#41 January 2010
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Small local farms and food processors are fundamentally different from huge, industrial food suppliers that ship food all over the country. Congress can and should address the problems with the industrial food supply without harming the local food systems that provide an alternative for concerned consumers!
The U.S. Senate is considering a bill, S. 510, to reform the food safety system. Although reform of the industrial food supply is clearly needed, this bill threatens to create more problems than it will solve. S. 510 would undermine the rapidly growing local foods movement by imposing unnecessary, burdensome regulations on small farms and food processors – everyone from your local CSA to the small bakers, jam makers, and people making fermented vegetables to sell at the local farmers market. (more…)
Tags: farmers, FDA, food safety, HR 279, local farms, s 510
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
We have reported many times that most Sustainable Development policy has not come directly from laws passed in Congress. Rather it has been invoked through international treaties, Executive Orders, grant offerings and behind-the-scene efforts in local communities. That’s about to change. (more…)
Tags: Agenda 21, Christopher Dodd, Department of Housing and Urban Development, henry lamb, Livable Communities Act, s 1619, smart growth, sovereignty international, sustainable development
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
By Amy Ridenour and Ryan Balis
Longevity apparently does not count for much in Britain’s government-managed National Health Service.
Much of 108-year-old Olive Beal’s hearing was gone. The one-time suffragette and former piano teacher from Kent, England was unable to enjoy music or hear conversations clearly with her five-year-old analog hearing aid. A modern digital device would improve Beal’s hearing – and life – tremendously, but she was having difficulty receiving a replacement. (more…)
Tags: amy ridenour, health care, national center for public policy research, ryan balis, shattered lives
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
By Tom DeWeese
The Hacked CRU E-mails
- From: Phil Jones. To: Many. Nov. 16, 1999
“I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature (the science journal) trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.”
Critics cite this as evidence that data was manipulated to mask the fact that global temperature are falling. Prof. Jones claims the meaning of “trick” has been misrepresented. (more…)
Tags: climate change, CRU, global warming, IPCC
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
By Tom DeWeese
In recent years Americans have become more and more alarmed at the lack of adherence to the U.S. Constitution exercised by Congress and other elected representatives. The list of violations has grown large indeed. (more…)
Tags: Articles of Freedom, Bob Schulz, CC2009, Constitution, Continental Congress, Restore the Republic, We the Peopel Foundation
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
November 21, 2009
In defense of a free people, the time has come to reassert our God-given natural rights and cast off tyranny.
Let the facts reveal – the Federal Government of the United States of America, which was instituted to protect the rights of individual citizens, instead – threatens our life, liberty and property through usurpations of the Constitution; and emboldened by our own lack of responsibility and due diligence in these matters, has exceeded its mandate, and abandoned those founding principles which have made our nation exceptional (more…)
Tags: Articles of Freedom, CC2009, Constitution, Continental Congress
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
This is a letter that Glenn Beck read on his show from one of his viewers, I thought it was appropriate as we discuss the reasons for the Continental Congress:
“I am a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. Instead, we are burdened with Congressional Dukes and Duchesses who think they know better than the citizens they are supposed to represent. (more…)
Tags: ACORN, bailout, cap and trade, Constitution, contributions, czars, government control, illegal immigration, redistribution, stimulus bill, universal healthcare, we the people
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
By Tom DeWeese
Rarely has a political movement with so much power collapsed so fast, certainly not since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Beginning in 1990, Global Warming has been the battle cry behind schemes for global control of industry, energy use, water use, private property and community development. It has been the excuse for economy-killing legislation like Cap and Trade (that will extract $865 billion from an already overtaxed people who use energy), and global-to-local polices like Sustainable Development (that robs local communities of freedom to decide their own future development). As a result, the world economy is being transformed into a new Dark Ages of superstition and thought-control – all in the name of Global Warming – or more recently – Climate Change. (more…)
Tags: climate, global warming
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