oct 2013

One Man's Clever Idea to Fight Frackers and Save His Organic Farm

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Global Exchange, By Caitlin Kawaguchi, 10/14/2013

When J. Stephen Cleghorn realized that Paradise Gardens and Farm, his certified-organic farm in Pennsylvania that sits above the Marcellus Shale formation, was at risk of being “fracked” for shale gas extraction, he knew he had to act. But he did more than just act against fracking when he became the first private property owner in the United States to use a deed easement recognizing the Rights of Nature to ban all activities that would do systemic harm to the ecosystem both above and deep below the surface of his farm.

 

“We wanted to preserve organic agriculture on these 50 acres to be sure, but also wanted to employ this recognition of Rights of Nature to deter any activity that would threaten those rights at the surface in the deep biosphere below this farm,” said Cleghorn.

 

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Doctors and patients lose trust as drug companies are fined over $11 billion

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Naturalnews, By: Sue Woledge, 10/14/2013

(NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical companies have racked up over $11 billion in fines over the last three years for many cases of criminal misconduct. Twenty-six pharmaceutical companies around the world, including eight of the ten largest companies, have been charged and fined for various criminal behaviors, including withholding safety data for new drug approval applications and promoting drug uses beyond the conditions they have been approved to treat.

 

According to two papers published in the New England Journal of Medicine, public and professional trust is being eroded by the regular criminal wrongdoings of the pharmaceutical industry, and lawyers have warned that the fines are not sufficient to change the criminal behavior of the industry.

 

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Dozens of Veterans Arrested at Vietnam War Memorial in NYC

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By: Dean Garrison, 10/09/2013

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Monday night a group of veterans gathered to honor the fallen. They were taken away in handcuffs. The charge? They were violating a 10PM curfew, and thus trespassing. There was no violence. They were respectful to NYPD officers, and they were peaceful. They were there to honor the fallen and commemorate the 12th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan.

 

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NY Fed Fired Examiner Who Took on Goldman

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Nationofchange.org, By: Jake Bernstein, 10/11/2013

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In the spring of 2012, a senior examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York determined that Goldman Sachs had a problem. Under a Fed mandate, the investment banking behemoth was expected to have a company-wide policy to address conflicts of interest in how its phalanxes of dealmakers handled clients. Although Goldman had a patchwork of policies, the examiner concluded that they fell short of the Fed’s requirements.

 

That finding by the examiner, Carmen Segarra, potentially had serious implications for Goldman, which was already under fire for advising clients on both sides of several multibillion-dollar deals and allegedly putting the bank’s own interests above those of its customers. It could have led to closer scrutiny of Goldman by regulators or changes to its business practices.

 

Aisha North ~ A History of Creation – part 3

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By: Aisha North, 10/13/2013

As you know, the actions of the atoms are not random, as they have all been preprogrammed to display different characteristics from the outset, and as such, they all behave in their own distinctive manner. Preprogrammed from the outset, so that they can enact the roles they have been given. For this is indeed the true secret behind the seeming appearance of mass, for mass is nothing but a shimmering haze of particles coalescing in such a way, they seem to conform into a solid object. But they are not, neither are you, as you are also composed of different units of these ever busy little carriers of light and energy, all working together in unison to form a thing called ”Aisha” or ”Peter” or what have you. They are also busy at work forming objects such as ”stone” or ”chair” or ”tree”, and every thing you can care to label, and then some.

 

Heavenletter #4706 ~ Like a Sunflower under the Bright Sun

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By: Heavenletters.org 10/13/2013

God said:

 

Being true to Me is the same as being true to yourself. There is Truth to the concept that it is not your will but Mine. At the same time, on the deep deep levels of Truth, My Will and your Will are One. There is no difference between them. Only on the surface levels, only so far as your consciousness can delve is there any difference. Only so far as you can see can any difference exist.

 

Truth is Truth. The ultimate Truth is that We are One. The ultimate Truth is that agreement is absolute. That is the Truth, yet not the Truth as it is seen in the relative world, on that surface you skate on.

 

On the surface of life, what you seek is confirmation that you are loved. Between the surface and the depths, there are layers of Truth according to your perception – or misperception.

 

'No Monsanto!': World marches against GMO food

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By: RT.com, 10/12/2013

Jameson Bluma, 3, holds a sign during one of many worldwide "March Against Monsanto" protests against Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and agro-chemicals, in Los Angeles, California October 12, 2013. (Reuters / Lucy Nicholson)

Thousands took to streets across the world’s cities on Saturday to protest the use of GMO products, with Giant Monsanto being the main target. Over 50 countries have been taking part in the march for world food day, and across 47 different US states.

 

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Magic trick: promoting diseases that don’t exist

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Activist Post, By: Jon Rappoport, 10/11/2013

The disease/treatment/profit machine requires more and more diseases, even if they aren’t real. Here is an unspoken but largely accepted medical notion of what a disease is: A group of physical symptoms shared by many people, which has a single cause. For example, take the flu. Wikipedia lists the common symptoms: chills, fever, muscle pains, headache, coughing. For each type of flu, there is single virus announced as the cause. E.g., Swine Flu; H1N1 virus. Drug companies develop medicines and vaccines to kill the virus or prevent it from gaining a foothold in the body. They sell the drugs and vaccines. Profits soar. Nice and neat. Of course, many doctors don’t bother to test patients to see if they have a disease like seasonal flu. It’s too time consuming to take a blood sample and send it to a lab and wait for the results. So the doctor makes an eyeball diagnosis based on symptoms and the season of the year.

 

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