New Sins

I tried to post this yesterday, but my comp was messing up, again. So I am posting it now and making the date yesterday's date!

The Vatican has come up with a list of "new sins" that are to come with the modern times. That list includes:

~genetic modification ("playing God"~is what he gave us not good enough?)

~carrying out experiments on humans (yet, again, "playing God")

~polluting the environment (slow suicide~we all know God is thrilled with that!)

~causing social injustice (GREED)

~causing poverty (GREED)

~becoming obscenely wealthy (GREED, GREED, GREED)

~and taking drugs (more slow suicide)

It took the church long enough to come to this. However, is this going to do more harm than good?

The faithful can believe God dictated the many books of the Bible. As well as the traditional sins. However, even tho they claim God still speaks, they apparently don't believe he could (or would) dictate new sins (matching modern times) to the Pope. In an effort to rebel against what some may consider blasphemy, they end up placing the crosshairs on those of us (faithful or not) that already believed in those common sense rules.

The irony is, most (if not all) on that list are already covered by the bible! Take 4-6 from above, for example. Does the cardinal sin "GREED" ring a bell?

Maybe I will create a post in the future with the many verses from the bible that already support the "new sins." For now I will leave you with ONE.

'You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with another kind. You shall not sow your feild with mixed seed. Nor shall a garmet of mixed linen and wool come upon you.'

~Leviticus 19:19~

To those of you that claim to follow the bible: Either follow it or shut up!

How sweet is that message?

By Trystan L. Bass

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"Be mine." "Hot stuff." "Kiss me." Cute messages of love on a classic Valentine's Day candy -- the biggest selling sweet other than chocolate for February 14th.

But not the sweetest message you could give to the planet. Here are the top three reasons why Valentine's conversation hearts are not eco-friendly:

1 -- Sugar

Did you know that sugar production around the world is damaging natural treasures like the Great Barrier Reef off Australia's coast and the Everglades wetlands in Florida?

According to WWF International, 121 countries produce the annual 145 tons of sugar the world eats. And unfortunately, this sugar cane and sugar beets are grown with plenty of pesticides and create toxic runoff into soil and water.

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The Sugarcane Production and Environment Report (PDF) notes that it takes a whopping 1,500-3,000 liters of water to produce just 1 kg of sugar. Refining factories regularly belch out soot, ash, and other solids, while ammonia is released during sugar processing.

Better management practices could make sugar a cleaner product. But until cane growers agree to be sustainable, consumers might want to make more informed choices.

It'd be great if we could find more fair-trade sugar, but in the meantime, it's not a bad idea to cut back on sugar. Easier on the waistline anyway.

2 -- Corn syrup

Next in the original recipe for Necco's Sweethearts Conversation Hearts is corn syrup. Now, we're not positive if this is the awful high-fructose corn syrup that's in so many of our processed foods (and has been linked to the American obesity crisis). But any kind of corn syrup has little to recommend it.

Corn is massively over-farmed and subsidized in the U.S., and this is causing a host of environmental problems right on our doorstep. Grist points out that corn farmers pour 10 billion pounds of fertilizer on their fields every year, and this junk washes down the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico. The waste creates a giant algae bloom known as the "Dead Zone" that kills fish and marine plants.

3 -- Gelatin

Number three in the recipe and the third reason these seemingly innocent treats aren't so innocent for the eco-minded is the stuff we usually associate with wiggly-jiggly Jello. Gelatin is often used in candies and desserts as a stabilizer or to simulate the mouth-feel of fat.

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If you weren't aware of it already, gelatin comes from animals. Specifically, it's the boiled-down collagen from connective tissues, bones, and skin of cattle and pigs.

As we've noted before, raising livestock for food is pretty inefficient and produces far more greenhouse gases than eating a plant-based diet. You don't have to be hardcore about it -- just cutting back on animal products a few days each week for a more flexitarian lifestyle is earth-friendly.

Intstead of conversation hearts ...

Want some alternatives to those candies? If you're the sentimental type, buy a pack of recycled-content pink construction paper, cut it into big heart shapes, and write your own sweet messages on each heart.

Scatter them around your Valentine's house, tuck one in your honey's briefcase or purse, sneak one in the car before your loved one drives off to work -- this will be a Valentine's Day to remember!

Or if your sugar prefers something edible, go for fair-trade or organic chocolates. That'll guarantee a gift that's rich, decadent, and sweet on Mother Earth too.

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Step It Up 2007 Review & Pics! :)

They appointed me in charge of the children's area at the Step It Up 2007 Global Awareness Fair in Charleston, SC, on 14 April 2007. It was a small part of a large environmental movement! At first, I thought it was a failure--due to how small it was verses how large it could've been. I still feel like it didn't live up to it's potential. Alot of people didn't even know about it til it was too late! But overall, it really was a success! :) The kids had fun! People were educated! Anything is better than nothing! :) It took my best friend, and getting the pictures back to really see it for how wonderful it was!

Thanx to everyone that made all this happen!!! :)


The children colored pages with eco-tips & postcards to congress.
Thanx to all that helped with this!


The children, also, made beaded necklaces out of recycled magazines.
Thanx to Tracy, and anyone else that made this happen. I wouldn't've thought of it! :)


A message in chalk from the kids! :)


Another message in chalk from the kids! :)


Special thanx to my best bud, Jason! Without him I couldn't've kept myself together! :)
He's such a sport! He's wearing the beaded necklace I made! :)


Check out more info and pics on this and all the other events across the US at:
http://www.stepitup2007.org

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Humans top of the food chain?

I constantly hear how "nature made humans the top of the food chain." But in all actuality, nature works in circles and balances. Creatures like lions, aligators, and such are suppose to be our predators! Nature did NOT put us "at the top of the food chain!" Nature simply put us in the CIRCLE of life! Humans are the one's that put themselves "at the top of the food chain," because humans are the actual creators of the "food chain" concept!

[I have sooo much more to say but ran out of time.....that's what I get for doing too much at once!]

---Adrian Kivett

Health Freedom Action Alert:

From: Earth Harmonics
From: C.H.A.R.A.
From: Veritas (Latin For Truth)
From: Rainbojangles
From: Lower 4th
From: Emanations Of Peace
Date: Apr 11, 2007 5:38 PM

Health freedom action alert: FDA attempting to regulate supplements, herbs and juices as "drugs"

When it comes to health freedom, this is the FDA's end game. A new FDA "guidance" document, published on the FDA's website, reveals plans to reclassify virtually all vitamins, supplements, herbs and even vegetable juices as FDA-regulated drugs. Massage oils and massage rocks will be classified as "medical devices" and require FDA approval. The document is called Docket No. 2006D-0480. Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration.

The FDA is accepting public comments on the docket until April 30th. They tried to sneak this under the radar, but word got out and now the natural health community is up in arms over this rule. If you wish to protect your access to nutritional supplements, herbs, essential oils, homeopathic medicine or any other "complementary" or "alternative" modality, it is crucial that you take action to post your comments with the FDA right now and write your representatives in Washington to put a stop to this outrageous effort to destroy natural medicine.

Click here for the direct link to the FDA's comment posting page for this docket.

This move by the FDA is designed to once and for all destroy the 1994 DSHEA law that has made supplements "legal" while eliminating nutritional supplements and natural medicine from the United States, ensuring monopoly profits and control by drug companies and the FDA. It is the latest action item by the FDA / Big Pharma conspiracy that will not stop until health freedom has been abolished, drug companies rule the nation, and every citizen is diagnosied with a fictitious disease and drugged up on monopoly-priced pharmaceuticals.

FDA "experts" will decide what's a drug or medical device

Under these proposed guidelines, FDA "experts" (the same corrupt officials who reapproved Vioxx after it killed over 50,000 Americans) will decide whether herbs, supplements, vitamins or simple devices like massage stones are to be regulated as drugs and medical devices. If the FDA experts, in their infinite wisdom, decide that these things are to be reclassified, they will essentially be outlawed, stripped from the shelves, and regulated out of existence. Anyone who dares to manufacture, promote or sell such products will be branded a criminal and rounded up by armed FDA agents who have a well established history of suppressing natural medicine.

I've documented much of the criminal history of the FDA in my recent book, Natural Health Solutions and the Conspiracy to Keep You From Knowing About Them, which suddenly seems even more relevant today than when I wrote it. In that book, I documented the FDA ordered book burnings, the raids on vitamin shops, the kidnapping of natural health practitioners, the threats, intimidation and oppression tactics that have been used to suppress natural medicine for nearly a hundred years now. And now, with this CAM Products Regulation effort, the FDA is about to deal a final, fatal blow to the alternative medicine industry, outlawing nutritional supplements, functional foods, homeopathy and natural therapies all at once.

This is not a drill. It really is time to be alarmed. Nothing else I've written about this year is as important as this sinister plot to destroy natural medicine and force the American population to resort to dangerous prescription medications sold at monopoly prices under a system of medical tyranny.

Your access to vitamins, supplements, herbs, and even energy medicine modalities is now directly threatened, and you have until April 30 to make your voice heard.

Action items

First, read the document yourself. Click here for the PDF version.

Take special care to notice the following text, taken directly from the FDA's own document: (italicized text is from the FDA, with my own translation following)

"...a product used in a CAM therapy or practice may be subject to regulation as a biological product, cosmetic, drug, device, or food (including food additives and dietary supplements) under the act or the PHS Act. Second, neither the act nor the PHS Act exempts CAM products from regulation."

Translation: Anything used in any system of medicine may now be regulated as a drug or medical device by the FDA. This includes a biofeedback machine, acupuncture needles, a cup of herbal tea, massage oil, a glass of vegetable juice or even a bottle of water.

"...if a person decides to produce and sell raw vegetable juice for use in juice therapy to promote optimal health... [and] if the juice therapy is intended for use as part of a disease treatment regimen instead of for the general wellness, the vegetable juice would also be subject to regulation as a drug under the Act."

Translation: Raw vegetable juice will be regulated as a drug and must be FDA approved as a drug. Handing a cup of raw vegetable juice to someone and telling them it's good for the detoxification of their liver will get you arrested for practicing medicine without a license and promoting an "unapproved drug."

..."biologically based practices" includes, but is not limited to, botanicals, animal-derived extracts, vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, amino acids, proteins, prebiotics and probiotics: whole diets, and "functional foods". ...a botanical product intended for use in treating a disease would generally be regulated as a drug." ..."functional foods" may be subject to FDA regulation as foods, dietary supplements, or drugs under the Act.

Translation: All foods, supplements, superfoods and functional foods may be reclassified as drugs by the FDA, then regulated off the market.

If... the manipulative and body-based practices involve the use of equipment (such as massage devices) or the application of a product (such as a lotion, cream, or oil) to the skin or other parts of the body, those products may be subject to regulation under the Act."

Translation: Massage oils and creams will be regulated as "drugs" and acupuncture needles as "medical devices." Taking this absurdity one step further, massage therapists who use their fingers to touch patients may have their fingers regulated as "medical devices" and be accused of practicing medicine for merely touching patients.

Things that will be regulated out of existence

It is very clear that the FDA is intending to regulate and ultimately destroy the entire CAM industry (Complementary and Alternative Medicine). Based on the explanations in the FDA's own document, the following things are likely to occur:

• All vitamins, nutritional supplements and functional foods will be stripped of their structure & function claims, reducing them to empty labels where virtually nothing at all is allowed to be stated.


• Vegetable juice will be regulated as a drug. Raw juice retreats will be raided or shut down.


• Growing and selling common garden herbs will get you arrested as a drug dealer.


• Massage oils and handheld massagers will be regulated as "medical devices."
  
• Yoga props, pilates machines and weight machines will be regulated as "medical devices" and require FDA approval before being sold or used.


• Raw sprouts and other anti-cancer foods will be regulated as drugs.


• Bottled water that "treats" dehydration will be regulated as a drug.


• Massage therapists who use hot rocks as part of their therapy will have the ROCKS regulated as medical devices! (It's true. The FDA will actually look at a pile of rocks and declare, "Those are medical devices!")


• Functional foods, supplements, vitamins and homeopathic remedies will disappear from store shelves, pending FDA "review." (The only things remaining will be processed junk foods and pharmaceuticals, which is exactly what Big Business wants.)


• Therapeutic tea products, such as green tea, will be outlawed and confiscated.


• Vitamin store owners will be arrested and prosecuted for "practicing medicine without a license."


• Citizens owning personal inventories of "unapproved drugs" (vitamins and herbs) may have their homes raided at gunpoint and their inventories confiscated by armed law enforcement agents.


• The importation of herbs and functional foods from all countries may be banned.

Keep in mind that the FDA is the same agency that:

• Wants to label irradiated foods as "pasteurized."


• Voted to put the deadly drug Vioxx back on the market after tens of thousands of deaths, even after its own manufacurer pulled it from pharmacies.


• Raided a church at gunpoint, confiscating biofeedback machines and charging that they were "practicing medicine" by counseling church members on issues like depression.


• Openly allows corrupt, "on the take" experts to vote on new drug approvals, even when those experts are taking money from the same companies impacted by their votes.


• Refuses to legalize stevia, the safe, natural herbal sweetener that's used virtually everywhere else in the world. The agenda? Protect the profits of aspartame and other chemical sweeteners.


• Openly allows the mass poisoning of the public with cancer-causing food additives such as sodium nitrite.


• Refuses to enforce its own laws regarding unsafe chemical toxins in personal care products, allowing perfume and lotion companies to continue poisoning the public with cancer-causing chemicals that don't even have to be listed on the label, nor proven safe.


• Ordered the destruction of recipe books that mentioned stevia. (A campaign to keep the public ignorant of the herb.)


• Does everything in its power to protect drug company profits, including discrediting herbs, supplements and alternative medicine.

Does anyone honestly believe that this criminal organization has any capacity whatsoever to act in the public interest? Even many Senators are fed up with the FDA's unprecedented level of corruption and criminal behavior.

Action items, continued...

Read Jon Barron's comments on this rule at the JonBarron.org website

Next, lodge your complaint against the FDA by commenting on this docket through the FDA's docket comment form.

And finally, write your Senator or Congressperson about this issue and let them know, in blatant language, that you will not stand by and allow the criminals running medicine today to take away your access to vitamins, supplements, herbs and homeopathic medicine. Write the letter in your own words, even if it's just two sentences. Individual letters have a hundred times the impact of form letters.

Medical wasteland USA

Everything is at stake here. If the FDA gets its way, the United States will become a medical wasteland, dominated by corporate drug company interests, where the naturopaths are imprisoned and their products destroyed. Supplements and herbs will become contraband, and gardeners who grow their own medicinal herbs may be raided and arrested by DEA agents wielding assault rifles. Simply selling dried broccoli sprouts as being "good anti-cancer foods" may land you in prison, and running a vitamin shop could result in you being arrested for "practicing medicine."

Imagine a nation where Whole Foods stores are stripped of all herbs and supplements, where vitamin shops are emptied and abandoned, where books that promote herbs are bulldozed into large piles and burned, where natural healers are rounded up and "disappeared" into incarceration centers. This is the future that will become reality if the FDA has its way. The plan has been explained to us in plain language. Any agency that openly states "vegetable juice will be regulated as a drug" has quite simply lost its marbles. We're are now being regulated by clinically insane bureaucrats.

With this desperate proposal by the FDA -- clearly designed as a last-ditch effort to save the failing conventional medical industry from a massive public shift towards natural medicine -- the war against health freedom has reached our shores, and the FDA is plotting a 9/11-style attack to bring down the towers of health freedom in one swift motion. This is the same agency that currently represents the greatest threat to the health and safety of the American people, far outweighing the threat of real terrorism. This agency, we have seen, will do ANYTHING to protect the profits and power of drug companies. It will lie, steal, accept bribes, hide scientific evidence, distort statistics, commit scientific fraud, break federal laws, threaten its own drug safety scientists, conspire with drug company executives, intimidate American citizens and use terror-style tactics to achieve its goals of complete domination over foods, drugs and health.

Why do Americans tolerate terrorism in their own government?

It is time we put a stop to this home-grown tyranny. We have fought too hard for freedom in the United States to allow us all to be steamrolled by a criminal front group covertly working for Big Pharma. The FDA has declared war on natural medicine and the American people, and we will lose our family members, children, brothers and sisters as casualties of this war if we don't stand up now and demand radical changes. It's time to stop this terrorist organization from destroying the lives of yet more U.S. citizens.

Make your voice heard now, or forever surrender your access to supplements, herbs, superfoods and functional foods. By the time the FDA is done with this country, we'll all be eating medication for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Action reminders:

1. Lodge a complaint with the FDA by clicking here. MAKE SURE you include the docket number 2006D-0480. But don't trust this to be enough. The FDA will probably simply delete half the complaints it receives, so don't trust your complaint to actually count. It's important to continue...

2. Send a strongly-worded letter to your representatives in Washington. Be sure to cite Docket No. 2006D-0480. Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration. Tell them you support open access to vitamins, herbs, and supplements, and you do not want CAM to be regulated by the FDA.

3. Send this story to everyone you know. Spread the word. Raise the alarm. With enough public support, the FDA will be forced to back off this insane proposal.

And stay tuned to NewsTarget for more news, analysis and action alerts on health freedom. Even though we're under constant attack by criminal organizations trying to disrupt our servers and take us off line, we're still here, beating the drum for health freedom, and hoping that we have enough sane-minded Americans remaining to save this country from its government.

Actual FDA quote is gobbledygook

Here's an actual FDA statement from the CAM Guidance report:

For example, naturopathic cranberry tablets might be labeled for use to maintain the health of the urinary tract. In this example, the cranberry tablets generally would be regulated as "dietary supplements" ...if they were labeled for use to "maintain the health of the urinary tract" rather than "prevent urinary tract infections." The cranberry tablets would be regulated as "drugs" ...if they were labeled for use to "treat urinary tract infections" even if they were labeled as dietary supplements.

(source)



Codex Alimentarius Summarized in 7 Points

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Nutricide - Criminalizing Natural Health, Vitamins, and Herbs

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We Become Silent - The Last Days Of Health Freedom

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"Earthlings" Documentary Video:

This is the most soul piercing video I have ever seen! If you have time to watch a movie, then you have time for this!
***Warning, do not eat anything while watching!(Including non-meat foods!) Viewer discretion is advised!***
---Niki

PS: The accompanying description following the video was not produced by me! I can only assume it was created by the video creator, or the person that published the video on the web! I claim zero ownership of the video or description!
---Niki.





"EARTHLINGS is a feature length documentary about humanity's absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research) but also illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called "non-human providers." The film is narrated by Academy Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix (GLADIATOR) and features music by the critically acclaimed platinum artist Moby.

With an in-depth study into pet stores, puppy mills and animals shelters, as well as factory farms, the leather and fur trades, sports and entertainment industries, and finally the medical and scientific profession, EARTHLINGS uses hidden cameras and never before seen footage to chronicle the day-to-day practices of some of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for profit. Powerful, informative and thought-provoking, EARTHLINGS is by far the most comprehensive documentary ever produced on the correlation between nature, animals, and human economic interests. There are many worthy animal rights films available, but this one transcends the setting. EARTHLINGS cries to be seen. Highly recommended!"

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Help The Hens!

If any of you can help, or know someone that may be able to help, Please contact Jac x. (bottom of post) If anyone can repost this anywhere (such as myspace), please do. If you can't take in a hen, please help us to find people that can.


Hello everyone, I am forwarding this on on behalf of Northants Animal Rights - hope some of you can help!

Starting on Friday 30 March, Brighton Animal Action (BAA) has been given permission to legally remove up to 13,500 hens from a farm. At the end of 6 days, any hens not re-homed will be taken for slaughter. Good homes are now desparately needed for these birds. Anyone who can offer a home to 2 or more hens is asked to email northantsanimalrights@yahoo.co.uk. Please include your name, address and telephone number so we can contact you and arrange to do a home check before the birds arrive. BAA can only remove hens that are going to a new approved home, so the more homes we can find, the more birds can be saved from slaughter.

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Northants Green Party
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Quit Being Stupid!

Just a little word of advice:

If you are on my side, and trying to get others on our side.....BE KIND TO THEM WHEN THEY EMAIL!!! If you are not already supporting our causes, but would like to, and have experienced rudeness from anyone.....Not all "nature freaks" are that rude! Feel free to contact me.....And don't take them personally! I am on "their side," and they are just as rude to me, too!

---Niki
(Sick of them making all of us look bad!)

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