“Aggie the traveling Agrobacterium” has landed in Hawaii

Hawaii Farmers Union

Produced by: Barbara H. Peterson

http://aggie.farmwars.info

Many thanks to each of you for the inspiration of today’s call!
Barbara’s approach in developing curriculum is brilliant. 

 As a school librarian, exposure to Monsanto -funded curriculum “Field of Genes” is what first galvanized me into this movement.  I agree with Barbara and Shiv that reaching children with information about the real risks of GMO’s while nurturing a love for growing real food for everyone is vital.

Deeply encouraged to be reminded by our Iraqi colleague, Naqid Khamis, of the innate wisdom and steadfastness that continues from earliest times in Mesopotamia.   It is both  an honor and humbling to network with you all in this effort.

In Hawaii since we have been (U.S. occupied as well,) exploited as the world center for field research on GMO seed varieties, we are ready to participate in international efforts to educate and resist and transform the influence of the Biotech/GMO industry.

Thank you, Wafaa’, for bringing our beautiful planet and us the hope, the promise and the imperative to act, that is Seed Day!  I have found as I mentioned that the more we can focus on good food, peace and sovereignty the more successful our outreach and collaboration will be.

Aloha,
Eden Peart

Hawaii Farmers Union

Hawaii

House Ways & Means….all the ways and means we are going to get nailed under Obamacare

Date: Monday, May 31, 2010, 1:22 PMI missed this one earlier.  Looks like Obama, Pelosi and Co., have their road map already.

Martin: Found this on the Ways and Means website. This is only SOME of what’s coming. Take note of the very last two listed.

2010
•Medicare cuts to inpatient psych hospitals (7/1/10)

2011
•Medicare Advantage cuts begin
•Medicare cuts to home health begin
•Medicare reimbursement cuts when seniors use diagnostic imaging like
MRIs, CT scans, etc.
•Medicare cuts begin to ambulance services, ASCs, diagnostic labs, and durable
medical equipment

•Impose new annual tax on brand name pharmaceutical companies
•Americans begin paying premiums for federal long term care insurance
(CLASS Act) (see FOX news story on this in todays headlines)
•Prohibition on Medicare payments to new physician owned hospitals

•Seniors prohibited from purchasing power wheelchairs unless they
first rent for 13 months
•Employers required to report value of health benefits on W2
•New Medicare cuts to long term care hospitals begin (7/1/11)
•Additional Medicare cuts to hospitals and cuts to nursing homes and inpatient
rehab facilities begin (FY12)

•New tax on all private health insurance policies to pay for comp.
eff. research (plan years beginning FY12)

2012
•Medicare cuts to dialysis treatment begins
•Require information reporting on payments to corporations
•New Medicare cuts to inpatient psych hospitals (7/1/12)
•Hospital pay for quality program begins (FY13)
•Medicare cuts to hospitals with high readmission rates begin (FY13)
•Medicare cuts to hospice begin (FY13)

2013
•Impose 2.3% excise tax on medical devices
•Medicare cuts to hospitals who treat low income seniors begin

Haitian Farmers to Burn Monsanto’s Seeds.

Live link:   Truthout.org 

 

On June 4, World Environment Day, the Haitian Peasant Movement of

Papay (MPP) has committed to burning Monsanto’s seeds and has called

for a march to protest the corporation’s presence in Haiti.  Details are

accessed in the link above.

 

If you live in Haiti or have contacts in Haiti, we will be grateful to hear

from you updating us about the march and the actual burning of 475

tons of seeds.  We greatly appreciate helping us in reaching and

interviewing Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, the leader of MPP. Thank you.

 

 

Sustainable Development or Sustainable Freedom?

Soveriegnty International. INC

New Video

We have just posted a new, four-minute video on YouTube to promote “Sustainable Development or Sustainable Freedom.”  Please take a look and then send the link to your mail lists.  We really need to get this into the hands of every elected official, and every candidate this month.  Please do what you can to help.

Critical Senate vote

On June 10, the Senate will vote on SJ Res. 26, a Joint-Resolution to disapprove the EPA Rule that would allow the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant.   Carbon dioxide occurs naturally throughout the environment, and is what mammals exhale.  It is not a pollutant!  If the EPA is allowed to define it as a pollutant and regulate it in the atmosphere, then the EPA has a license to regulate life itself.

This is what the resolution says:

“Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the endangerment finding and the cause or contribute findings for greenhouse gases under section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act (published at 74 Fed. Reg. 66496 (December 15, 2009)), and such rule shall have no force or effect.”

Please contact your Senators and urge them to adopt this critical resolution.

“To Free America” radio program. Guests: Paul Griepentrog and Randy Cook

American News Net

Linked here:      First Amendment Radio  

Randy Cook and Paul Griepentrog of the National Organization of Raw Materials will be guests of Randy Yarbrough on “To Free America” radio program.  They will be discussing the proposed food safety bills, and presenting a rebuttal of the FDA’s and USDA’s presumption of having authority to regulate on farm production through interstate commerce.  From 5-7 CDT Thursday  

Leges vigilantibus, non dormientibus subveniunt. The laws aid those who keep watch, not those who sleep (that is, the vigilant, not the negligent).

http://americanewsnet.com/

http://www.firstamendmentradio.com/