Genetically Modified seeds From Monsanto

When meta-physician, Deepak Chopra and food champion and ecologist, Vandana Shiva met before a live audience at his Love in Action series at DeepakHomeBase,
they had a good laugh over the Bullshit Award. Yes, that's right. Monsanto gave a Bullshit Award to Shiva. To Shiva, whom Forbes Magazine called one of the seven most powerful women on earth, that was an unintended compliment. To get the joke, it helps to recognize the value of cow dung (the Indian down-on-the-farm name for bullshit.)
Cow dung is the original recyclable material. It helps fertilize the fields that grow the grass, which the cows, that produce the dung, feed upon. Their grazing helps our dehydrating planet retain moisture in the earth, contributing to global water supplies. Cow dung use cuts down on the excess nitrogen produced by chemical fertilizers, which contribute to climate change. In a pinch cow dung can be burned for fuel (lowering fossil fuel use) or to help build or insulate a home (lowering fuel use and providing low cost shelter.) As an added gift, those grazing cows produce the butter, milk, yogurt, and cheese that people eat as well.
By surveying the versatile ecology of cow dung, even urban dwellers, like me, can see the earthy pragmatism embedded in the Indian worship of cows (and indeed all life) as sacred. That's why Chopra and Shiva laughed at the would-be insult.
But before anyone rushes in to take for themselves alone the newly perceived value of cow dung, let's recognize it as just one part of a teaming, living ecology that supports human life by helping to:

• Feed more people
• Promote self-sufficiency
• Create more jobs
• Harvest more energy
• Maintain the earth's climate and ecological balance

Time has tested and proven the value of cow dung, and the natural cycle to which it belongs. Acting in ways that attune with nature's processes and cycles is not about having the right to label a product "natural." It is about following nature as the supreme guide to creating and maintaining life. Otherwise, we risk undermining and destroying the baseline conditions for life, the two Indian scientists maintain. (Shiva originally trained as a physicist.) In different ways, they express the utter urgency to make the right choices now.
As opposed to the life proliferating activities of cow dung, GMO seeds are "terminator seeds designed to be sterile, in a deliberate creation of food scarcity for profits," says Shiva, who has worked with and defended the rights of farmers to store seeds for three decades.
Whether or not GMOs hold up to the Monsanto claim of feeding more people, (a claim that Shiva disputes, countering that 80 percent of food is grown on small farms, rather than mass industrial ones) Monsanto defines success very differently than Shiva does.
Rather than seek to promoting life through promoting food cultivation, Monsanto acts to:

• Obtain the exclusive intellectual property rights to the earth's seeds
• Modify seeds genetically with pesticides and herbicides
• Build planned obsolescence into traditional crops
• Sue farmers who maintain the centuries old ecological cycle by collecting seeds from each new crop

In the U.S., where long time industry executives hold powerful positions in key governmental regulatory agencies, the USDA and FDA are pursuing pro-GMO policies. But how well have those worked in India? There, Vandana Shiva reports that they have resulted in the suicide of a quarter of a million Indian farmers. When in the aftermath of being forced into industrial agriculture, Indian farmers lost their independence, livelihoods, food, and farms, they committed suicide, she says, by drinking what remained: the chemical pesticides produced by industrial giants.
The technological science so highly prized in our civilization has another side.
"Yes, it has given us important tools," Chopra acknowledges, before he goes on to enumerate the ugly side of "fragmented science," such as global warming, ecological destruction, mechanized death, nuclear weapons, GMOs, and pesticides. "Together they are risking our extinction as a species," he says.
Beyond the specific health impacts Chopra enumerates, including "cancer, hormonal disorders, weight gain, allergies, and propensity to infections," lies a more pervasive problem. "What is happening in our body is also happening in the body of Mother Earth. Because many of the chemicals and processes were originally developed for military aims, their purpose is destructive." Using them in life proliferating activities, like food farming, amounts to "declaring war on the land," Chopra points out.
Vandana Shiva tallies the impacts of technological science on the living systems on which humans depend.
"Pollinators are disappearing. We have a migration of birds, a loss of planetary water, changing weather patterns. We have created a war on life."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alison-rose-levy/deepak-chopra-and-vandann_b_1376136.html

Whooping Cough in Various Parts of U.S

(NECN/NBC News: Nancy Snyderman) - Whooping cough is the kind of illness that we think of as being a thing of the past, but there's a big outbreak going on right now in Washington state, and it is putting lives at risk.

With the birth of her daughter fast approaching, Heidi Bruch ignored her cough, dismissing it as a cold.

But at two weeks old, her newborn daughter, Caroline, began to show similar symptoms.

"I was nursing her and she started to have one of these coughing episodes. She kind of, you know, she stopped nursing and she turned blue and was coughing and choking and gagging."

It was whooping cough, passed to Caroline from her mother.

That signature cough is easily heard here in this March of Dimes public service announcement

Caroline recovered and is now one of the growing number of cases in an alarming outbreak in Washington state.

"So far this year, 640 cases have been reported and confirmed, as of March 31st. Last year we had 94 in the same period of time," said Washington state secretary of health Mary Selecky.

And four of those children have died.

Northern California, Oregon and Vermont are also experiencing similar outbreaks.
For health officials, it's all about childhood vaccination and booster shots as adults.

“People think that once you get your baby shots and you don't need to be vaccinated again,” said Dr. William Schaffner of Vadnerbilt University’s department of preventative medicine. “That's false because immunity can wane. You may get a diminished disease, one that's less serious, but you can still transmit the infection in all of its virulence to other susceptible people.”

Bruch had been vaccinated as a child but didn't know she had to follow up with a booster later in life.

“I had inadvertently given our, my newborn a potentially life threatening illness that was so easily preventable by getting my booster shot, which I was unaware I needed,” she said.

It's about the immune compromised. While you won't get sick, it's about protecting those who can't get the shot.
http://www.necn.com/04/06/12/Outbreak-of-whooping-cough-in-Vt-Calif-W/landing_health.html?blockID=684222&feedID=4210

Brown Dwarf Discovered, Responsible for Weather Shifts

A brown-dwarf has been discovered outside of the Oort Cloud, heading toward the solar system. Scientists are not sure how fast it is moving, but have narrowed down the perihelion to just 0.1 AU from the Sun sometime in December of this year.

"Weather patterns are changing worldwide," said TheWeatherSpace.com Senior Meteorologist Kevin Martin. "From HAARP to Chemtrails, now we are dealing with a force outside of our knowledge. This star's energy seems to be affecting Saturn as well, with consistent lightning storms and aurora."

Scientists at NASA are preparing to make a statement sometime in the next month about the object entering the solar system. The star is no larger than Saturn, and stands at only a magnitude 13.0 at the moment in the constellation Scorpio.

As the star nears the Sun this Fall, large coronal mass ejections will happen, according to NASA. "We are anticipating the real possibility that the magnetic fields on the Sun will interact with the dwarf star, giving numerous sunspot developments to the Sun," said NASA.

NASA will be developing special sun block lotion to protect from UV 10000 rays as the star's influence burns the ozone layer away. If UV 10000 is experienced, immediate human combustion is expected. If inside expect rapid melting of the roof. Set Air Conditioner units to the coldest possible to give an extra 3 seconds of relief.

If UV 10000 rays continue to be experienced, please try to call 911; that is, if the phone still works

There is however another option to make before this hits. Al Qaeda tours is under development by the U.S. Department of Defense. This tour allows you to get close to Al Qaeda, in the mountains of Katar, Afghanistan. Like Justin Bieber, this popular group has been seen and heard from all over the world.

In the tour you can learn how to work an AK-47, take a do-it yourself-course-on blowing yourself up, learn to walk for miles, scream at the top of your lungs while shouting religious chants, and tour the caves of Al Qaeda, which go underground enough to escape the UV 10000 rays.

Limited space is available on these tours, but it may be the only way to escape into the surface as these caves have been well built and preserved for many years.  

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/243672-Brown-Dwarf-Discovered-Entering-Solar-System-Responsible-for-Changing-Weather-Patterns

Augusta National Golf Club, host of the Masters, won't let IBM female exec become a member

Behind the scenes at this year’s Masters golf tournament is a matchup that many are watching almost as much as Tiger Woods versus the rest of the field.
The matchup is between the men-only Augusta National Golf Club – where the tournament has been played since 1933 – and critics who have been calling for a female member, particularly since 2002, when feminist Martha Burk took on the club.
The new wrinkle is that Augusta has traditionally extended membership to the CEOs of its corporate sponsors. Now, one of those sponsors, IBM, has a female CEO – one who even plays golf.
It's an awkward moment for IBM and CEO Virginia "Ginni" Rometty as they consider what – if anything – to do about the apparent snub. Fighting the feminist cause might not be IBM's job, say some experts, but the company might have to brace for a potential backlash if it continues its relationship with Augusta.
While Augusta National undercut protests in 2002 by eliminating commercials on its broadcasts – thereby removing the opportunity for potential boycotts – IBM could face an uprising that is harder to handle.
“IBM can decide to support the Augusta National as is, but the tradeoffs are huge,” says Mary Ellen Balchunis, a political scientist at LaSalle University in Philadelphia, who will be using the episode for her course on women in politics.
"First, it would be a real slap in the face to CEO Ginny Rometty should the Augusta National not admit her as a member," she says in an e-mail. "Second, should IBM continue to be the chief sponsor if IBM does not admit their CEO, IBM should be prepared for a large boycott by women. Women are IBM users and purchasers.”

For its part, Augusta has long been proud of its exclusivity and conservatism. It didn’t have a black member until 1990, when the club extended an invitation to Gannett television executive Ron Townsend, according Orin Starn, a cultural anthropologist at Duke University in Durham, N.C., and a golf historian.
“You would think that Augusta would be very sensitive, even embarrassed about its exclusionary past – this was a club that was very much about Jim Crow for the first five decades of its existence,” says Professor Starn, author of “The Passion of Tiger Woods.” “Apparently, they refuse to discard their anachronistic, stick-to-their-guns mentality.”
But some observers say the outcry over Augusta's member list misses the point. The women's rights movement has moved well beyond caring about an exclusive golf club in Georgia.

“Augusta’s intransigence is becoming increasingly irrelevant in the battle for equal rights," says Jason Maloni, senior vice president of sports and entertainment for Levick Strategic Communications in Washington. "Women have ignored Augusta like Germany ignored the Maginot Line in World War II.”
Others say it's not Ms. Rometty's job to play pioneer.
“Rometty’s job is to do her best to lead IBM and do a great job at that,” says Justine Siegal, the first female coach of a men’s professional baseball team, the Brockton Rox of the independent Canadian American league. “If she whines about Augusta, it will be taking away from what she needs to do."
"It is up to society and others within IBM to fight this battle over membership,” adds Ms. Siegal, who is now director of sports partnership for Sport in Society at Northeastern University
Perhaps that activism should start within the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) itself, says Ben Agger, director of the Center for Theory at the University of Texas at Arlington’s sociology department.
"Augusta National’s anachronistic apartheid, keeping women out, is best met by a PGA players’ boycott," says Dr. Agger. “It is fine to expect the woman CEO of IBM to force the issue, but the PGA has much more leverage. It is unimaginable that men’s professional tennis players, a thoroughly global bunch, would countenance one of their four 'majors' being held at a facility that barred women or any other group."

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/augusta-national-golf-club-host-masters-wont-let-ibm-female-exec-become-member

Navy Jet Crashes into Building in Virginia Beach

A witness told MSNBC cable television that he arrived seconds after the crash at a building he described as a two-story apartment building that he said had been hit dead center. Aerial television coverage showed black smoke billowing from several buildings.
The Sentara Virginia Beach Hospital admitted one patient who had been on the ground at the time of the crash, the public information officer at the facility said. The individual had suffered smoke inhalation, but their condition was unknown, the spokesman said.
A Navy official told NBC News that both pilots had been taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. "They were ambulatory," the official told NBC.
Chief Tim Riley of Virginia Beach Fire and Rescue said four to five buildings were on fire and that there was significant damage to about 20 apartments.
Cmdr. Phil Rosi of the Navy said the two-seat jet fighter crashed about 12:05 p.m. shortly after takeoff. He said both crew members ejected from the aircraft.
Witnesses described a frightening scene as they saw the aircraft plummet toward the ground.
John Swain told MSNBC he was driving, coming off Interstate 264 to head north.
"The plane came right over us and was clearly in difficulty," he said. “There was flames coming off the back … The plane got lower and lower and just as I turned … it crashed."

He said the jet apparently crashed into what looked like a two-story apartment building.
"Within five seconds of it going down I was at the building where it hit," Swain said.
Ernie Gonzalez, who is retired military, was sitting on the front porch of his daughter-in-law’s house behind the base where the jet had taken off. He said a few other jets had departed before the one that crashed for what was believed to be a practice or training run. The doomed jet quickly ran into trouble.
"He was flying real low like he didn’t have any power,” Gonzalez told msnbc.com by telephone.
"He was smoking really bad. Bad smoke was coming out of the engine. It kind of backfired a couple times. I heard two pops … then 15 seconds later I heard the explosion."
Gonzalez said the other jets then started circling around the crash site.
Austin Makie, of Virginia Beach, said he was golfing with two friends on a course a few miles away from where the jet went down. He said they were riding in a cart headed to the next hole when they heard a loud boom.
"We looked around … and there was a very large pile of smoke. There was really big stench like gas in the air," he told msnbc.com.
The jet was taking off from nearby Naval Air Station Oceana, a Navy official said.
State and local police were on the scene to assist the military, according to Grazia Moyers, spokeswoman for the Virginia Beach Police Department, NBC affiliate station WAVY reported.
"We are taking all possible steps at the state level to provide immediate resources and assistance to those impacted by the crash..." said Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell. "Our fervent prayer is that no one was injured or killed in this accident."

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