Saturday, March 28, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Can't Sleep.
Can't sleep
cuz I have two much information running through my mind.
Can't sleep
cuz I'm inspired by a movie....Milk and Eight Mile High
Can't Sleep
cuz my stomachs growling like a cat in heat
Can't sleep
cuz I await tuesday fervently
Can't Sleep
cuz ideas are flowing trough my mind like a hot bath
Can't Sleep
cuz I want to live rather than sleep
Sunday, March 15, 2009
this is slightly disturbing...
"Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people." -Henry Kissinger, 1970
(NaturalNews) The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund recently reported the unveiling of the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (H.R. 875) on Feb. 4, 2009, by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), to both the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Committee on Agriculture. Cosponsored by 36 other Congressmen, all Democrats, H.R. 875 would essentially transfer all state control over food regulation to the Food Safety Administration (FSA), a newly-established federal bureaucracy to be created within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Its implications point to the elimination of all independent, family farms as well as all organic farming operations due to overbearing federal regulations subjectively determined by FSA in favor of corporate factory farms.
Some of the requirements set forth within H.R. 875 include:
- Designating FSA as sole regulator of food safety rather than the individual states, including granting FSA the power to implement and administer a "national system for regular unannounced inspection of food establishments" under its own terms.
- Reclassifying all farms as "food production facilities", ensuring they come under the regulatory and inspection protocols of FSA as well as enforcing compliance with whatever FSA deems as appropriate food safety requirements.
- Requiring farmers to comply with FSA-established "minimum standards" for farming practices, including requiring them to establish Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) plans and other written documentation as determined and mandated by FSA.
- Granting FSA the power to arrogate "preventative process controls to reduce adulteration of food" as it deems fit.
- Instituting FSA as food safety law enforcement, allowing it to assess civil penalties and fines for violation of any and all FSA safety laws up to $1 million for each violation. Collected fines would become unappropriated slush funds to be used however FSA deems fit in order to "carry out enforcement activities under the food safety law".
While many of these provisions may appear benign due to language emphasizing safety and to standardized regulations, the implications are far more mischievous. While stripping states of what little tenth amendment powers remain, H.R. 875 would establish a central regulatory body with even more unaccountable authority than that of the FDA. Similar to the provisions contained in the Obama "stimulus" package and the Bush "bailout" before it, H.R. 875 would bolster the ever-burgeoning federal empire in eliminating state sovereignty and individual freedom, particularly in relation to food.
The legality of any type of raw milk distribution across the country is also in jeopardy as H.R. 875 would grant FSA the statutory authority to impose a ban on its sale and distribution, period. If, for example, FSA determines that pasteurization is a necessary "preventative process" for safe milk production, it could override any current state provisions permitting intrastate raw milk sales, an area where even the overbearing FDA does not have legitimate jurisdiction. This limit would not apply to FSA, however, which would be granted unlimited jurisdictional power over all decisions concerning food safety, despite the unconstitutionality of such authority.
Additionally, the bill contains language that would expand the definition of the word "contaminant" for purposes of widening the scope of what constitutes "adulterated food". In other words, the vague, open-ended language would grant seemingly unlimited authority to FSA to arbitrarily levy fines whenever and to whomever it deems fit for breaching its subjective food safety rules.
The full text of H.R. 875 can be found here as well as committee contacts and a listing of the bill`s cosponsors. It is important to keep in mind that Rep. DeLauro`s husband, Stanley Greenburg, works for biotechnology giant Monsanto, the multi-national corporation responsible for the creation of recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) in cows, the perpetuation of "Round-Up Ready" sugar and soy products hidden in conventional foods, and the instigation of lawsuits against farmers whose fields were contaminated by Monsanto`s patented seeds. H.R. 875 provides the means by which corporations like Monsanto can seize control of the last-remaining independent farming operations in the United States.
H.R. 875 is still being reviewed by the committees with no official date set for a vote. Now is the time to contact both the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Committee on Agriculture to express opposition to this federal takeover of the food supply. Also, be sure to contact your representatives to express opposition as well.
(vianaturalnews)
(NaturalNews) The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund recently reported the unveiling of the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (H.R. 875) on Feb. 4, 2009, by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), to both the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Committee on Agriculture. Cosponsored by 36 other Congressmen, all Democrats, H.R. 875 would essentially transfer all state control over food regulation to the Food Safety Administration (FSA), a newly-established federal bureaucracy to be created within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Its implications point to the elimination of all independent, family farms as well as all organic farming operations due to overbearing federal regulations subjectively determined by FSA in favor of corporate factory farms.
Some of the requirements set forth within H.R. 875 include:
- Designating FSA as sole regulator of food safety rather than the individual states, including granting FSA the power to implement and administer a "national system for regular unannounced inspection of food establishments" under its own terms.
- Reclassifying all farms as "food production facilities", ensuring they come under the regulatory and inspection protocols of FSA as well as enforcing compliance with whatever FSA deems as appropriate food safety requirements.
- Requiring farmers to comply with FSA-established "minimum standards" for farming practices, including requiring them to establish Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) plans and other written documentation as determined and mandated by FSA.
- Granting FSA the power to arrogate "preventative process controls to reduce adulteration of food" as it deems fit.
- Instituting FSA as food safety law enforcement, allowing it to assess civil penalties and fines for violation of any and all FSA safety laws up to $1 million for each violation. Collected fines would become unappropriated slush funds to be used however FSA deems fit in order to "carry out enforcement activities under the food safety law".
While many of these provisions may appear benign due to language emphasizing safety and to standardized regulations, the implications are far more mischievous. While stripping states of what little tenth amendment powers remain, H.R. 875 would establish a central regulatory body with even more unaccountable authority than that of the FDA. Similar to the provisions contained in the Obama "stimulus" package and the Bush "bailout" before it, H.R. 875 would bolster the ever-burgeoning federal empire in eliminating state sovereignty and individual freedom, particularly in relation to food.
The legality of any type of raw milk distribution across the country is also in jeopardy as H.R. 875 would grant FSA the statutory authority to impose a ban on its sale and distribution, period. If, for example, FSA determines that pasteurization is a necessary "preventative process" for safe milk production, it could override any current state provisions permitting intrastate raw milk sales, an area where even the overbearing FDA does not have legitimate jurisdiction. This limit would not apply to FSA, however, which would be granted unlimited jurisdictional power over all decisions concerning food safety, despite the unconstitutionality of such authority.
Additionally, the bill contains language that would expand the definition of the word "contaminant" for purposes of widening the scope of what constitutes "adulterated food". In other words, the vague, open-ended language would grant seemingly unlimited authority to FSA to arbitrarily levy fines whenever and to whomever it deems fit for breaching its subjective food safety rules.
The full text of H.R. 875 can be found here as well as committee contacts and a listing of the bill`s cosponsors. It is important to keep in mind that Rep. DeLauro`s husband, Stanley Greenburg, works for biotechnology giant Monsanto, the multi-national corporation responsible for the creation of recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) in cows, the perpetuation of "Round-Up Ready" sugar and soy products hidden in conventional foods, and the instigation of lawsuits against farmers whose fields were contaminated by Monsanto`s patented seeds. H.R. 875 provides the means by which corporations like Monsanto can seize control of the last-remaining independent farming operations in the United States.
H.R. 875 is still being reviewed by the committees with no official date set for a vote. Now is the time to contact both the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Committee on Agriculture to express opposition to this federal takeover of the food supply. Also, be sure to contact your representatives to express opposition as well.
(vianaturalnews)
With all that said. GO HERE to tell your congress(wo)man
to NOT pass this bill, and why.
Remember to write in your own text, and not agree with what's
written in the box.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
30 and just beginning.
“ There’s an old Hindu saying that comes into my mind occasionally: “For the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.” As I’m going to be 30 in February, the thought has crossed my mind. Steve Jobs, in a Playboy Magazine Interview from 1985
(viaNotestoSelf)
(viaNotestoSelf)
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Steiner
Rudolf Steiner described what are often called the “six supplemental exercises,” about which I have written in more detail in relation to parenting here. In brief, the exercises are:
concentration, in which we focus our attention on a common, otherwise uninteresting object for five minutes each day,
initiative, in which we do an otherwise unnecessary action each day at a predetermined time,
equanimity, in which we hold back the expression of our feelings (though not suppressing the feelings themselves) for a short time at an appropriate moment,
positivity, in which we try to find something positive in every situation or thing,
open-heartedness, in which we attempt to look at every new thing without prejudice,
and persistence, in which we create harmony by willfully repeating the previous five exercises.
❖❖❖❖❖❖
Relating through my daughters school, I have begun to dig deeper into the philosophy
behind the programs, and schooling. After reading more about this book from the anthromama blog,
I am beginning to see the meat and potatoes behind what it is that I feel about the school,
and through the school.
There's so much intention behind the curriculum that is put forth, and now
it's like seeing what is behind the curtains.
It's making the ordinary extraordinary, yet keeping it still very ordinary.
concentration, in which we focus our attention on a common, otherwise uninteresting object for five minutes each day,
initiative, in which we do an otherwise unnecessary action each day at a predetermined time,
equanimity, in which we hold back the expression of our feelings (though not suppressing the feelings themselves) for a short time at an appropriate moment,
positivity, in which we try to find something positive in every situation or thing,
open-heartedness, in which we attempt to look at every new thing without prejudice,
and persistence, in which we create harmony by willfully repeating the previous five exercises.
❖❖❖❖❖❖
Relating through my daughters school, I have begun to dig deeper into the philosophy
behind the programs, and schooling. After reading more about this book from the anthromama blog,
I am beginning to see the meat and potatoes behind what it is that I feel about the school,
and through the school.
There's so much intention behind the curriculum that is put forth, and now
it's like seeing what is behind the curtains.
It's making the ordinary extraordinary, yet keeping it still very ordinary.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Grand Central Station.
Life is a bit like grand central station.
It's been busy busy busy, for me anyhow.
I feel like I've been expanding, in myself, and opening.
While at the same time, I feel the contracting of life as we
know it, from the economy and all the changes that it's
bringing to us.
I noticed myself wanting to curl up, subtly, when I feel and
hear about the changes going on.
while everything in life is showing me the opposite, I will
do my best to stay open. Stay open to exactly where I need
to be, and bring myself to the task of my life and my purpose.
When I think about contraction, I realize that I have grown greatly
through pressure and contraction. It's like the coal turning
into a diamond. Billy Jean King wrote a book called Pressure is
a Privilege. The title alone say it all. I haven't read the book, but
I'd like to. I saw her talk at the Women's conference last year, and
she was a total inspiration and a great speaker. Pressure is a good thing.
It seems that most great people have it in them or around them. There's
always something lurking within or without that causes us to change,
that causes us to perform at a maximum performance.
I also found this writing on expanding and contracting.
Hidden Message: As we encounter new experience, we find disorganization expands as we encounter the unknown. If we decide to leave,
our activities contract back to a more comfortable organized state. This is the division between our quest for self-transforming experience
and our need for equilibrium. We are forever torn between living both contraction and expansion simultaneously. need for equilibrium
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Little Joy
Little Joy has crept into my life.
I look for the small moments in time
to find them.
They are in the crevices, crooks and cranny's.
They are not always eventful, just monumental
in their own right.
For me, little joy is found in the ordinary.
for Mike...
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