Intro to Permaculture the case for Permaculture in the Midwest.

Here is a simple and easy to understand why we must end commercial agriculture, and move into long range sustainable agriculture.
 This video is about permaculture. Permanent Agriculture together in a non destructive method to keep your soil streams and rivers healthy.
A great simple explanation of Permaculture.

It is time for Police to return to scaled escalation of force.

I was watching Bill Maher last Friday and he had a clip of three police shooting a man who had been throwing rocks. This man was running.away and fell down and the three police just shoot him dead on the street like he was a rabid dog. This is totally unneeded in this situation. The man was down and could have been arrested and taken to jail . To shoot an unarmed when down and there were three policemen there is inexcusable. The police did not know if this man was mentally ill or had some other kind of emotional instability.
It is time for Police to return to scaled escalation of force. If someone is unarmed and the police shoot that person dead they should be tried in a court of law. Just because fully armed police are able to kill an unarmed man does not make it right. If someone is shooting at the police that might be one thing but to kill an unarmed man that is down is just outright murder. The officers could have easyly subdued him with little harm to themselves or the now dead man
It is time for law enforcement officers to return to a form of scaled escalation of force. If someone is violent but not armed then the police can use some force to subdue that person. Back when the motto to protect and serve was more than just a motto on the side of a cop car, the police would use a response of force equal to what was necessary to subdue an offender. To go from chasing someone to murder is not a scaled escalation of  force. If some one is using some physical violence but unarmed it is wrong to just shoot them dead. For the police to use some physical violence would be alright in such a situation. The militarization of our police in this country is way out of control.
Since the government stopped taking care of mentally ill people back in the President Ronald Reagan days, and the government shut down most of the state run mental institutions in favor of the for profit health care systems this has been a very bad problem in our country. There are many mentally ill people that should be getting care that are not, and many of these people are homeless and out on the streets.
Remember "Hands up don't shoot".  And how about Eric Garner for selling cigarets. This is not a scaled escalation of force. Mike Brown stole some cigars, this is against the law but this is not a capital offense. Eric Garner was selling single cigarets, this would be considered a civil offense and maybe a taxation violation but not a capital offense. Both of these men are now dead. Not a scaled escalation of force.
How many other police shootings were not caught on camera or just police brutality out of proportion to the actual situation. How about an officer shooting at a traffic stop into a van full of children.
If someone has a gun and is not shooting the police should not shoot. If someone has a gun and is shooting then it could be considered justified to shoot. If someone is using violence then it could be considered alright to use some violence by the police. If someone is running away that has committed an offense, then it could be considered alright to run after them. If someone is just acting crazy then it would be alright for the police to act crazy also, but not to just shoot them dead.
It is time for law enforcement officers to return to a form of measured and scaled escalation of force. This is just common sense. Its time to rational and just forms of  law enforcement.

Do you really care about climate change Mr President?

So Mr President you sounded sincere in your last speech about climate change, you say you care about the issue of climate destabilization?  The remedy is so simple, if we are going to be dealing with solutions and not just problems. The problem of fossil fuel agriculture is destroying or has already destroyed the carbon in the top soil of much of the world. There was ten to twenty feet of top soil over much of North America when the European invaders came across the ocean. 

A return to natural methods of farming like Masanobu Fukuoka or Permaculture based of the principles of founder Bill Mollison can remedy much of the carbon problem in the atmosphere.  Along with the people like Peter Donovan and the soil carbon challenge, or Joel Salatin who was talked about in the Michael pollen book Omnivores Dilemma we can start to remove much of the carbon from the air . The work of  John Liu in the ending of desertification is a very good example of what can be done with natural methods of  agriculture.

This is just a start. We also have to start moving to producing as much energy from non carbon sources. Wind, Solar and of course one of the best of these is Hydroelectric. Not giant dams like the past but hundreds or thousands  of small micro hydro systems in every county and hundreds of thousands in every state in North America. This will not only create energy independence, but millions of jobs. It will also end much of the need for an upgraded smart grid because so much power is created locally. This little ball of wax we call earth was the garden of Eden, and it can and will be again, with a little help from our friends.

Clean water, Employment, food and fodder and an end to Nuclear insanity. Part two.

We have seen some of the hottest summers and now coldest winters in the last few years. Maybe the correct term for what we have done to the climate is not global warming or climate change but climate destabilization. If we need so much energy that we are destroying the biosphere, we can at least do it in a way that does not make our planet unlivable.

We must start producing electricity and other types of power without ruining more of the planet. Wind, solar, bio fuel  and above all water power. Water is the most important resource we have and must be protected. The pacific ocean is now polluted with radiation from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

 We need to start with remedies and not just problems. Pull carbon out of the air and end the methods of farming that take as much as possible from the soil, while adding many types of biocides also contaminating our water and air.    One of the best places to start is to start protecting the soil s it can catch more water and store organic mater with it. Compost all your weeds and kitchen scraps to make your lawns and gardens grow. A long term plan for sustainability.

Return to rotational grazing and long rotations between crops to build up the soil with organic matter to store carbon in the ground and in trees. Tens of thousands of of ponds and water control systems to make plants grow and  make food for people and animals. Vast water project for cleaning water before it gets back to the oceans and to refill the water tables. Tens Thousands of ponds in every county and to produce Hydro power, and for agriculture. Something on the order of  President Eisenhower's Interstate project. Move water to where it is dry when there are floods in one area. Save as much as possible before it gets to the oceans, and move as much of it through constructed wet lands for purification if at all possible. This will create millions of jobs and help create a sustainable future for our economy.

A couple notes here . The green party convention for Arkansas is Feb 15th 2014 in Little Rock.
Like to stay healthy longer check out this list from  Ted Broer who was on coast to coast AM Last night.
Check out this list for best things not to eat
1) High fat meats such as bacon and hot dogs, which contain sodium nitrates
2) Aspartame, the artificial sweetener used in diet drinks and other products
3) Margarine, and products that contain trans fat (use organic butter instead)
4) Shellfish, generally contains too much contamination
5) Junk foods (like Twinkies), and products with high fructose corn syrup
6) Soy products, tend to increase estrogen levels
7) Fluoridated and chlorinated water, act as endocrine disruptors
8) High fat dairy products, and non-organic dairy (have bovine growth hormones)
9) Coffee, elevates harmful cortisol levels
10) Alcohol, habitual or daily use causes problems.
 

Clean water, Employment, food and fodder and an end to Nuclear insanity. Part one

I  was watching Amy Goodman on  Democracy Now last night from Japan. The man she was interviewing said the science around nuclear and cancer was inconclusive. In this case it was about thyroid cancer in children from the area around Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. This is insanity or just an outright lie. It has been long established that this kind of radiation is very dangerous and that it can and will cause cancer. The International community and governments must end this nuclear insanity now. This can not be left up to private contractors or homeless people hired of the street in  Japan. Please see the interview on Democracy Now. We must have the best Scientists and experts on this Disaster Now. And there must be an open and frank discussion and action to end this before it gets any worse.

The problem is the solution. Real food for real health.

Permaculture  is a form of agriculture to improve the micro climate of your area by working with the natural systems that already exist in your area. A process for creating a self sustaining food scape. There are many other methods of natural food production as well.

As long as we continue to allow the giant agro-industrial food giants to pollute the food chain with GMOs and petrochemical pesticide production, and destroy the environment and the water tables in America and the world we will continue to have the destruction of the health and well being of the people of our country everyone else on our little planet.  The production of food like products are the cause of most of the health problems in America today, and will continue to be so until the Giant food producers end this practice, or the government stops them. Or should we call them food polluters?   If you want to call the toxic stuff  produced by the giant food conglomerates food. Obama care (The affordable care act ) has still to address the issues of providing natural health care to all the people who do not use drugs and surgery to maintain health and wholeness in a natural or organic method. Just google dangers of GMO foods and see what you can find on your own if you do not believe this. Cheaper does not mean better

If the problem is health care then how about some care for the environment and the production of real food Mr Obama. I dare you  to stand up to the giant agro polluters. provide some real health car to our people.

What is the Function of real health (not sick) care.

What is the function of real health care , an article from the Huff Post, brings in to very clear focus one of the biggest problems; if not the biggest problem with health (sick) care in America.   It's not surprising  that American corporations spend billions of dollars each year on lobbying Legislators. The pharmaceutical industry and the pharmaceutical insurance drug complex industry were at or near the top of the lists of corporation that buy and sell elected and appointed officials like a kid in a candy store. The problem is not the health care system as such, but the profit motive that comes from the giant for profit Big Pharma and Health Insurance industry.  Side effects and drug recalls happen all the time and the FDA continues to let these corporations put dangerous drugs out in the market place. Many drugs cause problems much worse than what they are intended to stop.  They do not promote health, but cover up symptoms and sickness and often do not address the causes of disease at all, just the symptoms. Many of these drugs must be considered unsafe, and some are made from genetically modified organisms, and GMO bacteria as well.

It is time for a return to a return to real health care including, Naturopathy, homeopathy and oriental forms of healing, or herbal healing ,and nutritional counseling for keeping people healthy. Putting poison in the environment and on our food, or in our body to cure disease is still crazy. These toxins in our food, and our biosphere are at the root of most of the problem.

Many  GMO foods alter organ function    Soy, BT corn and other GMO foods are allergy causing,  and can even change DNA in people who eat them. GMOs have many worse side effect than are covered by the regular corporate press, and these are not actually side effects, but direct effects. GMOs have been outlawed, or at the least must be labled in many countries outside the US. This is one gun that can not be unshot, GMOs can and do grow and replicate on there own and pollute the gene pool of  our world.

GMOs are a  Ticking time bomb,  the paradigm is wired backwards. If we are going to promote health care in the US we must promote health care and not sick care, and this must start with clean air, water and food. Drugs and chemicals will not cure the problem, they are at the root of our problem with healthcare in the US.

So, what is the remedy to a situation like this we find ourselves in today? There are   Better ways to keep people and our environment healthy  without the use of  toxic chemicals, or GMOs to feed our people or the world. Whatever type of agriculture or permaculture is used it must come from the point of view that it is about food for people and not for profit, or health care ( not sic care) for people and not for profit.  

Health Care is back at the top of the Agenda in America and we must push for a return to sanity and push your state and federal legislators to support adding Naturopathy, homeopathy, massage, and oriental forms of healing, or herbal healing, and nutritional counseling for keeping people healthy.