Happy Easter!

First half: Cheesecake...
Second half of posting: Dog Bites-What can Happen. Why they're so serious.


Pictures of the Chocolate Cappuccino Cheesecake.

(Well, after delivering chicken soup and cheesecake to some of my neighbors, I forgot to post the pictures, initially. Sorry. I'll post the 10" Spring form pan w/ the cheesecake in it, above, but I'll have to show you the presentation w/ a chocolate leaf and a raspberry on top of some whipped cream. It turned out dreadfully scrumptious! Looks like I'll have to share the recipe, too. That will be tomorrow-Tuesday, as I'm painting in the bathroom still....tonight.) (Finally, I share it below.)

So, today is Easter Sunday. Amid mowing the lawn and painting, I get to try the Chocolate Cappuccino Cheesecake I made last night. It's my first cheesecake. I'll share my recipe below later, after I've had a bite. 

(I really should remove the picture of the Easter basket with the candy, as I don't trust that it's not a GMO sugar beet, aspartame or Splenda product, and I put the whole basket in the Rec room in case other people wanted it. I should have never bought them, even if they were very cheap. They deserve to be thrown away....) Only homemade stuff from now on..... I already shun 99% of the food in grocery stores. Even the tomato that a friend brought me from Costco, is still looking intact weeks later. It must be irradiated or gassed or something. Yuck.

I made some chicken noodle soup w/ homemade noodles yesterday, so I could bring a ray of relief to a neighbor who has had a string of falls and medical mishaps with hospitalizations. Her husband could use a caregiving break. It was fun bringing her an Easter Basket. I hope she gave it away, as she doesn't need the sugar. It was just a gesture. She loaned me (well, gave me, because she had never used it in all the years she owned it) a 10" Springform pan. I didn't have one, and the rusted or crooked ones I'd found in the Thrift stores lately, didn't appeal to me. So, after I whip up some cream, and maybe paint some melted chocolate on some non-toxic leaves to freeze and pop on top of the dollop of cream, I am going to deliver a piece of heaven to her and her husband.

With cheesecake, it has to sit for 12 hours. (I notice my grammar has deteriorated to some country brogue in the last few years...) The flavors meld, etc.
I thought I'd put a frozen raspberry on top of the whipping cream dollop, and two chocolate leaves. I used a touch of cinnamon in the graham cracker crust, and would like to try some orange zest next time. I read in the recipe's comments where someone put an Oreo on the bottom of a cupcake wrapper and made 30+ mini cheesecakes. I chose graham crackers to keep it simple, but was upset to find High Fructose Corn Syrup in the ingredients. To understand how upset, see the pictures in the previous posting on GMO corn. I can go through the entire grocery store and find only a handful or less of food that I feel good about buying. I'd rather live in Europe or another country instead of this polluted wasteland, to be perfectly frank.


The recipe for this cheesecake is here:
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/chocolate-cappuccino-cheesecake/detail.aspx

I used 1/4 c. of strong organic coffee, and 1/2 c. brown sugar/1/2 c. white sugar. I used Mexican Sour Cream for regular sour cream, and for the crust, I used graham crackers as mentioned above instead of the chocolate cookies or grahams. 
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Dog Bite of an Elderly Person. Why Dog Laws Should be Respected.

Earlier this week, a friend of mine was riding his bike home and came across a large dog running loose, having been let out of the gate by the owner's kids. The owner admitted her dog was the 'town dog', running loose often. She also pleaded no contest to negligence when it bit my friend. My friend was just a couple of blocks from his house when he passed a group of kids out front of the house, and slowed down so he wouldn't run into any of them. The kids were outside, and assured him the dog was friendly. The dog was out of the fenced area of its yard. Well, it slowly walked over to my friend, and bit into his left leg, just above the ankle. Blood gushed out, and probably because he's 67 and his leg isn't as meaty as in his younger days, it felt like it hit the bone in the front. 

What a dog bite can do for an elderly person.
Infection. Antibiotics. Swelling and Pain.
Pain prevents sleep. Immune System Fails.
Antibiotics cause Urinary Tract Infection.
One side effect of Antibiotics used: Death
Second dose of Cipro for UTI=Shingles.
Shingles=possible lifetime recurrence

So, my friend calls me that evening, and was going to wait till the next day to go into his doctor's at Kaiser. He was upset and exhausted, in shock. I insisted he call an Advice Nurse at an Emergency Room, as I knew he needed to get it cleaned up immediately. The germs in saliva of an animal are not anything to ignore till morning. 

He ended up going to the ER at St. Vincent's, where they cleaned it out and then gave him some Doxycycline and Cleosin. I was upset, because I couldn't be there to protect him from the malpractice that seems to be the norm any more in the medical field. Taking pharmaceuticals without consulting with a good Pharmacist or reading and being informed can be fatal, itself. Happens every day in the US. He didn't want me to travel an hour or so to meet him at that late hour. Sure enough, when I looked up Cleosin on askapatient.com, etc., I found it to be very dangerous, and the first side effect listed was Death. Another person had diarrhea for 10 months, etc. The rating of this drug was very low, and the comments frightening. 

The next day, his Doc at Kaiser gave him a prescription for Septra DS or Bactrim. This drug had a lower rating, and was just as dangerous. I feel furious at the allowance of this Medical Field/Pharmaceutical Guinea Pig approach. How unnecessary and alarming. A dog or cat bite can entail cellulitis, blood poisoning or worse. Looks like the antibiotics out there alone, can kill a person.

This dog bite sank to the bone in front.
Xrays to see if a tooth or fur imbedded.
Pain level 8 of 10.
Tender to the touch 3 months later.
Cellulitis and lancing of infection.
Possible nerve damage. Urinary Tract Infection
and then Shingles from Antibiotic Use
and lowered Immune System.
All of it unnecessary if dog was leashed.
These pictures are one week after the bite.

On top of this upsetting part of this event, my friend had no confirmation the dog had a rabies shot, and the local Police and Columbia County Animal Control had not quarantined the animal for the 10 day protocol, to ensure the best protective outcome for my friend. I called Chief Conner of Vernonia, and left a message for him to return my call. I told him even if my friend's bite became infected further and he got blood poisoning, it could cause him to lose his leg and possibly die. Dog bites are serious. I wanted him to take some action about the loose dogs in his town.

This morning, my friend tells me an elderly woman was attacked and bitten by this same dog a while ago. The owner told my friend at the time of the bite, that State Farm wouldn't pay on her insurance, because she already had 3 claims. Hmm. Were any of those claims for dog bites? My friend usually carries a pocket knife, but he will carry better protection from now on. Since the dog slowly walked up to his bike, he didn't expect a bite, so even protection probably wouldn't  have helped.

Another strange fact about Rabies is it's symptoms can show up 1-3 months to 7 years in strange cases, after a bite. Since a Rabies vaccine isn't foolproof, like flu vaccines, etc., and in some cases can give the animal Rabies, and since there are cases of different strains from animals from different areas, the casual way my friend was treated brought me so much stress in worrying for him, that I felt like I could have 'emotional Rabies' with some of these 'professionals'.

Back of leg. One of the Deep Puncture Wounds.
Shows bruising and some surface scratches.

I'm looking forward to this day settling out. I wish I had grandbabies nearby to hide Easter eggs for and make a family dinner. Such is life. I'll share with my neighbors.

Update on the dog bite: Instead of collecting the dog for observation for ten days, and making sure he had a current rabies shot (he obviously is running loose in the country with wild animals and the bite was unprovoked), a Vernonia Policeman called my friend to say the owners reported the dog had now been run over the next day, and he could pay $100 for it to be tested for rabies, if the owners gave him permission, but the brain might be deteriorated now. Do I need to say more? 

Not one agency -Health Department, Animal Control or the Police ever got proof of this dog's death for Roy's peace of mind to eliminate the possibility of Rabies, or for the next victim. To excuse their lack luster performance, they said it was a 'minor bite' before even seeing the bite or taking pictures of it. His Kaiser doctor seemed to be annoyed when my friend wasn't comfortable with the antibiotic he was taking after getting more information about it and asked for something else. He wrote: "No deep puncture wounds, mostly superficial lacerations on the anterior and posterior portions of the shin." ??? Cellulitis alone can kill a person, or cause complications like amputations. Puncture wounds to the bone are not "superficial". The ER Room "irrigated" the puncture wounds. Thank goodness for photos and other medical observations in my friend's records. This doctor may be facing punitive measures.

Not until I told the Animal Control officer that I was posting pictures of it and writing about it on my public blog did he bother to move forward to write up the necessary City and State Citations of Dangerous Dog for the next poor victim. Without verification of the dog's death, the next bite victim would be in the same place as my friend without a police report or Citation record, as if this dog had never bitten before. Now with the Citation conviction, the owner has responsibility to inform the agencies involved if the dog changes owners. ...if it's still alive.

My thoughts: All three public agencies collect tax dollars to serve and protect in their professional capacities. It is fraud to be paid for services they are not providing. Animal Control only came out along with the Health Department a week later because I kept calling them. They never viewed the bite or took  pictures of it. Only putting it on a public blog and me sending the photos of the bite made the Animal Control officer do his job. Each agency passed off the responsibility of digging up the dog and having a Vet wear protective gear while getting the head (Rabies goes airborne) to send in for testing, so my friend would know if the doctors made the right decision on not giving him Rabies shots, and what his fate is. Pain and itching at the site of the bite does not bring me peace. Rabies shots are not foolproof, just like any vaccine, and sometimes infect the dog. There are also various strains from other areas possible, as mentioned. A dog training exercise in the South brought in coyotes from another area who were infected with Rabies. The dogs, though vaccinated, became infected and all had to be put down. 

The morning before the dog bite, my friend and I had discussed the irritation of dogs running loose in his town, cats invading my gardens and landscaping, how Ashland forbids any dogs in their Lithia Park and some of the comments on their local forum, and how animals too often were being put before humans, in consideration and safety. 

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On the campaign trail, Obama said: "Let folks know when their food is genetically modified, because Americans have a right to know what they're buying."

Contamination Alert: 
Can We Do Nothing?

Last night I watched an 11-part Youtube video about some people in the UK who were horrified at the innocent victims in the illegal Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Somalia, etc. and decided to do something. The EDO company that makes the parts for the Hell-fire Missiles and others, (think Shock and Awe)  quietly profits from the death of others in the world. Many citizens in the towns surrounding the EDO company began protesting peacefully, insistently and noisily, until the ITT company (the one that supplied the Nazi's in WWII) bought EDO and is moving it. The protesters let the employees know they too, were contributing to the death of innocent people.

There was a long story of involvement of the UK police and legal system, until the people's will won out. During the protests, which lasted for over a year, they did not give up. They began reading the names of the children that had been killed, how they died, etc.

See:

On The Verge

This is exactly how we must get rid of the Contamination of GMO foods, Unsafe Vaccines, Pharmaceutical Fraud, Harm and Euthanasia of our Elderly, Corrupt leaders, etc.

Insist on labeling. Educate others. STOP buying any processed foods with corn, soy, etc. and any questionable produce, etc. Grow a garden. We eat for nourishment. The difference between inorganic and organic nutrient levels is astounding. See below:

STOP buying inorganic coffee that is sprayed with fungicides, pesticides, etc. that not only gives you a splash in your morning cup, but is killing the innocent indigenous people with cancers and crippling lives with birth defects. Decide how to get involved!

Be cautious about Corporate-produced
'Scientific Studies' presented on the media. They are just as grafted as the medical studies our doctors read, that publish most of the good results, and leave out all the dangerous, damning results and side effects. The doctors make their decisions from these studies, and from the money they are given to prescribe, from Big Pharma. Find trustworthy doctors, and FIRE the rest.

There are known and unknown health risks of GMO foods, but a new study illuminates some dangers-
See link below:
See the Health Ranger's Video:

Get a look at the known risks of GMO corn, for instance:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2205509/Cancer-row-GM-foods-French-study-claims-did-THIS-rats--cause-organ-damage-early-death-humans.html

You will see this below, in the article:

Rats fed a lifelong diet of one of the bestselling strains of genetically modified corn suffered tumours and multiple organ damage, according to a controversial French study published today.

Scientists said the results raised serious questions about the safety of GM foods and the assurances offered by biotech companies and governments.

The first lifetime trials involving rats fed on GM corn found a raised incidence of breast tumours, liver and kidney damage.

The French team has released shocking images of tumours in mice caused by exclusively eating GM corn. However, the research has been criticised as being of 'no value' by other scientists

Dr Michael Antoniou, a molecular biologist at King’s College, London, and an expert on GM foods, said: ‘It shows an extraordinary number of tumours developing earlier and more aggressively – particularly in female animals. I am shocked by the extreme negative health impacts.’ 

The research was carried out by Caen University in France, and has been peer reviewed by independent scientists to guarantee the experiments were properly conducted and the results are valid.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2205509/Cancer-row-GM-foods-French-study-claims-did-THIS-rats--cause-organ-damage-early-death-humans.html#ixzz2Os1VpaP0
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Here's another address to some great information on GMO's.
Get Involved!
https://www.youtube.com/user/organicconsumer?feature=g-high-a

I've included Jon Rappoport's article below rather than another link.

I wish you well in your endeavors of leaving this world better than you found it, and protecting yourself and others, as a primary duty of being human. You Can Do Something Great!

Top 10 excuses for Obama signing the Monsanto Protection Act

by Jon Rappoport

March 28, 2013

www.nomorefakenews.com

Yes, he signed HR 993. It was a bill funding the federal government. There was a rider in it. A Monsanto and biotech rider.

The gist of the rider is: a dangerous ghoulish GMO food crop can't be stopped by a court order. That crop can still be grown, harvested, and sold in the US.

Isn't that wonderful? Isn't it grand?

250,000 people signed an emergency letter to Obama, telling him to send HR 993 back to Congress so the rider could be removed. He didn't.

Of course, there must be some mistake here, because we all know Obama is the radiant messiah. Right? He's constantly assuring us "we're all in this together."

He would never allow such a rider to pass through his hands and become law, because GMO food IS, in fact, dangerous to human health and is part of an overall plan to put the planet's food supply into the hands of Monsanto.

Therefore, Obama has excuses. He surely does.

I propose the following ten. You can take your pick and thereby sustain your belief in his mission of bringing peace and love to the world. He's not just another arch conman who scuttled into the White House. Of course not.

He would never support Monsanto in its drive to patent life forms, own the food supply, drench the world in more pesticides, engineer RNA so it silences and activates genes in the body in random fashion, leading to incalculable consequences for the human race.

He would never come down on the wrong side of the issue that could supersede all others in shaping the future of the human race.

So pick your favorite excuse:

Obama didn't know what he was signing. He was too busy with other matters. He was on vacation. He was checking his brackets on March Madness. He thought that letter of protest, signed by 250,000 people, was about some new TV show called Monsanto Rider, a Western.

He'll tell us that, just like the NDAA, which allows him to unilaterally assassinate Americans, this Monsanto rider will never be enforced. It's just for show. It's, well, an IDEA, not really a law. It doesn't set a precedent destroying the power of the judicial system. No. We're getting our knickers in a twist over nothing. Relax.

He and Michelle are secretly planning, along with Chief Chef Bloomberg, an organic food revolution in America that will sweep aside all resistance.

Obama has inside information we aren't privy to. It exonerates Monsanto. Astonishingly, Monsanto turns out to be an agent of hope and change.

Obama is Obama. Because his character is basically other-worldly (in a good sense), he would never do harm. Therefore, a priori, the Monsanto rider is all right. We need not worry. Be happy.

All great prophets must undergo tests and survive crises. This is one of those tests. Sooner or later, Obama will reverse course and expose Monsanto for the diabolical son of Satan it is. Just wait. Be patient.

Obama knows full well how hideous Monsanto is on the world scene, how it is gobbling up seed companies and destroying farmers and putting Frankensteinian genetic distortions into our very bodies. He's just giving Monsanto enough rope to hang itself. He's allowing Monsanto to operate freely so it can reveal, to humanity, its Grinning Skull---and thence be overthrown by popular revolution. Again, wait. Be patient. "We're all in this together."

Obama was drugged by Monsanto operatives. When he wakes up, he won't remember he signed the bill, nor will he ever know he signed it. This drug can selectively inhibit his mind on that single item. If he ever reads that he signed it, he'll think he's reading about Harry Reid buying three casinos in Vegas and having plastic surgery to look like James Bond.

Obama never signed the bill. A lookalike double was brought in to do the deed. Obama is now living under heavy guard, along with Piers Morgan, in a Texas compound run by a bevy of full-auto maximum-clip country women.

Joe Biden, who only pretends to be off his rocker and minus a few dozen light bulbs, is actually running the country. He is Obama's Cheney. Joe gave the order to sign the bill.

There are your ten. Pick your fave.

Just in case you still think Obama is only peripherally involved with Monsanto, here is the evidence that you're sadly mistaken. I compiled it some months ago and published it:

During his 2008 campaign for president, Barack Obama transmitted signals that he understood the GMO issue. Several key anti-GMO activists were impressed. They thought Obama, once in the White House, would listen to their concerns and act on them.

These activists weren't just reading tea leaves. On the campaign trail, Obama said: "Let folks know when their food is genetically modified, because Americans have a right to know what they're buying."

Making the distinction between GMO and non-GMO was certainly an indication that Obama, unlike the FDA and USDA, saw there was an important line to draw in the sand.

Beyond that, Obama was promising a new era of transparency in government. He was adamant in promising that, if elected, his administration wouldn't do business in "the old way." He would be "responsive to people's needs."

Then came the reality.

After the election, and during Obama's term as president, people who had been working to label GMO food and warn the public of its huge dangers were shocked to the core. They saw Obama had been pulling a bait and switch.

The new president filled key posts with Monsanto people, in federal agencies that wield tremendous force in food issues, the USDA and the FDA:

At the USDA, as the director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Roger Beachy, former director of the Monsanto Danforth Center.

As deputy commissioner of the FDA, the new food-safety-issues czar, the prince of darkness, Michael Taylor, former vice-president for public policy for Monsanto. Taylor had been instrumental in getting approval for Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone.

As commissioner of the USDA, Iowa governor, Tom Vilsack. Vilsack had set up a national group, the Governors' Biotechnology Partnership, and had been given a Governor of the Year Award by the Biotechnology Industry Organization, whose members include Monsanto.

As the new Agriculture Trade Representative, who would push GMOs for export, Islam Siddiqui, a former Monsanto lobbyist.

As the new counsel for the USDA, Ramona Romero, who had been corporate counsel for another biotech giant, DuPont.

As the new head of the USAID, Rajiv Shah, who had previously worked in key positions for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a major funder of GMO agriculture research.

We should also remember that Obama's secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, once worked for the Rose law firm. That firm was counsel to Monsanto.

Obama nominated Elena Kagan to the US Supreme Court. Kagan, as federal solicitor general, had previously argued for Monsanto in the Monsanto v. Geertson seed case before the Supreme Court.

The deck was stacked. Obama hadn't simply made honest mistakes. Obama hadn't just failed to exercise proper oversight in selecting appointees. He wasn't just experiencing a failure of short-term memory. He was staking out territory on behalf of Monsanto and other GMO corporate giants.

And now let us look at what key Obama appointees have wrought for their true bosses. Let's see what GMO crops have walked through the open door of the Obama presidency.

Monsanto GMO alfalfa.

Monsanto GMO sugar beets.

Monsanto GMO Bt soybean.

Coming soon: Monsanto's GMO sweet corn.

Syngenta GMO corn for ethanol.

Syngenta GMO stacked corn.

Pioneer GMO soybean.

Syngenta GMO Bt cotton.

Bayer GMO cotton.

ATryn, an anti-clotting agent from the milk of transgenic goats.

A GMO papaya strain.

And soon, genetically engineered salmon and apples.

This is an extraordinary parade. It, in fact, makes Barack Obama the most GMO-dedicated politician in America.

You don't attain that position through errors or oversights. Obama was, all along, a stealth operative on behalf of Monsanto, biotech, GMOs, and corporate control of the future of agriculture.

From this perspective, Michelle Obama's campaign for gardens and clean, organic, nutritious food is nothing more than a diversion, a cover story floated to obscure what her husband has actually been doing.

Nor is it coincidental that two of the Obama's biggest supporters, Bill Gates and George Soros, purchased 900,000 and 500,000 shares of Monsanto, respectively, in 2010.

Obama was lying all along. He was, and he still is, Monsanto's man in Washington.

To those people who fight for GMO labeling, and against the decimation of the food supply and the destruction of human health, but still believe Obama is a beacon in bleak times:

Wake up.

Sources:

http://redgreenandblue.org/2012/02/02/monsanto-employees-in-the-halls-of-government-part-2/

http://redgreenandblue.org/2011/02/09/monsanto-employees-in-the-halls-of-government/

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2011/10/fda-labeling-gmo-genetically-modified-foods

http://fooddemocracynow.org/blog/2011/feb/15/update-obama-goes-rogue-gmos-tell-him-say-no-monsa/

http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/genetically-engineered-foods/

http://news.yahoo.com/not-altruistic-truth-behind-obamas-global-food-security-174700462.html

Jon Rappoport

The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails atwww.nomorefakenews.com

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The US Poor: An Engineered Collapse

Raised gardens for self-sufficiency and organic, fresh veggies.

This morning I read an article on NPR reporting an interview of the new Catholic Pope, before he was selected as such.

This interview is being argued as a fake, but there were so many truths within that transcription, I thought to share some of them.
One that stood out for me, is that the poor are being created by greedy power-hungry men in our government, and in their dependence, they turn to the government that made them poor.

The Catholic leader couldn't see how their institution could help this number and type of poverty-stricken people. (Of course, their structure of blind obedience and ban on natural marriage for their priests which has set up the sad number of sexual abuse victims is already bankrupting them.) He said the US is headed for a type of Communism.
Link to article below:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100208720/did-pope-francis-really-say-that-socialism-causes-misery-and-that-america-is-heading-towards-a-form-of-communism/

Since this story might disappear, I'll also paste it below...

How true. With the banking schemes and real estate bust, and the money sucked out of our US economy by illegal wars, (which wars have made govt. cronies like those with interests in Halliburton wealthy beyond reason), many are on Food Stamps and record numbers of people are applying for Social Security Disability benefits. Once they are on SSI, they usually stay there.

 In one town, according to an OPB radio broadcast program yesterday, March 23, 2013, 1 in 4 working-eligible people were collecting this. Some were just uneducated enough to take certain jobs, and others didn't have local opportunities that fit their particular health restrictions. Bear in mind, with the GMO foods, vaccines, medications, etc. many are headed for poor health if not poisoned sufficiently, already. So, in the unemployment statistics, with 250,000 a month? applying for SSI, we are not getting the whole WELFARE STATE picture. The people getting wealthy on this current fraud are the attorneys, who are allowed to scrape up 1/4 to 1/3 of the back pay due, upon approval of SSI.

For interest: Halliburton is also involved in Fracking for natural gas, which is polluting the underground aquifers, so many die of cancer, are dispossessed of their wasted lands and homes, and can even light the water that now comes out of their taps. Halliburton escaped any liability in the BP Oil Gush in the Gulf, didn't they? And against EPA supposed edicts, BP sprayed Correxit on the oil- poisoning workers, sea life, citizens, crops and animals far inland as the toxic acid rain keeps falling.

The Safe Drinking Water Act excludes Fracking

See it in the ENERGY POLICY ACT OF 2005.  Go to Page 102, Section 322. HYDRAULIC FRACTURING.

SEC. 322. HYDRAULIC FRACTURING.
Paragraph (1) of section 1421(d) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300h(d)) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(1) UNDERGROUND INJECTION.—The term ‘underground injection’—
‘‘(A) means the subsurface emplacement of fluids by well injection; and
‘‘(B) EXCLUDES—
‘‘(i) the underground injection of natural gas for purposes of storage; and
‘‘(ii) the underground injection of fluids or propping agents (other than diesel fuels) pursuant to hydraulic fracturing operations related to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities.’’

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How are we being molded into dependent people?
Toxic processed foods, meat and dairy to cripple and kill people with disease, making us dependent on our corrupt medical field.
Some states now have laws that outlaw collecting rain water.
Various articles have been published of cities denying gardens on personal property:
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/03/city-hall-takes-note-of-front-yard.html
Chemtrail spraying with barium, etc. covering the landscape.
Vaccines with foreign proteins to cause auto-immune disease and contaminated with virus's that cause cancers.
Allowing the government to engage in illegal wars, putting our men and women in harm's way for profit and control of oil and resources. Many come home physically and mentally disabled.
Allowing the government to conduct testing on prisoners, military, and citizens at large.
Allowing widespread corruption like the 9/11 Scam, and the consequent murder of witnesses and reporters and their families.
Any hurried illegal 'clean-up' of a crime scene-like  9/11 or the latest murder of 9/11 author/pilot  Philip Marshall with his two teenage children and dog, reported as a homicide/suicide or the Sandy Hook School massacre where prior to the event, the Medical Examiner has a new letter that denies pediatric autopsy reports as public information. Some internet reports said an AR-15 has a 30 count clip, and is reported to have been left in the car, which car was owned by a recently jailed criminal, yet each of the 24? victims had 3-11 gunshot wounds.
Sonar testing that kills sea life.
Weaponizing virus's and vaccines to cause cancer.
Autism in 1 of 50 of our children, still not illuminated or admitted-Formaldehyde, aluminum, squalene, and other toxins in vaccine adjuvants.
Mercury allowed in amalgam dentistry banned in other countries.
Fluoride and aluminum put in breads, etc., and City Councils trying to add it to water without public consent.
Dispersion of misinformation in government/corporation-controlled media.
Soaring Alzheimer's rates with the cause not admitted.
Aspartame quietly added to milk and other products for our children.
High Fructose Corn Syrup (GMO corn) creating obesity and diabetes, etc.
No labeling of GMO's, denying  basic human rights and freedom.

News stories by government-run media are shaping various conversations:
Gun control-as if we don't have a right to defend our lives and homes against criminals or rogue governments. They use media shills (a plant or a stooge) like Piers Morgan who can't stand up against common sense. Forcing a revolt after enough violation, so Fema camps can be used, putting the now-trained new hires to work.
NDAA or National Defense Authorization Act pushed by Obama so citizens can disappear without cause or defense for an indeterminate amount of time, which has meant death in countries like Chile, in past social experiments and unrest.

Did you read where Obama has been indicted by a Federal Court for violating the Constitution when he recently self-appointed 3 in the Labor Department, without Congressional approval? Have we heard of his Impeachment Process? He is a rogue 'leader'. He and many current government officials are guilty of TREASON.

Just last night I read where Hillary Clinton is under House Arrest for Treason, moving 1.7 Trillion? to some bank in China, "One week ago Friday, the same day Jack Lew was sworn in as U.S. Treasury Secretary, sociopath Hillary attempted to illegally divert $1.7 TRILLION of U.S. Treasury funds to a secret CIA proprietary account in the People's Republic of China".and involved in the CIA assassination in Benghazi, and the Military is ready to intervene on Obama, whose taster is sick with the flu, so he didn't dare eat his lobster dinner the other night.
**I don't know the legitimacy of these stories, but they fly in times of great public distrust for our leaders.

 Dr. Leonard Coldwell says it well in his video speech below: We don't forget. We are coming for you--all the criminals-the Bush Administration, Clintons, and Obama, Cheney, etc. guilty of TREASON against their own country and people.


See: Dr. Leonard Coldwell's warning on Gun Control and the State of our Country:
http://drleonardcoldwell.com/2013/03/22/american-scandal-viral-mind-blowing-pro-gun-statement/

Poor Chickens. Getting a Bad Rap....  
Instead of a warning to wash your hands and handle the waste responsibly, as in composting for gardens, we get this propoganda.

Note: For me, the CDC, FDA, EPA and other tax-consuming Govt. agencies all need to be replaced, as they're contaminated by Corporate greed. No Monsanto or Pharmaceutical Shills and past CEOs have a place in government, like Obama has done.

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Backyard Chickens: Cute, Trendy Salmonella Spreaders

Backyard chickens have become a hot trend, loved as a source of healthy local food and fluffy wonderfulness. But backyard birds have also sparked outbreaks of salmonella, the CDC warns.

So, growing dependence on a Government that has no right to impose the above afflictions, is causing poverty of finances, health and spirit.  Comments welcome.

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Did Pope Francis really say that socialism causes misery, and that America is heading towards a form of communism?

By Damian Thompson Religion Last updated: March 24th, 2013

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[Latest: The Diocese of Salford link to the interview is now dead. So I think we have our answer. The "interview" has almost certainly been concocted to appeal to a certain sort of conservative American. It's meticulously done, so it did take me a few minutes to be sure it was fake. I'm leaving it online because the hoax is interesting in itself. I mean, why bother?]

[Update: Here's why on reflection I think this interview has to be fake. The journalist who conducted it would have the most incredible world exclusive on his hands. It would have been out there on the day of Francis's election, not dribbled to an obscure English diocesan website with no identifying details.]

The Catholic diocese of Salford has published the most extraordinary purported interviewbetween Pope Francis and a Left-wing American journalist, supposedly conducted shortly before the conclave. I cannot, repeat cannot, vouch for its authenticity. If it's genuine, as the diocese says it is (while being unavailable to answer press inquiries), then it's a bombshell. But is it a fake? I just don't know, but can't resist reproducing it in order to gauge your reactions. If I had to put money on it? Notgenuine. The cardinal's supposed demolition of the journalist is just too neat. And I haven't seen any evidence that the new Pope speaks English so fluently. The instant reaction to it on Twitter, for what it's worth, is one of deep suspicion. But it is being circulated by a diocese of the Catholic Church, an official source which ought to take extreme care before attributing political quotes to the Pope, so here we go:

The following is a transcript of an interview between an atheist American journalist and then-Cardinal Bergolio [says the Salford website]. It is clear why the interview was never broadcast. In it, Cardinal Bergoglio makes mincemeat of the typical leftist interview techniques of so many people in the broadcast media.

CAMERA ON / BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

REPORTER: Welcome Cardinal.

BERGOGLIO: Thank you. Happy to speak with you.

REPORTER: Well, let me get into it directly. Last conclave, you were almost elected Pope. Can this happen again?

BERGOGLIO: What? That I will almost be the Pope, again?

REPORTER: No. Will you be the next Pope?

BERGOGLIO: Friend, I’m only jesting with you. I understand the question. I will not be the next Pope.

REPORTER: Why not?

BERGOGLIO: I chose not to. God has someone else in mind I’m certain.

REPORTER: But you would take the job if it were offered.

BERGOGLIO: I think not.

REPORTER: Why not.

BERGOGLIO: I believe I’m too embroiled in the secular fiasco. It is a spiritual job and I’m a soldier. Look at the nature of power. In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power. I’ve been a keen observer of the effect this has on the people, especially the poor. They are very good at creating poverty where there is no reason to explain it. My job is try to alleviate poverty and if that means to oppose the ‘cause then I will not be Pope.

REPORTER: But you are worried you would be a spend thrift pope?

BERGOGLIO: Friend. Where did you go to school?

REPORTER: La Salle College High School in Pennsylvania and….

BERGOGLIO: And after that?

REPORTER: College of the Holy Cross.

BERGOGLIO: They told me you were Catholic. Once elected the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope. I’m just saying I’m not that man.

REPORTER: So what is your job?

BERGOGLIO: My job is to ask you, “why are men creating poverty?”

REPORTER: What do you mean?

BERGOGLIO: I mean that poverty is part of the natural condition and that is bad enough. But my task is to prevent the aggravation of this condition. The ideology that adds to the poverty must be denounced. I have and this is the reason I will not be Pope. I have a saying for myself, “No more poverty than God originally intended in the fall from Grace.”

REPORTER: Oh.

BERGOGLIO: It is a spiritual choice and I’m a political person. I’m sorry. I know you will make more money from this interview if I’m Pope. Or want to be Pope. But I’m sorry. I can’t help you. God has already chosen someone anyway. Right? You learned this in school?

REPORTER: Yes. Well… Where are you on the issues that matter most, issues about contraception, women priests?

BERGOGLIO: This might be a surprise to you, but I am Catholic. We are Catholic. It isn't an issue and for you to pretend that it is being debated goes against God.

REPORTER: If you were Pope then you would not change anything.

BERGOGLIO: Certainly God would direct the new Pope to have more compassion for these newly created poor. And if there is any social justice in the Church, the new Pope would have a stern word for the creators of the new situation.

REPORTER: But you are staunchly orthodox on the issues of abortion, contraception, and same-sex marriage.

BERGOGLIO: I am Catholic.

REPORTER: You were punished for opposed same-sex marriage in Argentina. You opposed free contraception and the government exiled you. What do you have to say about that?

BERGOGLIO: I am Catholic.

REPORTER: In the secular world, as you say, you follow the conservative line. You oppose, uh, same-sex marriages, very popular with young people. You are conservative on birth control. Won’t that be the doom of the Church, alienating young people who support reality based faith?

BERGOGLIO: Since God created the world, he also created reality. You seem to be arguing that a man can’t be Catholic in reality. Son, you are a Catholic?

REPORTER: Yes, of course. I meant no disrespect.

BERGOGLIO: You don’t have to worry about offending me.

REPORTER: Okay, good. Can a, uh, Pope even be elected if he is pro-choice or pro-love? I mean isn’t the election sort of fixed in favor of anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage?

BERGOGLIO: Yes, the election is fixed by God.

REPORTER: Very witty.

BERGOGLIO: Well, you did ask.

REPORTER: It is being reported in America that you are against marriage equality. Is that why you feel that you can’t be Pope?

BERGOGLIO: God chooses the Pope and God also made men and women different.

REPORTER: But you are …a conservative and oppose abortion!

BERGOGLIO: Friend the expression on your face gives you away.

REPORTER: I’m sorry, I’m just trying to do my job.

BERGOGLIO: And what job is that?

REPORTER: I’ve been sent to interview eight men in line for the papacy.

BERGOGLIO: And I guarantee you that they all oppose abortion. So…

REPORTER: But…

BERGOGLIO: So, you feel like you need to alienate the eight from the flock?

REPORTER: That isn’t it. How can the church attract young people when it is opposed to abortion and contraception?

BERGOGLIO: Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency. So we will call it a draw.

REPORTER: Doesn't the church need to modernize?

BERGOGLIO: Finally, I’ve met someone who will advocate publicly painting over the Sistine Chapel with one of the contemporary street artists. Are you sure you support this and in public?

REPORTER: What?

BERGOGLIO: Forgive me, I was rude.

REPORTER: Won’t the new pope, don't these cardinals realize what they've gotta do if they want to attract young people to the church?

BERGOGLIO: I am a cardinal.

REPORTER: Won’t the new pope, don't you and the other cardinals realize what they must do if they want to attract young people to the church?

BERGOGLIO: I’ve explained the mysteries of the atom to rural young people and also I’ve explained the Grace of God. And you know what? They can understand both perfectly well. Frankly, I have more trouble with adults understanding both.

REPORTER: But they have done focus groups; if you want to spread your message you can't have this position that's anti-gay marriage and anti-contraception.

BERGOGLIO: And you treat the church as a political institution.

REPORTER: So we were not gonna see any kind of change when it comes to things that matter like abortion or gay marriage?

BERGOGLIO: All eight of the men you will be talking to are Catholic.

REPORTER: Okay, I understand. Let’s talk about your controversial stand on poverty.

BERGOGLIO: You want it to be controversial?

REPORTER: But don’t you blame various governments around the world for poverty?

BERGOGLIO: Some. Yes.

REPORTER: But you refuse to blame corporations for their role.

BERGOGLIO: Okay, they also told me you have a degree in economics. No buyer, or seller either, enters into any exchange against his will. It is the nature of the economy. Man is frail, and he makes mistakes and sometimes is greedy and they enter into exchanges that don’t help them. Sometimes they become poor, but they made choices. There is nothing the Church can do except try to educate people to become good consumers. Chiefly, for me, it is an education solution on that side. And the Church has more schools around the globe than any other faith. I say teach the people to save their souls, and also teach them how not to become poor. And now not to allow the government to trick them into poverty.

REPORTER: And you blame government.

BERGOGLIO: No, I blame the self-serving politicians.

REPORTER: So your solution to poverty is to change the nature of politics?

BERGOGLIO: Please feel free to broadcast this; I don’t want to be pope. Friend, you are a socialist and your friends are socialists. And you are the reason for 70 years of misery in Russia and Europe now is seizing in pain from your policies. You believe in the redistribution of wealth and it makes entire populations poor. You want to nationalize everything and bring every human endeavor under your control. You destroy a man’s incentive to take care of his very own family, a crime against nature and nature’s God. You want social control over populations and incrementally you are making everything against the law. Together this ideology creates more poverty today than all the corporations you vilify have in the history of man.

REPORTER: I’ve never heard such from a Cardinal. I’m not sure if you are here to help yourself or disqualify yourself.

BERGOGLIO: Please air this interview. People being dominated by socialists need to know we don’t all have to be poor. Some poverty is part of our being cast out of the Garden of Eden. But look at the empire of dependency created by Hugo Chavez. Promising them, tricking them into worship of government and his very own person. Giving them fish but not allowing them to fish. If a fisherman does develop a talent today in Latin America; he is castigated and his catch stolen by the socialists. He stops…

REPORTER: You would be the first pope from the Americas.

BERGOGLIO: He stops fishing. I will not be pope, but yes I am from Argentina.

REPORTER: And you didn't want to be pope?

BERGOGLIO: God didn’t want me to be pope.

REPORTER: Perhaps he changed his mind.

BERGOGLIO: Ludicrous.

REPORTER: Okay, I’m sorry. I feel like we are getting off on the wrong path. I’m sorry.

BERGOGLIO: Yes, lets be productive.

REPORTER: You are a classic conservative Catholic theologian?

BERGOGLIO: Of course there's politics clearly in the Curia throughout the Vatican, but in terms of church teaching, it's not a political institution. It's religious.

REPORTER: I heard people, in fact, media people, "Is this cardinal, is he a liberal? Is he a conservative?"

BERGOGLIO: Tell them please, “He's a Catholic.” It's no more complicated than that. Catholicism is what it is. You don't have to believe it; you may not. You don't have to follow it; you may not go to Mass. But it's not up to you to modernize us.

REPORTER: You see no room for reform?

BERGOGLIO: It's not up to any religion, although some do this, 'cause they want the money. They want the membership. But the Catholic Church doesn't do it. It's not up to them to bend and shape and mold itself to accommodate the shrinking depravity of a worldwide culture. It's to provide the exact opposite. It's to provide a beacon out of depravity, socialism and sin, among other things.

REPORTER: If pope you would be bad news for the left.

BERGOGLIO: I won’t be pope. But I am opposed to abortion. I’m opposed to euthanasia. The pro-choice movement is a culture of death. I oppose the demonic same-sex marriage. I oppose gay adoption on the grounds that it is discriminatory to the child. I was exiled by the Cristina Kirchner government, but I hold no grudge. How is this bad news?

REPORTER: John Paul II rescued you?

BERGOGLIO: He made me the archbishop of Buenos Aires. Yes.

REPORTER: And so you feel like you owe the Right some sort of repayment?

BERGOGLIO: There are many values… and many types of people. Perhaps it is my interest in mathematics, but I’m the type of human who is interested most in the truth. God gave me a healthy love for the truth. Loyalty is only a virtue if in support of the truth or another important value.

REPORTER: Cristina Kirchner said you held a grudge.

BERGOGLIO: Funny I’ve never spoken her name. Not once. And it is a battle of ideas not a battle of two or more people. I’m only concerned with ideas.

REPORTER: She said you refused to speak up for civil rights violations.

BERGOGLIO: As a spiritual leader, I opposed cultural modernization, and so I became a political enemy. I understand politics as well as I do mathematics.

REPORTER: And the Jesuits, they were eager to cast you out, which they did.

BERGOGLIO: So you are implying that I’m a vengeful priest?

REPORTER: Do you feel that you need to erase the progress recently made in Latin America?

BERGOGLIO: I say “poverty”. You say “progress”.

REPORTER: Let's talk about poverty.

BERGOGLIO: Sure, there is voluntary poverty that is virtuous. Many understood the nobility of making themselves independent of the fleeting things of earth. They are distractions from our pursuit of the truth. I have no problem with this. I only oppose involuntary poverty.

REPORTER: That is what I thought you would say.

BERGOGLIO: Why?

REPORTER: Because you are a capitalist right?

BERGOGLIO: Yes, I think capital is needed to build a factory, a parochial school, or a church or hospital, all. Do you oppose factories or churches or hospitals?

REPORTER: Of course not but don’t you think the capital is sucked out of people’s hands by greedy business types to pay for these factories?

BERGOGLIO: No, I think people agree, through their economic choices, that some of their money goes to build these. Capital building should be voluntary. Only when the politician confiscates their wealth, to build government factories, government schools, government hospitals; only then do the people not agree. Money given voluntarily is legitimate to build with. Money coerced from the people is not legitimate to build with, because it isn’t given voluntarily.

REPORTER: You are opposed to all government?

BERGOGLIO: No of course not. But it isn’t the seat of wisdom in any society I’ve seen in my life. The best government was created by the Americans, in which they admitted that people are “endowed by their creator” and most of the administration of society was left to the relationship between God and man. However, slowly that has been eroded by the atheists on the left, who would replace man’s relationship with God with a new relationship with an opportunist like Hugo Chavez.

REPORTER: I just found it fascinating that you were willing to stand up to an entire government in Argentina. You where cast aside. Didn’t you care about your career?

BERGOGLIO: Yes, there are people who cave to worldly authority. Even priests.

REPORTER: But you didn’t?

BERGOGLIO: No, I changed nothing. How did I have the power to change anything in church teaching? My opinion? The democrats, seeking votes, only wanted me to change my opinion and legitimize their decadence. I did not, as evidenced by the fact that I was teaching high school math in small isolated town.

REPORTER: I’m sorry that happened to you.

BERGOGLIO: Why don’t you feel for others oppressed for their interest in freedom.

REPORTER: Freedom isn’t punished anywhere, is it?

BERGOGLIO: Certainly it is.

REPORTER: In Latin America?

BERGOGLIO: I’m afraid Latin America is lost. The people of the entire area are controlled by a bloc of militant “socialist” regimes in the region, most prominently Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Nicaragua. They have a gun pointed at their head. So their heart is now captured. Who will save them at this point?

REPORTER: So the game is over. Checkmate?

BERGOGLIO: Friend, I’ve been studying America this month, before the Pope chose to resign. You must not have fear at speaking the truth. It is for the salvation of souls and the recovery of Thomas Jefferson’s people. America must not fall to the new painted communism. Even the low information voters don’t want America to be sold into slavery. I pray they cast out the money changers in their government! What manner of government is there that condones sin? Abomination upon abomination–giving monies for the murder of children, giving monies for the murder of the elderly! You are an American. Your government, My child, has been infiltrated by men of sin.

REPORTER: These are pretty radical ideas.

BERGOGLIO: No. Perhaps reactionary. Radical means something different. But a very long time ago, Khrushchev warned, that we cannot expect Americans to fly from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small injections of socialism until they suddenly awake to find out they have Communism. This is what is happening now in an ancient bastion of freedom. How can America save Latin America when they are slaves to the government themselves?

REPORTER: I’m having a hard time digesting most of this.

BERGOGLIO: The truth can be painful. You look angry; do you want to stop or ask a question? … But you have created a new type of state, the so-called ‘welfare state.’ This has happened in order to respond to the needs of the politically created poor. However, intervening directly is depriving the original society of its responsibility. Families escape responsibility in the welfare state. And churches even escape responsibility. People stop giving to charity and see every poor person as the government’s problem. I am a Catholic priest and there are no poor for me to take care of, they are made permanently poor and the property of the politicians.

REPORTER: I’m not sure this interview is going to work.

BERGOGLIO: You asked and now you will listen, my son. The social assistance state leads to a loss of human energies and an inordinate increase of public agencies, which are dominated more by bureaucratic thinking than by real concern for helping people. Needs are best understood and satisfied by people who are closest to them who act as neighbors and parish members to those in need. It should be added that certain kinds of demands often call for a response which is not simply material but which is capable of perceiving the deeper human need. This is not to mention the welfare state’s excesses and abuses.

REPORTER: I think we are done.

BERGOGLIO: Wait. If I speak on the ordination of women, on celibacy, on divorce, will you air this interview and my message?

REPORTER: No, we are done.

BERGOGLIO: Partially what irritates me to the core is the media’s inability to look at anything without looking into the cause of the various problems. People are made poor so they will vote for the very candidates that made them poor.

REPORTER: Have a nice day and thanks for your time.

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