Where did you get my name and email?
Where did you find me?
Why would you ask me?
I mean, if you found me in Facebook or whatever, what did I "say or post" that made you think I could solve your problem?
And I certainly can.
This disease is caused by your diet. GMO's create it. So no soy, no sugar, nothing white! All the processed crap is toxic to your system, and is essentially addictive …. This is what created the Organic Craze . . . You need to avoid all the toxic pollution in the food systems.
Course then you'll avoid Cancer and Alzheimer's too . . . . If you can cut out the fluoride and aluminum too.
Sent from my iPhone 11+max :-D))
> On May 23, 2021, at 8:41 AM, Denny Brown <brownsugar4424@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Do you have any suggestions for someone pre-diabetic?
>
> Sent from my iPad
Sunday, May 23, 2021
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
EARTH EVOLVES!!!!
Screenshot 2020-04-29 at 6.34.44 AM
YOU HAVE BEEN LIED TOO..
http://complex4usf.blogspot.com/search/label/boom
A LOT, AND YOUR MOTHER IS PISSED!!!
V-19 WAVE2 IS NOW!
EARTH EVOLVES!!!!
LOVE ALONE LIVES, greed, fear, bs-diversions is death.
ONLY LOVE!
YES PLEASE WATCH THE NEXT MOVIE: http://stars4ideas.blogspot.com/2020/04/envisioning-sustainability-knew-digital.html
YOU HAVE BEEN LIED TOO..
http://complex4usf.blogspot.com/search/label/boom
A LOT, AND YOUR MOTHER IS PISSED!!!
V-19 WAVE2 IS NOW!
EARTH EVOLVES!!!!
LOVE ALONE LIVES, greed, fear, bs-diversions is death.
ONLY LOVE!
YES PLEASE WATCH THE NEXT MOVIE: http://stars4ideas.blogspot.com/2020/04/envisioning-sustainability-knew-digital.html
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Nothing in stimulus for Tampa, St. Pete==>CITIZEN RESPONSE, NO MORE TAXES, OR CARS, OR YOUR LIES
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| Original Times Article |
This is clearly another big "BOONDOGGLE" that those wealthy cronies are exploiting their paid Puppets in Congress to Make their Firms Richer.
No Help for Tampa, St Pete, or Clearwater when our business and operations is ALL about Tourists and Traffic. . . Their Stay-at-home orders mean nothing to the rich wall street cronies and schools. . . Those students will often DO BETTER at home with Mom and Dad teaching instead of some packaged corporate crap anyway. . .
But 2.4 million for Flint Michigan The following is a list of Flint's leading employers:
- General Motors
- Genesys Health System
- McLaren Medical Center
- Hurley Medical Center
- Genesee County
- City of Flint
- Meijers
- Citizens Bank
- Flint Community Schools
- Delphi
- Baker College
- A I Flint, LLC
- Genesee Intermediate School District
- Charles Stewart Mott Community College
- Miller Apple LTD Partnership
- Carman Ainsworth Community Schools
- Beecher Community Schools
Bankers, and school will all do better from home. Manufacturing is all robots and digital with people in safety masks and suits anyway. NO TRAFFIC, NO TOURISTS is likely better for the rich schools and banks as well. BUT NOT for FLORIDA. . .
Maybe Tampa, St Pete, and Clearwater should respond with a Moratorium on All Federal taxes. Sorry, we have to deal with our own first. . . no more taxes to the Fed's from Florida. . . I wonder what those rich cronies will think then?
Thanks again for the Great Work, and THANK GOD, for the TIMES online, and you should consider Crowd Funding with no more advertisements, you might find how much you are LOVED and be able to double your Print Pages with this!
God Bless,
eric;-)
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Re: Reviewing Virtual Advisory Work
Hi Megan, I get this call once a month. . . But no one signs me up, because I wont pay for any listing service. . . . Search "SWMM expert" and that's me . . . No service can beat that. SO WHY would I pay for a service? . . . NEVER. I already know how to beat google!
However, all of you are paying HEAVILY to get your CRM built, and customized to automate the cash flow in. And you all seek tools and tricks to make it better, faster, easier . . . Give me a free account, and I will Beta-Test anything you are building. . . Step you-out far ahead of everyone! ... see my skill base, and career level... now read it to see how much was really CHANGING SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FOR PEOPLE!!!
Your call!
Regards,
Eric
813-616-0164
Sent from my iPhone 11+max :-D))
On May 1, 2020, at 9:33 AM, Megan Shehan <megan.shehan@advisorycloud.com> wrote:
Eric, new month, new opportunities - I'd love to pick your brain about our Virtual Advisory Board program and review whether your background may align with opportunities through our platform.
Can we find 10-minutes to catch up today or early next week?Looking forward to it,
Megan------- Forwarded Message -------
Eric, have you had a chance to reconsider taking advantage of advisory work this year?
The current business climate is a perfect opportunity to extend your expertise and professional accolades, while helping companies seeking out-of-the-box advice.Virtual advisory boards and remote advisory work can all be done on your schedule, and from the convenience of a home office.Can we take 10-minutes to review some of the open opportunities on AdvisoryCloud, and how your background might align with remote advisory work immediately available?Warm regards,
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Friday, February 7, 2020
Garden Steps project: making stone soup | Plan Hillsborough
Garden Steps project: making stone soup | Plan Hillsborough
February 2020 – On January 28, County Commission Chair Lesley J. “Les” Miller Jr. was joined by Tampa Mayor Jane Castor and Tampa Councilman Orlando Gudes in celebrating the kick-off of the Garden Steps project, funded by a grant from the Aetna Foundation and American Public Health Association.
Led by the MPO and Coalition of Community Gardens, the Garden Steps project is an initiative to expand access to fresh, healthy food in Tampa’s food desert neighborhoods through education, agriculture, and walk/bike connections. The event’s title, “Making Stone Soup,” recalls a folktale about famine-struck villagers sharing one ingredient from each household to create a pot of good food none could have produced individually. To further inspire the meeting participants, MPO staff members Michele Ogilvie and Wanda West brought their own homemade contributions, carrot ginger soup, and muffins!
As in the folktale, the problem of access to fresh food is less insurmountable when many community members work together. The meeting’s participants represented agencies and civic groups that might not be in touch under other circumstances, and they spoke about opportunities for expanding connections, opportunities for other community gardens, and next steps.
Middleton High School staff announced their readiness to coordinate their planned school garden with the new garden on 22nd street. Representatives from Tampa Family Health Center, a medical facility on 22nd Street, were supportive and are eager to collaborate with the Garden Steps plan. Mrs. Ogilvie spoke about the vision of the garden’s educational mission and the Healthy Street concept. Green Artery attendees talked about establishing gardens along the proposed pathways. The entire group was excited about working together to make the community the healthiest city.
Mayor Castor presented a Proclamation declaring January 27 – February 2 Tampa Community Health Week, with an emphasis on Community Gardens and Health. Other community partners included Lutz Community Church, Meacham Urban Farm, Temple Terrace Community Garden, Sweetwater Organic Community Farm, Seffner Community Garden, Green Artery, Whitwam Organics, Hillsborough County Extension Office, Connect & Propel Tampa Bay, Senior Connection Center, Hillsborough Soil & Water Conservation District, the Florida Department of Health, and REAL Building Consultants.
Plans are underway for a 3rd Grow Gardens Conference on May 1-2, 2020. Contact Michele Ogilvie, ogilviem@plancom.org, or check back at PlanHillsborough.org for more information coming soon!
Sunday, September 8, 2019
Deep ecology requires
If we are to truly embrace the reality of ecological sustainability that recognizes the world as a living whole, we need to make the shift into a holistic consciousness, a consciousness that sees the whole in every part. Only then can we fully respond to the environmental crisis that is being caused by our present Western consciousness and the values it supports. Deep ecology requires not just a shift in values or ideology but a shift in consciousness.
https://omtimes.com/2019/09/sustainability-deep-ecology-sacred/Sent from my iPad
Friday, July 19, 2019
The Garden Club of St. Petersburg, FL Inc
About Us
Children are our future and developing an awareness of the importance of protecting our environment is important. Youth projects supported by the Garden Club are: Camp Wekiva ( a camp owned and operated by FFGC in Apopka for students in grades K-8), S.E.E.K. (Save the Earth’s Environment through Knowledge, a week-long conference for high school students), a horticulture scholarship at Pinellas Technical College, school gardens in many public schools, a Junior Gardener Summer Nature Camp, and a Saturday Junior Gardener program during the school year at the Pioneer Settlement Village.
The Garden Club is also interested in our older citizens and has a Garden Therapy program, visiting Nursing Homes, Assisted Living Facilities, and Rehab Centers and assisting the residents in planting potted plants to put in their rooms, conducting butterfly programs, and bringing a little cheer to the residents.
The Garden Club works with the City of St. Petersburg on the Green Thumb Festival in April at Walter Fuller Park. The Garden Club sponsors a Flower Show with floral designs, horticulture, educational exhibits and creative crafts that are judged by accredited judges. A Children’s Plant Fair is also a part of the Festival.
The Garden Club has formally dedicated a Blue Star Memorial. It is available for the members and the public to have a brick commemorating a loved one. Use the form below to order a brick.
STRAWN, PATRIC1A
KEOHANE, JOANNE
STRAWN, PATRICIA J
ANKERBERG, JANICE L
ORDES, CYNTHIA L
MATTHEWS, KATHY
COERVER, ELIZABETH
Children are our future and developing an awareness of the importance of protecting our environment is important. Youth projects supported by the Garden Club are: Camp Wekiva ( a camp owned and operated by FFGC in Apopka for students in grades K-8), S.E.E.K. (Save the Earth’s Environment through Knowledge, a week-long conference for high school students), a horticulture scholarship at Pinellas Technical College, school gardens in many public schools, a Junior Gardener Summer Nature Camp, and a Saturday Junior Gardener program during the school year at the Pioneer Settlement Village.
The Garden Club is also interested in our older citizens and has a Garden Therapy program, visiting Nursing Homes, Assisted Living Facilities, and Rehab Centers and assisting the residents in planting potted plants to put in their rooms, conducting butterfly programs, and bringing a little cheer to the residents.
The Garden Club works with the City of St. Petersburg on the Green Thumb Festival in April at Walter Fuller Park. The Garden Club sponsors a Flower Show with floral designs, horticulture, educational exhibits and creative crafts that are judged by accredited judges. A Children’s Plant Fair is also a part of the Festival.
The Garden Club has formally dedicated a Blue Star Memorial. It is available for the members and the public to have a brick commemorating a loved one. Use the form below to order a brick.
500 SUNSET DRIVE SOUTH
ST. PETERSBURG, FL 33707
ST. PETERSBURG, FL 33707
8623 - 15TH WAY NO
ST. PETERSBURG, FL 33702
ST. PETERSBURG, FL 33702
455 - 115TH AVE
TREASURE ISLAND, FL 33706
TREASURE ISLAND, FL 33706
STRAWN, PATRICIA J
8623 15TH WAY N
ST. PETERSBURG, FL 33702
ST. PETERSBURG, FL 33702
ANKERBERG, JANICE L
5190 44TH STREET SOUTH
ST. PETERSBURG, FL 33711
ST. PETERSBURG, FL 33711
ORDES, CYNTHIA L
100 4TH AVENUE APT 421
ST PETERSBURG, FL 33701
ST PETERSBURG, FL 33701
MATTHEWS, KATHY
1020 41ST AVENUE N
ST PETERSBURG, FL 33710
ST PETERSBURG, FL 33710
COERVER, ELIZABETH
2634 66TH TERRACE S.
ST. PETERSBURG, FL 33712
ST. PETERSBURG, FL 33712
Thursday, January 24, 2019
mass transit —- Electric cars
The death of the electric car is another movie that you might want to watch; talking about the same issue with industry controlling people.
my comments about Monsanto and fluoride and tobacco are the same thing, industry controlling people = not capitalism! Not people "deciding" but people "being programmed!"
apparently this did not register for either of you!
When i started at USF Again, I saw this over and over again. First finding that cancer was "made up"
by industry. Then John hired me because he had been researching it and looking at the same thing from the science perspective, while I had been living it .... that's why John and I became such great brothers, seeing the same thing from opposite sides of the fence...
Anyway I can't argue about this with you anymore. It's too fundamental and intimate .... so I created this list of movies to bridge this gap... don't think you can watch them all .... NOT even if you pretend it's fantasy ... some are too close to home.
Sent from my iPhone :-)
Friday, July 27, 2018
RegenVillages
RegenVillages
ReGen Villages has gone viral around the world after our announcement at the Venice Biennale for Architecture In 2016. Since then we have received over 45-million pages to our website and thousands of emails from all around the world.
ok this is getting cool:
ReGen Villages has gone viral around the world after our announcement at the Venice Biennale for Architecture In 2016. Since then we have received over 45-million pages to our website and thousands of emails from all around the world.
ok this is getting cool:
A half-hour commute from Amsterdam, a piece of farmland is slated to become a new kind of neighborhood. Vertical farms, along with traditional fields and orchards surrounding homes, will supply food to people living there. Food waste will turn into fish feed for on-site aquaculture. Houses will filter rainwater, but won’t have driveways. A “village OS” tech platform will use AI to simultaneously manage systems for renewable energy, food production, water supply, and waste.
The 50-acre neighborhood, which will be nearly self-sufficient as it collects and stores water and energy, grows food, and processes much of its own waste, was initially planned for construction in 2017. The developers, called ReGen Villages, struggled with red tape–the area, on a piece of land that used to be underwater but was reclaimed in the 1960s when a seawall was constructed–has regulations that make it difficult for someone other than an individual homeowner to build on land that is mostly used for farming now. But after the project finally got government approval this month, it’s ready to take its next steps
Sunday, June 3, 2018
Mining the Chat Groups for Truths
Join - Yahoo Groups
Vasectomy and Hysterectomy are both very profitable for doctors and hospitals. . . However, people then loose their fundamental systems for hormones and lymph system operations. Thus, the resulting health complications are extensive and completely impossible to link to the actual medical surgery. This is a strong exploitive monopoly with excessive profits and very little liability risks.
I did research on this once. The Florida hospital systems have nearly a dozen different names for a Hysterectomy and literally hundreds of excuses to complete them . . . birth control, stop hot flashes, reduce stress. . . etc. . . I was stunned to find out how often these are done "routine" (similar to prostate surgery) - - - Of course the resulting defective hormones and lymph leads to a defective immune systems = Creating Cancer!
But all the profit on cancer means they will never admit any "causes" for cancer except immediate toxins, like asbestos. However, the dentist will carefully cover your body with a protective lead blanket to x-ray your teeth for a millisecond, but every flight you take is like 10-50x that for hours of security, and those security folks are certainly all getting fried, with no liabilities, but major exploitive cancer monopoly profits. . .
The American Machine gone Mad!
Understand your own energy and learn stronger techniques:
Yes Qi moves faster as it has less to move through, basic physics. . .
Sunday, May 27, 2018
Course Project Activity #2
Course Project Activity #2 | Course Project Activity #2 | edX101 Courseware | edX
Brainstorm with your course team and write a brief memo to record your thoughts. Documenting your discussion will come in handy during the self-assessment.
How would I get my course out more? I'm comfortable with moving this forward with the existing school systems that I am engaged with. Creating more Experiential Learning opportunities are fundamental for who I am. Making this system stronger and more available seems necessary for the next step of this plan. Getting this out is where I need to start first!
Brainstorm with your course team and write a brief memo to record your thoughts. Documenting your discussion will come in handy during the self-assessment.
How would I get my course out more? I'm comfortable with moving this forward with the existing school systems that I am engaged with. Creating more Experiential Learning opportunities are fundamental for who I am. Making this system stronger and more available seems necessary for the next step of this plan. Getting this out is where I need to start first!
Friday, May 25, 2018
Course Project Activity #1
Course Project Activity #1
What are the ultimate aims of this course?- create a portal for team building
- allow simple data collection for teams
- interface directly with students to support personal projects
- building teams and projects are easy
- creating a team with peers is ideal to complete any project
- everything can be defined as a project
- read, understand and share freely
- commit and follow-through
- be honest and direct
- this allows all processes of society to be formulated as an academic "experiential learning" course
- Teaching and learning become fundamental to all social interaction and infrastructure development
- assessments are based on results, not just memorizing data
- all participants are responsible for their own project development, results and next steps
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
The Followers are the Game Changers: It’s a New Dance - i.b.mee.
The Followers are the Game Changers: It’s a New Dance - i.b.mee.
Learn to be a "First Follower"
Have you seen this 3 minute popular video showing how followers are the key in changing a culture? …check it out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ
Great leaders have the gift of vision. They see and know what positive changes could be even in the mist of cultural and system complacency or chaos. It takes a vision to jumpstart a change. It takes followers to make and sustain the change as the video brilliantly points out. Without their risk-taking, the norm would not have changed and the others would not have experienced the fun and excitement of moving their bodies to the music, -a new dance.
Learn to be a "First Follower"
Have you seen this 3 minute popular video showing how followers are the key in changing a culture? …check it out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ
Great leaders have the gift of vision. They see and know what positive changes could be even in the mist of cultural and system complacency or chaos. It takes a vision to jumpstart a change. It takes followers to make and sustain the change as the video brilliantly points out. Without their risk-taking, the norm would not have changed and the others would not have experienced the fun and excitement of moving their bodies to the music, -a new dance.
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Fwd: Is Plastic Harming Your Health?
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Sunday, March 25, 2018
Earth Law
Earth Law: Community Bill of Rights
While a law of Ecocide is an example of International Earth Law, there are examples of Earth Law happening at local levels too. Community Bills of Rights have been pioneered in the US by the Community Environmental Legal Defence Fund (CELDF) in recent years. They are local laws to elevate the rights of communities and nature above corporate rights, and they have proved effective in empowering communities to allow them to determine whether corporate developments, such as fracking, can proceed.
Community Bills of Rights are an example of bottom up legal systematic change. Where communities feel that their voices are not being heard Community Bills of Rights redirect rights, so that people and planet are put first. This has parallels in successful rights based movements like the abolitionists and the suffragettes.
In the UK, communities can be empowered in the same way as has happened under a Community Bill of Rights in the US. Community Chartering in the UK is now emerging. You can read more at communitychartering.org
In the UK, a Community Bill of Rights changes the legal framework in two fundamental ways:
it enshrines the right to local community self government by giving the local people the right to decide what happens in their communities; it recognize the rights of nature. By identifying that nature has intrinsic value, and is not merely property a Community Bill of Rights is an example of Earth law which complements and supports law to eradicate ecocide at the international level.
While a law of Ecocide is an example of International Earth Law, there are examples of Earth Law happening at local levels too. Community Bills of Rights have been pioneered in the US by the Community Environmental Legal Defence Fund (CELDF) in recent years. They are local laws to elevate the rights of communities and nature above corporate rights, and they have proved effective in empowering communities to allow them to determine whether corporate developments, such as fracking, can proceed.
Community Bills of Rights are an example of bottom up legal systematic change. Where communities feel that their voices are not being heard Community Bills of Rights redirect rights, so that people and planet are put first. This has parallels in successful rights based movements like the abolitionists and the suffragettes.
In the UK, communities can be empowered in the same way as has happened under a Community Bill of Rights in the US. Community Chartering in the UK is now emerging. You can read more at communitychartering.org
In the UK, a Community Bill of Rights changes the legal framework in two fundamental ways:
it enshrines the right to local community self government by giving the local people the right to decide what happens in their communities; it recognize the rights of nature. By identifying that nature has intrinsic value, and is not merely property a Community Bill of Rights is an example of Earth law which complements and supports law to eradicate ecocide at the international level.
Essentials of Theory U - Otto Scharmer - YouTube
Weaving Influence
Published on Mar 22, 2018
Since its first printing, Theory U has evolved into a movement within both academic and organizational development programs on a global scale. Otto Scharmer details the latest Theory U developments into a short handbook that focuses on three essential components:
1. A framework for seeing the blind spots of leadership and systems change.
2. A method for implementing awareness-based change: process, principles, practices.
3. A new narrative for evolutionary societal change: updating our mental and institutional operating systems (OS) in all of society’s sectors.
Published on Mar 22, 2018
Since its first printing, Theory U has evolved into a movement within both academic and organizational development programs on a global scale. Otto Scharmer details the latest Theory U developments into a short handbook that focuses on three essential components:
1. A framework for seeing the blind spots of leadership and systems change.
2. A method for implementing awareness-based change: process, principles, practices.
3. A new narrative for evolutionary societal change: updating our mental and institutional operating systems (OS) in all of society’s sectors.
Saturday, January 27, 2018
hOurworld - Time Bank Mobile Web Services
Time Bank Mobile Web Services
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded a team of researchers at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) to conduct scientific research into timebanking. Their goal is to understand timebanking practices and the role that technology plays in enabling them and to develop new innovative technologies to make it much easier to do and more popular. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-1218544
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded a team of researchers at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) to conduct scientific research into timebanking. Their goal is to understand timebanking practices and the role that technology plays in enabling them and to develop new innovative technologies to make it much easier to do and more popular. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-1218544
Friday, December 29, 2017
Corporate Child Abuse: The Unseen Global Epidemic
Corporate Child Abuse: Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization
today children may be assaulted, diseased, or killed by pervasive corporate drugs, junk-foods and beverages, perverted by mindless violence in multiple modes, deployed as dead-end labour with no benefits, and then dumped into a corporate future of debt enslavement and meaningless work. How could this increasing systematic abuse be publicly licensed at every level? What kind of society could turn a blind eye to its dominant institutions laying waste the lives of the young and humanity’s future itself?
Bakan’s classic film and book,The Corporation has revealed step by step the “corporation as psychopath”.
Bakan reports copious findings on Big Pharma buying doctors with favours, planting articles in name journals, inventing child illnesses to prescribe medications to, and drugging the young from infancy on with the unsafe substances they push (pp. 65-114). Along with the corporate invasion of children’s healthcare goes the invasion of public education (pp. 139-71, 245-56). Administrators with now corporate executive salaries for no educational function collaborate with the agenda, and mechanical testing devices closed to independent academic examination are the Trojan horse for a mass lock-step of miseducation (pp. 140-62). Bakan is aware that the whole trend of corporatization of the classroom and educational institutions “undermines the role of education in promoting critical thought and intelligent reflection” (p. 47). Indeed it wars against them in principle. For reasoning and critical research require learners to address problems independently of corporate profits and to penetrate behind market-conditioned beliefs. Big-business demands the opposite. It maximizes money returns as its first and final principle of thought and judgement, and selects against any truth or knowledge conflicting with this goal.
Corporate child abuse, in short, far surpasses all other forms of child abuse put together. But in a world where both parents are at work to survive and big money always wins elections, the life interests of children are bullied out of view. “Corporations [are] large, powerful and dominating institutions”, Bakan summarizes, “deliberately programmed to exploit and neglect others in pursuit of wealth for themselves” (p. 175).
So what is the resolution? Bakan emphasizes the pre-cautionary principle and laws against clear harms to the young. He emphasizes “values” and “teaching what is good for them and what is not” (pp. 49-50). Yet we have no principled criterion of either. They are self-evident once seen. The good for children is whatever enables life capacities to coherently grow, and the bad is whatever disables them. Corporate dominion goes the opposite direction. Thus unfitness, obesity, depression, egoic fantasies, aggressive violence, and aimlessness increase the more its profitable child abuse runs out of control. This is the heart of our disorder. Public regulation of corporations by tested life-capacity standards is the solution.
today children may be assaulted, diseased, or killed by pervasive corporate drugs, junk-foods and beverages, perverted by mindless violence in multiple modes, deployed as dead-end labour with no benefits, and then dumped into a corporate future of debt enslavement and meaningless work. How could this increasing systematic abuse be publicly licensed at every level? What kind of society could turn a blind eye to its dominant institutions laying waste the lives of the young and humanity’s future itself?
Bakan’s classic film and book,The Corporation has revealed step by step the “corporation as psychopath”.
Bakan reports copious findings on Big Pharma buying doctors with favours, planting articles in name journals, inventing child illnesses to prescribe medications to, and drugging the young from infancy on with the unsafe substances they push (pp. 65-114). Along with the corporate invasion of children’s healthcare goes the invasion of public education (pp. 139-71, 245-56). Administrators with now corporate executive salaries for no educational function collaborate with the agenda, and mechanical testing devices closed to independent academic examination are the Trojan horse for a mass lock-step of miseducation (pp. 140-62). Bakan is aware that the whole trend of corporatization of the classroom and educational institutions “undermines the role of education in promoting critical thought and intelligent reflection” (p. 47). Indeed it wars against them in principle. For reasoning and critical research require learners to address problems independently of corporate profits and to penetrate behind market-conditioned beliefs. Big-business demands the opposite. It maximizes money returns as its first and final principle of thought and judgement, and selects against any truth or knowledge conflicting with this goal.
Corporate child abuse, in short, far surpasses all other forms of child abuse put together. But in a world where both parents are at work to survive and big money always wins elections, the life interests of children are bullied out of view. “Corporations [are] large, powerful and dominating institutions”, Bakan summarizes, “deliberately programmed to exploit and neglect others in pursuit of wealth for themselves” (p. 175).
So what is the resolution? Bakan emphasizes the pre-cautionary principle and laws against clear harms to the young. He emphasizes “values” and “teaching what is good for them and what is not” (pp. 49-50). Yet we have no principled criterion of either. They are self-evident once seen. The good for children is whatever enables life capacities to coherently grow, and the bad is whatever disables them. Corporate dominion goes the opposite direction. Thus unfitness, obesity, depression, egoic fantasies, aggressive violence, and aimlessness increase the more its profitable child abuse runs out of control. This is the heart of our disorder. Public regulation of corporations by tested life-capacity standards is the solution.
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Dirt Poor: Fruits and Vegetables are Less Nutritious
Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? - Scientific American
A landmark study on the topic by Donald Davis and his team of researchers from the University of Texas (UT) at Austin’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry was published in December 2004 in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition. They studied U.S. Department of Agriculture nutritional data from both 1950 and 1999 for 43 different vegetables and fruits, finding “reliable declines” in the amount of protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin (vitamin B2) and vitamin C over the past half century. Davis and his colleagues chalk up this declining nutritional content to the preponderance of agricultural practices designed to improve traits (size, growth rate, pest resistance) other than nutrition.
Recent studies of historical nutrient content data for fruits and vegetables spanning 50 to 70 years show apparent median declines of 5% to 40% or more in minerals, vitamins, and protein in groups of foods, especially in vegetables
Acknowledging assessment difficulties, since the 1850s, wheats have declined in Mg concentration 7–29 %; USA and English vegetables’ Mg declined 15–23 %, 1930s to 1980s. The nadir of USA food Mg supply in 1968 coincides with the USA peak in CVD mortality. As humans transition from “traditional” to modern processed food diets, Mg intake declines.
A landmark study on the topic by Donald Davis and his team of researchers from the University of Texas (UT) at Austin’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry was published in December 2004 in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition. They studied U.S. Department of Agriculture nutritional data from both 1950 and 1999 for 43 different vegetables and fruits, finding “reliable declines” in the amount of protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin (vitamin B2) and vitamin C over the past half century. Davis and his colleagues chalk up this declining nutritional content to the preponderance of agricultural practices designed to improve traits (size, growth rate, pest resistance) other than nutrition.
Recent studies of historical nutrient content data for fruits and vegetables spanning 50 to 70 years show apparent median declines of 5% to 40% or more in minerals, vitamins, and protein in groups of foods, especially in vegetables
Acknowledging assessment difficulties, since the 1850s, wheats have declined in Mg concentration 7–29 %; USA and English vegetables’ Mg declined 15–23 %, 1930s to 1980s. The nadir of USA food Mg supply in 1968 coincides with the USA peak in CVD mortality. As humans transition from “traditional” to modern processed food diets, Mg intake declines.
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