Judge Dredd, a sign of things to come?

by dAvE@whenthenewsstops

The tough, granite jawed lawman Judge Dredd was a response to Thatcher's conservative Britain, an era not too dis-similar to present day Britain.  2000AD magazine's most iconic character is a vision of the future, in a post World War Three Earth, in the not too distant future, a system of governance is set up, this system is the Judges.  They act as judge jury and executioner on the streets, dispensing instant justice.

They are the law.
And They are in charge.

Kucinich bill aims to protect food supply from Monsanto, GMOs

Source: examiner.com

On Friday, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) announced new legislation to protect the food supply from a potential crisis brought about by biotech giants like Monsanto,and the unrestricted use of their GMOs -  Genetically modified organisms. 

H.R. 3554, The Genetically Engineered Safety Act, would help prevent the biological contamination of our food supply.

 

Kucinich’s common sense legislation would prohibit the open-air cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) pharmaceutical and industrial crops. The bill would prohibit the use of common human food or animal feed as the host plant for a genetically engineered pharmaceutical or industrial chemical.

 

H.R. 3554 would also establish a tracking system to regulate the growing, handling, transportation, and disposal of pharmaceutical and industrial crops, and protect native ecosystems and traditional farms from the unstudied dangers of growing GE organisms.

 

The legislation is part of a package of bills introduced by Kucinich, which includes H.R. 3553, the GE Food Right to Know Act, legislation that would require labeling for genetically engineered foods.

You've Felt It Your Entire Life

Source: Cevolutiontv/youtube

"Try yourself, it's not that scary. Try being who you truly are, instead of being a reflection of what society wants you to be."

Monsanto found guilty of poisoning in pesticide case

CIA Agent Exposes How Al-Qaeda Dosen't Exist

Bob Frissell - Transitioning Into The 4th Dimension February 5, 2012

Source: Rediceradio

New mental health manual is "dangerous" say experts

Source: Reuters.com

Millions of healthy people - including shy or defiant children, grieving relatives and people with fetishes - may be wrongly labeled mentally ill by a new international diagnostic manual, specialists said on Thursday.

In a damning analysis of an upcoming revision of the influential Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), psychologists, psychiatrists and other experts said new categories of mental illness identified in the book were at best "silly" and at worst "worrying and dangerous."

"Many people who are shy, bereaved, eccentric, or have unconventional romantic lives will suddenly find themselves labeled as mentally ill," said Peter Kinderman, head of Liverpool University's Institute of Psychology at a briefing in London about widespread concerns over the manual.

"It's not humane, it's not scientific, and it won't help decide what help a person needs."

Max Keiser: Financial holocaust looms as Germany storms Greece

TV Programmes

by dAvE@whenthenewsstops

So I'm watching my usual hour of news this Sunday morning on the tv (I know the tv is evil, but I like to keep up with what's being programmed into everyone).  Anyway, after the cycle on all news channels had begun to repeat itself I switched to a film on another channel, which inevitably led to an advert break.  

An advert for visiting Ireland came on, as I was born there I began to run away in my head, thinking of getting a driver's license and visiting sacred sites of interest to me, the trip began running away in my head as the advert rolled onto something for a bank, my fantasy of a trip extended further than Ireland and onto other sacred sites around the world.  

Then, as the next advert came on a slow, horrified realisation came over me.  The advert was for a car company, a guy was planning his trip around sites in his favourite book,  up pops the Louvre Pyramid, then on he goes through London, and finally up to Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland.  

That's right, this guy's favourite book was the Da Vinci code. 

I felt like the television was laughing at me.  

That was when I realised my thought process was being led.  

I turned off the tv.  

I'm going to read a book now...

Perfect Storm: The England Riots Documentary

"You think you belong to a big gang, you may be be 50 people, even 100, but we have 32, 000 in our gang. It's called the Metropolitan Police." 

-Chief Inspector Ian Kibblewhite to Gang members in a UK court in early 2012.

http://wideshut.co.uk/perfect-storm-the-england-riots-documentary/ 

"If the young are not initiated into the village, they will burn it down just to feel its warmth." -- African Proverb. This mini-documentary film looks at the initial causes and wider context surrounding the recent England riots. Politicians refuse to acknowledge their role in creating a deeply unfair and failing society, a perfect storm of police brutality, city poverty and austerity measures, that will only get worse unless the root problem is addressed. Did you know for the rioters to be on par with the looting by the financial bailouts, corporate tax avoiders and Libyan invasion, they would have to repeat the same level of damage......4,320 times? Massive credit to http://www.youtube.com/user/huntingtigers who had the balls to do what the mainstream media didn't and give a fair interview to those on the ground in Tottenham.

Scientists From Inside Monsanto, The Truth. (trailer)

Source: youtubeuser: ironomics

Nat Rothschild loses libel case against Daily Mail over Mandelson trip

Source: guardian.co.uk

Judge rules that conduct of multimillionare financier on Siberian trip exposed Peter Mandelson to conflict of interest claims

It was a week-long libel case which offered an intimate, if brief, glimpse into the lives of the politically powerful and super-rich: impulse trips to Russia in a pair of private jets, birch-leaf beatings in a communal sauna, and an impromptu game of ice hockey, with staff members roped in to make up the numbers.

It was resolved by multimillionare financier Nat Rothschild failing to win damages over the Daily Mail's claims he was a "puppet master". The paper said Rothschild took Lord Mandelson on a trip to Moscow and Siberia to impress a key business contact, exposing Mandelson, the then-EU trade commissioner, to allegations of a conflict of interest.

Sitting at the high court in London, Mr Justice Tugendhat agreed on Friday that some elements were incorrect in the Mail article from May 2010, which recounted how Mandelson had flown in Rothschild's private jet from Switzerland to Moscow, and then on to Siberia as a guest of Oleg Deripaska, the billionaire Russian industrialist.

The Forest In Folklore and Mythology by Alexander Porteous

A review by dAvE@whenthenewsstops

Written in 1928, this book explores the folklore and mythology around forests, and trees.  It is a global collection of tree myths from all cultures.  Many of these myths share similarities to each other, particularly those that associate creation myths of the world, and in many cases humanity, with trees.   My favourite myth is the Norse  Yggdrasil, the world tree, whose story, as I found out from this book echoes  through many different cultures.

Trees and Forests have long been associated and indeed even venerated with ritual celebrations and ceremonies.   In fact one thing which seems to  unite different cultures is the veneration and respect for trees, even if that respect is formed out of caution (some trees in these mythologies are feared for good reason).

The language used in the book seems  to be rooted in the early twentieth century. A minor frustration of this as a reader, was the inclusion of Latin quotations with no translation;  a sign of the expectations of the time it was written in the level of Latin integrated into the general education of the reading public of the time.  The book also reads like a lecture or textbook, as one set of paragraphs dealing with one myth will jump very quickly into a new set  with a fresh tit-bit of forest folklore.