We have to try.

Effort on behalf of the biosphere will yield some improvement even if it doesn't succeed in stopping a huge amount of suffering. Recognition that all humans are now in a life and death situation is needed; fearful obsession with a negative future is useless. We need to enjoy that we are doing the best we can - regardless of how little that may seem.
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From:
NASA warming scientist: 'This is the last chance'
by Seth Borenstein 6/23/8
http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/S/SCI_WARMING_SCIENTIST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-06-23-21-35-41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Exactly 20 years after warning America about global warming, a top NASA scientist said the situation has gotten so bad that the world's only hope is drastic action.

...There's still time to stop the worst, but not much time.

"We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes," Hansen told the AP before the luncheon. "The Arctic is the first tipping point and it's occurring exactly the way we said it would."...

..."Dr. Hansen was right. Twenty years later, we recognize him as a climate prophet."
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"Tipping Points Near"
Hansen's speech:
columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/TwentyYearsLater_20080623.pdf
arxiv.org/abs/0804.1126
...Solution of the climate problem requires that we move to carbon-free energy promptly.

Special interests have blocked transition to our renewable energy future. Instead of
moving heavily into renewable energies, fossil companies choose to spread doubt about global
warming, as tobacco companies discredited the smoking-cancer link. Methods are sophisticated,
including funding to help shape school textbook discussions of global warming.

CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of long-term
consequences of continued business as usual. In my opinion, these CEOs should be tried for
high crimes against humanity and nature.

Conviction of ExxonMobil and Peabody Coal CEOs will be no consolation, if we pass on
a runaway climate to our children. Humanity would be impoverished by ravages of continually
shifting shorelines and intensification of regional climate extremes. Loss of countless species
would leave a more desolate planet. If politicians remain at loggerheads, citizens must lead. We must demand a moratorium on new coal-fired power plants. We must block fossil fuel interests who aim to squeeze every last drop of oil from public lands, off-shore, and wilderness areas. Those last drops are no solution. They yield continued exorbitant profits for a short-sighted self-serving industry, but no alleviation of our addiction or long-term energy source.

Moving from fossil fuels to clean energy is challenging, yet transformative in ways that will be
welcomed. Cheap, subsidized fossil fuels engendered bad habits. We import food from halfway
around the world, for example, even with healthier products available from nearby fields.

Local produce would be competitive if not for fossil fuel subsidies and the fact that climate change
damages and costs, due to fossil fuels, are also borne by the public.

A price on emissions that cause harm is essential. Yes, a carbon tax. Carbon tax with
100 percent dividend is needed to wean us off fossil fuel addiction. Tax and dividend allows the
marketplace, not politicians, to make investment decisions. Carbon tax on coal, oil and gas is simple, applied at the first point of sale or port of entry.

The entire tax must be returned to the public, an equal amount to each adult, a half-share for children. This dividend can be deposited monthly in an individual’s bank account.

Carbon tax with 100 percent dividend is non-regressive. On the contrary, you can bet
that low and middle income people will find ways to limit their carbon tax and come out ahead.
Profligate energy users will have to pay for their excesses. Demand for low-carbon high-efficiency products will spur innovation, making our products more competitive on international markets. Carbon emissions will plummet as energy efficiency and renewable energies grow rapidly.

Black soot, mercury and other fossil fuel emissions will decline.

A brighter, cleaner future, with energy independence, is possible.
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National Assembly to Stop the War in Iraq War and Occupation
natassembly.org
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Climate Chaos Is Inevitable.
We Can Only Avert Oblivion
by Mark Lynas 24/06/08
informationclearinghouse.info/article20175.htm
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A partnership to restore tree cover in Pennsylvania
treevitalize.net
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pittsburghforest.org
wired.com/science/planetearth
350.org
wecansolveit.org/pages/partners
heartwoodusa.wordpress.com
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Getting that rabbit out the hat

How do you know miracles are not possible? If people earthwide undergo a change of heart to become more loving, and we work full force together - including using at times both low tech and the most advanced appropriate technologies - we still have a shot. Life has always been miraculous. At this historic time - of death of the old and birth of the new - the central thing to do is roll with the love...in service of life.
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"We're running the risk of unstoppable climate change...the rate of warming will increase, bringing even more severe hurricanes and cyclones, flooding events and so on..."
~Chris Reid, marine scientist
stephenleahy.wordpress.com
...The oceans have absorbed 30 percent of all human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) since the start of the industrial age. There is now good evidence that the oceans are absorbing less carbon as a result of climate change. The warming of surface waters, glacial and sea ice meltwater, acidification and so on are inhibiting or slowing a number of the oceans’ mechanisms for absorbing carbon from the atmosphere and safely storing them in the deep ocean.

IPS: How will that affect us?

CR: It means the atmospheric concentrations of CO2 will rise much faster than has been previously projected by climate scientists. Human carbon emissions are already on pace for the worst case scenario as envisioned by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). These changes in the oceans means the rate of warming will increase, bringing even more severe hurricanes and cyclones, flooding events and so on.

IPS: Cyclones like the one that recently devastated Burma?

CR: Yes. Research presented at this meeting shows that South Korea and Japan are experiencing more powerful cyclones. While a single event can’t be precisely connected to climate change, the Burma cyclone fits what is expected with climate change....
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Buckminster Fuller Institute
bfi.org
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worldtrans.org
...MIT luminaries have been working on a project to build a sub-$100, hand-cranked WiFi laptop, with the objective of supplying one apiece to every child in the developing world. They've done lots of cool stuff along the way -- for example, they've remained committed to providing entirely free and open operating systems for the machines, so that their owners can tinker with them, improve on them, and publish their improvements (they turned down an offer from Apple to supply OS X with every machine because it fails this test -- parts of Apple's OS are proprietary and can't lawfully be modified by users).
Now they've actually demoed a working prototype for the Secretary General of the UN, which cost just a hair more than the final price: $110...
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Legal struggle over largest (13 acre) urban farm - developer wants to build a warehouse:
southcentralfarmers.com
thegardenmovie.com/trailer
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I worked behind mules in West Virginia in the late 70's. We have to use simple biotech when appropriate:
efoodsdirect.com/news-article.html?id=4
High gas prices have driven a farmer in Warren County, Tennessee to hitch a tractor rake to a pair of mules...can be fed cheaper than fuel can be purchased...named Dolly and Molly, are slower but much more personable than the tractor...
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From
Environmnental Defense Fund:
Brewing Gasoline
http://edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=22627
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A Carbon-Negative Fuel
by Jeremy Faludi 10/16/7
worldchanging.com/archives//007427.html
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Is Famine Inevitable?
by Scott Thill 6/6/8
alternet.org/environment/87071
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Biological Patents Yield Unequal Benefits
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42576
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How $ perverts the medical industry
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KFbs8s3VI6M&NR=1
uk.youtube.com/psychetruth
myspace.com/psychtruth
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justfaith.org/Attachments/PDFs/StandUpCRSPledgeandActionHandout.pdf
...the record we really want to break is the world’s record of breaking promises and just ignoring the poor. We don’t want record numbers of people dying of poverty every year for the rest of our lives. We are six billion voices...
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faireconomy.org
toddecological.com/services/ecoparks.html
bioenergy.checkbiotech.org
thomasmertoncenter.org/fedup/links.htm
pittsburghagainsttorture.org
sds.revolt.org
fugue.com/pics/about-emissions.html
strangeculture.net
ecoenglish.blogspot.com
runyourcarwithwater.com
runsyourcarwithwater.com
runyourcaronwater.com
environmenttimes.net
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Busted!

We need a truth and reconciliation commission, similar to the one formed after apartheid was defeated in South Africa, in order to restore honest communication in this country without assigning guilt. Leave judgement to God. Since cause and effect connect all, we are all guilty, or no one is guilty. It's just a matter of semantics in the end. We want to know who did what and why, so we can heal and improve the situation, but Christ said "Forgive them, they know not what they do" for a reason.
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From:
Tim Russert, Dick Cheney, and 9/11
by David Ray Griffin 6/17/8
17/06/08
informationclearinghouse.info/article20108.htm

...Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta reported to the 9/11 Commission in 2003 that, when he arrived in the PEOC at about 9:20, Cheney was already there. Mineta then gave the following account of a conversation he witnessed:

“During the time that the airplane was coming in to the Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to the Vice President, ‘The plane is 50 miles out.’ ‘The plane is 30 miles out.’ And when it got down to ‘the plane is 10 miles out,’ the young man also said to the Vice President, ‘Do the orders still stand?’ And the Vice President turned and whipped his neck around and said, ‘Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?’23

When asked by Commissioner Timothy Roemer how long this conversation occurred after his arrival at 9:20, Mineta said, “Probably about five or six minutes.” That, as Roemer pointed out, would have been “about 9:25 or 9:26.”24

During an informal interview in 2007, incidentally, Mineta reaffirmed that Cheney was already there when he arrived in the PEOC, saying “absolutely.” When he was told that the Commission had said that Cheney did not arrive until 9:58, Mineta expressed surprise and said: “Oh no, no, no; I don’t know how that came about.” Although Mineta said he “might have been mistaken on the 9:25,” he said that Cheney was definitely there before the Pentagon was struck, and “so was Mrs. Cheney.”25

Mineta’s 2003 testimony at the 9/11 Commission hearing created two problems for the official story of the day’s events. For one thing, it implied that Cheney---who, as he told Russert, was in contact with Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld---knew that an aircraft was approaching Washington about 12 minutes before the Pentagon was struck. This implication directly contradicted the official claim, according to which Pentagon officials did not know that an aircraft was approaching their building. This claim was essential for explaining why because the Pentagon had not been evacuated, with the result that 125 Pentagon employees were killed. For example, one Pentagon spokesperson, having been asked why this evacuation did not occur, said: “The Pentagon was simply not aware that this aircraft was coming our way.”26

A second problem created by Mineta’s story involved the nature of “the orders.” Although Mineta assumed, he said, that they were orders to have the aircraft shot down, no aircraft approaching Washington was shot down. Mineta’s interpretation also made the young man’s question unintelligible. Given the threefold fact that the airspace over the Pentagon is categorized as “forbidden,” meaning that commercial aircraft are never permitted in it, that two hijacked planes had already crashed into the Twin Towers, and that still other planes had been reported hijacked, the expected orders, if an unidentified plane were approaching that airspace, would have been to shoot it down. Had Cheney given those orders, there would have been no reason for the young man to ask if the orders still stood. His question made sense only if the orders were to do something unexpected---not to shoot it down. The most natural interpretation of Mineta’s story, accordingly, was that he had inadvertently reported that he had heard Cheney confirm stand-down orders...
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emperors-clothes.com/indict/911page.htm#3
...Evidence that Osama Bin Laden never severed ties with the CIA...
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GreenWay article for July

to
hazelwoodeditor@yahoo.com
for
hazelwoodhomepage.com
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New food and energy biotechnologies

Necessity is the mother of invention. Drastic price increases are eliciting solutions which can bring jobs and businesses by helping deal with problems people all over the world face. Those involved in food and energy biotech research are developing ways to ameliorate some of the worst effects of the ecological and financial disturbances our planet is experiencing now.

Just as in the Middle Ages maps were drawn on which the outside margins said "There be dragons!" (because the mapmaker just didn't know what was out there), the same name-calling goes on nowadays for those who explore ideas that the average citizen doesn't understand. Here's an example of a biotech trend which represents partial solution to world hunger, but which is difficult for those without knowledge of microbiology to imagine: growing food in bioreactors such as fermentation vats.

Part of the reason for increasing prices of foods in the world markets is more difficulty growing food due to environmental changes. It's also due to more competition with the Earth's increasing numbers of people. In response to these trends - agricultural instability, depletion of biological resources such as fish, more demand - a growing list of scientists, economic development planners and specialists, and activists are getting ready to gear up with some startling new avenues for production. As an enthusiastic follower of some of these research and application trends, I've come to realize that our problems with food and energy have more to do with openmindedness and the need for cooperation than with inevitable shortages.

We are used to the assumption that food in large quantity can only be produced in the country, for instance - because that's where the farms are. People think there's not enough room in the city for large-scale food production. But that idea is just plain wrong. We need to restructure our economy toward much more urban farming. And visionary entrepreneurs are proposing to exponentially increase the amount of food cultured via single cells - in bioreactors of one sort or another. Extremely efficient production of food is possible using varieties of single-cell organisms such as algae that are edible. And cell cultures of muscle tissue from hogs, turkeys, or other livestock can be grown in biological factories similar to those used for the production of beer, bread, yogurt, and some vitamins. These processes involve microbes reproducing in astronomical numbers to produce food. Scientists and others are now advocating that these be used on a much larger scale for food production.

Similarly, rises in energy costs have encouraged the development of socially aware concerns such as GTECH Strategies, which is encouraging growing crops for biofuel in the Pittsburgh area (including the old mill site in Hazelwood). The growing of plant materials as feedstock for biofuel production does not necessarily compete with the production of food. Ethanol production from corn is not necessary and is the result of agricultural conglomerate lobbying for subsidies. Many other plant parts besides corn kernels can be used. Microbes, because of their ability to reproduce so rapidly, are one way to quickly increase the amount of biofuel available instead of gas.

We face prospects of gas prices going even higher. And it has been long foreseen in rough detail that the world is heading toward food insecurity. Biological manufacturing for food and energy production can be an economic development engine for the Pittsburgh area.

Throughout history new ideas have been disturbing. The thought of growing livestock in fermentation tanks may seem grotesque to some; but we should realize that our concepts of what is appropriate and beautiful change. Who decided that a tomato is not an ornamental plant, for instance?

Recognition of the beauty and potential uses for microbes has often been what gets me up in the morning. As a grade-schooler, those living things too small to see without a microscope enthralled me. Now, as an adult, I'm engrossed with the uses for some of those trillions of tiny life forms. Along with the general public recognition of the dangers and harmful possible uses of microbial biotechnology, we should be aware of the enormous financial and human health promise of it's appropriate use.
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Doin whatcha can

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for HazelwoodHomepage.com :

Hazelwood Flats Neighborhood Garden

by Sabrina Williams

Well it's that time of year again. The birds are singing (even if you don't want them to), the rain is falling, the weather is hot, and the flowers are blooming. If you have not guessed already, it is definitely Summer time. It's the perfect time to get a garden started, grow a few vegetables, and get out of the house. Only one problem - some of us don't necessarily have the space to grow flowers. Having space to grow vegetables is definitely out of the question.

Which is the point of this article. The space in the form of a community garden is being made. The only thing that we have to do is roll our sleeves up and get to work. The only thing about free stuff is that you usually have to put some physical work into it. So right now you're probably wondering what is in it for you? Besides a free plot to grow your own vegetables it's not much.

What you do get is a cleaner neighborhood, and one less lot that the local kids can find crack pipes and heroin/meth needles on. Not to mention the fact that one dollar not spent on foodis a dollar more spent on gas which with the rising gas prices is something we all can use. Oh, did I forget to mention the benefits of a healthier diet, much needed physical activity, and a chance to meet your neighbors? Well, now I did!

So, hopefully by now I've caught your attention. The garden is on Ladora St. If you want more information, contact
Barbara at 412/277-5754
or
Jim at 412/421-6496 or appropriatebiotech@yahoo.com
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No Time for the Singularity
by Karl Schroeder 6/11/8
June 11, 2008
worldchanging.com/archives/008107.html
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A Carbon-Negative Fuel
Jeremy Faludi 10/16/7
worldchanging.com/archives//007427.html
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Is Famine Inevitable?
by Scott Thill 6/6/8
alternet.org/environment/87071
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Biological Patents Yield Unequal Benefits
by Julio Godoy 5/29/8
...The medicinal or nutritional properties of many plants can give rise to enormous economic benefits, which put patents for naturally existing plants at the center of an ethical, commercial and legal debate.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42576
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faireconomy.org
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bioenergy.checkbiotech.org
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agricultural organizations
http://citizenstrade.org/agorgs.php
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From
Environmental Health Perspectives
June 1996
Neurologically Impaired Mice Improve After Receving Human Stem Cells
ehponline.org/docs/1996/104-6/forum.html
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"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
~Grover Norquist
culturekitchen.com/mole333/blog/drowning_america_in_a_bathtub_the_gingrich_doct
culturekitchen.com/mole333/blog/drowning_america_iowa_edition
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near waterless laundering
xerosltd.com

All'y all'y in come free.

You're goin down, George.

And after we impeach him, we're going to arrest him and convict him...once we realize fully what the dark side of our nature has done through him.

And then we're going to forgive him, just as God forgives each of us. Like the (I think Mennonite) judge in a cartoon about a poor cattle rustler years ago who said, "Forgive him; it'll teach him a lesson."
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6/10/8
US Congressman Moves to Impeach Bush
informationclearinghouse.info/article20061.htm
...Kucinich, has called for the impeachment of George W Bush claiming that the president set out to deceive the nation, and violated his oath of office with the Iraq war.

The Ohio representative yesterday introduced 35 articles of impeachment... alleged illegal and improper acts by Bush...

Article I

Creating a Secret Propaganda Campaign to Manufacture a False Case for War Against Iraq

Article II

Falsely, Systematically, and with Criminal Intent Conflating the Attacks of September 11, 2001, With Misrepresentation of Iraq as a Security Threat as Part of Fraudulent Justification for a War of Aggression

Article III

Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction, to Manufacture a False Case for War

Article IV

Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Posed an Imminent Threat to the United States

Article V

Illegally Misspending Funds to Secretly Begin a War of Aggression

Article VI

Invading Iraq in Violation of the Requirements of HJRes114

Article VII

Invading Iraq Absent a Declaration of War.

Article VIII

Invading Iraq, A Sovereign Nation, in Violation of the UN Charter

Article IX

Failing to Provide Troops With Body Armor and Vehicle Armor

Article X

Falsifying Accounts of US Troop Deaths and Injuries for Political Purposes

Article XI

Establishment of Permanent U.S. Military Bases in Iraq

Article XII

Initiating a War Against Iraq for Control of That Nation's Natural Resources

Article XIIII

Creating a Secret Task Force to Develop Energy and Military Policies With Respect to Iraq and Other Countries

Article XIV

Misprision of a Felony, Misuse and Exposure of Classified Information And Obstruction of Justice in the Matter of Valerie Plame Wilson, Clandestine Agent of the Central Intelligence Agency

Article XV

Providing Immunity from Prosecution for Criminal Contractors in Iraq

Article XVI

Reckless Misspending and Waste of U.S. Tax Dollars in Connection With Iraq and US Contractors

Article XVII

Illegal Detention: Detaining Indefinitely And Without Charge Persons Both U.S. Citizens and Foreign Captives

Article XVIII

Torture: Secretly Authorizing, and Encouraging the Use of Torture Against Captives in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Other Places, as a Matter of Official Policy

Article XIX

Rendition: Kidnapping People and Taking Them Against Their Will to " Black Sites" Located in Other Nations, Including Nations Known to Practice Torture

Article XX

Imprisoning Children

Article XXI

Misleading Congress and the American People About Threats from Iran, and Supporting Terrorist Organizations Within Iran, With the Goal of Overthrowing the Iranian Government

Article XXII

Creating Secret Laws

Article XXIII

Violation of the Posse Comitatus Act

Article XXIV

Spying on American Citizens, Without a Court-Ordered Warrant, in Violation of the Law and the Fourth Amendment

Article XXV

Directing Telecommunications Companies to Create an Illegal and Unconstitutional Database of the Private Telephone Numbers and Emails of American Citizens

Article XXVI

Announcing the Intent to Violate Laws with Signing Statements

Article XXVII

Failing to Comply with Congressional Subpoenas and Instructing Former Employees Not to Comply

Article XXVIII

Tampering with Free and Fair Elections, Corruption of the Administration of Justice

Article XXIX

Conspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Article XXX

Misleading Congress and the American People in an Attempt to Destroy Medicare

Article XXXI

Katrina: Failure to Plan for the Predicted Disaster of Hurricane Katrina, Failure to Respond to a Civil Emergency

Article XXXII

Misleading Congress and the American People, Systematically Undermining Efforts to Address Global Climate Change

Article XXXIII

Repeatedly Ignored and Failed to Respond to High Level Intelligence Warnings of Planned Terrorist Attacks in the US, Prior to 911.

Article XXXIV

Obstruction of the Investigation into the Attacks of September 11, 2001

Article XXXV

Endangering the Health of 911 First Responders...

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The "friendly competition" of hogs:
...Monsanto Plans to Raise Prices
by Matthew Dillon 6/5/8
competitivemarkets.com

A June 3, 2008 report on Monsanto issued by the investment firm Goldman Sachs states that Monsanto plans on raising there prices on seed and RoundUp. Not really a surprise considering the dominance they have in the market for both genetics and glphosate. The GS report says that farmers who are in areas of high disease/insect pressure can expect to pay 30-40% more for their seed, and those with lower pressure a 20% increase.

The company is justifying such huge price increases by noting the benefit their product has on farmers profitability, but I can't help but wonder if Monsanto is bumping the prices based on the recent rise in prices and futures. They kept prices down when they were trying to capture the market and now that they dominate it they are going to extract every penny they can from farmers and divert it into their shareholders portfolios. But are they willing to lower their seed prices if the corn drops back down to below $2.50 bushel?

I seriously doubt it.

Once they spike the price it is here to stay, much as the oil companies have done with gas, generating record corporate profits. The report also states that the Monsanto plans on pushing farmers into purchasing the entire Monsanto enchilada: buying the more expensive triple-stack traits even if you only need RR traits or BT traits. This will save them money on production, inventory management, and marketing - but will tie the farmers into buying more than they necessarily need.

This type of tying is another tool in the Monsanto arsenal for extracting dollars from farmers. It's not serving the farmer-customer it's serving the stockholders. This is the danger of so much concentration in one company; farmers don't have enough options when it comes to shopping elsewhere for their needs. If we went to the barber looking for a trim and he said, "I only offer a hair cut with a shampoo and a perm and you pay for all three," a savvy customer would go elsewhere to get their cut. Unfortunately Monsanto is increasingly the only striped pole in the neighborhood...
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ag orgs
http://citizenstrade.org/agorgs.php
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"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
~Grover Norquist
culturekitchen.com/mole333/blog/drowning_america_in_a_bathtub_the_gingrich_doct
culturekitchen.com/mole333/blog/drowning_america_iowa_edition
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xerosltd.com

Mr. Bush convicted by his own words

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"...We need an energy bill that encourages consumption..."
~"President" George W. Bush
whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020923-2.html
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From:
Appalachian Center for the Economy & the Environment
appalachian-center.org/issues/water/index.html
...EPA now calculates that...one-sixth of all women of childbearing age in the U.S., carry blood mercury levels that threaten the health of the unborn...
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Coal River Mountain Watch
crmw.net/links.php
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Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
publicjustice.net
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Institute for Children's Environmental Health
iceh.org
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Community Alliance With Family Farmers
caff.org
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honeybee disappearance discussion
video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=6349049123736600538
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Industrial Production of Meat from In Vitro Cell Cultures
wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?IA=NL1998000721&DISPLAY=DESC
...enabling grounds in areas where it is too warm and where insufficient rain falls to be rendered useful for agricultural...
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Intellectual Property and Life Sciences
wipo.int/patentscope/en/lifesciences
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potomacwaterwatch.org
skysails.info
http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/cat-healthy-food.html
bradblog.com
velvetrevolution.us
pamkilleen.com/links.htm
www.usdawatch.org

Microbial food - Now THIS is appropriate biotech:

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"Fifty years hence we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium."
~Winston Churchill
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From:
Radical Science Aims to Solve Food Crisis
by Clara Moscowitz 4/23/8
livescience.com/environment/080423-food-shortage.html
...Researchers are hard at work on animal-free meat. Scientists, such as Henk Haagsman, a professor of meat science at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, are growing synthetic meat with the help of animal stem cells. When fed with glucose, amino acids, minerals and growth factors, the stem cells can grow into muscle tissue, which the researchers say tastes a lot like ground meat.
Though it may sound far-fetched, proponents of so-called cultivated meat say this could be a key to solving world hunger problems.
"The benefits could be enormous," said Jason Matheny, the director of New Harvest, a non-profit organization that funds research on in vitro meat. "The demand for meat is increasing worldwide ... With a single cell, you could theoretically produce the world's annual meat supply. And you could do it in a way that's better for the environment and human health. In the long term, this is a very feasible idea."...
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new-harvest.org
jgmatheny.org
"... working to develop new meat substitutes, including cultured meat — meat produced in vitro, in a cell culture, rather than from an animal.
Because meat substitutes are produced under controlled conditions impossible to maintain in traditional animal farms, they can be safer, more nutritious, less polluting, and more humane than conventional meat..."
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From:
In Vitro Meat, a More Humane Treat
by Abigail Paris 5/22/8
http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/briefings/data/000054
invitromeat.org
...Traditional methods of assembly-line meat production require not only ever-increasing inputs of corn, soy, and other grains, but also enormous amounts of energy...In 1932, Winston Churchill said, "Fifty years hence we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium." The timing of his prediction proved ambitious, but the technology is becoming attainable.
Animal-free in vitro meat may present a partial solution to hunger. Jason Matheny, director of New Harvest, a nonprofit that funds research on in vitro meat, says that a single cell could produce the annual meat supply for the entire world. And it can be done in a way that's better for the environment and human health than raising livestock.
Researchers started working with in vitro proteins in the late 1990s, originally developing the idea as a way to create food for astronauts on long space missions. The first edible muscle protein was created from a goldfish in 2000, promising industry-wide change. In June 2007, the In Vitro Meat Consortium was created to form an "international alliance of environmentally concerned scientists" that want large-scale in vitro meat production.
In order for animal stem cells to divide and multiply...they are placed in a nutrient-rich medium and then grown in a bioreactor...
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agbioworld.org/links/index.html
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ethicalbloggerproject.blogspot.com
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greenwashing, slave labor, oil addiction, advertising
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=32IkX6K-g4w
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From:
Rainforest Action Network
ran.org
+
understory.ran.org/2008/05/28/chevron-quickly-becoming-one-of-my-least-favorite-companies-on-the-planet
Big oil is responsible for a lot of heinous crimes. They fund death squads cloaked as “private security” and help install brutal dictatorships that are friendly to their business...
+
ran.org/media_center/news_article/?uid=4760
Bunge Biofuels: Driving World Hunger...
Bunge is burning down native old growth forests to process soy in South America and profiting from the use of slave labor...
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i-sis.org.uk/biotechnology.php
irina-ermakova.by.ru/eng/index.htm
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Pacific Coast Turning More Acidic
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2008/2008052226903.html
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http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/Headlines/
"...reactive forms of nitrogen are also building up in the environment..."
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deerimbaud.blogspot.com
...It was perhaps George Orwell who first truly gave voice to the idea that by repressing people's sexuality you could control them, in his profound and dispiriting novel, "1984". Of course, he wasn't the first person to know this fact. The Christian church, in its bid for world dominance used sexual repression as its main tool of control since its inception...
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national sustainability links
noisettesc.com/guide_nationallistings.html
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environmentalintegrity.org
dirtykilowatts.org
healthyfish.net
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Sustainable Energy and Economic Development
seedcoalition.org
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Middle East Peace Forum of Pittsburgh
mepfp.org

We don't have to be cannibals

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The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
~Anita Roddick
anitaroddick.com/links.php?PHPSESSID=619dbddd1fb7e18540e3f3e2eb4c9bad
quotationspage.com/quotes/Anita_Roddick
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From:
The Seed Barons
How Big Ag, Big Oil & Big Government
Are Hijacking the World’s Food Supply
acresusa.com/toolbox/reprints/June08_Engdahl.pdf
engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net
...inventors have developed engines that can get 100, 200, 300 miles to a gallon,
but...had their patents bought up by General Motors or one of the other big companies....I’ve met people over the years who have invented some of these things. They’re small, creative, usually a few people or one-man enterprises, and they get bought up and their invention is pulled off the market...
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polyfacefarms.com/resources.aspx
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Not In My Name
nimn.org
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notinourname.net
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annainpalestine.blogspot.com
...Jesus did not avoid politics. Please spread our message, a message of joy,...
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Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
opcw.org
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The Triple Threat: Our Food, Water and Climate Challenges
Why the recent food and water shortages are making the climate crisis even worse
by Shiney Varghese, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy 5/14/8
alternet.org/water/85414/?page=entire
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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
iatp.org
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What my father fought for - the Nuremberg Principles

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From:
Alleging War Crimes
5/30/8
George Monbiot Attempts Citizen’s Arrest on Former UN Ambassador John Bolton
informationclearinghouse.info/article20024.htm
...waging a preemptive war where you are not in an immediate crisis of self-defense is a crime...
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Apocalypse in the Oceans
by Anneli Rufus 5/30/8
alternet.org/environment/86789
...avoiding the farmed, the faraway, the overfished, and those large, long-lived, high-on-the-food-chain species such as halibut, tuna, shark and swordfish whose meat is infused with mercury and other chemicals known to cause eventual nerve damage. Instead, he suggests sardines, sea urchins and squid: In other words: Become a Bottomfeeder - at least until, and if, the seas stop dying.
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Center for Economic and Policy Research
cepr.net
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