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United Nations Preparing to Manage Global Mental Health ...

In a world where national sovereignty is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, announcements that the United Nations will be taking the lead on any variety of topics is no longer shocking. Indeed, there is a real push across the world to view the United Nations as the ultimate authority on virtually every issue, from human rights to nutritional content in food.

Through decades of propagandizing, the United Nations has developed an undeserved reputation for humanitarianism and democracy. As a result, the vast majority see the United Nations as a benevolent organization which they can call on to defend human rights in their home countries. Unfortunately, national sovereignty rarely enters into the equation anymore, as the average citizen tends to look straight to the United Nations to address their concerns, bypassing their own governments. Read more here:

http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/united-nations-preparing-to-manage.html

Chinese iPhone assemblers like battery hens...

According to the New York Times, workers at a factory in Shenzhen, China, owned by Foxconn (a company that manufactures iPhones, iPads and other devices for Apple) regularly work sixteen-hour, seven-day work weeks.

They stand until their legs swell and they can’t walk, and they perform repetitive motions on the production line for so long that some permanently lose the use of their hands. To cut costs, managers make workers use cheap chemicals that cause neurological damage. There has been a rash of suicides at the Foxconn plant, and 300 workers recently threatened to jump off the roof over a safety and pay dispute.

In short, as one former Apple executive told the New York Times, "Most people would be really disturbed if they saw where their iPhone comes from."

Mark Shields, a self-described member of the "cult of Mac," started a petition on Change.org demanding Apple exert its influence on its suppliers to improve working conditions for the factory workers that make iPhones, iPads and other Apple products. Click here to sign Mark’s petition right now.

Apple knows it can play an important role in ensuring safe and fair working conditions for the workers at its suppliers, like Foxconn. In 2005, the company released a supplier code of conduct, and it performs hundreds of audits each year in China and around the world to confirm its suppliers are meeting the code’s expectations.

But that’s where Apple’s commitment falters: the number of supplier violations has held steady year to year and Apple hasn’t consistently publicly stated which suppliers have problems or dropped offending suppliers.

The bottom line, Apple executives admit, is that they’re not being forced to change.

One current executive told the New York Times that there’s a trade-off: "You can either manufacture in comfortable, worker-friendly factories," he said, or you can "make it better and faster and cheaper, which requires factories that seem harsh by American standards. And right now, customers care more about a new iPhone than working conditions in China."

That means public pressure is the only thing that can force Apple to ensure its suppliers treat workers humanely. If enough people sign Mark’s petition -- and tell Apple they care more about human beings than they do about how fast the company can produce the next generation iPhone -- the company could be convinced to make real change for the workers at Foxconn and other factories.

Compliments: http:// Change.org

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Tea drinking good for your heart - research study claims...

Heart disease rates could be reduced by 10 per cent if everyone took to drinking large amounts of tea, an Australian study suggests.

Researchers found that consuming the equivalent of around eight cups of black tea a day led to a significant lowering of blood pressure.

They estimated that in the general population this would result in a 10 per cent reduction in high blood pressure prevalence and a 7 per cent to 10 per cent reduction in the risk of heart disease.

A group of 95 men and women aged 35 to 75 were given three cups of powdered black tea solids each day for six months, or a flavour-matched non-tea "placebo" drink.

Each tea drink contained 429 milligrams of polyphenols, plant chemicals that are said to have health benefits.

A regular cup of black leaf tea contains up to 150mg of polyphenols, so the total dose consumed by the volunteers was equivalent to 8.58 cups of tea a day.

Participants had normal to high blood pressure readings at the start of the study. After six months, their blood pressure levels had reduced by between two and three millimetres of mercury.

The findings, from a team led by Jonathan Hodgson, from the University of Western Australia, appear in the journal, Archives of Internal Medicine.

The authors wrote: "Our study has demonstrated for the first time to our knowledge that long-term regular consumption of black tea can result in significantly lower BPs (blood pressures) in individuals with normal to high-normal range BPs.

"At a population level, the observed differences in BP would be associated with a 10 per cent reduction in the prevalence of hypertension (high blood pressure) and a seven per cent to 10 per cent reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease."

http://health.msn.co.nz/healthnews/8410080/tea-may-reduce-heart-disease-study

Monsanto now owns the controversial Blackwater Xe private security force. What on earth does a private corporation want with a private army? Read below:

http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/monsanto-now-owns-blackwater-xe/

http://digitaljournal.com/article/297701

http://www.foodrenegade.com/blackwater-the-intel-arm-of-monsanto/

http://kiwiriverman.blogspot.com/2012/01/monsanto-now-owns-blackwater-xe.html Photos here.

http://www.thenation.com/article/154739/blackwaters-black-ops

9 Things That Will Disappear In Our Lifetime: A discussion paper for you all

Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come.

1 The Post Office
Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive. Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills.

2. The Cheque
Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with cheque by 2018. It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process cheques. Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the cheque. This plays right into the death of the post office. If you never paid your bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business.

3. The Newspaper
The younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper. They certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition. That may go the way of the milkman and the laundry man. As for reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile Internet devices and e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.

4 The Book
You say you will never give up the physical book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal pages. I said the same thing about downloading music from iTunes. I wanted my hard copy CD. But I quickly changed my mind when I discovered that I could get albums for half the price without ever leaving home to get the latest music. The same thing will happen with books. You can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview chapter before you buy. And the price is less than half that of a real book. And think of the convenience! Once you start flicking your fingers on the screen instead of the book, you find that you are lost in the story, can't wait to see what happens next, and you forget that you're holding a gadget instead of a book.

5. The Land Line Telephone
Unless you have a large family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it anymore. Most people keep it simply because they've always had it But you are paying double charges for that extra service. All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your minutes

6. Music
This is one of the saddest parts of the change story. The music industry is dying a slow death. Not just because of illegal downloading. It's the lack of innovative new music being given a chance to get to the people who would like to hear it. Greed and corruption is the problem. The record labels and the radio conglomerates are simply self-destructing. Over 40% of the music purchased today is "catalogue items," meaning traditional music that the public is familiar with. Older established artists. This is also true on the live concert circuit. To explore this fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the book, "Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper, and the video documentary, "Before the Music Dies."

7. Television
Revenues to the networks are down dramatically. Not just because of the economy. People are watching TV and movies streamed from their computers. And they're playing games and doing lots of other things that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV. Prime time shows have degenerated down to lower than the lowest common denominator. Cable rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30 seconds. I say good riddance to most of it. It's time for the cable companies to be put out of our misery. Let the people choose what they want to watch online and through Netflix.

8. The "Things" That You Own
Many of the very possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we may not actually own them in the future. They may simply reside in "the cloud." Today your computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies, and documents. Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it if need be. But all of that is changing. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all finishing up their latest "cloud services." That means that when you turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system. So, Windows, Google, and the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet. If you click an icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud. If you save something, it will be saved to the cloud. And you may pay a monthly subscription fee to the cloud provider. In this virtual world, you can access your music or your books, or your whatever from any laptop or handheld device. That's the good news. But, will you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear at any moment in a big "Poof?" Will most of the things in our lives be disposable and whimsical? It makes you want to run to the closet and pull out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf, or open up a CD case and pull out the insert.

9. Privacy
If there ever was a concept that we can look back on nostalgically, it would be privacy. That's gone. It's been gone for a long time anyway. There are cameras on the street, in most of the buildings, and even built into your computer and cell phone. But you can be sure that 24/7, "They" know who you are and where you are, right down to the GPS coordinates, and the Google Street View. If you buy something, your habit is put into a zillion profiles, and your ads will change to reflect those habits. "They" will try to get you to buy something else. Again and again.

All we will have left that can't be changed are "Memories".
And then probably Alzheimers will take that away from us too !

Acknowledgements and thanks: Barbara of Taita, Lower Hutt, NZ

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Silbury Hill

Deepcar, southern Yorkshire

Skare Brae, Orkney Islands

My post on the Skara Brae neolithic site in the Orkney Islands in Scotland was the opening shot in some blogging research on the period of human civilization 4000 years ago. Mickm commented on another site near where he lives in Deepcar, southern Yorkshire - he also sent me a photo of the old village remains there. A few searches revealed neolithic sites all over Britain and Ireland, elsewhere in Europe and in other places around the world. The neolithic period appears to be the time when human beings started to stop nomadic hunting and gathering, start crop and animal farming and building permanent residential communities. Neolithic has been dsecribed as the new stoneage period from 4000 to 2000, being followed by the new bronze age and the use of wooden residential structures. However Stonehenge was a stone structure, differing from many wooden structures a couple of thousand years ago. Enjoy the following article:

The Neolithic Era (c. 4000 - 2000 B.C.)
The Neolithic or New Stone Age can be defined as the time when people took up agriculture as a way of life, and stopped being nomadic hunter-gatherers. Sometime around 4000 BC the ideas and technology of farming, and perhaps some of the first livestock, crossed the Channel and arrived in England. Farming quickly spread all across the British Isles, a social revolution every bit as eventful as the Industrial Revolution some 6000 years later.

Neolithic farmers settled in stable communities, cleared land, planted wheat and barley, and raised herds of domesticated sheep, cattle, and pigs. What hunting they did as a supplement to their agriculture may have been done with the assistance of small dogs.

They settled on the easily drained soils of the upland hills and on the coastal plains, avoiding the thickly wooded valley bottoms. This meant that the areas of heaviest settlement were the chalk hills of the south and west, where many of their remains can be seen today.

These Neolithic settlers originally lived in rectangular log cabins, similar in style to those of the early American West.

http://www.britainexpress.com/History/The_Neolithic_Era.htm

http://www.megalithic.co.uk/

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/news/neolithic-henges-discovered/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Wales

The discovery of the village known as Skara Brae in Scotland's Orkney Islands...

By Peter Petterson

First published at Qondio:

Let me describe a scenario that is old as ancient Egypt or Pompeii - something 4000 years or more in the neolithic age preceding the iron age, the bronze age, long before even the Celts and the Romans in ancient Britain.

The discovery of the village of Skara Brae: Perhaps more important than Stonehenge.

During the winter of 1850 a great storm battered the Orkney Islands in northern Scotland. This in itself is not that unusual in these remote northern islands, but on this particular occasion the combination of strong winds and extremely high tides stripped the grass from a large mound there, then known as "Skerrabra".

This stripping revealed the outline of a number of stone buildings - something that intrigued the local Laird(Lord), William Watt of Skaill, who then embarked on an excavation of the site.

Excavation work was finally abandoned in 1868, after the remains of four ancient houses had been unearthed. The settlement remained undisturbed until 1925, when another great storm damaged the previously excavated structures.

A seawall was constructed to preserve the existing remains, and yet even more ancient buildings were discovered.

After further excavations betwen 1928 and 1930 the dwellings present today were released from their ancient protective cocoons. It was believed the village was actually an iron-age settlement dating from around 500 BC, but this was no Pictish village.

Radiocarbon dating in the 1970's confirmed the settlements much earlier existence - dating from the Neolithic period and being settled for 600 years between 3200 BC and 2200 BC, pre-dating even the Celtic period.

Today, Skerrabra or Skara Brae as it is now known survives as eight dwellings linked together by low covered passage-ways. Because of the protection by the sand that covered the settlement for 4000 years, the buildings and their contents are remarkably well preserved. Not only are the structures walls still standing, but they are still roofed with original stone slabs, and the interior fittings give what has been described as an unparalled glimpse of life in the Neolithic Orkneys.They share a timeframe with ancient Egypt and Pompeii.

Go to the links provided and spend a few hours reading and viewing life in the Orkneys 4000 years ago, long before Vikings, Saxons, or Celts - into the realms of ancient history. We may run into each other there.

Being down in the South Pacific I had not heard of Skara Brae before, but my younger brother who was up in Wellington with us just after Christmas this year, having a break from earthquake riven Christchurch, mentioned what he had heard. And so our story about ancient Britain has resulted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skara_Brae

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2081254/Stone-Age-temple-Orkney-significant-Stonehenge.html?ITO=1490

http://www.scotshistoryonline.co.uk/scara.html

http://huttriver.qondio.com

Wikipedia confirms site blackout over piracy rule...

Jimmy Wales the founder of Wikipedia the free online knowledge site, will shut it down for 24 hours later this week in protest at the draft anti-online piracy legislation before the US Congress, he said on Twitter.

"'Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.' MLK - on Wednesday, Wikipedia demands," Wales said, citing slain US civil rights leader Martin Luther King.

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is currently before the House of Representatives, while the Protect IP Act is the version before the Senate.

The draft legislation has won the backing of Hollywood, the music industry, the Business Software Alliance, the National Association of Manufacturers and the US Chamber of Commerce.

But last month, the founders of Google, Twitter, Wikipedia, Yahoo! and other internet giants expressed concern over the two drafts, saying in a open letter that they would "give the US government the power to censor the Web using techniques similar to those used by China, Malaysia and Iran.

Kiwipete says: Is this a genuine attempt to stop online piracy like the much criticised New Zealand legislation passed last year, or some sort of "trojan horse" to enable the US Government to control what's published on the internet sometime in the future or whenever some corporation or politician objects? Democratic freedoms had to be won dearly and should not be rationed out at the whim of some potentially fascist politician or corporate CEO. Other nations would soon follow the lead of the 'land of the free'. Is this another sign of what's to come in 2012?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10779466

Does cannabis help MS sufferers...

Please read on;

(In answer to gillyk who asked me if cannabis has been be proven to help MS sufferers.)

Head of Research at the MS Society Dr Lorna Layward:

"This lends a lot of credence to all the anecdotal reports"
real 28k

The BBC's Christine McGourty
"There's been much debate over the potential benefits of the drug"
real 28k

Cannabis 'helps MS sufferers'

Cannabis has medical uses:

Cannabis has been proven, for the first time, to be an effective treatment for the symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS).

Many MS sufferers have taken the drug illegally, claiming that it has a therapeutic effect.

Now UK scientists have shown that a compound in cannabis can prevent muscle tremor and spasticity caused by MS.

Our research suggests that cannabinoids can play a crucial role in controlling some of the neuro-muscular problems seen with MS

Dr David Baker, Institute of Neurology
They also found that synthetic chemicals mimicking the compound have a similar effect.

This could lead to the development of commercially-available alternatives to cannabis that have the same effect.

MS sufferers usually experience episodes of paralysis, interspersed with periods of remission.

As the disease progresses symptoms of spasticity, or muscle rigidity, and severe tremors may appear.

The researchers, from the Institute of Neurology at University College London, tested cannabis on mice who had been given an animal equivalent of MS. Read on:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/662254.stm

http://www.naturalnews.com/028106_Cannabis_Multiple_Sclerosis.html

The Story of Hemp in New Zealand...

Hemp:
Hemp is the fibre of the cannabis plant (Cannabis sativa). Cannabis varieties grown legally in New Zealand for their fibre are known as industrial hemp and have a much lower narcotic content than the illicit varieties (which are about 75 times as strong). More potent varieties are cultivated illegally for drug use.

Hemp fibres are very long, making them desirable for manufacturing rope, fabric and other products. The seed oil contains essential fatty acids, and has similar health-giving properties to fish and flax-seed oils.

History of use
In the 1900s hemp-seed oil was a common ingredient in imported patent medicines, being prescribed for ailments such as gastric illnesses, rheumatism, headaches, and menstrual cramps. In the 1890s, the nun and nurse Suzanne Aubert reputedly grew hemp up the Whanganui River at Jerusalem and made her own remedies. Hemp was also recommended for natural insect control in orchards, but it was never grown intensively as a crop in New Zealand. Confusingly, native flax (Phormium tenax) was sometimes also called hemp.

In 1941 the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research planted 1 hectare of hemp as a trial crop, and the fibre was cut for processing into rope. Towards the end of the war the Ministry of Agriculture planted 4 hectares at Foxton. Then, in 1948, the question was raised about what the ministry was growing. The trials ceased soon after when they realised that cannabis had narcotic properties.

Criminalisation
Around the First World War, hemp was stigmatised as a moral and physical danger, and the Dangerous Drugs Act 1927 brought it under strict control. During and after the Second World War, cannabis was associated – in the official mind particularly – with the jazz scene and, later, the bodgie and widgie youth culture of the 1950s.

Cannabis use and cultivation attracted much more attention from the late 1960s. Most cannabis was imported until the 1970s, when illegal growing expanded. The underground and alternative press of the early 1970s included advice on growing the plant, and legalisation was debated.
It is impossible to assess the extent of illegal cultivation of cannabis, but in the early 2000s it was undoubtedly widespread, and a major part of the unofficial economy and culture in some regions, such as Northland, Golden Bay, the East Coast and the Coromandel. In annual cannabis recovery operations in the 1990s, the police regularly seized over 200,000 plants. Cannabis is the third most commonly used recreational drug in New Zealand (after alcohol and tobacco) and the most commonly used illegal drug. A 1990s survey found that 43% of respondents had used cannabis at least once, though only 3% were regular users.

Industrial hemp
From the late 1990s, a small but vocal lobby promoted the cultivation of non-narcotic industrial hemp, emphasising that it could be grown without pesticides or sprays. Undoubtedly, many of the crop’s advocates have also campaigned for decriminalisation of the more potent variety. However, the New Zealand Hemp Association, which represents industrial hemp growers, has stated that it has no interest in the cannabis drug use debate, except where it impedes development of the hemp industry.

Trials
From 2001 the government allowed trial plantings of industrial hemp, and in 2006 the cultivation of industrial hemp was permitted under licence. Only specified low-narcotic types of the plant were allowed. Industrial hemp varieties have such low concentrations of THC (the active ingredient in cannabis) that they are of no use as a recreational drug. In the United Kingdom and Canada, trials of industrial hemp have led to the establishment of successful hemp industries.

Today..
A weblog or blogsite for local affairs, issues and news in Lower Hutt, Hutt Valley, Wellington and other parts of Kiwiland. There is a discussion brewing about medicinal cannabis, but nothing has emerged about industrial hemp to my knowledge.

Source: http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/hops-tobacco-and-hemp/3

http://www.thehia.org/facts.html

http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=industrial+hemp&hl=en&qscrl=1&nord=1&rlz=1T4ADFA_enNZ455NZ455&site=webhp&prmd=imvnsb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=_egPT-a2Fu-hmQWS09X3Aw&sqi=2&ved=0CEwQsAQ&biw=1353&bih=530

http://peter-petterson.blogspot.com

In my post yesterday I wrote of predictions made by the ancient Mayans, and suggested that they predicted an 'end times' rather than some catastrophic disaster as allegedly suggested by Nostradamus and some biblical interpretations of impending disaster. So lets spend some time with the ancients and learn exactly what they foretold. But why 12-21-2012? That is when the Mayan calender ended in their year of 5126. An interesting comment that I picked up is this period could see the handing over of power to the feminine - "The reawakening of the divine feminine". What does this mean, I wonder? They also infer that this will be the last chance for humankind to follow the divine cosmic plan. So electing Hillary Clinton as president of the United States of America will not be the answer!

End Age 12-21-2012

Mayan Calender "An Apocalypse (Greek: “lifting of the veil” or “revelation”) is a disclosure of end of times rather than some something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, i.e. the veil to be lifted." — Wikipedia

"Both the Hopis and Mayans recognize that we are approaching the end of a World Age... In both cases, however, the Hopi and Mayan elders do not prophesy that everything will come to an end. Rather, this is a time of transition from one World Age into another. The message they give concerns our making a choice of how we enter the future ahead. Our moving through with either resistance or acceptance will determine whether the transition will happen with cataclysmic changes or gradual peace and tranquility. The same theme can be found reflected in the prophecies of many other Native American visionaries from Black Elk to Sun Bear."
— Joseph Robert Jochmans

http://www.adishakti.org/mayan_end_times_prophecy_12-21-2012.htm

http://www.mayanpredictions.net/ View and read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon

http://huttsblogesphere.blogspot.com

So many of my posts here are introduced from my other blogsites, or from various websites around the internet.

But today you will get my thoughts directely transposed onto these blog pages. Is it because I have so much time; some might suggest too much time on my hands, but whatever I'm in a position to think about things. Two or three decisions have been made lately in a number of countries which are not directly connected in themselves, but are very similar in thought and proposed act.

I recently posted about New Zealand's intended, not proposed Food Bill. It has been sitting at a select committee for a year. With NZ not having an Upper House or Senate, all bills are sent through a select committee for consideration. This bill has been just sitting there, and the Opposition Labour Party didn't think it was appropriate or necessary to discuss it during our recent parliamentary elections. I suspect labour didn't want any such ammunition in an election it didn't want to win. These are comments I have already made.

Just a couple or so hours ago I learned of a proposed Bill to go before the US Congress: Allowing corporations or the US Government to control what is published on the World Wide Web - WWW, or the internet.

New Zealand passed legislation last year making it illegal to load down pirated music and videos. But it will take three complaints to be made to your ISP or account before action will be taken. Your internet account could be suspended or cancelled and your could be fined hundreds of dollars. But you could go to another internet provider and start up another account.

In Fiji the dictatorial Commodore Frank Baimimarama who seized power at the point of a gun a few years ago, has actually increased his dictatorial powers to the ultimate power, the ultimate dictatorship - suspending the power of the Fijian High Court, or whatever name it has there. Bainimarama wants to eradicate corruption in high places before returning the right to vote. Yeah right!

Right across Europe countries are in almost economic ruin. Billions of Euros are owed to the banks. The European Union has loaned member states billions of Euros itself. Europe is in danger of catastrophic financial disaster. The USA is in financial strife itself owing the Chinese billions of dollars, or is that trillions? Is there another way around all this?

This year is 2012,the year of predictions of disaster as predicted in the Bible, by Nostradamus and the Mayans. Is it a disaster emanating from deep space, UFO's and little green men? No, it may well be closer to home!

The Mayans predicted a change of times rather than actual physical events. And they may yet be proven closer to the mark.

Are we actually in danger from the implementation of a new political and finacial order - One World Government - New World Order. Debts would be abolished, as would political power and the rights of a a citizen journalist like myself, and hundred of thousands of other bloggers worldwide.

This post is a complete generalisation of course - its all about intense thought, letting your grey matter go in all directions and see just how its reorganised.So one + one = three? Hey it might by the end of the year brother and sister!

http://www.interviewgiants.com/interviewgiants3/index.html?gclid=CMjphNzEx60CFUJMpgodqnmzgg

http://www.interviewgiants.com/interviewgiants3/2012-newworldorder2.htm

http://huttsblogesphere.blogspot.com

Codex Alimentarius in New Zealand - the food police. Once upon a time New Zealand was a free and democratic country. Implementation of the Food Bill will change that forever. Show your opposition in any way possible.

Image via Wikipedia

Chemical Food Cosh, by amazing artist and homeopath Gina Tyler, http://ginatyler.com (with the words, "Chemical Food Cosh", added)In New Zealand, the goals of Codex Alimentarius are being implemented at a rate that can only make the technocrats of the US and EU envious. Proposed legislation—thus far sliding through the legislative process like a greased pig—will force controls on food production that can only favor multinational growers and threaten the existence of all small operations. It treats foods as a commodity and eliminates the presumption that people can grow and access their foods of choice.

Rather than being something we all understand and come to comprehend through the learning process that brings us to adulthood, food is redefined. According to the Food Safety Bill, food will no longer simply be “food”, it will become “food and food related products“. Food related products?

With the implementation of Food Bill 160-2, massive new powers, including powers of arrest, will be given to “food safety officers”, who can be members of the private sector. That means employees of Monsanto could be authorized to conduct raids. Worse, they will be given immunity from criminal and civil prosecution for any acts during those raids. Even marae, communal and sacred places, will be subject to their actions. Warrants will not be required so there will be no need for evidence of a crime, meaning anyone could be raided at any time…and there will be no recourse, no matter how egregious their acts.

Codex Alimentarius: The Reason for the Food Bill:

The purpose of the bill—as stated by New Zealand Food Safety Authority — is to bring New Zealand into line with Codex Alimentarius provisions. It is the goal of Codex Alimentarius to bring the entire world under subjugation by multinational corporate agribusiness.

They will define what food is.

They will decide what we can and cannot eat.

They will determine what we can and cannot know.

They will control what we put in our bodies.

Their will cannot be opposed, because they will have absolute power—with no means to check them with either criminal or civil sanctions.

They will not even need the approval of courts: raids will not require a warrant.
They will enforce their control through whatever means they choose—and they will define their arena of control as they choose.

It’s being sold as needed for food safety—but the fact is that any need for such measures exists only because of modern factory farming and factory food production methods. Until their advent, food was simply food. We knew how to take care of it. We knew how to grow it. We knew what was healthy. Now, though, food has been redefined as conglomerations of chemicals, divorced from their original living sources.

And we will soon have no option but to accept it—unless you act now.

Other countries such as Australia, UK, USA and Canada are next on the list.

Read much more: http://kiwiriverman.blogspot.com/2012/01/codex-alimentarius-in-new-zealand-food.html

http://foodsafety.govt.nz/policy-law/reform-nz-food-regulations/food-bill/

Video: http://www.naziufosecret.com/

Video: The Aldebaran Mystery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoMR_Oj6Qrs&feature=fvwrel

Image via Wikipedia

The CIA and the Nazis - a full length documentary...

Conspiracy: 'The CIA and the Nazis' reveals a CIA program known as Operation Paperclip, about how 4000 former Nazis worked with the US Government without public knowledge over many decades to fight the Soviet Union. You can draw your own conclusions. Was it a huge confidence trick? Probably not, but the US Government was ripped off to the extent that 90% of the intel they received was undoubtably flawed, inaccurate and not worth the paper it was written on. But the fact 10% of the intel was accurate, was probably enough to deal to the Dark Empire.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKlQGKg1sa4

Video: The Aldebaran Mystery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoMR_Oj6Qrs&feature=fvwrel

Video: Hitler and UFO's http://www.naziufosecret.com/

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http://huttriver8.blogspot.com

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The MV Rena a container vessel which became stuck on a reef in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty three months ago, and created New Zealand's worst ever maritime environmental disaster, has survived multiple storms and high seas, has virtually split in two but is still stuck on the reef. Hundreds of containers have been removed from the vessel, but many more remain. Most of the oil spill was removed and the beaches cleaned up many weeks ago. The video below gives a verbal summary of the last three months.

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/video/watch/27732485/19467458/2/

http://www.3news.co.nz/Rena-breaks-in-half-in-severe-storms/tabid/418/articleID/238452/Default.aspx