JZ Liszkiewics: Food Chains — Slavery & Abuse in America’s Food Production & Processing

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government
JZ Liszkiewicz
JZ Liszkiewicz

In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the United States. Food Chains reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of large buyers of produce like fast food and supermarkets. Fast food is big, but supermarkets are bigger – earning $4 trillion globally. They have tremendous power over the agricultural system. Over the past 3 decades they have drained revenue from their supply chain leaving farmworkers in poverty and forced to work under subhuman conditions. Yet many take no responsibility for this.  Learn more.

Chuck Spinney: Global Warming as Scam Cover-Up Distracting from Massive Water Theft Now

12 Water
Chuck Spinney
Chuck Spinney

Attached below this introduction is a very important report describing the problem of water depletion in Saudi Arabia and California.  This report is interesting and important, both for what it says and for what it does not say. Note that there is no mention of global warming or climate change, although some of the papers hot linked in it do mention it. The problem of water depletion — over pumping of non-renewable deep aquifers to irrigate water-intensive crops in arid areas subject to periodic droughts is described in the report.

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Berto Jongman: Megadrought Now — Lake Powell — Senator John McCain Could Fix This!

12 Water

berto smallLake Powell's receding waters show risk of U.S. ‘megadrought'

Forecasting that there is an 80 percent chance of an extended drought in the area between 2050 and 2099 unless aggressive steps are taken to mitigate the impacts of climate change, the researchers said their results point to a challenging – and remarkably drier – future.

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Antechinus: The Leap Manifesto on Energy (Canada)

03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Energy, 11 Society
Antechinus
Antechinus

The Leap Manifesto was initiated in the spring of 2015 at a two-day meeting in Toronto and signed up to by more than 100 actors, musicians, labour unions, Indigenous rights leaders, environmentalists and religious leaders. The overarching aim of this “People's Agenda” is to wean the next federal Canadian government off fossil fuels by 2050 with a radical overhaul of the Canadian economy. Significantly, many of the National Democratic Party (currently leading in the polls for next month's federal election) number amongst the manifesto's highest profile supporters. Learn more.

Mongoose: 9/11 Done by Dick Cheney, NeoCons, and Israel — Saudi “Cover-Up” is Misdirection Ploy

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, 10 Security, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Law Enforcement, Media, Military, Officers Call
Mongoose
Mongoose

Worthy of a full reading.

9/11 Truth and the Joint Congressional Inquiry:
28 Pages of Misdirection on the Role of Saudi Arabia

By Dick Atlee, Ken Freeland and Cheryl Curtiss
Updated: 14 September 2015

Phi Beta Iota Comment and Full Text Below the Fold

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Most Holy Father “On Leadership”

11 Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Officers Call
Most Holy Father Francis
Most Holy Father Francis

Pope Francis criticizes ‘dictators' and ‘tyrants'

Asked by a Cuban student about the example of his leadership, Francis said, “I will tell you one thing, a good leader is one who is capable of bringing up other leaders. If a leader wants to lead alone, he is a tyrant. True leadership is fruitful. Each one of you has the seed of leadership.”  He added, “The leaders of today will not be here tomorrow. If they do not plant the seed of leadership in others, they are worthless. They are dictators.”

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JZ Liszkiewicz: Cannabis Science History

07 Health
JZ Liszkiewicz
JZ Liszkiewicz

This 1 hr documentary profiles the highly decorated Israeli scientist who discovered THC decades ago and who collaborated with people who discovered the THC receptors in the human brain. Treatment of epilepsy with cannabis has been known in the Middle East for a huge number of years and scientifically for nearly 40 years, but all that until recently has been completely ignored by medical establishments.

YouTube (1:02:15) The Scientist

 

Also See:
+ Documentary (highly recommended): Prescribed Grass (won acclaim in Israel) – free
+ TEDxTalk on the successes of medical Cannabis for treating kids with Epilepsy (19min)link
+ Mini-doc (15min) on the success of medical Cannabis for a woman who was on 40 medications – link
+ Video talk: Doug Fine, author of Hemp Bound  discusses his numerous findings from traveling all over the world  visiting hemp farms and talking with people dealing with industrial hemp.
+ Documentary: Bring It Home: Industrial Hemp and a Greener Future (pay)
+ Documentary: The Union – free
+ Nature.com study: Cannabis 114 times safer than alcohol and nearly 10x safer than nicotine
+ The American Academy of Family Physicians calls for cannabis to be reclassified under federal law and decriminalized
+ International Centre for Science in Drug Policy reports (Sept. 2015)
+ Interview with a doctor/author of Stoned: A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana
+ DEA employees fail drug test without major consequences
+ Chemists use hemp composite to create efficient battery
+ American Chemical Society paper on carbon nano-sheets derived from hemp for super-capacitors
+ Uses of hemp
+ VoteHemp.com
+ Industrial Hemp Farm Act 2015
+ The Compassionate Access, Research Expansion, and Respect States (CARERS) Act – link
+ Timeline of Cannabis
+ Cannabis Wikipad (in-development)

 

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