"No wonder environmentalist Chip Ward suggests in his latest piece, “Occupy Earth,” that activists occupying Wall Street should think even bigger."

~♦~thanks tom! i like watching the discussion turn more toward ALL IMPORTANT environmental issues. i find it odd that so many approach healthcare as a separate issue from the effects of toxic air, land and water as if some magical pill might neutralize the ill effects in humans. one poster in the chris ward discussion said, "Nature is 100%"

our "periwig pated" politicians share one all-encompassing goal. that being to win the election, thus gaining all the perks that accompany the victory. "to the victor go the spoils!" members of both the republican and democratic parties feel compelled to protect the institutions which support and fund their bids. to survive in that competitive atmosphere one often must compromise morality in order to attract the fiat dollars to his party. yesterday, i learned that bp has won the "right" to drill even deeper into our beleaguered gulf of mexico. on a cnn interview with glenn greenwald i heard the bubble-head hostess claim, "but to be rich IS the american dream." money isn't real folks! money has no constant value on which we can depend. the ruling corporations may advertise, "satisfaction guaranteed," but are formed on paper for the destabilising purpose, "to continuously maximise profits;" dissatisfaction guaranteed! we have been misled by the snake oil tactics to believe that money equals security, money equals prestige, money buys happiness. well, more fiat dollars exist now than ever before. at the same time we see a startling rise in malnutritian, starvation, war, illness and species extinction.

yesterday, i checked to see what fracking for oil projects take place near my home in deep south texas. looks like the extreme drought situation confounds the would-be frackers. however, i also learned that our state senate has required companies like halliburton to inform us of just what chemicals they introduce into our soil and drinking water. huh? go ahead, no problem--just name yer poison! the mutually enriching corporate-political establishment so want this to be about money, 'cause that's all they know. ralph nader suggests a guaranteed annual minimum wage increase would be a great start. NO! we need a new dream focused on maintaining the richness of Nature. i copied a bit from monday's democracy now!~♦~

And the politicians are trying to figure out, "How do we deal with this? How do we either try and stop it" — in the way that the Republicans would like to do — "or" — the way the Democrats are doing it — "how do we co-opt it, how do we try to pretend we’re a part of it?"

“I said, "Oh, what would it take for them to go away? Give them their homes back. Give them their jobs back. Give them their healthcare back. Give them healthcare maybe for the first time ever. Let those students go out and have a life, instead of being saddled with $40,000 worth of debt at age 22. How about that?

I’ll tell you, if they do that, I think people, some people, might pack up and go home. Others, though, want a fundamental change in this economic system that we have that is not fair. This economic system is immoral—Michael Moore

“I mean, what the Occupy movement is, it’s been able to show the ways in which both parties are tied to oligarchic rule, both parties are tied to big money. And we’ve got some real possibilities, I think, with it.”-Cornel West

"Everyone is a leader!"--Michael Moore

And what about the chemtrails, for your breathing pleasure?
And NO, I don't mean contrails.

the article's close:

~ No wonder environmentalist Chip Ward suggests in his latest piece, “Occupy Earth,” that activists occupying Wall Street should think even bigger. ~

I read that article...unfortunately, it amounts to about the same as this one...a recap of all the things that are wrong without a single suggestion as to how to right them...

think bigger? how big, Tom?

Fukushima big? doing without electricity?

shall they 'think bigger' about giving up cars? giving up cell phones? giving up jobs, or owning property? giving up on Congress, and taking management of local land and resources into their own hands?

shall they 'think bigger' about negotiating with the drones?

or just, um...huh...gosh, I really can't even guess what you might mean...

how should the Occupiers 'think' that will address the myriad environmental issues you raise?

perhaps you will tell us? Chip didn't...

Just about everyone has a family member killed by a manufacturer or food producer. We can name the chemicals out there. Most people just don't know which particular manufacturer or food producer did which particular manslaughter. Sometimes class-action suits get their attention.

An injury to one is an injury to all.

Well Tom, it looks like it's you and me. I have been preaching this since the '60's
and it seems like people are just hell bent on killing themselves. Just keep on preaching. I hope common dreams will continue to publish your information.I'll be watchin'......Q

Allowing pollutants that induce chronic disease increases revenues, profits, and personal income for individuals and families who own pharmaceutical companies.

******* CONCERNED CITIZENS: TAKE HEED *******

European Parliament issues warnings on HAARP
March 22, 2011

“HAARP is a project of which the public is almost completely unaware, and this needs to be remedied.”

Toronto, Canada – [ZNN] The daily lives of people seem blissfully unaffected by events about which they know little or nothing. Daily news reports unfold with no mention as to why and how the powerful operate behind the scenes. We pay our mortgages, book our vacations and school our children, as a corporate and government elite engage in projects beyond our wildest imaginations.

A European Parliament document may provide a few answers for the inquiring mind. This parliamentary document is not some conspiratorial rant but an official governmental perspective describing authentic concern that a terribly grave technology, which the document calls a weapon, has been unleashed over many years without any public knowledge.

The technology is called HAARP and the European Parliament has put NATO, the US Air Force and Navy on notice, demanding an explanation about their involvement.

One of the most damning statements in the document reveals an American refusal to account for itself regarding HAARP research:

“[The European Parliament]… regrets the repeated refusal of the United States Administration to send anyone in person to give evidence to the public hearing or any subsequent meeting held by its competent committee into the environmental and public risks connected with the high Frequency Active Auroral Research Project (HAARP) programme currently being funded in Alaska.”

(European Parliament issues warnings on HAARP - con't)

Caveat – For those among you who feel all is ‘right and true’ with the world and everything you need to know about is in newspapers, or, that those in power have our best interests at heart – you’ve probably read enough by now. There is almost certainly a soap opera or celebrity awards program on TV that you are missing. Or, perhaps you simply do not want to be confused by the facts… You are excused.

[The rest of us can begin by simply asking the people of northern Japan how they feel in the aftermath of unimaginable loss and yet another future generation desecrated and ravaged by nuclear radiation]

The document outlines why the strange frequency of bizarre global weather and geo-tectonic disasters appear to be on the rise and why NATO, the US Air Force and US Navy have been held accountable for their knowledge and shrouded use of HAARP technology.

High Frequency Active Auroral Research (HAARP) has been deliberated upon by world governments – but none of them – including the Canadian government have commented on what it is, what it does or how it affects life on the planet.

HAARP may well be the most silent and deadly weapon of all time – primarily because it is invisible to the naked eye and thus, its existence can be denied by government and readily dismissed by media. Those in the forefront of probing and exposing this kind of government behavior have issued warnings about HAARP for many years. Few pay any heed. The question remains – will anyone listen now?.

The European Parliament document

“The European Parliament:

- having regard to the hearing on HAARP and Non-lethal Weapons held by the Foreign Affairs Subcommitee on Security and Disarmament in Brussels on 5 February 1998,”

and

“T. whereas, despite the existing conventions, military research is ongoing on environmental manipulation as a weapon, as demonstrated for example by the Alaska-based HAARP system,”

and

“Legal aspects of military activities -

26. Calls on the European Union to seek to have the new ‘non-lethal’ weapons technology and the development of new arms strategies also covered and regulated by international conventions;

27. Considers HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project) by virtue of its far-reaching impact on the environment to be a global concern and calls for its legal, ecological and ethical implications to be examined by an international independent body before any further research and testing; regrets the repeated refusal of the United States Administration to send anyone in person to give evidence to the public hearing or any subsequent meeting held by its competent committee into the environmental and public risks connected with the high Frequency Active Auroral Research Project (HAARP) programme currently being funded in Alaska;

28. Requests the Scientific and Technological Options Assessment (STOA) Panel to agree to examine the scientific and technical evidence provided in all existing research findings on HAARP to assess the exact nature and degree of risk that HAARP poses both to the local and global environment and to public health generally;

29. Calls on the Commission, in collaboration with the governments of Sweden, Finland, Norway and the Russian Federation, to examine the environmental and public health implications of the HAARP programme for Arctic Europe and to report back to Parliament with its findings;”

and

“HAARP – a weapons system which disrupts the climate

On 5 February 1998 Parliament’s Subcommittee on Security and Disarmament held a hearing the subject of which included HAARP. NATO and the US had been invited to send representatives, but chose not to do so. The Committee regrets the failure of the USA to send a representative to answer questions, or to use the opportunity to comment on the material submitted.(21)

HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project) is run jointly by the US Air Force and Navy, in conjunction with the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Similar experiments are also being conducted in Norway, probably in the Antarctic, as well as in the former Soviet Union.(22) HAARP is a research project using a ground based apparatus, an array of antennae each powered by its own transmitter, to heat up portions of ionosphere with powerful radio beams.(23) The energy generated heats up parts of the ionosphere; this results in holes in the ionosphere and produces artificial ‘lenses’.

HAARP can be used for many purposes. Enormous quantities of energy can be controlled by manipulating the electrical characteristics of the atmosphere. If used as a military weapon this can have a devastating impact on an enemy. HAARP can deliver millions of times more energy to a given area than any other conventional transmitter. The energy can also be aimed at a moving target which should constitute a potential anti-missile system.

The project would also allow better communications with submarines and manipulation of global weather patterns, but it is also possible to do the reverse, to disrupt communications. By manipulating the ionosphere one could block global communications while transmitting one’s own. Another application is earth-penetrating, tomography, x-raying the earth several kilometres deep, to detect oil and gas fields, or underground military facilities. Over-the-horizon radar is another application, looking round the curvature of the earth for in-coming objects.

******* CONCERNED CITIZENS: TAKE HEED *******

(European Parliament issues warnings on HAARP - final installment)

From the 1950s the USA conducted explosions of nuclear material in the Van Allen Belts(24) to investigate the effect of the electro-magnetic pulse generated by nuclear weapon explosions at these heights on radio communications and the operation of radar. This created new magnetic radiation belts which covered nearly the whole earth. The electrons travelled along magnetic lines of force and created an artificial Aurora Borealis above the North Pole. These military tests are liable to disrupt the Van Allen belt for a long period. The earth’s magnetic field could be disrupted over large areas, which would obstruct radio communications. According to US scientists it could take hundreds of years for the Van Allen belt to return to normal. HAARP could result in changes in weather patterns. It could also influence whole ecosystems, especially in the sensitive Antarctic regions.

Another damaging consequence of HAARP is the occurrence of holes in the ionosphere caused by the powerful radio beams. The ionosphere protects us from incoming cosmic radiation. The hope is that the holes will fill again, but our experience of change in the ozone layer points in the other direction. This means substantial holes in the ionosphere that protects us.

With its far-reaching impact on the environment HAARP is a matter of global concern and we have to ask whether its advantages really outweigh the risks. The environmental impact and the ethical aspect must be closely examined before any further research and testing takes place. HAARP is a project of which the public is almost completely unaware, and this needs to be remedied.

HAARP has links with 50 years of intensive space research for military purposes, including the Star Wars project, to control the upper atmosphere and communications. This kind of research has to be regarded as a serious threat to the environment, with an incalculable impact on human life. Even now nobody knows what impact HAARP may have. We have to beat down the wall of secrecy around military research, and set up the right to openness and democratic scrutiny of military research projects, and parliamentary control.

A series of international treaties and conventions (the Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques, the Antarctic Treaty, the Treaty on principles governing the activities of states in the exploration and use of outer space including the moon and other celestial bodies, and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea) casts considerable doubt on HAARP on legal as well as humanitarian and political grounds. The Antarctic Treaty lays down that the Antarctic may be used exclusively for peaceful purposes.(25) This would mean that HAARP is a breach of international law. All the implications of the new weapons systems should be examined by independent international bodies. Further international agreements should be sought to protect the environment from unnecessary destruction in war.”

[This document was written 13 years ago.]

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A TIDE OF CHANGE IS COMING

ZlandCommunications (ZNN) wishes to express its gratitude for the overwhelming response to this press release posting on EXONEWS. Also thanks to those who have chosen to comment on the release and for submitting resources for further learning.

The over 38,000 visits to this press release on HAARP technologies and the thousands of visits to articles by other EXONEWS contributors, reflects the desire people have to seek out revelatory information, to make judgments on the information and ultimately to initiate a tide of reaction – globally – about the need for authenticity in journalism.

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(Although there seems to be no official or current governmental and scientific confirmation of the effects of HAARP technologies in your local newspaper or on the 11:00 o’clock news – the people of Japan might want an update).

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A couple here ask,,,, think about what? Implying that if big business stops polluting our atmosphere and aquifers, lakes, rivers and oceans with deadly chemicals that we will have to give up vehicle use, electrical power and live in a cave or some such thing.

For starters; we should all think very seriously about the irresponsible and very harmful for everyone's (law) in the United States, that forbids growing hemp.
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This is a subject I have brought up several times in the past six months and have had almost no response from anyone else... That law was passed by our congress in the early 1900s to satisfy (big busines), the oil, lumber, cotton industries, because (hemp) products, which is not marijuana, would be a major competitor and reduce their profits and welth.

There are more than 5,000 commercial uses for hemp and every one of them is earth friendly, non polluting and bio-degradable. Among those 5,000 are , paper products, (plastics), paint, cooking oil, cattle feed, plywood, medicines, cloth and thousands of others,,, all bio-degtradable and non polluting. They would replace many of the chemicals now being used which are toxic and the types of poisons listed by Tom in this very informative article.

Hemp makes better plastic than oil based plastics for use as vehicle body parts, lawn chairs, building materials, for packaging (food) and so many other uses now made of plastic... It makes better cloth than cotton or linen, it makes better paper than wood pulp.

What else is good? __ Hemp can be grown well on very poor soil and requires no irrigation from our lakes, rivers or deep wells, or any horribly polluting expensive chenmical fertalizers... (Hemp is a weed), one of the most important plants nature has ever given to us.

It is insane to grow corn, a food crop, to produce ethanol and burn in our gasoline mix, when hemp could be used instead... In fact Henry Ford's first model T engine was designed to run on all hemp diesel fuel and that antique model engine got almost 40 mpg and didn't pollute the atmosphere with deadly poisons.

So that is just (one thing) we can (think about) and think about it is about all that will ever be done about it, because most people really don't give a shit.

And of course we all had better start thinking very seriously about developing truly clean energy, (solar, tidal and geo-thermal) to replace (burning coal), which is killing our ocean life and burning oil in our many electrical power plants... We could reduce our carbon footprint by near 40% by doing that and if we don't do it, we might end up living in a cave or some such thing,,, any left alive that is after global waming has gone into overdrive due to excess atmospheric Co2 content.

There are other things too, like also shutting down every nuclear power plant and developing electrical powered commuter vehicles that don't cost $40,000 bucks and or also developing the compressed air engines whic emits air from the exhaust...I'm done.