Category: Inspiration

A healthy, strong person has enough energy to help others up.
A weak, sick person relies on other to help them up.
Eat healthy, stay strong, help others.

In ‘The impact of organic farming on food security in a regional and global perspective’, Halberg et al (2006) argue that while present food production in theory is sufficient to cover the energy and protein needs of the global population, there are still more than 740 million food insecure people, the majority of whom live in the Global South. The researchers indicate that if a conversion to organic farming of approximately 50% of the agricultural area in the Global South were to be carried out, it would result in increased self-sufficiency and decreased net food import to the region.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/29/global-agribusiness-dependency-and-the-marginalisation-of-self-sufficiency-organic-farming-and-agroecology/

Lock The Gate Alliance is a national coalition of people from across Australia uniting to protect our common heritage- our land, water and communities – from unsafe mining. I received this email today:
Dear Tom,
My name is Sarah Ciesiolka and I am a farmer.
My family lives and farms a few kilometres downstream from Santos’ proposed Narrabri Coal Seam Gas Project in the Pilliga Forest. Each year, year in, year out, our farm produces 50 million potatoes, 1000 tonnes of peanuts and enough wheat to make 3.3 million loaves of bread. We rely entirely on underground water to irrigate our crops, for drinking and for everyday household use.
That is why we are fighting so hard against Santos’ plans for an industrial gasfield near us – the only one now proposed in New South Wales, and why we need your help to stop it.
The risks associated with the CSG industry are so significant that they are considered “uninsurable”.
We approached our own insurance company to mitigate the risk of CSG operations in our locality and to safeguard our assets and livelihoods but were advised that this was not possible.
We’d feel like we were completely on our own, if it wasn’t for Lock the Gate Alliance.
Lock the Gate is a movement of people like me and people like you, city and country, working together to protect the water, landscapes and people of New South Wales and the whole country.
Thanks to the work of people in my community, Santos’ project is terribly delayed and worth nothing to them.
Next week in Sydney, our local group will be in court challenging the approval of their CSG wastewater treatment plant, which the government gave them without proper consideration of the risks.
Lock the Gate will be there with us, bringing city and country people together, united for our love of Australia, its people, its ancient water, its culture and wildlife.
We need you too. Will you join us? http://www.lockthegate.org.au/join
With your help, and the help of Lock the Gate, we can keep my region and its food-producing lands gasfield free.
Thank you,
Sarah Ciesiolka
http://www.lockthegate.org.au/join

“The Carbon Farming Solution is a book whose time has come. This detailed documentation of regenerative practices from around the world, including principles and methods, provides a practical guide for others to follow and expand upon as humanity takes on the “Great Work of Our Time” – to restore the Earth’s natural systems to ecological health. The Carbon Farming Solution is of enormous importance.”
http://carbonfarmingsolution.com/

This episode of GFM Media we speak with a scientist who was wrongfully jailed and her career destroyed because she dared to publish findings unacceptable to vested interests…
Back story: On July 22, 2009, a special meeting was held with twenty-four leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health to discuss early findings that a newly discovered retrovirus was linked to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), prostate cancer, lymphoma, and eventually neurodevelopmental disorders in children. When Dr. Judy Mikovits finished her presentation the room was silent for a moment, then one of the scientists said, “Oh my God!”
The resulting investigation would be like no other in science.
For Dr. Mikovits, a twenty-year veteran of the National Cancer Institute, this was the midpoint of a five-year journey that would start with the founding of the Whittemore-Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease, and end with her as a witness for the federal government against her former employer, Harvey Whittemore, for illegal campaign contributions to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
On this journey Dr. Mikovits would face the scientific prejudices against CFS, wander into the minefield that is autism, and through it all struggle to maintain her faith in God and the profession to which she had dedicated her life. This is a story for anybody interested in the peril, promise, and corruption of science at the very highest levels.
In this week’s interview of GFM Media, we will discuss, among other things, how prominent journals like Nature, Cell, and Science are damaging science. Case in point: the day before receiving the 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine, Dr. Randy Schekman published a piece in The Guardian newspaper in which he declared his intention to never submit another piece of research to the journals, Science, Cell, Nature, and others like them because they are not serving the best interests of humanity and society.
Judy A. Mikovits has spent her life training to be a research scientist to honor her grandfather who died of cancer when she was a teenager. Dr. Mikovits earned her BA from University of Virginia and PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from George Washington University. In her 35-year quest to understand and treat chronic diseases, she has studied immunology, natural products chemistry, epigenetics, virology and drug development. In just over twenty years she rose from an entry-level lab technician to become director of the lab of Antiviral Drug Mechanisms at the National Cancer Institute before leaving to direct the Cancer Biology program at EpiGenX Pharmaceuticals in Santa Barbara California.
Judy Mikovits’ revelations around tainted vaccines and contaminated blood1 have caused shockwaves that resulted in the censoring and suppression of her work, and smearing of her character. Tonight, we look to discover why.
Having spent the last four years defending herself against bogus charges, whilst enduring four years of forced silence due to a court-ordered gag order, Judy’s life and career have changed forever, yet she continues to speak the truth. Join us, 9 pm Sydney time on Global Freedom Movement Media, as Dr. Judy Mikovits sets the story straight.
http://globalfreedommovement.org/drugs-disease-and-deception-a-medical-whistleblowers-tale-with-judy-mikovits-phd/