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Everything remains the same!

2008-12-19T22:27:00.003+02:00

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Jesus H. ... Obama picks Monsanto. "Obama's Uniquely Awful Veep Prospect.

By Rudy Arredondo

Friends, control of all food, animals, plant DNA, fish, natural therapeutic substances, land, and water is being lost RIGHT NOW to multinational corporations - Monsanto being one of the largest threats. This is not just about liberal neglect of our own seemingly-not-worth-standing-up-for farmers and ranchers or of all the pathetic indigenous peoples around the world who are being pushed off their land (8 million in the last ten years in India since our Big Ag companies went in there) but about your own survival and that of every single one of us on the planet.

This is about totalitarian control, people.

It is coming in through control of food and water and means of healing click here and through large plans moving into place to crush farmers (NAIS) click here and to cut off YOUR access to all the nice organic things you have come, rightly, to think is important for your health and that of your family.

So, when Barack Obama even CONSIDERS a Monsanto person for his VP, we are looking at one hellish choice on his part and one large one on ours. Because ANYONE connected to Monsanto, at a time when our family farmers and ranchers (we are losing 1000 ranchers a month) are facing imminent collapse, is a threat to our land, our democracy and our lives.

I hope you read the following with the horror it deserves and then get hold of every farming, environmental, human rights group you know and with them, let Obama know that some things are impossible to swallow, and monopoly over food with the loss of our farmers is TOP of the list.

And in case you are late to who Monsanto is, you can read this to understand the dire significance of Obama's even considering such a choice and what it says about him as a "grass-roots" anything:

click here

Obama's Uniquely Awful Veep Prospect 2 hours, 4 minutes ago

The Nation

July 26, 2008

The Nation -- Barack Obama's vice presidential search team had begun floating the name of former Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman, one of George Bush's most loyal lieutenants, as a possible running-mate on the 2008 Democratic ticket.

What the Obama camp is doing is clear enough. They are signaling that the candidate might consider a bipartisan "unity" ticket. That's reasonable, as long as the Republican has some record of taking stands that might by some reasonable stretch of the imagination be considered breaks with Republican orthodoxy. Of course, Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, an edgier critic of the Bush administration's foreign policies than most Democrats who recently traveled with Obama to Afghanistan and Iraq, tops most lists of cross-over contenders.

Former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach, a determined internationalist who like Obama opposed attacking Iraq and generally served as a moderate (some would even say "liberal") Republican, would fit the bill.

Maybe someone like former Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee, a steadfast Iraq War foe who has endorsed Obama, would find a place on a list of possible running mates.

Perhaps former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Danforth, who was no liberal when he served as a senator from Missouri but who is universally recognized as an honorable and realistic political player, would fit the bill.

But Ann Veneman?

Veneman would be a uniquely awful choice.

All of her political roots are in California -- where her father was a prominent ally of Ronald Reagan -- a state Obama will win with or without her in November.

Veneman is not trusted by farm and rural folk, so it would be ridiculous to think that adding her to the ticket would help in Midwestern and Plains states that might be in play this fall. In fact, this uniquely un-charismatic bureaucrat who has never held elective office was booed on visits to farm country when she served as Bush's Secretary of Agriculture.

And Veneman, whose background was as a corporate lawyer specializing in trade issues, was known to organized labor as one the most militant advocates for free trade in a militantly pro-free trade Bush administration.

In sum, it is hard to imagine a worse Republican to put on a Democratic ticket.

When Veneman first entered the national spotlight in 2001, I penned an assessment of her record for The Nation.

It was titled "No Friend of the Farmer" and read:

The fierce farm crisis that is ravaging rural America garnered scant attention during the 2000 presidential campaign, so it came as no surprise that President-elect George W. Bush's nominaton of Ann Veneman for the post of Agriculture Secretary received far less attention than those of several others. Yet, because of the broad authority she would be handed and because of her extreme politics, Veneman merits every bit as much scrutiny as that directed at Bush's more high-profile appointments. Veneman's track record leaves little doubt that if confirmed she will use her position as head of a powerful agency with 100,000 employees, an $82 billion budget and responsibility for implementing federal farm policy, protecting food safety and defending public lands, to advance what farm activist Mark Ritchie describes as "strictly pro-agribusiness, pro-pesticide company, pro-pharmaceutical company positions."

As a key member of the Reagan and Bush farm teams, as former California Governor Pete Wilson's Food and Agriculture Department director, as an agribusiness lawyer and as a member of the national steering committee of Farmers and Ranchers for Bush, Veneman has rarely missed an opportunity to advance the interests of food-production and -processing conglomerates, to encourage policies that lead to the displacement of family farms by huge factory farms, to open public lands for mineral extraction and timbering, to support genetic modification of food and to defend biotech experimentation with agriculture. Indeed, Veneman served on the board of Calgene, the corporation that in 1994 launched the first genetically engineered food, and she declared last year that "we simply will not be able to feed the world without biotechnology."

With Veneman's encouragement, California developed an increasingly conglomerated, big-farm, chemically enhanced version of food production that Iowa Farmers Union president John Whitaker describes as "an entirely different face of agriculture" from that practiced or desired by most working farmers. "I don't want to see that face transferred to Iowa," says Whitaker. But with Veneman at the reins of the USDA as Congress prepares to rewrite the dismally flawed Freedom to Farm Act, the transfer would likely be unavoidable.

Veneman would not merely be hustling to deliver for Bush's corporate contributors on domestic farm policy and public-land-use issues; she'd also be working for them on the international stage. A militant free-trader, Veneman helped negotiate the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (which led to the World Trade Organization) and NAFTA. Even as family farmers were marching in Seattle to protest WTO interference with agricultural supports and food-safety standards, Veneman was there to tell the WTO to be more aggressive in removing so-called technical barriers to trade. So determined is Veneman to advance the free-trade agenda that Bush transition-team aides briefly considered her as a candidate for the position of US Trade Representative.

Veneman "seems to be coming in with the notion that her job is to be as extreme as possible in parroting the agribusiness line," says Ritchie, president of the Minneapolis-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. "The problem is that that line is completely out of sync with what farmers want, what consumers want and what we know to be scientifically, ecologically and economically right."

I followed Ann Veneman's tenure as Secretary of Agriculture closely -- noting her frequent abandonment of her official duties to advocate for free-trade pacts that harmed the interests of working farmers in the U.S., undermined the ability of African farmers to feed their families and neighbors and generally tilted the balance in favor of the international corporate agribusiness interests for which she had always worked.

Nothing that Veneman did during her years in the service of George Bush and Dick Cheney led me to alter my opinion of her. Indeed, she confirmed the accuracy of the initial concerns expressed by farm and rural activists.

The selection of Ann Veneman as Barack Obama's running-mate would not balance the Democratic ticket. Rather, the selection of Veneman would discredit that ticket in the eyes of Americans who want change -- as opposed to the worst of the status quo.

A true indigo.

2008-12-17T20:31:00.003+02:00

Society today is composed of a series of institutions…from political institutions, legal institutions, religious institutions… to institutions of social class, familial values
and occupational specialization. It is obvious the profound influence these traditionalized structures have in shaping our understandings and perspectives…

Yet, of all the social institutions we are born into, directed by and conditioned upon, there seems to be no system as taken for granted and misunderstood…as the monetary system. Taking on nearly religious proportions, the established monetary institution exists as one of the most unquestioned forms of faith there is. How money is created, the policies by which it is governed and how it truly affects society are unregistered interests of the great majority of the population.

In a world where 1% of the population owns 40% of the planet's wealth…in a world where 34,000 children die every single day from poverty and preventable diseases, and where 50% of the world's population lives on less than 2 dollars a day… one thing is clear:
Something is very wrong.

And whether we are aware of it or not, the lifeblood of all of our established institutions and thus society itself, is money. Therefore understanding this institution of monetary policy is critical to understanding why our lives are the way they are.
Unfortunately, economics is often viewed with confusion and boredom. Endless streams of financial jargon coupled with intimidating mathematics quickly deter people from attempts at understanding it. However, the fact is, the complexity associated with the financial system is a mere mask, designed to conceal one of the most socially paralyzing structures humanity has ever endured.

J. Krishnamurti

Something right in this world!

2007-11-22T00:52:00.000+02:00

Today i ran into a guy i used to work with back in my days at U.A.E, it was energy draining conversation, he seemed to be bitter and annoyed from everything. Complaining about how everything is getting expensive, how the world is getting mad, relationships are complicated and telling the truth he kind of made me feel crappy to. He's married got 2 children and he told me that he moved to Amman last year.
I found it ironically funny how we complicate everything to make it relatively (easier), take energy for example , can you imagine yourself without it? no civilized modern community can survive without energy.
Some people (consumer oriented) love the capitalist way of living, study hard to get a better job, in order to gain a better salary. With that money he can buy a car, perhaps a house, get married, buy more house holds, which leads to working harder in order to catch up with the bills. Thats pretty much how an average person is living nowadays, success is measured by your bank account. Your being is that sum.
Its a fact, but does all that makes a person satisfied? living happily ever after, if you look at it from a sheer view you will find it very hard and a brutal cold way of living, more like a programmed machine, it seems that with all this chaos human feelings got lost, almost none is willing to stop and smell the roses.
I try to from time to time, it reminds me how life is amazing and how I am blessed. I'm like everyone in this so called 3rd world countries, but i force myself to stop and take a breath every once in a while. My suggestion is going out of the city every once and a while, camp, hike, or just set and watch the stars.

New in this planet.

2007-11-20T19:10:00.000+02:00

My long ever best friend which i know for more than 10 years, has been blessed with a baby girl.
Children are the pure souls, almost reach angels. Having a child of your own is the ultimate gift from above, yet the most important task a man could face on earth. They are our responsibility to teach them, like a white sheet of paper needs to be filled, and to protect them from any harm.
I know Fernanda will be a good mother, she is one of the kindest souls I've met.
All the love and care to you and your new family Fernanda .

Comedy at its Best

2007-11-20T03:24:00.000+02:00

Today i watched "Withnail.&.I" for a second time.
The first time was about 15 years ago, my older brother brought it on a VHS tape. At that time I was more into Hollywood's comedy, such as Austin Powers, bill and ted boogies journey, that sort of comedy, but after i watched Withnail & I, It was a very unique and deferent comedy, it was full of dialog and it has a very twisted mid boggling conversations that blown my brain off. from the first scene, you will get the feeling that this is a great one.
raw and smart, each character is unusually interesting and funny yet very real and raw.
If you like smart and a meaningfully Funny movies. get it

Info : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withnail_and_I

here are some scenes