http://www.progressivepapolitics.com
www.VoteToImpeach.org
http://www.impeachbush.org/site/R?i=4LAWttBOgyHgvJYltoR9QA..
annefeeney.com
http://www.geocities.com/evangreer2003/
http://ciw-online.org/
http://www.apolloalliance.org
http://www.stoptheftaa.org/artman/publish/article_582.shtml
workingforchange.com
steelcactus.com
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High Performance Cities A Guide to Energy-Saving Policies for Urban
Areas
http://www.apolloalliance.org/docUploads/apollo%2Dfinal%2Epdf
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biodiesel.org
http://www.humintech.com/001/agriculture/glossary/leonardite.html
http://sweatshopwatch.org/
http://www.notinourname.net
http://lists.fluoridealert.org/listinfo/fan_bulletins
democracyrising.us
progressive.org
http://www.paenergyfest.com
cleanair.org
freepress.org
http://www.neweconomics.org
lef.org
www.occupationdreamland.com
sanderhicks.com
http://voxpopnet.net
http://www.drenchkiss.com
http://www.azstarnet.com/~freetht/search_for_the_manchurian_candid.htm
http://www.azstarnet.com/~freetht/newpage2.htm
oriononline.org
orionsociety.
democrats.org
miningwatch.ca
nodirtygold.org
faithvoices.org
democracyinaction.org
neworleansnetwork.org
grist.org
krystal-planet.com/ronniestoneman
pittsburghfoodbank.org
medialens.org
freepress.org
greenleft.org
greenrelief.net
muckraker.org
newpittsburghcourier.com
chn.org
peacefultomorrows
thememoryhole
sanderhicks
buylocalpa.org
earthpolicy.org
gregpalast.com
warincontext.org
opednews.com
climatecrisis.org
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Save Gas - Grow Some of Your Own Food
by Jim McCue 10/19/05
People all over the world are discovering that large-scale corporate
factory farming is bankrupting smaller, more diversified, and often
family-owned farming. As in other sectors of the economy - production,
processing, and distribution of food has come to be increasingly
concentrated in fewer hands. Ag businesspeople do not always have in
mind the health and happiness of consumers - who increasingly have no
choice other than to buy food from the factory-farm system. Because
making money in the business world so often seems to necessitate closing
one's heart as to destructive effects of one's decisions, the most "successful"
(that is, the ones who have accumulated the most money) are often the
most hard-hearted.
Take fossil fuels such as oil, the gasoline that's made from it, and
natural gas. It's now commonly understood that these things are: in
limited supply; subject to increasing demand; and have numerous
environmental side effects. The agricultural system - as presently
structured - needs huge amounts of water, land, and fossil fuels to make
fertilizer and provide transportation. Small organic food gardens and
farms need less water and space to grow a certain amount of food. But
large agribusinesses have used their increased lobbying power to
structure our laws so that the taxpayer subsidizes cheaper (and lower
quality) food. This is why "organic" has become associated with "high-muckety-muck";
people think only elites can afford the better quality. But the fact is,
we're all paying for the mass-produced food that is lower quality -
through our taxes.
Now that the price of gas has hit the fan, and as the predicted drastic
increase in natural gas price also looms, it's time to start taking
seriously those enviro "Chicken Littles" who knew some of these problems
were coming and who know that the price of food - being connected to
the price of fossil fuels - is also going to go through the roof. There
is no sane reason to ship such a large part of our food such great
distances. There is a place for food transportation, but not when we can
more easily grow higher-quality food right here in the Pittsburgh
region. We need much more locally grown organic food. And we need
changes in our laws that have queered the situation so dangerously that
large numbers of Americans are coming to find themselves short of money
for necessities such as food or rent. The belief in chemical
fertilizers and pesticides has come from overly focused points-of-view
which externalize the side effects. Profit at the expense of your own
health or you neighbors' is not a very good long-term investment. Sure,
you might get a better yield on that particular crop this year if you
sock the soil with nitrogen made from natural gas and pesticides
synthesized from oil. But what about next year, when your garden's
predator/prey balance is weakened and you, your family, and your
neighbors' health is compromised by those toxins and your food's
nutrient ratios are lower. And do you really want to escalate our
increasingly violent competition with other countries for the fossil
resources to grow food that way?
The soil is not a machine. It is a vast, living community which is
harmed when we humans go to pot-shotting at the bugs while overdosing
the soil with the major nutrients - nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorous
- ignoring all those micro-nutrients and enzymes and tiny living things
- molds, bacteria, bugs, worms, etc. - that are vital to soil fertility.
And the larger life forms - frogs, toads, "weeds", "groundhogs" (formerly
called woodchucks in a less competitive time), minks, squirrels,
chipmunks, rabbits, deer, bears, cougars, snakes, newts, salamanders -
are also part of the fertility of the soil (and they all used to be
abundant in what is now the Pittsburgh region).
A food security project is gearing up in the Garfield area. Effort is
being made to secure land long term for food growing. What the
Healcrest Urban Community Farm is starting should be a template for what
happens county-wide. It's a temptation to blame the poor for the
problems - and so rationalize their abandonment and allow the system
failures to treat them more and more badly. But we can recognize
ourselves, our own family in those without the power to avoid direct
consequences of the increasingly brutal business climate that is
developing. Please look into what food security advocates such as these
people are doing, and see that - just as we need the lowly earthworm
and so-called "ugly" bugs and critters too small to see without a
microscope - we also need those who we who may be a little better off
have found it easier to marginalize.
The Healcrest Urban Community Farm is devoted to sustainable urban
farming, is organizing gardens and gardeners to supply farmstands, and
owns 1.7 acres near Penn Ave. at the corner of Shamrock Way, Hillcrest
Street, and Pacific Ave. Their upcoming events are available via 412/362-1982,
mothermoonbeam@aol.com , or http://www.thomasmertoncenter.org/calendar.
Some of their meetings are at the most interesting used-book shop I've
ever seen, owned by one of the Farm's founders - Ricardo Robinson. He
had the unique idea to either sell or lend (for free) books, and
specializes in what he judges to be "good" literature. The place has the
nice laid-back come-on-in-and-talk atmosphere that could do something
economic-development-wise for Hazelwood. It's called Yard Sale Books,
and is at 5165 Penn (near Pacific.)
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We don't have to be addicted to oil.
by Jim McCue October 2005
With all the problems in the world today, it's difficult to see the big picture. Reacting out of fear, we see only crises. But, if I may be so bold as to try to fathom God's thinking, I'd like to think there's a reason things happen. You can also capitalize the word "science," too, and see that Science is another way to discover God's instruction. If we look at, for instance, our increasing weather and agricultural problems, a lesson begins to become visible.
Why is the world so stuck together with intertwined economic problems? You could say God wants us to learn we are one family. You could say Science is telling us to slow down our reproductive rate and use the best biotech to restabilize Earth's ecosystem. You could say God/Science wants us to understand that humankind is called to lovingly manage the other species we live with - not try to dominate them for our own short-sighted purposes.
I know some think I'm preaching, but I am talking good economics. Those with an overview of the changes the Earth's ecosystem is going through at this time in history understand that we are in an extinction crisis of epic proportions. Our interdependency with the other species makes, to my mind, the lesson that we are not only one human family - we are part of the community of life on Earth. To the extent that we ignore that, we pay.
Because it's easier for those already with money to make more money, a situation has developed in which a relative fewer and fewer people hold more and more power. This could only be good if those in power would act spiritually - for the good of all. But, being human like the rest of us, those on top fall prey to the same temptations that the rest of us do. So the world is falling apart as so many look only to themselves and their loved ones - not to life as a whole.
We have, at this point in history, the most awesome technology, capable of
the most wonderful things. If we concentrate on these positive uses the massive problems we face will fall by the wayside.
Lasers, for instance, can be used either for weapons or to accelerate healing. Microbes may make people sick or, more positively, may be used as vaccines to prevent people from getting sick. Microbes may be used as weapons, or they may be used as part of processes to synthesize alternative fuels. Microbes may destroy food crops, or they can be (and are being) used to help grow food. The evolution and spread of new and dangerous microbes is one of the huge problems we face; but the production, marketing, distribution, and even creation of new beneficial microbes is a part of the key to otherwise unsolvable environmental problems.
I think it comes down to a test - from God, if you will - does humanity have sufficient humility to learn to love all life. As the poet Auden was quoted by the president Johnson: "...for we shall surely love or die."
Aside from the microbes' role in helping us transition from sole dependence on fossil fuels, there are many other non-biotech ways which we can get ourselves out of this predicament - conservation, increased efficiency, windpower, solar power, and other high-tech lines of research I have insufficient expertise to describe well.
What we lack is the will and cooperative spirit to get ourselves off this path to world war over oil, fish, water, and other resources. As difficult as it is to
imagine, Christ's instruction to love our enemies is something we're going to have to take to heart.
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http://www.savethecourt.org
indyvoter.org info.
www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org
http://www.usstudents.org
unionproject.org
pghopendoor.org
http://www.ucsur.pitt.edu
www.rmu.edu/bcnm
http://www2.eli.org/research/pennplan/index.htm
sustainablebusiness.com
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com
http://www.phlf.org/preservationconference/index.html
www.johnsoninstitute-gspia.org
www.sustainableagriculture.net
www.msawg.org
www.mnproject.org
www.landstewardshipproject.org
www.hazelwoodhomepage.com
http://www.pittsburghfoodbank.org/
www.american-healthcare.net
The Zero Emissions Research Initiative http://zeri.org/
of the United Nations University
Mission Statement, Methodology, and Charter
The ZERI Foundation Charter
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and also:
ZERO WASTE ECONOMY EMERGING
http://www.stephensonstrategies.com>
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Carnegie, Library Science and Technology Department
http://www.clpgh.org/clp/Scitech/thanks.html
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http://www.airproducts.com
commondreams.org
http://wakeuplaughing.com
http://taxpayer.net
http://earthpulse.com/
http://www.layinstitute.org
stcwa.org
intouch.org
http://foodandsocietyfellows.org/pages/links.html
http://www.sisterparish.org
www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us
hillhouse.org
hypocrisy.org
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From:
If the War Goes On
http://peace.mennolink.org/resources/ifthewargoeson.html
...[last stanza]
If the war goes on, will we close the doors to heaven?
If the war goes on, will we breach the gates of hell?
If the war goes on, will we ever be forgiven? If the war goes on...
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buylocalpa.org
earthpolicy.org
gregpalast.com
warincontext.org
opednews.com
climatecrisis.org
iahf.com
http://www.reopen911.org
http://www.infowars.com
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Farmers Legal Action Group
http://www.flaginc.org
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http://www.ssawg.org
...Rising Fuel Prices and the Implications for Agriculture The global
food system relies heavily on oil, and rising oil prices will have a
significant impact on food supplies, says an article by Earth Policy
Institute posted on peopleandplanet.net. The article points out that
only one-fifth of the energy used by the food system in the U.S. actually
goes toward growing food; the other four-fifths is spent on processing,
packaging, moving and storing food. And globally, 28 percent of energy
for agriculture is used to manufacturer fertilizer...
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http://www.jamesmcmurtry.com
http://www.democraticunderground.com
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"insurgency"
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1077495.php
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http://www.rainbowbookstore.org
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From:
Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology
Microbe Zoo
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/zoo/zahmain.html
Habitat on Humanity
You have more bacterial cells in or on your body than you have human cells. These microbes are part of normal humans and are important to the health of humans. Usually when people hear about microbes, they hear about the microbes that make them sick. However, if you had no microbes inside of you, you would likely not feel very well since microbes provide people with important vitamins. Microbes are found in your mouth, in your guts, on your skin, under your arms, and on your feet...
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Carter/Baker Report can't face how the GOP stole America's 2004 election & is rigging 2008
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman 9/20/5
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1462
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"Conspiracy Theories" and Cultural Imperatives: The Millennial
Conspiracy
Driving Cultural Evolution
By Dr. Gerry Lower
Jul 28, 2005
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_19451.shtml
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organicvalley.coop
drgreene.com
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We, the Farmers preamble
magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature3/index.html
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Tayrona Message to the World alerting Younger Brother that our destructive and consumptive lefestyle is kllng the Heart of the Earth
earthdinner.org
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checnet.org
farmaid.org
bioneers.org
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Organic Farmers Research Foundation
ofrf.org
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waterkeeper.org
organic-center.org
http://www.ww4report.com
http://www.censurebush.org
http://sunshine-project.org
http://www.citizenworks.org
http://www.corporatepolicy.org
http://universalfriends.org
http://www.huffingtonpost.com
http://www.wsws.org
http://www.walmartmovie.com
earthpulse.com
layinstitute.org
http://www.impeachbush.org
orionsociety.org
oriononline.org
democrats.org
ninemilerun.org
zmag.org
mayfirst.org
themeatrix.com
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"While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal
element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not
free."
- Eugene Debs
http://eugenevdebs.com
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"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of
life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
- Albert Einstein
http://www.foodreference.com/html/qvegetarians.html
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"If America doesn't weaponize space, an enemy will."
Then-Undersecretary of the Air Force and Director of the National
Reconnaissance Office Peter B. Teets,
in a speech to a January 2003
Air Force Association symposium,
according to an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
"U.S. The Leader in War Plans for Space,"
by Jack Kelly, July 28, 2003
http://www.cdi.org/friendlyversion/printversion.cfm?documentID=3119&from_page=../program/document.cfm
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/232239_spaceweapons13.html
...voices within the Pentagon and military bureaucracies who argue that
putting weapons in space is inevitable. In a U.S. Air Force document on
"counterspace operations," Peter B. Teets, then assistant secretary of
the
Air Force -- and formerly COO of Lockheed Martin, a major military and
space contractor -- argued that "controlling the high ground of space
...
will require us to think about denying the high ground to our
adversaries.
We are paving the path to 21st century warfare now."...
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From
Air Force Seeks Bush's Approval for Space Weapons Programs
by Tim Weiner 5/18/5
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40F15F93D5D0C7B8DDDAC0894DD404482
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0518-02.htm
...With little public debate, the Pentagon has already spent billions
of
dollars developing space weapons and preparing plans to deploy them.
"We haven't reached the point of strafing and bombing from space," Pete
Teets, who stepped down last month as the acting secretary of the Air
Force, told a space warfare symposium last year. "Nonetheless, we are
thinking about those possibilities."
In January 2001, a commission led by Donald H. Rumsfeld, then the newly
nominated defense secretary, recommended that the military should
"ensure
that the president will have the option to deploy weapons in space."...
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thememoryhole.org
http://www.victoriasdirtysecret.net/
http://vfa-online.org/
tryvegetarian.org
http://www.supersizeme.com
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excerpt:
Confessions of an Economic Hitman [EHM]
by John Perkins
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
http://www.mike-warren.com/links/confessions-of-an-economic-hitman.html
"...utilize international financial organizations to foment conditions
that make other nations subservient to the corporatocracy running our
biggest corporations, our government, and our banks. Like our
counterparts
in the Mafia, EHMs provide favors. These take the form of loans to
develop
infrastructure -- electric generating plants, highways, ports,
airports,
or industrial parks. A condition of such loans is that engineering and
construction companies from our own country must build all these
projects.
In essence, most of the money never leaves the United States; it is
simply
transferred from banking offices in Washington to engineering offices
in
New York, Houston, or San Francisco.''
``Despite the fact that the money is returned almost immediately to
corporations that are members of the corporatocracy (the creditor), the
recipient country is required to pay it all back, principal plus
interest.
If an EHM is completely successful, the loans are so large that the
debtor
is forced to default on its payments after a few years. When this
happens,
then like the Mafia we demand our pound of flesh. This often includes
one
or more of the following: control over United Nations votes, the
installation of military bases, or access to precious resources such as
oil or the Panama Canal. Of course, the debtor still owes us the money
--
and another country is added to our global empire...''
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alecwatch.org
chej.org
opendemocracy.net
http://prisonplanet.com/
http://www.fromthewilderness.com
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Fooling America
talk given on March 28, 1993, by Robert Parry, former AP and Newsweek
and
now independent journalist. Parry was one of the first reporters to
break
the story of Iran-Contra, and one of the first to report on the drug
angle
in Iran-Contra. Parry later pursued the strong evidence that Reagan and
Bush made an all-out effort to sabotage Jimmy Carter's efforts to win
the
release of the Iranian-held hostages before the November election, the
episode known as the October Surprise.
Parry is the author of several books, including
Fooling America
and
Trick or Treason,
both published by Sheridan Square Press.
Currently, he publishes
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The Consortium
http://www.consortiumnews.com
++
http://webcom.com/~lpease/collections/conspiracies/parryspeech.htm
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Media Reform Forum of Pittsburgh
http://fightbigmedia.meetup.com/284
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http://www.crisispapers.org
http://www.takebackthemedia.com
http://www.democraticmedia.org/
http://web.greens.org/etc/others.shtml
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Averting Bioterrorism Begins with US Reforms
by Edward Hammond, Director of the US office of the Sunshine Project
http://web.greens.org/s-r/27/27-15.html
sunshine-project.org
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http://www.alternativesmagazine.com
http://www.worldnetdaily.com
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/home.htm
http://www.democraticmedia.org/
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environdesign
http://www.isdesignet.com/ED/index.html
http://www.haroldpinter.org/politics/politics_nato.shtml
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US anthrax attacks linked to army biological weapons plant
by Patrick Martin
12/28/1
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/anth-d28.shtml
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German documentary charges US used biological weapons in Korean War
by Peter Schwarz
13 November 2002
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/nov2002/arti-n13.shtml
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://projects.sipri.org/cbw/
http://projects.sipri.org/cbw/docs/
http://projects.sipri.se/cbw/research/cb_threats2_comments.pdf
http://www.commondreams.org
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
http://www.sipri.org/
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Institute for Creative Thought Crimes
http://thoughtcrimes.org
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http://www.progress.org
http://www.accuracy.org/
http://democrats.com
http://hereinreality.com
http://www.sanderhicks.com/articles/9111.html
http://reclaimthemedia.org/
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Fannie Lou Hamer
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/flhamer.html
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Poison Dust [re depleted uranium]
http://www.peoplesvideo.org
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http://www.comminit.com
http://alecwatch.org/
http://www.truemajority.org/
http://www.democracyforamerica.com/
ashoka.org
faithvoices.org
thomharmann.com
meetwithcindy.com
consumerwatchdog.org
pennfuture.org
sustainableaquaculture.org
neweconomics.org
universalfriends.org
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US planned war in Afghanistan long ago
Arab American News; 11/30/2001; Martin, Patrick
Martin, Patrick
Arab American News
11-30-2001
http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:79124256&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf
US planned war in Afghanistan long ago
Insider accounts published in the British, French and Indian media have
revealed that US officials threatened war against Afghanistan during
the
summer of 2001. These reports include the prediction, made in July,
that
"if the military action went ahead, it would take place before the
snows
started falling in Afghanistan, by the middle of October at the
latest."
The Bush administration began its bombing strikes on the hapless,
poverty-stricken country October 7, and ground attacks by US Special
Forces
began October ...
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Foods That Fight Pain
Revolutionary Strategies for Maximum Pain Relief
by
Neal Barnard
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
http://inspiredliving.com/painrelief/
http://www.positivehealth.com/Reviews/books/barn46.htm
http://www.goveg.com/feat/pcrm/nealbarnard.html
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Bombies
The terrible aftermath of dropping cluster bombs during the secret air
war
in Laos and the international campaign to ban them.
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/bombie.html
[available from the Carnegie Library system]
..."...nine-year secret war targeting millions of innocent
civilians..."
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reopen911.org
rightsaction.org
http://www.bravenewfilms.org
faithvoices.org
corpwatch.org
warincontext.org
http://www.phipps.conservatory.org/learn/research/botany/
BCFacts.org
http://www.kyotoandbeyond.org
www.marcgunther.com
http://www.worthwhilemag.com
www.ams.usda.gov
Biocycle magazine.
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com
http://www.consortiumnews.com
http://Platform.For-Pgh.org
www.itrcweb.org
www.clu-in.org
http://www.brownfields2005.org
pe.com
http://www.cwwg.org
http://www.zmag.org
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/10929624.htm
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/10909206.htm
http://www.trivalleycares.org
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18604
www.tristatecitizens.org
http://www.gasp-pgh.org
sproutfund.org
www.smartgrowthpa.org
thebreakthrough.org
http://www.sacredchoices.org
planetizen.com
http://www1.worldbank.org/devoutreach/winter01/article.asp?id=97
sustainablepittsburgh.org
http://www.mv-voice.com/morgue/2005/2005_02_11.tce.shtml
www.pctv21.org
iisd.org
http://www.iisd.ca
http://www.ihe.nl
http://www.unops.org
http://www.cifor.cgiar.org
MANUAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: THE EU AND BRITAIN
http://www.mep-online.com
PUBLICATIONS ON HARVESTED WOOD PRODUCTS
http://unfccc.int/sessions/workshop/300804/reledocs.html
PROMOTING CITES-CBD COOPERATION AND SYNERGY
http://www.bfn.de/09/skript116.pdf
http://www.grain.org
http://www.iucn.org
http://www.unccd.int
http://www.rfebook.com
http://www.who.int
http://www.giwa.net
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Global International
Waters Assessment
http://www.wpcouncil.org
http://www.wetlandprofessionals.ihe.nl
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UNESCO Institute for Water Education
http://www.waterfootprint.org
...assessing 'water footprints' - the total volume of water that is
used to produce the goods and services consumed by the inhabitants of
the nation...research results...links
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http://www.nosweat.org.uk
http://www.iisd.ca
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/calendar/calendar.htm
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International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for
Development
http://www.agassessment.org/index.html
http://www.undpingoconference.org/
http://www.wiltonpark.org.uk
ACTION AGAINST HUNGER AND POVERTY - WORLD LEADERS MEETING: 20 September
2004
http://www.mre.gov.br/ingles/politica_externa/temas_agenda/acfp
http://www.enviroinfo2004.org
http://www.world-tourism.org/sustainable
UN SYMPOSIUM ON HYDROPOWER AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:
http://unhsd.icold-cigb.org.cn/english.html
http://www.iac.wur.nl/iac
http://che-penn.org/
http://www.iac.wur.nl
http://www.conicyt.cl/IBS2004/
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies...together with the
National Institute for Environmental Studies
http://www.iges.or.jp/en/event/
http://www.worldlpgas.com
http://www.ipieca.org/downloads/climate_change/TCC_Workshop/Information.pdf
http://www.rio5.com
http://www.unece.org/trade/timber/docs/sem/2004-1/sem-2004-1.htm
http://www.international-alliance.org
barsk-rundquist@un.org; Internet: http://www.un.org/esa/forests
ternet: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/49sess.htm
FIRST INTERGOVERNMENTAL PLENARY OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT
http://www.agassessment.org/index.html
EIGHTH MEETING OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT...
http://www.unemg.org/download_pdf/EMG8/8_2agenda.pdf
http://www.mre.gov.br/ingles/politica_externa/temas_agenda/acfp/presentation.asp
http://www.gefweb.org/Whats_New/whats_new.html
20rldbank.org; Internet: http://www.imf.org/external/am/
om; Internet: http://www.ethicalcorp.com/asia2004
http://www.oecd.org/document/56/0,2340,en_2649_33763_32233656_1_1_1_1,00.html
http://www.aidharmonization.org/ah-wh/secondary-pages/Paris2005
http://www.silsoe.cranfield.ac.uk/iwe/projects/regulation/
http://www.wsscc.org/dakar
F Internet: http://www.ramsar.org
http://www.economistconferences.com/roundtable/public/con_common.asp?rtID=660&area=2&preview=&rtRegion=4&fprevrt=
International Water Management Institute; tel: +27-12-845-9100;
e-mail: b.vankoppen@cgiar.org; Internet:
http://www.nri.org/waterlaw/workshop.htm
AS ajit@chilika.com; Internet: http://www.aws2005.com/index.htm
Rsue.frye@ice.org.uk; Internet:
http://www.riverbasinmanagement2005.com/
INThttp://www.unesco.org/water/water_events/Detailed/814.shtml
International Institute for Sustainable Development
http://www.iisd.org
http://www.rethinkingschoollunch.org/
educationinnovations.org
http://strauscom.com/rodale
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Christian Associates of Southwest Pennsylvania
http://www.casp.org
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Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
http://www.counterpunch.org/vips07142003.html
http://www.bnfp.org/neighborhood/VetIntPro_for_Sanity.htm
http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2004/03/03_400.html
http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Veteran_Intelligence_Professionals_for_Sanity
http://schema-root.org/people/political/think_tank/veteran_intelligence_professionals_for_sanity/
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0425-11.htm
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http://www.thisishell.net
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World running out of time for oil alternatives
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Anna Mudeva
Reuters
Aug 19, 2005
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/index.cfm?Page=Article&ID=4600
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http://crookedtimber.org/2003/07/15/krugmans-back
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Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Investor
http://h2fc.com
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http://www.greencarcongress.com
http://h2fc.com
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Will Wal-Mart Eat Britain
and what we can learn from US communities fighting back
[speech delivered by...Stacy Mitchell from the US
Institute for Local Self Reliance
at the Foreign Press Association in London 5/26/5]
http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/z_sys_PublicationDetail.aspx?pid=211
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From:
A Bush Narco-regime--here in the USA?
by B. Ehkstruh Saturday 11/27/4
The dirtiest of all Bush secrets?
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/11/16675.php
...narcotics moneys are quietly and murderously funneled into black
budget
programs, and private pockets, to avoid elected oversight...
...Richard Armitage coordinated CIA heroin trafficking principally out
of
Cambodia and Laos, and he was a close confederate of General Huang
Soong,
the CIAs principal (narcotics) trafficker in Cambodia. (Note: Bush
certainly
knew about Armitages sordid history when he appointed him...
... Pete Brewster's book about Bush Sr., in which he documents Bushs
numerous
co-investments with Houston businessman Walter Mincher and mafia heroin
kingpin Carlos Marcello...
Michael Moore, among others, wonders how Porter Goss could have amassed
his
$53 million fortune by legal means. Journalist Daniel Hopsickers
website, Mad
Cow Morning News has posted a 1960s photo taken in a Mexico City
nightclub in
which then-CIA man Porter Goss sits happily at a table with Barry Seal,
the
biggest narcotics trafficker in US history. For years, Goss worked
under Gen.
Ed Lansdale, the man named by Col. Fletcher Prouty for arranging the
JFK
assassination...
According to Daniel Sheehan, Ross Perot, Bo Greitz and numerous others
(including a CIA agent I interviewed), during the 1970s Armitage headed
the Far East company, which laundered Golden Triangle heroin in
Thailand
toward the end of the CIAs heroin doings during the Vietnam war...
Richard Armitage, the same man identified by Danny Sheehan of the
Christic
Institute in his suit and by General Khun Sa as the bagman in the dope
deals through the years. the man who has been protecting him over the
years is another former CIA man, (Frank) Carlucci (Carlucci later
headed
Bush Sr.s employer, the Carlyle Group) Tom Fitzpatrick, New Times
(11/11/87)...
Armitage was nominated, in February 1989, by a grateful President
George
Bush (Senior) to be Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern
Affairs.
The move was blocked and Armitage was, instead, nominated for the post
of
Secretary of the Army. Behind the scenes a virtual war was in progress
as
the Department of Justice and the FBI sought to indict Armitage for his
narcotics and other criminal activities. William Guyatt, The CIAs
Secret
Drug Wars.
More disturbing are the allegations of Dr. Steven Greer, head of CSETI,
which investigates black budget programs that use narcotics monies to
research government-obtained technologies, which are then ceded to
private
parties secretly. According to Greer, A senior SAIC executive (Space
Applications International Corporation) told me of this and how there
was
an army of 8000 men who did nothing but import drugs under the cover of
classified, need-to-know operatives. He stated that of the 8000 men
involved (as of 1997 when we spoke of this), that 2000 of them had been
killed for sometimes minor infractions of security. He assured me that
this was a major covert funding source and that it was destroying our
country, but nobody is willing to take on such a lethal and powerful
group
to stop it. (--from the inside, that is. Many are now working to expose
the group, including CSETI whistleblowers, some of whom are ranking
defense and intelligence officials.) Quote from Disclosure, by Steven
M.
Greer M.D...
...witnessed between 5 and 7 large helicopters racing overhead at night
above my house two days after 9-11-01, heading from Travis Air Force
Base,
in Fairfield, CA, toward Beale Air Force Base, in Marysvillereported
site
of the X-22A, a two-man gravity manipulating vehicle that reportedly
carries a particle weapon...
...Daniel Hopsickers book, Welcome to Terrorland, which is the first to
expose a shocking web of narcotics traffickers at the Venice, FL
airport
where Mohammed Atta and other 911 attackers studied to be pilots...
FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds, in the months after the attack,
bumped
into the arms for drugs deals, she said in a recent interview with
http://www.BreakFornews.com. Edmonds alleged that the US State
Department
blocked investigations showing links between criminal drug trafficking
networks and the terror attacks on 9/11.
"Certain investigations were being quashed, let's say per State
Department's request, because it would have affected certain foreign
relations [or] affected certain business relations with foreign
organizations," she stated....
...US intelligence certainly knew that Atta and co-conspirators were in
the US for training, if not training under Saudi Air Force auspices, in
part. But, for some secret reason, Bush officials have repeatedly
threatened press, witnesses, officials, and more to shut up about their
stay in Venice, Floridasite of massive drug trafficking. The fact that
Bin
Laden controlled Afghanistan, location of Bush/Armitage-prized opium
fields, suggests that Bin Laden may have been given special protection
to
funnel opium to Bush cronies, in exchange for possible arms and
technology. This was before 9-11, of course, when opium and natural gas
were the biggest dollar value items on the Bush/Armitage agenda
regarding
Afghanistan.
So, why so much direct Bush implication in narcotics dealings? Because
narcotics is the most valued, most secretive cash crop on the planet,
because the money can be used to buy people off, to shut others up, to
fund secret programs and grease the palm of deep operatives whose
support
is necessary to get in on cash cows like Carlyle, BCCI, Saudi Arabia,
Noriega, Lansky, Columbia, Haiti, the MAJIC program, offshore finance,
and
much more. Perhaps most of all, such power can be used to literally
terrorize those who might object to the private use of government for
criminal purposes, in the first place---something more along the lines
of
Kitty Kellys remark about the Bushs resembling the Sopranos more than
Ozzie and Harriet.
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Surface Transportation Policy Project
http://transact.org
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"Megalopolis" - strings of major metro areas working together to plan
their
transportation futures and economic strategies
http://www.cuesfau.org/articles/article_details.asp?ArticleID=4359
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Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership
http://www.johnsoninstitute-gspia.org
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From:
Addictive, Expensive, Dangerous: The Great American Jobs Scam
by Neal Pierce
http://www.napawash.org/resources/peirce/Peirce_08_7_05.html
Call it, if you will, the crack cocaine of state and local governments
economic development practices -- their endless flow of tax breaks and
outright gifts to private corporations they either want to land, or
figure
they have to pay off to stay put.
Today the practice runs so deep, pervading such a huge number of
corporate
location moves, that officials -- even those who privately admit its an
insane, zero-sum system-- keep on forking out the cash, no matter how
incredibly costly the addiction...
As for WalMart, the worlds biggest corporation, LeRoy has totalled up
more
than $1 billion it had received from municipalities in brick-and-mortar
subsidies for its stores and warehouses -- public giveaways which end
up
throwing Main Street merchants out of business and feeding the sprawl
machine that befouls our air and drives up government costs.
A good chunk of the payoffs to WalMart, Home Depot, Target et al, LeRoy
reports, are based on enterprise zone and tax increment district
financing
laws that were originally designed to benefit lagging older cities, but
are now turned into subsidy machines to eviscerate historic communities
even further...
...Traffic congestion is costing our economy $67.5 billion a year;
thousands of bridges need replacement; wastewater systems are in bad
shape; almost 2,600 dams are now deemed unsafe; transit spending is far
below whats needed to maintain even the inadequate systems we now
have...
Its time, he assets, to take a fine-tooth comb to the $50 billion
states
and cities are now spending for corporate promises of jobs. Any subsidy
that doesnt serve compelling public need by creating more skilled
labor,
or doesnt provide a carrot for companies to invest in new skills
development, should go on a list for likely elimination.
It's time...for sweeping reform of the subsidy policies and to
recognize
them for what they are: wasteful handouts we can no longer afford...
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World Business Council for Sustainable Development
http://wbcsd.org
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A Livable Shade of Green
Newly released data show that Portland, America's environmental
laboratory,
has achieved stunning reductions in carbon emissions. It has...
http://www.sustainableportland.org
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City's Slip In Population Isn't All Bad News
It's conceivable that an innovation coming out of the universities
could
drive the development of a new industry that would create jobs and
attract residents, said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings
Institution, the think tank in Washington. Precedents, though, are few.
"In terms of propelling a declining place into a population growth
place,
there aren't that many examples of that happening," Frey said.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05191/535696.stm
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Competitors To Nuclear: Eat My Dust
In a market economy, private investors are the ultimate arbiter of what
energy technologies can compete and yield reliable profits, so to
understand nuclear power's prospects, just follow the money. Private
investors have flatly rejected nuclear power but enthusiastically
bought
its main supply-side competitors?_decentralized cogeneration and
renewables. Worldwide, by the end of 2004, these supposedly inadequate
alternatives (see graph) had more installed capacity than nuclear,
produced 92% as much electricity, and were growing 5.9 times faster and
accelerating, while nuclear was fading.
http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid1151.php
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Windmill Too Tall, Zoning Board Decides
Pine officials said electricity generated by the windmill could be used
to power a concession stand and a community center in the park, and
that
the windmill could pay for itself in 10 years. The township received a
$62,500 grant from the state Department of Environmental Protection's
Energy Harvest Program to cover half of the cost of the wind turbine.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05195/537254.stm
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Farmers Market Coming To Oakland
Oakland residents and workers with a taste for fresh, locally grown
produce can take advantage of a new farmers market on Fridays,
beginning
next week, from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Sennott Street, between
Meyran Avenue and Atwood Street. The market is a project of the Oakland
Business Improvement District and a variety of sponsors, including the
Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center and Carnegie Mellon University Studio for
Creative Inquiry, among others.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05190/535463.stm
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http://ufppc.org/
http://yesmagazine.org/
http://thememoryhole.org/
postcarbon.org
emagazine.com
saveourenvironment.org
http://www.holisticpittsburgh.com
http://www.sierraclub.org
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http://factsofwny.org/comms.htm
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> Please Post to PEN NET:
>
> For those of you who are able to view WTAE Channel 4 in Pittsburgh
there
> will be an airing of an investigative report done by reporter Paul
Van
> Osdol on Friday May 2, 2003 at 11 PM. The story is dealing with the
> people of Yukon,PA who live near the Max Environmental (formerly
known
> as Mill Service) Hazardous Waste Disposal Site. A number of PEN
members
> contributed to this story including Diana Steck, Dave Rupp, Ed
Collins,
> Joan Kodrin, and Dr. Dan Bolef.
> http://list.penweb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/penweb
MoveOnPGH
PGH-DemocracyForAmerica
http://mountainjusticesummer.org/
http://warincontext.org
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From:
View From Above
A harsh reminder of the price we pay for our way of life
by Linda Brinson 8/7/5
...Then the plane turned toward West Virginia...the ugly wound of a
mountaintop-removal coal mine came into view. The mines are so enormous
that
virtually the only way to see them in context is from above...
Clouds of dust rose where heavy equipment scraped away trees and top
soil
to lay bare one mountain's rock. Later, explosives would be used to
blast
away masses of rock to expose the seams of coal below. At some former
mountains, we saw monstrous machines called draglines that scoop away
the
blasted rock. As much as 800 or 1,000 feet of what was once a mountain
peak is dumped into narrow valleys, often burying streams and
threatening
watersheds. Some of these mines cover thousands of acres and more than
one
mountain. To call them strip mines is gross understatement.
We saw noxious-looking ponds, containing slurry left over from washing
coal - laced with heavy metals. Occasionally, a dam will break and
flood
the area below. This summer, activists have been protesting because
they
fear that a large slurry dam above Marsh Fork Elementary School in West
Virginia might fail.
"Most of the people here live in the 'hollers,' " Lapis said. "They are
subject to anything that happens above them." Increasingly, residents
complain about...coal dust, blasting, damage to watersheds, the threat
of
floods, decreased property values and the destruction of the area's
natural
beauty.
We flew over a "reclaimed" spent coal mine, a flat, barren expanse with
a few
scraggly trees. "There will never be a forest there again," Ayers said.
"There
is not enough soil."
...allows the companies to mine coal more cheaply, efficiently and
quickly,
employing fewer miners...
...knows that we need electricity. "But there are more responsible ways
to
mine coal...and we need to be doing a lot more to develop alternative
sources
of energy."
The image of the vast wastelands in West Virginia lingers in my mind
when
I flip on my electr...
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http://sustainablepittsburgh.org
http://inspiringteachers.com/
http://www.sustainablepittsburgh.org/NewFrontPage/3E_Links_Archive.html>
http://strauscom.com/links.html
http://www.rethinkingschoollunch.org
http://www.prisonplanet.com
http://www.almartinraw.com
ilsr.org
http://newrules.org
BCFacts.org
http://www.kyotoandbeyond.org
www.marcgunther.com
http://www.worthwhilemag.com
www.ams.usda.gov
Biocycle magazine.
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com
http://www.consortiumnews.com
http://Platform.For-Pgh.org
www.itrcweb.org
www.clu-in.org
http://www.brownfields2005.org
pe.com
http://www.cwwg.org
http://www.zmag.org
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/10929624.htm
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/10909206.htm
http://www.trivalleycares.org
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18604
www.tristatecitizens.org
http://www.gasp-pgh.org
sproutfund.org
www.smartgrowthpa.org
thebreakthrough.org
http://www.sacredchoices.org
planetizen.com
http://www1.worldbank.org/devoutreach/winter01/article.asp?id=97
sustainablepittsburgh.org
http://www.mv-voice.com/morgue/2005/2005_02_11.tce.shtml
www.pctv21.org
iisd.org
http://www.iisd.ca
http://www.ihe.nl
http://www.unops.org
http://www.cifor.cgiar.org
MANUAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: THE EU AND BRITAIN
http://www.mep-online.com
PUBLICATIONS ON HARVESTED WOOD PRODUCTS
http://unfccc.int/sessions/workshop/300804/reledocs.html
PROMOTING CITES-CBD COOPERATION AND SYNERGY
http://www.bfn.de/09/skript116.pdf
http://www.grain.org
http://www.iucn.org
http://www.unccd.int
http://www.rfebook.com
http://www.who.int
http://www.giwa.net
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Global International Waters
Assessment
http://www.wpcouncil.org
http://www.wetlandprofessionals.ihe.nl
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UNESCO Institute for Water Education
http://www.waterfootprint.org
...assessing 'water footprints' - the total volume of water that is
used to produce the goods and services consumed by the inhabitants of
the
nation...research results...links
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http://www.nosweat.org.uk
http://www.iisd.ca
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/calendar/calendar.htm
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International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for
Development
http://www.agassessment.org/index.html
http://www.undpingoconference.org/
http://www.wiltonpark.org.uk
ACTION AGAINST HUNGER AND POVERTY - WORLD LEADERS MEETING: 20 September
2004
http://www.mre.gov.br/ingles/politica_externa/temas_agenda/acfp
http://www.enviroinfo2004.org
http://www.world-tourism.org/sustainable
UN SYMPOSIUM ON HYDROPOWER AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:
http://unhsd.icold-cigb.org.cn/english.html
http://www.iac.wur.nl/iac
http://che-penn.org/
http://www.iac.wur.nl
http://www.conicyt.cl/IBS2004/
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies...together with the
National Institute for Environmental Studies
http://www.iges.or.jp/en/event/
http://www.worldlpgas.com
http://www.ipieca.org/downloads/climate_change/TCC_Workshop/Information.pdf
http://www.rio5.com
http://www.unece.org/trade/timber/docs/sem/2004-1/sem-2004-1.htm
http://www.international-alliance.org
barsk-rundquist@un.org; Internet: http://www.un.org/esa/forests
ternet: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/49sess.htm
FIRST INTERGOVERNMENTAL PLENARY OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT
http://www.agassessment.org/index.html
EIGHTH MEETING OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT...
http://www.unemg.org/download_pdf/EMG8/8_2agenda.pdf
http://www.mre.gov.br/ingles/politica_externa/temas_agenda/acfp/presentation.asp
http://www.gefweb.org/Whats_New/whats_new.html
20rldbank.org; Internet: http://www.imf.org/external/am/
om; Internet: http://www.ethicalcorp.com/asia2004
http://www.oecd.org/document/56/0,2340,en_2649_33763_32233656_1_1_1_1,00.html
http://www.aidharmonization.org/ah-wh/secondary-pages/Paris2005
http://www.silsoe.cranfield.ac.uk/iwe/projects/regulation/
http://www.wsscc.org/dakar
F Internet: http://www.ramsar.org
http://www.economistconferences.com/roundtable/public/con_common.asp?rtID=660&area=2&preview=&rtRegion=4&fprevrt=
International Water Management Institute; tel: +27-12-845-9100; e-mail:
b.vankoppen@cgiar.org; Internet:
http://www.nri.org/waterlaw/workshop.htm
AS ajit@chilika.com; Internet: http://www.aws2005.com/index.htm
Rsue.frye@ice.org.uk; Internet:
http://www.riverbasinmanagement2005.com/
INThttp://www.unesco.org/water/water_events/Detailed/814.shtml
International Institute for Sustainable Development
http://www.iisd.org
http://www.rethinkingschoollunch.org/
educationinnovations.org
http://strauscom.com/rodale
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Christian Associates of Southwest Pennsylvania
http://www.casp.org
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http://www.sustainablebusiness.com
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http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/112404_kennedy_insult.shtml
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http://smartwithheart.org
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CIS, the Community Information
System. It's a blockbuster of data so large you couldn't hold it in your
hands.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05355/625569.stm
Stronger farmers markets will make us healthier while preserving
landscapes and family farms
Saving verdant agricultural landscapes threatened by the urban sprawl
whose shopping malls and housing developments may have heightened the
downstream damage caused by Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Improving family
health through recognizing the part that fresh produce plays in
wholesome diets. If there is any one thread woven through all these
topics, it is that of farmers markets -- the occasional markets in
Pittsburgh and elsewhere through which local farmers with fresh farm
products interact with receptive city customers.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06004/631952.stm
http://www.fundersnetwork.org
http://www.greenbiz.com
"Indiscriminate economic development and
ecologically destructive policies have left many communities more
vulnerable to disasters than they realise," said the Washington-based
environmental group the Worldwatch Institute.
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World Business Council for Sustainable Development
http://www.wbcsd.org
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http://www.progress.org/archive/poverty4.htm
http://www.mlui.org
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Advanced Alternative Energy Corp
http://www.aaecorp.com
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use
> any of these fuel forms and others in either manual or automatic mode
to
> heat water, spaces or processes such as the drying of "Bio-Ball" fuels
or
> grain.
I hope this works out for you. Looks like a great way to go.
Jeff Davis
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From:
Nuclear salvation: ‘We’ve heard it before’
by Rosalie Bertell & Alexey Yablakov
http://www.catholicnewtimes.org/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=1&aid=254
...even though nuclear power did not emit sulfuric acid or its precursors, it did emit beta particles which reacted with the nitrogen in the air causing nitric acid. In fact, the atmospheric nuclear testing may well have been the original culprit bringing about the acid rain crisis....
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From:
Peace Making after Rio, 1992
by Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., GNSH
Originally published in the International Perspectives in Public Health Journal 1992
http://www.iicph.org/docs/peace_after_rio_1992.htm
...For me, the Rio summit was a way to engage the civilian economy in a massive effort to compensate for the excess of the military economy over the last 50 years.
Let us examine the major environmental problems: acid rain, ozone depletion, climate change, loss of topsoil, forest dieback, desertification and loss of tropical rainforest. These combined earth-illnesses have resulted in loss of species, increases in human allergies, asthma and cancers, and an increase in congenitally damaged children. If one stays only in the civilian sector when looking for the environmental culprits, one finds: fossil fuel generators, CFCs from refrigerators and air conditioners, automobiles, sewage and garbage disposal, plastic wrappings, etc. The «remedy» lies in the 3-R strategy: reduce, reuse and recycle, combined with legislation to reduce emissions. Individuals are counselled to not smoke, not eat fatty foods and not sit in the sun.
Let's look at the military reality:
Acid Rain: Did you know that nuclear explosions (and also emissions from nuclear generators) inject electrons (beta particles) into the air, causing interactions with nitrogen, oxygen and water vapour, to produce nitrates and nitric acid? The shift in the Northern Hemisphere's pH due to some 500 atmospheric nuclear explosions and 433 nuclear generators has never been estimated or even mentioned in the acid rain debate. Once the pH is reduced from 7 to 5, then the earth's ecosystem becomes vulnerable to any change in the acid rain. Preparation for nuclear war was probably a prominent component of the acid rain crisis, which threatens our lakes, fish, trees and our own respiratory tracks...
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http://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/bioconversion
http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/cwi/links.html
http://www.chinaworker.org
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...Richard Stanley of the Legacy Foundation promotes the partial rotting of
biomass as a means of increasing the binding of his simple whole biomass
"agriwaste" cooking briquettes. So simple organic compounds may be good
enough to glue other particles together.
Andrew Heggie...
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From: andrew
To: bioconversion@listserv.repp.org
Subject: Re: [Bioconversion] The Pond Scum Fireball
On Friday 23 December 2005 03:57, Jeff Davis wrote:
>
> At work, by the parking lot, we have a small pond used to collect rain
run
> off. This spring I was privy to observe just how fast algae can bloom.
There are many different sorts of algae, are you saying they are all oil
rich?
What are the growing conditions, I seem to remember them needing about
200W/m^2 of incident radiation, not available in UK at this time of year.
>
> Algae, having binder qualities hence no binder would have to be added
I like this, how much better to add such algae to a biomass pellet and
not
need the high pressures.
> the sky thinking, as of now. Furthermore it would be a plus if we
could
> remove the nutrients from the algae and return that to our algae pond
for
> further growth. I love circles!
Then a cycle with digestion rather than combustion may be more
sustainable?
>
> Possibly this would be a good way to store wind power. A windmill
could
> power full spectrum lights that are placed in the algae pond.
I suspect the conversion from wind to electricity to light would be very
lossy, if you have a big hill nearby pumping water up the hill and
having
electricity on demand by releasing water through a turbine would be more
sensible.
AJH
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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:02:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Mr Robert Marmaduke
To: bioconversion@listserv.repp.org
Subject: Re: [Bioconversion] The Pond Scum Fireball
Jeff:
You're on a good track! Serpentine ponds with
paddle wheels would move the young algae float
through the ponds into dense matts, where they
could be harvested and air dried for tilapia
feed, with a portion of the algae returned to
the head of the ponds to re-seed them.
The tilapia can be harvested and sold for $5
a pound as organic white fish. Heavy demand.
Wild MidWest fish are mercury-contaminated.
If you're in a corn-growing region, where the
corn can be fermented into ethanol, which is
growing by leaps and bounds for Clean Air biofuel.
The ethanol can be sold by 29,000 gallon tankcar
lots for $2 a gallon. Heavy demand.
The additional algae and tilapia entrails can
be mixed with spent mash cake as a protein-
supplemented cattle feed.
The cattle can be harvested and sold for $5
a pound as organic beef. Heavy demand.
The cattle manure could be anaerobically
digested for methane to power generators
to light the ponds, and to circulate them
to increase algae and tilapia production.
The stabilized manure would then fertilize
the algae ponds for increased production,
also can be used to fertilize the corn crop.
That and tilapia water itself can be routed into
a greenhouse and used to grow organic tomatoes
at $5 a pound. Heavy demand.
The manure solids and corn bagass can be
dried and used as hog-fuel to supplement-
heat the tilapia ponds and greenhouse,
along with the methane-powered lights.
They grow tilapia and tomatoes up in Canada.
End products of this 4W recycling concept:
Ethanol at $2/GAL
Organic Tilapia at $5/LB
Organic Beef at $5/LB
Organic Hothouse Tomatoes at $5/LB
Anywhere in the MidWest that grows corn,
has flowing water, and is within truck-
farming strike of a metropolitan market.
Now you're talking some serious green!
For more information, see Anthae.com.
Robert Marmaduke
--- Jeff Davis wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> Algae, pond scum, has been recognized for it
> abilities to produce oil for
> the manufacture of biodiesel. Also, lately, it�s
> been found that algae can
> be shocked in to producing hydrogen, instead of
> oxygen. Moreover algae
> show a great ability to have rapid growth rates.
>
> At work, by the parking lot, we have a small pond
> used to collect rain run
> off. This spring I was privy to observe just how
> fast algae can bloom.
> Within a few days the pond was taken over by this
> growth of algae! Before
> the farmers could even think about planting their
> crops, these algae could
> have been harvested. It would be 6 weeks before I
> could start to plant my
> first experimental switchgrass field
>
> When used for biodiesel the algae must be pressed in
> order to extract up
> to 75% of the oil. If more is desired, a solvent is
> used to extract up to
> 99 % of the oil. The production of hydrogen via
> algae is still
> experimental and the hydrogen would still need to be
> compressed if used in
> mobile devices like the auto.
>
> Algae, having binder qualities hence no binder would
> have to be added in
> order to produce �The Pond Scum Fireball�.
However
> as of date I have not
> been able to test this. Can�t wait to get my hands
> on some algae and try
> it out. After the Fireballs were manufactured, they
> could be gasified in a
> gasifier. This way we also would be able to benefit
> from algae, not just
> the biodiesel and hydrogen people but also the
> gasifier people.
> Furthermore our producer gas is a hydrogen rich gas.
>
> Problems with sustainability would have to be looked
> into, like nitrogen
> and phosphorous etc.
>
> With stationary combustion of the Fireball, either
> in a gasifier or direct
> combustion, it would behoove us if we could scrub
> the CO2 from our exhaust
> and deposit it into our algae pond. Algae will need
> a lot of CO2, for
> rapid growth. It also absorbs nitrogen oxides. It
> would also be to our
> benefit if we could cover the pond with a plastic
> membrane and harvest the
> oxygen that the algae produces, somewhat like how
> the hydrogen is
> harvested, and use that oxygen to feed our gasifier.
> This would produce a
> richer fuel. BUT I do not know if this is possible,
> this is just pie in
> the sky thinking, as of now. Furthermore it would be
> a plus if we could
> remove the nutrients from the algae and return that
> to our algae pond for
> further growth. I love circles!
>
> Possibly this would be a good way to store wind
> power. A windmill could
> power full spectrum lights that are placed in the
> algae pond. This would
> help promote growth. Also, some algae ponds are
> covered with a green house
> to help keep them warm. If one needed to make char,
> say for a Fireball
> additive, the heat and CO2 from the burned off
> gasses could be placed in
> the algae pond.
>
> Just some algae food for thought!
>
>
>
> --
> Jeff Davis
>
> Some where 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA
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http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=429501541111
Information: www.pano.org/benefits_health.php.
http://www.prc.org
http://www.econclubpgh.org
http://www.ucsur.pitt.edu/Benchmarks%20Women%27s%202004.htm
ttp://www.gatewaynewspapers.com
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ity gets first payment from nonprofit coalition
The chairman of a coalition of nonprofit organizations said yesterday
that it had wired $4.57 million to the city of Pittsburgh, fulfilling
the first part of a three-year pledge. The Pittsburgh Public Service
Fund has promised $13.25 million over three years. The initial
contribution is for last year. Payments will be quarterly from here on.
"This is truly a voluntary gift," said the Rev. Ron Lengwin, chairman of
the fund and spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh.
"A lot of these organizations have tight budgets," he said. "They saw a
city that was in crisis and in great need and wanted to help."
The fund released a list of 102 donating organizations, but not the
amounts each was donating.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06005/632763.stm
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http://www.reflector.com
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Cars don't always spell mobility.
"London shocked the world with the huge success of its congestion
pricing policy, which charges drivers a hefty fee to enter the city
center. Madrid has tamed its famously unruly traffic with aggressive
implementation of pedestrian streets and other measures to keep cars
from ruining neighborhoods. And Rome, the butt of so many jokes about
impossible traffic and insane drivers, has reduced traffic by 25 percent
in its center -- an initiative that has become the model for Paris, a
city usually looked to as the urban ideal."
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/30057/
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A Conversation [about biodiesel] with Nathaniel Doyno
If you're stuck in traffic on Penn Avenue and the distinct odor of fried
foods wafts into your window from the exhaust pipe of a nearby pimpin'
deep-blue Mercedes 300D Turbo, you're riding behind 22-year-old
Wilkinsburg resident Nathaniel Doyno, founding partner of the fledgling
non-profit operation Steel City Biofuels.
nathaniel@steelcitybiofuels.org.
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/archive.cfm?type=Local%20Vocal&action=
getComplete&ref=5425
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http://ukinet.com/english.htm
http://www.granta.com/books/chapters/780
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http://www.motherjones.com
======
From:
Let's play 'Who Said That?!'
by Bob Cesca 1/6/5
http://www.realitybasednation.com/blog-archives/2005/01/lets_play_who_s.html
"These so-called ill-treatments and this torturing... were not, as assumed,
inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual leaders,
subleaders, and men who laid violent hands on internees...It is obvious that
there were elements among them who would ill-treat internees, but this
ill-treatment was never tolerated."...
Nazi Auschwitz Kommandant Rudolf Hoess during the Nuremberg Trials
testimony on Monday, April 15, 1946
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/hoesstest.html
======
Bush Plans Sharp Cuts in HUD Community Efforts
by Jonathan Weisman 1/14/5
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7862-2005Jan13.html?sub=AR
======
It used to be considered the voters' right to know the health of
candidates.
===
From:
Cardiac kids
by Dan Kennedy
...speculation about Bush's and Cheney's health...
Boston Phoenix
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/dont_quote_me/multi-page/documents/04383304.asp
Does George W. Bush sometimes wear a portable defibrillator? Is Dick
Cheney suffering from congestive heart failure?...
...that bulge seen under his jacket...newspaper item that suggested the
vice-president's feet have gotten bigger by noting that swelling of the
feet is a well-known symptom of congestive heart failure. Given Cheney's
delicate cardiac health (four heart attacks, plus an internal
defibrillator that was implanted in 2001), Marshall's speculation would
appear, at the very least, to rise to the level of a real possibility. It
goes without saying, I suppose, that the White House press office did not
return my call seeking comment...
...value to certain types of non-nutty Internet speculation that the
mainstream media, for the most part, refuse to touch...
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sunshine-project.org
http://www.moveon.org
http://antiwar.com
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Mennonite Central Committee
http://www.mcc.org/
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www.cloakanddagger.ca
www.skolnicksreport.com
http://www.rense.com/general51/coa.htm
www.gallerize.com
http://under.betaland.net
www.gracepublicfund.org
http://www.propagandamatrix.com
http://funkspace.com/
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Jim Hightower
http://www.hightowerlowdown.org
...What would Jesus vote? Republican!
Blessed are the rich
for they shall inherit the earth...
======
From:
First they came for the terrorists...
by Thom Hartmann
thomhartmann.com
======
Order Out of Chaos
by Paul Joseph Watson
http://www.store.yahoo.com/infowars-shop/pauljoswator.html
...tactics used to centralize power and coerce societies are still being
used today...
[sample chapter]
http://www.infowars.com/pdfs/order_ch.PDF
prisonplanet.com
...Paul Joseph Watson uses mainstream media reports to exhaustively
document how governments are exploiting and even carrying out terrorist
attacks to further ...
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Exposing the New World Order and...Endless Fake Terror Alerts: Fear Based
Mind Control...The ultimate form of control is fear...
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/counterfeit_foe.html
From:
Counterfeit Foe - The Ultimate Hegelian Dialectic
by Paul Joseph Watson
If you haven't recognised the following fact then I suggest you do a little
research and deal with it. Governments, ruling oligarchies, dictatorships
subtle and overt, history time and again create their own enemies. They
need to manufacture enemies to indefinitely hoodwink the real enemy, the
people they govern.
A young and weak empire needs the genuine support of its people because the
threat from real outsiders is immediate. A vast, sprawling, decadent empire
has swallowed up all its outside enemies and...
... Hermann Goering, president of the Reichstag, Nazi Party, and Luftwaffe
Commander in Chief:
"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in
England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after
all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is
always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a
democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist
dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the
bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they
are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."...
======
www.propagandamatrix.com/ endless_fake_terror_alerts.html
...speeches and conversations with Alex Jones, Congressman Ron Paul,
Colonel Craig Roberts, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney ...
www.prisonplanet.com/order_out_of_chaos.html
...ENDLESS FAKE TERROR ALERTS: FEAR BASED MIND CONTROL. By: Paul Joseph
Watson...writer and researcher based in Sheffield, England...
www.etherzone.com/2003/wats021703.shtml
======
From:
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space (Brunswick, Maine)
http://www.space4peace.org
REPORT ON TRIP TO FLORIDA
1/13/5
...Emmanuel Mennonite Church in Gainesville and organized my speech at her
church on January 7 that was attended by people from several different
churches and peace groups. My talk at Eve's church was entitled the "Battle
for America's Soul" and I raised the question what does it say about our
nation's soul when weapons are our number one industrial export?...
Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
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EMR (electromagnetic radiation) Policy Institute
http://www.emrpolicy.org/
======
Group Against Smog and Pollution
hydrogen resources
http://www.gasp-pgh.org/hydrogen.html
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http://www.citizenscampaign.org/
http://www.cectoxic.org
http://www.kodakstoxiccolors.org
http://www.worldcongress.com
http://buzzflash.com/
http://warincontext.org
http://war-times.org/
http://www.realitybasednation.com/blog-archives/2004/12/video_comedy.html
http://www.freepress.net/links/links.php?issue=
http://www.hereinreality.com/hinckley.html
======
about self-censorship:
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/01/people-would-laugh-at-us.html
======
http://www.realitybasednation.com/blog-archives/2004/12/video_comedy.html
zmag.org
http://www.jubileesouth.org
http://www.jubileeusa.org
...grassroots nongovernmental organizations...that are not only doing key
relief work but are also empowering local communities and providing a
crucial counterweight to the often corrupt and brutal governments of the
most affected countries...:
East Timor Action Network
http://www.etan.org/action/action2/23alert.htm
Via Campesina
http://www.viacampesina.org/art_english.php3?id_article=500
American Friends Service Committee
http://www.afsc.org/give/asia-relief.htm
MADRE
http://www.madre.org/programs/appeal/tsunami.html
United for Peace and Justice
http://www.unitedforpeace.org
http://www.thomasmertoncenter.org
http://www.womensindependentpress.com
www.davidcogswell.com/MediaRoulette/BushHinckley.html
prisonplanet.com/articles/june2004/060604bushcabal.htm
www.rense.com/general45/hink.htm
www.independent-media.tv
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4727/
http://paranoia.lycaeum.org/war.on.drugs/misc/cia.and.dope
http://www.skolnicksreport.com/blackmailer.html
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http://news.phaseiii.org
http://www.themedianews.com/DAGGER/Stefan/September.Terrorists.htm
http://www.spyman.ca/
http://www.warrencommission.com/home.htm
http://www.warrencommission.com/indexold.htm
http://www.mcluhaninstitute.org/
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Slaves of the 21st Century: Slavic au pairs in humanitarian London
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/aupairs.htm
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From:
Neighborhood Bully
Ramsey Clark on American Militarism
an interview by DERRICK JENSEN
http://www.thesunmagazine.org/bully.html
...what LA's maintaining its excellent mass-transit system would have done
to the petrochemical industry and the automobile industry, with all of
their accessories - tires, parts, and so on. Capital promotes activities
from which its owners can reap enormous profits. It does not matter if
those activities are detrimental to living beings or communities...
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food self-reliance
The Edible School Yard
http://resurgence.gn.apc.org/readhome.htm
Center for Ecoliteracy
http://www.ecoliteracy.org
http://www.ecoliteracy.org/pages/foodsystemsproject.html
...Food Policy...create a garden in every school...
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http://www.joseph-jenkins.com/books_humanure.html
http://www.airamericaradio.com/listen.asp
www.sojo.net
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The Ten-Point Plan for Good Jobs and Energy Independence
http://www.apolloalliance.org/strategy_center/a_bold_energy_and_jobs_policy/ten_point_plan.cfm
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American Indian
http://www.sacredland.org/resources.html
http://ili.nativeweb.org
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/aminweb/symposium_webpage.html
http://www.winnememwintu.us
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Institute for Policy Studies
http://www.ips-dc.org/
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http://ariannaonline.com/link/index.php
http://www.healthyschools.org
Green Party of Allegheny County
http://www.gpoac.org/links.htm
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biotech
www.beyondgenome.com
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
http://www.unesco.org
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http://democrats.org/
http://www.freepress.org/index2.php
http://misleader.org
http://www.drenchkiss.com
http://www.SanderHicks.com
www.williambowles.info/911/911_dirty_work.html
http://www.anomalynews.com/phorum/read.php?f=4&i=68&t=68
http://goldismoney.info/forums/showthread.php?t=13665
http://www.feminist.org
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Boeing Scandal Part of Deeper Pentagon Corruption
by David Phinney
Military contractors like Boeing, Halliburton and Lockheed, have become
increasingly embedded with the Pentagon bureaucrats who give them lucrative
work as the jailing of Darleen Druyun, a former U.S. Air Force weapons
buyer, demonstrates.
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11780
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Seven Stories Press publishes "Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation."...
www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.asp?id=307
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www.wanttoknow.info/911information
www.anomalynews.com
www.onlinejournal.com
www.globalresearch.ca
www.williambowles.info/911/911_dirty_work.html
www.smirkingchimp.com
www.libertythink.com
www.codepinkalert.org
http://ashoka.org
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Lawmakers Call on President to Stop Covert Propaganda
http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/05/01/ale05007.html
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http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk
http://www.southasiadisasters.net/
www.mollyrush.com
www.uwm.edu/MilwaukeeIdea/CEO/brownfields/bibliography/index.html
www.greenwatchusa.org
Biggest Missed Story of 2004:
Pennsylvania #1 in Cancer Hazards from Manufacturing
http://lakes.chebucto.org/VIEW/ICON/smokestacks.jpg
http://lakes.chebucto.org/INFO/GLOBAL_WARMING/kyoto.html
http://scorecard.org/env-releases/facility.tcl?tri_id=19612CRPNT101WB
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=8-1594200297-0
Democracy Matters:
Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
Cornel West
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=8-1583226281-0
www.mindfully.org
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Pennsylvania Observer Blog
http://pennsylvaniaobserver.blogspot.com
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excerpt
Kill Zone
A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza
by Craig Roberts
http://hiddenmysteries.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16576
Excerpt:
Page 46-47
According to Fletcher Prouty, "After the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy decided he
would change the entire structure of how this government would carry out
covert operations...
"Kennedy was changing the status quo, from Big Business to the military;
from disgruntled intelligence agents to Cubans and their supporters...
Kennedy had to go. The mechanism was in place."...
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http://www.democraticunderground.com
http://www.democraticunderground.com/links/pages/
ttp://democracyrising.us
http://afterdowningstreet.org
impeachbush.org
irangate.net
From: Rachel Filippini
according to the
40mpg.org/CSI
Green Power and Market Research News
http://www.wapa.gov/es/greennews/
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Environmental Quality Institute, http://orgs.unca.edu/eqi/
[3] Volunteer Water Information Network,
http://orgs.unca.edu/eqi/vwin.htm
[4] HBN's Arsenic Testing Kits,
http://www.goemerchant1.com/index.cgi?ST=&Merchant=instituteforlocalselfreliance2&PageToView=catalog&Department=46303
[5] "All Hands on Deck" Environmental Working Group (2002)
http://www.ewg.org/reports/allhandsondeck/
[9] "2005 In Review: The Year PVC Phase-Out Went Mainstream" (Healthy
Building News, December 21, 2005)
http://www.healthybuilding.net/news/pvc-122105.html
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Ken Zeleny
sTo: Rebecca Marquette
Subject: Mark your calendars
1/13/2006 7:00pm " The Other War for Oil: Columbia"
Pittsburgh Mennonite Church
Description: Human rights and labor attorney and activist Dan
Kovalick will be giving a lecture on US military aid to Columbia,
Columbia's conflicts and its affect on labor organizers, specifically in
the three lawsuits he is bringing against Coca Cola, Drummand Coal and
Occidential Petroleum for human rights violations in their operations in
Columbia. Event is free and open to the public.
I urge you all to attend! Please bring your family and friends!
Sponsored by the Mission & Service Commission and Maria Roberts of
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New Alchemy Institute, Dorothy and Albert Bates
http://www.y2kcrisis2000.com/y2kc4.html
http://www.brevardeco.org/library.html#My
npk http://www.brevardeco.org/archives/carbon/carbon.html
http://www.brevardeco.org/archives/truth/truth.html
re Apollo 13 near-accident: http://www.iki.rssi.ru/solar/eng/apo13.htm
"...There was, of course, a fix; and it came in the form of an ingenious
combination of suit hoses, cardboard, plastic
stowage bags, and CSM canisters - all held together with a liberal
application of grey duct tape..."
Doylestown Community Fellowship http://www.dcf.org/DCF/y2k.htm
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david@bloom.org>
Reply-To: Feedback@worldwar4report.com
http://www.ww4report.com
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From: Pittsburgh SWP
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http://plenty.org
...Plenty's work in the Gulf and a report from Chuck and Casta Haren who are in Guatemala about the aftermath of the mudslides caused by
Hurricane Stan...we've been scrambling at Plenty to respond wherever we can while continuing to support our Central American Food Security Initiative partners, along with Plenty Belize, Kids To The Country and the work we've been assisting at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
What's been gratifying is to find that the time-honored magic still
works, that when you reach out past your own strength and resources
to lend a hand, you are given what you need and then some. Through it
all we've found old partners who've stepped up to bridge gaps, and
new partners who've expanded our field of vision and ability to
identify and fill needs. The network of big-hearted and like-minded
individuals and organizations who have come out of the wood work to
shoulder some of the load in every corner of every project Plenty is
involved with has been simply awe inspiring-something to behold and
something to build on because the secret of empowering the powerless
is all about working together, cooperation and coalitions. When you
don't have the big bucks, your wealth is in your friends and allies
and in the great pure heart of the effort you are able make together,
and the healing love it produces. While we mourn for the victims of
natural and unnatural disasters and rail at the incompetence and
corruption of governments and bureaucracies, we are made hopeful by
the extraordinary outpouring of help by ordinary folks who get up and
create miracles.
Over in the column of disheartening news comes word that the
unnatural disaster of hunger is continually spreading. We read in the
New York Times that in 2004, "38 million Americans - including nearly
one in five children - lived in households that found it difficult to
afford food, 6 million more than in 1999." And while we're digesting
this sad fact, our Congress is voting to cut food stamps for 200,000
American citizens living in poverty. Meanwhile, down in the
Mississippi and Louisiana Delta communities thousands of people are
homeless, hungry, cold and mostly forgotten except by their families
and hundreds of mainly poor and certainly underfunded grassroots
volunteer groups and individuals out there doing whatever they can to
help.
The recent report titled The State of Food Insecurity in the World
2005 by the respected Food and Agriculture organization of the UN
(FAO), makes clear the debilitating and mutually compounding
relationship between hunger and poverty. In its earliest days, Plenty
learned about what we once described as the many-spoked "wheel of
poverty" that rolls over the backs of the poor. The FAO report places
hunger at the hub of that wheel and describes the spokes emanating
from that wheel as "impaired maternal and infant health," " weakened
immune systems and rising child mortality," "less education and
employment for women and girls," and "unsustainable use of natural
resources."
This is the wheel of a vicious cycle, and one that we have witnessed
first-hand time and again since we first launched the ship we call
Plenty in order to do something about it. The longer we're at it, the
more we have focused our efforts on sustainable food and agriculture
projects, to get the food production resources in the hands of the
people while expanding awareness of the importance of good nutrition.
Reduced hunger and better nutrition, in turn, as FAO describes,
produce better maternal and child health, lowered child mortality,
increased productivity and income which ease the grip of poverty and
reduce negative pressures on the environment-all of which creates a
wheel of well-being and sustainability.
So hopefully as we roll out of this unusually challenging year, we
will roll into the next one stronger, wiser, more alert, better
prepared, and arm in arm with new friends, allies and partners
inspired by the realization of how much more we can do together.
Together. That's the magic word, isn't it? Without you, there's not
nearly enough; with you there's plenty.
Yours truly,
Peter Schweitzer
Executive Director
http://plenty.org
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Ders a Winda at My Haus B
London Bridge Is Falling Down
Ders a winda at my haus
At my haus, at my haus
Ders a winda at my haus
It needs warshin.’
Mt. Worshington of the West E
America the Beautiful
Mt.Worshington, Mt. Worshington, it rilly is the best
The Canyon Grand, yinz unnerstand zOK for yinz aht West
But wader-wise we take the prize
No trickle is the Mon
We like the view of DahnTahn too
Now that the soot is gone.
Streetcars Don’t Go to S’Liberty u
Ther’ Once Was a Farmer
Ther’ once was a streetcar, it went everywhere;
To Norside and Sahside for jist a small fare.
It went from DahnTahn to S’Liberty way,
Yid transfer an’ ‘en ya cood ride for a day
And ye’d go out to the end of the line
Yid visit yer frenz an’ be back right on time.
But now der’s a T to the Village ‘n’ back,
Can’t go nowhere else, ther’s a lack of a track
But Sauth Hillies thi-ink they go-ot the best
Unless they shud wanna go East er go West.
An’ that’s why Picksburgh’s such a great tawn,
Ya never can tell if yer up or yer down.
Dirty Ol’ DahnTahn C
Bye, Bye Blackbird
Dahntahn Picksburgh’s lost th’ stores
Gimbels, Hornes’ve shut ther doors
Bye, Bye Kaufmann’s
Fith ‘n’ Smithfield’s goin’ dahn
Shuttered stores all over tahn
Bye, Bye Kaufmann’s.
No one here to sell ya wigs or flahrs
Homeless people while away the haurs
Pick th’ candy wrappers up,
An’ at dirty coffee cup,
Murphy, bye bye.
Der’s Plastick on My Caach â
On Top of Old Smoky
The pop and the ice cream
The Clark Bars, too
Stick to the cushions
Can’t sit on the goo
Then ahr dog he jumps up
and ca-an’t get dahn
Beca-ause his ass sticks õ
To the caach he’s up on
That’s why we got plastics
Ahr caach now’s so neat
It’s rilly fantastik
But ya stick to thuh seat
Gumban’ Blues &
Found a Peanut
Shot a gumban, Shot a gumban,
Shot a gumban in the air
Just now it went a-flyin’ to a place
I know not where
Now the teacher, now the teacher’s
givin’ me a nasty glare
Oh I see now where it landed,
ri-ight on the teacher’s hair
I’m in trouble, I’m in trouble, I’ll be
stayin’ after school
And she’ll beat me, yes she’ll beat me
with the go-olde-en rule.
It’s Slippy Near the Spicket Û
London Bridge
Water’s drippin’ from the sink, from
the sink, from the sink
On her ass she’ll fall I think, my fair lady
All she wanted was a drink, jes a drink,
’s’ what I think,
All she wanted was a drink, my fair lady
Now the wader’s on the floor, on the floor, on the floor
Shoulda told her what’s in store - but this lady
Went ahead and wrenched her back,
drenched her slacks, then went black
When she woke the pipes they cracked, poor ole lady.
So when you see a little drip, get a wrench, it’s a cinch
Fix the spicket, if you won’t, pleese don’t blame me
Ain’t No Primanti’s Here ä
All through the Night
Wherz the french fries,
Wherz the cole slaw,
Can’t find it here.
Need my sangwich
It’s a Burgh thing
‘long with my beer
O Primanti’s, how I need ya
I don’t care what else they feed ya
Give me my Primanti speshul
‘n’I’ll be awright
Danny Boy õ
[Danny Boy] Oh Danny Boy
Ole Layla was a-callin’
From den to bath
All o-er the haus she cried
Her food is gone
And Daddy’s aht a partyin’
And Mum’s at work
And so she must abide.
Oh they’ll come home
At midnight or at one or two
And then she’ll yodel,
Jump and bite yer face
You’ll laugh an’ cry
And tell her that you love her
And then she’ll know
she sti-ill runs the place.
The Christmas Edition
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THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IS HAPPY TO SHARE
THESE NEWS AND RESOURCES FROM THE FIELD
December 20, 2005
URL: http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/asap/orgconf/
FARMING FOR PROFIT AND STEWARDSHIP CONFERENCE
January 13-14, 2006, Hagerstown, MD
The 7th annual conference will bring together outstanding farmers,
nationally known researchers and experienced educators in the field of
sustainable agriculture. Two new pre-conference workshops will run from
9:30 am to noon on Friday. "Value Added Products? and "Taking Research
into Your Own Hands" More info at:
http://www.futureharvestcasa.org/conf.html
ECO-FARM 2006: SAVORING CONNECTIONS FROM SEED TO TABLE
January 25-28, 2006, Pacific Grove, California
Eco-Farm features prominent keynote speakers and more than 50 workshops
on the latest advances in agricultural production, marketing, research,
and important issues.
URL: http://www.eco-farm.org/efc_05/aboutefc.html
MIDWEST VALUE ADDED CONFERENCE: ENHANCING PROFIT ON THE FARM
January 27-28, 2006, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
At this annual conference, learn from those who have explored new ways
of marketing their products. URL:
http://www.rivercountryrcd.org/valad.htm
NOFA-NY ORGANIC FARMING & GARDENING CONFERENCE
January 27-29, 2006, Syracuse/Liverpool, NY
Cooperation: with Nature, with Neighbors, with Local Economies. More
info here: http://nofany.org/events.html#conference06
FARMING FOR THE FUTURE CONFERENCE
February 2-4, 2006, State College, PA
The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) will
celebrate the 15th anniversary of its Farming for the Future conference
with the theme "Weaving a Diverse Landscape: Food as a Common Thread."
More info: http://www.pasafarming.org/conferences/confinfo.htm
FARMING WITH VALUES THAT LAST CONFERENCE
February 24-26, 2006, Mount Pleasant, PA
The agenda includes practical workshops, inspiring singing, solid
worship and warm fellowship for people of faith interested in
sustainable farming and healthy food. A conference flier is online at
www.laurelville.org/pdfs/06 SF web.pdf
NORTHEAST SUSTAINABLE LIVESTOCK CONFERENCE
March 6-7, 2006, Fairlee, VT
This two-day conference will include topics on energy, soils, crops,
finances, grazing, animal health, and marketing. More info at:
http://www.nofavt.org/event.php?e_id=381
COMMUNITY FOOD SECURITY COAL. EVALUATION PROGRAM WORKSHOP
March 13-15, 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana
This is a comprehensive, interactive, two-and-a-half-day workshop
focused on outcome-based evaluation strategies, tools, analysis and
results and designed expressly for Community Food Project (CFP) grantees
and other CFP practitioners.
http://foodsecurity.org/eval_wkshp2006.html
More Events:
http://www.sustainableagriculture.net/scripts/calendar/calendar.cgi
and http://attra.ncat.org/calendar/.
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
ILLINOIS RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT FUND
The Illinois Finance Authority (IFA) will work with community banks and
lenders to provide loans and loan guarantees to qualified farmers and
farmer co-operatives who construct wind turbines for use as alternative
energy.
http://www.illinois.gov/PressReleases/ShowPressRelease.cfm?SubjectID=3&RecNum=4446
GRADUATE STUDENT GRANT PROGRAM
North Central Region (NCR) SARE has issued a call for proposals in the
Graduate Student Grant Program. Approximately $150,000 will be available
to fund 15 to 16 grant projects, with individual grants not to exceed $10,000.
Proposals are due January 10, 2006. URL:
http://www.sare.org/ncrsare/cfp.htm
PRIVATE STEWARDSHIP GRANTS PROGRAM
The Private Stewardship Program provides grants and other assistance on
a competitive basis to individuals and groups engaged in local, private,
and voluntary conservation efforts that benefit federally listed,
proposed, or candidate species, or other at-risk species. Proposal must
include at least 10 percent cost sharing on the part of the landowner or
other non-Federal partners involved in the project. Grant proposals
must be submitted to regional offices. Proposals are due January 23,
2006. URL:
http://www.fws.gov/endangered/grants/private_stewardship/index.html
NEW YORK FARMLAND PROTECTION IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT GRANTS
Proposals for funding will be accepted from only: (1) county
agricultural and farmland protection boards in counties with an approved
county plan developed pursuant to Section 324 of Article 25-AAA of the
Agriculture and Markets Law; or (2) any municipality which has in place
a local farmland protection plan, provided the proposed project is
endorsed for funding by the agricultural and farmland protection board
for the county in which the municipality is located. Local match, equal
to at least 25 percent of the total project required. Proposals are due
January 23, 2006. URL: http://www.agmkt.state.ny.us/RFPS.html
TEACHING AND RESEARCH CAPACITY BUILDING GRANTS PROGRAM
The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
requests applications for the for fiscal year 2006 to stimulate the
development of high quality teaching and research programs at 1890 Land-Grant
Institutions and Tuskegee University and West Virginia State University
to build their capacities. Estimated total program funding is $12.4
million. Proposals are due January 31, 2006. URL:
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/1890_capacity.html
SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PROGRAM: PHASE II
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is soliciting research proposals
under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, Fiscal Year
2006. New this year for SBIR is a Small and Mid Sized Farms topic area.
Projects dealing with agriculturally related manufacturing technology
are encouraged across all 2006 SBIR topic areas. Estimated total program
funding is $19.4 million. Proposals are due February 2, 2006.
URL: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/fundview.cfm?fonum=1222
WI AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND DIVERSIFICATION GRANTS
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection's
Agricultural Development and Diversification (ADD) Grant Program
invites proposals for projects that are likely to stimulate Wisconsin's
agricultural economy through the development and exploration of new
value-added products, new markets, or new technologies in agriculture.
Currently, the program has $380,000 to award to projects with a maximum
grant amount of $50,000. Proposals are due March 15, 2006. URL:
http://datcp.state.wi.us/mktg/business/marketing/val-add/add/index.jsp
USDA ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF FOOD STAMP OUTREACH GRANTS
The purpose of these grants is to implement and study effective
strategies to inform and educate potentially eligible low income people
not currently participating in the FSP about the nutrition benefits of
the Food Stamp Program, eligibility rules, and how to apply. Optional
letters of intent are due January 6, 2006. Proposals are due April 3,
2006.
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&contentid=2005/11/0512.xml
PEST MANAGEMENT ALTERNATIVES PROGRAM
Supports projects that develop and implement integrated pest management
practices, tactics and systems for specific pest problems while reducing
human and environmental risks. Proposals are due February 1, 2006.
URL:
http://fedgrants.gov/Applicants/USDA/CSREES/OEP/USDA-GRANTS-120605-001/Grant.html
KENTUCKY 2006 AGRI-TOURISM COMPETITIVE AWARDS PROGRAM
Kentucky will make available $1 million in state funds for the 2006 Agri-tourism
Competitive Awards Program. All projects require a 50% match from the
applicant.
Proposals are due February 1, 2006.
URL: http://agpolicy.ky.gov/funds/award_programs_agritourism.shtml
More Funding Opportunities: http://attra.ncat.org/funding/
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IN THE NEWS
2007 FARM BILL PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD TO CLOSE DECEMBER 30TH
The window of opportunity for commenting on the shape of the next
federal Farm Bill will soon be shut, at least for this part of the
process. The USDA began accepting public comments on the priorities of
the next Farm Bill last spring and has since been crisscrossing the
country organizing Farm Bill listening sessions. Those who were not
able to attend a public forum can still be part of the process by
submitting their comments online here: http://www.usda.gov/farmbill (click
on ?Farm Bill 2007 Official Comments? in right sidebar)
SWISS APPROVE 5-YEAR GMO FARMING BAN
In a national referendum, Swiss voters adopted a five-year moratorium on
GMO crops and the import of genetically modified animals, reports
Reuters. The measure approved by 55 percent of voters is one of the
toughest stances in Europe on GMOs. In related news covered by
EUobserver (http://euobserver.com/9/20431), Austria has said it will
launch a European Union-wide debate on GMOs when it takes over EU's
rotating presidency in January. Austria already has a ban of its own on
GMO plants.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2005-11-27T135520Z_01_MOL749996_RTRUKOC_0_US-FOOD-SWISS-GMO.xml&archived=False
PROGRAM LINKS PRODUCERS AND GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
The National Association of Conservation Districts and the Natural
Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) are joining forces with the
National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) and the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service on the "Walk a Mile in My Boots" initiative. The
program is a work-exchange program between agriculture producers and
government employees that was developed by NCBA and FWS in 2003. Farmers
and ranchers participating in exchanges will visit field offices and/or
state and national offices. URL:
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/feature/volunteers/walkamile.html
NATIVE FOODS FIND NEW GENERATION OF SUPPORT
An article in The New York Times reports on fledgling efforts across the
nation to revive American Indian foods. Chefs nationwide are beginning
to incorporate native foods--wild rice, squash, beans, corn, Pacific
salmon, bison, and persimmons, for example--into their menus. Several
projects are encouraging a return to traditional agriculture and
foodstuffs, including the White Earth Land Recovery Project, Native
Seeds/SEARCH, and Renewing America's Food Traditions (RAFT).
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/23/dining/23nati.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1132776114-HquVyavIZTDI8wVn6MiLww
UPSTATE NY GRASSFED FARMERS CREATE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
The program, created by the members of MADE in Schoharie County, a
community coalition of pasture-based livestock farmers based in
Schoharie County, aims to train its first class of interns in every
aspect of sustainable meat production from hoof to plate. The program
will run from Mid-May through Mid-August. Students who have a high
school degree and some college experience are encouraged to apply. To
learn more, visit www.grassfedinterns.com, or by calling Carol Clement
at (518) 239-6234.
MILK TO CHEESE PILOT PROJECT SHUT DOWN
On October 26, 2005, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) abruptly
ended an 18-month experiment in which a local anti-hunger organization
exchanged government surplus nonfat dry milk for cheese to feed the
needy. The Hunger Task Force of Milwaukee (HTFM) was told to end its
relationship with Alto Dairy Cooperative in Waupun, WI, which received
the powdered milk, kept some as a form of compensation, and turned the
rest into 20,000 pounds of cheese a month that was distributed in low-income
neighborhoods in Milwaukee. USDA discontinued the project because it
claimed that the cheese giveaway decreased demand for and sales of
nonfat dry milk and that surplus stocks had been reduced. The
termination of the pilot project just five days after USDA announced
that it would donate 25 million pounds of the nonfat dry milk to food
banks and others as part of a humanitarian initiative, raised some
eyebrows in Washington, D.C. ?This disparity seems incongruous and I
would welcome !
further elaboration on this point,? Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI) wrote USDA.
?I have been an ardent supporter of [the pilot] and our staffs have
talked at length about this initiative.? From Foodlinks America ?
November 25, 2005
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RESOURCES
NEW BOOK FROM FARM AID
A Song for America (Rodale, $35.00) was released this fall and
chronicles the series of concerts and the accomplishments of the
organization that galvanized a grassroots movement for the independent
family farm. The book features in-depth interviews with Farm Aid
President and Founder Willie Nelson, as well as board members Neil Young,
John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews, who offer their reflections about
food, family farming and music, revealing the depth of their personal
and family commitment. Essays by such diverse writers as Robert F.
Kennedy, Jr., Barbara Kingsolver, Eric Schlosser, Wendell Berry, Howard
Zinn, Michael Pollan, and Ruth Reichl are interwoven with hundreds of
exclusive photographs and inspiring imagery to create a tapestry that
chronicles the mission, achievements, and ongoing challenges of Farm Aid
and the family farms they help. To order: www.farmaid.org, or call 1-800-FARM-AID.
TRAINING OFFERED FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONSERVATION CAMPAIGN ORGANIZERS
IN NORTH CAROLINA
Presented by the Institute For Conservation Leadership and The North
Carolina Conservation Network. The First workshop will be held January
27-28, 2006 near Greensboro, NC. The complete organizer program
includes two workshops and ongoing support. The deadline to apply is
January 9, 2006. For complete details and to download the application,
visit ICL?s website: www.icl.org. For more information, contact Nicole
(Marschhauser) Stewart at NC Conservation Network (919-857-4699 ext.105,
nicole@ncconservationnetwork.org) or Baird Straughan at ICL (301-270-2900
ext. 4 or baird@icl.org).
PATRICK MADDEN AWARD: A SEARCH FOR AN EXEMPLARY NE FARMER
The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
program is seeking nominations for the Patrick Madden Award. This award
recognizes a farmer who is living the SARE mission by practicing
agriculture that is profitable, good for the environment, and beneficial
to the wider community. Offered in memory of Patrick Madden, the first
national director of SARE, it comes with a $1000 cash award and an
expense-paid trip to the SARE conference in Wisconsin in August of 2006.
Nominations for the Madden Award should consist of a brief profile of
the nominee, including contact information, a description of the nominee's
farm and its operations, and a detailed statement of why the nominee
should be considered for the award. Nominations can be sent via e-mail
to nesare@uvm.edu or to NE SARE/Madden Award, Hills Building, 105
Carrigan Dr., Burlington, VT 05405-0082. Deadline 2/1/06.
STRATEGIES FOR HEALTHY FOOD, HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
Residents in low-income neighborhoods often have limited access to
healthy foods, but programs across the country are helping to revitalize
communities and increase access to food that is both healthy and
affordable. A new PolicyLink report, Healthy Food, Healthy Communities:
Improving Access and Opportunities through Food Retailing, discusses how
this issue is being addressed, provides examples of several successful
programs, and showcases the important role state and local governments
play. The report also highlights three of the most promising strategies
for bringing healthy food to communities: developing new grocery stores,
improving the selection and quality of food in existing smaller stores,
and starting and sustaining farmers' markets. URL:
http://www.policylink.org/Research/HealthyFood/
THE INTERNET AS A FARMING TOOL
The Center for Rural Development at Louisiana Tech University offers
high quality templates for community and nonprofit Web sites. These and
other resources for Web design are available to any community that
wishes to use them. Contact Elizabeth Higgins, ehiggins@latech.edu, 318-251-2919.
URL: http://www.latech.edu/tech/rural/website project/index.html
REPORT SHOWS GROWTH IN ORGANIC ACREAGE
USDA Economic Research Service has released a report that documents
growth in organic production from 1992-2003. By 2003, farmers in 49
States dedicated 2.2 million acres of cropland and pasture to organic
production systems. The report notes that while adoption of organic
farming systems showed strong gains between 1992 and 2003 and the
adoption rate remains high, the overall adoption level is still low--only
about 0.4 percent of all U.S. cropland and 0.1 percent of all U.S.
pasture was certified organic in 2003.
URL:http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/Organic/index.htm
FACTORY ANIMAL FARMS AND HUMAN HEALTH LINK EXPLORED
A new report from the World Society for the Protection of Animals says
that growth of industrial-style animal production could lead to human
health impacts. The report recommends a halt to the expansion of factory
farms, the adoption of humane and sustainable forms of farming, and a
global ban on the use of antibiotic growth promoters and production
enhancing hormones.
URL: http://www.wspa-international.org/site/index.php?page=1542
TWO PUBLICATIONS FROM THE FOOD RESEARCH AND ACTION CENTER
The ?Advocate?s Guide to the School Nutrition Programs.? is a complete
reference manual on these crucial programs that benefit millions of
American children.
For more information, go to: http://www.frac.org/pdf/advguide_school.pdf.
?Obesity, Food Insecurity and the Federal Nutrition Programs:
Understanding the Linkages.? includes information on definitions,
prevalence, and consequences of these public health problems for low-income
people, along with a detailed examination of child nutrition program
operations and their impacts. To learn more, see:
http://www.frac.org/pdf/obesity05_paper.pdf. From Foodlinks America ?
Nov. 25, 2005
FOODLINKS AMERICA E-NEWS
This resource is available free of charge to non-profit, public, and
faith-based organizations. The biweekly newsletter is dedicated to
providing you with useful information on food, nutrition, and hunger
concerns in the United States. To receive the newsletter send a request
to: bvauthier@281.com.
NEW PEST MANAGEMENT RESOURCE
The Sustainable Agriculture Network has released a new pest management
resource that is available for free online. Download a complete copy of
"Manage Insects on Your Farm" at www.sare.org/publications/insect.htm.
To order print copies ($15.95 plus $5.95 s/h) visit www.sare.org/WebStore,
call 301/374-9696 or send check or money order to Sustainable
Agriculture Publications, PO Box 753, Waldorf, Maryland 20604-0753. (Please
specify title requested when ordering by mail.) Discounts are available
on orders of 10 or more. Allow 3-4 weeks for delivery.
PASTURES OF PLENTY REPORT
Farms using managed grazing typically produce less milk per cow than
confinement farms. However, a series of economic studies in Wisconsin
and elsewhere show that, for many dairy farmers, the savings they
realize using managed grazing more than offsets the loss in milk
revenues due to lower production. These studies show that grazing farms
are economically competitive with confinement operations. The report
from UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems details some
of the principal findings of this economic research.
http://www.cias.wisc.edu/archives/2005/02/01/pastures_of_plenty_financial_performance_of_wisconsin_grazing_dairy_farms/index.php
REPORT FROM UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS ON ECONOMICS OF PHARMACEUTICAL
CROPS.
The economics of pharmaceutical crops: potential benefits and risks for
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27 Dec 2005 10:58:46 -0500
From: Michael Albert
http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm
interview with Chomsky discussing the recent Iraq
elections, Iraq motives and policy more generally, international
relations, U.S. policy making, etc.
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From:
On the Iraq Election
Noam Chomsky interviewed by Andy Clark for Radio Netherlands
...Noam Chomsky:...The US tried, in every possible way, to prevent elections in Iraq. They offered effort after effort to evade the danger of elections. Finally, they were compelled to accept elections by mass non-violent resistance...Mass outpourings of people demanding elections. Finally, Bush and Blair had to agree to elections. The next step is to subvert them and they started immediately...
...the Iraqis have forced the occupying powers to allow some kind of electoral process. What the occupying powers are doing now is perfectly clear and very familiar, very familiar. We've had a long history of this in Central America, the British ran an empire, the Japanese ran an empire, and the Russians ran an empire in Eastern Europe. The way they want it to work - standard procedure - you want the local forces to run their own countries, so Poland under the Russians, the Polish army runs it, the Polish civilians are the bureaucrats, Russians are in the background. The same in say, El Salvador, the US-run state terrorist forces are the military, the
civilians are local, and the US is in the background. If anything goes
wrong, they move in, the same with the British in India, the same with the Japanese in South Korea...
...The victory of the non-violent resistance in Iraq, which compelled the occupying forces to allow elections, that's a major victory. That's one of the major triumphs of non-violent resistance that I know of. It wasn't the insurgents that did it - the US doesn't care about violence, they have more violence. What it can't control is non-violence and the non-violent movements in Iraq...
...they're fighting tooth and nail to prevent democracy and sovereignty in Iraq. The Iraqi people have resisted and it's a very impressive resistance. I'm not talking about insurgency. I'm talking about popular, non-violent resistance under bitter conditions. There's a labour movement forming, which is a very important one. The US
insists on keeping Saddam's bitter anti-labour laws, but the labour
movement doesn't like it. Their activists are being killed. Nobody knows
by whom, maybe by insurgents, maybe by former Baathists, maybe by
somebody else. But they're working. There's the basis of a popular
democracy being developed there, much to the horror of the occupying forces, but it's going on and it could have very long term consequences
in their national affairs, which is why Bush and Blair have so
desperately been trying to prevent democracy and any form of sovereignty
and have been forced to back off step by step. This is also going on
with the economic arrangements. The US moved in and immediately tried to
open up the economy to foreign take-over by imposing outrageous and in
fact illegal laws for privatisation. You know, Iraqis don't want that,
they want to take control of their own economy and resources. There's a
battle going on about that.
Andy Clark: Let's hear another message from a listener. This is from
Miguel C. Alvarez, who is a Spanish ex-patriot living in the UK:
Miguel's email: "Forget about the US and EU governments: they're
hopeless. Where to for 'the people?' How can the insanity be stopped? Or
will it have to run its course and get much worse before it can get
better?"
Andy Clark: What's your take on that?
Noam Chomsky: The violence in Iraq is a serious problem for the Iraqis
and I tend to agree with, apparently the majority of Iraqis, that it's
the occupation forces that are stimulating the violence. The fact that
an insurgency even developed in Iraq is astonishing. I mean it's an
amazing fact that the US has had more trouble controlling Iraq than the
Germans had in controlling occupied Europe or the Russians in
controlling Eastern Europe. After all, the countries under Nazi or
Russian occupation were run by domestic forces, domestic police,
domestic armies, and domestic civilian forces. The Nazis and the Kremlin
were in the background and if needed, they came in, but mostly it was
domestically run. There were partisans in Western Europe and they were
very courageous, but they would've been wiped out very quickly if it
hadn't been for enormous foreign support and, of course, Germany was at
war.
Well, in Iraq none of these circumstances prevailed, there was no
outside support for the resistance. The little support that has arisen,
and it is very slight, is mostly engendered by the invasion. But there's
no outside support. The country had been devastated by sanctions. The US
was coming in with enormous resources to rebuild it and they have turned
it into a total catastrophe. It's one of the worst military catastrophes
in history. You look at figures for something like, say malnutrition;
malnutrition is way up since the US took over, that's unbelievable. It's
one of the few wars that can't be reported, not because reporters are
cowards, but because it's too dangerous. Reporters are mostly in the
Green Zone or else they go out with a platoon of marines. There are
some, like Robert Fisk, Patrick Cockburn and a couple of others who are
independent and brave it, but not many. This is an incredible
catastrophe. But it's very likely, and I tend to agree with apparent
opinion of most Iraqis on this, that it's the invading armies themselves
that are engendering the violence. Well, they're carrying out plenty of
it, but the violence of the insurgents would probably recline if they
left and allowed Iraqis to be on their own.
Andy Clark: Another message, this is from Charles Harlich, from New
Jersey in the US:
Charles' email: "I have a relative who is now serving as a soldier in
Iraq. What advice would you give to him?"
Noam Chomsky: Look, I have plenty of correspondence with soldiers in
Iraq and all you can do is offer them your sympathy. You hope that they
make it safely and that their leaders will get them out of there. The
same kind of advice you would've given to Russian soldiers in
Afghanistan. You have to sympathize with them; it's not their fault.
It's the fault of their commanders. I don't mean their military
commanders, I mean the civilians in the Pentagon, in the White House and
their counterparts in England.
Andy Clark: This is from Steve Brown in Mexico:
Steve's email:" No one is talking anymore about oil. Isn't that still
the main reason the US invaded Iraq and are Iraq's large reserves now
under control of US corporations?"
Noam Chomsky: Nobody was talking about oil all along if you look. It was
considered outrageous to talk about oil. If anyone talked about oil,
Tony Blair would have a tantrum about conspiracy theories.
Andy Clark: Plenty of the protestors said it was a war for oil all
along...
Noam Chomsky: Protesters did, but take a look at the mainstream. It was
considered a conspiracy theory, Marxist, delusional and so on to talk
about oil. Although every sane person knows that that was the reason, if
Iraq had been producing pickles and lettuce, would they have been
invaded? I mean, let's be serious. Of course it's oil. Furthermore the
Iraqis know that. Right after the president gave his dramatic speech at
the National Endowment for Democracy, announcing his 'Messianic Mission'
to bring democracy to Iraq, after the collapse of the 'single question,'
right after that a poll was reported. Gallup, the main polling
organisation in the US, took a poll in Baghdad and asked people in
Baghdad why they think the US invaded, about one percent agreed, with
100 percent of educated Western opinion, to bring democracy, one percent
agreed to bring democracy, five percent said to help Iraqis. Most of the
rest said the obvious: to take control of Iraq's resources and to
strengthen the US strategic position in the region. And incidentally,
going back to the writer, it's not so much a matter of gaining access to
Iraq's resources, you can get access even if you don't control a
country. I mean the oil market is something of a market. What matters is
control, not access. It's a very big difference. The main theme of US
policy since the Second World War has been to control the resources of
the Middle East, the energy resources. That would give what George
Cannon, one of the early planners, called 'veto power' over their
allies, they wouldn't get out of line because we'd have our hand on the
spicket. Now at that time, for about 30 years, North America was the
major oil exporter. The US wasn't using any Middle East oil, but it
nevertheless was dedicated and it was the main theme of US policy to
maintain control over it. If you look at US intelligence projections for
the future, they project that the US must control Middle East oil, but
that it itself will rely on more stable Atlantic Basin resources,
Western Africa, Western Hemisphere resources. Europe and Japan will rely
on the less stable Middle East resources, but the US will control them.
That's the way you prevent independence from developing. That's why the
Asian Energy Security Grid and the Shanghai Cooperation Council are
regarded as such a threat by the US. The meetings right now, the
Malaysian meetings, East Asian meetings, that's a threat, it's a
coalescence of power moving independently of the US. You look back
through the history of the Cold War, and it was the same with regard to
Europe, a major concern throughout the Cold War was what was called
European Third Force, which might find a way independent of the US in
Europe, and there was every effort made to prevent that. A long story,
and that makes sense if you want to run the world, you want to make sure
there are not independent forces out of your control.
Andy Clark: This is a message from L. Douglas Raymond in the US:
"With the war in Iraq, it seems we are viewing the US's engagement in
some bold, in your face, strategic geopolitical chess. In your opinion,
what is the US's next likely international move?"
Noam Chomsky: My own guess frankly, was that the invasion of Iraq would
be over in about three days and that the US would install a stable
client regime. It should have been one of the easiest military victories
in history. But they did turn it into a catastrophe. My guess back at
that time was that the next place the US would move would be the Andes
in the Western Hemisphere. This is a traditional region of US
domination, but from Venezuela down to Argentina, the region is pretty
much out of control and that's a very serious worry for US planners.
They expect the Western Hemisphere to be obedient and placid. And if you
look at modern history the US has intervened violently and brutally
throughout the Western Hemisphere for a long time to ensure obedience,
overthrowing democratic governments, installing murderous military
dictatorships, carrying out large-scale terror and it goes on pretty
much to the present. It is somewhat out of control. Venezuela is
increasingly going on an independent path and Venezuela is very
important, the US took it from the British in 1921, kicked the British
out at the time of the beginning of the oil-based economy because it was
recognized that Venezuela had enormous oil resources, also others. And
it has been one of the main oil suppliers under US control ever since,
but it's moving towards independence. Chavez is enormously popular in
Venezuela; in fact, support for the elected government is higher in
Venezuela than in any other Latin American country. Venezuela is
beginning to diversify its international relations; it's starting to
export oil to China and may do so even more soon. The same is true of
the other raw materials exporters, Brazil and Chile, not to the extent
of Venezuela, but increasing. Furthermore, the region has left of centre
governments. All through the regions, a few exceptions but almost all of
them, and some of them are defying the IMF. Argentina simply defied IMF
orders, told them to get lost, and did very well as a result.
Furthermore, there's a large Indian population in Latin America from
Bolivia up to Ecuador, very large, and they're beginning to organise and
become independent. They may actually win an election in Bolivia [left
wing leader Evo Morales has now won that election]. They've overthrown a
couple of governments in Ecuador. They're also calling for an Indian
nation throughout this region. Now, they do not want their resources
taken from them, they have plenty of resources, a lot of oil. They want
either to control their own resources, rather than having it taken over
by foreigners, or - many of them - don't even want resources to be
developed, so there are plenty of indigenous people in Ecuador who don't
particularly want their lifestyle disrupted so that people drive SUVs in
New York City.
Andy Clark: This is an area, you think, that will be an area of concern
for the US?
Noam Chomsky: It's of deep concern. There are more US military in Latin
America today than at the height of the Cold War. For the first time the
number of US military in Latin America exceeds the combined number of
civilians in key federal agencies, aid, state departments and others.
Furthermore, the training of the Latin American military, which has
always been under US control, has recently shifted; the Congress shifted
it from the State Department to the Pentagon. Now that's quite
important. The State Department has a terrible record of atrocities and
torture and crime - everyone should know about that - but under the
State Department, military training was under some Congressional
supervision, had some human rights conditions, some democracy
conditions. Under the Pentagon, it has no conditions. Furthermore, the
military is now being trained to deal with, what are called social
problems, social unrest.
Andy Clark: It plays into an e-mail we received from somebody in Peru.
Gonzalo Alvarado, Peru: "Do you see any serious alternative to the Bush
administration for next elections, in order to change the US foreign
policy? How do you think the US will deal with the regimes in Venezuela
and Bolivia? In Peru, we have a presidential candidate with the same
profile, Humala. He is growing in the polls for next presidential
elections. His tactic? Blaming imperialism and the free market for
making us poorer."
Noam Chomsky: It certainly doesn't like them [the regimes in Bolivia and
Venezuela]. Incidentally, we should stop talking about the free market,
that's another ideological trick. The US does not believe in a free
market. The US itself is a largely state-based economy. You use
computers and the Internet and telecommunications and lasers and
aeroplanes and so on, most of it comes out of the dynamic state sector.
The economy is handed over to private businesses if they make some
profit out of it, but mostly state-based and same is true of
pharmaceuticals and biology-based industries and so on. So, we should
have no illusions about this. Even the free trade agreements, so-called,
are highly protectionists, the extra-ordinary intellectual property
rights go way beyond anything existed in the past those are purely
protectionist. They are designed to maintain monopoly rights for major
corporations. If the currently rich countries had ever been faced with
such rules, the US would now be exporting fish and fur. So there's no
free market. But how the US is planning to deal with it, well we know.
Let's take Venezuela; there was a military coup in Venezuela in 2002.
The US supported the military coup, the US had to back down very quickly
because there was an overwhelming uproar in Latin America, where
democracy is taken much more seriously than it is in Washington and
there was great protest about US support for a military coup
overthrowing a democratic government, so Washington had to back down and
the military coup was quickly reversed. The US then moved into the next
step, which is subversion; if you can't carry out a military coup, try
to subvert the government. So the US had been pouring in aid into what
are called officially 'anti-Chavez, pro-democracy elements.' That's
where the money is going. The implication is: you can't be a pro-Chavez,
pro-democracy element; you can't because the US says so. The fact that
Venezuela leads Latin America in support for democracy and support for
the elected government, going up very sharply since Chavez took over in
1998, that's just irrelevant, we decide what's democracy, not the people
- that's just subversion. We saw it in the last election just a couple
of days...
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Save Gas - Grow Some of Your Own Food
by Jim McCue 10/19/05
People all over the world are discovering that large-scale corporate
factory farming is bankrupting smaller, more diversified, and often
family-owned farming. As in other sectors of the economy - production,
processing, and distribution of food has come to be increasingly
concentrated in fewer hands. Ag businesspeople do not always have in
mind the health and happiness of consumers - who increasingly have no
choice other than to buy food from the factory-farm system. Because
making money in the business world so often seems to necessitate closing
one's heart as to destructive effects of one's decisions, the most "successful"
(that is, the ones who have accumulated the most money) are often the
most hard-hearted.
Take fossil fuels such as oil, the gasoline that's made from it, and
natural gas. It's now commonly understood that these things are: in
limited supply; subject to increasing demand; and have numerous
environmental side effects. The agricultural system - as presently
structured - needs huge amounts of water, land, and fossil fuels to make
fertilizer and provide transportation. Small organic food gardens and
farms need less water and space to grow a certain amount of food. But
large agribusinesses have used their increased lobbying power to
structure our laws so that the taxpayer subsidizes cheaper (and lower
quality) food. This is why "organic" has become associated with "high-muckety-muck";
people think only elites can afford the better quality. But the fact is,
we're all paying for the mass-produced food that is lower quality -
through our taxes.
Now that the price of gas has hit the fan, and as the predicted drastic
increase in natural gas price also looms, it's time to start taking
seriously those enviro "Chicken Littles" who knew some of these problems
were coming and who know that the price of food - being connected to
the price of fossil fuels - is also going to go through the roof. There
is no sane reason to ship such a large part of our food such great
distances. There is a place for food transportation, but not when we can
more easily grow higher-quality food right here in the Pittsburgh
region. We need much more locally grown organic food. And we need
changes in our laws that have queered the situation so dangerously that
large numbers of Americans are coming to find themselves short of money
for necessities such as food or rent. The belief in chemical
fertilizers and pesticides has come from overly focused points-of-view
which externalize the side effects. Profit at the expense of your own
health or you neighbors' is not a very good long-term investment. Sure,
you might get a better yield on that particular crop this year if you
sock the soil with nitrogen made from natural gas and pesticides
synthesized from oil. But what about next year, when your garden's
predator/prey balance is weakened and you, your family, and your
neighbors' health is compromised by those toxins and your food's
nutrient ratios are lower. And do you really want to escalate our
increasingly violent competition with other countries for the fossil
resources to grow food that way?
The soil is not a machine. It is a vast, living community which is
harmed when we humans go to pot-shotting at the bugs while overdosing
the soil with the major nutrients - nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorous
- ignoring all those micro-nutrients and enzymes and tiny living things
- molds, bacteria, bugs, worms, etc. - that are vital to soil fertility.
And the larger life forms - frogs, toads, "weeds", "groundhogs" (formerly
called woodchucks in a less competitive time), minks, squirrels,
chipmunks, rabbits, deer, bears, cougars, snakes, newts, salamanders -
are also part of the fertility of the soil (and they all used to be
abundant in what is now the Pittsburgh region).
A food security project is gearing up in the Garfield area. Effort is
being made to secure land long term for food growing. What the
Healcrest Urban Community Farm is starting should be a template for what
happens county-wide. It's a temptation to blame the poor for the
problems - and so rationalize their abandonment and allow the system
failures to treat them more and more badly. But we can recognize
ourselves, our own family in those without the power to avoid direct
consequences of the increasingly brutal business climate that is
developing. Please look into what food security advocates such as these
people are doing, and see that - just as we need the lowly earthworm
and so-called "ugly" bugs and critters too small to see without a
microscope - we also need those who we who may be a little better off
have found it easier to marginalize.
The Healcrest Urban Community Farm is devoted to sustainable urban
farming, is organizing gardens and gardeners to supply farmstands, and
owns 1.7 acres near Penn Ave. at the corner of Shamrock Way, Hillcrest
Street, and Pacific Ave. Their upcoming events are available via 412/362-1982,
mothermoonbeam@aol.com , or http://www.thomasmertoncenter.org/calendar.
Some of their meetings are at the most interesting used-book shop I've
ever seen, owned by one of the Farm's founders - Ricardo Robinson. He
had the unique idea to either sell or lend (for free) books, and
specializes in what he judges to be "good" literature. The place has the
nice laid-back come-on-in-and-talk atmosphere that could do something
economic-development-wise for Hazelwood. It's called Yard Sale Books,
and is at 5165 Penn (near Pacific.)
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We don't have to be addicted to oil.
by Jim McCue October 2005
With all the problems in the world today, it's difficult to see the big picture. Reacting out of fear, we see only crises. But, if I may be so bold as to try to fathom God's thinking, I'd like to think there's a reason things happen. You can also capitalize the word "science," too, and see that Science is another way to discover God's instruction. If we look at, for instance, our increasing weather and agricultural problems, a lesson begins to become visible.
Why is the world so stuck together with intertwined economic problems? You could say God wants us to learn we are one family. You could say Science is telling us to slow down our reproductive rate and use the best biotech to restabilize Earth's ecosystem. You could say God/Science wants us to understand that humankind is called to lovingly manage the other species we live with - not try to dominate them for our own short-sighted purposes.
I know some think I'm preaching, but I am talking good economics. Those with an overview of the changes the Earth's ecosystem is going through at this time in history understand that we are in an extinction crisis of epic proportions. Our interdependency with the other species makes, to my mind, the lesson that we are not only one human family - we are part of the community of life on Earth. To the extent that we ignore that, we pay.
Because it's easier for those already with money to make more money, a situation has developed in which a relative fewer and fewer people hold more and more power. This could only be good if those in power would act spiritually - for the good of all. But, being human like the rest of us, those on top fall prey to the same temptations that the rest of us do. So the world is falling apart as so many look only to themselves and their loved ones - not to life as a whole.
We have, at this point in history, the most awesome technology, capable of
the most wonderful things. If we concentrate on these positive uses the massive problems we face will fall by the wayside.
Lasers, for instance, can be used either for weapons or to accelerate healing. Microbes may make people sick or, more positively, may be used as vaccines to prevent people from getting sick. Microbes may be used as weapons, or they may be used as part of processes to synthesize alternative fuels. Microbes may destroy food crops, or they can be (and are being) used to help grow food. The evolution and spread of new and dangerous microbes is one of the huge problems we face; but the production, marketing, distribution, and even creation of new beneficial microbes is a part of the key to otherwise unsolvable environmental problems.
I think it comes down to a test - from God, if you will - does humanity have sufficient humility to learn to love all life. As the poet Auden was quoted by the president Johnson: "...for we shall surely love or die."
Aside from the microbes' role in helping us transition from sole dependence on fossil fuels, there are many other non-biotech ways which we can get ourselves out of this predicament - conservation, increased efficiency, windpower, solar power, and other high-tech lines of research I have insufficient expertise to describe well.
What we lack is the will and cooperative spirit to get ourselves off this path to world war over oil, fish, water, and other resources. As difficult as it is to
imagine, Christ's instruction to love our enemies is something we're going to have to take to heart.
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intouch.org
http://foodandsocietyfellows.org/pages/links.html
http://www.sisterparish.org
www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us
hillhouse.org
hypocrisy.org
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From:
If the War Goes On
http://peace.mennolink.org/resources/ifthewargoeson.html
...[last stanza]
If the war goes on, will we close the doors to heaven?
If the war goes on, will we breach the gates of hell?
If the war goes on, will we ever be forgiven? If the war goes on...
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buylocalpa.org
earthpolicy.org
gregpalast.com
warincontext.org
opednews.com
climatecrisis.org
iahf.com
http://www.reopen911.org
http://www.infowars.com
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Farmers Legal Action Group
http://www.flaginc.org
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http://www.ssawg.org
...Rising Fuel Prices and the Implications for Agriculture The global
food system relies heavily on oil, and rising oil prices will have a
significant impact on food supplies, says an article by Earth Policy
Institute posted on peopleandplanet.net. The article points out that
only one-fifth of the energy used by the food system in the U.S. actually
goes toward growing food; the other four-fifths is spent on processing,
packaging, moving and storing food. And globally, 28 percent of energy
for agriculture is used to manufacturer fertilizer...
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http://www.jamesmcmurtry.com
http://www.democraticunderground.com
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"insurgency"
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1077495.php
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http://www.rainbowbookstore.org
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From:
Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology
Microbe Zoo
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/zoo/zahmain.html
Habitat on Humanity
You have more bacterial cells in or on your body than you have human cells. These microbes are part of normal humans and are important to the health of humans. Usually when people hear about microbes, they hear about the microbes that make them sick. However, if you had no microbes inside of you, you would likely not feel very well since microbes provide people with important vitamins. Microbes are found in your mouth, in your guts, on your skin, under your arms, and on your feet...
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Carter/Baker Report can't face how the GOP stole America's 2004 election & is rigging 2008
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman 9/20/5
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1462
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"Conspiracy Theories" and Cultural Imperatives: The Millennial
Conspiracy
Driving Cultural Evolution
By Dr. Gerry Lower
Jul 28, 2005
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_19451.shtml
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organicvalley.coop
drgreene.com
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We, the Farmers preamble
magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature3/index.html
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Tayrona Message to the World alerting Younger Brother that our destructive and consumptive lefestyle is kllng the Heart of the Earth
earthdinner.org
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checnet.org
farmaid.org
bioneers.org
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Organic Farmers Research Foundation
ofrf.org
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waterkeeper.org
organic-center.org
http://www.ww4report.com
http://www.censurebush.org
http://sunshine-project.org
http://www.citizenworks.org
http://www.corporatepolicy.org
http://universalfriends.org
http://www.huffingtonpost.com
http://www.wsws.org
http://www.walmartmovie.com
earthpulse.com
layinstitute.org
http://www.impeachbush.org
orionsociety.org
oriononline.org
democrats.org
ninemilerun.org
zmag.org
mayfirst.org
themeatrix.com
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"While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal
element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not
free."
- Eugene Debs
http://eugenevdebs.com
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"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of
life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
- Albert Einstein
http://www.foodreference.com/html/qvegetarians.html
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"If America doesn't weaponize space, an enemy will."
Then-Undersecretary of the Air Force and Director of the National
Reconnaissance Office Peter B. Teets,
in a speech to a January 2003
Air Force Association symposium,
according to an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
"U.S. The Leader in War Plans for Space,"
by Jack Kelly, July 28, 2003
http://www.cdi.org/friendlyversion/printversion.cfm?documentID=3119&from_page=../program/document.cfm
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/232239_spaceweapons13.html
...voices within the Pentagon and military bureaucracies who argue that
putting weapons in space is inevitable. In a U.S. Air Force document on
"counterspace operations," Peter B. Teets, then assistant secretary of
the
Air Force -- and formerly COO of Lockheed Martin, a major military and
space contractor -- argued that "controlling the high ground of space
...
will require us to think about denying the high ground to our
adversaries.
We are paving the path to 21st century warfare now."...
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From
Air Force Seeks Bush's Approval for Space Weapons Programs
by Tim Weiner 5/18/5
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40F15F93D5D0C7B8DDDAC0894DD404482
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0518-02.htm
...With little public debate, the Pentagon has already spent billions
of
dollars developing space weapons and preparing plans to deploy them.
"We haven't reached the point of strafing and bombing from space," Pete
Teets, who stepped down last month as the acting secretary of the Air
Force, told a space warfare symposium last year. "Nonetheless, we are
thinking about those possibilities."
In January 2001, a commission led by Donald H. Rumsfeld, then the newly
nominated defense secretary, recommended that the military should
"ensure
that the president will have the option to deploy weapons in space."...
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thememoryhole.org
http://www.victoriasdirtysecret.net/
http://vfa-online.org/
tryvegetarian.org
http://www.supersizeme.com
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excerpt:
Confessions of an Economic Hitman [EHM]
by John Perkins
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
http://www.mike-warren.com/links/confessions-of-an-economic-hitman.html
"...utilize international financial organizations to foment conditions
that make other nations subservient to the corporatocracy running our
biggest corporations, our government, and our banks. Like our
counterparts
in the Mafia, EHMs provide favors. These take the form of loans to
develop
infrastructure -- electric generating plants, highways, ports,
airports,
or industrial parks. A condition of such loans is that engineering and
construction companies from our own country must build all these
projects.
In essence, most of the money never leaves the United States; it is
simply
transferred from banking offices in Washington to engineering offices
in
New York, Houston, or San Francisco.''
``Despite the fact that the money is returned almost immediately to
corporations that are members of the corporatocracy (the creditor), the
recipient country is required to pay it all back, principal plus
interest.
If an EHM is completely successful, the loans are so large that the
debtor
is forced to default on its payments after a few years. When this
happens,
then like the Mafia we demand our pound of flesh. This often includes
one
or more of the following: control over United Nations votes, the
installation of military bases, or access to precious resources such as
oil or the Panama Canal. Of course, the debtor still owes us the money
--
and another country is added to our global empire...''
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alecwatch.org
chej.org
opendemocracy.net
http://prisonplanet.com/
http://www.fromthewilderness.com
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Fooling America
talk given on March 28, 1993, by Robert Parry, former AP and Newsweek
and
now independent journalist. Parry was one of the first reporters to
break
the story of Iran-Contra, and one of the first to report on the drug
angle
in Iran-Contra. Parry later pursued the strong evidence that Reagan and
Bush made an all-out effort to sabotage Jimmy Carter's efforts to win
the
release of the Iranian-held hostages before the November election, the
episode known as the October Surprise.
Parry is the author of several books, including
Fooling America
and
Trick or Treason,
both published by Sheridan Square Press.
Currently, he publishes
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The Consortium
http://www.consortiumnews.com
++
http://webcom.com/~lpease/collections/conspiracies/parryspeech.htm
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Media Reform Forum of Pittsburgh
http://fightbigmedia.meetup.com/284
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http://www.crisispapers.org
http://www.takebackthemedia.com
http://www.democraticmedia.org/
http://web.greens.org/etc/others.shtml
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Averting Bioterrorism Begins with US Reforms
by Edward Hammond, Director of the US office of the Sunshine Project
http://web.greens.org/s-r/27/27-15.html
sunshine-project.org
======
http://www.alternativesmagazine.com
http://www.worldnetdaily.com
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/home.htm
http://www.democraticmedia.org/
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environdesign
http://www.isdesignet.com/ED/index.html
http://www.haroldpinter.org/politics/politics_nato.shtml
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US anthrax attacks linked to army biological weapons plant
by Patrick Martin
12/28/1
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/anth-d28.shtml
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German documentary charges US used biological weapons in Korean War
by Peter Schwarz
13 November 2002
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/nov2002/arti-n13.shtml
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://projects.sipri.org/cbw/
http://projects.sipri.org/cbw/docs/
http://projects.sipri.se/cbw/research/cb_threats2_comments.pdf
http://www.commondreams.org
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
http://www.sipri.org/
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Institute for Creative Thought Crimes
http://thoughtcrimes.org
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http://www.progress.org
http://www.accuracy.org/
http://democrats.com
http://hereinreality.com
http://www.sanderhicks.com/articles/9111.html
http://reclaimthemedia.org/
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Fannie Lou Hamer
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/flhamer.html
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Poison Dust [re depleted uranium]
http://www.peoplesvideo.org
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http://www.comminit.com
http://alecwatch.org/
http://www.truemajority.org/
http://www.democracyforamerica.com/
ashoka.org
faithvoices.org
thomharmann.com
meetwithcindy.com
consumerwatchdog.org
pennfuture.org
sustainableaquaculture.org
neweconomics.org
universalfriends.org
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US planned war in Afghanistan long ago
Arab American News; 11/30/2001; Martin, Patrick
Martin, Patrick
Arab American News
11-30-2001
http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:79124256&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf
US planned war in Afghanistan long ago
Insider accounts published in the British, French and Indian media have
revealed that US officials threatened war against Afghanistan during
the
summer of 2001. These reports include the prediction, made in July,
that
"if the military action went ahead, it would take place before the
snows
started falling in Afghanistan, by the middle of October at the
latest."
The Bush administration began its bombing strikes on the hapless,
poverty-stricken country October 7, and ground attacks by US Special
Forces
began October ...
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Foods That Fight Pain
Revolutionary Strategies for Maximum Pain Relief
by
Neal Barnard
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
http://inspiredliving.com/painrelief/
http://www.positivehealth.com/Reviews/books/barn46.htm
http://www.goveg.com/feat/pcrm/nealbarnard.html
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Bombies
The terrible aftermath of dropping cluster bombs during the secret air
war
in Laos and the international campaign to ban them.
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/bombie.html
[available from the Carnegie Library system]
..."...nine-year secret war targeting millions of innocent
civilians..."
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reopen911.org
rightsaction.org
http://www.bravenewfilms.org
faithvoices.org
corpwatch.org
warincontext.org
http://www.phipps.conservatory.org/learn/research/botany/
BCFacts.org
http://www.kyotoandbeyond.org
www.marcgunther.com
http://www.worthwhilemag.com
www.ams.usda.gov
Biocycle magazine.
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com
http://www.consortiumnews.com
http://Platform.For-Pgh.org
www.itrcweb.org
www.clu-in.org
http://www.brownfields2005.org
pe.com
http://www.cwwg.org
http://www.zmag.org
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/10929624.htm
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/10909206.htm
http://www.trivalleycares.org
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18604
www.tristatecitizens.org
http://www.gasp-pgh.org
sproutfund.org
www.smartgrowthpa.org
thebreakthrough.org
http://www.sacredchoices.org
planetizen.com
http://www1.worldbank.org/devoutreach/winter01/article.asp?id=97
sustainablepittsburgh.org
http://www.mv-voice.com/morgue/2005/2005_02_11.tce.shtml
www.pctv21.org
iisd.org
http://www.iisd.ca
http://www.ihe.nl
http://www.unops.org
http://www.cifor.cgiar.org
MANUAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: THE EU AND BRITAIN
http://www.mep-online.com
PUBLICATIONS ON HARVESTED WOOD PRODUCTS
http://unfccc.int/sessions/workshop/300804/reledocs.html
PROMOTING CITES-CBD COOPERATION AND SYNERGY
http://www.bfn.de/09/skript116.pdf
http://www.grain.org
http://www.iucn.org
http://www.unccd.int
http://www.rfebook.com
http://www.who.int
http://www.giwa.net
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Global International
Waters Assessment
http://www.wpcouncil.org
http://www.wetlandprofessionals.ihe.nl
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UNESCO Institute for Water Education
http://www.waterfootprint.org
...assessing 'water footprints' - the total volume of water that is
used to produce the goods and services consumed by the inhabitants of
the nation...research results...links
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http://www.nosweat.org.uk
http://www.iisd.ca
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/calendar/calendar.htm
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International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for
Development
http://www.agassessment.org/index.html
http://www.undpingoconference.org/
http://www.wiltonpark.org.uk
ACTION AGAINST HUNGER AND POVERTY - WORLD LEADERS MEETING: 20 September
2004
http://www.mre.gov.br/ingles/politica_externa/temas_agenda/acfp
http://www.enviroinfo2004.org
http://www.world-tourism.org/sustainable
UN SYMPOSIUM ON HYDROPOWER AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:
http://unhsd.icold-cigb.org.cn/english.html
http://www.iac.wur.nl/iac
http://che-penn.org/
http://www.iac.wur.nl
http://www.conicyt.cl/IBS2004/
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies...together with the
National Institute for Environmental Studies
http://www.iges.or.jp/en/event/
http://www.worldlpgas.com
http://www.ipieca.org/downloads/climate_change/TCC_Workshop/Information.pdf
http://www.rio5.com
http://www.unece.org/trade/timber/docs/sem/2004-1/sem-2004-1.htm
http://www.international-alliance.org
barsk-rundquist@un.org; Internet: http://www.un.org/esa/forests
ternet: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/49sess.htm
FIRST INTERGOVERNMENTAL PLENARY OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT
http://www.agassessment.org/index.html
EIGHTH MEETING OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT...
http://www.unemg.org/download_pdf/EMG8/8_2agenda.pdf
http://www.mre.gov.br/ingles/politica_externa/temas_agenda/acfp/presentation.asp
http://www.gefweb.org/Whats_New/whats_new.html
20rldbank.org; Internet: http://www.imf.org/external/am/
om; Internet: http://www.ethicalcorp.com/asia2004
http://www.oecd.org/document/56/0,2340,en_2649_33763_32233656_1_1_1_1,00.html
http://www.aidharmonization.org/ah-wh/secondary-pages/Paris2005
http://www.silsoe.cranfield.ac.uk/iwe/projects/regulation/
http://www.wsscc.org/dakar
F Internet: http://www.ramsar.org
http://www.economistconferences.com/roundtable/public/con_common.asp?rtID=660&area=2&preview=&rtRegion=4&fprevrt=
International Water Management Institute; tel: +27-12-845-9100;
e-mail: b.vankoppen@cgiar.org; Internet:
http://www.nri.org/waterlaw/workshop.htm
AS ajit@chilika.com; Internet: http://www.aws2005.com/index.htm
Rsue.frye@ice.org.uk; Internet:
http://www.riverbasinmanagement2005.com/
INThttp://www.unesco.org/water/water_events/Detailed/814.shtml
International Institute for Sustainable Development
http://www.iisd.org
http://www.rethinkingschoollunch.org/
educationinnovations.org
http://strauscom.com/rodale
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Christian Associates of Southwest Pennsylvania
http://www.casp.org
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Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
http://www.counterpunch.org/vips07142003.html
http://www.bnfp.org/neighborhood/VetIntPro_for_Sanity.htm
http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2004/03/03_400.html
http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Veteran_Intelligence_Professionals_for_Sanity
http://schema-root.org/people/political/think_tank/veteran_intelligence_professionals_for_sanity/
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0425-11.htm
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http://www.thisishell.net
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World running out of time for oil alternatives
Printer Friendly Email Article
Anna Mudeva
Reuters
Aug 19, 2005
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/index.cfm?Page=Article&ID=4600
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http://crookedtimber.org/2003/07/15/krugmans-back
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Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Investor
http://h2fc.com
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http://www.greencarcongress.com
http://h2fc.com
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Will Wal-Mart Eat Britain
and what we can learn from US communities fighting back
[speech delivered by...Stacy Mitchell from the US
Institute for Local Self Reliance
at the Foreign Press Association in London 5/26/5]
http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/z_sys_PublicationDetail.aspx?pid=211
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From:
A Bush Narco-regime--here in the USA?
by B. Ehkstruh Saturday 11/27/4
The dirtiest of all Bush secrets?
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/11/16675.php
...narcotics moneys are quietly and murderously funneled into black
budget
programs, and private pockets, to avoid elected oversight...
...Richard Armitage coordinated CIA heroin trafficking principally out
of
Cambodia and Laos, and he was a close confederate of General Huang
Soong,
the CIAs principal (narcotics) trafficker in Cambodia. (Note: Bush
certainly
knew about Armitages sordid history when he appointed him...
... Pete Brewster's book about Bush Sr., in which he documents Bushs
numerous
co-investments with Houston businessman Walter Mincher and mafia heroin
kingpin Carlos Marcello...
Michael Moore, among others, wonders how Porter Goss could have amassed
his
$53 million fortune by legal means. Journalist Daniel Hopsickers
website, Mad
Cow Morning News has posted a 1960s photo taken in a Mexico City
nightclub in
which then-CIA man Porter Goss sits happily at a table with Barry Seal,
the
biggest narcotics trafficker in US history. For years, Goss worked
under Gen.
Ed Lansdale, the man named by Col. Fletcher Prouty for arranging the
JFK
assassination...
According to Daniel Sheehan, Ross Perot, Bo Greitz and numerous others
(including a CIA agent I interviewed), during the 1970s Armitage headed
the Far East company, which laundered Golden Triangle heroin in
Thailand
toward the end of the CIAs heroin doings during the Vietnam war...
Richard Armitage, the same man identified by Danny Sheehan of the
Christic
Institute in his suit and by General Khun Sa as the bagman in the dope
deals through the years. the man who has been protecting him over the
years is another former CIA man, (Frank) Carlucci (Carlucci later
headed
Bush Sr.s employer, the Carlyle Group) Tom Fitzpatrick, New Times
(11/11/87)...
Armitage was nominated, in February 1989, by a grateful President
George
Bush (Senior) to be Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern
Affairs.
The move was blocked and Armitage was, instead, nominated for the post
of
Secretary of the Army. Behind the scenes a virtual war was in progress
as
the Department of Justice and the FBI sought to indict Armitage for his
narcotics and other criminal activities. William Guyatt, The CIAs
Secret
Drug Wars.
More disturbing are the allegations of Dr. Steven Greer, head of CSETI,
which investigates black budget programs that use narcotics monies to
research government-obtained technologies, which are then ceded to
private
parties secretly. According to Greer, A senior SAIC executive (Space
Applications International Corporation) told me of this and how there
was
an army of 8000 men who did nothing but import drugs under the cover of
classified, need-to-know operatives. He stated that of the 8000 men
involved (as of 1997 when we spoke of this), that 2000 of them had been
killed for sometimes minor infractions of security. He assured me that
this was a major covert funding source and that it was destroying our
country, but nobody is willing to take on such a lethal and powerful
group
to stop it. (--from the inside, that is. Many are now working to expose
the group, including CSETI whistleblowers, some of whom are ranking
defense and intelligence officials.) Quote from Disclosure, by Steven
M.
Greer M.D...
...witnessed between 5 and 7 large helicopters racing overhead at night
above my house two days after 9-11-01, heading from Travis Air Force
Base,
in Fairfield, CA, toward Beale Air Force Base, in Marysvillereported
site
of the X-22A, a two-man gravity manipulating vehicle that reportedly
carries a particle weapon...
...Daniel Hopsickers book, Welcome to Terrorland, which is the first to
expose a shocking web of narcotics traffickers at the Venice, FL
airport
where Mohammed Atta and other 911 attackers studied to be pilots...
FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds, in the months after the attack,
bumped
into the arms for drugs deals, she said in a recent interview with
http://www.BreakFornews.com. Edmonds alleged that the US State
Department
blocked investigations showing links between criminal drug trafficking
networks and the terror attacks on 9/11.
"Certain investigations were being quashed, let's say per State
Department's request, because it would have affected certain foreign
relations [or] affected certain business relations with foreign
organizations," she stated....
...US intelligence certainly knew that Atta and co-conspirators were in
the US for training, if not training under Saudi Air Force auspices, in
part. But, for some secret reason, Bush officials have repeatedly
threatened press, witnesses, officials, and more to shut up about their
stay in Venice, Floridasite of massive drug trafficking. The fact that
Bin
Laden controlled Afghanistan, location of Bush/Armitage-prized opium
fields, suggests that Bin Laden may have been given special protection
to
funnel opium to Bush cronies, in exchange for possible arms and
technology. This was before 9-11, of course, when opium and natural gas
were the biggest dollar value items on the Bush/Armitage agenda
regarding
Afghanistan.
So, why so much direct Bush implication in narcotics dealings? Because
narcotics is the most valued, most secretive cash crop on the planet,
because the money can be used to buy people off, to shut others up, to
fund secret programs and grease the palm of deep operatives whose
support
is necessary to get in on cash cows like Carlyle, BCCI, Saudi Arabia,
Noriega, Lansky, Columbia, Haiti, the MAJIC program, offshore finance,
and
much more. Perhaps most of all, such power can be used to literally
terrorize those who might object to the private use of government for
criminal purposes, in the first place---something more along the lines
of
Kitty Kellys remark about the Bushs resembling the Sopranos more than
Ozzie and Harriet.
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Surface Transportation Policy Project
http://transact.org
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"Megalopolis" - strings of major metro areas working together to plan
their
transportation futures and economic strategies
http://www.cuesfau.org/articles/article_details.asp?ArticleID=4359
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Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership
http://www.johnsoninstitute-gspia.org
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From:
Addictive, Expensive, Dangerous: The Great American Jobs Scam
by Neal Pierce
http://www.napawash.org/resources/peirce/Peirce_08_7_05.html
Call it, if you will, the crack cocaine of state and local governments
economic development practices -- their endless flow of tax breaks and
outright gifts to private corporations they either want to land, or
figure
they have to pay off to stay put.
Today the practice runs so deep, pervading such a huge number of
corporate
location moves, that officials -- even those who privately admit its an
insane, zero-sum system-- keep on forking out the cash, no matter how
incredibly costly the addiction...
As for WalMart, the worlds biggest corporation, LeRoy has totalled up
more
than $1 billion it had received from municipalities in brick-and-mortar
subsidies for its stores and warehouses -- public giveaways which end
up
throwing Main Street merchants out of business and feeding the sprawl
machine that befouls our air and drives up government costs.
A good chunk of the payoffs to WalMart, Home Depot, Target et al, LeRoy
reports, are based on enterprise zone and tax increment district
financing
laws that were originally designed to benefit lagging older cities, but
are now turned into subsidy machines to eviscerate historic communities
even further...
...Traffic congestion is costing our economy $67.5 billion a year;
thousands of bridges need replacement; wastewater systems are in bad
shape; almost 2,600 dams are now deemed unsafe; transit spending is far
below whats needed to maintain even the inadequate systems we now
have...
Its time, he assets, to take a fine-tooth comb to the $50 billion
states
and cities are now spending for corporate promises of jobs. Any subsidy
that doesnt serve compelling public need by creating more skilled
labor,
or doesnt provide a carrot for companies to invest in new skills
development, should go on a list for likely elimination.
It's time...for sweeping reform of the subsidy policies and to
recognize
them for what they are: wasteful handouts we can no longer afford...
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World Business Council for Sustainable Development
http://wbcsd.org
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A Livable Shade of Green
Newly released data show that Portland, America's environmental
laboratory,
has achieved stunning reductions in carbon emissions. It has...
http://www.sustainableportland.org
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City's Slip In Population Isn't All Bad News
It's conceivable that an innovation coming out of the universities
could
drive the development of a new industry that would create jobs and
attract residents, said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings
Institution, the think tank in Washington. Precedents, though, are few.
"In terms of propelling a declining place into a population growth
place,
there aren't that many examples of that happening," Frey said.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05191/535696.stm
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Competitors To Nuclear: Eat My Dust
In a market economy, private investors are the ultimate arbiter of what
energy technologies can compete and yield reliable profits, so to
understand nuclear power's prospects, just follow the money. Private
investors have flatly rejected nuclear power but enthusiastically
bought
its main supply-side competitors?_decentralized cogeneration and
renewables. Worldwide, by the end of 2004, these supposedly inadequate
alternatives (see graph) had more installed capacity than nuclear,
produced 92% as much electricity, and were growing 5.9 times faster and
accelerating, while nuclear was fading.
http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid1151.php
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Windmill Too Tall, Zoning Board Decides
Pine officials said electricity generated by the windmill could be used
to power a concession stand and a community center in the park, and
that
the windmill could pay for itself in 10 years. The township received a
$62,500 grant from the state Department of Environmental Protection's
Energy Harvest Program to cover half of the cost of the wind turbine.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05195/537254.stm
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Farmers Market Coming To Oakland
Oakland residents and workers with a taste for fresh, locally grown
produce can take advantage of a new farmers market on Fridays,
beginning
next week, from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Sennott Street, between
Meyran Avenue and Atwood Street. The market is a project of the Oakland
Business Improvement District and a variety of sponsors, including the
Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center and Carnegie Mellon University Studio for
Creative Inquiry, among others.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05190/535463.stm
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http://ufppc.org/
http://yesmagazine.org/
http://thememoryhole.org/
postcarbon.org
emagazine.com
saveourenvironment.org
http://www.holisticpittsburgh.com
http://www.sierraclub.org
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http://factsofwny.org/comms.htm
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> Please Post to PEN NET:
>
> For those of you who are able to view WTAE Channel 4 in Pittsburgh
there
> will be an airing of an investigative report done by reporter Paul
Van
> Osdol on Friday May 2, 2003 at 11 PM. The story is dealing with the
> people of Yukon,PA who live near the Max Environmental (formerly
known
> as Mill Service) Hazardous Waste Disposal Site. A number of PEN
members
> contributed to this story including Diana Steck, Dave Rupp, Ed
Collins,
> Joan Kodrin, and Dr. Dan Bolef.
> http://list.penweb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/penweb
MoveOnPGH
PGH-DemocracyForAmerica
http://mountainjusticesummer.org/
http://warincontext.org
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From:
View From Above
A harsh reminder of the price we pay for our way of life
by Linda Brinson 8/7/5
...Then the plane turned toward West Virginia...the ugly wound of a
mountaintop-removal coal mine came into view. The mines are so enormous
that
virtually the only way to see them in context is from above...
Clouds of dust rose where heavy equipment scraped away trees and top
soil
to lay bare one mountain's rock. Later, explosives would be used to
blast
away masses of rock to expose the seams of coal below. At some former
mountains, we saw monstrous machines called draglines that scoop away
the
blasted rock. As much as 800 or 1,000 feet of what was once a mountain
peak is dumped into narrow valleys, often burying streams and
threatening
watersheds. Some of these mines cover thousands of acres and more than
one
mountain. To call them strip mines is gross understatement.
We saw noxious-looking ponds, containing slurry left over from washing
coal - laced with heavy metals. Occasionally, a dam will break and
flood
the area below. This summer, activists have been protesting because
they
fear that a large slurry dam above Marsh Fork Elementary School in West
Virginia might fail.
"Most of the people here live in the 'hollers,' " Lapis said. "They are
subject to anything that happens above them." Increasingly, residents
complain about...coal dust, blasting, damage to watersheds, the threat
of
floods, decreased property values and the destruction of the area's
natural
beauty.
We flew over a "reclaimed" spent coal mine, a flat, barren expanse with
a few
scraggly trees. "There will never be a forest there again," Ayers said.
"There
is not enough soil."
...allows the companies to mine coal more cheaply, efficiently and
quickly,
employing fewer miners...
...knows that we need electricity. "But there are more responsible ways
to
mine coal...and we need to be doing a lot more to develop alternative
sources
of energy."
The image of the vast wastelands in West Virginia lingers in my mind
when
I flip on my electr...
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http://sustainablepittsburgh.org
http://inspiringteachers.com/
http://www.sustainablepittsburgh.org/NewFrontPage/3E_Links_Archive.html>
http://strauscom.com/links.html
http://www.rethinkingschoollunch.org
http://www.prisonplanet.com
http://www.almartinraw.com
ilsr.org
http://newrules.org
BCFacts.org
http://www.kyotoandbeyond.org
www.marcgunther.com
http://www.worthwhilemag.com
www.ams.usda.gov
Biocycle magazine.
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com
http://www.consortiumnews.com
http://Platform.For-Pgh.org
www.itrcweb.org
www.clu-in.org
http://www.brownfields2005.org
pe.com
http://www.cwwg.org
http://www.zmag.org
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/10929624.htm
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/10909206.htm
http://www.trivalleycares.org
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18604
www.tristatecitizens.org
http://www.gasp-pgh.org
sproutfund.org
www.smartgrowthpa.org
thebreakthrough.org
http://www.sacredchoices.org
planetizen.com
http://www1.worldbank.org/devoutreach/winter01/article.asp?id=97
sustainablepittsburgh.org
http://www.mv-voice.com/morgue/2005/2005_02_11.tce.shtml
www.pctv21.org
iisd.org
http://www.iisd.ca
http://www.ihe.nl
http://www.unops.org
http://www.cifor.cgiar.org
MANUAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: THE EU AND BRITAIN
http://www.mep-online.com
PUBLICATIONS ON HARVESTED WOOD PRODUCTS
http://unfccc.int/sessions/workshop/300804/reledocs.html
PROMOTING CITES-CBD COOPERATION AND SYNERGY
http://www.bfn.de/09/skript116.pdf
http://www.grain.org
http://www.iucn.org
http://www.unccd.int
http://www.rfebook.com
http://www.who.int
http://www.giwa.net
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Global International Waters
Assessment
http://www.wpcouncil.org
http://www.wetlandprofessionals.ihe.nl
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UNESCO Institute for Water Education
http://www.waterfootprint.org
...assessing 'water footprints' - the total volume of water that is
used to produce the goods and services consumed by the inhabitants of
the
nation...research results...links
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http://www.nosweat.org.uk
http://www.iisd.ca
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/calendar/calendar.htm
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International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for
Development
http://www.agassessment.org/index.html
http://www.undpingoconference.org/
http://www.wiltonpark.org.uk
ACTION AGAINST HUNGER AND POVERTY - WORLD LEADERS MEETING: 20 September
2004
http://www.mre.gov.br/ingles/politica_externa/temas_agenda/acfp
http://www.enviroinfo2004.org
http://www.world-tourism.org/sustainable
UN SYMPOSIUM ON HYDROPOWER AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:
http://unhsd.icold-cigb.org.cn/english.html
http://www.iac.wur.nl/iac
http://che-penn.org/
http://www.iac.wur.nl
http://www.conicyt.cl/IBS2004/
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies...together with the
National Institute for Environmental Studies
http://www.iges.or.jp/en/event/
http://www.worldlpgas.com
http://www.ipieca.org/downloads/climate_change/TCC_Workshop/Information.pdf
http://www.rio5.com
http://www.unece.org/trade/timber/docs/sem/2004-1/sem-2004-1.htm
http://www.international-alliance.org
barsk-rundquist@un.org; Internet: http://www.un.org/esa/forests
ternet: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/49sess.htm
FIRST INTERGOVERNMENTAL PLENARY OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT
http://www.agassessment.org/index.html
EIGHTH MEETING OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT...
http://www.unemg.org/download_pdf/EMG8/8_2agenda.pdf
http://www.mre.gov.br/ingles/politica_externa/temas_agenda/acfp/presentation.asp
http://www.gefweb.org/Whats_New/whats_new.html
20rldbank.org; Internet: http://www.imf.org/external/am/
om; Internet: http://www.ethicalcorp.com/asia2004
http://www.oecd.org/document/56/0,2340,en_2649_33763_32233656_1_1_1_1,00.html
http://www.aidharmonization.org/ah-wh/secondary-pages/Paris2005
http://www.silsoe.cranfield.ac.uk/iwe/projects/regulation/
http://www.wsscc.org/dakar
F Internet: http://www.ramsar.org
http://www.economistconferences.com/roundtable/public/con_common.asp?rtID=660&area=2&preview=&rtRegion=4&fprevrt=
International Water Management Institute; tel: +27-12-845-9100; e-mail:
b.vankoppen@cgiar.org; Internet:
http://www.nri.org/waterlaw/workshop.htm
AS ajit@chilika.com; Internet: http://www.aws2005.com/index.htm
Rsue.frye@ice.org.uk; Internet:
http://www.riverbasinmanagement2005.com/
INThttp://www.unesco.org/water/water_events/Detailed/814.shtml
International Institute for Sustainable Development
http://www.iisd.org
http://www.rethinkingschoollunch.org/
educationinnovations.org
http://strauscom.com/rodale
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Christian Associates of Southwest Pennsylvania
http://www.casp.org
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http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/112404_kennedy_insult.shtml
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http://smartwithheart.org
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CIS, the Community Information
System. It's a blockbuster of data so large you couldn't hold it in your
hands.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05355/625569.stm
Stronger farmers markets will make us healthier while preserving
landscapes and family farms
Saving verdant agricultural landscapes threatened by the urban sprawl
whose shopping malls and housing developments may have heightened the
downstream damage caused by Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Improving family
health through recognizing the part that fresh produce plays in
wholesome diets. If there is any one thread woven through all these
topics, it is that of farmers markets -- the occasional markets in
Pittsburgh and elsewhere through which local farmers with fresh farm
products interact with receptive city customers.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06004/631952.stm
http://www.fundersnetwork.org
http://www.greenbiz.com
"Indiscriminate economic development and
ecologically destructive policies have left many communities more
vulnerable to disasters than they realise," said the Washington-based
environmental group the Worldwatch Institute.
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World Business Council for Sustainable Development
http://www.wbcsd.org
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http://www.progress.org/archive/poverty4.htm
http://www.mlui.org
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Advanced Alternative Energy Corp
http://www.aaecorp.com
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use
> any of these fuel forms and others in either manual or automatic mode
to
> heat water, spaces or processes such as the drying of "Bio-Ball" fuels
or
> grain.
I hope this works out for you. Looks like a great way to go.
Jeff Davis
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From:
Nuclear salvation: ‘We’ve heard it before’
by Rosalie Bertell & Alexey Yablakov
http://www.catholicnewtimes.org/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=1&aid=254
...even though nuclear power did not emit sulfuric acid or its precursors, it did emit beta particles which reacted with the nitrogen in the air causing nitric acid. In fact, the atmospheric nuclear testing may well have been the original culprit bringing about the acid rain crisis....
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From:
Peace Making after Rio, 1992
by Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., GNSH
Originally published in the International Perspectives in Public Health Journal 1992
http://www.iicph.org/docs/peace_after_rio_1992.htm
...For me, the Rio summit was a way to engage the civilian economy in a massive effort to compensate for the excess of the military economy over the last 50 years.
Let us examine the major environmental problems: acid rain, ozone depletion, climate change, loss of topsoil, forest dieback, desertification and loss of tropical rainforest. These combined earth-illnesses have resulted in loss of species, increases in human allergies, asthma and cancers, and an increase in congenitally damaged children. If one stays only in the civilian sector when looking for the environmental culprits, one finds: fossil fuel generators, CFCs from refrigerators and air conditioners, automobiles, sewage and garbage disposal, plastic wrappings, etc. The «remedy» lies in the 3-R strategy: reduce, reuse and recycle, combined with legislation to reduce emissions. Individuals are counselled to not smoke, not eat fatty foods and not sit in the sun.
Let's look at the military reality:
Acid Rain: Did you know that nuclear explosions (and also emissions from nuclear generators) inject electrons (beta particles) into the air, causing interactions with nitrogen, oxygen and water vapour, to produce nitrates and nitric acid? The shift in the Northern Hemisphere's pH due to some 500 atmospheric nuclear explosions and 433 nuclear generators has never been estimated or even mentioned in the acid rain debate. Once the pH is reduced from 7 to 5, then the earth's ecosystem becomes vulnerable to any change in the acid rain. Preparation for nuclear war was probably a prominent component of the acid rain crisis, which threatens our lakes, fish, trees and our own respiratory tracks...
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http://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/bioconversion
http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/cwi/links.html
http://www.chinaworker.org
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...Richard Stanley of the Legacy Foundation promotes the partial rotting of
biomass as a means of increasing the binding of his simple whole biomass
"agriwaste" cooking briquettes. So simple organic compounds may be good
enough to glue other particles together.
Andrew Heggie...
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From: andrew
To: bioconversion@listserv.repp.org
Subject: Re: [Bioconversion] The Pond Scum Fireball
On Friday 23 December 2005 03:57, Jeff Davis wrote:
>
> At work, by the parking lot, we have a small pond used to collect rain
run
> off. This spring I was privy to observe just how fast algae can bloom.
There are many different sorts of algae, are you saying they are all oil
rich?
What are the growing conditions, I seem to remember them needing about
200W/m^2 of incident radiation, not available in UK at this time of year.
>
> Algae, having binder qualities hence no binder would have to be added
I like this, how much better to add such algae to a biomass pellet and
not
need the high pressures.
> the sky thinking, as of now. Furthermore it would be a plus if we
could
> remove the nutrients from the algae and return that to our algae pond
for
> further growth. I love circles!
Then a cycle with digestion rather than combustion may be more
sustainable?
>
> Possibly this would be a good way to store wind power. A windmill
could
> power full spectrum lights that are placed in the algae pond.
I suspect the conversion from wind to electricity to light would be very
lossy, if you have a big hill nearby pumping water up the hill and
having
electricity on demand by releasing water through a turbine would be more
sensible.
AJH
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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:02:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Mr Robert Marmaduke
To: bioconversion@listserv.repp.org
Subject: Re: [Bioconversion] The Pond Scum Fireball
Jeff:
You're on a good track! Serpentine ponds with
paddle wheels would move the young algae float
through the ponds into dense matts, where they
could be harvested and air dried for tilapia
feed, with a portion of the algae returned to
the head of the ponds to re-seed them.
The tilapia can be harvested and sold for $5
a pound as organic white fish. Heavy demand.
Wild MidWest fish are mercury-contaminated.
If you're in a corn-growing region, where the
corn can be fermented into ethanol, which is
growing by leaps and bounds for Clean Air biofuel.
The ethanol can be sold by 29,000 gallon tankcar
lots for $2 a gallon. Heavy demand.
The additional algae and tilapia entrails can
be mixed with spent mash cake as a protein-
supplemented cattle feed.
The cattle can be harvested and sold for $5
a pound as organic beef. Heavy demand.
The cattle manure could be anaerobically
digested for methane to power generators
to light the ponds, and to circulate them
to increase algae and tilapia production.
The stabilized manure would then fertilize
the algae ponds for increased production,
also can be used to fertilize the corn crop.
That and tilapia water itself can be routed into
a greenhouse and used to grow organic tomatoes
at $5 a pound. Heavy demand.
The manure solids and corn bagass can be
dried and used as hog-fuel to supplement-
heat the tilapia ponds and greenhouse,
along with the methane-powered lights.
They grow tilapia and tomatoes up in Canada.
End products of this 4W recycling concept:
Ethanol at $2/GAL
Organic Tilapia at $5/LB
Organic Beef at $5/LB
Organic Hothouse Tomatoes at $5/LB
Anywhere in the MidWest that grows corn,
has flowing water, and is within truck-
farming strike of a metropolitan market.
Now you're talking some serious green!
For more information, see Anthae.com.
Robert Marmaduke
--- Jeff Davis
> Dear List,
>
> Algae, pond scum, has been recognized for it
> abilities to produce oil for
> the manufacture of biodiesel. Also, lately, it�s
> been found that algae can
> be shocked in to producing hydrogen, instead of
> oxygen. Moreover algae
> show a great ability to have rapid growth rates.
>
> At work, by the parking lot, we have a small pond
> used to collect rain run
> off. This spring I was privy to observe just how
> fast algae can bloom.
> Within a few days the pond was taken over by this
> growth of algae! Before
> the farmers could even think about planting their
> crops, these algae could
> have been harvested. It would be 6 weeks before I
> could start to plant my
> first experimental switchgrass field
>
> When used for biodiesel the algae must be pressed in
> order to extract up
> to 75% of the oil. If more is desired, a solvent is
> used to extract up to
> 99 % of the oil. The production of hydrogen via
> algae is still
> experimental and the hydrogen would still need to be
> compressed if used in
> mobile devices like the auto.
>
> Algae, having binder qualities hence no binder would
> have to be added in
> order to produce �The Pond Scum Fireball�.
However
> as of date I have not
> been able to test this. Can�t wait to get my hands
> on some algae and try
> it out. After the Fireballs were manufactured, they
> could be gasified in a
> gasifier. This way we also would be able to benefit
> from algae, not just
> the biodiesel and hydrogen people but also the
> gasifier people.
> Furthermore our producer gas is a hydrogen rich gas.
>
> Problems with sustainability would have to be looked
> into, like nitrogen
> and phosphorous etc.
>
> With stationary combustion of the Fireball, either
> in a gasifier or direct
> combustion, it would behoove us if we could scrub
> the CO2 from our exhaust
> and deposit it into our algae pond. Algae will need
> a lot of CO2, for
> rapid growth. It also absorbs nitrogen oxides. It
> would also be to our
> benefit if we could cover the pond with a plastic
> membrane and harvest the
> oxygen that the algae produces, somewhat like how
> the hydrogen is
> harvested, and use that oxygen to feed our gasifier.
> This would produce a
> richer fuel. BUT I do not know if this is possible,
> this is just pie in
> the sky thinking, as of now. Furthermore it would be
> a plus if we could
> remove the nutrients from the algae and return that
> to our algae pond for
> further growth. I love circles!
>
> Possibly this would be a good way to store wind
> power. A windmill could
> power full spectrum lights that are placed in the
> algae pond. This would
> help promote growth. Also, some algae ponds are
> covered with a green house
> to help keep them warm. If one needed to make char,
> say for a Fireball
> additive, the heat and CO2 from the burned off
> gasses could be placed in
> the algae pond.
>
> Just some algae food for thought!
>
>
>
> --
> Jeff Davis
>
> Some where 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA
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Information: www.pano.org/benefits_health.php.
http://www.prc.org
http://www.econclubpgh.org
http://www.ucsur.pitt.edu/Benchmarks%20Women%27s%202004.htm
ttp://www.gatewaynewspapers.com
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ity gets first payment from nonprofit coalition
The chairman of a coalition of nonprofit organizations said yesterday
that it had wired $4.57 million to the city of Pittsburgh, fulfilling
the first part of a three-year pledge. The Pittsburgh Public Service
Fund has promised $13.25 million over three years. The initial
contribution is for last year. Payments will be quarterly from here on.
"This is truly a voluntary gift," said the Rev. Ron Lengwin, chairman of
the fund and spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh.
"A lot of these organizations have tight budgets," he said. "They saw a
city that was in crisis and in great need and wanted to help."
The fund released a list of 102 donating organizations, but not the
amounts each was donating.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06005/632763.stm
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http://www.reflector.com
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Cars don't always spell mobility.
"London shocked the world with the huge success of its congestion
pricing policy, which charges drivers a hefty fee to enter the city
center. Madrid has tamed its famously unruly traffic with aggressive
implementation of pedestrian streets and other measures to keep cars
from ruining neighborhoods. And Rome, the butt of so many jokes about
impossible traffic and insane drivers, has reduced traffic by 25 percent
in its center -- an initiative that has become the model for Paris, a
city usually looked to as the urban ideal."
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/30057/
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A Conversation [about biodiesel] with Nathaniel Doyno
If you're stuck in traffic on Penn Avenue and the distinct odor of fried
foods wafts into your window from the exhaust pipe of a nearby pimpin'
deep-blue Mercedes 300D Turbo, you're riding behind 22-year-old
Wilkinsburg resident Nathaniel Doyno, founding partner of the fledgling
non-profit operation Steel City Biofuels.
nathaniel@steelcitybiofuels.org.
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/archive.cfm?type=Local%20Vocal&action=
getComplete&ref=5425
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http://www.granta.com/books/chapters/780
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http://www.motherjones.com
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From:
Let's play 'Who Said That?!'
by Bob Cesca 1/6/5
http://www.realitybasednation.com/blog-archives/2005/01/lets_play_who_s.html
"These so-called ill-treatments and this torturing... were not, as assumed,
inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual leaders,
subleaders, and men who laid violent hands on internees...It is obvious that
there were elements among them who would ill-treat internees, but this
ill-treatment was never tolerated."...
Nazi Auschwitz Kommandant Rudolf Hoess during the Nuremberg Trials
testimony on Monday, April 15, 1946
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/hoesstest.html
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Bush Plans Sharp Cuts in HUD Community Efforts
by Jonathan Weisman 1/14/5
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7862-2005Jan13.html?sub=AR
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It used to be considered the voters' right to know the health of
candidates.
===
From:
Cardiac kids
by Dan Kennedy
...speculation about Bush's and Cheney's health...
Boston Phoenix
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/dont_quote_me/multi-page/documents/04383304.asp
Does George W. Bush sometimes wear a portable defibrillator? Is Dick
Cheney suffering from congestive heart failure?...
...that bulge seen under his jacket...newspaper item that suggested the
vice-president's feet have gotten bigger by noting that swelling of the
feet is a well-known symptom of congestive heart failure. Given Cheney's
delicate cardiac health (four heart attacks, plus an internal
defibrillator that was implanted in 2001), Marshall's speculation would
appear, at the very least, to rise to the level of a real possibility. It
goes without saying, I suppose, that the White House press office did not
return my call seeking comment...
...value to certain types of non-nutty Internet speculation that the
mainstream media, for the most part, refuse to touch...
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http://www.moveon.org
http://antiwar.com
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Mennonite Central Committee
http://www.mcc.org/
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www.cloakanddagger.ca
www.skolnicksreport.com
http://www.rense.com/general51/coa.htm
www.gallerize.com
http://under.betaland.net
www.gracepublicfund.org
http://www.propagandamatrix.com
http://funkspace.com/
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Jim Hightower
http://www.hightowerlowdown.org
...What would Jesus vote? Republican!
Blessed are the rich
for they shall inherit the earth...
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From:
First they came for the terrorists...
by Thom Hartmann
thomhartmann.com
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Order Out of Chaos
by Paul Joseph Watson
http://www.store.yahoo.com/infowars-shop/pauljoswator.html
...tactics used to centralize power and coerce societies are still being
used today...
[sample chapter]
http://www.infowars.com/pdfs/order_ch.PDF
prisonplanet.com
...Paul Joseph Watson uses mainstream media reports to exhaustively
document how governments are exploiting and even carrying out terrorist
attacks to further ...
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Exposing the New World Order and...Endless Fake Terror Alerts: Fear Based
Mind Control...The ultimate form of control is fear...
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/counterfeit_foe.html
From:
Counterfeit Foe - The Ultimate Hegelian Dialectic
by Paul Joseph Watson
If you haven't recognised the following fact then I suggest you do a little
research and deal with it. Governments, ruling oligarchies, dictatorships
subtle and overt, history time and again create their own enemies. They
need to manufacture enemies to indefinitely hoodwink the real enemy, the
people they govern.
A young and weak empire needs the genuine support of its people because the
threat from real outsiders is immediate. A vast, sprawling, decadent empire
has swallowed up all its outside enemies and...
... Hermann Goering, president of the Reichstag, Nazi Party, and Luftwaffe
Commander in Chief:
"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in
England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after
all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is
always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a
democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist
dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the
bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they
are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."...
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www.propagandamatrix.com/ endless_fake_terror_alerts.html
...speeches and conversations with Alex Jones, Congressman Ron Paul,
Colonel Craig Roberts, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney ...
www.prisonplanet.com/order_out_of_chaos.html
...ENDLESS FAKE TERROR ALERTS: FEAR BASED MIND CONTROL. By: Paul Joseph
Watson...writer and researcher based in Sheffield, England...
www.etherzone.com/2003/wats021703.shtml
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From:
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space (Brunswick, Maine)
http://www.space4peace.org
REPORT ON TRIP TO FLORIDA
1/13/5
...Emmanuel Mennonite Church in Gainesville and organized my speech at her
church on January 7 that was attended by people from several different
churches and peace groups. My talk at Eve's church was entitled the "Battle
for America's Soul" and I raised the question what does it say about our
nation's soul when weapons are our number one industrial export?...
Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
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EMR (electromagnetic radiation) Policy Institute
http://www.emrpolicy.org/
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Group Against Smog and Pollution
hydrogen resources
http://www.gasp-pgh.org/hydrogen.html
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http://www.citizenscampaign.org/
http://www.cectoxic.org
http://www.kodakstoxiccolors.org
http://www.worldcongress.com
http://buzzflash.com/
http://warincontext.org
http://war-times.org/
http://www.realitybasednation.com/blog-archives/2004/12/video_comedy.html
http://www.freepress.net/links/links.php?issue=
http://www.hereinreality.com/hinckley.html
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about self-censorship:
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/01/people-would-laugh-at-us.html
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http://www.realitybasednation.com/blog-archives/2004/12/video_comedy.html
zmag.org
http://www.jubileesouth.org
http://www.jubileeusa.org
...grassroots nongovernmental organizations...that are not only doing key
relief work but are also empowering local communities and providing a
crucial counterweight to the often corrupt and brutal governments of the
most affected countries...:
East Timor Action Network
http://www.etan.org/action/action2/23alert.htm
Via Campesina
http://www.viacampesina.org/art_english.php3?id_article=500
American Friends Service Committee
http://www.afsc.org/give/asia-relief.htm
MADRE
http://www.madre.org/programs/appeal/tsunami.html
United for Peace and Justice
http://www.unitedforpeace.org
http://www.thomasmertoncenter.org
http://www.womensindependentpress.com
www.davidcogswell.com/MediaRoulette/BushHinckley.html
prisonplanet.com/articles/june2004/060604bushcabal.htm
www.rense.com/general45/hink.htm
www.independent-media.tv
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4727/
http://paranoia.lycaeum.org/war.on.drugs/misc/cia.and.dope
http://www.skolnicksreport.com/blackmailer.html
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http://news.phaseiii.org
http://www.themedianews.com/DAGGER/Stefan/September.Terrorists.htm
http://www.spyman.ca/
http://www.warrencommission.com/home.htm
http://www.warrencommission.com/indexold.htm
http://www.mcluhaninstitute.org/
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Slaves of the 21st Century: Slavic au pairs in humanitarian London
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/aupairs.htm
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From:
Neighborhood Bully
Ramsey Clark on American Militarism
an interview by DERRICK JENSEN
http://www.thesunmagazine.org/bully.html
...what LA's maintaining its excellent mass-transit system would have done
to the petrochemical industry and the automobile industry, with all of
their accessories - tires, parts, and so on. Capital promotes activities
from which its owners can reap enormous profits. It does not matter if
those activities are detrimental to living beings or communities...
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food self-reliance
The Edible School Yard
http://resurgence.gn.apc.org/readhome.htm
Center for Ecoliteracy
http://www.ecoliteracy.org
http://www.ecoliteracy.org/pages/foodsystemsproject.html
...Food Policy...create a garden in every school...
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http://www.joseph-jenkins.com/books_humanure.html
http://www.airamericaradio.com/listen.asp
www.sojo.net
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The Ten-Point Plan for Good Jobs and Energy Independence
http://www.apolloalliance.org/strategy_center/a_bold_energy_and_jobs_policy/ten_point_plan.cfm
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American Indian
http://www.sacredland.org/resources.html
http://ili.nativeweb.org
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/aminweb/symposium_webpage.html
http://www.winnememwintu.us
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Institute for Policy Studies
http://www.ips-dc.org/
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http://ariannaonline.com/link/index.php
http://www.healthyschools.org
Green Party of Allegheny County
http://www.gpoac.org/links.htm
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biotech
www.beyondgenome.com
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
http://www.unesco.org
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http://democrats.org/
http://www.freepress.org/index2.php
http://misleader.org
http://www.drenchkiss.com
http://www.SanderHicks.com
www.williambowles.info/911/911_dirty_work.html
http://www.anomalynews.com/phorum/read.php?f=4&i=68&t=68
http://goldismoney.info/forums/showthread.php?t=13665
http://www.feminist.org
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Boeing Scandal Part of Deeper Pentagon Corruption
by David Phinney
Military contractors like Boeing, Halliburton and Lockheed, have become
increasingly embedded with the Pentagon bureaucrats who give them lucrative
work as the jailing of Darleen Druyun, a former U.S. Air Force weapons
buyer, demonstrates.
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11780
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Seven Stories Press publishes "Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation."...
www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.asp?id=307
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www.wanttoknow.info/911information
www.anomalynews.com
www.onlinejournal.com
www.globalresearch.ca
www.williambowles.info/911/911_dirty_work.html
www.smirkingchimp.com
www.libertythink.com
www.codepinkalert.org
http://ashoka.org
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Lawmakers Call on President to Stop Covert Propaganda
http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/05/01/ale05007.html
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http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk
http://www.southasiadisasters.net/
www.mollyrush.com
www.uwm.edu/MilwaukeeIdea/CEO/brownfields/bibliography/index.html
www.greenwatchusa.org
Biggest Missed Story of 2004:
Pennsylvania #1 in Cancer Hazards from Manufacturing
http://lakes.chebucto.org/VIEW/ICON/smokestacks.jpg
http://lakes.chebucto.org/INFO/GLOBAL_WARMING/kyoto.html
http://scorecard.org/env-releases/facility.tcl?tri_id=19612CRPNT101WB
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=8-1594200297-0
Democracy Matters:
Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
Cornel West
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=8-1583226281-0
www.mindfully.org
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Pennsylvania Observer Blog
http://pennsylvaniaobserver.blogspot.com
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excerpt
Kill Zone
A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza
by Craig Roberts
http://hiddenmysteries.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16576
Excerpt:
Page 46-47
According to Fletcher Prouty, "After the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy decided he
would change the entire structure of how this government would carry out
covert operations...
"Kennedy was changing the status quo, from Big Business to the military;
from disgruntled intelligence agents to Cubans and their supporters...
Kennedy had to go. The mechanism was in place."...
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http://www.democraticunderground.com
http://www.democraticunderground.com/links/pages/
ttp://democracyrising.us
http://afterdowningstreet.org
impeachbush.org
irangate.net
From: Rachel Filippini
according to the
40mpg.org/CSI
Green Power and Market Research News
http://www.wapa.gov/es/greennews/
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Environmental Quality Institute, http://orgs.unca.edu/eqi/
[3] Volunteer Water Information Network,
http://orgs.unca.edu/eqi/vwin.htm
[4] HBN's Arsenic Testing Kits,
http://www.goemerchant1.com/index.cgi?ST=&Merchant=instituteforlocalselfreliance2&PageToView=catalog&Department=46303
[5] "All Hands on Deck" Environmental Working Group (2002)
http://www.ewg.org/reports/allhandsondeck/
[9] "2005 In Review: The Year PVC Phase-Out Went Mainstream" (Healthy
Building News, December 21, 2005)
http://www.healthybuilding.net/news/pvc-122105.html
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Calle y Media collective
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http://savingcommunities.org
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steelcactus.com
www.pahc
sc.org
Ken Zeleny
sTo: Rebecca Marquette
Subject: Mark your calendars
1/13/2006 7:00pm " The Other War for Oil: Columbia"
Pittsburgh Mennonite Church
Description: Human rights and labor attorney and activist Dan
Kovalick will be giving a lecture on US military aid to Columbia,
Columbia's conflicts and its affect on labor organizers, specifically in
the three lawsuits he is bringing against Coca Cola, Drummand Coal and
Occidential Petroleum for human rights violations in their operations in
Columbia. Event is free and open to the public.
I urge you all to attend! Please bring your family and friends!
Sponsored by the Mission & Service Commission and Maria Roberts of
PULSE
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New Alchemy Institute, Dorothy and Albert Bates
http://www.y2kcrisis2000.com/y2kc4.html
http://www.brevardeco.org/library.html#My
npk http://www.brevardeco.org/archives/carbon/carbon.html
http://www.brevardeco.org/archives/truth/truth.html
re Apollo 13 near-accident: http://www.iki.rssi.ru/solar/eng/apo13.htm
"...There was, of course, a fix; and it came in the form of an ingenious
combination of suit hoses, cardboard, plastic
stowage bags, and CSM canisters - all held together with a liberal
application of grey duct tape..."
Doylestown Community Fellowship http://www.dcf.org/DCF/y2k.htm
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david@bloom.org>
Reply-To: Feedback@worldwar4report.com
http://www.ww4report.com
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To: Mailer Verifier
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http://plenty.org
...Plenty's work in the Gulf and a report from Chuck and Casta Haren who are in Guatemala about the aftermath of the mudslides caused by
Hurricane Stan...we've been scrambling at Plenty to respond wherever we can while continuing to support our Central American Food Security Initiative partners, along with Plenty Belize, Kids To The Country and the work we've been assisting at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
What's been gratifying is to find that the time-honored magic still
works, that when you reach out past your own strength and resources
to lend a hand, you are given what you need and then some. Through it
all we've found old partners who've stepped up to bridge gaps, and
new partners who've expanded our field of vision and ability to
identify and fill needs. The network of big-hearted and like-minded
individuals and organizations who have come out of the wood work to
shoulder some of the load in every corner of every project Plenty is
involved with has been simply awe inspiring-something to behold and
something to build on because the secret of empowering the powerless
is all about working together, cooperation and coalitions. When you
don't have the big bucks, your wealth is in your friends and allies
and in the great pure heart of the effort you are able make together,
and the healing love it produces. While we mourn for the victims of
natural and unnatural disasters and rail at the incompetence and
corruption of governments and bureaucracies, we are made hopeful by
the extraordinary outpouring of help by ordinary folks who get up and
create miracles.
Over in the column of disheartening news comes word that the
unnatural disaster of hunger is continually spreading. We read in the
New York Times that in 2004, "38 million Americans - including nearly
one in five children - lived in households that found it difficult to
afford food, 6 million more than in 1999." And while we're digesting
this sad fact, our Congress is voting to cut food stamps for 200,000
American citizens living in poverty. Meanwhile, down in the
Mississippi and Louisiana Delta communities thousands of people are
homeless, hungry, cold and mostly forgotten except by their families
and hundreds of mainly poor and certainly underfunded grassroots
volunteer groups and individuals out there doing whatever they can to
help.
The recent report titled The State of Food Insecurity in the World
2005 by the respected Food and Agriculture organization of the UN
(FAO), makes clear the debilitating and mutually compounding
relationship between hunger and poverty. In its earliest days, Plenty
learned about what we once described as the many-spoked "wheel of
poverty" that rolls over the backs of the poor. The FAO report places
hunger at the hub of that wheel and describes the spokes emanating
from that wheel as "impaired maternal and infant health," " weakened
immune systems and rising child mortality," "less education and
employment for women and girls," and "unsustainable use of natural
resources."
This is the wheel of a vicious cycle, and one that we have witnessed
first-hand time and again since we first launched the ship we call
Plenty in order to do something about it. The longer we're at it, the
more we have focused our efforts on sustainable food and agriculture
projects, to get the food production resources in the hands of the
people while expanding awareness of the importance of good nutrition.
Reduced hunger and better nutrition, in turn, as FAO describes,
produce better maternal and child health, lowered child mortality,
increased productivity and income which ease the grip of poverty and
reduce negative pressures on the environment-all of which creates a
wheel of well-being and sustainability.
So hopefully as we roll out of this unusually challenging year, we
will roll into the next one stronger, wiser, more alert, better
prepared, and arm in arm with new friends, allies and partners
inspired by the realization of how much more we can do together.
Together. That's the magic word, isn't it? Without you, there's not
nearly enough; with you there's plenty.
Yours truly,
Peter Schweitzer
Executive Director
http://plenty.org
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Western Shoshone Defense Project
wsdp.org
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Ders a Winda at My Haus B
London Bridge Is Falling Down
Ders a winda at my haus
At my haus, at my haus
Ders a winda at my haus
It needs warshin.’
Mt. Worshington of the West E
America the Beautiful
Mt.Worshington, Mt. Worshington, it rilly is the best
The Canyon Grand, yinz unnerstand zOK for yinz aht West
But wader-wise we take the prize
No trickle is the Mon
We like the view of DahnTahn too
Now that the soot is gone.
Streetcars Don’t Go to S’Liberty u
Ther’ Once Was a Farmer
Ther’ once was a streetcar, it went everywhere;
To Norside and Sahside for jist a small fare.
It went from DahnTahn to S’Liberty way,
Yid transfer an’ ‘en ya cood ride for a day
And ye’d go out to the end of the line
Yid visit yer frenz an’ be back right on time.
But now der’s a T to the Village ‘n’ back,
Can’t go nowhere else, ther’s a lack of a track
But Sauth Hillies thi-ink they go-ot the best
Unless they shud wanna go East er go West.
An’ that’s why Picksburgh’s such a great tawn,
Ya never can tell if yer up or yer down.
Dirty Ol’ DahnTahn C
Bye, Bye Blackbird
Dahntahn Picksburgh’s lost th’ stores
Gimbels, Hornes’ve shut ther doors
Bye, Bye Kaufmann’s
Fith ‘n’ Smithfield’s goin’ dahn
Shuttered stores all over tahn
Bye, Bye Kaufmann’s.
No one here to sell ya wigs or flahrs
Homeless people while away the haurs
Pick th’ candy wrappers up,
An’ at dirty coffee cup,
Murphy, bye bye.
Der’s Plastick on My Caach â
On Top of Old Smoky
The pop and the ice cream
The Clark Bars, too
Stick to the cushions
Can’t sit on the goo
Then ahr dog he jumps up
and ca-an’t get dahn
Beca-ause his ass sticks õ
To the caach he’s up on
That’s why we got plastics
Ahr caach now’s so neat
It’s rilly fantastik
But ya stick to thuh seat
Gumban’ Blues &
Found a Peanut
Shot a gumban, Shot a gumban,
Shot a gumban in the air
Just now it went a-flyin’ to a place
I know not where
Now the teacher, now the teacher’s
givin’ me a nasty glare
Oh I see now where it landed,
ri-ight on the teacher’s hair
I’m in trouble, I’m in trouble, I’ll be
stayin’ after school
And she’ll beat me, yes she’ll beat me
with the go-olde-en rule.
It’s Slippy Near the Spicket Û
London Bridge
Water’s drippin’ from the sink, from
the sink, from the sink
On her ass she’ll fall I think, my fair lady
All she wanted was a drink, jes a drink,
’s’ what I think,
All she wanted was a drink, my fair lady
Now the wader’s on the floor, on the floor, on the floor
Shoulda told her what’s in store - but this lady
Went ahead and wrenched her back,
drenched her slacks, then went black
When she woke the pipes they cracked, poor ole lady.
So when you see a little drip, get a wrench, it’s a cinch
Fix the spicket, if you won’t, pleese don’t blame me
Ain’t No Primanti’s Here ä
All through the Night
Wherz the french fries,
Wherz the cole slaw,
Can’t find it here.
Need my sangwich
It’s a Burgh thing
‘long with my beer
O Primanti’s, how I need ya
I don’t care what else they feed ya
Give me my Primanti speshul
‘n’I’ll be awright
Danny Boy õ
[Danny Boy] Oh Danny Boy
Ole Layla was a-callin’
From den to bath
All o-er the haus she cried
Her food is gone
And Daddy’s aht a partyin’
And Mum’s at work
And so she must abide.
Oh they’ll come home
At midnight or at one or two
And then she’ll yodel,
Jump and bite yer face
You’ll laugh an’ cry
And tell her that you love her
And then she’ll know
she sti-ill runs the place.
The Christmas Edition
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THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IS HAPPY TO SHARE
THESE NEWS AND RESOURCES FROM THE FIELD
December 20, 2005
URL: http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/asap/orgconf/
FARMING FOR PROFIT AND STEWARDSHIP CONFERENCE
January 13-14, 2006, Hagerstown, MD
The 7th annual conference will bring together outstanding farmers,
nationally known researchers and experienced educators in the field of
sustainable agriculture. Two new pre-conference workshops will run from
9:30 am to noon on Friday. "Value Added Products? and "Taking Research
into Your Own Hands" More info at:
http://www.futureharvestcasa.org/conf.html
ECO-FARM 2006: SAVORING CONNECTIONS FROM SEED TO TABLE
January 25-28, 2006, Pacific Grove, California
Eco-Farm features prominent keynote speakers and more than 50 workshops
on the latest advances in agricultural production, marketing, research,
and important issues.
URL: http://www.eco-farm.org/efc_05/aboutefc.html
MIDWEST VALUE ADDED CONFERENCE: ENHANCING PROFIT ON THE FARM
January 27-28, 2006, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
At this annual conference, learn from those who have explored new ways
of marketing their products. URL:
http://www.rivercountryrcd.org/valad.htm
NOFA-NY ORGANIC FARMING & GARDENING CONFERENCE
January 27-29, 2006, Syracuse/Liverpool, NY
Cooperation: with Nature, with Neighbors, with Local Economies. More
info here: http://nofany.org/events.html#conference06
FARMING FOR THE FUTURE CONFERENCE
February 2-4, 2006, State College, PA
The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) will
celebrate the 15th anniversary of its Farming for the Future conference
with the theme "Weaving a Diverse Landscape: Food as a Common Thread."
More info: http://www.pasafarming.org/conferences/confinfo.htm
FARMING WITH VALUES THAT LAST CONFERENCE
February 24-26, 2006, Mount Pleasant, PA
The agenda includes practical workshops, inspiring singing, solid
worship and warm fellowship for people of faith interested in
sustainable farming and healthy food. A conference flier is online at
www.laurelville.org/pdfs/06 SF web.pdf
NORTHEAST SUSTAINABLE LIVESTOCK CONFERENCE
March 6-7, 2006, Fairlee, VT
This two-day conference will include topics on energy, soils, crops,
finances, grazing, animal health, and marketing. More info at:
http://www.nofavt.org/event.php?e_id=381
COMMUNITY FOOD SECURITY COAL. EVALUATION PROGRAM WORKSHOP
March 13-15, 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana
This is a comprehensive, interactive, two-and-a-half-day workshop
focused on outcome-based evaluation strategies, tools, analysis and
results and designed expressly for Community Food Project (CFP) grantees
and other CFP practitioners.
http://foodsecurity.org/eval_wkshp2006.html
More Events:
http://www.sustainableagriculture.net/scripts/calendar/calendar.cgi
and http://attra.ncat.org/calendar/.
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
ILLINOIS RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT FUND
The Illinois Finance Authority (IFA) will work with community banks and
lenders to provide loans and loan guarantees to qualified farmers and
farmer co-operatives who construct wind turbines for use as alternative
energy.
http://www.illinois.gov/PressReleases/ShowPressRelease.cfm?SubjectID=3&RecNum=4446
GRADUATE STUDENT GRANT PROGRAM
North Central Region (NCR) SARE has issued a call for proposals in the
Graduate Student Grant Program. Approximately $150,000 will be available
to fund 15 to 16 grant projects, with individual grants not to exceed $10,000.
Proposals are due January 10, 2006. URL:
http://www.sare.org/ncrsare/cfp.htm
PRIVATE STEWARDSHIP GRANTS PROGRAM
The Private Stewardship Program provides grants and other assistance on
a competitive basis to individuals and groups engaged in local, private,
and voluntary conservation efforts that benefit federally listed,
proposed, or candidate species, or other at-risk species. Proposal must
include at least 10 percent cost sharing on the part of the landowner or
other non-Federal partners involved in the project. Grant proposals
must be submitted to regional offices. Proposals are due January 23,
2006. URL:
http://www.fws.gov/endangered/grants/private_stewardship/index.html
NEW YORK FARMLAND PROTECTION IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT GRANTS
Proposals for funding will be accepted from only: (1) county
agricultural and farmland protection boards in counties with an approved
county plan developed pursuant to Section 324 of Article 25-AAA of the
Agriculture and Markets Law; or (2) any municipality which has in place
a local farmland protection plan, provided the proposed project is
endorsed for funding by the agricultural and farmland protection board
for the county in which the municipality is located. Local match, equal
to at least 25 percent of the total project required. Proposals are due
January 23, 2006. URL: http://www.agmkt.state.ny.us/RFPS.html
TEACHING AND RESEARCH CAPACITY BUILDING GRANTS PROGRAM
The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
requests applications for the for fiscal year 2006 to stimulate the
development of high quality teaching and research programs at 1890 Land-Grant
Institutions and Tuskegee University and West Virginia State University
to build their capacities. Estimated total program funding is $12.4
million. Proposals are due January 31, 2006. URL:
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/1890_capacity.html
SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PROGRAM: PHASE II
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is soliciting research proposals
under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, Fiscal Year
2006. New this year for SBIR is a Small and Mid Sized Farms topic area.
Projects dealing with agriculturally related manufacturing technology
are encouraged across all 2006 SBIR topic areas. Estimated total program
funding is $19.4 million. Proposals are due February 2, 2006.
URL: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/fundview.cfm?fonum=1222
WI AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND DIVERSIFICATION GRANTS
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection's
Agricultural Development and Diversification (ADD) Grant Program
invites proposals for projects that are likely to stimulate Wisconsin's
agricultural economy through the development and exploration of new
value-added products, new markets, or new technologies in agriculture.
Currently, the program has $380,000 to award to projects with a maximum
grant amount of $50,000. Proposals are due March 15, 2006. URL:
http://datcp.state.wi.us/mktg/business/marketing/val-add/add/index.jsp
USDA ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF FOOD STAMP OUTREACH GRANTS
The purpose of these grants is to implement and study effective
strategies to inform and educate potentially eligible low income people
not currently participating in the FSP about the nutrition benefits of
the Food Stamp Program, eligibility rules, and how to apply. Optional
letters of intent are due January 6, 2006. Proposals are due April 3,
2006.
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&contentid=2005/11/0512.xml
PEST MANAGEMENT ALTERNATIVES PROGRAM
Supports projects that develop and implement integrated pest management
practices, tactics and systems for specific pest problems while reducing
human and environmental risks. Proposals are due February 1, 2006.
URL:
http://fedgrants.gov/Applicants/USDA/CSREES/OEP/USDA-GRANTS-120605-001/Grant.html
KENTUCKY 2006 AGRI-TOURISM COMPETITIVE AWARDS PROGRAM
Kentucky will make available $1 million in state funds for the 2006 Agri-tourism
Competitive Awards Program. All projects require a 50% match from the
applicant.
Proposals are due February 1, 2006.
URL: http://agpolicy.ky.gov/funds/award_programs_agritourism.shtml
More Funding Opportunities: http://attra.ncat.org/funding/
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IN THE NEWS
2007 FARM BILL PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD TO CLOSE DECEMBER 30TH
The window of opportunity for commenting on the shape of the next
federal Farm Bill will soon be shut, at least for this part of the
process. The USDA began accepting public comments on the priorities of
the next Farm Bill last spring and has since been crisscrossing the
country organizing Farm Bill listening sessions. Those who were not
able to attend a public forum can still be part of the process by
submitting their comments online here: http://www.usda.gov/farmbill (click
on ?Farm Bill 2007 Official Comments? in right sidebar)
SWISS APPROVE 5-YEAR GMO FARMING BAN
In a national referendum, Swiss voters adopted a five-year moratorium on
GMO crops and the import of genetically modified animals, reports
Reuters. The measure approved by 55 percent of voters is one of the
toughest stances in Europe on GMOs. In related news covered by
EUobserver (http://euobserver.com/9/20431), Austria has said it will
launch a European Union-wide debate on GMOs when it takes over EU's
rotating presidency in January. Austria already has a ban of its own on
GMO plants.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2005-11-27T135520Z_01_MOL749996_RTRUKOC_0_US-FOOD-SWISS-GMO.xml&archived=False
PROGRAM LINKS PRODUCERS AND GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
The National Association of Conservation Districts and the Natural
Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) are joining forces with the
National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) and the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service on the "Walk a Mile in My Boots" initiative. The
program is a work-exchange program between agriculture producers and
government employees that was developed by NCBA and FWS in 2003. Farmers
and ranchers participating in exchanges will visit field offices and/or
state and national offices. URL:
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/feature/volunteers/walkamile.html
NATIVE FOODS FIND NEW GENERATION OF SUPPORT
An article in The New York Times reports on fledgling efforts across the
nation to revive American Indian foods. Chefs nationwide are beginning
to incorporate native foods--wild rice, squash, beans, corn, Pacific
salmon, bison, and persimmons, for example--into their menus. Several
projects are encouraging a return to traditional agriculture and
foodstuffs, including the White Earth Land Recovery Project, Native
Seeds/SEARCH, and Renewing America's Food Traditions (RAFT).
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/23/dining/23nati.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1132776114-HquVyavIZTDI8wVn6MiLww
UPSTATE NY GRASSFED FARMERS CREATE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
The program, created by the members of MADE in Schoharie County, a
community coalition of pasture-based livestock farmers based in
Schoharie County, aims to train its first class of interns in every
aspect of sustainable meat production from hoof to plate. The program
will run from Mid-May through Mid-August. Students who have a high
school degree and some college experience are encouraged to apply. To
learn more, visit www.grassfedinterns.com, or by calling Carol Clement
at (518) 239-6234.
MILK TO CHEESE PILOT PROJECT SHUT DOWN
On October 26, 2005, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) abruptly
ended an 18-month experiment in which a local anti-hunger organization
exchanged government surplus nonfat dry milk for cheese to feed the
needy. The Hunger Task Force of Milwaukee (HTFM) was told to end its
relationship with Alto Dairy Cooperative in Waupun, WI, which received
the powdered milk, kept some as a form of compensation, and turned the
rest into 20,000 pounds of cheese a month that was distributed in low-income
neighborhoods in Milwaukee. USDA discontinued the project because it
claimed that the cheese giveaway decreased demand for and sales of
nonfat dry milk and that surplus stocks had been reduced. The
termination of the pilot project just five days after USDA announced
that it would donate 25 million pounds of the nonfat dry milk to food
banks and others as part of a humanitarian initiative, raised some
eyebrows in Washington, D.C. ?This disparity seems incongruous and I
would welcome !
further elaboration on this point,? Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI) wrote USDA.
?I have been an ardent supporter of [the pilot] and our staffs have
talked at length about this initiative.? From Foodlinks America ?
November 25, 2005
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RESOURCES
NEW BOOK FROM FARM AID
A Song for America (Rodale, $35.00) was released this fall and
chronicles the series of concerts and the accomplishments of the
organization that galvanized a grassroots movement for the independent
family farm. The book features in-depth interviews with Farm Aid
President and Founder Willie Nelson, as well as board members Neil Young,
John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews, who offer their reflections about
food, family farming and music, revealing the depth of their personal
and family commitment. Essays by such diverse writers as Robert F.
Kennedy, Jr., Barbara Kingsolver, Eric Schlosser, Wendell Berry, Howard
Zinn, Michael Pollan, and Ruth Reichl are interwoven with hundreds of
exclusive photographs and inspiring imagery to create a tapestry that
chronicles the mission, achievements, and ongoing challenges of Farm Aid
and the family farms they help. To order: www.farmaid.org, or call 1-800-FARM-AID.
TRAINING OFFERED FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONSERVATION CAMPAIGN ORGANIZERS
IN NORTH CAROLINA
Presented by the Institute For Conservation Leadership and The North
Carolina Conservation Network. The First workshop will be held January
27-28, 2006 near Greensboro, NC. The complete organizer program
includes two workshops and ongoing support. The deadline to apply is
January 9, 2006. For complete details and to download the application,
visit ICL?s website: www.icl.org. For more information, contact Nicole
(Marschhauser) Stewart at NC Conservation Network (919-857-4699 ext.105,
nicole@ncconservationnetwork.org) or Baird Straughan at ICL (301-270-2900
ext. 4 or baird@icl.org).
PATRICK MADDEN AWARD: A SEARCH FOR AN EXEMPLARY NE FARMER
The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
program is seeking nominations for the Patrick Madden Award. This award
recognizes a farmer who is living the SARE mission by practicing
agriculture that is profitable, good for the environment, and beneficial
to the wider community. Offered in memory of Patrick Madden, the first
national director of SARE, it comes with a $1000 cash award and an
expense-paid trip to the SARE conference in Wisconsin in August of 2006.
Nominations for the Madden Award should consist of a brief profile of
the nominee, including contact information, a description of the nominee's
farm and its operations, and a detailed statement of why the nominee
should be considered for the award. Nominations can be sent via e-mail
to nesare@uvm.edu or to NE SARE/Madden Award, Hills Building, 105
Carrigan Dr., Burlington, VT 05405-0082. Deadline 2/1/06.
STRATEGIES FOR HEALTHY FOOD, HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
Residents in low-income neighborhoods often have limited access to
healthy foods, but programs across the country are helping to revitalize
communities and increase access to food that is both healthy and
affordable. A new PolicyLink report, Healthy Food, Healthy Communities:
Improving Access and Opportunities through Food Retailing, discusses how
this issue is being addressed, provides examples of several successful
programs, and showcases the important role state and local governments
play. The report also highlights three of the most promising strategies
for bringing healthy food to communities: developing new grocery stores,
improving the selection and quality of food in existing smaller stores,
and starting and sustaining farmers' markets. URL:
http://www.policylink.org/Research/HealthyFood/
THE INTERNET AS A FARMING TOOL
The Center for Rural Development at Louisiana Tech University offers
high quality templates for community and nonprofit Web sites. These and
other resources for Web design are available to any community that
wishes to use them. Contact Elizabeth Higgins, ehiggins@latech.edu, 318-251-2919.
URL: http://www.latech.edu/tech/rural/website project/index.html
REPORT SHOWS GROWTH IN ORGANIC ACREAGE
USDA Economic Research Service has released a report that documents
growth in organic production from 1992-2003. By 2003, farmers in 49
States dedicated 2.2 million acres of cropland and pasture to organic
production systems. The report notes that while adoption of organic
farming systems showed strong gains between 1992 and 2003 and the
adoption rate remains high, the overall adoption level is still low--only
about 0.4 percent of all U.S. cropland and 0.1 percent of all U.S.
pasture was certified organic in 2003.
URL:http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/Organic/index.htm
FACTORY ANIMAL FARMS AND HUMAN HEALTH LINK EXPLORED
A new report from the World Society for the Protection of Animals says
that growth of industrial-style animal production could lead to human
health impacts. The report recommends a halt to the expansion of factory
farms, the adoption of humane and sustainable forms of farming, and a
global ban on the use of antibiotic growth promoters and production
enhancing hormones.
URL: http://www.wspa-international.org/site/index.php?page=1542
TWO PUBLICATIONS FROM THE FOOD RESEARCH AND ACTION CENTER
The ?Advocate?s Guide to the School Nutrition Programs.? is a complete
reference manual on these crucial programs that benefit millions of
American children.
For more information, go to: http://www.frac.org/pdf/advguide_school.pdf.
?Obesity, Food Insecurity and the Federal Nutrition Programs:
Understanding the Linkages.? includes information on definitions,
prevalence, and consequences of these public health problems for low-income
people, along with a detailed examination of child nutrition program
operations and their impacts. To learn more, see:
http://www.frac.org/pdf/obesity05_paper.pdf. From Foodlinks America ?
Nov. 25, 2005
FOODLINKS AMERICA E-NEWS
This resource is available free of charge to non-profit, public, and
faith-based organizations. The biweekly newsletter is dedicated to
providing you with useful information on food, nutrition, and hunger
concerns in the United States. To receive the newsletter send a request
to: bvauthier@281.com.
NEW PEST MANAGEMENT RESOURCE
The Sustainable Agriculture Network has released a new pest management
resource that is available for free online. Download a complete copy of
"Manage Insects on Your Farm" at www.sare.org/publications/insect.htm.
To order print copies ($15.95 plus $5.95 s/h) visit www.sare.org/WebStore,
call 301/374-9696 or send check or money order to Sustainable
Agriculture Publications, PO Box 753, Waldorf, Maryland 20604-0753. (Please
specify title requested when ordering by mail.) Discounts are available
on orders of 10 or more. Allow 3-4 weeks for delivery.
PASTURES OF PLENTY REPORT
Farms using managed grazing typically produce less milk per cow than
confinement farms. However, a series of economic studies in Wisconsin
and elsewhere show that, for many dairy farmers, the savings they
realize using managed grazing more than offsets the loss in milk
revenues due to lower production. These studies show that grazing farms
are economically competitive with confinement operations. The report
from UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems details some
of the principal findings of this economic research.
http://www.cias.wisc.edu/archives/2005/02/01/pastures_of_plenty_financial_performance_of_wisconsin_grazing_dairy_farms/index.php
REPORT FROM UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS ON ECONOMICS OF PHARMACEUTICAL
CROPS.
The economics of pharmaceutical crops: potential benefits and risks for
Farmers and rural communities finds that while some drug and
Biotechnology companies may profit from pharma crops, growers and rural
Communities are likely to see, at best, only modest benefits. The
report is available at
http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_environment/genetic_engineering/economics-of-pharmaceutical-crops.html
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QUICK LINKS
Job Opportunities on the National Campaign?s Website:
https://www.wustainableagriculture.net/employment.php
Event Calendar on the National Campaign?s Website:
http://www.sustainableagriculture.net/scripts/calendar/calendar.cgi
ATTRA Publications for Organic Crop Producers:
Available at http://attra.ncat.org/risk_management/srmgateway.html)
many more publications on all aspects of sustainable agriculture, are
available for free from ATTRA at 800-346-9140 or
http://www.attra.ncat.org.
Cornell Resource Guide: Organic Insect & Disease Management
Order on-line at www.cce.cornell.edu/store.
New Book On What People Eat In A Week In Various Countries:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5005952
Competitive Foods Examined
The report from the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of
Congress, also noted that competitive food sales (those that compete
with nutritious school lunch items) ?generated substantial revenues?
for schools. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05563.pdf.
Local Planning For NY Agriculture is Focus of New Guide
American Farmland Trust's new Guide to Local Planning for Agriculture in
New York URL:http://www.farmlandinfo.org/farmland_preservation_literature/index.cfm?function=article_view&articleID=30379
Katahdin Sheep Offer Tobacco Alternative For Virginia County
In Scott County, Virginia, a significant number of tobacco farmers
looking for an alternative crop have turned to raising Katahdin hair
sheep for their meat.
http://www.timesnews.net/businessArticle.dna?_StoryID=3572692
National Campaign For Sustainable Agriculture
P.O. Box 396
Pine Bush, New York 12566
Phone: 845-361-5201 Fax: 845-361-5204
http://www.sustainableagriculture.net/
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From: Michael Albert
http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm
interview with Chomsky discussing the recent Iraq
elections, Iraq motives and policy more generally, international
relations, U.S. policy making, etc.
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From:
On the Iraq Election
Noam Chomsky interviewed by Andy Clark for Radio Netherlands
...Noam Chomsky:...The US tried, in every possible way, to prevent elections in Iraq. They offered effort after effort to evade the danger of elections. Finally, they were compelled to accept elections by mass non-violent resistance...Mass outpourings of people demanding elections. Finally, Bush and Blair had to agree to elections. The next step is to subvert them and they started immediately...
...the Iraqis have forced the occupying powers to allow some kind of electoral process. What the occupying powers are doing now is perfectly clear and very familiar, very familiar. We've had a long history of this in Central America, the British ran an empire, the Japanese ran an empire, and the Russians ran an empire in Eastern Europe. The way they want it to work - standard procedure - you want the local forces to run their own countries, so Poland under the Russians, the Polish army runs it, the Polish civilians are the bureaucrats, Russians are in the background. The same in say, El Salvador, the US-run state terrorist forces are the military, the
civilians are local, and the US is in the background. If anything goes
wrong, they move in, the same with the British in India, the same with the Japanese in South Korea...
...The victory of the non-violent resistance in Iraq, which compelled the occupying forces to allow elections, that's a major victory. That's one of the major triumphs of non-violent resistance that I know of. It wasn't the insurgents that did it - the US doesn't care about violence, they have more violence. What it can't control is non-violence and the non-violent movements in Iraq...
...they're fighting tooth and nail to prevent democracy and sovereignty in Iraq. The Iraqi people have resisted and it's a very impressive resistance. I'm not talking about insurgency. I'm talking about popular, non-violent resistance under bitter conditions. There's a labour movement forming, which is a very important one. The US
insists on keeping Saddam's bitter anti-labour laws, but the labour
movement doesn't like it. Their activists are being killed. Nobody knows
by whom, maybe by insurgents, maybe by former Baathists, maybe by
somebody else. But they're working. There's the basis of a popular
democracy being developed there, much to the horror of the occupying forces, but it's going on and it could have very long term consequences
in their national affairs, which is why Bush and Blair have so
desperately been trying to prevent democracy and any form of sovereignty
and have been forced to back off step by step. This is also going on
with the economic arrangements. The US moved in and immediately tried to
open up the economy to foreign take-over by imposing outrageous and in
fact illegal laws for privatisation. You know, Iraqis don't want that,
they want to take control of their own economy and resources. There's a
battle going on about that.
Andy Clark: Let's hear another message from a listener. This is from
Miguel C. Alvarez, who is a Spanish ex-patriot living in the UK:
Miguel's email: "Forget about the US and EU governments: they're
hopeless. Where to for 'the people?' How can the insanity be stopped? Or
will it have to run its course and get much worse before it can get
better?"
Andy Clark: What's your take on that?
Noam Chomsky: The violence in Iraq is a serious problem for the Iraqis
and I tend to agree with, apparently the majority of Iraqis, that it's
the occupation forces that are stimulating the violence. The fact that
an insurgency even developed in Iraq is astonishing. I mean it's an
amazing fact that the US has had more trouble controlling Iraq than the
Germans had in controlling occupied Europe or the Russians in
controlling Eastern Europe. After all, the countries under Nazi or
Russian occupation were run by domestic forces, domestic police,
domestic armies, and domestic civilian forces. The Nazis and the Kremlin
were in the background and if needed, they came in, but mostly it was
domestically run. There were partisans in Western Europe and they were
very courageous, but they would've been wiped out very quickly if it
hadn't been for enormous foreign support and, of course, Germany was at
war.
Well, in Iraq none of these circumstances prevailed, there was no
outside support for the resistance. The little support that has arisen,
and it is very slight, is mostly engendered by the invasion. But there's
no outside support. The country had been devastated by sanctions. The US
was coming in with enormous resources to rebuild it and they have turned
it into a total catastrophe. It's one of the worst military catastrophes
in history. You look at figures for something like, say malnutrition;
malnutrition is way up since the US took over, that's unbelievable. It's
one of the few wars that can't be reported, not because reporters are
cowards, but because it's too dangerous. Reporters are mostly in the
Green Zone or else they go out with a platoon of marines. There are
some, like Robert Fisk, Patrick Cockburn and a couple of others who are
independent and brave it, but not many. This is an incredible
catastrophe. But it's very likely, and I tend to agree with apparent
opinion of most Iraqis on this, that it's the invading armies themselves
that are engendering the violence. Well, they're carrying out plenty of
it, but the violence of the insurgents would probably recline if they
left and allowed Iraqis to be on their own.
Andy Clark: Another message, this is from Charles Harlich, from New
Jersey in the US:
Charles' email: "I have a relative who is now serving as a soldier in
Iraq. What advice would you give to him?"
Noam Chomsky: Look, I have plenty of correspondence with soldiers in
Iraq and all you can do is offer them your sympathy. You hope that they
make it safely and that their leaders will get them out of there. The
same kind of advice you would've given to Russian soldiers in
Afghanistan. You have to sympathize with them; it's not their fault.
It's the fault of their commanders. I don't mean their military
commanders, I mean the civilians in the Pentagon, in the White House and
their counterparts in England.
Andy Clark: This is from Steve Brown in Mexico:
Steve's email:" No one is talking anymore about oil. Isn't that still
the main reason the US invaded Iraq and are Iraq's large reserves now
under control of US corporations?"
Noam Chomsky: Nobody was talking about oil all along if you look. It was
considered outrageous to talk about oil. If anyone talked about oil,
Tony Blair would have a tantrum about conspiracy theories.
Andy Clark: Plenty of the protestors said it was a war for oil all
along...
Noam Chomsky: Protesters did, but take a look at the mainstream. It was
considered a conspiracy theory, Marxist, delusional and so on to talk
about oil. Although every sane person knows that that was the reason, if
Iraq had been producing pickles and lettuce, would they have been
invaded? I mean, let's be serious. Of course it's oil. Furthermore the
Iraqis know that. Right after the president gave his dramatic speech at
the National Endowment for Democracy, announcing his 'Messianic Mission'
to bring democracy to Iraq, after the collapse of the 'single question,'
right after that a poll was reported. Gallup, the main polling
organisation in the US, took a poll in Baghdad and asked people in
Baghdad why they think the US invaded, about one percent agreed, with
100 percent of educated Western opinion, to bring democracy, one percent
agreed to bring democracy, five percent said to help Iraqis. Most of the
rest said the obvious: to take control of Iraq's resources and to
strengthen the US strategic position in the region. And incidentally,
going back to the writer, it's not so much a matter of gaining access to
Iraq's resources, you can get access even if you don't control a
country. I mean the oil market is something of a market. What matters is
control, not access. It's a very big difference. The main theme of US
policy since the Second World War has been to control the resources of
the Middle East, the energy resources. That would give what George
Cannon, one of the early planners, called 'veto power' over their
allies, they wouldn't get out of line because we'd have our hand on the
spicket. Now at that time, for about 30 years, North America was the
major oil exporter. The US wasn't using any Middle East oil, but it
nevertheless was dedicated and it was the main theme of US policy to
maintain control over it. If you look at US intelligence projections for
the future, they project that the US must control Middle East oil, but
that it itself will rely on more stable Atlantic Basin resources,
Western Africa, Western Hemisphere resources. Europe and Japan will rely
on the less stable Middle East resources, but the US will control them.
That's the way you prevent independence from developing. That's why the
Asian Energy Security Grid and the Shanghai Cooperation Council are
regarded as such a threat by the US. The meetings right now, the
Malaysian meetings, East Asian meetings, that's a threat, it's a
coalescence of power moving independently of the US. You look back
through the history of the Cold War, and it was the same with regard to
Europe, a major concern throughout the Cold War was what was called
European Third Force, which might find a way independent of the US in
Europe, and there was every effort made to prevent that. A long story,
and that makes sense if you want to run the world, you want to make sure
there are not independent forces out of your control.
Andy Clark: This is a message from L. Douglas Raymond in the US:
"With the war in Iraq, it seems we are viewing the US's engagement in
some bold, in your face, strategic geopolitical chess. In your opinion,
what is the US's next likely international move?"
Noam Chomsky: My own guess frankly, was that the invasion of Iraq would
be over in about three days and that the US would install a stable
client regime. It should have been one of the easiest military victories
in history. But they did turn it into a catastrophe. My guess back at
that time was that the next place the US would move would be the Andes
in the Western Hemisphere. This is a traditional region of US
domination, but from Venezuela down to Argentina, the region is pretty
much out of control and that's a very serious worry for US planners.
They expect the Western Hemisphere to be obedient and placid. And if you
look at modern history the US has intervened violently and brutally
throughout the Western Hemisphere for a long time to ensure obedience,
overthrowing democratic governments, installing murderous military
dictatorships, carrying out large-scale terror and it goes on pretty
much to the present. It is somewhat out of control. Venezuela is
increasingly going on an independent path and Venezuela is very
important, the US took it from the British in 1921, kicked the British
out at the time of the beginning of the oil-based economy because it was
recognized that Venezuela had enormous oil resources, also others. And
it has been one of the main oil suppliers under US control ever since,
but it's moving towards independence. Chavez is enormously popular in
Venezuela; in fact, support for the elected government is higher in
Venezuela than in any other Latin American country. Venezuela is
beginning to diversify its international relations; it's starting to
export oil to China and may do so even more soon. The same is true of
the other raw materials exporters, Brazil and Chile, not to the extent
of Venezuela, but increasing. Furthermore, the region has left of centre
governments. All through the regions, a few exceptions but almost all of
them, and some of them are defying the IMF. Argentina simply defied IMF
orders, told them to get lost, and did very well as a result.
Furthermore, there's a large Indian population in Latin America from
Bolivia up to Ecuador, very large, and they're beginning to organise and
become independent. They may actually win an election in Bolivia [left
wing leader Evo Morales has now won that election]. They've overthrown a
couple of governments in Ecuador. They're also calling for an Indian
nation throughout this region. Now, they do not want their resources
taken from them, they have plenty of resources, a lot of oil. They want
either to control their own resources, rather than having it taken over
by foreigners, or - many of them - don't even want resources to be
developed, so there are plenty of indigenous people in Ecuador who don't
particularly want their lifestyle disrupted so that people drive SUVs in
New York City.
Andy Clark: This is an area, you think, that will be an area of concern
for the US?
Noam Chomsky: It's of deep concern. There are more US military in Latin
America today than at the height of the Cold War. For the first time the
number of US military in Latin America exceeds the combined number of
civilians in key federal agencies, aid, state departments and others.
Furthermore, the training of the Latin American military, which has
always been under US control, has recently shifted; the Congress shifted
it from the State Department to the Pentagon. Now that's quite
important. The State Department has a terrible record of atrocities and
torture and crime - everyone should know about that - but under the
State Department, military training was under some Congressional
supervision, had some human rights conditions, some democracy
conditions. Under the Pentagon, it has no conditions. Furthermore, the
military is now being trained to deal with, what are called social
problems, social unrest.
Andy Clark: It plays into an e-mail we received from somebody in Peru.
Gonzalo Alvarado, Peru: "Do you see any serious alternative to the Bush
administration for next elections, in order to change the US foreign
policy? How do you think the US will deal with the regimes in Venezuela
and Bolivia? In Peru, we have a presidential candidate with the same
profile, Humala. He is growing in the polls for next presidential
elections. His tactic? Blaming imperialism and the free market for
making us poorer."
Noam Chomsky: It certainly doesn't like them [the regimes in Bolivia and
Venezuela]. Incidentally, we should stop talking about the free market,
that's another ideological trick. The US does not believe in a free
market. The US itself is a largely state-based economy. You use
computers and the Internet and telecommunications and lasers and
aeroplanes and so on, most of it comes out of the dynamic state sector.
The economy is handed over to private businesses if they make some
profit out of it, but mostly state-based and same is true of
pharmaceuticals and biology-based industries and so on. So, we should
have no illusions about this. Even the free trade agreements, so-called,
are highly protectionists, the extra-ordinary intellectual property
rights go way beyond anything existed in the past those are purely
protectionist. They are designed to maintain monopoly rights for major
corporations. If the currently rich countries had ever been faced with
such rules, the US would now be exporting fish and fur. So there's no
free market. But how the US is planning to deal with it, well we know.
Let's take Venezuela; there was a military coup in Venezuela in 2002.
The US supported the military coup, the US had to back down very quickly
because there was an overwhelming uproar in Latin America, where
democracy is taken much more seriously than it is in Washington and
there was great protest about US support for a military coup
overthrowing a democratic government, so Washington had to back down and
the military coup was quickly reversed. The US then moved into the next
step, which is subversion; if you can't carry out a military coup, try
to subvert the government. So the US had been pouring in aid into what
are called officially 'anti-Chavez, pro-democracy elements.' That's
where the money is going. The implication is: you can't be a pro-Chavez,
pro-democracy element; you can't because the US says so. The fact that
Venezuela leads Latin America in support for democracy and support for
the elected government, going up very sharply since Chavez took over in
1998, that's just irrelevant, we decide what's democracy, not the people
- that's just subversion. We saw it in the last election just a couple
of days...
posted by St. Jim the Composter at 11:35 AM
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