Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Martial Law in the u.s.

Some Americans

Think the Army

is Prepping for

Modern-Day

Martial Law?!

Conspiracy theories are running wild over the Army’s planned multi-state training exercise this summer.

Green Berets, Navy SEALs and Special Operations forces will conduct realistic training exercises from July to September across the southwest – including in 17 Texas cities.

The exercise, called Jade Helm 15, has critics worried that the Army is preparing for modern-day martial law. Some are even calling it “the Texas takeover.”

Officials say the goal is to see if groups of Special Forces can move around a civilian population without being noticed and can handle different threat scenarios. The military says that these are vital skills when it comes to the ever-changing threats that military members face.

But a slideshow about the training exercise shows Texas labeled as simulated "hostile" territory, which prompted concern from some Americans.

Pentagon and local law enforcement are trying to knock down the rumors and let everyone know that the feds have no plans to take over Texas.

Watch Trace Gallager’s report above. Read the Army’s press release below:

Members of U.S. Army Special Operations Command will train with other U.S Armed Forces units July 15 through Sept. 15 in a multi-state exercise called Jade Helm 15.

USASOC periodically conducts training exercises such as these to practice core special warfare tasks, which help protect the nation against foreign enemies. It is imperative that Special Operations Soldiers receive the best training, equipment and resources possible.

While multi-state training exercises such as these are not unique to the military, the size and scope of Jade Helm sets this one apart. To stay ahead of the environmental challenges faced overseas, Jade Helm will take place across seven states. However, Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) will only train in five states: Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. The diverse terrain in these states replicates areas Special Operations Soldiers regularly find themselves operating in overseas.

The training exercise will be conducted on private and public land with the permission of the private landowners, and from state and local authorities. In essence, all exercise activity will be taking place on pre-coordinated public and private lands.

The public can expect nothing much different from their day-to-day activities since much of exercise will be conducted in remote areas. The most noticeable effect the exercise may have on the local communities is an increase in vehicle and military air traffic and its associated noise. There will also be economic gain: an increase in the local economy, in fuel and food purchases and hotel lodging.

This exercise is routine training to maintain a high level of readiness for ARSOF since they must be ready to support potential missions anywhere in the world at a moment’s notice.

During this eight-week period, ARSOF soldiers will use this opportunity to further develop tactics, techniques and procedures for emerging concepts in Special Operations warfare.

USASOC intends to conduct the exercise safely and courteously while providing the best possible training available for the nation's Army Special Operations Forces. State and local officials are being informed of the scope of Jade Helm and will continue to be updated as the exercise progresses.

The Dope on Cannabis vs Cancer

Watch What Happens When Cannabis Ravages Cancer Cells. This Is Mind Blowing.

March 13, 2015

After the Washington Post released an article in 1974 that stated THC, “slowed the growth of lung cancers, breast cancers and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratory mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36%,” the world was remarkedly quiet about it. It took years, until after the advent of the internet and dissemination of information for the world to buy in. Also, video footage of the cells in action helps drive the point home: certain strains of THC can kill cancer cells and let normal cells live in peace. In 1998, a new study, by Madrid Complutense stated that ”THC can cause cancer cells to die, and unlike chemotherapy the THC kills nothing but the cancer cells, leaving the brain of course completely unharmed.”

It is believed that the Delta 9 THC eradicates cancer cells because they have so many more receptors; they are bombarded, whereas normal cells are treated much more gently.

These three videos are a great example, and even some direct footage, of the THC molecule binding to cells and slaying the cancerous ones.

http://www.sliptalk.com/thc-fighting-cancer/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=the-fighting-cancer

http://norml.org/component/zoo/category/cannabinoids-as-cancer-hope

http://themindunleashed.org/2014/11/mindblowing-microscopic-footage-cancer-cells-eliminated-cannabis-oil.html

Image Credit: delta9technologies.com/cannabinoids#/cannabinoids/

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

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Scroll your Lowdown below for Tuesday night’s limited out-and-about options, but there is a spectacle you might notice this afternoon thatLoCO thought you might like to know about.

From Thursday to Sunday, “The Wall that Heals” — a traveling half-sized replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall — will be on display at theBear River Community Center in Loleta displaying the names of 58 Humboldt County residents, among thousands of other, who perished as a result of the United States’ war in Vietnam. There will be an opening ceremony Thursday at 10 a.m.

After leaving Redding this morning, the wall will cross the border into Humboldt today on a truck escorted by an estimated one hundred motorcycle riders. The procession is expected to roll through Eureka between 2 and 3 p.m. today.

For more info on The Wall that Heals, check out their website. -AG

Results of Inbreeding

PAUSE

We ARE the Axis of EVIL

HAPPY

This man is out of control...... He has been for years, only no one in AZ, ever wanted to admit it because his nastiness only affected a few Dineh Elders up on Big Mountain....

Now that it is affecting everyone in the State and the country.... what do you have to say?

McCain Suggests Israel "Go Rogue," Blow Up Iran Negotiations By Starting War

He made the suggestion during a floor speech.

http://www.alternet.org/mccain-suggests-israel-go-rogue-blow-iran-negotiations-starting-war

By Zaid Jilani / AlterNet

March 29, 2015

As Iran talks appear to be coming to a close with a successful agreement that would both lead to the lifting of international sanctions and restrictions that would prevent the country from obtaining nuclear weapons, most in the international community are relieved.

Yet Republicans have teamed up with their counterparts in the Israeli political system to do everything they can to obstruct a deal – with tactics such as drafting new sanctions legislation and warning the Iranian leadership that the nuclear agreement will not outlast President Obama.

But this past week Senator John McCain (R-AZ) ratcheted up this sabotage to a new level. During a floor speech he gave on March 24th, the senator suggested that Israel “go rogue” and that if they don't they may not survive the next 22 months of the Obama presidency:

McCAIN: The Israelis will need to chart their own path of resistance. On the Iranian nuclear deal, they may have to go rogue. Let's hope their warnings have not been mere bluffs. Israel survived its first 19 years without meaningful U.S. patronage. For now, all it has to do is get through the next 22, admittedly long, months.

Monday, March 30, 2015

Activists 'Shut Down' Nestlé Water Bottling Plant

COMMUNITY

Activists 'Shut Down' Nestlé Water Bottling Plant in Sacramento

Mar 27, 2015 6:57pm PDT by Dan Bacher

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/27/1373887/-Activists-Shut-Down-Nestl-Water-Bottling-Plant-in-Sacramento?detail=facebook_sf

Environmental and human rights activists, holding plastic “torches” and “pitchforks,” formed human barricades at both entrances to the Nestlé Waters bottling plant in Sacramento at 5:00 a.m. on Friday, March 20, effectively shutting down the company's operations for the day.

Members of the “Crunch Nestlé Alliance" shouted out a number of chants, including ”We got to fight for our right to water,” “Nestlé, Stop It, Water Not For Profit," and “¿Agua Para Quien? Para Nuestra Gente.”

The protesters stayed until about 1 pm, but there were no arrests.

Representatives of the alliance said the company is draining up to 80 million gallons of water a year from Sacramento aquifers during a record drought. They claim Sacramento City Hall has made it possible through a "corporate welfare giveaway."

“This corporate welfare giveaway is an outrage and warrants a major investigation,” Coalition spokesperson Andy Conn said. “For more than five months we have requested data on Nestlé water use. City Hall has not complied with our request, or given any indication that it will. Sacramentans deserve to know how their money is being spent and what they’re getting for it. In this case, they’re getting ripped off.”

Lola Ellis of 99 Rise Sacramento, who spoke on the bullhorn at the protest, said, “Nestlé’s bottling of water in Sacramento is unsustainable in the current state of drought. We really don’t’ know how much water they are taking from the aquifer and that is a scary thing.”

“The water needs to be used for the local community. If there is not enough water for the local community, the Nestlé corporation should not be making a profit,” she emphasized.

The coalition protested what they call Nestlé's “virtually unlimited use of water” while Sacramentans (like other Californians) who use a mere 7 to 10 percent of total water used in the State of California, have had severe restrictions and limitations forced upon them.

The coalition is calling on Nestlé to pay rates commensurate with its enormous profit, or voluntarily close down.

“Nestlé pays only 65 cents for each 470 gallons it pumps out of the ground – the same rate as an average residential water user. But the company can turn the area's water around, and sell it back to Sacramento at mammoth profit,” according to a news release from the activists.

They said Sacramento officials have refused attempts to obtain details of Nestlé's water use. Coalition members have addressed the Sacramento City Council and requested that Nestlé either pay a commercial rate under a two tier level, or pay a tax on its profit.

A call to the Sacramento City Department of Utilities about the details of Nestlés water use hadn’t been returned as of press time.

But according to Fox 40 News, “In 2014 Nestlé says it used 50 million gallons from the Sacramento Municipal Water Supply, which they say is a fraction of one percent of total water demand within the city of Sacramento.”

“Nestlé can claim any amount of water they want, but we haven’t seen any documentation of the amount of water they’re using,” said Bob Saunders, also with the Crunch Nestlé Alliance. "We do know they’re allowed to take up to 80 million gallons per year.”

Mauro Oliveira, known as "Red Sun," showed up at the protest with his children, including Rise, Aren and Mahai'a, and connected the battle of local activists against Nestlé with the struggle of Indian Tribes, family farmers, grassroots environmental activists and fishermen to stop fracking, the Shasta Dam raise, and Governor Jerry Brown’s Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) to build the twin tunnels, the most environmentally destructive public works project in California history.

“This whole idea of bottling water goes against Indigenous Peoples' concept of water is sacred," said Oliveira. "The 20,000-year-old water in aquifers belongs to the last generation on earth. We don’t have the right to tap into this water.”

“The Governor said we should conserve, but millions of gallons of fracking waste are being reinjected into the aquifer in California. The Governor talks out of both sides of his mouth. Polluting our water supplies is a violation of human rights," said Oliveira.

Raiding pristine water from a National Forest stream
The bottling plant in Sacramento is not the only one in California. A recent investigation in the Desert Sun found that Nestlé Waters North America has been pumping water from pristine streams of the San Bernardino National Forest with little to no oversight by the U.S. Forestry Service. (http://www.desertsun.com/...)

“Nestlé Waters North America holds a longstanding right to use this water from the national forest near San Bernardino,” according to the Sun. “But the U.S. Forest Service hasn't been keeping an eye on whether the taking of water is harming Strawberry Creek and the wildlife that depends on it. In fact, Nestle's permit to transport water across the national forest expired in 1988. It hasn't been reviewed since, and the Forest Service hasn't examined the ecological effects of drawing tens of millions of gallons each year from the springs.”

On its website, Nestlé claims that it is committed to “environmental stewardship.” (http://www.nestle-watersna.com/...)

“36 years of experience promoting healthy hydration, Nestlé Waters North America has 15 leading U.S. and Canadian bottled water brands,” according to the company. “The company’s commitment to environmental stewardship, especially in the areas of water use, packaging and energy, as well as its dedication to partnering in the communities where it operates, have led Nestlé Waters to achieve the number one bottled drinking water position in the U.S.”
Activists disagree strongly with the company’s claims of commitment to "environmental stewardship." In October, the “Crunch Nestlé” coalition released a "white paper" highlighting predatory water profiteering actions taken by Nestle’ Water Bottling Company in various cities, counties, states and countries.

Most of those great “deals” yielded mega profits for Nestlé at the expense of the public. Additionally, the environmental impact on many of those areas yielded “disastrous results,” the paper stated.
Nestlé is currently the leading supplier of the world’s bottled water, including such brands as Perrier and San Pellegrino. It has has 7,500 employees and 29 bottled water facilities across the U.S. and Canada, and annual revenues were $4.0 billion in 2012, up 6.8% from 2011. For nearly four decades, activists from an array of organizations have criticized the company for its human rights violations throughout the world.

For example, Food and Water Watch and other organizations blasted Nestlé’s "Human Rights Impact Assessment," released at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights in December 2013, as a "public relations stunt."
(http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/...)

“The failure to examine Nestlé’s track record on the human right to water is not surprising given recent statements by its chair Peter Brabeck-Letmath challenging the human right to water,” said Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food & Water Watch. She noted that the company famously declared at the 2000 World Water Forum in the Netherlands that water should be defined as a need—not as a human right.

Watch Nestlé's CEO declare water “food that should be privatized, and not a human right”: http://http://www.globalresearch.ca/nestle-continues-stealing-worlds-water-during-drought/5438880

More recently Brabeck-Letmathe, after facing international criticism for his remarks, reversed course and now said he thinks that "water is a human right and that everyone, everywhere in the world, has the right to clean, safe water for drinking and sanitation." (http://www.nestle.com/...)
But activists continue to cite the company's bad human rights record, noting that Nestlé workers who have protested unjust labor conditions at the corporation’s facilities in Colombia have been assassinated by paramilitary death squads.

"In November 2013, Colombian trade unionist Oscar Lopez Trivino became the fifteenth Nestlé worker to be assassinated by a paramilitary organization while many of his fellow workers were in the midst of a hunger strike protesting the corporation’s refusal to hear their grievances," according to the groups.

Taking the water from aquifers throughout the world and the deaths of workers protesting Nestlé policies are not the only violation of human rights that activists charge the corporation with. Groups including the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) and Save the Children claim that the promotion of Nestlé infant formula over breastfeeding has led to health problems and deaths among infants in less economically developed countries.

“They’re a despicable company with death built into their business plan,” summed up Conn.
For more information about the Crunch Nestlé Alliance, contact Andy Conn (530) 906-8077 camphgr55 (at) gmail.com or Bob Saunders (916) 370-8251
The Drought and The Tunnels

The Sacramento protest took place just days after Jay Famiglietti, the senior water scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech and a professor of Earth system science at UC Irvine, revealed in an op-ed in the LA Times on March 12 that California has only one year of water supply left in its reservoirs. (http://touch.latimes.com/...)

The protest also made the news as Governor Jerry Brown continues to fast-track his Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) to build the peripheral tunnels to ship Sacramento River water to corporate agribusiness, Southern California water agencies, and oil companies conducting fracking operations.

The $67 billion plan won't create one single drop of new water, but it will take vast tracts of Delta farm land out of production under the guise of "habitat restoration" in order to irrigate drainage-impaired soil owned by corporate mega-growers on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley.
The tunnel plan will also hasten the extinction of Sacramento River Chinook salmon, Central Valley steelhead, Delta and longfin smelt, green sturgeon and other fish species, as well as imperil the salmon and steelhead populations on the Klamath and Trinity rivers. The peripheral tunnels will be good for agribusiness, water privateers, oil companies and the 1 percent, but will be bad for the fish, wildlife, people and environment of California and the public trust.

Religious Freedom

BALA FALLS: Let's Work to Save Them!

http://www.muskokalakes.ca/files/%7BE178E36A-9B95-4C1E-95CA-22CF5D4BDEA7%7D23-09-2014%20Bala%20Heritage%20Conservation%20District%20Plan.pdf

This is part of why the work that Peggy Peterson to Save the Bala Falls is so important & what SREL is totally ignoring in their chase to make a few (read mega) bucks)

Please click on the link which will take you to the Bala Heritage Conservation District Plan....

I suspect no one from SREL has read the plan, nor made any note of those areas already designated historical INCLUDING the trees nor made any attempt to apply for the Heritage paperwork required to proceed with their work...& since the railway bridges in the area (there are actually 8) date back to 1904..they are probably in no condition to either carry their current load of oil tankers nor deal with the potential of flooding from the proposed dam.

http://savethebalafalls.com/

Peggy, the Muskoka Lorax, has now been camped-out protecting the proposed site for 211 days
To support Peggy, you can do an Interac transfer using your bank’s on-line access. Send the funds to Allan@muskoka.com

We are delighted that the Muskoka Lakes Association has passed a resolution in opposition to the project as currently proposed. The Bala falls need your help, It would be great if you, and your family and friends could:

Sign yourself up for our e-Newsletters here. We send a brief factual e-mail every month or so. We promise not to share your e-mail address or use it for any other purpose. Let others know they can sign themselves up using the link at the top-right at SaveTheBalaFalls.com
If you’d like to volunteer please contact Glenn Zavitz at Glenn.Zavitz@rogers.com or phone him at 519 591-8878. We’d especially like to hear from any lawyers who wish to help, or anyone who knows senior politicians who can make a difference.
You can make a donation to this effort here.
If you have any questions, contact us here.

Monsanto At It Again.....

The bad news just keeps coming. Monsanto caught with their pants down again! Monsanto’s Dr. William “Bill” Moar presented, to a group of agricultural students, the latest project in their product pipeline dealing with RNA and spoke about Monsanto’s efforts to educate citizens about the scientific certainty of the safety of their genetically engineered products. One student asked what Monsanto was doing to counter the “bad science” around their work. Dr. Moar, perhaps forgetting that this was a public event, then revealed that Monsanto indeed had “an entire department” dedicated to “debunking” science which disagreed with theirs. Monsanto's anti-science Discredit Bureau has been EXPOSED. Label GMOs. Boycott GMOs. BAN GMOs.

READ: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/27/1373484/-Monsanto-s-Discredit-Bureau-Swings-into-Action

#gmo #antiscience #RNAi #BillMoar #Roundup #glyphosate #carcinogen #MonsantoExposed #labelgmos #boycottgmos #BANgmos #gmofreecanada #gmofreeusa

— with Laurie Harrington.

GOP AGAINST Paid Sick Leave... But They Have It

McDonald's: NOT "Lovin' It"

Food Babe

If you compare the ingredients McDonald's serves in London, you’ll see that many of the food additives used in the U.S. aren’t used over there at all, such as TBHQ, BHA, propyl gallate, azodicarbonamide, sodium phosphate and artificial colors.

Instead of frying their food in partially hydrogenated oils laced with dimethylpolysiloxane like they do in the U.S., they use a non-hydrogenated vegetable oil blend instead.

They also serve organic milk and don’t use GMO ingredients overseas – all while serving us GMOs here in the States.

What they’re serving in other countries isn’t perfect, but it’s better - why doesn't the US McDonald's just do what they are doing overseas?

It's irresponsible not to and it could save lives.

Here's the scoop on the 12 worst ingredients at McDonalds to warn all your friends who still eat there of: http://foodbabe.com/2015/03/27/everyone-still-eats-mcdonalds-even-wont-admit/#FoodBabeArmy