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Ask anyone today and all but the most socially oblivious will tell you that we’re in trouble. It seems that everywhere we turn, we are faced with some bureaucrat making every effort to spit in the face of personal liberty in the name of some faceless greater good. Many of us have chosen to wrap ourselves in a warm blanket of normalcy bias, clinging to the misguided idea that things will “just work out.” While I consider myself an optimist, I can’t ignore statistical data that says otherwise. No amount of grandstanding or political feelgood speech will change that. There is little doubt in my mind that we are in for some tough times.
When times get difficult, it becomes even more important to highlight the positive. When we bring positive change to light and into the public eye, we do something very powerful. We show that a path exists with new choices and possibilities; we show by example that it can be done. It’s an illustration of how far we have fallen when a sheriff just doing his job becomes an internet icon for liberty literally overnight.
In the face of increasingly militarized police forces on our streets, where legitimate protest footage is nearly indistinguishable from that of a war correspondent – this man took a stand. In an environment where our political leaders say it’s acceptable to pat down infants, our seniors, and even our veterans for the sake of security theater – this guy took a stand. He did nothing less than uphold his oath to the principles of personal liberty.
Folks, I wish I could say that everything will be rainbows and daisies, but we all know that there is a storm coming. No one can predict how it will play out, but one thing is clear. If you wear a badge, then at some point you will have to make a choice between political forces and the oath you took to our nation’s principles. And when the smoke clears, you will have to live with that decision.
Sheriff Lenic, thank you for making the right choice.
From Beat the Chip
“After months of protesting a policy requiring high school students to wear an RFID-enabled ID badge around their necks at all times, Andrea Hernandez is being involuntarily withdrawn from John Jay High School in San Antonio effective November 26th, according to a letter sent by the district that has now been made public.
The letter, sent on November 13, informs her father that the Smart ID program, which was phased in with the new school year, is now in “full implementation” and requires all students to comply by wearing the location-tracking badges.
Since Andrea Hernandez has refused to wear the badge, she is being withdrawn from the magnate school and her program at the Science and Engineering Academy, and instead will have to attend William Howard Taft HS, which is not currently involved in the ID scheme, unless she changes her position.”
A big BubbaTanicals thumbs up to Andrea Hernandez for taking her fight for liberty to the front lines. I remember being in high school and I can tell you that I would likely not have the maturity or the courage to wage such a fight. Andrea, you are an inspiration and more of us could stand to take a page form your book.
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We explore some of the common ground between farming and prepping and discuss how preppers might benefit from farming and homesteading.
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I guess that organic milk isn’t looking so expensive now is it?
More from the front lines..
From: The New York Times
In its first-ever ruling on genetically modified crops, the Supreme Court on Monday overturned a lower court’s ban on the planting of alfalfa seeds engineered to resist Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide.
The decision was a victory for Monsanto and others in the agricultural biotechnology industry, with potential implications for other cases, like one involving genetically engineered sugar beets.
But in practice the decision is not likely to measurably speed up the resumption of planting of the genetically engineered alfalfa.
A federal district judge in San Francisco had ruled in 2007 that the Agriculture Department had approved the genetically engineered alfalfa for commercial planting without adequately considering the possible environment impact, as required by federal law. The judge vacated approval, known as deregulation of the crop, and also imposed a nationwide ban on planting those seeds. The ban was later upheld on appeal.
But the Supreme Court, in a 7-to-1 decision, said the lower court judge had gone too far, ruling that the national ban prevented the Agriculture Department from considering a partial approval. That avenue, the court said, would have allowed some of the alfalfa to be grown under certain conditions; for example, isolating it from conventional alfalfa.
Burning AFB Infected Hives
Join me on my way down to Baxley to pick up some bees. The first in a series of shows where we focus entirely on bees and beekeeping. We go over some interesting breaking developments in beekeeping amd discuss some of the microbial pathogens that our bees have to deal with.
Gardener’s Apiary
Baxley, Georgia
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Barreling down the road, we take some feedback, touch on healthcare deform, lament the cost and extent of repairing our house, and scare the hell out of you with a discussion on genetic modification in the food supply.
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Correction! – It was not a fish gene that was used to create roundup ready plants, It was a type of Agrobacterium
Doctors Urge Non-GMO diets
Genetically Modified Organisms and Biological Risks (PDF)
GMO’s Actually Reduce Crop Yield
125,000 dead – GM Crops create ‘Suicide Belt’ in India
Effects of GMO Corn on Mammalian Health
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From: http://www.highmowingseeds.com/HMS-Wins-Lawsuit-Against-Genetically-Engineered-Crops.html
Thank you High Mowing Seeds for standing up in the face of evil. You are a hero and an inspiration to farmers everywhere. Let’s hope that your determination helps set a legal precedent against these companies and gives some power back to the farmers of this great nation.
September 23, 2009
Local Seed Company Wins Lawsuit Against Genetically Engineered Crops
High Mowing Organic Seeds, a mail-order organic seed company based in Wolcott, Vermont announced today that it has won its nearly 20 month lawsuit against the USDA for the premature deregulation of Monsanto’s genetically engineered sugar beets. Additional plaintiffs include the Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance and the Sierra Club and were represented in addition, by Earth Justice attorneys. The groups filed the lawsuit in January 2008.
High Mowing’s founder and President, Tom Stearns says, “This ruling is a success not just for organic farmers but for all who have hope for a healthier food system in this country. All wise solutions to our agricultural challenges should serve our physical health, environmental health and the economic viability of farmers and the communities in which they live.”
The U.S. District Court for the northern district of California ruled that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) violated federal law by failing to prepare an environmental impact statement before deregulating genetically altered sugar beets.Monsanto developed the biotech beets to be resistant to Monsanto’s glyphosate herbicide Roundup, and promotes the sugarbeets as “Roundup Ready.”
In 2009, 1.1 million acres were planted with GMO sugar beets and almost half of the sugar in the U.S. is made from beets.Recently, the USDA has shown great signs of progress in support of local and organic food by elevating the National Organic Program to its own division and just yesterday, hiring Miles McEvoy as its head. The USDA, headed by Sec. Vilsack and Deputy Sec. Merrigan have also been making important announcements for the last week as they kick-off their new campaign, Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food. Stearns believes that these are critical and substantial changes within the department and “that a tipping point has been reached and that the USDA is now becoming part of the solution to re-building healthy food systems in this country.”
High Mowing is just one of dozens of farms and agricultural businesses in the Hardwick, Vermont region that have been collaborating with each other for many years. The NY Times, Gourmet Magazine, Eating Well Magazine and authors Michael Pollan, Bill McKibben, Sen. Patrick Leahy and many others have declared the region as a national model for healthy food systems and building economic development through value-added agriculture. In mid-September, camera crews and Chef Emeril Legasse and Dan Rather Reports filmed many activities of the region for their upcoming shows on healthy food systems.
For more information contact:
Tom Stearns, High Mowing Organic Seeds
tom@highmowingseeds.com
802-472-6174 ext. 114
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