The Organic Industry's Ties to Factory Farms

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We're often given this image of organic food as being all that is right with the food industry, while factory farms are all that is wrong with the food industry, but are the two really so separate? Our research has uncovered an intimate connection between the two.

Organic farms are prohibited from using synthetic fertilizers, and instead must rely on natural sources. While there's a variety of options, one of the cheapest and most abundant sources of organic fertilizer is animal manure.  Organic food is big business now, and there's little concern for where the fertilizer comes from, so long as it's cheap. While it's not true for every single organic product, many, if not most, use manure from factory farms to fertilize their crops.

~ Emissaries of Love ~

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by Steve Beckow

 

I’m trying to get a sense of what has changed in the world.  If you go to the leading international newspapers, you’ll see … well, Prince Harry partying in the buff, one company suing another for patent infringements, Romney stirring the birther fight again, a tropical storm hitting Haiti.

 

Noticeably the press continues to look for the negative and bizzarre and comes up with little or nothing. All seems quiet in the world.

 

On TV the other day, so extensive are the crime dramas, that several are concerned with the love lives of law-enforcement agents, having explored almost every other aspect of crime and punishment one could think of. The “war on terror” became institutionalized, determined what played on TV, and is now trailing off into oblivion.

 

Massive Typhoon Bolaven slams Okinawa, Japan and heads for Koreas

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Massive Typhoon Bolaven slams Okinawa, Japan and heads for Koreas

Posted on August 26, 2012 
August 26, 2012 – JAPAN - A massive typhoon began to make landfall Sunday over Okinawa, bringing winds more ferocious than even the typhoon-weary Japanese island has seen in decades. It will likely be the strongest since 1956, said CNN International meteorologist Tom Sater. With a cloud field of 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles), Typhoon Bolaven is 20 times larger than Okinawa’s length. “It’s been very, very severe,” said storm chaser James Reynolds, on the northwestern coast of the island. Tree branches were flying through the air amid torrential rain, he said. The infrastructure on Okinawa is designed to withstand violent storms. “Everything’s made of solid concrete,” said Reynolds. “Utility poles are so wide you couldn’t even put your arms around them,” Reynolds said. “All the houses are built with concrete. There’s no such thing as a beach house in Okinawa because it would just get destroyed by a typhoon.” Still, the power was out where he was Sunday. On Sunday evening, Bolaven was carrying sustained winds of 213 kilometers (132 miles) per hour, with gusts reaching 259 kilometers per hour (161 mph) — the highest since Typhoon Naha in 1956. Bolaven was traveling northwest at 15 kilometers per hour (9 mph). The storm is on course to hit China and the Korean peninsula. “It’s roughly the size of France to Poland in land mass,” said Sater. “The typhoon is producing wave heights of 16 meters high, so the possibility is there for a storm surge of 8 to 10 meters high on the coastline. Wind gusts will be strong enough to not only uproot or down trees and power lines, but could flip automobiles. Okinawa is 100 kilometers (62 miles) long. The size of Bolaven’s eye is roughly 30 kilometers (19 miles) in width. This means many residents could experience the eye passing over them; unfortunately, that means putting up with the strongest winds the storm can produce, followed by a calm period with a brief clearing of the skies overhead, then another chaotic period of damaging winds that will be blowing in the opposite direction of the previous winds. Rainfall totals could top 500 mm (20 inches) in 24 hours,” said Sater. -CNN

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Strong and deep M 6.4 earthquake hit Molucca Sea, Indonesia

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Strong and deep M 6.4 earthquake hit Molucca Sea, Indonesia

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 – AUGUST 26, 2012

The Watchers Tweet Tweet Very strong and deep earthquake with recorded magnitude of 6.4 struck Molucca Sea, Indonesia on August 26, 2012 at 15:05 UTC, 11:05 pm local time, according to USGS. Both USGS and EMSC recorded preliminary magnitude of 6.8. Epicenter was located 169 km (105 miles) NNW (340°) from Ternate, Moluccas, Indonesia at coordinates 2.231°N, 126.865°E. Recorded depth was 69.7 km (43.3 miles). EMSC later reported magnitude 6.6 and depth of 80 km. The earthquake was felt in a...
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Very strong and deep earthquake with recorded magnitude of 6.4 struck Molucca Sea, Indonesia onAugust 26, 2012 at 15:05 UTC, 11:05 pm local time, according to USGS. Both USGS and EMSC recorded preliminary magnitude of 6.8. Epicenter was located 169 km (105 miles) NNW (340°) from Ternate, Moluccas, Indonesia at coordinates 2.231°N, 126.865°E. Recorded depth was 69.7 km (43.3 miles). EMSC later reported magnitude 6.6 and depth of 80 km.

The earthquake was felt in a wide area in Indonesia and the Philippines, mainly because of the deep origin of the hypocenter.

NOAA/NWS – Pacific Tsunami Warning Center evaluated that this earthquake had no destructive widespread tsunami threat based on historical earthquake and tsunami data.

GDACS reported that this earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the Magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability. About 6000 people live within 100km.

Dabi: Do We Dare Keep Our Hearts Open?

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Dani, Removing the Shackles, Aug. 25, 2012

 

http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/2012/08/do-we-dare-keep-our-hearts-open.html

 

I’ve pondered this question for years. I’ve waxed and waned on it, occasionally cutting myself off from the flow of the negative to guard my bruised and battered spirit, taking respite in burying my head in the sand for a while. And for a while the view from under the dirt is numbing and deliciously peaceful, but deep inside you know that that blind sense of calm tranquillity is not real.

 

Then the intermission is over and it’s time to return to the surface, to wash the sand out of my eyes and take a look around.

 

The Controllers of the main stream media “News” focuses continually on the murder and mayhem and the scenes of violence and destruction, constantly bombarding our hearts with utter blackness. They guide your attention to feed your fears- fears that they instilled in you to begin with.

 

The underlying message is “There is no hope here” because people without hope just give up.

'Greece is bankrupt. Full stop. Game over'

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'Greece is bankrupt. Full stop. Game over'

Published on Aug 23, 2012 by RussiaToday
 

It's 'crunch time' for Greece right now - the German leader and French president are working out whether to grant Athens the 'breathing space' it says it needs to sort its finances out.

The country's been relying on international loans for over two years, but is struggling to meet its bailout conditions.

Meanwhile, Chancellor Merkel's allies in Berlin say 'a Greek exit wouldn't have a 'great impact' on the Eurozone'.

Investment advisor Patrick Young says, whether on not Greece is provided with more time, there's no chance it'll manage to get its economy back on track within the Eurozone.

 

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