Some videos on Internet

Ghandi 2 hours version of the Ghandi doc : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=199769506418852386#
5 hours documentary on Ghandi: : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8859891538096241080#
Life of Buddha : http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/faith_and_spirituality/watch/v16978077HfhHeY2g
Doing time doing vipassana (meditation in Indian prisons, full movie)
http://current.com/groups/cultura/91903721_food-for-the-mind-vipassana-meditation.htm
The Dhamma Brothers (2 trailers for this documentary on Vipassana meditation in Alabama prison)
http://vimeo.com/12063030
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHNj8LEkgbA

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2 extreme films showing the suffering of animal beings caused by humans.

Earthlings : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6361872964130308142&ei=6Um5SdDyHIiGqwKdpN2xAw&q=earthlings#


Chinese fur farms : http://www.peta.org/feat/chinesefurfarms/index.asp

some old text I've written offline

In 1950, there were almost 3 billion humans on Earth. In October 2009, we will be 6,7 billion. And in 2042, we will be almost 9 billion on this planet. So in 100 years, total population tripled: 3 times more water drinker, 3 times more food needed to feed all the mouths; 3 times more of everything, but still only one planet to satisfy everybody. Already millions of people dying of hunger in 1950. Will there be 3 times more people dying of hunger? Probably even more.
Las Vegas is built in the middle of the desert where there is not a single drop of water. There's still people arrousing their grass, but there's more and more people beginning to be aware that soon their city will face a tragic shortage of water and people won't even have water to drink or to wash themselves.

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One day I was working with a boy of 16 years old or so. He went to McDonalds for lunch, and talked about pops many times throughout the day, eventhough I told him I'm not interested in that and I don't drink soft drinks or very rarely. He was talking about the cost of soft drinks and the quality of each brand, the different levels of carbonized water in each pop. Guess what he ate for dinner? McDonalds again. He bought a BigMac among other things. And of course he got acne.

TIME BOMBS

A new documentary about soldiers veterans who have been exposed to radiations for military experiments by the US army.

“We were sent there and they knew we were guinea pigs,”

I could see through my arm. I could see through the head of the guy near me and could see his fillings

http://www.ffwdweekly.com/article/life-style/television/time-bombs/

Time Bombs
Canada’s atomic veterans fight for recognition
Published November 8, 2007 by Drew Anderson in Television
The federal government has ignored the plight of Canadian veterans dying from exposure to radiation caused by nuclear tests in Nevada in 1957, according to Time Bombs, a new documentary to be aired on Global television November 10.

According to Eric Ruelle, who directed and produced the documentary with Guylaine Maroist, the initial seed for the film was a small article written by two journalists in Montreal in 1957. That article, small on details, spoke of a top-secret mission in the States. It took the duo 10 years to track down the necessary sources and find a television network interested in the project.

That mission was named Operation Plumbbob, the largest nuclear testing project ever undertaken, involving thousands of American soldiers and a handful of unknowing Canadian volunteers. The soldiers were exposed to six nuclear blasts and then ordered to participate in war games amongst the fallout, to test their reactions to orders after the explosion.

Jim Huntley lived through those blasts and helped organize the Canadian Atomic Veterans Association in 1995 to help fight for recognition of the veterans. “We were sent there and they knew we were guinea pigs,” says Huntley, who bristles with anger at the treatment the veterans have received from the government. “We flew in helicopters through that cloud.”

Huntley is leading the charge in the association’s fight against the government, a task bestowed on him thanks in part to his good health. Of 40 soldiers sent to Nevada in the summer of 1957, 22 or more are dead, and the survivors are riddled with cancer and arthritis. Jim is the healthiest surviving member of the unit.

The task has proven difficult. The group has been denied, ignored and shuffled through the storied Canadian bureaucracy, stymied at every turn and lied to by political officials. After years of trying to get information and compensation, the association was finally promised a package by former defence minister Gordon O’Connor, according to Huntley, but the deadline for that package has come and gone without a word.

“There’s no going back. They lied to us. The minister of defence lied to us. He came here in July and told us we were getting a package on the 15th of September. We have nothing, not even a phone call,” says Huntley after a screening of the documentary in Calgary. He says the government is now trying to send the group back to square one. “They told us they’ve never heard of us. I said to the secretary, ‘We’ve talked to you for a year and a half. You don’t know who we are?’” says Huntley.

Anger is pervasive amongst those still alive. The flashes of light, the shockwaves and the dust from the explosions remain seared in their memories. “I get angry and I get more angry… I’m ashamed,” says Bob Henderson, a veteran of the tests, clutching an oxygen tank that resembles a violin case. Most of the participants that he was acquainted with, he says, served in the military long-term. “They served their country with pride, with dignity and most of all with honour. What the hell has the government done for us? Nothing. They’ve tried to sweep us away.”

Henderson echoes a disturbing conclusion shared amongst the survivors: that the government is waiting for all of them to succumb to the radiation they ingested 50 years ago. “They’re holding back because they know we’re falling,” he says wearily.

In 1992, the American government finally admitted its culpability for exposing soldiers to nuclear blasts and awarded compensation. “They finally admitted that it was a human experiment, it’s written in black-and-white — a human experiment. They really wanted to see how they would react in a nuclear war. So they would say to the soldiers, ‘don’t worry about radiation, it’s OK, Mother Nature will take care of you,’” says Ruelle. “I’m now very ashamed of my government, I’m now very ashamed of my country.”

Ruelle and Maroist are not letting go of the story, or the veterans they have befriended while filming Time Bombs, and have pledged to continue fighting for them after the release of the film. “We’ve made a commitment to ourselves… we have a moral commitment to ourselves and to the guys, we cannot let them go,” says Ruelle. “We need to take this to the end, because if we don’t, we don’t succeed. Success is not having everybody clap at the show and everybody say ‘hey, great show.’ No, the success is having the government acknowledge and compensate those guys.”

the beginning of the end of everything

Facts from the movie "11th Hour"
Don't wait until it's too late

We increased Co2 by 30-35%, methane by 150%.
Methane has an effect 300% more powerful than Co2... 
(strange, I heard somewhere else it's 21 times more... anyway, it's still shit... don't eat meat)

Now, 20% of ice in the artic has melt
Speed and lenght of cyclones has increased by 150%

Asthma has increased of 30%.
A few decades ago, there was 0 asthma

90% of US forests are gone
70 countries have no more intact forests

Man see Nature as property
As if Nature as no rights

It would cost 35 trillions $/year to do with machines what Nature does for us, (pollenisation by the bees, breathing the Co2 with the trees)
Nature do all this for free
And it would cost us 35 trillions. But the sum of all economies of all countries equals 18 trillions $...

In the world, for each truck  of final products, there's 32 trucks of waste. 

99,9999% of all species that ever existed on Earth are extinct. 
If the planet had 1 year, humans started in the last 60 seconds. 

Do you really think that all those chemicals are not harming our health ?
The farmers are sich and die because of what they spray on their plants. 
Do you really think this is healthy?
The plants and the soil feed themselves with the chemicals and it goes into our bodies. 

The deadly results of human madness

On the forum where I often post, I ("I'm Your Man") wrote about something I've read on internet:   


RawVgn

Did you know that many of the deadliest diseases in human history evolved from human proximity to livestock? Influenza, which killed 50 million people in the 1918 pandemic and threatens billions more today, evolved from poultry farming; smallpox, which wiped out tens of millions of indigenous people in colonial times, evolved from cattle farming. Most food poisoning, like e coli and Listeria, are also effects of livestock agriculture (...)

I’m Your Man

That's true and I would like to extend this to the notion of externalities when there are consequences (positive or negative) on third parties who are not involved in an economic transaction.
Concerning the meat industry they are only negative consequences. And I want to extend this not only to economy but to health, etc...:

-Ethic: The animals slaughtered don't chose to be involved in this, yet they are the base of all this, but they don't receive any money, on the contrary they pay the price with their lives.

-Environment: the planet Earth never said she agreed to participate in this killing but she pays the price too with the pollution of water, air, land, forests are being vandalized.

-The trees are being cut down to become pasture. All the animals that were in those forests don't have any place to live.

-Economy:
-State subsidies to support a mode of production deficient debt that the worker, consumer, business, government, and society as a whole). Those who choose to stay away from meat still suffer from a price increase of all the food due to the almost limitless quantities of grain wasted in the livestock.
-We also pay state taxes and federal taxes so the government give billions in subsidies to farmers and ranchers to support a weak mode of production based on waste

-Health : The infections, contaminations and diseases mentioned by RawVgn, as well as the mad cow diseases that easily jump the specie barrier and affect human health with Parkinson and Alzheimer. We drink the water polluted by the manures and wash our food with it. We eat plant-based foods that are grownt with infected manures used as fertilizers. If we eat those fruits or veggies raw we seriously put our lives at risk. Humans are paying the price by a decrease of air quality that we breathe, and so on, the consequences are endless in the life cycle because everything is linked.

The World According to Monsanto

photo par Hughes Léglise-Bataille.

(Lire le texte en Français -- more complete text in French) Monsanto could argue that they’re a good company claiming that otherwise they wouldn’t have stayed a hundred years. Others could say that the people don’t pursue a good company that often, or that a good company don’t pursue honest farmers that are just trying to make a living… Monsanto have been in hundreds of cases in court, and still is in another hundred right now, always and always.


Check out this great article that reviews many points about GMO's and Monsanto. 

Reproductive changes:
Cows injected with genetically modified growth hormones (rBGH) had more birth defects, reproductive disorders, difficulty getting pregnant, foot and leg injuries, metabolic disorders, indigestion, bloat, diarrhea, lesions, increased size of heart, liver, kidneys, ovaries and adrenal glands, and shortened lives. In the face of this data, Monsanto dismissed this evidence in its own report to the FDA as harmless physiological shifts. [p.88-89]

Research result: Rats that were fed GM potatoes suffered damaged immune systems. Their white blood cells responded much more sluggishly than those fed a non-GMO control diet. Other GMO-fed rats in this experiment had smaller, less developed brains, livers and testicles, and had enlarged tissues, including pancreas and intestines. Some showed partial atrophy of the liver. Furthermore, significant structural changes and a proliferation of cells in the stomach and intestines of GMO fed rats may have signaled an increased potential for cancer. These rats developed these effects after just ten days. Some of the above changes lasted after 110 days, a time period corresponding to about 10 years of human life. [p.12]

SUMMARY
For those who don't know, Monsanto is a sick company about a century old, and is now considered as the most controversial multinational ever. It is the creator of good products such as PCBs (now banned, this is one of the most toxic and dangerous substances ever created by man. There was some in everything, from freezers to air conditionners. An estimated 240 000 tons of PCB went in our environment, especially water. Now it will stay in the food chain for centuries. Everybody has some in their organism. To eat fish is the best way to increase your dose of PCB.)
Before that, Monsanto was the main participant in the race to nuclear bomb for the governement of USA. The scientists of Monsanto were developping the first atomic bom that was soon to be launched on Hiroshima.
But other laboratories were involved with the Pentagon and White House. Still, Monsanto was a big part in the Manhattan Project.
Between this and the PCB, Monsanto made the Agent Orange that waas sprayed over Vietnam jungles during the war. It destroyed the forests, killed thousand of people, injured many others, many are physically disabled and still today we observe a high rate of malformations at birth. An hospital in Vietnam displays what resulted of this deadly substance that is dioxine on human health : in bocals, human foetuses with monstrous difformities : a 2 headed baby, a body with no head, one with no brain, another with a gigantic brain. A foetus with a penis between the eyes.
Then in the end '80s they come up with BGH (bovine grownt hormones) to give to dairy cows to make them produce up to 40 liters of milk per day instead of 5. With all the diseases that comes with it. So the cows need astronomic amounts of antibiotics in order to survive.
After this, they arrive with the Roundup, an herbicide for big and small farmers, falsly presented as "biodegradable and good for the environment", they're gonna have to pay a fined for this and remove this label. Note that this product contain some of the agents that were found in the Agent Orange used by the army. In fact, it is a very harmful product and is the #1 herbicide used for suicides.
They then started to invest in the agrobusiness domain and put on the market their GMOs (genetically modified organisms) like the corn Bt, or Soy RoundUp Ready, designed specially to resist their herbicide. Indeed, you could empty a whole bottle on this soy and it would be like nothing happened while just a few drops kill any other plants or 125ml kills an human.
They made a fortune, every farmer buy this new soy, AND the RoundUp as a special package, because GM soy requires this herbicide in order to grow. Reason is this is a like a plant on steroids, it needs huge amounts of fertilizers, more water, it drains all energy from soil, leaving an poor dirt.

Now Monsanto is attempting to acquire water rights in countries with water shortages in a move to control the people's basic means of survival

Then they try to patent the genes of pig, so all farmers would pay them royalties for each pig they own.
They also tried to put the Terminator seeds on the market, nothing less than infertile crops, to rule once and for all over all the farmers of the world by taking them the right to grow plants when they want.
What’s next, Monsanto is gonna try to own the rights on the soil we’re walking on and the air we breath ?
This is like science fiction, but nothing is too much for Monsanto, a company that "don't want to lose one dollar" even if it means to kill people.

The problem with GMO is not only the health issue on humans (though Monsanto claims there’s no risks of harm on short term, but nothing says there’s no problems after long exposition. And nothing says GMO are not partially responsible for the increase of cancers and other diseases), no, the most harm can come from the abundant use of pesticides and insecticides, especially Roundup. Another problem concerns the ethics of life and the environment. Now that life can be patented by big lobbys such as Monsanto, not only they own and control the food, at the same time they rule over the world, they own us. In fact, someone from Monsanto once said : "we own you, we own everyone who buy our products". -

The other big issue is concerning the planet : GMO spread and the perspective that one day the whole planet will be genetically modified is possible, all the plants, insects, animals will be affected, infected... Yes, Man made himself the new God.

Monsanto’s cotton seeds are 4x more expensive than normal cotton seeds. Monsanto owns most of the seed market, forcing poor Indian farmers to buy Monsanto’s seeds. The GM cotton is inefficient on Indian soil, it simply doesn't grow. Many farmers got ruined becaus ethey had to borrow money to buy the seeds. When they don't have anything left... Each 8 minutes, an Indian farmer kills himself, often with the very same product that caused his misery, the Roundup herbicide.

Today, and since many years, movements around the world, especially in France and Europe, milite against the giant of biotechnologies Monsanto, and it's crazy products :

• tomatoes+pig
  
• toad + potatoes
  
• soy + virus
  
• salmon+strawberry
  
• sourmon+corn
  

Some ask for decent laws of GMOs labelling. Others want that this company returns to hell and with it's products too.
We must not wait to see what the future will show us, we must act now before it is too late.




MODIFIED FOOD AND PLANET, DO WE WANT A GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FUTURE?
In England, GreenPeace militants are fighting against GMOs, like blocking a cargo full of 125 000 tons of transgenic corn.

Cows feed with gmo corn produce gmo milk. Some cows have difformities like : shitting by the tits. Not to mention the other thing from... guess who : Monsanto -- BGH that make HUGE tits to the cows, sometimes it is so big and heavy that it touch the floor or the cow cannot move, is sick. In fact the vast majority of dairy cows are on those hormones and dozens of other drugs and antibiotics to try to counter the many infections afflicting cows. Because of all this, their milk is unfit to consumption, containing high levels of pus, viruses, bacterias, blood, toxic residues of the nombrous chemicals and drugs, not to mention that the hormones go in the milk too. And people drink this, beleiving blindly what the national association of milk producers present as the "perfect" drink, essential to human health.

Truth is : www.notmilk.com

When we want to ask questions to big gmo societies, they never respond. They work in the dark, protected from medias and public. They hide like the criminals and murderers that they are.
Gilles Eric Seralini is a scientist that begins to scare big companies like Mosanto, he critics openly gmo’s and what he says is based on scientific facts. Since many years, this molecular biology professor patiently collects all proofs of gmo’s dangers. Often, Mosanto and others tried to buy his silence. He has secret files showing the nocive effects on animal’s health. Effects on blood cells counts, sugar level in blood, female and male hormones, etc. To know if this is also dangerous for humans, he’s making experiments in his laboratory. Monsanto employs ex-cops and ex-CIA agents to work as secret agents, to spy or to intimidate farmers. They will enter in a private property such as a flield and take samples of crops and grains in plastic bags to analyze them. If the searchers of Monsanto's laboratories find out it contains even just a small pourcentage of their genetically modified crops, they will pursue the farmer and win. Even if the farmer never bought or never sowed any GMO in his field... thing is that the contamination of GMO's are a big problem. The wind, bees, pollen, trucks, etc... It should be Monsanto who should compensate the farmers for the contamination, not the opposite. This is a crazy world...

The Shit Blog

Some FACTS about SHIT. 

While reading this, please bare in mind that : Methane from livestock is 20 times more nocive than Co2
 


(Source: the film from Bunuel "The Phantom of Liberty")
Each day the population increases, and 7 billion people produce and release huge quantities of waste of all kinds: insecticides, detergents and other toxic chemicals … not to mention all body wastes. An individual frees 3 pounds of shit per day. This is 10 billion pounds per day. Yes, 10 million tons of excrement a day. And they are extremely toxic waste, whose effect is reinforced by the presence of chemicals.

The following facts are drawn from Diet for a New America by John Robbins.

In the US, farmed animals produce 130x more excrements than the entire human population : 86 000 pounds per second. That’s 309 600 000 pounds per hour, or 139320000 kilos. Where does all this shit go ? in the air, soil and water.
Production of excrement by total U.S. human population: 12,000 pounds/second
Production of excrement by U.S. livestock: 250,000 pounds/second
Sewage systems in U.S. cities: Common
Sewage systems in U.S. feedlots: Nil
Amount of waste produced annually by U.S. livestock in confinement operations which is not recycled: 1 billion tons
Relative concentration of feedlot wastes compared to raw domestic sewage: Ten to several hundred times more highly concentrated
Where feedlot waste often ends up: In our water

Manifestly the situation is critical and it is urgent to act now. We'll soon be 9 billion people on Earth and if we keep the same eating habits it will become horrible. I told some fact like that to someone and he said : "you shit too", sure, and you too. But the point is that the cattle we feed just to fill the stomach of a human fat ass is unacceptable because it pollutes our environement with astonishing amounts of methane and fecal matters, FOR ABSOLUTLY NO REASON, except to satisfy the tongues of some capricious beings. It cannot be compared with us, who eat to live and there for we shit as a result.

(All this is so ridiculous so much it is tragic...)

Shit from cattle pollutes 100 times more than human waste
Each ruminant delivers 60 liters of methane per day
There’s too much shit from cattles that groung cannot support it anymore. We drop it into water, becoming more and more toxic and polluted. The bacterias turns its amoniac into acid that evaporates. Combined with nitrous oxydes from chimic fertilizers you get ACID RAIN.
Just one cow makes 23 tons of droppings every year
10 pigs make 21 tons of shit/ year

superplanet

I have read The Vancouver Sun newspaper yesterday : "B.C.'s biggest wal-mart opens it's doors" http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=a91399cd-be52-4f85-a8f8-432fe2e4fe78 "Mather estimated that 300 to 400 people lined up to be among the first in the doors to get at opening specials such as seedless grapes for 97 cents a pound, giant packs of brand-name disposable diapers for $29.97 and 15-roll packages of brand-name paper towels for $9.97." Wow! seems like interesting items... ""I felt that I can just come to the store and get all my shopping done," Athwal said, "and I'm going to do that."" I bet you will. So you don't eat anything but foods bought at Wal-Mart? ""It's a very large store, and I must say I'm very impressed," Casson said. "It's going to be interesting to see what happens with the local guys, the small stores, but the economy's booming out here, housing's growing.""... Yes, "it's going to be interesting to see" all the local small stores closing one after the other. ""[Wal-Mart] is really going up against a Superstore, or Save-On-Foods," Gray said.
Shoppers who regularly go to specialty stores such as Whole Foods or Capers, or like to hit their corner produce store for the freshest fruits and vegetables likely won't change their habits.
However, stores like Safeway or Save-On-Foods, and even big boxes like Canadian Tire, will have to step up service to compete.
Gray added that the supercentre has been key to Wal-Mart's resurgence over the past couple of years." Sad...