Greek) unique moment in time, gives people a platform to serve God.
Kairos (Kyros), a fullness of time, an appointed time purposed by our creator.
Kyros (KIR os): The Greek word for power that is legitimate, but limited and compassionate
Kairos’ is Greek for ‘occasion’ or ‘timing.’ Kairos is the art of seizing the moment.
Kairos, or kairotic time, refers to God's eternal time.
Kairos is the ancient Greek term that can roughly be interpreted as a rhetorical combination of understood context and proper timing.
Kairos: ancient Greek word meaning right or opportune moment
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/layers/start.html
http://www.kairospower.org/whowe.asp
http://www.kyros.org/NEWKyros_AboutUs_TheMeaningOfKyros.htm
http://www.kairostherapy.com/why_kairos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos
http://www.kyros.org/NEWKyros_AboutUs_TheMeaningOfKyros.htm
Jubilation:
http://www.envoymagazine.com/backissues/2.3/ihaveaquestion.html
http://blip.tv/file/480070The founders of the Turtle Island Project believe residents of Earth are facing a... more
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If he runs, wont his efforts to win one for humanity be misconstrued as an agenda to strengthen the Democratic party? wont then the pundits attack and the message be lost?
ONE THING is for sure:
If Al Gore truly believes he is doing more good for the world by NOT being President, then I will believe him. I trust the man's judgement and I know he'll do what's best for the world.
But we have to show our support.
If he runs, wont his efforts to win one for humanity be misconstrued as an agenda to... more
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Saving the world isn't always easy or fun. In this Bluelist pod Lonely Planet contributor Andrew Nystrom shows us three great ways to save the world.Saving the world isn't always easy or fun. In this Bluelist pod Lonely Planet... more
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