Thirty years of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) prove that we, ordinary Americans, must enlighten our politicians. For some reason, they can’t tell when scientific gibberish hides nonsense. So, corporations take advantage and sell them agendas that destroy all life forms.
Breeding, as we traditionally know it, mates individuals of different varieties within a species. Or crosses related species. To create an offspring with genes of both parents. The child’s genes are different versions of the parents’ but coded for the same functions.
GMO are made by tampering with natural DNA. Genetic material from UNRELATED species are artificially combined with a host organism. To form a new species, coded for a previously unknown function. But scientists can’t create genetic diversity. Modified breeds start in a single cell so each generation is weaker and less stable. The genetic synthesis rearranges itself or becomes inactive. Worse, the modified DNA recombines with bacteria and viruses in soil, air, or inside the mouth and gut and lungs of animals and humans. And destabilizes every life form: bacteria, fungi, algae, plants, animals and humans!
Corporations fund inserting of DNA from herbicides, viruses, bacteria and humans into our food crops. And the World Bank twists arms to make poor nations buy this genetic rubbish. One example is farmers who scratch out a living in India. Since 1998 they have to buy GM seeds from Cargill, Syngenta, and Monsanto. Every year. The crop yields are so low they need MORE fertilizer and pesticide. Every year. Farmers lose money on failed crops, mortgage their patch of land and lose that. Then, what’s left?
In August 2002, Zambia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe questioned the safety of American GM food aid. The World Bank asked its chief scientist, Dr. Robert Watson, to study the risks and opportunities of GM food. So FOUR HUNDRED scientists compared GM and conventional crops.
Their report was published in April, 2008:
“…Between 1950 and 1980, prior to the development of GMOs, modern varieties of wheat increased yields up to 33% even in the absence of fertilizer…data based on some years and some GM crops indicate highly variable 10-33% yield gains in some places and yield declines in others.”
The US was “unable to provide unqualified endorsement” of it!
At last month’s world free-trade talks, the Indian representative wouldn’t budge on India’s right to protect its agriculture. And China’s representative sided with him, for his nation’s food security. Only our US rep opposed them. She was for nothing but free trade. So the corporate agenda trumps complaints from all the world.
How can we, the poor and ill and homeless and hungry, change our nation’s agenda. By becoming a concerned community that petitions. We must tell our elected representatives that we want safe, GMO-free, locally grown produce and fruit, like the rest of the world. Keep asking what they’re doing for OUR food security. And when they tell us, push them to do more.
Reference
1. International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), Executive Summary of the Synthesis Report, 2008.
2. William Engdahl, “Seeds of Destruction: The Geopolitics of GM Food”, 2004.
3. Mae-Wan Ho and Joe Cummins, “Genetically Modified Organisms 25 Years On”, 2002.
This is Henrik Svensmark’s name for the science that links conditions on our planet to cosmic forces. As we move within the Milky Way and are pulled towards other galaxies, biodiversity and climate respond to both interstellar and intergalactic energy.
In 2007, NASA scientists were stunned when auroras over Alaska crossed 15 degrees of longitude in LESS than one minute! That display lasted two hours and used up as much power as a 5.5 magnitude earthquake. Satellites proved the energy flowed along temporary magnetic ropes that formed where solar plasma hit the earth’s magnetic field.
Cosmic ropes… Was this concept known in prehistoric times? Do these drawings show ancient energy transfer between planets on magnetic flux ropes?
The Maya recorded our cosmos more than other cultures. Why did they paint these streams descending from signs for planets?
Put aside how important our little planet is in the universe. And look to stars and galaxies for light on some puzzles.
Reference
1. Dr. Tony Phillips, “NASA Spacecraft Make New Discoveries about Northern Lights”, 2007.
2. Marion Long, “Sun’s Shifts May Cause Global Warming”, 2007.
3. Lynn Yarris, “Fossil Records Show Biodiversity Comes and Goes”, 2005.
The computer models we use to predict climate, aren’t scientific. They don’t include the effects of ocean currents, wind patterns or clouds. Even though these change our climate.
One small example. The icy Humboldt Current and the warm El Nino flow off Peru’s coast. A few times in a century the Humboldt changes its path, and the El Nino flows further south along the 1200-mile desert strip. Its warmer water kills off cold-water fish, and starves millions of sea birds. But it also makes rain clouds. So farmers grow fine crops on desert land!
Henrik Svensmark and more than fifty CERN scientists in Switzerland may change climate prediction for ever. They’re testing how energy in cosmic plasma affects the earth. Svensmark and company suspect that cosmic currents make clouds that keep earth cool. It’s super hot plasma from the sun that burns us.
If CERN proves the sun’s behind global warming, our climate models will have to look at MUCH more than carbon footprints.
Reference
1. Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder, “The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change”, 2007.
2. Project CLOUD , CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2006.
One hundred years ago Nikola Tesla tried to beam free, environmentally safe, solar energy to a world of poor, enslaved people. But US capitalist J. P. Morgan didn’t want FREE and equal access to energy. So he and the Administration shut Tesla down.
Nikola Tesla
Remember Tesla when The Powers That Be say they’re concerned about our planet. “It’s warming, it’s drowning, its fossil fuels are depleted…” Their solution is to make money off our personal carbon use! In the UK they plan carbon credit cards for everyone. What does this mean for fixed incomes.
On the surface, use less energy and get personal credit that we can sell. In reality, if our old house burns more energy to keep hot or cool, we have to buy credit! And if we drive to town for school, church, work, shopping or entertainment from an isolated home, we pay for credit. Without a lobby, can we fight back?
More than THIRTY THOUSAND scientists have signed a Petition Against Global Warming. They are battling computer-enhanced data put out by the UN, its Panel On Climate Change, and US capitalist Al Gore. Models that use sample data from one location to predict climate outside that location, are make-believe. But Al Gore, like old J. P. Morgan, pushes what makes him richer. And no disclosure about his cartel’s profiting!
US Administrations and capitalists have mined Nikola Tesla’s ideas for sixty years without so much as courtesy credit to him. If they care for the earth, let’em rebuild his wireless, solar technology.
Reference
1. Global Warming Petition Project, www.petitionproject.org
2. Matthew Lockwood, “A rough guide to carbon trading”, 2007.
3. Deborah Corey Barnes, “Al Gore’s Carbon Crusade: The Money and Connections Behind It”, 2007.
4. Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress, “The Amazing Inventions of Nikola Tesla”, 1993.
On the 5th of June the full US Senate will debate limiting carbon emissions for industry. But a different debate would actually help us move away from petroleum, faster. The one on how the falling exchange rate of the US dollar is creating unnecessary inflation. And forcing OPEC countries to abandon the greenback.
Common sense says oil producers can’t stay pegged to a currency that loses its value every day. Kuwait and Iran have already moved to other currencies. So Americans need to hear how much imported petroleum will cost when—not if, when—it’s no longer priced in US dollars. THAT’s the debate we should hear.
Speculators yank us around because our way of life depends on petroleum. And we don’t feel any urgency to move away from it. But now, US$4+ per gallon has everyone’s attention. The perfect time for the senators to spell out all the reasons why we need a new energy policy.
