Barbara Peterson
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September 13, 2009
What do you do when everything you have been told is a lie, and nothing is as it seems? You find yourself facing the possible extermination of life, as you know it. They want it all.
August 28, 2009
Organic food enthusiasts watch out! You are mentally ill, need treatment, and should be checked into a clinic or treatment center. I guess the docs feel that if you can afford to eat healthy, you can afford the thousand dollars it costs for one month´s worth of therapy to cure your obsession with wanting to be healthy.
July 24, 2009
No children younger than five allowed on farm for fear of diapers. It is this type of micro-management that our entire nation can look forward to if HR 2749 passes. California is already implementing a policy where "scorched-earth strategies are being imposed on hundreds of thousands of acres in the quest for an antiseptic field of greens" surrounding a national marine sanctuary at Monterey Bay.
July 03, 2009
Have you ever been hungry? Not just "skipped a meal" hungry, but really hungry. I am talking about the kind of hunger that won´t go away because the cupboard is bare. If you have, you will understand the need to store food. If you haven´t, this is your chance to learn from the experience of others before it happens to you, because if you run into hard times, or the store shelves run dry, you will need to have a backup supply of tasty, nutritious food.
June 24, 2009
The time to prepare to become self-sufficient is now, before a crisis hits. By becoming more self-sufficient, we not only become healthier and stronger, but better prepared to meet any financial crisis.
May 19, 2009
Monsanto and its cohorts in crime promised us that they would not be using Terminator technology called GURT, or genetic use restricted technology. In fact, the United Nations actually issued a moratorium on the project. So we´re safe, right? Wrong.
May 06, 2009
The traceability system referred to in HR 875 and outlined in HR 814 applies to livestock, chickens, and eggs, and is supposed to safeguard our food supply. The problem is, no one other than concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) can reasonably comply with its requirements.
April 23, 2009
Our nation has been on a collision course with simple, natural living for quite some time. The truth is, for far too many of us, if we don't start developing some basic survival skills, we simply won't eat.
February 17, 2009
If NAIS goes through, our groceries will be filled with genetically modified meat, and of course, like the GMO grains and veggies, will require no labeling. The only ones who will be raising livestock are the big corporations, and any little guy who gets in their way will be effectively squashed by NAIS if his chicken happens to cross the road.
July 04, 2008
Revolution is inevitable. People are starting to take a good look around to see that they are surrounded by a sea of lies brought to them one commercial at a time by one major corporation at a time, and they are getting angry.
June 08, 2008
People are up in arms about the Light Brown Apple Moth and the government's spraying program designed to eradicate it. The question everyone is asking is, why are people being sprayed with an unregistered pesticide along with crops and fields?
May 02, 2008
What I want to know is how far above third-world status do you think you are? How long before the price of housing, gasoline, food, clothing, and everything else on earth that the corporations can snap up and offer for sale, goes so high that you simply don´t have enough money left to eat?
April 28, 2008
Transitioning from dependency on multinational agribusiness to localized food sources is not as hard as it sounds.
April 23, 2008
Giant transnational agri-business concerns have aggressively taken over the global food chain by flooding it with Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) without regard for the consequences to the earth or its inhabitants. This takeover not only has the potential for global economic devastation, but threatens the earth´s population with far-reaching health concerns as well.
April 01, 2008
America's silent killers are deadly, and do not discriminate. They target babies, the elderly, teenagers, young adults, middle-age housewives, and businessmen alike. They poison livestock, pets, and wildlife, and the people behind them deny complicity in the carnage.
March 21, 2008
Bush's grab for wealth and power - what does Christianity have to do with it?
March 08, 2008
"California courts have held that ... parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children," Justice H. Walter Croskey said in the 3-0 ruling issued on Feb. 28. Parents can be criminally prosecuted for failing to comply, Croskey said.
February 18, 2008
An elitist cabal composed of people so rich we the people cannot even comprehend it, have been busily creating terrorists for years.
February 16, 2008
Why would sane people willingly go to one of the numerous FEMA camps that exist across the U.S.? Answer: Because they are starving, have lost their homes, have no employment prospects, and literally have nowhere else to go.
February 13, 2008
The Hegelian Dialectic, simply defined, is the process by which a problem is created in order for a pre-determined solution to be implemented.
January 11, 2008
Concerned about Chinese toys that contain lead flooding the market? We ain’t seen nothin’ yet, folks! “According to an agreement between China and the EU, exports of China's textile products to the EU countries will not be subject to any quantity limits starting this year, and textile export quotas ...
January 08, 2008
Focus, America! Do not lose track of the goal. The goal is to expose the elite traitors in our “elected” government for the terrorists that they are and to drag the bums out of office, not to dive headfirst into an elections game that only serves to keep we the people distracted while the thugs in o...
December 27, 2007
On December 24, 2007, I received a media release from the Lakota Nation. Here is an excerpt:
Lakota Freedom delegate and Oglala Lakota Cante Tenza - Strongheart Warrior Society leader Canupa Gluha Mani (Duane Martin Sr.) issued the following statement after discussion with the Strongheart Grandmo...
December 20, 2007
Is the United States taking a step backwards in the area of women’s rights? It would seem so. Violence against American women goes un-prosecuted, and women who have suffered remain traumatized with no justice in sight.
“Millions of women throughout the world live in conditions of abject deprivat...
December 10, 2007
Freedom comes in stages.
This morning I cut the ties to Satellite TV. This action brought a touch of apprehension to my soul. I have realized the addiction for quite some time, but refused to deal with it.
Until now.
The first step to getting rid of an addiction is recognizing it. The sec...
November 24, 2007
According to HR 1955: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, the Internet is guilty of promoting terrorism, and is subject to sentencing by Congressional committee.
HR 1955 can be found in its entirety here: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-19...
November 16, 2007
Do you remember when Bush Jr. said, “either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists”? Well, he meant it. Homeland Security’s sub-committee on terrorism risk assessment convened a hearing on 11-06-2007 to discuss “using the Web as a weapon – the Internet as a tool for violent radicalization a...
November 13, 2007
With the stroke of a pen, nations are formed, and with the stroke of a pen, they are destroyed. With a stroke of a pen, ideas are also given birth, and hope reborn.
With the stroke of a pen, our nation was formed, and with the stroke of a pen, it was torn apart. With the stroke of a pen, I lift m...
November 08, 2007
(Photo: inmates of the dystopia prepare to voluntarily cull themselves off at the “Carousel” extermination ceremony, from the 1976 scifi film Logan’s Run)
Are you ready to sacrifice your standard of living on the altar of globalization? That is what is happening at an alarming rate. We the peop...
October 24, 2007
Henry David Thoreau's essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" written in 1849 is as relevant to the times now as it was then. We have a right to stand up and question any institution or individual that claims authority over us, just as he did then. In fact, it is our duty as citizens to do so. Tho...
October 22, 2007
I just saw an advertisement for compact fluorescent lights (CFLs). We are encouraged by environmental activists and government agencies to conserve energy, and that is a good thing. However, one of the popular solutions for conserving energy that these groups promote is the CFL. The fact that every ...
October 17, 2007
It has occurred to me that there is a fine line between courage and stupidity. This occurs to me quite frequently and it came to mind again today, right after I sent the firewood guy packing.
Let me explain. We heat the house with a wood stove. We normally use 8 cords of wood per winter season, ...
October 09, 2007
What is the State Secrets Privilege, and why should it concern us?
The State Secrets Privilege is otherwise known as the SOI, or Security of Information policy. It is “the authority by which government officials withhold from the public information that has been classified as sensitive and neces...
October 03, 2007
Are multi-national companies playing fast and loose with our personal information? From personal experience, I would say yes! With all of the warnings we get regarding identity theft, why are large multi-national corporations treating their customers’ information as not worth protecting, and why are...
September 23, 2007
There are some things we take for granted. One of these things is what the American Dental Association says is okay to put in our mouths everyday, at least twice a day, several minutes at a time. I have followed the ADA’s instructions for dental hygiene for 50+ years, faithfully, dutifully, and trus...
September 20, 2007
Health care is an important issue for all of us. In fact, health care is such an important issue that Hillary Clinton is using it in an attempt to propel herself right into the Oval Office. She is appealing to our compassionate nature, and framing her Universal Health Care plan as a moral imperative...
September 10, 2007
Who is to blame for 9/11? Is it Bush, the Muslims, or the Jews? The blame game is a popular misdirection, and a very useful tool for manipulating the masses. I am so sick of being manipulated. I believe only a portion of what I read, and even less of what I hear. The real war we are fighting is not ...
September 05, 2007
We are taught from an early age to love the lie. We all know Santa is a lie, yet the myth is perpetuated. We lie to our children, then act surprised when they don’t believe us about other things. Santa is not the exception! We cannot lie about one thing then expect complete trust on the recipient’s ...
August 30, 2007
When I was a child, I had heroes. Roy Rogers was one of them. He could sing, ride horses, and shoot. We could always tell right from wrong, and he always stood for the right. Another of my heroes was the Rifleman. He could take care of a son, a ranch, and rid the town of bad guys all in a day’s work...
August 13, 2007
The media has always been used as a propaganda tool, and the government has always spread propaganda. Now that the multinational corporations control the government, the propaganda machine has gotten increasingly sophisticated, and we the people are its cannon fodder.
Our corporate government con...
August 12, 2007
Pouring one’s heart and soul through pen and onto paper, or in this case, through keyboard and into hard-drive, takes a bit of contemplation. Do I just splat it out, or take my time, going over every last detail? Will I seem too intense, will the reader get the point, and will it be read? What about...
August 12, 2007
I had no say in my birth. I had no choice of parents, birthplace, or circumstance. I only know life. I am able to breath the morning air, feel the mud between my toes, and lift my hands to the sky in wonder. I laugh, believe, try, fail, succeed, win, lose, love, feel, and sometimes I hate. But most ...
August 05, 2007
We the people are losing ground every day. Whether it is by the erosion of our civil liberties, the dumbing-down of our children, or the economic war on the middle-class, our strength is being sapped. Why is this happening? Is it fate, random chance, or something a bit more sinister?
I believe t...