{"article":{"id":176241,"heading":"Biotech lobby funds SB1056, revokes local regulation","author":"reclaim the commons","created":"2006-08-29 20:56:56","modified":"2006-08-31 18:04:25","last_modified":"Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:04:25","article":"\n
, 28.08.2006 23:07
The voters of Mendocino County have decided that they approved a ballot measure \"H\" banning growth of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) food crops within their county. Many other counties have followed suit and this pattern of local ordinances against GMO crops is a threat to biotech corporations (Monsanto, Genentech, Bayer\/Aventis, etc..) who would prefer to continue on with the trend of pushing small organic farmers out of business and replacing their crop biodiversity with GMO monoculture..
Though the farmers\/consumers in Mendocino County wouldn't be directly effected by SB 1056, any other county\/region that has not yet passed a GMO free ordinance would no longer be allowed to have any say in whether or not GMO crops are grown in their county\/region. SB 1056 states that local regulations will be rendered invalid by the passing of SB 1056. For this reason organic consumers and farmers say \"NO on SB 1056!\"
From GMO Free Mendocino;
\"With only a week left until the California legislature adjourns for this year, Senator Florez has again amended SB 1056 to extend the reach of this pending preemptive strike against local action on genetically engineered crops. As it now reads, the bill would preempt local decisions with respect to both seeds and nursery stock. The newly amended bill is attached.
If brought to a vote, the bill will most likely pass the Assembly, so the Senate is perhaps the only place the bill can be stopped. Senate president pro tem Don Perata will play a key role in the fate of the bill, so it's important to let him know we are watching and we expect him to do the right thing by insuring that local rights with respect to this critical issue are preserved. Should it come to a vote, we will also need to be sure Senator Chesbro will take a strong stand against the bill.
DOWNLOAD PDF FILE OF SB1056
So we are asking you to take three actions in defense of Mendocino, Trinity and Marin Counties and the cities of Point Arena and Arcata, and in support of the Sonoma County initiative and the proposed ordinance in Lake County:
1. Contact Senator Perata by phone or fax at your earliest convenience on Tuesday, September 6 (Monday is the Labor Day holiday): (916) 651-4009, Fax (916) 327-1997. (email is okay, but telephone or fax contact has more impact - Senator.Perata@sen.ca.gov<\/a>) Tell Senator Perata that you support the right of local government to make decisions with regard to GE crops, and ask him to be sure this bill is not permitted to come to a vote.
2. Contact Senator Wes Chesbro at your earliest convenience on Tuesday: (916) 651-4002, Fax (916) 323-6958 ( Senator.Chesbro@sen.ca.gov<\/a>). Tell Senator Chesbro that you support the right of local government to make decisions with regard to GE crops, and ask him to defend Measure H by voting against SB 1056.
3. Send this message to at least three supporters of GMO-Free Mendocino.
With thanks in advance for your continued support of our right to keep Mendocino County crops free of genetic contamination!
Doug Mosel\"
more info on SB 1056 @;
http:\/\/www.gmofreemendo.com\/<\/a>
*EXTREMELY URGENT: Call State Senators TODAY to Oppose SB 1056!!!*
by Greenwood Earth Alliance
Please call or email your Senator pro temp Don Perata's office right away and ask him to oppose SB1056, even if amended.
Also call your regional State Senator at their Sacramento offices asap - ask them to oppose SB1056!
Dear Friends and Colleagues!
The state assembly passed SB 1056 which revokes local government's right to ban GE crops in the absence of state law protecting people and the environment against genetic pollution--the bill is a product of the Big Business
lobbying group ALEC. In order to pass, the bill was modified to suspend local rights for two years only--enough time to get the crops in and pollution in high gear.
Please call Senate President Don Perata's office right away and ask him to oppose SB1056, even if amended.
Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata: (916) 651-4009
Email if you can't call: Senator.Perata [at] sen.ca.gov
Also call your State Senator at their Sacramento offices asap - ask them to oppose SB1056!
For example:
Wes Chesbro: (916) 651-4002 (Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, and everything North of there)
Carole Migden: (916) 651-4003 (Rohnert Park, Petaluma, and
everything south of there)
Go here to look for your state senator if you don't know who he\/she is:
http:\/\/www.senate.ca.gov\/~newsen\/senators\/senators.htp<\/a>
This is extremely urgent! To understand the enormity of the threat of GE Crops and Food, read SEEDS OF DECEPTION by Jeffrey Smith and\/or view the video THE FUTURE OF FOOD!
Both excellent!
Onward!
Mary Bull
Greenwood Earth Alliance
Save the Redwoods - Boycott the Gap Campaign
http:\/\/www.gapsucks.org<\/a>
415-731-7924 chalicenew [at] earthlink.net
GE-Free San Luis Obispo sums it up quite nicely;
\"SB1056 would pre-empt any local authority over GMO seeds. Contact Senator Parata today and ask him to oppose this poorly written and over-reaching legislation.\"
more info @;
http:\/\/slogefree.org\/<\/a>
BTW, the violent destruction of community farms like SouthCentral farm and the attempted passing of pro-GMO Senate Bill 1056 would take even the basic rights of growing food out of the hands of working class people, leaving the remaining corporate farms (ConAgra, ADM, etc..) with complete control of the food supply via patented GMO seeds..
Following WTO\/NAFTA protocol, any community regulation on GMO food crops is deemed as a \"free trade barrier\" despite how the corporation's actions (GMO pollen drift) are negatively impacting the region's economy\/ecosystem..
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I wonder if it had\r\nanything to do with the big E going kaput....if the CT technology was\r\nco-opted for surveillance, and other nefarious uses like mass mind\r\nalteration, because of, let us say, something like TERROR, then it is not\r\nbeyond the realm of possibility that enron got shut down to hide all\r\nthis....there were many small-fry weather control companys like Dyn-O-Mat\r\nffeding off this lopsided insurance, guaranteeing enron or whoever certain\r\nweather factors for a price...even being small fry the ops were big bux and\r\na lot of the early stuff went down in Clintons time....I think the initial\r\nspraying experiments by these weather companys was a success, meaning nobody\r\nsquawked, and then way was made to deploy the control technology which govt\r\nhas been developing now for 5 decades or more....b\r\n\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.derivativesstrategy.com\/magazine\/archive\/1998\/0598fea1.asp\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.themanagementor.com\/kuniverse\/kmailers_universe\/finance_kmailers\/\r\nIF_Weather.htm\r\n \r\nhttp:\/\/www.financewise.com\/public\/edit\/energy\/weather99\/wthr99-newangles.htm\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.financewise.com\/public\/edit\/energy\/weatherrisk\/wthr-derivatives.h\r\ntm \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=274195\r\n\r\nThe hype over weather derivatives is being replaced by real deals, and\r\neverybody\u2019s scrambling for position.\r\n\r\nThe viewership of the Weather Channel has always skewed decidedly toward the\r\nnerdy. But if the lightning-fast development of the weather derivatives\r\nmarket is any indication, before long the ratings-challenged cable channel\r\ncould reach a whole new audience financial players around the world who have\r\nsuddenly become obsessed with occluded fronts, La Ni\u00f1a and other weather\r\narcana that for years had been the exclusive province of people with\r\nbackyard barometers.\r\n\r\nWhile derivatives historians may quibble over the precise date of the first\r\nweather contract some say July 1997, while others say August of that year\r\neveryone in the weather business agrees that the market hit the ground\r\nrunning. \r\n\r\nThere has been an explosion of deals in the marketplace and a tremendous\r\namount of interest on the client side, says Richard Turrin of Paribas\u2019\r\nstrategic derivatives group. The industry has seen the birth of a new market\r\nin the last year to 18 months, and in the last six months the growth has\r\nbeen exponential.\r\n\r\nHouston-based energy giant Enron estimates that between 900 and 1,000\r\ntransactions have taken place to date, with the notional value of those\r\ndeals exceeding $1.5 billion. Kansas City, Mo.-based Aquila, the unregulated\r\nmarketing and trading arm of Utilicorp, puts that figure closer to 1,200.\r\n\r\nWhile energy firms are still the most active in the weather business, other\r\nindustries are getting into the game as well. Enron has already acted as\r\ncounterparty in deals with manufacturers of snowmobiles and snowblowers, the\r\nfilm industry and the fertilizer industry, and has fielded inquiries from\r\ntheme parks, golf courses, sports-drink makers, car washes and ski resorts.\r\nAquila boasts transactions with salt producers, ski resorts and other\r\nentertainment companies. In addition to the relatively commonplace\r\ndegree-day deals, says Enron\u2019s Lynda Clemmons, a director at the firm, she\r\nhas been approached by companies interested in rainfall, snowfall and even\r\nbarometric pressure contracts.\r\n\r\n******* Weather derivatives allow companies to control the effects of the\r\nweather on demand for their products. Here are some of the most popular\r\nstructures.*******\r\n\r\nTemperature Contracts\r\nA degree day is the deviation of a day\u2019s average temperature from 65 degrees\r\nFahrenheit. In the summertime, the demand for energy increases with every\r\ndegree above 65; in the winter, the demand for heat increases for every\r\ndegree day below 65. There are a number of degree-day products available to\r\nenergy producers. In most, payment is made for every degree day above or\r\nbelow the strike, with a maximum payout that can range from $500,000 to $5\r\nmillion or more...\r\n-------------------------------------\r\nBernard Eastlund, Inventor of HAARP (High Frequency Active AURORAL Research\r\nprogram), from his Patent # 4,686,605 \u201c...This invention relates to a method\r\nand apparatus for altering at least one selected region normally existing\r\nabove the Earth\u2019s surface...by initially transmitting electromagnetic\r\nradiation from the Earth\u2019s surface... altering solar absorption...weather\r\nmodification is possible... for example, altering upper atmosphere wind\r\npatterns by constructing one or more plumes of atmospheric particles which\r\nwill act as a lens or focusing device...A moving plume could also serve as a\r\nmeans for focusing a vast amount of sunlight on selected portions of the\r\nEarth...HIGH INTENSITY, WELL CONTROLLED ELECTRICAL FIELDS CAN BE PROVIDED IN\r\nSELECTED LOCATIONS FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES...(caps ours, ed.)...Still further,\r\nplumes in accordance with the present invention can be formed to simulate\r\nand\/or perform the same functions as performed by detonation of a \u201cHeave\u201d\r\ntype nuclear device without actually having to detonate such a device...\u201d\r\n\r\n\r\nMore Excerpts from Patent #4,686,605 HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral\r\nResearch Program)\r\nDISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION...\r\n...Sufficient energy is employed to cause ionization of neutral particles\r\n(molecules of oxygen, nitrogen, and the like, PARTICULATES, etc.) which then\r\nbecome part of the (plasma) region, thereby increasing the charged particle\r\ndensity of the region. This effect can also be enhanced by providing\r\nartificial particles, eg electrons, ions, etc, directly into the region to\r\nbe affected from a rocket, satellite, or the like, to supplement the\r\nparticles in the naturally occurring plasma. The artificial particles are\r\nalso ionized by the transmitted electromagnetic radiation thereby increasing\r\ncharged particle density of the resulting plasma of the region...\r\nIn another embodiment of the invention, electron cyclotron resonance heating\r\nis carried out in the selected region or regions at sufficient power levels\r\nto allow a plasma present to generate a MIRROR FORCE which forces the\r\ncharged electrons of the altered plasma UPWARD along the force line to an\r\naltitude which is higher than the original altitude... Sufficient power, eg\r\n10 to the 15th joules, can be applied so that altered plasma can be trapped\r\non the field line between mirror points and will oscillate in space for\r\nprolonged periods of time. By this embodiment, a plume of altered plasma can\r\nbe established at selected locations for communications modifications or\r\nother purposes...\r\n-----------------------------\r\ned.-That means Surveillance KEYHOLES of ALLLLLL types, folks. Coupled with\r\nTime Domain Corporation Classified Eavesdropping Patents (200+) that does\r\nnot bode well for Human Liberty ANYWHERE.\r\n--------------------------\r\n...Thus, this invention provides the ability to put unprecedented amounts of\r\npower in the Earths Atmosphere at strategic locations, and maintain the\r\npower injection level, particularly if random pulsing is employed, in a\r\nmanner far more precise than heretofore accomplished by prior art,\r\nparticularly by the detonation of nuclear devices of various yields at\r\nvarious altitudes...\r\nDisruption of communications can be employed by one knowledgeable of this\r\ninvention as a communications network at the same time (Disruption is caused\r\nto other parties)...knowledge of the various em waves being employed and how\r\nthey will vary in frequency and magnitude can be used to an advantage for\r\npositive communication, and eavesdropping purposes at the same time..\r\n\r\n----------------------------------------------------------\r\n\r\n1978\r\nFROM:\r\n http:\/\/stinet.dtic.mil\/cgi-bin\/fulcrum_main.pl?database=TR_U2&database=FT_U\r\n2&numrecords=25&search.DOC_TEXT=barium\r\n(This is hit 16 of 25.) \u00a0\r\nAD Number: ADA072167\r\nSubject Categories: RADIO COMMUNICATIONS\r\nCorporate Author: MISSION RESEARCH CORP SANTA BARBARA CALIF\r\nTitle: Radio Communication Utilizing the Base of a Striated Barium Plasma.\r\nDescriptive Note: Topical rept. Apr-Jul 78,\r\nPersonal Authors: Fulks,G. J. ;Scott,L. D. ;Sowle,D. H. ;Wortman,W. R. ;\r\nReport Date: JUL 1978\r\nPages: 43 PAGES \r\nReport Number: MRC-R-401-R\r\nContract Number: DNA001-78-C-0237\r\nProject Number: S99QAXH TASKNUMBER: B053\r\nMonitor Acronym: DNA,SBI\r\nMonitor Series: 4670T,AD-E300 465\r\nDescriptors: *RADIO TRANSMISSION, *STRIATIONS, NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS, HIGH\r\nFREQUENCY, PLASMAS(PHYSICS), REFLECTION, NUCLEAR EXPLOSION SIMULATION, CROSS\r\nSECTIONS, HIGH ALTITUDE, NUCLEAR CLOUDS, COMMUNICATION AND RADIO SYSTEMS,\r\nRADIO SIGNALS, BARIUM, BOTTOM, RADIO RECEPTION.\r\nIdentifiers: Avefria operations, Barium clouds, Cloud bases, Base\r\nreflection, PE62704H, WU09\r\nAbstract: In conjunction with the DNA barium releases, Avefria I and II, an\r\nexperiment was undertaken to determine if radio communication was possible\r\noff the base of a striated plasma created by these barium releases. A\r\ntransmitting station was set up to broadcast a steady signal at two HF\r\nfrequencies toward the base of the barium striations and two receiving\r\nstations listened for signal returns on the two frequencies. (The chosen\r\ngeometry prevented reflections off the sides of the barium cloud from\r\naffecting the experiment). One station heard substantial returns while the\r\nother heard nothing. Data from the first station provide an estimate of the\r\nreflection cross sections for the base of the striated barium cloud. The\r\nnegative result from the second station arises partly from limited\r\nsensitivity of equipment but the upper limit on cross section was less than\r\nthat seen from the first station. This suggests a directional character for\r\nthe signal reflected from the base of the cloud.\r\nLimitation Code: APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE\r\nSource Code: 406548\r\n--------------------------------------\r\n\r\n\r\nEVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SKULL AND BONES SOCIETY BUT\r\nWERE AFRAID TO ASK\r\nKERRY AND BUSH BOTH BELONG -- THEIR DADDIES SOLD AMERICA OUT A LONG TIME AGO\r\nhttp:\/\/www.luxefaire.com\/politics.htm\r\n\r\nHUMAN EXPERIMENTATION RESOURCE\r\nhttp:\/\/www.dc.peachnet.edu\/~shale\/humanities\/composition\/assignments\/experim\r\nent.html\r\n\r\n MK-ULTRA LIVES! http:\/\/mindcontrolforums.com\/mkdoctable.htm\r\nhttp:\/\/www.raven1.net\/uncom.htm\r\n","author":"enmod","parent_id":176241,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-08-29 21:25:10","modified":"2013-11-11 00:43:57","fileurl":""},{"id":176246,"heading":"L.A. 2004","article":"--------","author":"x","parent_id":176241,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2006-08-29 21:26:32","modified":"2006-08-29 21:26:32","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2006\/08\/calithing.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2006\/08\/calithing.jpg"}},{"id":176411,"heading":"LOL","article":"California's number one cash crop, a large amount of which is reportedly grown in Mendocino county, has been genetically modified for years.","author":"MadMaxim","parent_id":176241,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-08-31 04:10:02","modified":"2006-08-31 04:10:02","fileurl":""},{"id":176418,"heading":"Proof of abysmal idiocy","article":""...i got the lead from an article i pulled off clifford carnicoms site..."","author":"TW","parent_id":176241,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-08-31 08:07:59","modified":"2006-08-31 08:07:59","fileurl":""},{"id":176451,"heading":"hybridized is not gene modified","article":"Just a quick correction, the Mendocino cash crop (either grapes or cannabis) the comment author above mentions was not genetically modified, though both species were hybridized over many generations, a far more natural process of selection within a species, while GMO\/GE technology inserts genes from entirely different species, like fish genes into tomatoes (see Cal-Gene "Flavr-Savr"). Tomatoes can be hybridized with other tomatoes, fish hybridized with other fish, but not fish with tomatoe. Hybridization selects based on desireable traits over generations and is similar to what would occur in a natural ecosystem processes. GMO\/GE technology is not duplicated in nature, even the "transposons" that exchage gene material in bacteria are not pulling (correctly "bombarding") genes from other species into their own DNA that far along the evolutionary line. Moreover, Mae Wan Ho (author "The Fluid Genome") has disproven the assumption of leading biotech scientists that genetics is fixed and can thus be patented and "owned". Instead, genetics are fluid and subject to change and adaptation like all biomass in the Earth, evolution modifies structures and traits as needed, easier to be caretaker of the ecosystem instead of tampering with the processes of life itself..\r\n\r\nBTW, this is not the same as stem cell research, a scientific method of undifferentiated tissue development could eliminate the harsh cruelty of animal testing and heal human diseases with greater accuracy & effectiveness. Stem cell research is what GW Bush is attempting to outlaw, not biotech (GW Bush just luuuuvs biotech corporations!!)\r\n\r\n","author":"genetic engineered patents are food monopoly","parent_id":176241,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-08-31 18:04:25","modified":"2006-08-31 18:04:25","fileurl":""}]}