Genetically Engineered Food

..there is a growing wave of concern from citizens, farmers and scientists who question the way the research is currently being handled by a few large, profit-hungry corporations..
 

Video: The future of food   

http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/?q=node/view/336

Genetically Engineered Food
..."The rats fed on the GE potatoes suffered substantial damage to their immune systems, plus abnormal weight loss in various organs, including the brain, testicles and liver. Some also had abnormal growth in their intestinal cells, which could indicate a prelude to cancer. Despite a long and concerted industry campaign to discredit Pusztai, part of the results of his GE potato study were duly peer-reviewed and published in the scientific literature. However, despite the industry and scientific establishment dismissing his work, there has been little attempt made to independently repeat and confirm the study, as is usually the case in science. Pusztai has published other results of his experiments since, which raise serious question over the safety of GM foods. "....

Did you know that a company called Monsanto is out to destroy the world's food supply leaving the earth barren of food?  Sound unreal doesn't it?
By genetically changing our food producer: the seed. Monsanto has found a way to re-engineer and patent corn seeds by using viruses and diseased genes that we eat so they can control the food source. They have tried patenting other seeds, but were stopped. Farmers whose crops have been contaminated by this patent seed are then sued by Monsanto for using their "patent" seeds. Monsanto plants a crop next to other farmer's crops and then Monsanto illegally trespasses onto that neighbor's  land to check if any of their patented seeds blew onto that farmers land. AND OUR government sides with Monsanto because it is a patent. A patent they had gotten through our Supreme Court by a vote.
Monsanto has taken mother nature's seeds and our livelihood. Sounds unbelievable; but we were also surprised by the financial melt down in 2008. Anything is possible if you allow the thefts to have a free pass. Our government is in bed with Monsanto, just like they are in bed with Wall Street; because these corporations have hired every top government official and paid them well.  You know: that government and corporation 'revolving door' where they feed off each other like parasites.
The movie: The Future of Food ( Netflix and above video) along with other movies based on this Monsanto company is an eye opener.
Although, the light that shines at the end of the tunnel allows all citizens to come together to fight back. Fighting back to keep our bodies and food sources healthy. We all must protect our food sources by not buying corn products that are produced by corporations. We should try to buy our foods from local farmers right off the vine. To buy organic foods, although more expensive, they are not under the rules of Monsanto that have no moral concerns about your health; only to produce as much unhealthy foods as possible so they can control the world's food through their patent seeds that contaminate all food; thus making it legally their crop.

Where I Will Be....

Where I Will Be

I could elaborate on our National Debt: Obama forgiving Egypt's billion dollar debt to us, in order for Egypt to rebuild their infrastructure. Never mind about our debt and infrastructure.  

I could talk about the conflict in the Arab world,  like I care.

I could talk about "men behaving worse than bad": Dominique-strauss-kahn  and Arnold Schwarzeneggar. The news is already fixated, around the clock, on these topics; except for the ones that I find fascinating.

The topics that are not of this world or will lead me away from it....

How long will I live?

Just this week, I heard that it might be possible to let a person know how many years they will live, naturally; if they don't get hit by a bus.

Your Blood Could Tell How Long You'll Live ....."Your blood could serve as an indicator of how long you'll live. ...the test measures the length of a person’s telomeres, structures found at the tips of a chromosome, which apparently directly reflects the person’s lifespan.The test, however, can’t give an exact lifespan in months and day. Instead, the length of the telomeres correlates to how fast a person will age biologically--the longer the telomere, the longer the lifespan......"

After I told my husband this, he said that he would never want to know how long he would live because he would get very depressed during the last year; I, on the other hand, would want to know. 

If I knew how long I had to live, I would not procrastinate so much, I would arrange my life more orderly knowing there is a due date.  I would decide not to waste time with people I don't care about. I will probably become very rude. I will probably start saying things like: "I don't have time for that; get out of my way, I am in a hurry, I only have a few minutes left."

I still would want to know, when I die, because I procrastinate a lot. I tend to give up on what I really want to do, in order, to do something that I don't want to do:  pick up trivial stuff around the house that my family leaves lying around or dusting?  I don't really dust because it's just the remains of dead people lying around, waiting for another star burst to happen.  But I would be dusting, if I didn't have a part time maid hired, specifically, for dusting, because I don't like spiders.

I don't foresee death; only a transformation from this body into the next body, whatever that will be. It's a continuing journey.

 And if it wasn't for my imagination believing that life continues in a positive way, 

I would be severely depressed living on this planet with all the barbarians running around killing everyone, including their own people. The lack of justice at the highest level in our own country: financial crooks either being appointed to our government; or not being prosecuted by our government: robbing American citizens of their life savings through sheer theft. Since this world is not improving.....where will I go?

The Creation 

"The statement that we are all "star stuff,"...we are made of the same elements that stars are made of... These elements are then released at the end of a star's lifetime when it explodes, and subsequently incorporated into a new generation of stars ... life forms that originate on the planets...."

Of course this topic is way above my head....So my imagination tells me...

that within that star dust from which we come, my body will turn back into dust, and lie around my house; 
And the energy from within that dust will live on in another form, creating new life, just like a dying star:

"A new image of the nebula NGC 3582,....shows giant loops of gas that resemble what you would see for New Year’s Eve; "however, there probably isn’t much joy in that sector, as these loops are believed to be emitted by dying stars. What’s interesting is that new stars are also being born in the same area, so this makes it a stellar nursery, as well as a stellar cemetery"....    

And those celestial bodies full of life ....that is where I plan to be...once I get my Due Date.

One Entity: God and Mankind?

 If God and mankind are truly "One Entity" as believed by those in this blog; then what are we looking for when it is inside all of us? 
Maybe, we are looking for a way  to  focus on our 'oneness;' keeping us from separation and  self destruction  within the matrix of which we are residing. 

I have to admit that I have not focused, and have forgotten where we come from, for I have read and always believed that we are one entity.
I don't believe that God is a separate entity somewhere in the sky.
I believe we all are extension of God that is infinite; although you can't tell by reading my blogs because I do feel separated, more by mankind than God. 

Maybe, that is because I am only able to talk to my guardian angels at a lower level of intelligence and communication. There are different levels of communicating within our oneness with God, as in the teachings of Kabbalha and Christianity. 

The problem is: When humans chose to think of mankind as separate entities, this is our disconnect in the world and our eventual destruction.

Just a few theories of Oneness with Infinity from the astrophysics to  religious interpretation 
  The scientists know that we come from the same matter, if not, the same spirit. It is fascinating to hear the Astrophysicist's explanation of exploding stars in the galaxies that created us.    

"The statement that we are all "star stuff," coined by the late astronomer Carl Sagan (not sure if this was before or after Joni Mitchell sang "we are stardust; we are golden. we are billion year old carbon"), is meant to imply more than that we are made of the same elements that stars are made of. Beyond that, the elements themselves (carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, etc.) were synthesized, cooked up as it were, in the nuclear furnaces that are the deep interior of stars. These elements are then released at the end of a star's lifetime when it explodes, and subsequently incorporated into a new generation of stars -- and into the planets that form around the stars, and the lifeforms that originate on the planets.-- Michael Loewenstein and Amy Fredericks for "Ask an Astrophysicist"
 

Scientific Theory Versus Spiritual Theory  

The first thing we must address when writing an article about Quantum Physics, or any other highly technical subject is to define our terms.
What is meant by Evolution? When the Quantum Scientists talk about Quantum Evolution they discuss the classical Darwinian model of Evolution. They also use the words mutation and random mutations.
These are not my choice of words. I prefer the Spiritual Quantum Theory of Quantum Evolution and the word “mutation” in any form does not fit here.
Scientific Quantum Evolution discusses the structures of DNA and RNA, and coherence times. They speculate on the jumps in fossil records and speculative molecular processes.
 The point I am making is this: the workings of the Quantum Ocean, the Mind of God and Nature are really quite simple. 

Man in his egoistic drive to believe that he is the highest order of intelligence in the Universe constantly complicates things.

Whenever a theory or a speculation about any thing leaves out the primary cause of all creation, a Prime Move, a Grand Architect of the Universe, or an intelligent Creator it is doomed to failure. 

Quantum-Evolution:  The Scientific Quantum theorists, engineers and professors should understand that just because man can do something, does not mean that he should go ahead and do it. Genetic engineering and the Atomic bomb are two inventions that come to mind.
If we could only learn to slow down our Scientific Quantum Evolution advances and our dangerous high technology race towards destruction. If we could just get QUIET!And by getting quiet we would be able to hear the small quiet inner voice that is within all of us. This voice would tell us what “Spiritual Quantum Evolution” means.  

Since Quantum (Plural: Quanta) is the smallest unit of any physical entity we could say it represents the smallest particle that an individual soul could manifest into. 

Therefore “Spiritual Quantum Evolution” is about the Evolution of individual souls not physical matter.  

The true purpose or should I say destiny of a soul is to work (experience) itself back from whence it came. Back to God, it's beginning.
Spiritual Quantum Physics answers the three intriguing questions that have puzzled man from time immemorial. Who are we? Where did we come from? And Where are we going?
Spiritual Quantum Evolution tells us we are all individual souls who have 'Blinked Out' of the Quantum Ocean, Mind of God into a physical reality.  It is here on the physical plane, matrix or playing field of the Quantum Ocean that we experience life. It is here where we use these experiences to fulfill our individual destinies.
And that destiny is to evolve; to raise our levels of consciousness; to become more godlike with each “Blink Out' incarnation, until one day we can “Blink Back” into the Quantum Ocean, Mind of God and come out no more.
Leave our DNA alone. If these Scientific Quantum Evolution elitists want to evolve then let them evolve into “Spiritual Quantum Evolution Elitists.”Let us never forget there is a big difference Kabbalah.....

    The truth is, you are God reading about God, in the process of God becoming God. But chances are you don’t “receive” that truth fully, because of how your mind, body, and heart work. The forms of Kabbalah can help you really receive the truth of this moment......
    •    A body of knowledge and practices that enable deeper understanding of the self and the universe.
    •    Kabbalah is rooted in the Jewish tradition, which speaks of the One in terms of “God........”
The Meaning of "God"
"For Kabbalists, the visible world is only the superficial skin of Reality. Because of the way our minds are constructed to interact with the world, we imagine ourselves as separate selves, going about our business, trying to be happy. In fact, we, the stars, our friends and enemies, and everything around us — all of us are dreams in the mind of God. Nothing has any separate reality — ....( trying telling this to Israel and Palestine) ...
From God’s point of view, ( as if, we really know God's point of view) all of the distinctions we make — between ourselves and the world outside ourselves, among objects in the world, etc. — are completely illusory, because ultimately there is only the undifferentiated unity of the ein sof, the Infinite.....
.....The essence of divinity is found in every single thing — nothing but it exists.... Do not attribute duality to God. ...... If you suppose that Ein Sof emanates until a certain point, and that from that point on is outside of it, you have dualized. ....
.....God is that which Is — YHVH, one of the main Hebrew terms for this Reality, might even be translated “Is.” God is not an old man; God is What Is."...

When Kristine was severely, mentally ill she bought many spiritual books.  Loving What is , by Katie Byron.  The Infinite is everything. It is the only thing. The author was mentally depressed for 10 years and then snapped out of it....if I remember correctly. She learned that whenever she got mad at someone for treating her a certain way; she would turn that angry thought around 180 degrees. Example: If she thought someone lied to her.  She would turn that thought around and say to herself: I am the one who lied.  In essence, it is 'loving what is." 


I think it could be another way of saying that when we walk a mile in someone else's shoes, we see life from one point of view, not separated. This consciousness brings us closer into that mindset of being "one entity," instead of separate entities; making us more like God. 

The question becomes. What is acceptable in this 'oneness' of good and evil. 
I once read in " A Conversation with God" in which it said: 
"Existence is essentially non dual in nature. At the highest level there is no separation between anything and there is only one of us; there is only God, and everything is God." 
I believe it means that God accepts all experiences because one does not evolve without the other. 
All life is a matrix of shared experiences: good, bad or evil within the 'One Entity.'
And yes, I am still confused because it is soooo above my head.

On Being a Virgin

The other great news for the week was the Royal wedding of Prince William and Catherine which was a breath of fresh air. Katie looked so Virginal; even if she wasn't.
When the Commoner, Kate married Prince William, the Church said it would not be fitting for her to wear white on her wedding day because it was known that she had co-habitated with university students in a house which included Prince William.
Why should the Church, headed by men, be allowed to tell Kate that she should not wear a "white" ( a virgin color) wedding dress, just because they presume she is not a virgin.  What color should Prince William not be allowed to wear?
Being a virgin is really overrated; just ask Mary. She's probably tired of being referred too, as "the Virgin"; especially after having more kids.
It reminds me of Anne and King Henry VIII. She enticed him with her virginity, intact; until he married her; only to have her head cut off after she gave herself to him.
What does that tell you? As long as you remain a virgin, your head is safe?
Must be true: a young Libyan woman was taken by Gaddafi's Muslim soldiers and repeatedly raped for several days. The same Muslims who would have stoned her to death if she had willingly given up her virginity before marriage.
And when she cried out in a public forum for being defiled; Gaddafi's secret service escorted her out of sight. Where is she now?
So if the act of a man upon a woman makes her of less value; what does that make a man during the same act?
Being valued as a virgin is a man-made idea for the sole purpose of control. Once her virginity is gone; she is of less worth because his curiosity is quenched.
It's also a form of competition and control between the men. Who will be the "first" to have her.
After Prince William decided to stop dating Kate back in 2007 when she brought up the "M" word, this after going together for about 5 years; I had wondered if he had slept with her and now he was done with her.
Good advice from her Mum who told her to get on with her life.
One way to get a man interested is to make him jealous by dating other men. I think it's just in a man's DNA to want something another man has; until he has it; only to lose interest once he has her, too.
It's, as if, a woman has to be playing games all her life, making men compete with each other. I know there are men out there somewhere who can be satisfied with a good woman without having to draw swords or fight a duel for her.
The men who are too old  to lift a sword.
I say this in jest, of course.
Maybe
After 3 months of drowning in his beer, Prince William decided Kate is a good caught when he saw her out and about on the town with other men.
If she had stayed home, waiting, being faithful to him; he probably would not have been as interested in her.  
She would have been too easy  a caught.
 
Maybe, that's why men like fly fishing?

News closer to home

Closer to home, this week, Kristine finished her needlepoints for friends. She also baked up a few chocolate desserts in school that we give to neigbhors. She is calling different bakeries in New York and California, trying to find an Internship this Fall. 

She is getting positive feedback by reaching out beyond her front doorstep. 

Kristine's Asian needlepoint for her therapist 

Opera Cake with Rum, coffee buttercream she gave to a few neighbors 

Kristine's topsy turvy 5 layer Dobos Torte  cake going to my husband's work.

My husband finally finished his brick walkway for his lemon and lime trees in between bad weather, business and Montana trips. 

It's the engineer and farmer in his blood that must make this kind of work so enticing. 

He said I could help, but I have learned over the years that he could be the death of me.

Too many times he has placed tools or handled equipment that could have seriously injured or killed me. 

You know that rake that's lying on the ground, face up; that happens often; and that's only a minor accident.

My husband's brickwork with sand mortar. A lemon and lime tree.

While running around the house without clothes, the dog starts barking and the door bell rings. I look out the front window to see an unmarked white van with flashing emergency lights. I can't see who's at the front door. I run upstairs and look out the window for a better view...only to see a shadow of leaves reflecting on the front door.  Flowers?
It's our anniversary. My husband sent them while he was in Washington D.C. The note was from my boyfriend: Thanking me for all I have done for him and our daughters. My husband would never write that.

Not stopping there, I also received E-mails, this week, from strangers all over the world: Thailand, Switzerland, Canada.... to congratulate me on my rose pictures that were featured on Webshots.com's 

"Member's Choice in the Rose Gardens section of Home & Garden." 

I didn't know they had "featured" pictures; much less member's who would E-mail me. 

One in particular, from Switzerland sent me a number of E-mails, until I answered him; wanting to be my "photo" friend. 

He has at least a hundred friends already. Some people just like "collecting" friends. 
Maybe, I should stamp a number on my forehead. 

It has Been a Good Week for the Good Guys

The world is getting smaller and smaller as we communicate with people all over the world and obviously some of these connections result in good news.

The Wizard's dead....the wizard's dead..... bin Laden, that is.

At first I thought it was a joke when I heard that bin Laden was dead. After all, look how long it took us to find him; as if we had to search Mars and Pluto too; which we did, but for other reasons, we were told. 

Although, with global communication coming together, including satellite observation, enabling our governmental agencies to succeed in finding bin Laden; what's up with the 3 high level Pakistani military compounds, include an academy, located within a few miles of bin Laden's house.  

Why are we giving Pakistan billions of " our  tax dollars?" 

Right now, I am imagining all those suicide bombers beating the crap out of bin Laden because they couldn't  find those 72 virgins in Hell. 

Kudos to the Navy Seals who perfected their mission to the last bullet through his head, without hesitation. Never mind: I can't shoot a woman who is used as a shield. 

What makes the Navy Seal's action so heroic is the perfection; unlike those clumsy action packed Hollywood movies we sit through. 

If only our government can be as perfect managing the budget.

After joining AOL's Huffington Post's website, this week; where millions of participates comment on different topics of the day, I have stepped up my connection in the world.

This week alone, I have received a hundred plus comments from members, via my E-mail

(upon my request).  Some become my fans; as I become their fans. It's an inspiring dialogue of exchanged ideas and information on the most pressing topics of the day; that is, if you become a fan of someone who is civil and like-minded. You really do have to stay away from serial killers. 

Yesterday on Huffington, I followed a member who sited the following article: 

The assault force of Navy SEALs snatched a trove of computer drives and disks during their weekend raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, yielding what a U.S. official called “the mother lode of intelligence.” The special operations forces grabbed personal computers, thumb drives and electronic equipment during the lightning raid that killed bin Laden, officials told POLITICO. “They cleaned it out,” one official said. “Can you imagine what’s on Osama bin Laden’s hard drive?”

To which Sergeant, a member responded: 

“Imagine if you were an Al Queda sleeper agent enjoying your night in wherever and you saw this on CNN. Just imagine the panic and the quick destructio­n of documents and the use of escape plans. And now today, every unit linked to bin Laden must assume they are compromise­d. They will not know when a black helicopter will arrive over their little abode and snatch them up into the night. 

Just the terror inflicted on these animals should add to the joy of eliminatin­g one more murderer from the earth.”

I feel there are some insightful people exchanging thoughts on the Internet; and joining with them will only add strength in number to the cause; whatever it is or will be. 

By putting ourselves out there in the world of communication;  the world becomes a little smaller for some of us.  While the world diminishes in size through communication; our ideas or actions expand to others, living thousands of miles away; bringing us closer together, in thought; or tearing us apart. Whichever way it will be; it will come as  

rapid fire communication.

Keeping in mind that new terrorist groups; such as, in Yemen, are just as deadly as bin Laden was at one time. 

Keeping in mind that after paying Pakistan to be our friend; we, obviously, need greater communication skills or just more fire power against countries who double deal.

No wonder the Pakistani didn't want us in their country to try to find bin Laden. No wonder bin Laden was housed in a protected Pakistani military area, most likely forbidden to American soldiers. 

The proverb:  keep your friends close, and your enemies closer if only to ensure they are not up to mischief. 
This really means that the Pakistani's were considered "close friends," not "enemies" whom we should have been  keeping a 'closer' eye on because they were our enemy, all along. 

However,  this week it brought some of us closer together in a good way; if only to find a needle ( bin Laden) in a haystack (Pakistan) and to determine who are really our friends.