Author: Daniela

  • Monsanto Video Revolt

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    Published time: June 15, 2013 10:14 Edited time: June 16, 2013 22:18 A new initiative to bypass the corporate media blackout on GMO foods and bring the issue to world attention has been launched. Monsanto Video Revolt is to hit the net in the upcoming weeks, editor of Naturalsociety.com Anthony Gucciardi tells RT. Anyone can…

  • Feet of a Kathivanoor Veeran Theyyam performer

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    Originally posted on Joshi Daniel Photography: Kathivanoor Veeran Theyyam | Kannur, Kerala, India Read more: Theyyam | Kathivanoor Veeran theyyam

  • Celtic Spirituality

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    In the Ashland Daily Tidings, Rhoda Maxwell looks to the Celts for spirtiual guidance: Although the Celts lived hundreds of years ago, their religion is a great help to us to deepen our spirituality. An early teaching of the Celtic Christians was that they could perceive God reflected in every plant and insect, every bird and…

  • The science and folklore of fairy rings

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  • Kumasi – AMAZING GRACE

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  • Where Jewels Come From

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    The New York Times has an interesting article on how gems tell us “important things about the planet.” Every gem fixed to every ring or necklace was forged deep inside our planet, according to its own recipe of elements, temperature and pressure. In the journal Geology, Dr. Harlow — writing with Robert J. Stern of…

  • India to Criminalize Opposition to GMO’s

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    The campaign to promote and, in this case, force  GM products into the Indian market is depressing.  These companies have far too much power and they will only gain more as they continue to expand their hold on food production globally. India’s environmental and food security activists who have so far succeeded in stalling attempts…

  • The Case for No GMO Patents

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    Friday, 14 June 2013 11:49By Tony Pereira, Truthout | Op-Ed (Photo: CT Senate Democrats / Flickr)The June 13, 2013 Supreme Court decision that human genes are not patentable should logically be the first step in reversing three decades of decisions that flouted the previously general understanding that Section 101 of Title 35 U.S.C. prohibited patenting of living organisms. In…

  • GM Foods Cont.’d

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    I’d like to know why Americans aren’t more skeptical of these GM crops. Why we are so quick to accept studies, put out by the industry, that assure us they’re safe to eat? In the industrialized world our population is the fatest and sickest. Our life expectancy, in some demographics, is decreasing. Allergies are going…

  • UK Government Wants to Change Rules on GM Crops

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    To answer the author’s question, “who should we believe?” – people are right to be skeptical.  The industry itself has been the main source of information on the efficacy of  GMO products.  First they claimed it would provide higher yields.  That was proven to be untrue.  Now they’re selling it as an answer to global…