Re: Slash and Burn (from Chris Shade)
Hey Allan, No, I have been pretty busy and only loosely following things. I only opened your e-mail because of the subject line (I didn't realize it was to me and not the list). Yes, there is something to ashes. In a rodale study (that was never published and I found buried in some archives), they made a buch of compost piles with different amendments, including rock phosphates, Pfeiffer starter, wood ash and a few other things. They noted that no pile finished any earlier than the others, but didn't make much mention of the final NPK analyses, which were rather remarkable. Most of the piles hovered around 1-1-1 to 2-2-2, BUT the Pfeiffer pile was like 1-2-10 (nothing strange about 10, eh?) and the wood ash pile was like 1-6-2. So lets back up here...the piles with added Rock phosphate were barely up from the rest while the pile with the added K (wood ash) had soaring P and the pile with added critters and preps (you might think N) had a soaring K [note: A Biodynamic Book of Moons - my favorite for the alchemic notation - places K as the Sal or BD500 nutrient element (makes roots and heavy stalks and such)and P as the sulph or fire element]. So it seems that the ash somehow stimulates the fire element. This is also seen if you put some freshly burned wood ash on hot peppers or tomatoes - the ripen quickly and thoroughly and the peppers are searing like coals. On a more mundane level, all of those nutrients, mostly mineral elements, are rapidly realeased to the soils as soluble salts rather than their slow mineralization through biotic/humic channels. Cheers, Chris Chris goes on: I imagine that the issue is like any other - unshakeable doctrine is foolish and there may be reasons to do things like slash and burn sometimes. A fire brings new life to a forest at the same time that is destroys old life. The issue of whether burned things (ash) are good for the soil is pretty straight forward - yes, generally, unless you have a salinity or alkalinity problem). Whether or not to slash and burn versus just applying wood ash is another. My immediate intuition is that it is probably a good thing once in awhile, if not more often. Of course you would want to do something to perk the microbes back up after the cooking, but it shouldn't be hard. As far as the Rodale study, they seemed to do everything pretty much by the book - the main ingredients were all from the same big piles, the only difference being the extra amendments added. They seemed to be pretty sciency folks from the way it read. I sure wish I could find the thing, but I have looked and do not have it. Chris Shade
Re: Slash and Burn (from Chris Shade)
Interestingly, I came home from giving a talk on The Cycle of Life and Death in a Permaculture System to the Local Bioregional Permaculture Group and found this post. The wood ash in the compost was one thing that came up and I had to go on the side of only small amounts. I wish I had the post four hours earlier. Are you able to direct me to the actual text of this? Gil bdnow wrote: Hey Allan, No, I have been pretty busy and only loosely following things. I only opened your e-mail because of the subject line (I didn't realize it was to me and not the list). Yes, there is something to ashes. In a rodale study (that was never published and I found buried in some archives), they made a buch of compost piles with different amendments, including rock phosphates, Pfeiffer starter, wood ash and a few other things. They noted that no pile finished any earlier than the others, but didn't make much mention of the final NPK analyses, which were rather remarkable. Most of the piles hovered around 1-1-1 to 2-2-2, BUT the Pfeiffer pile was like 1-2-10 (nothing strange about 10, eh?) and the wood ash pile was like 1-6-2. So lets back up here...the piles with added Rock phosphate were barely up from the rest while the pile with the added K (wood ash) had soaring P and the pile with added critters and preps (you might think N) had a soaring K [note: A Biodynamic Book of Moons - my favorite for the alchemic notation - places K as the Sal or BD500 nutrient element (makes roots and heavy stalks and such)and P as the sulph or fire element]. So it seems that the ash somehow stimulates the fire element. This is also seen if you put some freshly burned wood ash on hot peppers or tomatoes - the ripen quickly and thoroughly and the peppers are searing like coals. On a more mundane level, all of those nutrients, mostly mineral elements, are rapidly realeased to the soils as soluble salts rather than their slow mineralization through biotic/humic channels. Cheers, Chris Chris goes on: I imagine that the issue is like any other - unshakeable doctrine is foolish and there may be reasons to do things like slash and burn sometimes. A fire brings new life to a forest at the same time that is destroys old life. The issue of whether burned things (ash) are good for the soil is pretty straight forward - yes, generally, unless you have a salinity or alkalinity problem). Whether or not to slash and burn versus just applying wood ash is another. My immediate intuition is that it is probably a good thing once in awhile, if not more often. Of course you would want to do something to perk the microbes back up after the cooking, but it shouldn't be hard. As far as the Rodale study, they seemed to do everything pretty much by the book - the main ingredients were all from the same big piles, the only difference being the extra amendments added. They seemed to be pretty sciency folks from the way it read. I sure wish I could find the thing, but I have looked and do not have it. Chris Shade
Fw: [globalnews] U'wa people of Colombia's message regarding oil
From GlobalNews Mailing List: U'wa Traditional Authorities Cubará, Colombia, February 14, 2002 COMMUNIQUÉ TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC OPINION The U'wa Community represented by the U'wa Grand Council and the U'wa Traditional Authority, addresses the difficulties faced by our Sarare region that is partly Our Ancestral Territory established by our Highest Colonial Letters. We express our voice of protest and rejection before the national and international community against the actions of Armed Actors that destabilize the normal development of rural and indigenous communities and that in some way affect our way of life and integrity. The aforesaid permits our support of the mobilization, in a healthy manner, taking place in the Tame municipality of Aruaca, to make the demands made by the mobilized communities understood, since the Colombian people make most of the sacrifices in every sense of the word, and also demand the Colombian State that it must listen to the outcry of the Sarare and Arauca communities which is also the feeling of the Colombian People, our non-U'wa brothers from the outside world (Riowa). The United States is also financing Plan Colombia, the struggle against drug trafficking, which signifies the increase of violence in the department of Arauca, Boyacá and North of Santander and Our Ancestral Territory, assigning US $98 million to protect the Caño Limón Pipeline in Coveña, solely for having found oil in the Capachos 1 well without seeing that what Colombia needs is more investment in social, health, education and employment programs, so that we can live in Peace. For the U'wa People it is fundamental that the Ancestral and Traditional Territories are respected and conserved with a socio-cultural vision, since these give us our daily sustenance and maintenance of all living beings. The U'wa People and the inhabitants of the Sarare region wish to live in harmony with nature and within a tranquil space. The territories of Indigenous Peoples are territories of Peace. The government and petroleum multinationals are the first responsible for the social and environmental problem in the Arauca and base of the mountain region, and in second place are the actors of the armed conflict, for the dynamiting actions against the Oil pipeline that cause the contamination of water, pastoral areas and watershed basins of the Arauca River. These actions are affecting climatic changes and the basic sustenance of our communities. We have the right to freedom of expression and thought. But it is the actors of the conflict that drive the country into wars that have no reason to exist. At each step they leave havoc, misery, and the gravest thing is that they attack LIFE. These actions are on occasion unjustified and bring destruction to individuals who are the least implicated; which hurt the communities which have suffered and are the most needed in the Country. In addition, and taking advantage of this space, we want to reiterate one more time for public opinion, to Ecopetrol, the Colombian Government, Multinationals, and especially to Occidental of Colombia, that we will never step back from the process of territorial defense, and neither will we change our cultural principles as it is clear that cultures with principles have no price, which means that we will not permit oil exploration or development in our sacred territory, this is a position and thought that surges from our ancestral millenary law and our cultural principles. And if oil was found in the Capacho sector and they plan to export it, they are violating the rights of our ancestors and our mother earth, which belongs to all who live in This beautiful Blue planet. IN DEFENSE OF OUR CULTURAL RIGHTS, OUR MOTHER EARTH AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF OUR ANCESTRAL TERRITORY. U'WA PEOPLE PRESENTE! MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: Click Here
A moment to reflect
From: Eli Pariser, 9-11Peace [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11 Mar 2002 19:39:31 - Subject: A moment to reflect This is an update to you as a signer of the 9-11peace petition. If you don't want to receive any more messages from 9-11peace, just go to: http://www.moveon.org/subscrip/i.html?id=467-771276-1C3M6s2nAUTLlIzt9TuglQ Dear friends, It was six months ago today that commercial jets crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the terrible impact of those collisions continues to reverberate throughout our lives. In the days and weeks after September 11th, you joined half a million other people from around the world in signing the 9-11peace petition and urging world leaders to exercise restraint in their response. Now, six months later, we're writing to brief you on our work and to highlight an opportunity to help. The petition that you were part of was a great success. With participants form 192 countries, widespread media attention, and even a personal response from Tony Blair, we are confident that our message was heard. Since the petition, we have expanded 9-11peace into an ongoing grassroots action network. 9-11peace is now a campaign of MoveOn.org, an organization that helps people influence national leaders through the internet. 9-11peace action alerts reach hundreds of thousands worldwide; in recent months members have sent close to 100,000 emails to world leaders, made thousands of phone calls, and written hundreds of letters to newspapers. But unfortunately it appears the work for peace is just beginning. The Bush administration has declared a permanent state of war, without clearly identified goals or an endpoint, which is a threat to us all. And the international structures that can support a democratic and just response to terrorism are just now being built. Six months after September 11th, it is time for a memorial. The best way we can imagine to pay our respects is by making a commitment to creating a better world, a world in which terrorism and war are only a bad memory. We invite you to join us in this most important work. The 9-11peace campaign is supporting a group of American victims' families, September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, in their efforts to create a compensation fund for the families of Afghan victims. They are running a Washington call-in campaign. Can you help? Contact your Senators through the main Capitol Hill switchboard: Capitol Hill Switchboard (202) 224-3121 or (202) 225-3121 Make sure their staffers know you're a constituent. Then urge them to: Please support September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows by enacting a Afghan Victims Compensation Fund. Please let us know you're making these vital calls, at: http://www.moveon.org/callp.html?id=467-771276-1C3M6s2nAUTLlIzt9TuglQ The US military response has lead to the deaths of many innocent Afghan civilians -- perhaps thousands of them. For their families, circumstances could not be more dire. Those whose homes have been leveled now live in houses made of scraps of metal; food is scarce and the winter is extremely cold. September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows is urging Congress to set up an Afghan Victims Compensation Fund that would provide money for bare necessities for these families. Further information is attached below. Over 25 members of Congress have expressed their sympathy and support for the idea of a compensation fund for innocent Afghan victims when Peaceful Tomorrows members met with them in late January. Now they need to hear from you. Sincerely, - Eli Pariser The 9-11peace Campaign MoveOn.org March 11, 2002 For more information on the 9-11peace Campaign, please visit: http://9-11peace.org/ - A MESSAGE FROM SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH FAMILIES FOR PEACEFUL TOMORROWS Peaceful Tomorrows is a group of family members of September Eleventh victims who are working for peace. Six months ago members of our families and thousands of other innocents lost their lives in the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and on Flight 93. The loss of innocent lives continues -- it has now been over five months since the beginning of US military action in Afghanistan in which other families have also suffered. Yet there is no official acknowledgment that innocent Afghan civilians have been killed or maimed in the bombing. While the number of civilian casualties is unclear, estimates range from 1,000 to 4,000 people. The innocent victims in Afghanistan who lost their lives during the U.S. air strikes deserve our compassion and support. Out of our concern for our Afghan sister families, four Peaceful Tomorrows members traveled to Afghanistan in January with Global Exchange visiting dozens of grieving and devastated Afghan families. Many of the families of those who were killed or injured by US bombs are living in dire economic straits. We returned from our visit
Thimerosal Linked to Autism in Confidential CDC Study
Thimerosal Linked to Autism in Confidential CDC Study Controversy is mounting regarding the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) Thimerosal Vaccine Safety Data-Link Study (VSD) presented to the public at the July 15, 2001, Institute of Medicine (IOM) meeting on Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes. Thimerosal is the mercury preservative used in vaccines and other biologics. The CDC study evaluated nuerodevelopmental injury and cumulative exposures to Thimerosal at one and three months of age by studying the health records of over 100,000 children at four HMOs. The organization SAFEMINDS (Sensible Action for Ending Mercury-Induced Neurological Disorders) has obtained an earlier, confidential February 2000 version of the VSD study through the Freedom of Information Act, as well as transcripts from a scientific review of this earlier study, which took place at Simpsonwood Retreat Center in Georgia. Serious disparities exist between the neurodevelopmental outcomes of the two different versions of the study. For over a year, SAFEMINDS and Congressman Dan Burton (R- Indiana) have been requesting the VSD raw data from the CDC for independent review. So far their requests have been denied. The Texas firm Waters and Kraus leads the consortium of 25 law firms in as many states in the first civil suit brought against vaccine manufacturers and alleges that the February 2000 confidential version of the VSD study clearly demonstrates an exposure to more than 62.5 micrograms of mercury within the first three months of life significantly increases a child's risk of developing nuerodevelopmental orders such as speech and language delay, autism, stuttering, and attention deficit disorder. In fact, the study indicates that children at this exposure level are more than twice as likely (2.48) to develop autism as those not exposed. Waters and Kraus note: Courts of law have generally upheld that a relative risk of 2.0 or higher is sufficient to substantiate that a given exposure causes disease. When the VSD study was presented at the July 2001 IOM meeting, the relative risk of autism had been reduced to 1.69. According to Mark Blaxill of SAFEMINDS, all previous versions of the study had used the same dataset. Yet for the version presented at the IOM meeting had an additional 34,334 children added to the database. The majority of the additional children were added by altering the inclusion criteria, as well as by updating the HMO data cycle by adding an additional year, 1998. The additional children were too young to have been diagnosed autistic since they were just turning two at the time the analysis was performed. Autism is diagnosed on the average at 44 months. When the author of the VSD study, Tom Verstraeten, first presented the confidential version for scientific review by a panel of experts at Simpsonwood in June 2000, he said, One thing that is for sure, there is certainly an under-ascertainment of all these [neurodevelopmental disorders] because some of the children are just not old enough to be diagnosed. So the crude incidence rates are probably much lower than what you would expect because the cohort is still very young. The FDA and EPA called for the removal of mercury in infant vaccines beginning in 1999. At that time, vaccine manufacturers agreed to have thimerosal-free vaccines available at the beginning of 2001 and later offered voluntary exchange for all remaining thimerosal vaccines still on the shelf. In July of 1999, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), under the leadership of pediatric vaccinologist Dr. Neal A. Halsey, met with officials from the CDC to ask that the birth dose of Hepatitis B be pushed back as far as six months of age. The CDC and members of its National Immunization Program (NIP) refused, arguing that there was no evidence of harm done. They didn't want to undermine public confidence in the vaccination program. After much negotiation, the CDC released an ambiguous and weak statement that suggested that in certain low-risk populations physicians could wait until babies were two months of age before they administered their first hepatitis B vaccine. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the CDC committee that recommends the vaccines for the Childhood Immunization Schedule, has yet to state a preference for thimerosal-free vaccines. It was the ACIP that approved of the additions to the Childhood Immunization Schedule of hepatitis B and Hib in the late 1980s and early 1990s, two thimerosal-containing vaccines that pushed infant ethyl mercury exposure levels far above any existing federal methyl mercury exposure guidelines. At the June 200o Simpsonwood meeting, the following comment was made by a participant, This association leads me to favor a recommendation that infants up to two years old not be immunized with thimerosal-containing vaccines if suitable alternative preparations are available. Forgive this personal
FW: here's to women friends!
A landmark UCLA study suggests that women respond to stress with a cascade of brain chemicals that cause us to make and maintain friendships with other women. It's a stunning finding that has turned five decades of stress research -most of it on men- upside down. Until this study was published, scientists generally believed that when people experience stress, they trigger a hormonal cascade that revs the body to either stand and fight or flee as fast as possible, explains Laura Cousino Klein, PhD, now an assistant professor of biobehavioral health at Pennsylvania State University in State College and one of the study's authors. It's an ancient survival mechanism left over from the time we were chased across the planet by saber-toothed tigers. Now the researchers suspect that women have a larger behavioral repertoire than just fight or flight. In fact, says Dr. Klein, it seems that when the hormone oxytocin is released as part of the stress response in a woman, it buffers the fight or flight response and encourages her to tend children and gather with other women instead. When she actually engages in this tending or befriending, studies suggest that more oxytocin is released, which further counters stress and produces a calming effect. This calming response does not occur in men, says Dr. Klein, because testosterone-which men produce in high levels when they're under stress-seems to reduce the effects of oxytocin. Estrogen, she adds, seems to enhance it. The discovery that women respond to stress differently than men was made in a classic aha! moment shared by two women scientists who were talking one day in a lab at UCLA. There was this joke that when the women who worked in the lab were stressed, they came in, cleaned the lab, had coffee, and bonded, says Dr. Klein. When the men were stressed, they holed up somewhere on their own. I commented one day to fellow researcher Shelley Taylor that nearly 90% of the stress research is on males. I showed her the data from my lab, and the two of us knew instantly that we were on to something. The women cleared their schedules and started meeting with one scientist after another from various research specialties. Very quickly, Drs. Klein and Taylor discovered that by not including women in stress research, scientists had made a huge mistake: The fact that women respond to stress differently than men has significant implications for our health. It may take some time for new studies to reveal all the ways that oxytocin encourages us to care for children and hang out with other women, but the tend and befriend notion developed by Drs. Klein and Taylor may explain why women consistently outlive men. Study after study has found that social ties reduce our risk of disease by lowering blood pressure, heart rate, and cholesterol. There's no doubt, says Dr. Klein, that friends are helping us live longer. In one study, for example, researchers found that people who had no friends increased their risk of death over a 6-month period. In another study, those who had the most friends over a 9-year period cut their risk of death by more than 60%. Friends are also helping us live better. The famed Nurses' Health Study from Harvard Medical School found that the more friends women had, the less likely they were to develop physical impairments as they aged, and the more likely they were to be leading a joyful life. In fact, the results were so significant, the researchers concluded, that not having close friend or confidante was as detrimental to your health as smoking or carrying extra weight! And that's not all: When the researchers looked at how well the women functioned after the death of their spouse, they found that even in the face of this biggest stressor of all, those women who had close friend and confidante were more likely to survive the experience without any new physical impairment or permanent loss of vitality. Those without friends were not always so fortunate. Yet if friends counter the stress that seems to swallow up so much of our life these days, if they keep us healthy and even add years to our life, why is it so hard to find time to be with them? That's a question that also troubles researcher Ruthellen Josselson, PhD, coauthor of Best Friends: The Pleasures and Perils of Girls' and Women's Friendships (Three Rivers Press, 1998). Every time we get overly busy with work and family, the first thing we do is let go of friendships with other women, explains Dr. Josselson. We push them right to the back burner. That's really a mistake, because women are such a source of strength to each other. We nurture one another. And we need to have unpressured space in which we can do the special kind of talk that women do when they're with
Fw: [globalnews] THIRTY PERCENT OF THE U.S. EXPERIENCING DROUGHT
www.matrixinstitute.com THIRTY PERCENT OF THE U.S. EXPERIENCING DROUGHT -- Posted on Mar 10, 2002 The Climate Prediction Center, which monitors weather conditions in the United States, released data on March, 5, 2002 indicating that almost a third of the country is suffering from drought. According to Christina Ward of disasterrelief.org, If the dry trend continues as expected, many regions of the country could encounter severe water shortages this spring and summer. Already, some states have announced drought emergencies and are drawing water from back-up supplies. Douglas LeComte, of the Climate Prediction Center told disasterrelief.org, Since last October, high-pressure systems have deflected storm patterns to the south and north of affected areas along the East Coast, missing localities in need of precipitation. La Nina is considered a factor in the dryness in the West. Mark Svoboda, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center, told the Associated Press. This is a sleeping giant. The impact is still to come. From the National Drought Summary: The East: A storm brought 1 to 2 inches of rain to drought areas along the Eastern Seaboard on March 2-3, offering some respite from the persistent dry weather that has dominated the region since autumn. Although the rain was beneficial, it was not sufficient to significantly alter the overall drought picture, allowing extreme drought to continue over Maine, the mid-Atlantic from New Jersey to northern Virginia, and the Southeast from South Carolina to eastern Georgia. The drought in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast remains mostly a hydrological drought, with impacts on ponds, lakes, rivers, wells, and reservoirs. However, there are a variety of other effects from the drought, including long-term impacts on vegetation and trees. According to preliminary data, the Northeast experienced the second driest September-February in 107 years of record. The 12 months ending in February were the driest on record in Maine. New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland reported the driest February on record. The Plains and Midwest: The early-March storm had little impact on dryness in this region, as the heaviest snow and rain mostly fell in areas not experiencing abnormal dryness. Abnormally dry conditions continued in the northern Plains, with severe to extreme drought persisting in southwest Texas. Moderate drought intensified to severe drought in extreme southern Texas. Drought also intensified to severe levels in western Oklahoma and southwest Kansas. - Climate Prediction Center, NOAA / disasterrelief.org / Associated Press - Graphic: Climate Prediction Center - Map shows ranges from abnormally dry (Yellow) to exceptionally dry (Dark Brown) ... Be the change you want to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Re: Planting Spuds - How do you do it?
The Organic Gardening encyclopedia say 30# per 1000 sq ft on sand to 80# per 1000 sq ft on clay will raise the ph one unit. Having put about 4 tons to the ac of quarry siftings about 9 years ago I would say that their unit would be a raise from lets say 6.1 to 6.2. I would be a little more concerned about any change in PH in your case, since 6.8 is at the top of the range for spuds. Also if your PH is 6.8 and your calcium is low, There's a good chance that the sulfur may be lacking which could also show up as a fungal problem in an off year. Chris If I understand correctly, it takes a hell of a lot of high calcium lime to actually change the pH. Am I wrong about this? -Allan
drought report from Westchester County, NY
Hello All, We did get a moment of rain over a week ago, but have had many days all summer, fall, and now winter where clouds gather in the sky, promising rain, only to dissipate either later in the day or even days later producing NO rain at all. It is clear that the atmosphere is not able to organize a rain event. Frankly, I find this more alarming than terrorism, especially because I consider my government to be one of the leading terrorists in the world. A trip a couple of weeks ago, up to the northern end of the county, where the NYC water supply begins, was even more alarming, to see some reservoirs which were literally bone dry and others down by more than 40 %. It's as if the land were gasping around the area. My garden has been great, producing small amounts of kale, turnip greens, herbs even and a few straggling carrots all winter--further proof as far as I'm concerned about how compost and preps and communion can enliven and create protected space. I stand in awe of those of you responsible for feeding others and farming. As I've said many times before on this list, if Americans all had to grow their own food, they'd probably starve. As for the drought, wow, this lazy self may actually have to get out there and do sequential sprays. Blessings, Jane
RE: Off: Mandated vaccinations coming
Jennifer, My heart goes out to you and to all others in this situation. It is truly insane that government can just walk in and take your children away if they want to. There is a good but hidden reason why the state has the authority to do this to you and your kids. The issue has to do with sovereignty.Here is what Burney Brushears Author of "Strategic Withdrawal" has to say about the marriage license contract: "In applying for a marriage license, you are doing exactly the same thing as two slaves who approach the plantation owner and request permission to mate. Also, like slaves, any offspring would be born as slaves and would be the property of the same plantation owner...By signing an application for a marriage license, you have made the government a partner and co-owner of everything produced by the marriage, including the offspring". The jist of the issue is that we have allowed government to take away our freedoms and rights just by signing our name. By our own hand the state is given permission to regulate us. The state then has authority to mandate vaccinations for our children and mandate that our kids be educated ingovernment (public) schools. ASocial Security number (SSN),isa co-signerI.D. to thenational debt. Ifyou have a drivers license, thenyou have willingly given upyour constitutional right to freepassage. The drivers license contract converted that right into a taxable privilege so that we now have no right to travel under any conditions except by those imposed by the licenser the government.The IRS has the authority to lootbank accounts, lienproperty and garnishwages without a court order to authorize it because when we went to the bank to open an account using a SSN we had to sign a bank signature card another legal contract. When we signed the bankcard we consented to abide by the rules of the bank The rules of the bank state that we are obligated to abide by the administrative rules of the department of the Treasury. IRS agents will file these signature card contracts as exhibits at a trial and the judge will enforce this voluntary contract. A person is presumed to understand and concur with that which bears his signature! More from Burney: "In title 28 USC 3002(15) the term "United States" includes any federal corporation, federal agency, or instrumentality of the United States. The agency that exercises jurisdiction under the Buck Act is the United States, by and through the Secretary of the Treasury, who is a wholly-owned, bought-and-paid-for, stooge for the International Monetary Fund." "A legal "instrument" is any written document such as a contract, deed, or a lease. An "Instrumentality" is the person who is created by, bound by, or obligated upon the face of an instrument. When your name is on an instrument called a Social Security Card, voter registration card, or driver's license, you are the instrumentality obligated by that instrument. Because you are the bankrupt United States, ( the US publicly admitted bankruptcy on March 7, 1933) then you have no right to buy, own, or use property. You are subject to taxation and regulation in the form of traffic fines, user fees, licenses, and so forth. The remedy is the rescission of the contracts and instruments." Be a free sovereign and live under God's laws, or be a state slave and live under man's corrupt laws.Can't do both. The choice is ours. Best, Chris -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jennifer RochesterSent: Friday, March 08, 2002 12:48 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: Off: Mandated vaccinations coming Me too Bonnie. My 5 yr old is autistic due to vaccination. We totaly don't 'do' the doctor thing, but this last week I thought my child had appendicitis (sp?), so I took her to the hospital to find out. Turned out she had a kidney infection. They were notgoing to let us leave without seeingher take some antibiotics first. As this was happening, I was praying, askinghow the heck we could get out of this one. Ireally didn't think we could. Well, as soon asshe tasted the antibiotic, she threw up BIG-TIME! As the nurse stepped out of the room to get something to clean it up, I dumped the rest down the sink :-) We went to the health food store the next morning and got some great herbal tea that has a few natural antibiotics in it, as well as some good tasting chewable tablets that were madefrom cranberries. The infection is almost completely gone now, without antibiotics (of course!) Anyway, CPS just showed about 10 minutes ago, because the hospital turned us in for not vaccinating! My heart is still in my throat!!! She said she just needed to make sure it wasn't a money issue or anything like that. She says we're ok, but I have had friends who have had their children taken away because of this issue, so I am having a bit if a hard time
Re: Gathering Chi (was re: agrisynthesis...)
Chris - surely the whole point about Chi is that you cannot retain it: you may 'gather' it, but it's only passing through. Thus it can scarcely be 'parasitic' to obtain it from natural surroundings - it returns to them soon enough ! Tony N-S.
Re: What Brewer are You using? was Re: BD 508 equesetum
In a message dated 3/11/02 1:09:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am making my own, finally using my BS in marine biology.SStorch wanna talk about it? What are you using as a compost bag? No compost bag, I let it fee flow with the water. I build an upwelling pipe and lift the water with air. What are you using for aeration? I use a really high grade aquarium pump For pumping? There is no pumping, I move the liquid exclusively with air and gravity feed into the spray tank. For a tank? I have a variety of cylindrical tanks, cone bottom tanks and aqua-culture tanks. (Did I leave anything out?) If you want to put it on the schedule for the fall I will bring the newest stirring machine and a compost tea brewer to the fall conference SStorch thanks
Re: What Brewer are You using? was Re: BD 508 equesetum
In a message dated 3/11/02 12:50:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Above or below ground? some tanks in ground, some above remedies added at start? inoculate with bc and other ingredients at start at finish? ~clarity at completion? cloudy brown at completion, if it goes clear it is gone past peak and you have to reinoculate with food source then stirring in spray tank to keep it in suspension? mild agitation by sprayer bypass Color of your prayers /:*) white In Love Light'all that stuff Markess
Steve Storch Stirs Mid-Atlantic Biodynamic Food and FarmingConference was Re: What Brewer are You using? was Re: BD 508 equesetum
(Did I leave anything out?) If you want to put it on the schedule for the fall I will bring the newest stirring machine and a compost tea brewer to the fall conference SStorch thanks OK, Steve, you're on!! -Allan
Re: Agri-Synthesis® short-lived and overpriced? was R e: Agri-Synthesis® Remedies Tested At UAI
James and Barbara Hedley wrote: Dear Glen, Lloyd, David and felow list members, The eight pointed star exercise raises some interesting questions as to why you can stand on this pattern and actually feel that there is a difference between different spots on the star. James What is the difference in the experience you have when you stand on the primary cross as opposed to the secondary cross? Big hint Observe your ability to stand still. Glen
Re: drought report from Westchester County, NY
Hi Jane, how is the bc I sent you??? Did you use it all??? Do you have some left???SStorch
Re: drought report from Westchester County, NY
jsherry wrote: , especially because I consider my government to be one of the leading terrorists in the world. Thank you for posting that. I thought I was the only one who thought that way. I fear the agencies of the US Government much more than I do any other force in the world. It also worries me that both our Prime Minister and that of the UK are trotting along in little Bush's wake.. Gil
Re: drought report from Westchester County, NY
Title: Re: drought report from Westchester County, NY jsherry wrote: , especially because I consider my government to be one of the leading terrorists in the world. Thank you for posting that. I thought I was the only one who thought that way. I fear the agencies of the US Government much more than I do any other force in the world. It also worries me that both our Prime Minister and that of the UK are trotting along in little Bush's wake.. Gil, you treat them all too kindly the brown streaks smell bad as well as being unsightly Markess
Re: Shatnez
My understanding of the Shatnez is based on research by Phil Callahan and from private correspondence, which included copies of his pathology reports on his health. A Shatnez is a Paramagnetic/ Diamagnetic resonator. Lost you already? It was originally a vest like garment made from a natural fibre capable of holding moisture, saturated with water with an electrolyte. Probably hemp or linen. But one can use hessian or burlap - sugar bag chaff bag what ever. The Rabbi's of Biblical times wore the garment for protection when working with the sick. The electrolyte can be sweat or sea salt and water (never table salt). It is better if wood ash is included in the water. I use a mixture of several Australian hardwoods and some fruit woods. I prepare the ash, taking care to see nothing else is mixed and usually use the heat to burn peppers at the same time. The original garment was re wet when it dried out. Phil had his wife make his to fit, then covered it with Glad Wrap, Cling Wrap what ever you local product is. I found that the Shatnez has a sizeable force field and felt it did not need to be huge. I make mine to fit in Press Seal plastic bags, different sizes for different applications. I use two layers of hessian, edge stitch with over locker and make a St George Cross and a St Andrews Cross with the sewing machine, (looks a bit like a Union Jack!), which holds it all nice and flat. I soak it for three hours in sea salt and ash, with some added super fine highly paramagnetic rock dust (70micron). I then drain and put in the press seal bag while still very wet. They will stand at least a year of use, without rewetting. (Best Shatnez to date!!). I also make neat little pillow cases out of polly cotton, to cover the plastic bag. I supply a spare, so one can be in the wash while the other is in use. In some cases, a pillow case can be tacked inside a garment and left there during washing (with the Shatnez removed). I had a vertebra collapse and was in huge pain and was threatened with spinal fusion etc. I wore a small shatnez day and night, while taking super fine agricultural dolomite and the same of paramagnetic rock dust. From being wedge shaped and displacing the ones each side, it now, two years later, can not be picked in the X-Ray I had last week. The Shatnez acts as both antenna and resonator, attracting healing energy and converting it to the required frequency. Read Phil Callahan's work for what frequencies, most of my understanding is based on Phil's work and that of several others working on his line, here in Oz. I have many stories of people getting great help from mine. Does that help? If you make them and use them, I would be interested in feed back on how you get on with them. I should publish on them and could do with some other peoples experiences to get a larger range of situations. Gil Allan Balliett wrote: How'd you make this Shatnez, Gil. I had dinner with Callahan one night at ACRES and he simply referred to the 'bandage' as a Reichian accumulator. It was alternating layers of organic/inorganic material, wasn't it? -Allan Allan Balliett wrote: Incidentally, Phil Callahan is fond of saying that a Reichian acculator-based poltice he made for his chest cured him of cancer. I did not know Phil credited it to Reich. He calls it a Shatnez and uses Biblical referees. I have experimented with it and made some design developments to make it easier to use. One example:- Fran, my wife a a few days from an advanced Massage Training workshop, when she broke two or three ribs. The area was too painful to touch and her use of the left arm made it very painful. If she missed this workshop, her tactile therapies studies would be put back a year. She wore a Shatnez night and day and when the workshop came she was fine and could have the area massaged and could massage without pain. I do not know of a similar recovery and was most impressed. Gil
