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A evolução humana tem sido um processo gradual ao longo de milhões de anos, a partir de nossos primeiros ancestrais que divergiram de outros primatas longo de quatro a sete milhões de anos, ao Homo sapiens moderno de hoje. Começamos a ter alguma semelhança com o ser humano moderno, Homo habilis e H. erectus 2-3000000 anos atrás, com as práticas rudimentares que caracterizam comportamentos tipicamente humanos como caça e coleta, usando lanças e ferramentas de pedra, e segundo o antropólogo Richard Wrangham , o controle e uso do fogo.
Os primeiros seres humanos anatomicamente modernos conhecidos como Homo sapiens fazem o seu aparecimento, já em 400 mil anos atrás na África, e durante esse tempo gradualmente desenvolver tecnologias simples, até que começamos a sofrer uma transformação radical cerca de 10.000 anos atrás. Coletivamente, este período de tempo em arqueologia, a partir do advento do Homo habilis para a revolução agrícola é chamado o período paleolítico, e representa mais de 99,9% de nossa evolução humana.
Como nossos ancestrais primatas evoluiu a natureza de nossa dieta mudou gradualmente, de comer plantas e insetos como árvore-moradores, para se tornar a pele-desgastando caçadores grande jogo que vem à mente quando pensamos no 'homens das cavernas' representado na cultura popular. Por necessidade nossa dieta foi tão diversos quanto possível, e os nossos antepassados necessário para manter um vasto conhecimento de alimentos locais, incluindo plantas, animais, fungos e minerais apenas para sobreviver. Dependendo de fatores como a geografia e clima, quanto de cada tipo de comida que pode comer em um determinado momento variaram consideravelmente. Pesquisa realizada na Universidade de Colorado sugere, porém, que, sempre que possível nossos ancestrais alimentos de origem animal preferido como sua principal fonte de nutrição, que compreende entre 45-65% do seu consumo energético total, completa o percentual restante de alimentos de origem vegetal (Cordain et al 2000) . Esses achados corroboram com evidência que sugere que os primeiros seres humanos preferida alimentos de origem animal para o seu impacto elevado teor calórico, facilitando o desenvolvimento do nosso cérebro relativamente grande humano. Alimentos ricos em carboidratos, naturalmente, permaneceu uma parte essencial da dieta, incluindo raízes silvestres, caules, folhas, frutos, cascas e seiva de árvore - mas todos estes têm propriedades muito diferentes quando comparados com os alimentos ricos em carboidratos que comemos hoje em dia.
Existem alguns lugares onde restantes exemplos da dieta do paleolítico ainda podem ser encontrados, como no Kung povos da África, os povos Inuit do Ártico, e Yanomamo e povos da América do Sul Aché. Os historiadores nos dizem que quando os primeiros exploradores europeus chegaram à América do Norte, que sempre comentou sobre a saúde eo vigor das populações nativas, que parecia estar livre das doenças crônicas e doenças que assolaram as suas mais "avançadas" as culturas. Pesquisa sobre os modernos caçadores-coletores povos como os ianomâmis indica que seguir as práticas tradicionais na dieta do paleolítico protege contra as doenças que são a marca registrada não apenas da cultura ocidental, mas talvez da própria civilização (Truswell 1977, Neel 1977, Salzano e Callegari-Jacques 1988 ).
Cerca de 10.000 anos atrás, algo revolucionário começaram a acontecer para a humanidade. De repente começamos a experimentar com a domesticação de animais e plantas, reunindo em comunidades sedentárias de renunciar a nosso caçador de reunir-maneiras. A primeira onda de que isso aconteceu na África e no Oriente Médio, logo após na Índia e na China, e depois muito mais tarde na Meso-América e da Europa do Norte. Causada pela mudança climática ou a população pressões, os humanos começaram a aproveitar os recursos locais para a sua vantagem. Apesar de animais como o cão, porco e vaca estavam entre a primeira espécie a ser domesticado, os humanos experimentaram com um diversificado leque de espécies de plantas, seleção e plantio só choicest a geração espécimes e depois de capina geração, com características indesejáveis, tais como amargura e de fibra . Enquanto os vegetais foram cultivados, a característica mais marcante da revolução agrária foi a produção de grãos, cereais e legumes. Coleta, trituração, de imersão, fermentação e cozimento das sementes de gramíneas diversas, incluindo emmer, cevada e linho rendeu um surpreendente alimentos ricos em energia, enquanto leguminosas secas e cozidas desde uma boa fonte de proteína. No clima relativamente estável deste período, os povos que já tinham resolvido descobriram que o ciclo de confiança sazonal da produção de culturas resultou uma maior segurança alimentar do que a sorte da caça, e lentamente as fundações da cultura humana, para o bem ou para o mal, começou a mudar. Aos poucos, a diversidade de alimentos na dieta começou a declinar como nossos ancestrais neolíticos trabalharam desde o amanhecer até o anoitecer de semeadura, plantio, cultivo, colheita, secagem e preparação dos alimentos, com pouco tempo ou energia para mais nada. Alimentos armazenados se tornou uma mercadoria valiosa na sociedade humana primitiva, e utilizada por vantagem por certas pessoas, ajudou a produzir a estratificação social ainda vemos na sociedade hoje em dia, com uma subclasse de trabalhadores e uma elite que dirige a sociedade por meio do controle de alimentos e os meios de sua produção. Desde essa altura, embora os impérios se levantaram e caíram, a dieta desta labutando underclass mudou muito pouco, pelo menos até muito recentemente.
Embora não totalmente insalubres, a dieta de grãos e de pulso com base do camponês está longe de ser ideal e evidências arqueológicas sugerem que tanto contribuiu para a fraqueza física e doença crônica. Para contrariar esta situação, os povos tradicionais continuou a enfatizar produtos de origem animal na dieta, mas porque o abate de animais foi um investimento caro, houve uma maior dependência dos resultados mais sustentáveis para a domesticação animal, como laticínios e ovos. Ao contrário de hoje, não havia distinção entre alimentos integrais e refinados porque a tecnologia não existiam para refinar alimentos integrais. Em toda a Ásia, por exemplo, arroz e todos os seus varietais de diferentes tornou-se o grampo mais importante, e foi quase sempre comido com o farelo, ou seja, intactos arroz integral - a não ser é claro, você pode dar ao luxo de pagar alguém para meticulosamente para remover o farelo de moagem da arroz em areia - e, mesmo assim, foi apenas parcialmente moídos e muito ao contrário do arroz branqueado branco macio maior parte da Ásia come hoje em dia.
Para a sua higiene camponês pobre médio e uma vida de trabalho físico duro, certamente teve seu preço, mas em geral sua saúde geral era muito melhor do que na superclasse elite, que sofria de muitas das doenças crônicas que vemos hoje em dia, simplesmente porque boa pagar os alimentos melhores e mais luxuosos. Esta estratificação rígida entre doenças de ricos e doenças dos pobres continuou mais ou menos até que é chamado de Revolução Verde do século 20, eo advento de práticas agrícolas industriais que aumentaram drasticamente a produção de alimentos, bem como o desenvolvimento de tecnologias para melhorar a vida de prateleira, sabor e conservação do alimento. Dentro de algumas gerações, comunidades anteriormente humilde que ao mesmo tempo sobreviveram em dietas de subsistência eram agora comer os alimentos refinados anteriormente o preservar de reis e nobres. Desta forma, um país em desenvolvimento como a Índia agora tem os maiores índices de diabetes no mundo - todos de comer uma dieta altamente refinado, industrial que substitui para a dieta, simples terra comido apenas de duas gerações atrás.

Todd Caldecotts website contém muitos artigos interessantes sobre a dieta, estilo de vida, saúde.

Alimentos é poder e os poderosos nos estão a envenenar

8 de setembro de 2009

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Por Chris Hedges, reeditado pelo truthdig.com

Nossa arma mais poderosa política é a comida. Se tomarmos de volta a nossa agricultura, se comprar e aumentar a produzir localmente, podemos começar a quebrar o domínio das corporações que controlam um sistema alimentar tão frágil, insegura e destinados a entrar em colapso quando o nosso sistema financeiro. Se continuarmos a permitir que empresas para determinar o que comemos, assim como a comida é colhida e distribuída, então vamos tornar cativo ao aumento dos preços ea escassez cada vez mais dependente e barata, comida produzida em massa cheia de açúcar e gordura. Alimentos, juntamente com a energia, será a questão mais premente da nossa época. E se não construir redes alternativas de alimentos em breve, as ramificações políticas e sociais de escassez e fome será devastador.
Os efeitos da mudança climática, especialmente com as secas generalizadas na Austrália, África, Califórnia e do Centro-Oeste, juntamente com o aumento do custo de combustíveis fósseis, já arruinou a ambientes de milhões. Os pobres muitas vezes pode não ter recursos para uma dieta equilibrada. Preços globais dos alimentos aumentaram uma média de 43 por cento desde 2007, segundo o Fundo Monetário Internacional. Estes aumentos têm sido terríveis para as cerca de 1 bilhão de pessoas, um sexto da população do mundo que subsiste com menos de 1 dólar por dia. E 162 milhões destas pessoas sobrevivem com menos de 50 centavos por dia. Os pobres do mundo gastam tanto quanto 60 por cento de sua renda em alimentos, de acordo com o International Food Policy Research Institute.
Houve motins da fome em muitas partes do mundo, incluindo a Áustria, Hungria, México, Namíbia, Zimbabwe, Marrocos, Iêmen, Mauritânia, Senegal e Uzbequistão. Rússia e Paquistão introduziram racionamento de comida. Tropas paquistanesas guarda trigo importado. Índia proibiu a exportação de arroz, exceto para high-end basmati. E a escassez e aumentos de preços estão sendo sentidos no mundo industrializado, enquanto continuamos a lançar centenas de milhares de empregos e subir os preços dos alimentos. Há 33,2 milhões de americanos, ou um em cada nove, que dependem de vale-refeição. E em 20 estados como muitos como um em cada oito estão no programa do vale-refeição, de acordo com o Centro de Pesquisas de Alimentos. O benefício médio mensal foi de $ 113,87 por pessoa, deixando muitos, mesmo com ajuda do governo, sem alimentação adequada. O USDA diz que 36,2 milhões de americanos, ou 11 por cento dos agregados familiares, a luta para obter comida suficiente, e um terço deles têm, por vezes, ignorar ou cortar as refeições. Congresso atribuiu cerca de 54.000 milhões dólares para os selos de alimentos neste ano fiscal, contra US $ 39.000 milhões ano passado. No novo ano fiscal com início 01 de outubro, os custos será de US $ 60 bilhões, segundo estimativas.
Escassez de alimentos foram tinder para convulsão social ao longo da história. Mas desta vez, porque perdemos a habilidade de nos alimentar e vestir, será muito mais difícil para a maioria de nós para se tornar auto-sustentável. Os grandes agro-negócios em grande parte eliminados os pequenos agricultores. Eles têm envenenado o nosso solo com agrotóxicos e animais contaminados em pátios sujos e superlotados com altas doses de antibióticos e esteróides. Eles têm bombeado nutrientes e fósforo em sistemas de água, causando proliferação de algas e peixes morrem-off em nossos rios e córregos. Rendimento das culturas, sob o ataque de mudar os padrões climáticos e poluição química, estão em declínio no Nordeste, onde uma praga quase dizimou a cultura do tomate. O draconiano Food Safety Act Modernização, outro presente de nossa elite que regem a corporações, significa pequenas fazendas só vai continuar a diminuir em número. Sites como o La Via Campesina fazem um bom trabalho de rastrear essas tendências perturbadoras global.
"A economia inteira construída em torno de comida é inseguro e antiético", ativista Henry Harris da Mesa Redonda Segurança Alimentar me disse. O grupo constrói sistemas de distribuição entre os agricultores independentes e moradores da cidade.
"A comida é o melhor lugar para as comunidades para começar a tomar de volta o poder", disse ele. "O sistema alimentar nacional está em colapso por graus. Mais de 50 por cento do que comemos vem do Vale Central da Califórnia. O que acontece quando a gasolina torna-se US $ 5 por galão ou estiagem em todo o varre terras cultiváveis? O sistema monolítico da produção de alimentos é altamente instável. Tem que ser substituído muito em breve com pequenas, de diversas fontes que fornecem maior segurança alimentar. "
Cornell University, recentemente fez um estudo para determinar se o estado de Nova York poderia alimentar-se. A pesquisa é descrita em dois artigos publicados em 2006 e 2008 pela revista Agricultura Renováveis e Sistemas de Alimentação. Se todas as terras agrícolas estavam em uso, e distribuição de alimentos foram otimizados para minimizar a distância total que viaja de alimentos, estado de Nova York poderia, segundo os pesquisadores, têm 34 por cento dos seus alimentos necessidades atendidas a partir de dentro de seus limites. Isto não é notícia encorajadora para aqueles que vivem em New York City. New York, uma vez contou com New Jersey, ainda conhecido como o Garden State, em vez de alimentos enviados de todo o país. Mas fazendas de New Jersey, em larga medida deu lugar a urbanizações sem alma. Comunidades agrícolas do interior, os seus centros urbanos tapadas e desolado, têm sido eviscerado pela agricultura industrial.
A maioria dos americanos tinha laços com as comunidades rurais durante a Grande Depressão manteve muitos vivos. A economia de escambo substituiu a economia formal. Famílias poderiam cultivar alimentos ou tinham parentes para alimentá-los. Mas em um mundo onde não sabemos onde nosso alimento vem, ou a forma de produzi-lo, nós nos tornamos vulneráveis. E muitos serão obrigados, como os preços dos alimentos continuarem a subir, a mudança para uma dieta de baratas, gordurosos, alimentos produzidos em massa, já um grampo de pobres do país. Junk food, um fator importante na obesidade, diabetes e doenças cardíacas, é muitas vezes o único alimento desses no interior da cidade podem comprar porque os supermercados e alimentos nutritivos são geográfica e financeiramente fora de alcance. Enquanto a economia continua a deteriorar-se, a classe média, em breve se juntar a eles.
"Está claro para qualquer um que olha atentamente para qualquer multidão que estamos perdendo nossos corpos exatamente como estamos perdendo nossa terra", Wendell Berry observou em "A inquietante da América." "Nossos corpos são gordos, fraco, triste, doente, feio, a presa virtuais dos fabricantes de medicamentos e cosméticos. Nossos corpos tornaram-se marginais, pois eles estão crescendo inútil como a nossa "terra marginal" porque temos use cada vez menos para eles. Após os jogos e floresce ocioso da juventude moderna, nós usá-los apenas como caixas de transporte para o transporte de nossos cérebros e nossos poucos músculos empregáveis e volta ao trabalho. "
Berry, que vive em uma fazenda no Kentucky, onde sua família tem cultivado por gerações, argumenta que a agricultura local é fundamental para as comunidades sustentáveis. Agricultura industrial, diz ele, tem-nos afastado da terra. Ele tornou-nos incapazes de fornecer para nós mesmos. Ele deixou-nos cúmplices na destruição do ecossistema corporativo. Seu custo moral, argumenta Berry, foi tão devastador quanto o seu custo físico.
"As pessoas vão comer o que as corporações decidir para eles comerem", escreve Berry. "Eles vão ser destacados e remotos das fontes de sua vida, juntou-se a eles apenas por tolerância corporativa. Eles tornaram-se consumidores puramente consumista-máquinas, que é dizer, os escravos dos produtores. O que ... fazendas-modelo muito poderosa sugerem, então, é que o conceito de controle total pode ser impossível confinar dentro dos limites do especialista da empresa, que é impossível mecanizar a produção, sem mecanização consumo, impossível de fazer máquinas de solo, plantas, e animais, sem fazer máquinas também de pessoas. "
O esforço de nascentes pelas comunidades para recuperar a produção local de alimentos é o primeiro passo para recuperar vidas decepadas e fragmentada pela cultura corporativa. É mais do que um retorno à produção local de alimentos. É um retorno à comunidade. Ela nos traz de volta os valores que sustentam a comunidade. É um retorno ao reconhecimento da fragilidade interconexão, e santidade de todos os sistemas vivos e nossa dependência uns dos outros. Ela se volta para uma ética que pode nos salvar.
"Revolução [O comercial] ...", escreve Berry, "não parou com a subjugação dos índios, mas passou a impor substancialmente a mesma catástrofe sobre os pequenos agricultores e as comunidades agrícolas, sobre as lojas de pequenos comerciantes locais de todos os tipo, sobre as oficinas de artesãos independentes, e sobre os domicílios dos cidadãos. É uma revolução que ainda está acontecendo. A economia é ainda substancialmente a do comércio de peles, ainda com base no mesmo tipo geral de itens comerciais: tecnologia, armas, ornamentos, novidades e drogas. A grande diferença é que agora a revolução privou a massa de consumidores de qualquer acesso independente para os grampos da vida: roupas, abrigo, alimento, mesmo água. Air continua a ser a única necessidade que o usuário médio ainda pode obter para si mesmo, ea revolução impôs um pesado imposto sobre essa maneira de poluição. Conquista comercial é muito mais completa e final do que a derrota militar.
"O resultado inevitável de tal economia", acrescenta Berry, "é que nenhuma fazenda ou quaisquer outros bens utilizáveis pode seguramente ser considerado por ninguém como uma casa, não casa, em última análise é digno de nossa lealdade, nada é em última análise, vale a pena fazer, e não lugar ou tarefa ou pessoa vale a pena uma vida de devoção. 'Resíduos', em tal economia, deve finalmente incluir várias categorias de seres humanos-os nascituros, o velho ", desinvestiu 'agricultores, os desempregados, os" empregáveis ". De fato, uma vez que a nossa pátria, a nossa fonte, é considerado como um recurso, todos nós estamos deslizando para baixo em direção ao monte de cinzas ou o despejo. "

Dez coisas que você não deveria saber sobre a vacina da gripe suína

29 de julho de 2009

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por: Mike Adams, o Ranger Saúde, NaturalNews Editor.

Não vamos rodeios sobre esta questão: As vacinas contra a gripe suína agora está sendo preparado para a injeção de massa em bebês, crianças, adolescentes e adultos que nunca foram testados e não serão testados antes de começar as injeções.
Na Europa, onde as vacinas da gripe são normalmente testado em centenas (ou milhares) de pessoas antes de ser desencadeada sobre as massas, a Agência Europeia de Medicamentos está permitindo que as empresas a ignorar o processo de teste completo.
E ainda, surpreendentemente, as pessoas estão fazendo fila para tomar a vacina, na ausência de qualquer teste de segurança qualquer. Quando os Institutos Nacionais de Saúde em os EUA anunciaram um teste de vacina contra a gripe suína início no começo de agosto, foi inundado com telefonemas e e-mails de pessoas desesperadas para desempenhar o papel de cobaias humanas. O poder do medo para sheeple rebanho em injeções da vacina é simplesmente incrível ...
De volta à Europa, é claro, todo mundo começa a ser uma cobaia já que nenhum teste será feito sobre a vacina a todos. Pior ainda, as vacinas Europeu será com adjuvantes - substâncias químicas usadas para multiplicar a potência dos ingredientes ativos nas vacinas.
Notavelmente, não há absolutamente nenhum dado de segurança sobre o uso de adjuvantes em crianças e gestantes - os dois grupos que estão sendo alvo de mais agressivamente os traficantes vacina contra a gripe suína. O nos leva à conclusão preocupante que a vacina da gripe suína pode ser um desastre médica moderna. É não testados e não-julgados. Seus ingredientes são potencialmente muito perigoso, e os adjuvantes sendo usado nas vacinas europeus são suspeitos de causar distúrbios neurológicos.
Paralisada por vacinas
Eu provavelmente não precisa de lembrar que em 1976, uma vacina contra a gripe suína não causou danos irreparáveis ao sistema nervoso de centenas de pessoas, paralisando muitos. Os médicos deram o problema um nome, é claro, para fazê-lo soar como eles sabiam o que estavam falando: síndrome de Guillain-Barré. (Notavelmente, eles nunca o chamou de "Síndrome de Vacina Toxic" porque isso seria muito informativo.)
Mas o fato é que nunca os médicos sabiam como as vacinas causaram esses problemas graves, e se o mesmo evento jogado fora hoje, todos os médicos e empurradores vacina, sem dúvida, negar qualquer ligação entre as vacinas e paralisia completamente. (Isso é o que está acontecendo hoje com o debate sobre vacinas e autismo:. Negação completa)
Na verdade, há um monte de coisas que você nunca vai ser contada pelas autoridades de saúde sobre a vacina contra a gripe suína próximos. Para seu divertimento, eu escrevi para baixo os dez mais óbvios e publicou-os abaixo.
Dez coisas que você não deveria saber sobre a vacina contra a gripe suína
(Pelo menos, não por qualquer pessoa em posição de autoridade ...)
# 1 - A produção da vacina foi "apressado" e que a vacina nunca foi testado em seres humanos. Você gosta de jogar cobaia para Big Pharma? Se assim for, line up para a sua vacina contra a gripe suína neste outono ...
# 2 - vacinas contra a gripe suína contêm adjuvantes perigosas que causam uma resposta inflamatória no organismo. É por isso que eles são suspeitos de causar autismo e outros distúrbios neurológicos.
# 3 - A vacina contra a gripe suína poderia realmente aumentar o risco de morte por gripe suína, alterando (ou suprimir) a resposta do sistema imunológico. Não há nenhuma evidência de que mesmo vacinas contra a gripe sazonal oferece nenhuma proteção significativa para as pessoas que tomam o jabs. As vacinas são a banha da cobra da medicina moderna.
# 4 - Os médicos ainda não sabem por que os 1.976 vacinas contra a gripe suína paralisado tantas pessoas. E isso significa que eles realmente não tenho idéia se a vacina poderia causar próximo os mesmos efeitos colaterais devastadores. (E eles não estão testá-lo, ou ...)
# 5 - Mesmo que a vacina contra a gripe suína mata-lo, as empresas farmacêuticas não são responsáveis. O governo dos EUA concedeu empresas farmacêuticas imunidade completa contra a responsabilidade do produto vacinal. Graças a essa imunidade cobertor, as empresas farmacêuticas não têm incentivo para produzir vacinas seguras, porque eles só são pagos com base na quantidade, não de segurança (zero passivo).
# 6 - Nenhuma vacina da gripe suína funciona tão bem como a vitamina D para proteger você de influenza. Isso é um fato inconveniente científica de que o governo dos EUA, o FDA e Big Pharma espero que as pessoas nunca percebem.
# 7 - Mesmo que a vacina contra a gripe suína realmente funciona, matematicamente falando, se todos os outros ao seu redor recebe a vacina, você não precisa de um! (Porque não pode se espalhar pela população com você pendurar.) Assim, mesmo se você acredita na vacina, tudo que você precisa fazer é incentivar os seus amigos para ir se vacinar ...
# 8 - As companhias farmacêuticas estão a fazer bilhões de dólares com a produção de vacinas contra a gripe suína. Que o dinheiro sai do seu bolso - mesmo se você não fizer o jab - porque é tudo pago pelos contribuintes.
# 9 - Quando as pessoas começam a morrer em maior número a partir da gripe suína, a certeza de que muitos deles serão as mesmas pessoas que receberam a vacina da gripe suína. Médicos vão explicar isto com sua lógica típica Big Pharma ". O número guardado é muito maior do que o número perdido" Claro, o número de "salvos" é inteiramente fictício ... imaginário ... e existe apenas em suas próprias cabeças deformado.
# 10 - Os centros de gripe suína vacina que vão surgir em todo o mundo nos próximos meses não são completamente inúteis: Eles vão fornecer uma maneira fácil de identificar grandes grupos de pessoas realmente estúpido. (Pena que não há algum tipo de corante azul que poderíamos tag 'em com para referência futura ...)
A loteria, dizem eles, é um imposto sobre pessoas que não podem fazer matemática. Da mesma forma, as vacinas da gripe são um imposto sobre as pessoas que não entendem de saúde.

A agricultura industrial Perigo Abastecimento Alimentar Mundial (e cria desertos etc)

12 de junho de 2009

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Dois artigos recentes treehugger, discutindo 7 Low-Cost, Low-Emissões Foods e da pegada de água de seu alimento reforçam o mito de que simplesmente mudar os itens reais que compramos, sem considerar de onde vêm e como eles são cultivados, é suficiente de uma mudança para diminuir o impacto humano sobre o planeta e outras formas de vida. Não.

Ok, a lista de alimentos - morangos orgânicos (brometo, um gás-estufa poderoso, é usado extensivamente para crescer morangos), feijão, batata, pão caseiro, orgânico tofu, leite de amêndoa caseira, e flocos de aveia orgânica - são um pouco melhores do que outros alimentos em relação a sua pegada de carbono, mas não que eles tenham sido transportados a partir do outro lado do mundo. A agricultura industrial é uma grande parte da nossa probems. Florestas são nivelados para dar lugar a monoculturas (mesmo orgânico), grandes quantidades de água são usados - como mostrado no outro artigo, e os animais selvagens e as pessoas são despojados para que os jogadores corporativo pode funil combustível, água, biomassa, para os consumidores ocidentais, lucros fantásticos que eles possam comprar ainda mais do mundo.

Este modelo todo tem que ir, e ao fazê-lo retomar o controle de nosso suprimento de alimentos, fornecem-nos com um trabalho significativo, recriar as economias locais e preservar a natureza ao nosso redor. Não basta simplesmente comprar coisas diferentes, quando todo o processo de compra, venda, transporte e posse está matando nosso planeta, enquanto escravizar e fazer-nos mal. E não vamos esquecer a concentração massiva de poder e riqueza que está acontecendo ao redor do mundo, em empresas cada vez menos que possuem e controlam todo o nosso sistema alimentar, permitindo-lhes decidir quem come e quem passa fome, o que enormes monoculturas, onde serão cultivadas, e transformar floresta mais e mais para o deserto em nome dos lucros corporativos. Este é o mal, nada menos.

Não só precisamos tomar o controle do nosso abastecimento alimentar local, e as economias, mas também precisamos continuar com o trabalho de ajudar a reflorestar própria terra - que é onde permacultura vem dentro Nosso habitat natural, antes de 12.000 anos atrás, é floresta ou selva. A condição natural é terras da floresta. Recriando as florestas, mas usando a nossa capacidade de compreender a dinâmica de sucessão florestal, podemos acelerar o crescimento da floresta e desenvolvimento, e mais alguns anos criar um alimento por excelência da floresta, que podem fornecer-nos com quase todas as nossas necessidades.

A água pegada pegada de carbono e da horticultura casa cresceu de pequena escala é muito muito menos do que a agricultura industrial, e as florestas de alimentos pode regular suas necessidades de água própria, enquanto absorvendo mais carbono do que eles liberam.

Outro artigo, por Por Karin Friedemann, no rense.com nos diz que a agricultura industrializada Perigo
Abastecimento mundo.

Corporações multi-nacionais de alimentos estão usando cada vez mais insegurança alimentar global como uma ferramenta de controle político. O International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) relata que "grilagem" de investidores estrangeiros nos países em desenvolvimento resultou em uma nova forma de colonialismo. ONG espanhola, relatórios GRAIN que os países ricos estão comprando férteis dos países pobres do solo, água e sol para transportar alimentos e combustível de volta para casa. IFPRI pesquisador Joachim von Braun afirma: "Cerca de um quarto desses investimentos são para plantações de biocombustível."
Agronegócio impõe um efeito devastador sobre os pequenos agricultores em todo o mundo. Proprietários de terras em países Africano, onde não existem títulos de propriedade oficiais, não têm nenhum recurso legal contra as empresas estrangeiras que roubam suas terras. No fazendeiros dos Estados Unidos e os agricultores perdem suas terras para o agronegócio e acabam trabalhando como empregados. Criadores de gado americanos têm a maior taxa de suicídio entre as profissões americano. Humilhações semelhantes também levaram milhares de agricultores na Índia, para tomar suas próprias vidas.
O `Global Food Security Act" [S384] recentemente introduzido no Senado dos EUA vai dar USAID 7,5 bilhões dólares ao longo de cinco anos. Arun Shrivastava do Centre for Research on Globalization relatórios: "A USAID é na verdade um braço da norte-Departamento de Defesa, que serve EUA interesse da política externa e tem pouco a ver com o humanismo." Existem outras duas similares contas pendentes, HR875 e S425.
Michael Pollan, autor de In Defense of Food: Manifesto Um Eater, aponta que, embora supostamente para tratar de questões de nutrição global e saúde ", o Congresso dos EUA é inferno dobrado sobre a introdução de leis de alcance global que iria destruir a própria base da alimentação das pessoas segurança e soberania alimentar ".
RH 875, a Segurança Alimentar e Modernization Act de 2009, escreve Barbara Minton em Notícias Natural ", que efetivamente entregar o controle da oferta da América do alimento para um gigante como nefasta como a Monsanto e suas contrapartes menores como Tyson e Cargill."
Monsanto OGM plantas de milho, que foram projetados com um built-in milhares resistência a herbicidas da Monsanto, já devastadas de agricultores do Sul Africano. As plantas de milho parecem saudáveis, mas dentro da casca não há kernels! Essa falha de culturas OGM destaca os perigos de dominação do agronegócio da oferta global de alimentos.
"Para garantir a perpetuação do seu quase monopólio, a Monsanto está ajudando a instalar as pessoas certas nos lugares certos", Minton continua. "Para esse fim, Michael Taylor, ex-chefe da FDA que aprovou o uso do hormônio de crescimento bovino (rBGH), acaba de se tornar ensconced na equipe de transição de Obama, onde ele poderá ser em breve supervisionar a segurança alimentar. Ele irá juntar-se já bem posicionada Tom Vilsack, o secretário pró-OGM da Agricultura. "
África do Sul repete o padrão do Iraque e do Afeganistão, onde as novas leis proíbem os agricultores a guardar ou negociar suas próprias sementes. Essas leis sendo promovido dentro os EUA também bloquear o acesso a sementes não-OGM.
"O Iraque, deve ser lembrado, tem a história mais antiga da agricultura e uma das mais longas tradições de cultivo no mundo civilizado", escreve Latha Jishnu no Business Standard da Índia. According to the Institute of Near Eastern & African Studies (INEAS) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, “Farm-saved seeds and the free exchange of planting materials among farmers have long been the basis of agricultural practice in Iraq.”
The Oil-for-Food program in Iraq forced the large-scale importation of food after the first Gulf War. Devastated Iraqi farmers then became the victims of USAID.
Under US occupation, Iraqi farmers must pay a “technology fee” plus an annual license fee to agribusinesses supplying the seeds and equipment. Similar policies exist in Afghanistan, which compel dependency on supplies from multi-national agribusinesses while industrial agricultural training courses provide the US military with opportunities to gather intelligence from the local population. A US Special Forces civil affairs manager in Afghanistan explains, “The presence of this agricultural center is a security measure in and of itself.”
GRAIN reports, “The war provides these corporations with both a lucrative short-term market in the blossoming “reconstruction” industry and an opportunity to integrate Afghanistan into their global production networks and markets in the long term.”
Industrial agriculture is based on mono-cropping, use of GMO seeds, fertilizers, lethal pesticides, and expensive farm machinery. Environmentalists say these methods cause topsoil erosion, depleted soil fertility, air and water pollution, loss of biodiversity, decreased nutritional value of food, and serious health risks. Iowa State University biotech researchers are putting flu vaccines into the DNA of corn, reports Bryan Salvage in the Meat and Poultry Journal. This genetic manipulation is likely to increase the rate of viral mutation, rather than to reduce disease as claimed.
French Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini, molecular endocrinologist at the University of Caen found that Monsanto's GMO corn damages the liver and kidneys like pesticides. Hungarian biology professor Bela Darvas of Debrecen University discovered that Monsanto's corn endangers protected insect species. Spiegel reports that because corn is a wind-pollinated plant, GMO crops inevitably contaminate nearby farms. Because of these dangers, Germany has banned GMO corn.

Infelizmente ela também nos aconselha a "comprar orgânicos. Não é o suficiente. It is time we all pulled out of this failed experiment of civilisation, started getting our hands dirty and taking responsibility for our lives, our food, our communities and begin to create a world that we can all truly be happy, healthy and joyful in. all the while that we buy stuff, we are reliquishing power over our lives and our food supply, handing it over to evil grey men who aim to own and control all of us and everything. And they dont know any better than turning life into desert.

The Pine Family (Pinaceae) As Wild Food

27 de abril de 2009

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100 Coisas Que Você Pode Fazer para se preparar para o Pico do Petróleo

Março 31, 2009

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Na sequência da abertura do olho-Techno-Camponesa, mas, em última análise realista artigo sobre a vida fora da civilização, eu pensei que este seria um momento perfeito para publicar lista brilhante Sharon Astyk de " 100 coisas que você pode fazer para se preparar para o Pico do Petróleo ". Listas raramente cortá-la quando se olha para as soluções da vida real ou prestação de aconselhamento eficaz: estas coisas são melhores acumulada como a vida de experiências e conhecimento compartilhado. No entanto, esta lista é muito bom demais para ignorar - American-centric que seja, mas considerando que os EUA é provavelmente a cultura mais dependentes do petróleo na Terra, parece uma base decente para todas as culturas industriais. Alguns itens podem não ser relevantes, algumas são óbvias, alguns são um pouco insosso, mas tomado como um todo que seria insensato não para lê-lo:

PRIMAVERA
1. Repensar o seu regime de semente de partida. Como é que vai fazê-lo sem envasamento solo, crescem luzes e tapetes de aquecimento. Consider creating manure heated hotbeds, using your own compost, building a greenhouse, or coldframe, direct seeding early versions of transplanted crops, etc…
2. Your local feed store has chicks right now – even suburbanites might consider ordering a few bantam hens and keeping them as exotic birds. Worth a shot, no? You can grow some feed in your garden for Them, as well as enjoying the eggs.
3. Order enough seeds for three years of gardening. If by next spring, we are all unable to get replacement seed, will you have produced everything you need? What if you can't grow for a year because of some crisis? Order extras from places with cheap seed like www.fedcoseeds.com, www.superseeds.com, www.rareseed.com.
4. Yard sale season will begin soon in the warmer parts of the country, and auctions are picking up now in the North. Stocking up on things like shoes, extra coats, kids clothing in larger sizes, hand tools, garden equipment is simply prudent – and can save a lot Of money.
5. The real estate “season” will begin shortly, with families wanting to get settled in new homes during the summer, before the school year starts. If you are planning on buying or selling this year, now is the time to research the market, new locations, find that country property or the urban duplex with a big yard.
6. Once pastures are flush, last year's hay is usually a bargain, and many farmers clean out their barns. Manure and old hay are great soil builders for anyone.
7. Check out your local animal shelter and adopt a dog or cat for rodent control, protection and friendship during peak oil.
8. As things green up, begin to identify and use local wild edibles. Eat your lawn's dandilions, your daylily shoots, new nettles. Hunt for morels (learn what you are doing first!!) and wild onions. Get in the habit of seeing what food there is to be had everywhere you go.
9. Set up rainbarrel or cistern systems and start harvesting your precipitation.
10. Planning to only grow vegetables? Truly sustainable gardens include a lot of pretty flowers, which have value as medicinals, dye and fiber plants, seasoning herbs, and natural cleaners and pest repellants. Instead of giving up ornamentals altogether, grow a garden full of daylilies, lady's mantle, dye hollyhocks and coreopsis, foxgloves, soapwart, bayberry, hip roses, bee balm and other useful beauties.
11. Get a garden in somewhere around you – campaign to turn open space into a community garden, ask if you can use a friend's backyard, get your company or church, synagogue, mosque or school to grow a garden for the poor. Every garden and experienced gardener we have is a potential hedge against the disaster.
12. Join a CSA if you don't garden, and get practice cooking and eating a local diet in season.
13. Eggs and greens are at their best in spring – dehydrated greens and cooked eggshells, ground up together add calcium and a host of other nutrients to flour, and you won't taste them. We're not going to be able to afford to waste food in the future, so get out of the habit now.
14. Make rhubarb, parsnip or dandelion wine for later consumption.
15. Now that warmer weather is here, start walking for more of your daily Needs. Even a four or five mile walk is quite reasonable for most healthy People.
16. Start a compost pile, or begin worm composting. Everyone can and should compost. Even apartment dwellers can keep worms or a compost Bin and use the product as potting soil.
17. Use spring holidays and feasts as a chance to bring up peak oil with friends and family. Freedom and rebirth are an excellent subjects To lead into the Long Emergency.
18. Store the components of some traditional spring holiday foods, so that in hard times your family can maintain its traditions and celebrations.
19. With the renewal of the building season, now is the time to scavenge free building materials, like cinder blocks, old windows and scrap wood – with permission, of course.
20. Try and adapt to the spring weather early – get outside, turn down your heat or bank your fires, cut down on your fuel consumption as though you had no choice. Put on those sweaters one more time.
21. Shepherds are flush with wool – now is the time to buy some fleece and start spinning! Drop spindles are easy to make and cheap to use. Check out www.learntospin.com
22. Take a hard look back over the last winter – if you had had to survive on what you grew and stored last year, would you have made it? Early spring was famously the “starving time” when stores ran out and everyone was hungry. Remember, when you plan your food Needs that not much produces early in spring, and in northern climates, A winter's worth of food must last until May or June.
23. Trade cuttings and divisions, seeds and seedlings with your neighbors. Learn what's out there in your community, and sneak some useful plants into your neighbors' garden.
24. If you've got a nearby college, consider scavenging the dorm Dumpsters. College students often leave astounding amounts of Stuff behind including excellent books, clothes, furniture, etc…
25. Say a schecheyanu, a blessing, or a prayer. Or simply be grateful for a series of coincidences that permit us to be here, in this place, as the world and the seasons come to life again. Try to make sure that this year, this time, you will take more joy in what you have, and prepare a bit better to soften the blow that is about to fall.
VERÃO
1. Se você não pode ou desidratar, agora é a hora de aprender. In most climates, you can waterbath can or dehydrate with a minimum of purchased materials, and produce is abundant and cheap. If you don't garden, check out your local farmstand for day-old produce or your farmer's market at the end of the day – they are likely to have large quantities they are anxious to get rid of. Wild fruits are also in abundance, or will be.
2. Consider dehydrating outer leaves of broccoli, cabbage, etc…, and grinding the dried mixture. It can be added to flours to increase the nutritional value of your bread.
3. Buy hay in the summer, rather than gradually over the winter. Now is an excellent time to put up simple shelters for hay storage, to avoid high early spring and winter prices.
4. Firewood, woodstoves and heating materials are at their Cheapest right now. Invest now for winter. The same is true Insulating materials.
5. Back to School Planning is a great time to reconsider transportation in light of peak oil. Can your children walk? Bicicleta? If they cannot do either for reasons of safety (rather than distance) could an adult do so with them? Could you hire a local teenager to take them to school on foot or by wheel? Can you find ways to carpool, if you must drive? Grownups can do this too.
6. Also when getting ready to go back to school, consider the environmental impact of your scheduling and activities – are there ways to minimize driving/eating out/equipment costs/fuel consumption? Could your family do less in formal “activities” and more in family work?
7. Consider either home schooling or engaging in supplemental home Education. Your kids may need a large number of skills not provided By local public schools, and a critical perspective that they certainly Won't learn in an institutional setting. Teach them.
8. Try and minimize air conditioning and electrical use during high Summer. Take cool showers or baths, use ice packs, reserve activity When possible for early am or evening. Rise at 4 am and get much of Your work done then.
9. Consider adding a solar powered attic fan, available from Real Goods www.realgoods.com.
10. Don't go on vacation. Spend your energy and money making your home A paradise instead. Throw a barbecue, a party or an open house, and invite The neighbors in. Get to know them.
11. Be prepared for summer blackouts, some quite extensive. Have Emergency supplies and lighting at hand.
12. Practice living, cooking and camping outside, so that you will Be comfortable doing so if necessary. Everyone in the family can Learn basic outdoors person skills.
13. Make your own summer camp. Instead of sending kids to soccer Camp, create an at-home skills camp that helps prepare people for Peak oil. Invite the neighbor kids to join you. Have a blast!
14. Begin adapting herbs and other potted plants to indoor culture. Consider adding small tropicals – figs, lemons, oranges, even bananas can often be grown in cold climate homes. Obviously, if you live in a warm climate well, be prepared for some jealousy from the rest of us come February .
15. Plant a fall garden in high summer – peas, broccoli, kale, lettuces, Beets, carrots, turnips, etc… All of the above will last well into early Winter in even the harshest climates, and with proper techniques or In milder areas, will provide you with fresh food all year long
16. Put up a new clothesline! Consider hand washing clothes outside, Since everyone will probably enjoy getting wet (and cool) anyhow.
17. If you have access to safe waters, go fishing. Get some practice, and Learn a new skill.
18. Encourage pick-up games at your house. Post-peak, children will Need to know how to entertain themselves.
19. For teens, encourage them to develop their own home businesses over The summers. Whether doing labor or creating a product, you may rely On them eventually to help support the family. Or have them clean out Your closets and attic and help you reorganize. Let them sell the stuff.
20. Buy a hand pushed lawn mower if you have less than 1 acre of grass. New ones are easy to push and pleasant, and will save you energy and that Unpleasant gas smell.
21. Keep an eye out for unharvested fruits and nuts – many suburban and rural Areas have berry and fruit bushes that no one harvests. Take advantage and Put up the fruit.
22. Practice extreme water conservation during the summer. Mulch to reduce The need for irrigation. Bathe less often and with less water. Reduce clothes Washing when possible.
23. This is an excellent time to toilet train children – they can run around naked If necessary and accidents will do no harm. Try and get them out of diapers now, Before winter.
24. Consider replacing lawns with something that doesn't have to be mown – Ground covers like vetch, moss, even edibles like wintergreen or lingonberry, Chamomile or mint.
25. If it is summer time, then the living is probably easy. Take some time To enjoy it – to picnic, to celebrate democracy (and try and bring one about , To explore your own area, walk in the nearby woods.
FALL (AUTUMN)
1. Simple, cheap insulating strategies (window quilts and blankets, draft stoppers, etc…) are easily made from cheap or free materials – goodwill, for example, often has jeans, tshirts and shrunken wool sweaters, of quality too poor to sell, that can be used for quilting material and batting. They are available where I am for a nominal price, and I've heard of getting them free.
2. Stock up for winter as though the hard times will begin this year. Besides dried and canned foods, don't forget root cellarable and storable local produce, and season extension (cold frames, greenhouses, etc…) techniques for fresh food when you make your food inventory.
3. Thanksgiving sales tend to be when supermarkets offer the cheapest deals on excellent supplements to food storage, like shortening, canned pumpkin, spices, etc… I've also heard of stores given turkeys away free with grocery purchases – turkeys can then be cooked, canned and stored. Don't forget to throw in storable ingredients for your family's holiday staples – in hard times, any kind of celebration or continuity is appreciated.
4. Go leaf rustling for your garden and compost pile. If you Happen into places where people leave their leaves out for Pickup, grab the bags and set them to composting or mulching Your own garden.
5. Plant a last crop of over wintering spinach, and enjoy in The fall and again in spring.
6. Or consider planting a bed of winter wheat. Chickens can Even graze it lightly in the fall, and it will be ready to harvest in Time to use the bed for your fall garden. Even a small bed will Make quite a bit of fresh, delicious bread.
7. Hit those last yard sales, or back to school sales and buy a few extra clothes (or cloth to make them) for growing children and extra shoes for everyone. They will be welcome in storage, particularly if prices rise because of trade issues or inflation.
8. The best time to expand your garden is now – till or mulch and let sod rot over the winter. Add soil amendments, manure, Compost and lime.
9. Now is an excellent time to start the 100 mile diet in most locales – Stores and farms and markets are bursting with delicious local produce And products. Eat local and learn new recipes.
10. Rose hip season is coming – most food storage items are low in accessible vitamin C. Harvest wild or tame unsprayed rose hips, and dry them for tea to ensure long-term good health. Rose hips are Delicious mixed with raspberry leaves and lemon balm.
11. Discounts on alcohol are common between Halloween and Christmas – this is an excellent time to stock up on booze for personal, medicinal, trade or cooking. Pick up some vanilla beans as well, and make your own vanilla out of that cheap vodka.
12. Gardening equipment, and things like rainbarrels go on sale in the late summer/early fall. And nurseries often are trying to rid themselves of perennial plants – including edibles and medicinals. It isn't too late to plant them in most parts of the country, although some care is needed in purchasing for things that have become rootbound.
13. Local honey will be at its cheapest now – now is the time to stock up. Consider making friends with the beekeeper, and perhaps Taking lessons yourself.
14. Fall is the cheapest time to buy livestock, either to keep or for butchering. Many 4Hers, and those who simply don't want to keep excess animals over the winter are anxious to find buyers now. In many cases, at auction, I see animals selling for much less than the meat you can expect to obtain from their carcass is worth.
15. Most cold climate housing has or could have a “cold room/area” – a space that is kept cool enough during the fall and winter to dispense with the necessity of a refrigerator, but that doesn't freeze. If you have separate fridge and freezer, consider disconnecting your fridge during the cooler weather to save utility costs and conserve energy. You can build a cool room by building in a closet with a window, and Insulating it with Styrofoam panels
16. Now is a great time to build community (and get stuff done) by instituting a local “work bee” – invite neighbors and friends to come help either with a project for your household, or to share in some good deed for another community member. Provide food, drink, tools and get to work on whatever it is (building, harvesting, quilting, knitting – the sky is the limit), and at the same time strengthen your community. Make sure that next time, the work benefits a different neighbor or community member.
17. Most local charities get the majority of their donations between now and December. Consider dividing your charitable donations so that they are made year round, but adding extra volunteer hours to help your group handle the demands on them in the fall.
18. Many medicinal and culinary herbs are at their peak now. Consider learning about them and drying some for winter use.
19. If there is a gleaning program near you (either for charity or personal use) consider joining. If not, start one. Considerable amounts of food are wasted in the harvesting process, and you can either add to your storage or benefit your local shelters and food pantries.
20. Dig out those down comforters, extra blankets, hats with the earflaps, flannel jammies, etc… You don't need heat in your sleeping areas – just warm clothes and blankets.
21. Learn a skill that can be done in the dark or by candlelight, while sitting with others in front of a heat source. Knitting, crocheting, whittling, rug braiding, etc… can all be done mostly by touch with little light, and are suitable for companionable evenings. In addition, learn to sing, play instruments, recite memorized speeches and poetry, etc… as something to do on dark winter evenings.
22. While I wouldn't expect deer or turkey hunting to be a major food source in coming times (I would expect large game to be driven back to near-extinction pretty quickly), it is worth having those skills, and also the skills necessary to catch the less commonly caught small game, like rabbits, squirrel, etc…
23. Use a solar cooker or parabolic solar cooker whenever possible To prepare food. Or eat cool salads and raw foods. Not only won't You heat up the house, but you'll save energy.
24. A majority of children are born in the summer Early fall, which suggests that some of us are doing more than Keeping warm . Now is a good time to get one's birth Control updated .
25. Celebrate the harvest – this is a time of luxury and plenty, and should be treated as such and enjoyed that way. Cook, drink, eat, talk, sing, pray, dance, laugh, invite guests. Winter is long and comes soon enough. Comemorar!
INVERNO
1. Your local adult education program almost certainly has something useful to teach you – woodworking, crocheting, music training, horseback riding, CPR, herbalism, vegetarian cookery… take advantage of people who want to teach their skills
2. Get serious about land use planning – even if you live in a suburban neighborhood, you can find ways to optimize your land to produce the most food, fuel and barterables. Sit down and think hard about what you can do to make your land and your life more sustainable in the coming year.
3. The Winter Lull is an excellent time to get involved in public affairs. No matter how cynical you tend to be, nothing ever changed without Engagement. So get out there. Stand for office. Junte-se. Volunteer.
4. Now is the time to prepare for illness – keep a stock of remedies, including useful antibiotics (although know what you are doing, don't just buy them and take them), vitamin C supplements (I like elderberry syrup), painkillers, herbs, and tools for handling even serious illness by yourself. In the event of a truly severe epidemic of flu or other illness, avoiding illness and treating sick family members at home whenever possible may be safer than taking them to over-worked and over-crowded hospitals (or, it may not – but planning for the former won't prevent you from using the hospital if you need it).
5. Most schools would be delighted to have volunteers come in and talk about conservation, gardening, small livestock, home-scale mechanics, ham radio, etc…, and most homeschooling families would be similarly thrilled. Consider offering to teach something you know that will be helpful post-peak (although I wouldn't recommend discussing peak oil with any but the oldest teenagers, and not even that without their parents permission
6. Now is the time to convince your business, synagogue, church, school, community center to put a garden on that empty lawn. If you start the campaign now, you can be ready to plant in the spring. Produce can be shared among participants or offered to the needy.
7. The one-two punch of rising heating oil and gas prices may well be what is needed to make your family and friends more receptive to the peak oil message. Tente novamente. At the very least, emphasize the options for mitigating increased economic strain with sustainable practices.
8. Get together with neighbors and check in on your area's elderly and disabled people. Make a plan that ensures they will be checked on during bad weather, power outages, etc… Offer help with stocking Up for winter, or maintaining equipment. And watch for signs that they Are struggling economically.
9. Work on raising money and getting help with local poverty-abatement Programs. After the holidays, people struggle. They get hungry and cold. Remember, besides the fact that it is the right thing to do, the life you save May be your own.
10. Get out and enjoy the cold weather. It is hard to adapt to colder Temperatures if you spend all your time huddled in front of a heater. Ski, Snowshoe, sled, shovel, have a snowball fight, build a hut, go winter Camping, but get comfortable with the cold, snowy world around you.
11. Have your chimney(s) inspected, and learn to clean your own. Learn to care for your kerosene lamps, to use candles safely, and how To use and maintain your smoke and CO detectors and fire extinguishers. Winter is peak fire season, so keep safe.
12. Grow sprouts on your windowsill.
13. Now is an excellent time to reconsider how you use your house. Look around – could you make more space? House more people? Do projects more efficiently? Add greenhouse space? Put in a homemade Composting toilet? Work with what you have to make it more useful.
14. If a holiday gift exchange is part of your life, make most of your gifts. Knit, whittle, build, sew, or otherwise create something beautiful for the People you love.
15. If someone wants to buy you something, request a useful tool or preparedness Item, or a gift certificate to a place like Lehmans or Real Goods. Considering giving Such gifts to friends and family – a solar crank radio, an LED flashlight, cast iron pans, These are useful and appreciated items whether or not you believe in peak oil.
16. Do a dry run in the dead of winter. Turn out all the power, turn off the water. Turn off all fossil-fuel sources of heat, and see how things go for a few days. Use What you learn to improve your preparedness, and have fun while doing it.
17. Learn to mend clothing, patch and make patchwork out of old clothes.
18. Write letters to people. The post is the most reliable way of communicating, And letters last forever.
19. Make a list of goals for the coming year, and the coming five years. Start Keeping records of your goals and your successes and failures.
20. Keep a journal. Your children and grandchildren (or someone else's) may want To know what these days were like.
21. Wash your hands frequently, and avoid stress. Stay healthy so that you can be useful To those around you.
22. For those subject to depression or anxiety, winter can be hard. Find ways to relax, Decompress and use work as an antidote to fear whenever possible. Get outside on sunny Days, and try and exercise as much as possible to help maintain a positive attitude.
23. Memorize a poem or song every week. No matter what happens to you, no one can ever take away the music and words you hold in your mind. You can have them as comfort and pleasure wherever you go, and in whatever circumstances.
24. Take advantage of heating stoves by cooking on them. You can make soups or stews On top of any wood stove or even many radiators, and you can build or buy a metal oven That sits on top of woodstoves to bake in.
25. Winter is a time of quiet and contemplation. Vá para fora. Hear the silence. Take pleasure in what you have achieved over the past year. Focus on the abundance of this present, this day, rather than scarcity to come.

MSNBC Undercover: Sex Slaves in America

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Tonight I watched a program on MSNBC called Undercover: Sex Slaves in America . The documentary was an investigation into human trafficking in large cities, specifically revolving around Korean, Thai, and Latina women. Apparently, these women are told they can have a free ride to America, and once they get there, they must pay off debts of $55,000 or more. Their debtors force them to work in $60 “massage parlors” in order to pay off the money in time. They are told they will only need to work 6 to 7 months to do this, but then are forced to stay there for 10 to 20 years by the “massage parlor” owners.

Obviously, human trafficking is in a category of its own, but as I watched the documentary, I couldn't help but wonder how the women felt about all of this. The government has decided to “solve” the problem by busting into the parlors renegade-style, issuing fines and closures, and then subsequently “setting the women free.” It's interesting that we only choose to use the term “slavery” when referring to sex work, even though all lower- and middle-class citizens are also slaves of the economy, forced to work endless hours in horrible conditions for very little pay on a daily basis.

In video after video, the US Health Department can be seen shaming the women, shutting down the parlors, and, in general, wreaking havoc on the women's lives. The funny thing is that the documentary never addresses the question of what happens to the women after the parlors are busted. My guess is that they are forced into low-wage jobs, flipping burgers or working registers. They will struggle to make enough money to pay for rent and food, even though they will work long hours with no benefits, very little time off, and no maternity leave. They will also probably treated poorly due to the fact that they are foreign and don't speak English.

My point is this: we're so quick to identify slavery when it relates to sexuality, but what about all of the other forms of slavery going on around the world? And who are we to deny underprivileged women an opportunity to make $1000 to $2000 dollars a week, if that's the only way they are able to do so?

Sex slavery would exist even if there weren'ta bunch of slimy dudes looking to make some money off of immigrant women, because the racism and sexism prevalent in our society enables it on a daily basis. Corporate greed and the hierarchy imposed by the status quo already enforce the slavery of the American people without even having to break the law. It seems to me that sex slavery is just a natural extension of racism, corporatism, and patriarchal attitudes, which are all things that many Americans fight staunchly to protect. Therefore, the cause of our troubles doesn't originate from some random evil guys living in big cities – it comes from our own backyards.

dependence on oil: an economic, environmental & health crisis

Sep 19th, 2008

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Guest article written for us, by the Mesothelioma & Asbestos Awareness Center.

We're all well aware of the debate surrounding the use of traditional fuel and energy sources. The current problem of rising gas prices is just one of the many issues we're facing, but there are a plethora of other issues that we may not have considered, including the release of incredibly toxic air and water pollutants by oil refineries, as well as exposure to asbestos, a toxin that is most likely found in all refineries in the form of piping insulation. Exposure to asbestos is the only confirmed cause of mesothelioma , a fatal form of cancer that has no cure and is extremely debilitating.

Asbestos regulations vary throughout the world, but in the US and several European nations, there is no ban on this toxin. Usage regulations may be in place, but the majority of federal regulations were not implemented until the mid 1980s, so any refinery that was constructed prior to the regulations probably contains dangerously high levels of asbestos. Asbestos is an excellent insulator, which made it an obvious choice for lining the extensive piping needed for the oil refinery process. What people didn't
know when they were building these refineries was that asbestos exposure has incredibly devastating health consequences if it is disturbed or damaged, whether it is a result of natural corrosion as the insulation ages or occurs during a fire or explosion. If damaged, asbestos-containing insulation in
refineries can release tiny asbestos fibers and dust into the air, putting oil refinery workers at risk of inhalation. The workers are not the only individuals at risk, however: residents who live within a several-mile radius of a refinery which has caught fire or experiences an explosion are also at risk of inhaling these dangerous fibers, as they can be transferred via wind currents after they become airborne. Additionally, other harmful chemicals, including benzene and methanol, are released from oil refineries
on a daily basis, creating an even larger environmental and health issue.

If inhaled, asbestos fibers can situate inside the lining of the lungs for decades before an individual may begin to suffer from common mesothelioma symptoms, including shortness of breath and chest pain. Once diagnosed, an individual will most likely lose their battle with this particularly aggressive form of cancer in less than 2 years. Mesothelioma, also known as asbestos cancer , is totally fatal, and less than 1% will survive.

It's obvious that our use of traditional fuel and energy sources is a serious issue, and when you consider the lesser-known health effects in addition to the environmental and economic effects, it makes far more sense to shift to alternative sources of energy, such as wind power, and less environmentally invasive forms of fuel, such as ethanol. By decreasing our dependence on oil use, we'll eliminate the need for refineries and subsequently see a decrease in the number of individuals who are exposed to
asbestos and develop mesothelioma cancer.

For further information on the environmental and health consequences of oil refinery use, please visit www.maacenter.org .

the food irradiation plot

Jul 23rd, 2008

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Paranóico? Nós não pensamos assim. Conspiração? Well, no, its just a system that engineers us all to think the same, put money before truly good things like health, community, fun, joy and love, and rewards the people who subscribe to this worldview the most with positions of power, privilege and wealth.

As Mike Adams, on Natural News says:

The social engineering recipe
Pulling this off, of course, requires a bit of social engineering by the USDA in order to force the public into demanding something be done. If you're the USDA, you can't just suddenly announce a national food sterilization plan; you have to prime the pump with a bit of dirty work. Here's the simple plan for accomplishing that, if you're the USDA:
1) Conduct poor inspections of fresh produce on purpose, in order to cause a large increase in food-borne illness outbreaks. (We've seen this increase happen over the last 12 – 24 months.) This can be easily accomplished by reducing the budget of food inspection offices, or removing inspectors from the payroll altogether (which has already happened).
2) Wait for the outbreaks to happen. When consumers get sick, run national press releases announcing how dangerous the food supply is.
3) Watch the consumer reaction as people and lawmakers demand “something be done!”
4) Fudge a study with the American Chemical Society to show that washing doesn't work and that irradiation is the only solution. Time the release of this news to coincide with the public outcry that “something be done!”
5) Once the public is demanding a solution to food-borne illnesses, roll out a national produce irradiation requirement that sterilizes all the food.
Missão cumprida! This, of course, leads to point #6:
6) Watch the population become increasingly sick and diseased (thanks to the lack of phytonutrients that used to be found in the fresh produce), and cash in on your Big Pharma shares as the population is herded into hospitals for lucrative treatments with monopoly-priced pharmaceuticals.

Its not as though supermarket food is actually healthy, without irradiation! Take a look at those labels on the processed foods. They almost all contain the same industrial ingredients, and fresh food in the supermarket has been picked unripe, sprayed to stay 'fresh', even dyed to appear better, in some cases. About as far removed from a decent healthy fresh meal as is possible – or maybe not. Plans are afoot to nuke it all – presumably this would increase shelf life too.

What “they” really want: A dead food supply
Let's be blunt about this: The corporations running this country (which also run the US government) want the US food supply to be dead. They don't want foods to be used as medicines, and they sure don't want the natural medicines found in foods competing with their own patented pharmaceutical medicines (that just happen to earn them a whole lot more money than any food ever did).
Don't you find it curious that this attack on the food supply is coming out now, right after all this incredible news about the healing power of foods has been hitting the science journals? Every week, it seems, we find out about another amazing health property in a food. Black raspberries reverse oral cancer. Pomegranates halt prostate cancer. Green tea halts breast cancer. A lista continua. Just on this website alone, we've probably published 1,000 stories over the last two years on the disease-fighting properties of foods.
The thing to realize here is that many of the healing properties of these foods are destroyed through pasteurization or irradiation. If you're a government that wants to “take away the People's medicine,” the fastest way to accomplish that is to mandate the sterilization of the food supply. Kill the foods and you take away the People's medicine, and that forces the population to use pharmaceuticals instead.
The FDA, for its part, has for many decades conducted its natural medicine censorship campaign, whose only purpose is to deny the People access to accurate information about the healing properties of natural medicines found in foods and herbs. But apparently that wasn't enough: The Internet came along and people found a way to educate themselves. So since the FDA couldn't keep the truth about natural medicine bottled up and censored, the government has now apparently decided to just sterilize all the foods, thereby destroying the natural medicine and transforming Mother Nature's gifts into dead calories.
The USDA's decisions here are not based on public safety, folks. They're based on corporate greed. Just look at how they handled the raw almond controversy in these related articles: http://www.naturalnews.com/almonds.html
The USDA as operated today is a front group for wealthy corporations. It is not interested in helping the People. It's interested in protecting the profits of corporations… even if that means destroying the food supply and turning the population into “dead eaters” who die from other diseases caused by the lack of phytonutrient protection.

Growing vegetables is so easy, and then you actually know what you are eating, aren't giving money to huge destructive corporations, are getting exercise, and may even have surpluses to trade with your neighbours and friends.

I believe we must keep our food supply fresh and alive. (Sounds kinda obvious, huh?) And if there's a little extra bacteria on the spinach, it's nothing that a healthy body can't handle anyway. Take some probiotics and avoid antibiotics, and you'll be just fine. E. Coli is really only a threat to the health of individuals who have had their immune systems (or intestinal flora) destroyed by pharmaceuticals in the first place. There's nothing wrong with some living organisms in your milk, on your almonds or on your spinach. Wash your food, get plenty of sunlight and avoid using antibiotics.
The human body is NOT a sterile environment. To try to make our food supply sterile is insane, and anyone who supports the irradiation of the food supply is, in my opinion, supporting a policy of genocide against the American people. To destroy the vitality of the food supply is a criminal act of such immense evil that it stands alongside the worst crimes ever committed against humanity.
You see, it's not enough for them to poison our water (fluoride), poison our children (vaccines) and lie to us about the sun (skin cancer scare stories). Now they want to destroy our foods… and thereby take away any natural medicine options that might actually keep people healthy and free. Remember: A diseased population is an enslaved population.
Now go eat your Big Mac, drink your Pepsi and don't ask too many questions.

And do as you're told! yeah, right…. and a population that doesnt control its own food supply is in serious danger from those slave masters.

26 things you can Do RIGHT NOW to manage your anxiety

Jun 25th, 2008

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Published at PeakoilBlues.com

If you aren't feeling some degree of apprehension right now, you aren't reading the news. Here are some of my thoughts for turning that emotional energy into constructive action:
1. SET A GOAL TO CUT YOUR EXPENSES by some concrete number—10%, 20%, 30%, even 50%, and set up a plan to do it. Reducing costs is the fastest way to increase your income–faster than making more money.
2. LOOK AT CASH YOU ARE WASTING without enjoying its benefits, such as lights that get left on, computers that stay on day and night, “phantom loads,” like microwave clocks that use more energy than the microwave itself. If you get to know your electrical meter, and record the setting before and after you shut off those phantom loads, you'll have concrete proof that you are saving money.
3. Set up a THREE TIER SYSTEM for purchases: a) necessities; b) conveniences; and c) other. Put everything you buy in one of these categories for a week, and examine the list. For example, if you buy clothing, you might have bought socks and new fancy shoes. While most people would put the socks under “a” or “b,” most of us would consider the fancy shoes “other” unless they are a necessity for work. The Great Spending Contraction has begun. Get far enough ahead of it, that you aren't bit in the behind.
4. Consider BUYING FOOD IN ITS MOST BASIC FORM , and in bulk. For example, instead of buying Pancake mix, buy the flour, shortening, and leavening. This, alone, will not only improve your diet, but cost you a fraction of what the prepared mix would cost. Anything that the “Generals” prepare, (General Foods, General Mills, etc) they CHARGE YOU for the privilege.
5. SIMPLIFY. Examine each purchase, and ask yourself whether some other item would do the job equally well. Consumerism produces specialized products that increase demand. The more specialized, the easier it is to charge consumers a premium price for it. Shaving cream, instead of a good lathering soap. Window cleaner instead of vinegar. Do a bit of research and find out how your ancestors lived without most of the products under your sink or among your toiletries. Then, pare it down, and buy it in bulk.
6. SEEK OUT QUALITY. Seek out highly durable, long-lasting products that may cost more, but are well made and will last a long time. You may find out that the cheaper versions can't be replaced easily, when they wear out. Buy now for the long term, and not on price alone. I'm finding better quality items being replaced by cheaply made products at the same price. Buy the quality stuff while you can still find it, and make sure it fits Tier A. (See #3)
7. Switch over to a CASH ECONOMY. Just do it. Start out deciding how much money you usually spend using credit cards and checks, and take out that amount in cash for a week, two weeks, a month. If you and your family members spend through it before that period is over, stay home and stop spending, until the next period starts. Consumer research has shown that moving to a cash economy, consumers spend on average 20-25% less than if they used a credit card. Use that research to benefit YOU. Get into the habit of using currency, not plastic.
8. GET THE ENTIRE FAMILY INVOLVED in cutting back Tier “B” and “C” spending. If you've set a goal of reducing expenses by 20%, make that across the board, and involve the kids. If this means cutting back on extra lessons, dances, mall trips, etc, give your children a say in which things are cut out or reduced. If you are sincere about your own cutbacks, your children will respect and adjust their expectations as well. If you say you are cutting back, but then buy something in the “C” category, you've lost your credibility and you'll have a family mutiny on your hands. Discuss, as a family, all of your expenses based on these categories, and try to reach agreement, so there are no surprises.
9. Chart out your life travels in terms of MILES, instead of minutes , and then figure out how you can travel those miles in ways other than those using fossil fuel. When someone says “That's 30 minutes away…” get used to asking “Is that walking, biking, or traveling by car?” It is a psychological shift that we all need to make.
10. Learn how to STAY HOME . It sounds funny to some, but for many people, “home” has become a “pit stop” to refuel (eat, sleep) before we head out again. Learning how to stay home might mean resolving the conflicts you have with your significant other. It might mean having higher expectations for better behavior from your children.
11. SLOW DOWN, relax more , and look for ways of improving your home surroundings. I don't mean a new sofa. I'm talking about cleaning up that harrowing trip from one room to another because you keep tripping over the rug that sticks up, or putting up heavier curtains in the winter so the room stays warmer, or creating a better area to read, or listen to music, free of distractions. It might mean moving your most used kitchen utensils in a convenient place, so it's easier to cook. Tell yourself “Home is where I'm going to be spending most of my time,” and check out your emotional reaction. If it's panic or dread, try to figure out why, and do something about it.
12. “GET REAL” with the people you live with or love. Unfinished business, unspoken animosity, curt and angry exchanges not only make it unpleasant to be at home, it actually impacts your health. Bad marriages wreck good health. Come clean and own up to your own unhappiness, and try to own up to your contribution to the situation. The average troubled couple waits seven years before they seek out help, and often the problems by that point are well-entrenched. Try to fix it yourself, but if it doesn't work, seek out a trained listener.
13. PUT YOUR KIDS TO WORK. Too many children have very little real “purpose” in family life, and this is a bizarre turn of events in the history of human-kind. If your kids seem focused on their own self-interests, ask yourself to what extent you've expected them to take in interest in things greater than their own amusements. If you can't really say “Boy, I'm really glad I have my son/daughter to take care of X, so I don't have to do it…” you've forgotten how to teach them skills like taking responsibility, being reliable, and the “quid pro quo” of living with people. Your future son- or daughter- in-law will curse you.
14. SHUT OFF THE CHATTER from the computer/ internet/television/cable/ telephone/cell phone/pager/Blackberry/fax machine for some period each day and make a space for you to be with those you love, uninterrupted. Make it a revered time when the most important people in the world are sitting with you, paying attention to each other, talking sincerely, relaxing together. Expect severe resistance and techno-withdrawal. Make this revered time long enough to allow for the “hyperactive” withdrawal to subside, and a sense of quietude to permeate the house. Keep it going (as an “experiment” if you must) for at least a month, and open up discussion about what kinds of things you could do, as a family or as individuals, that would be satisfying or fun without using electricity.
15. SERIOUSLY WEIGH WORKING OVERTIME against using this time to create a more sustainable lifestyle. We are used to thinking about making money as the number one priority, but maybe its time to seriously question this assumption. If some crisis should happen tomorrow, just how prepared are you? Have you put up food? Created a garden of some type? Gotten to know your neighbors well enough to ask for (or offer) favors? Connected with religious or civic organizations offering you a wider circle of support? Resolved your marital troubles? Learned to really enjoy your kids? No doubt, cash is important, but time is our most precious commodity. Consider its use very carefully.
16. Imagine a VISION for a future you'd be willing to live in . You know that line about how humans can't live without hope? (I know, some of you don't believe in that word, so let's use the word “vision.”) The happiest families have a vision of what they are living and working for. This vision sustains them in times of trouble. Vá em frente. Imagine the worst. Then, visualize how you can live a satisfying life through the worst of it, and what will make it worthwhile. (Hint: if you don't imagine good friends and family, live music, simple foods etc, it probably looks overly dreary…) Write about it in a story, with you as the hero, draw it in a picture, sing it in a song. Torná-lo real.
17. MAKE LISTS and MARK ACHIEVEMENTS . Most of us are overly optimistic about what can be accomplished in a year, but underestimate what can be accomplished in ten years. See the broader plan, and pick several projects to start on (that's right, several…). Do something on each one every day, or make it okay to focus on one for a while, until you tire of it, and then shift to another one.
18. Keep the LONGER VISION in mind, and understand how the interim is likely to play out, based on that vision. Give yourself the space to make decisions now that you know will not ultimately be your future course of action. To make sure you are heading in the right direction, ask yourself: “Is this moving me toward greater self-sufficiency?” “If I am using fossil fuel to accomplish this goal now, is this in service of my learning some greater skill, that I can later apply, to accomplished the goal without those inputs?” For example, if you know nothing about carpentry, power tools can make learning about wood a great deal easier. Once you are comfortable with putting things together, you can later apply those skills when using hand tools. A recumbent bike with a “power assist” can get you out there and riding that bike, so you get into better shape to later ride it without the assistance.
19. Understand how the “herd mentality” is likely to impact you, and try to GET OUT AHEAD OF THE CROWD, instead of being trampled underneath it.
20. PROTECT YOUR MENTAL HEALTH as closely as you do your physical health. Depression, paranoia, drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence, abandonment, verbal abuse, compulsive behaviors like overeating, gambling, cyber-sex, anonymous sex etc. are all common reactions to stressful times. Keep a tight grip on the loose reins of that mind of yours, and listen to other people who tell you they are worried about you and the way you are behaving. Find people, ideally true friends and family, to talk to about the pressures and ruminations you have—your deepest fears. If you need help, get it now, and make sure that help includes tangible ways for you to handle that stress better in the future. Talk about your mother only if it helps you understand how to live a more productive life TODAY and gets you moving in the direction you claim to want to go in. Make it okay to schedule “mental health” days..you know, those days when you are just taking time off from work to smell the roses, sleep late, schedule a 'melt down,' or otherwise live life.
21. Learn the difference between “HEALTHY PLEASURES” and ones that will burn out your neurochemistry and destroy your health. Most of us exaggerate our habitual way of being when under pressure, based on our personalities. For some of us, we'll withdraw from other people and become isolated. For others, we throw ourselves into projects that make other people the focus, and ignore our own wellbeing. Some of us become instantly “action oriented” to manage our anxiety, without stopping to consider the purpose or goal of our actions. Others become immobilized, unable to make the simplest decisions, lest they turn out to be the wrong ones. Some become more self-centered, while others stop considering their own needs at all. Still others become dominated by destructive emotions and stop thinking clearly. Too much intellectualizing is the the direction others take, and this allows very little room for emotional expression or sympathetic connection with ourselves or others.
This is what makes giving “general advice” like “express your emotions” or “focus inward” so risky. Know in which direction to tend to err, and interrupt the pattern before it goes to extreme. Include people in your life that “balance out” those tendencies. If you are a “worry wart,” connect with someone who's more carefree. If you tend to intellectualize, find an improvisational theater group. If you dramatize everything, befriend someone closer to a “brain” who “thinks” as a first response. And be prepared to be possibly annoyed by the personality difference.
22. Care for something NON-HUMAN . Eighty-five percent of us already do, whether its wild birds, squirrels, gold fish, a dog, cat or livestock. Scientifically, we've found out that caring for someone (or something) else is good for our mental and physical health. We're likely to live longer through a life-threatening disease if we do. Spend time watching or interacting with this non-human, and access another part of your consciousness—perhaps and older, deeper part, and try to relax while you're doing it.
23. LIMIT THE 'BAD NEWS.' If you find yourself checking the news more than once a day, give it a break, for your own sake. Take a “news holiday” once in a while. Go be around something beautiful, like art or nature.
24. Make a list of the 'TWENTY THINGS YOU LOVE TO DO', and post it where you'll see it every day. Write down, next to the item, when is the last time you did it, and whether you want to do it more (M) or less (L) often. Write down if it was something either parent did (P), and whether you'll still be able to do it at 85 (85). If it costs money to do it, put a dollar sign ($) next to it. If you need to do it with a friend (F) or special friend (SP) note that. Now, rank-order them, just for fun.
25. DON'T TRY TO CHANGE THE WORLD. Try just impacting your tiny corner of it. Make your street a nicer place. Plant a few fruit or nut trees. Join a neighborhood group. Expand your community food pantry. Get a regular “rent party” together and pass the hat for those who have lost their job or have unpaid medical bills. Next week, that person might be you. Pick up the garbage you come across, even if it isn't yours. Remember that the world is bigger than you are, and that you don't own the Earth or the things in it, you are a part of the Earth, and are owned by it.
26. THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX . Just because people usually list 25 things, be different. List 26. Don't follow the crowd, walk ahead of it. If they start following you, you're a leader. If they don't, you are ahead of your time or you are going in the wrong direction. In either case, enjoy the walk, and break your own rules once in a while.

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The Pine Family (Pinaceae) As Wild Food

100 Coisas Que Você Pode Fazer para se preparar para o Pico do Petróleo

MSNBC Undercover: Sex Slaves in America

dependence on oil: an economic, environmental & health crisis

the food irradiation plot

26 things you can Do RIGHT NOW to manage your anxiety

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