Rapid Lightning grant money came through!
Hi all, At Weed Committee meeting tonight, it was announced that our grant money came through. This was the night the Weed Committee had to approve all the Neighborhood Weed Projects. They had at least 15 groups who wanted to use herbicide and only one (ours) which was organic. I was afraid someone would try to cut down our money and give it to the others and someone did try to do just that, but it was denied. We had 5 people (including me) from the Rap. Ltg. project at the meeting. Now to get to work on it. It's late now. The grass and knapweed rosettes are all up. We may have to redesign part of our 2002 plan. Our garden is coming along. We have 75 tomatoes and eggplants in 6 pots in the cold frame along with other seedlings and others still in their germination containers. It's so beautiful this time of year. Very windy today. I hope Chileman got his replacement peppers. I am reading Culture and Horticulture by Wolf Storl. There's one chapter on the four elements that reminds me of Refining the Continuum in the oregonbd on-line class. I can't understand how all those things fit into all those categories. Merla
RE: Brits: What do you think of Greg Palast?
Merla, Have you heard the term Lords of Poverty - headed up by organisations such as the IMF, World Bank, and other public organisations. I have worked for more than one of these and can vouch for their disgusting approaches - was only too keen to leave when I realised what they do. The Monsanto's of this world are another organisation, as are the agro-chemical companies (dumping chemicals in developing countries which are banned in developed countries, without appropriate instructions, protective clothing etc, etc). The atrocities are horrendous. Stephen Barrow
RE: Brits: What do you think of Greg Palast?
Lloyd, And in South Africa, our esteemed Minister of Agriculture has announced that we will be taking the Hi-Tech road to agricultural development - the chemical companies have got to her OK. Stephen Barrow
Re: Brits: What do you think of Greg Palast?
We must be one of those Third World Countries, they sell stuff here that is banded in the US. Gil Oz Stephen Barrow wrote: Merla, Have you heard the term Lords of Poverty - headed up by organisations such as the IMF, World Bank, and other public organisations. I have worked for more than one of these and can vouch for their disgusting approaches - was only too keen to leave when I realised what they do. The Monsanto's of this world are another organisation, as are the agro-chemical companies (dumping chemicals in developing countries which are banned in developed countries, without appropriate instructions, protective clothing etc, etc). The atrocities are horrendous. Stephen Barrow
CWD / sliting the veil
Dear list I would have to hunt peck for a month to give you the total flavor of all that is swirling around us this subject. The reality is we, here on BDNow, as a group have started to glimpse in other post etc the breath of the new world order's coup which spans many realms. Chronic Wasting Dis-ease at it's most fundamental levels is the deer here in the Blue Mounds area are taking charge of their destiny. In other areas (Colorado) life is hard (trying to live on pine needles). Mark Purdey is correct - background mammalian biochemical pathway literally crystallizes under a-salt from heavy metals and the cellular recycling systems work themselves in to a toxic frenzy trying to clear/digest the crystals, The recycling systems exploded eating/leaving the holes / sponge form in neural cortexes. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources plan of action probably does have seven veils. The most hidden most fundamental, I conjecture to be the new world order's resource grab. Here in the US State Federal Resource Conservation Agents have total powers everywhere. They may come on your property, enter your home, search everywhere without warrant or judicial review. With a riled armed public militia, i.e. hunters without a game, they are greater then formidable! Note: the action the DNR said they will do, is reduces the deer population to zero, in a bulls eye on a map. This is not a hope from there point of view. http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/wildlife/whealth/issues/CWD/ It ain't going to be just vapor trails falling out of the sky. In Love Light Markess
Re: Brits: What do you think of Greg Palast?
Title: Re: Brits: What do you think of Greg Palast? They use the stuff as an additive to aeronautic fuel to surpress the flash point, here in what was the US. There are no 1st, 2nd or thirds any more - just muti-nationals and we the extras. L*L Markess From: Gil Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 07:40:33 +0930 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Brits: What do you think of Greg Palast? We must be one of those Third World Countries, they sell stuff here that is banded in the US. Gil Oz Stephen Barrow wrote: Merla, Have you heard the term Lords of Poverty - headed up by organisations such as the IMF, World Bank, and other public organisations. I have worked for more than one of these and can vouch for their disgusting approaches - was only too keen to leave when I realised what they do. The Monsanto's of this world are another organisation, as are the agro-chemical companies (dumping chemicals in developing countries which are banned in developed countries, without appropriate instructions, protective clothing etc, etc). The atrocities are horrendous. Stephen Barrow
Re: Brits: What do you think of Greg Palast?
Steven, I have been on WTO Watch for a year. I know. I guess I was surprised that Greg Palast said they were bribing the officials, but I shouldn't have been. What I was trying to get at is that the irreverent guys like Greg Palast and Mike Moore do what the NGOs can't--with the gallows humor of irreverence. It isn't funny humor. It's grim when you have to resort to irreverence to get through to an ignorant and apathetic population. How can we get this all to change? The two party system in the U.S. is only as good as the men and women who choose to be politicians. If they can be coopted by campaign contributions, then what? But I believe our problem is much deeper than that. Did you happen to read the Interview with Hartmut von Jeetze in the newest issue of JPI's Applied Biodynamics? This man was a child when his parents went to RS's lectures on Agriculture and as a teenager worked on farms. He tells the whole story of the times--how their 2 1/2 ac farm, the largest in their village, was indebted and they went into receivership trying to convert to BD--I stirred my first 500 when I was ten years old. About eight to ten youngsters, we were from the school and after school you stirred 500, each in a wooden bucket of about two and a half gallons and sang songs with it. There was an old man, he's still around by the way, he should be a hundred yers old now...and the war--At the age of 15 in 1943 I was spending from 6:30 in the morning to 8:30 at night on a reaper-binder, operating the handles to get the harvest done, the crops cut...before long, Mr. Voegele asked, 'Well, maybe you can handle a team of horses...'--I had no choice actually (on whether to be a farmer or not) after the war. Everything was broken down, so when I got back to where my parents lived as refugees, not the farm where we grew up, that was gone, but in West Germany...(He worked on an orthodox farm for comparison to his BD training.)...when the field was seeded, everyone knew, it's a thing where your human discipline of practice of agriculture actually is equivalent of a meditative work done in the the physical world...Farming is a meditative work. How you approach things is important. But it's got to be so that the outer disciplines and the inner disciplines begin to become experiential to you. If you read the article on the lecture I gave last year on The Four Ethers in Their Relation to Agriculture, you will find an exact description of what I mean (BIODYNAMICS 236 (2001):9-14)..I'm saying all these things because unless you have a personal experience by way of relationship to the soil, you won't get too easily to the same point of beginning even to think of Biodynamaic agriculture. So what we have lost is the personal relationship to the land...Only when your fields don't yield anymore to conventional treatment, do you begin to ask yourself what's happening?...I can't tell people to changeeveryone has to come in their own way to begin to realize, Wait a minute, we can't go on like this. What can I do to improve life to the land?...What's not happening is that for most people here in the West, to understand that personal relationship to the land, not only of one person, but of a group of human beings, of a village, matters...What has disappeared in the last century by very rapid stages is the social interdependence between all the craftsmen, all the people in the village and the small towns, ...where all this was a synthesis of human social abilities creating the social pattern as the basis for the ...basic fabric of the social order, an order in which Nature, by the way of harmonized landscapes becomes the social equivalent, complementing what human beings do to the land...RS's first lecture...the judgment over what is necessary or right or needed on a farm, can only be done by the farmer who walks over the field...he or she often without knowing it is doing meditative work... My point is that because of technology, a whole civilization of human beings have lost their connection to the land. The people in charge of the country are making decisions based on short-term monetary gain which exaccerbates alienation from the land. It's the effect of technology on culture. How can we retain the experience of the land? My husband took a trip yesterday to Lost Creek south of Priest Lake, ID, at Sundance Mountain. The creek bottom is untouched cedar bottom land and right now it's flooded because the beaver blocked the culvert under the road. The water is crystal clear. The mosses and wild flowers were prime. He saw tracks of the big moose he had seen last fall in the mud and left-over snow. The land isn't like that anymore except in small areas. People don't know what they are missing. People in cities don't have a clue. And those in charge of the U.S. at this time in connection with the WB and IMF are trying to force the civilization all over the world to this sorry state. This whole mess has happened because
Re: Wild and Disease Free
Pam, there's no way we can afford to go to Boise from Sandpoint for this meeting. We don't want them to make a decision about killing all the deer, elk and moose because they think that they are passing on CWD. I will write to Fish and Game now about Mark's message about the manganese in the deer CRACK. You write them too. Merla Pam DeTray wrote: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ? Wild and Disease Free ? Big Game Herds For Our Future. The Idaho Wildlife Federation and Andrus Center for Public Policy are hosting a free symposium dealing with chronic wasting disease (CWD), on Saturday May 11th in Boise, Idaho. It is one of the nations first conferences designed expressly to provide accurate information to the public and media on this rapidly spreading problem. Titled Wild and Disease Free - Big Game Herds For Our Future, the symposium is being sponsored by the Idaho Wildlife Federation, Mule Deer Foundation, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Foundation for North American Wild Sheep, Idaho Outfitters and Guides Association, Deer Hunters of Idaho and the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. The event takes place at Boise State University, Jordan Ballroom, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on May 11th. Speakers from Idaho, Nebraska, Oregon, Montana, Wisconsin and Canada will be giving brief presentations about CWD and other diseases that are putting our wildlife at risk. Nebraska, Colorado and Canada have had to destroy 1,000s of elk and deer on and adjacent to game farms to control the spread of the disease. Near Salmon Idaho the department of Agriculture and USDA had to kill and test 37 game farm elk for the deadly disease. Hunters, ranchers, resource managers, veterinarians, scientists, legislators and concerned members of the public are invited to attend the May 11th educational event. For more information call 208/342-7055 or 208/467-2349. -- ___ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Email.com http://www.email.com/?sr=signup
Northern Star Calendar from Brian Keats
Brian Keats' Northern Star Calender was on my mind this week, and I meant to post the web link to BD-Now so people will know a Northern version is now availabe, in addition to the Antipodean Astro Calendar for the Southern Hemisphere he's published for several years. Then I read Applied Biodynamics where Hugh Courtney published a review of Keats' Northern Star Calendar, which reminded me to follow up on this. Brian Keats Publishing http://www.acenet.com.au/~astrocal/index.html Northern Star Calendar http://www.acenet.com.au/~astrocal/calpage1.html The web page has sample views of calendar page layout and information distillation and display, so you can see for yourself if it resonates and seems helpful. Courtney says: This calendar should be particularly helpful in educating the practitioner to a greater attunement to celestial rhythms throughout each month, and a greater awareness of astronomical phenomena regarding planets, in particular, the moon. A useful companion to the two calendars (Stella Natura + Working with the Stars) mentioned above. Brian Keats has email, if you need to get in touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Calendars can be purchased from Keats in NSW Australia, or from JPI in Virginia. [$10, 32 pages, color] All the Best, Steve Diver
Transmutaion
Serious people engaged in transmutation studies. Their explanation of the phenomena goes a little beyond Louis Kervran. http://www.transmutation.com/ Jose
