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    <title>Gaia: BULLETIN BOARD - FOOD</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 23:33:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>the power behind the machine... we all need to know about CFR...</title>
      <author>http://freewil.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>freewil</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2006:Gaia-13921</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 23:33:29 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;      Organization is everything. We need to be well organized/ connected in circles to create our own life support systems instead of the plans the CFR is cooking up for us... to make us slaves, so we need to buy everything the planet provides.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  my solution is to support all individuals and boycot all corperations&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  one more vote by absentee balot &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Do you know about the CFR?&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS IS AN ELITE CABAL&lt;br /&gt;  By Mordechai Zember&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  January 22, 2006&lt;br /&gt;  NewsWithViews.com&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  What exactly is the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)? Many Americans&lt;br /&gt;  know almost nothing about this organization. Yet, this organization&lt;br /&gt;  has dominated this country&amp;#39;s politics, the press, and the economy.&lt;br /&gt;  Representative John R. Rarick once said, &amp;quot;The CFR, dedicated to&lt;br /&gt;  one-world government, financed by a number of the largest tax-exempt&lt;br /&gt;  foundations, and wielding such power and influence over our lives in&lt;br /&gt;  the areas of finance, business, labor, military, education and mass&lt;br /&gt;  communication media, should be familiar to every American concerned&lt;br /&gt;  with good government and with preserving and defending the U.S.&lt;br /&gt;  Constitution and our free-enterprise system. Yet, the nation&amp;#39;s right&lt;br /&gt;  to know machinery - the news media - usually so aggressive in&lt;br /&gt;  exposures to inform our people, remain conspicuously silent when it&lt;br /&gt;  comes to the CFR, its members and their activities... The CFR is the&lt;br /&gt;  establishment. Not only does it have influence and power in key&lt;br /&gt;  decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply&lt;br /&gt;  pressure from above, but it also finances and uses individuals and&lt;br /&gt;  groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high-level&lt;br /&gt;  decisions for converting the United States from a sovereign&lt;br /&gt;  constitutional republic into a servile member of a one-world&lt;br /&gt;  dictatorship.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Of course, the people know almost nothing about the Council on Foreign&lt;br /&gt;  Relations because many propagandists, I mean journalists, themselves&lt;br /&gt;  are members of this elite organization. Some of the CFR propagandists&lt;br /&gt;  include Barbara Walters, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Jim Lehrer, Lesley&lt;br /&gt;  Stahl, Katie Couric, Tony Snow, Morton Kondracke, Daniel Pipes, and&lt;br /&gt;  Charles Krauthammer. In fact, the CFR owns and control the television&lt;br /&gt;  stations, radio stations, and newspapers such as ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX,&lt;br /&gt;  PBS, New York Times, Washington Post, Time, U.S. News &amp;amp; World Report,&lt;br /&gt;  and Newsweek.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Sadly, some of the Internet newssites &amp;quot;remain conspicuously silent&lt;br /&gt;  when it comes to the CFR, its members and their activities.&amp;quot; The John&lt;br /&gt;  Birch Society, meanwhile, has exposed the Council on Foreign Relations&lt;br /&gt;  for many years.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Since I knew very little about the CFR myself, I decided to do my own&lt;br /&gt;  research. For almost a year, I spent some time researching and&lt;br /&gt;  investigating the Council on Foreign Relations. I acquired a copy of&lt;br /&gt;  past and present membership rosters, dug up some major dirt on many&lt;br /&gt;  CFR members, acquired smoking-gun photographs of CFR members, and read&lt;br /&gt;  Internet articles that discussed the CFR. In fact, I, along with my&lt;br /&gt;  friend Beavis, managed to build a webpage condemning the Council on&lt;br /&gt;  Foreign Relations. I have also spent some time reading None Dare Call&lt;br /&gt;  It Conspiracy by Gary Allen, The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot,&lt;br /&gt;  and Shadows of Power by James Perloff. I was interested in finding a&lt;br /&gt;  &amp;quot;money trail&amp;quot; and I decided to look at the CFR from a business and&lt;br /&gt;  financial perspective as well as the political perspective. After all,&lt;br /&gt;  both politics and finances involve money and power.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  In a book called Kissinger: A Biography, Walter Isaacson wrote (on p.&lt;br /&gt;  84): &amp;quot;Found in 1921 by members of Manhattan&amp;#39;s internationally minded&lt;br /&gt;  business and legal elite, the Council [on Foreign Relations] is a&lt;br /&gt;  private organization that serves as a discussion club for close to&lt;br /&gt;  three thousand well-connected aficionados of foreign affairs. Beneath&lt;br /&gt;  the chandeliers and stately portraits in its Park Avenue mansion,&lt;br /&gt;  members attend lectures, dinners, and roundtable seminars featuring&lt;br /&gt;  top officials and visiting world leaders.&amp;quot; Isaacson himself is a&lt;br /&gt;  member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Rhodes Scholar.&lt;br /&gt;  Notice that Isaacson used the word elite to describe members of CFR.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Who exactly were &amp;quot;Manhattan&amp;#39;s internationally minded business and&lt;br /&gt;  legal elite&amp;quot; back in 1921? Some of the &amp;quot;internationally minded&lt;br /&gt;  business and legal elite&amp;quot; who founded the Council on Foreign Relations&lt;br /&gt;  include Edward Mandell House, Paul Warburg, Otto Kahn, John W. Davis,&lt;br /&gt;  Isaiah Bowman, Archibald Cary Coolidge, Paul D. Cravath, Norman H.&lt;br /&gt;  Davis, Stephen P. Duggan, John H. Finley, Edwin F. Gay, David F.&lt;br /&gt;  Houston, Frank L. Polk, William R. Shepherd, and George Wickersham.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Today, the &amp;quot;internationally minded business and legal elite&amp;quot; include&lt;br /&gt;  David Rockefeller, Stanley Fischer, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry&lt;br /&gt;  Kissinger, Alan Greenspan, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford,&lt;br /&gt;  George Soros, Paul Wolfowitz, and Rupert Murdoch. The Council on&lt;br /&gt;  Foreign Relations is not an ordinary private organization; the Council&lt;br /&gt;  on Foreign Relations is an elite cabal. In fact, the CFR is an&lt;br /&gt;  organization where the enemies of America and its &amp;quot;controlled&lt;br /&gt;  opposition&amp;quot; get down and dirty at the Harold Pratt House.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  The Council on Foreign Relations control and dominate major&lt;br /&gt;  corporations, banks, law firms, foundations, social organizations,&lt;br /&gt;  labor unions, universities, and the press as well as the federal&lt;br /&gt;  government. Some of the CFR-affiliated corporations and organizations&lt;br /&gt;  include the JP Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs,&lt;br /&gt;  Citigroup, the Trilateral Commission, the Bretton Woods Committee, the&lt;br /&gt;  CSIS, the Aspen Institute, Human Rights Watch, The Brookings&lt;br /&gt;  Institution, Harvard University, Princeton, Johns Hopkins University,&lt;br /&gt;  Georgetown, Ford Foundation, Carnegie Endowment for International&lt;br /&gt;  Peace, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Fox News, ACLU,&lt;br /&gt;  AFL-CIO, and the Federal Reserve.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  For example, John J. Sweeney is the president of AFL-CIO, America&amp;#39;s&lt;br /&gt;  largest labor union, and Sweeney himself is a member of the Council on&lt;br /&gt;  Foreign Relations. On the other hand, Robert J. Stevens is the&lt;br /&gt;  chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin, and Stevens himself is a member&lt;br /&gt;  of the Council on Foreign Relations. On paper, industrial companies&lt;br /&gt;  and labor unions are supposed to hate each other. In reality, however,&lt;br /&gt;  both Big Industry and Big Labor are in bed together. Whenever a worker&lt;br /&gt;  pays his or her union dues, they are simply getting shafted by the CFR&lt;br /&gt;  cabal.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  Politics is another example. On paper, the Democratic Party and the&lt;br /&gt;  Republican Party oppose each other. However, the truth is stranger&lt;br /&gt;  than fiction. High-ranking members of the Democratic Party and the&lt;br /&gt;  Republican Party are in bed together. Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, John&lt;br /&gt;  Kerry, Joseph Lieberman, and Dianne Feinstein are members of the&lt;br /&gt;  Democratic Party, and they are all members of the Council on Foreign&lt;br /&gt;  Relations. Henry Kissinger, John McCain, Newt Gingrich, Dick Cheney,&lt;br /&gt;  Katherine Harris, and Bill Frist are members of the Republican Party,&lt;br /&gt;  and they are members of the Council of Foreign Relations. The&lt;br /&gt;  international bankers control and finance both the Democratic Party&lt;br /&gt;  and the Republican Party. David Rockefeller is a Republican, and&lt;br /&gt;  George Soros is a Democrat, but their membership into those political&lt;br /&gt;  parties mean absolutely nothing to them. Thus, the so-called&lt;br /&gt;  &amp;quot;Leftist-Rightist&amp;quot; political perspectives are nothing more than charades.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  The CFR is one of the few organizations where capitalists and&lt;br /&gt;  socialists work together in harmony. David Rockefeller himself has&lt;br /&gt;  given aid and comfort to Nikita Khrushchev, Chou Enlai, and Fidel&lt;br /&gt;  Castro. This explains why CFR members love the Chinese Communists and&lt;br /&gt;  the Russian Bolsheviks so much. From the time America established&lt;br /&gt;  diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union in 1933 until its collapse in&lt;br /&gt;  1991, the Soviet Embassy was located right across the street from the&lt;br /&gt;  Harold Pratt House. Almost every ambassador to the Soviet Union were&lt;br /&gt;  CFR members. In fact, every liaison officers and ambassadors to Red&lt;br /&gt;  China is or has been members of the Council on Foreign Relations. By&lt;br /&gt;  the way, Communist agent Alger Hiss was a member of CFR for a short time.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  The CFR is truly an elite organization. Membership into this elite&lt;br /&gt;  cabal is by invitation only. The Council on Foreign Relations is no&lt;br /&gt;  different from the Chinese Communist Party, the Soviet Communist&lt;br /&gt;  Party, and the Nazi Party of Germany. Dissent is not tolerated; any&lt;br /&gt;  CFR member who fails to &amp;quot;toe the line&amp;quot; are expelled from the&lt;br /&gt;  organization or in some cases killed in cold blood. Important CFR&lt;br /&gt;  meetings are &amp;quot;off-the-record&amp;quot; and are never discussed in public. Those&lt;br /&gt;  who leak any secrets will face consequences and repercussions on a&lt;br /&gt;  massive scale.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  According to the CFR&amp;#39;s own &amp;quot;Rule on Non-Attribution,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;[I]t would not&lt;br /&gt;  be in compliance with the reformulated Rule, however, for any meeting&lt;br /&gt;  participant (i) to publish a speaker&amp;#39;s statement in attributed form in&lt;br /&gt;  a newspaper; (ii) to repeat it on television or radio, or on a&lt;br /&gt;  speaker&amp;#39;s platform, or in a classroom; or (iii) to go beyond a memo of&lt;br /&gt;  limited circulation, by distributing the attributed statement in a&lt;br /&gt;  company or government agency newsletter.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  The language of the Rule also goes out of its way to make it clear&lt;br /&gt;  that a meeting participant is forbidden knowingly to transmit the&lt;br /&gt;  attributed statement to a newspaper reporter or other such person who&lt;br /&gt;  is likely to publish it in a public medium. The essence of the Rule as&lt;br /&gt;  reformulated is simple enough: participants in Council meetings should&lt;br /&gt;  not pass along an attributed statement in circumstances where there is&lt;br /&gt;  substantial risk that it will promptly be widely circulated or&lt;br /&gt;  published.&amp;quot; As CFR member David Gergen once said, &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s none of your&lt;br /&gt;  damn business.&amp;quot; In other words, just shut up and say nothing. This&lt;br /&gt;  explains why CFR journalists will say or write absolutely nothing&lt;br /&gt;  about the CFR&amp;#39;s evil, totalitarian agenda.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  This elite cabal has a purpose; the Council on Foreign Relations wants&lt;br /&gt;  to establish and exercise power and control over the American people&lt;br /&gt;  and the entire world. Unfortunately, CFR members will do just about&lt;br /&gt;  anything to achieve their lust for power and domination. Yes, CFR&lt;br /&gt;  members will lie, cheat, covet, steal, and kill just to get what they&lt;br /&gt;  want. They will engage in secrecy, treachery, and duplicity. They will&lt;br /&gt;  even engage in a rebellion and an insurrection against our&lt;br /&gt;  Constitution and our Declaration of Independence just to get what they&lt;br /&gt;  want. We the people need to expose and eliminate the Council on&lt;br /&gt;  Foreign Relations before the CFR destroys us. In the mean time, get a&lt;br /&gt;  FREE copy of the 2005 CFR membership roster and my personal CFR charts&lt;br /&gt;  and study them. On Election Day this year, I want you to go to the&lt;br /&gt;  polls and vote, and I want you to expel the traitors and CFR members&lt;br /&gt;  from office and elect patriotic Americans instead.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &amp;copy; 2006 - Mordechai Zember &lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>THE FUTURE OF FOOD / GENETIC ENGINEERING</title>
      <author>http://karuna.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Karuna</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2006:Gaia-9672</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:03:22 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;      &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://brian.zaadz.com/"&gt;Brian&lt;/a&gt; has re-posted &lt;a href="http://brian.zaadz.com/blog/2006/4/future_of_food"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, from a previous blog, because it&amp;#39;s a very important topic. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4105/1260/1600/harvester1.jpg"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4105/1260/320/harvester1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Just watched a documentary that will be released this fall at a &lt;a href="http://www.nativefoods.com/"&gt;Native Foods&lt;/a&gt; sponsored event in Costa Mesa. (Go Tanya!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You&amp;#39;ll want to see this movie. Mind blowing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&amp;#39;s &lt;a href="http://www.thefutureoffood.com/trailer.htm"&gt;the trailer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&amp;#39;s the synopsis from the site:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic" class="note" align="justify"&gt;&amp;ldquo;There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America &amp;ndash; a revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic" class="quote" align="justify"&gt;THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic" align="justify"&gt;From the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada to the fields of Oaxaca, Mexico, this film gives a voice to farmers whose lives and livelihoods have been negatively impacted by this new technology. The health implications, government policies and push towards globalization are all part of the reason why many people are alarmed by the introduction of genetically altered crops into our food supply. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic" align="justify"&gt;Shot on location in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, THE FUTURE OF FOOD examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world&amp;#39;s food system. The film also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture, placing organic and sustainable agriculture as real solutions to the farm crisis today.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

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