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Occupy Vancouver? 99% Peace Freedom Justice

What Is Occupy Vancouver?

Occupy Vancouver - A Non Violent Movement
for Social, Economic and Political Change

We, the Ninety-Nine Percent, come together with our diverse experiences to transform the unequal, unfair, and growing disparity in the distribution of power and wealth in our city and around the globe. We challenge corporate greed, corruption, and the collusion between corporate power and government. We oppose systemic inequality, militarization, environmental destruction, and the erosion of civil liberties and human rights. We seek economic security, genuine equality, and the protection of the environment for all.

We are inspired and in solidarity with global movements including those across the Middle East, Europe, and the Occupy Wall Street / Occupy Together movement in over 1000 cities in North America. Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.

We humbly acknowledge that Occupy Vancouver is taking place on unceded Coast Salish territories.
We are committed to an inclusive and welcoming space, to addressing issues of oppression and discrimination, and to creating an environment where all the 99% can be heard and can meaningfully participate. We are also committed to safeguarding our collective well-being – including safety from interpersonal violence and any potential police violence.




PLEASE NOTE: This is a working statement that we know will evolve as #OccupyVancouver grows and flourishes. Our demands and our dreams are not limited to this statement as we have many ideas and solutions. As stated by #OccupyTogether, no one group, person, or website could ever speak for this diverse gathering of individuals. However, the General Assembly on October 8th reached consensus to accept these broad principles as a starting point and there will be further discussion on October 15th at 10 am at the General Assembly at the Vancouver Art Gallery.



http://occupyvancouver.com/index.php?page=1






Site includes speech by Dr. David Suzuki

Grow Grapes Easy Wild Free Food

Grapes grow like weeds

Grapes are really a no brainer crop. They need full sun, and little to no fertilizer each season. They do not need to be pruned, although I do cut them back as they are picked. The trick with grapes is finding the right variety for the length of summer you have. There are 9 varieties here and 1 never ripens fully. I am in zone 6. They really do grow and live as easily as trees. This green seedless grapes are called Himrod. I take hardwood cuttings in the winter and end up with many, many starts, too bad I can't send them to you!  Peace
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We sell unique handcrafted jewellery here!!

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I am thrilled to have such interest in my jewelry designs. Every piece of jewelery is handmade and the only one of its kind. So, without further ado, and due to popular demand, jewelery will be available for sale here.  New items will be added each week until Christmas.

The limitations of this farm, our skill set, and these magical devices of modern times have made this venture both necessary and enevitable. Our little jewellery business is a family affair, teaching the younger ones entrepreneurship and the value of creativity and the older ones that the more they learn the less they know they know.

Hope you find something you would like to give a loved one for Christmas!

Microwave Cooking Harmful

Microwaved Food

by Raymond Francis

More than 90% of homes in the US have a microwave oven. Builders routinely install these ovens in new homes and hardly a restaurant is without one. They are fast, convenient, economical, and ideally suited to the fast pace of modern lifestyles. There is only one problem with microwave ovens—they are extremely hazardous to your health. It is hard to conceive of any reasonable person who would eat microwaved foods if they understood the hazards. Obviously, very few people truly comprehend these hazards. And no one is rushing to educate them! Let's have a look at some of the problems with this technology:

Microwaves, very short waves of electromagnetic energy, are just part of Mother Nature's energy spectrum. This spectrum includes visible, infrared, and ultraviolet light along with radio waves, x-rays, and so forth. Microwaves are generated by the sun along with visible light and the other invisible parts of the spectrum. However, there is a big difference between what the sun generates and what is generated in a microwave oven. This difference is the result of the alternating current used to generate the oven microwaves.

Here is how microwaves cook food: All electromagnetic waves change from positive to negative with each cycle of the wave. Alternating current simply makes these cycles happen faster. Water molecules have a positive and a negative end. Because of this, when exposed to microwave energy, which is changing from positive to negative, the water molecules rotate. This is similar to making a pin rotate on a surface by using a magnet. Microwaves, generated by the alternating current in an oven, cause the water molecules in the food to rotate billions of times per second. This results in an enormous amount of friction among these molecules, thus causing the food to get hot.

It has been generally assumed that microwaved foods are safe to eat. In fact, the only concern of our regulators has been about the leakage of microwaves from the oven. Surprisingly, regulators have never questioned whether the microwaved foods themselves are safe.

In 1991, an early clue that microwaved food is not safe came to public attention in the form of a lawsuit. The family of one Norma Levitt sued for wrongful death. It seems Norma went to the hospital for hip replacement surgery. The operation was a success, but the patient died. Norma died after being given a blood transfusion where the blood had been warmed in a microwave oven. This was our first big clue to the fact that heating things in a microwave does something fundamental and harmful to the chemistry of what is being heated. If microwaving, only long enough to warm the blood to body temperature, could make the blood toxic enough to kill, then what happens when we microwave food for a longer period at higher temperatures?

A lot more goes on in a microwave oven than just making things hot. The enormous amount of energy going into the food molecules is sufficient to break protein molecules apart and cause them to react in ways that they would not otherwise do. As a result, a lot of strange new molecules are created and this is the problem. The molecular structure of the food is changed, thus producing molecules that the body does not recognize. These strange new molecules are unnatural to the body and can be carcinogenic and toxic. This explains why significant biochemical changes have been measured in those eating microwaved food.

Swiss Experiments

Experiments performed in Switzerland by Dr. Hans Hertel along with Dr. Bernard Blanc of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology found that microwaving damaged the nutritional quality of food. They also measured pathological changes in the blood of volunteers who ate the microwaved food. Hertel and Blanc's findings are both profound and shocking. These researchers found a decrease in the hemoglobin content of the blood. This means that the blood will carry less oxygen and that the body's tissues may not be getting all the oxygen they need. White cell count and cholesterol both increased. An increase in white cells indicates stress on the body. White cells go up in response to acute infections, toxins, and cell damage. Lymphocytes decreased. Lymphocytes are a particular kind of white cell that is important to antibody production. None of these happenings are good for you. An immune system in crisis and oxygen starved tissues may not be what you had in mind when you put the food in the oven. And as if that wasn't bad enough, they also found that serum from the blood of the volunteers who ate the microwaved food caused an increase in the luminescence of light-emitting bacteria. It appears that energy from the microwaving was stored in the molecular bonds of the food. This caused changes in the energy pattern of the blood, thus stimulating these bacteria to emit light when exposed to the blood serum. This finding raises the question of whether it is even safe to drink microwaved water. There may be residual energy stored in the atomic bonds of the water atoms. What all this is telling us is that microwaved food contains both molecules and energies that are not normal to the food. Introducing abnormal molecules and energies into the body is not conducive to good health. Let's see what other studies tell us this can mean...

Studies in the Soviet Union

A significant amount of research into the hazards of microwaves was performed in the former Soviet Union. These studies were conducted at the Institute of Radio Technology at Kinsk. They led to the discovery of serious health problems associated with exposure to microwaves and the consumption of microwaved food. As a consequence, the Soviet Union outlawed microwave ovens in 1976 and set very strict limits on microwave exposure. The Soviets issued an international warning on both the environmental and biological health hazards of microwave ovens and other microwave devices. Some of the Soviet findings were published in this country by the Atlantis Rising Educational Center in Portland, Oregon.

The Soviets found that microwaving food caused the production of well-known carcinogens, regardless of the type of food. Meats, dairy, grains, fruits, and vegetables all formed known cancer-causing chemicals. In addition, these researchers observed disorders in the digestive systems, malfunctions in the lymphatic systems, and an increase of cancerous cells in the blood of those who ate microwaved foods. They found a statistically high correlation between those who ate microwaved foods and cancer of the stomach and intestines and a gradual breakdown of the function of the digestive system.

The Soviets also found decreases in the nutritional quality of all the foods researched. The nutritional quality of microwaved food decreased by 60 to 90%. These included decreased bioavailability of minerals, B vitamins, vitamins C and E, and lipotropic factors. Even the nutritional value of proteins was decreased.

Hormonal abnormalities were also observed, especially in the production and balancing of male and female hormones. A destabilization in the electrical potential of cell membranes was observed. Maintaining a normal electrical potential in cell membranes is critical to cellular health and to cell-to-cell communication. Continual eating of microwaved food caused permanent brain damage resulting in memory loss, inability to concentrate, emotional upsets, and a decrease in intelligence.

Dr. Lita Lee

Dr. Lita Lee, author of Health Effects of Microwave Radiation—Microwave Ovens, has been a guest on my radio show. She wrote in her book that every microwave oven leaks radiation, and that foods cooked in them develop toxic and carcinogenic by-products. Dr. Lee observed disease patterns among consumers of microwaved foods that included lymphatic disorders, which often lead to the increased probability of certain types of cancers, including increased rates of stomach and intestinal cancers, and higher rates of digestive disorders.

Conclusion

There are three things to remember here. One is that microwaving food creates new chemical compounds that are toxic and even carcinogenic. The second is that the nutritional value of the food is significantly reduced. The third is the silent, but measurable effects in your body when you eat microwaved food. Such foods appear to promote cancer, hormonal imbalances, lymphatic disorders, digestive disorders, blood and immune abnormalities, emotional problems, permanent brain damage and even heart disease.

Given all the above, it is difficult to conceive of anyone who would want to continue to eat microwaved food. To be sure of avoiding all microwaved foods, one has to ask in restaurants if any of the food you are ordering will be heated in a microwave. If so, don't order it. Based on the data I have seen to date, I recommend that you unplug your microwave and never use it again.

Raymond Francis is an M.I.T.-trained scientist, a registered nutrition consultant, author of Never Be Sick Again and Never Be Fat Again, host of the Beyond Health Show, Chairman of the The Project to End Disease and an internationally recognized leader in the field of optimal health maintenance.

Reprinted with permission from:
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Copyright 2000, Raymond Francis

Prosperity

Prosperity follows a set cycle; as set as the seasons.

A wish, a prayer, a hope, a dream, a yearning; this is the beginning of all.

Planning, saving, studying; a steadfast confidence in what will come. 

Opportunities, trials and difficult beginnings; 

what you want makes a difference in the world. 

Repetitive tasks, working with others, satisfaction; 

where you can see your efforts make easy your life. 

Reaping, saving, letting go; 
preparing to rest and recharge in security.

Until again a wish, a prayer, a hope, a dream; 
the beginning of it all.

                                                    -Ruth Trowbridge


 

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Money is only paper, a number, a key stroke, a digit in a computer - How to be Free

Do you have a dependable job? 

Can you purchase a house and vehicle suited to your station?  Can you afford the time and money to maintain them?  Do you pay for services and restaurant meals when you are too tired from working?  How much of your salary goes to pay credit interest, insurance costs, the pharmacist and other expenditures to maintain this job?  Taxes take a cut too, more if you smoke or drink or drive for work.  Should I mention those empty unpaid hours commuting away from family, or how much you are contributing to carbon emissions?  Yes, its dependable all right, if you keep on this treadmill you will always be dependent on a job. 

Just how dependable is this way of life, anyway?  It only functions properly if a person is not too young, too old, too damaged, too poor, or too ill.  Those among us without money are stuck in a vicious cycle of poverty, poor health, dysfunction and hardship.  When you can afford to get to a grocery store, the small quantity you buy is much more expensive than the larger size you can't afford.  You must have a permanent address to be connected, drive, receive social and medical assistance and even vote.  In our society, to be alive costs money, so what are you to do when you don’t have any?   

In both lifestyles, either way, we all work as hard as we can to survive our incarceration in this world of monetary supremacy.  We slave, every day the same, at endless meaningless toil.  The years of our lives slip by as each day we silently watch the clock and count down the time until we can go home.  Finally where we have wanted to be all day, burned out and tuned out, we watch the screen and sleep, only to rise and start again. 

Our existence reduced to a fog of worry, guilt and helplessness under the power of money.  The people profiting from our anguish can well afford to manipulate things in their favour.  We are so submissive, even governments openly profit from this manipulation.  It is destroying our healthcare and keeping people sedated and confused.

Those who can pay for perceived perfection, like celebrities and moguls, are worshiped and honoured.  To their denigration, as we vicariously and viciously verify value from their visualization.  The masses, perhaps unwittingly, trying to imitate this expensive illusion, give consensus to its pretense.  A constant bombardment of seductive paid messages and social cues keep this compulsion alive. 

The pleasure of buying the newest thing, clothes not yet worn or sights not yet seen, is a powerful intoxicant.  The desire to spend, the urge, the indignant justification, it seems so urgent at the point of purchase.  The need is fleeting, but the craving relentless and the fix never enough. Just like with any addiction, this distractful preoccupation with money makes us forsake other things of value.

The perfection precept is also used to isolate and humiliate nonconformists into silent submission.  Are we cursed to believe we’re inadequate and unacceptable if we don’t have all the things we want?  This belief can leave us feeling forsaken, confused, and insecure about who we are and what we want from life.  Disappointments leave us bitter and full of negative judgement thoughts about ourselves, and others. 

As a result, we all show up, but never show ourselves.  We use disguises to face the world and deceive people to get what we want from them.  She is not the person she appears to be when she smiles at you from the page, the TV, or beside the cash register.  Everyday we put on blinders so we can pretend, like everyone else, not to see our bondage.  We hide from our suffering with drugs, lust, gluttony and crime. 

Dark obsessive oppressing greed has created a cut throat unforgiving, uncompassionate culture which is causing so much hardship to the entire world.  Do we really believe the notion that mother earth has been rendered worthless, all used up and wrecked beyond repair?  How else can we justify the way we slave, exploit, buy and then just throw away?  It is wrong to believe the poor and suffering have somehow caused their own demise and we are above reproach.  Poverty and slavery, exploiting this planet and her people, should not be accepted as the natural progression of our age. 

In devoting ourselves to money we have erroneously put our efforts into an imaginary reality.  Basing our existence on irrelative assumptions has continually had a negative impact on the quality of our lives.  It feeds our insatiable compulsions, keeping us hostage like spoilt self-indulgent children, perverting our needs and skewing our values.  Everything now askew and distorted we can no longer see how it really is.

If money is so great why hasn’t it satisfied our needs yet?  The idolization of money will be the downfall of modern society.  After all, money is only paper, a number, a key stroke, a digit in a computer.  It is abstract, inanimate, changeable, transient and subjective.  Still its lack of value is destroying the fabric of our present civilization.   

How difficult life is made for people, when everything they want can be purchased, but everything they really need cannot.  You can’t buy loyalty in a new box, your mate off the rack, or put your life’s dreams on layaway.  You can buy the cutest puppy and end up with a horrid dog.  Wanting only what’s advertised, one misses free things more precious and valuable we could ever dream.  Life is never as advertised; advertising is way overrated.

Don’t give up your human birthright to buy into this “emperor’s new clothes” mentality.  It is more important to chase a good life than money to buy things, and a good mate is better than a beautiful one.  Being fixated on having everything denies the reality that sometimes you just need some things.  Life is wasted on vanity and ego grasping, neither is ever satisfied.

No longer can we pretend to connect our happiness to things that ultimately only bring us sorrow, and disconnect ourselves from what ultimately will bring us joy.  Accept this and let go of the delusions of this age.  It is not too late to remove the blinders and masks to see our existence in another light.  Success is in convincing our beast to walk the path free of society’s monetary manipulations. Our natural state is not in the clutches of the pursuit of money, if it were, contentment and prosperity would follow us to work each day.

Hope for the Future - How are we supposed to live?

Together we are the most beautiful and harmonious vibration which can bring joy to all.  For richness and harmony each has unique contribution and special timing.  Only hearing our notes, to the exclusion of others, is creating unnecessary chaos on the planet.  With every breath nature signals us to the real meter of our lives; bringing us back to the natural easy comfort and abundance that we have been born to.  As we can't foresee the future so we must follow nature’s conduction of measures.  Play with her, embrace her rhythm and follow her lead as she knows the music from beginning to end.  Soon you too will hear the symphony playing and the fear will vanish as you know where you are where you are supposed to be.

Jet Stream Split Omega Blocking

 Again I don't understand why this is not mainstream news.  Peace

Fires and Floods From Same Phenomenon

By Tim Wall | Fri Sep 2, 2011 12:23 PM ET

Fires and floods were spawned by the same atmospheric event in 2010.
Last year, massive wildfires toasted the taiga in Russia while floods swept away lives and livelihoods in Pakistan. Though separated by 1,500 miles (2,414 km) and of opposite natures, the two disasters were linked by an abnormal change in the currents of atmosphere, called Rossby waves.
NASA researchers used satellite imagery of the air currents over Asia to identify a blockage, known as an Omega blocking event, that slowed the Rossby waves and split the jet stream over Russia. The blockage developed over a high pressure system above Russia.
It was as if a large rock (the Omega blockage) had fallen into a creek (the Rossby wave) and caused the current to split in two.
Normally hot, dry, high pressure systems pass over the area in a few days, but in this case the split jet stream could no longer push the hot, dry air out. For weeks, heat built up over Western Russia and the forests dried out. Eventually, fires broke out and consumed the dry trees.

Planting by the Moon - From the Full Moon until the New Moon Plant Root Vegetables, Plant Trees, Plant Perennials Now

This is a pile of very old and dry manure on a sheet of plastic.  You can use bagged manure or compost.  It is placed it will see the most sun in the day.

Throw a couple of packets of carrot, beet and radish seeds, scattering them all over your pile.   These vegetables grow better when it is cool instead of hot.

The following picture is a radish sprouting.  Daikon radish is an example of how big radishes can get.  Big roots can be stored for months.  Plant seeds for the biggest ones you can find to make growing them worth the effort.

The bottom picture is beets.  Did you know that the beet seed you plant is actually a little flower head of 6 seeds, hence you get 6 beets for each seed!

How to Survive without a Job

My job in our financial world is to save money.  As such I am also the cook, gardener and farmer.  This is my choice of career.  


As a hobby I  made jewelery in the winter.  To broaden our horizons we decided to sell my wares at the local  Music Festival.  We were told to expect 10,000 people and to have enough inventory for 3 days.  Every day for months I made at least 10 items.  I did not garden and I did not farm (other than the daily chores of chickens).  


We went as a family, my husband, son and son's sweetheart.  My husband made excellent displays and fixed up an old school bus so we could all travel with ease.  The kids where awesome, 15 hours together under a tent for 3 days and never an unpleasant moment.  The sweetheart happily helped set up hundreds of earrings and detangle chains.  My son who had never sold before, or even seen me sell before, took the bulls by the horns, was an extremely effective and honorable salesman.  I was so proud.

Chasing money always reminds me of why saving money is an most effective way to survive.  Now I know money makes the world go 'round, I am too old to be that deluded.  The pursuit of money is so fleeting and fickle.  While this could be said about cooking, gardening and farming, one loss is only replaced by a gain somewhere else.  


I hope I am not retelling an old tale here but one year I went out to pick my beloved red plums to find the tree overtaken by a grape vine and without fruit.  In my anger I started pulling on the vine, and thus causing an unexpected grape shower.  Looking up I saw and later picked enough grapes for 36 litres of wine.


We anticipated enough profit from the festival to pay for our beef for the winter.  We earned enough to cover our costs and the social interaction for us all was priceless.


At home the weeds have overtaken most of my beds.  This was to be expected.  What was not was the wacky weather we have been enjoying this year would have made my diligent efforts to grow food frustrating and for not.  Without my help there was crop failure for most of the berries and cherries.  It was just to wet.  My cucumbers have only grown ten percent in the past 3 months and of 75 tomato plants only one has fruit on it (Mortgage lifter).  I am lucky as I still have most plants, broccoli, cauliflower, chard, tomato and cucumbers.  If it is a long fall these could produce in full.   


When chasing money we anticipated spending money.  Cooking, gardening and farming one anticipates eating.  I see now that one must strike a balance to meet the needs of life.  If not for the absence from the garden this lesson would not have come to light.  I will not be the slave to eating or money but cultivate them both.


More to follow.


Peace

Why do we feel we have to be productive all the time? How to Survive - How to be Free - Saving Money - Being Happy

 (can you see the 6 point buck in my meadow, he doesn't seem to worried about being free)

Why do we feel we have to be productive all the time?

It is very hard to give up the treadmill. We have been chasing the carrot for so long we refuse to believe we could survive living another way. Even when we are not productive we do things to help with our productivity. It is easy to be obsessed with doing the right thing all the time and constantly pressure ourselves to produce, devoted to securing the future for my family.

I love to create with words, food, gardens, colors - doesn't everyone. They don't pay off. What you love, your inner joy, is not important. The only thing important is production, captivity, my slavery. It is hard to turn from slavery where pleasure is not allowed.

Looking at our lives like a business we cut the overhead of living at every turn. We are not frugal, we are practical.

My responsibility to my family is to save money, my husband's is to make money, and together we work to reducing the need for money at all. We live on a little farm. We both work from home. You make money and save money at the save time. I started making jewelery in my spare time, making my pleasure productive allows me to enjoy my life more.

It is hard to break free, and it is always done in steps. Just acknowledging there is more to life than consumerism is difficult for most.

Burdock

Today I cut down the burdock and thistle in my meadow. The burdock was over 7' tall! Although there were only about 40 plants their stocks were 3 - 5" around. By the moon, this is the best week, until August 1, is the best time to cut down plants your don't want. For one thing if cut now their seeds will be too immature to grow new plants and secondly since the plant is putting so much into the flower (thus finally seed) its defenses are down and will not easily be able to recover.

After 10 hours of cutting the burdock down I realized it would take twice as long to haul out all the pieces.  I also noticed they were covered in bees and other insects that would not easily find flowers now. Tired, sore and sweaty I give in, the burdock wins this round - Caution:  Lessons to Learn Ahead - and the world just keeps on spinning, and I am just along for the ride!

Brothers and Sisters in Sustainability and Self-Sufficient Living Please Share Words of Wisdom on Modern Farming

The post of a blog friend has been on my mind since I read it.  Because  of careful planning and major life changes she was fortunate to set up a farm and throw herself 100% into farming, gardening and homemaking.  Unfortunately she now sees what we, her brothers and sisters in sustainability and self-sufficiency also have learned from years of experience, these are not viable ways to procure cash.  Nature will always fill your belly but you can never count on her to fill your purse.  One will only burn out trying to prove otherwise.

I feel partially responsible for not exposing the cold hard truths of living like this, off  grid so to speak,  that newbies and daydreamers can't know.  The truth is cooking, gardening and farming are excellent ways to save money and feed your family.  The truth is to maintain and secure the necessary infrastructure for these activities  requires the labour of at least one more person and other resources including a cash flow.

I blog about my successes and each picture carefully taken to show a  sense of perfection.   Are there any dishes, can you hear me panting, do you see my dirty nails or the weeds, or the unswept floor?  The truth is I never have time to make my house or my yard look pretty.  I am too tired from keeping enough food growing to fill my freezer for the winter and the wolf from the door.

Anyone who is serious about sustainable living encounters feelings of inadequacy and overwhelming everyday.  We just live with it and keep trudging down the path.  Each day too we take our eyes from our obsession and to see how beautiful the journey really is.  The rewards far outshine the losses,  never posh and frilly but always an exciting adventure.

(Can you see my husband in the picture?  This is a picture of our meadow when it was a dying rotting forest.)

Peace