Pertaining to my recent post, 2012: A Perfect Storm?, here’s this from Wired: The 2012 Apocalypse – and How to Stop It

Time: Barack Obama’s New World Order

CFR Unveils Global Governance Agenda

Who Wants a World Government?

Gordon Brown’s plan for an army of teen volunteers. Sounds eerily familiar: Don’t count out ‘mandatory’ service yet in the U.S. either. Part of the “Plan”, I suppose.

Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe

From Wired: Prison Awaiting Hostile Bloggers…how far could They take this?

…and how far will They take this fear mongering: Can You Catch Swine Flu from Money?

Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing

Why we forgot how to grow food

Homegrown Grains: The Key to Food Security

A point of view to consider: The Monsanto Connection

Monsanto’s Roundup Residues in GM Food Cause Cell Damage

‘Superweed’ explosion threatens Monsanto heartlands

Monsanto sues Germany over GMO maize ban

Monsanto Forced Fox TV to Censor Coverage of Dangerous Milk Drug

Organic White House Garden Puts Some Conventional Panties in a Twist

Islands at Risk - Genetic Engineering in Hawaii

Antarctica: A Once and Future Atlantis Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV

Soon to be published: After the Car by Kingsley Dennis and John Urry

Whoa, here’s a story: Marlow Being Corralled by Black Ops for his Magnet Motor

Here’s a delicious local tip the whole world can enjoy: Aliiorganics.com has delectable raw chocolate treats and other wonderful products and information, check it out!

“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” - Pablo Picasso

Much
is being written about 2012 and what changes that year will bring. The
Mayan calendar and various other religious and spiritual prophecies
have seeped into popular culture to the extent that much of the world
will be holding their breath on December 21, 2012 at 11:11 PM Universal
Time, like Y2K to the umpteenth degree.

I
have often been asked what I believe will happen on that day, if
anything. The way I see it, it is already happening; we are already
knee-deep in the preamble web of events, from which the tendrils of our
future will be created. Whether as a result of ancient prophecies
coming to pass, our having to finally take responsibility for the
excesses of the past century, or simply the full-blown noospheric power
of the expectations of millions of psyches, 2012 promises to be a
banner year.

Whatever
the cause, I must admit to a sense of further quickening. Terence
McKenna is likely smiling knowingly from Somewhere, as the lines on the
graph of his Timewave Zero theory
march their way towards the 2012 zenith. I believe we are now
witnessing the rapid spiraling of current crises and scenarios into
some terrific opportunities for nefarious solutions by our world’s
elite, not to mention the documented potential for spectacular
destruction within our solar system. Whether these events will happen,
much less converge exactly on that 12/21/12 date, or even within that
year, I could not say for sure, but the timing is notable.

Frankly
it’s coming so fast and furiously right now that I can barely keep up
with it, as the same quickening seems to be happening in my own life,
on smaller scale, in some kind of ironic, synchronistic testimony to
the scalable unified field. I simply don’t have time to write about it
as I would like, because I’m so busy living it. Perhaps we all are, in
our own ways, navigating the Eschaton, whether we believe in it or not.

We
are certainly being inundated with a constant banter, which perhaps
attempts to instill fear, though ought to only keep us focused and
alert. Economic crisis, world currency, new world order, world war,
civil liberties, socialism, artificial intelligence, nonlethal weapons
technology, seed banks, UFO disclosure, 2012 solar cycle, prophecies,
earthquakes, volcanoes, sustainability, self-sufficiency, gardening,
alternative energy, free energy, consciousness shift, revolution,
evolution…truth does seem to be stranger than fiction these days.

Another
resonant topic which continues to haunt me is Planet X or a binary
star/sister sun theory, though I cannot provide substantial
third-dimensional proof, enigmatic Vatican probes and Antarctic telescopes
notwithstanding. The only shred of mainstream scientific evidence could
be that our ‘global warming’ phenomenon seems to actually be happening across our solar system, not just on Earth. Polar ice continues to melt, but Jupiter’s great red storm is shrinking too. Still others say we are headed for another ice age. How about this radical take at Rense: Evidence of Solar Manipulation and Solar Changes?

What
doesn’t seem to be up for debate is the fact that our Sun’s behavior
can be worrisome. Many of the ancient prophecies seem to include
mention of the Sun, and/or other planetary movements, such as the Mayan
belief that the 2012 date indicated the end of the time of the Fourth
Sun, and the beginning of the world of the Fifth Sun. In Revelation 6:12,
the sun turned black after a great earthquake. Other ancient
prophecies, including the Koran, the Norse Ragnarok, the Egyptian
Ipuwer Papyrus, the Kolbrin Bible, North American Indian prophecy and
many, many other books in the Bible warn of a future time of
destruction during which the earth will burn and shake violently. I
enumerated many of these in my book in the chapter, Destruction by Fire. I noted the strange recurrence of these similar warnings across time and culture. Here’s a good overview of the Mayan calendar and the solar cycles.

Strange ancient hieroglyphics,
now discovered in widely diverse locations around the globe from
Colorado to Yemen, Australia and South America, all seem to be
referring to “some event, possibly related to the Sun, which was prophesied to change human civilization.”

Currently our Sun is in a period of extreme quiet, with the lowest sunspot activity
in nearly a century of recording, the great calm before what is now
expected to be a great solar storm in 2012, when the sun reaches the
apex of its 11-year cycle. Due to the weakening magnetic fields around
both Earth and the Sun, it is expected to be more ferocious than usual.
A recent report
on severe space weather and its potential economic and societal effects
has been making its way into the mainstream media. One can now find
various releasing hair-raising alerts in this regard, one after the
other.

From the Telegraph:
Scientists are expecting a more intense solar cycle this time around.
Jimmy Raeder, a physicist with the University of New Hampshire,
explained it is “because the Earth’s and the sun’s magnetic fields will
be in sync at the cycle’s peak, expected in 2012, that will cause an
influx of solar particles”.

From NASA: A Giant Breach in Earth’s Magnetic Field,
“NASA’s five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a breach in Earth’s
magnetic field ten times larger than anything previously thought to
exist.” At first scientists couldn’t even believe it. Themis
is working to determine the severity of the expected upcoming solar
storm,and the magnitude of effects it will have on our electronic grids
and satellite systems.

In December of last year, from Fox News: Powerful Solar Storm Could Shut Down U.S. for Months. Another recent Fox News report with physicist Michio Kaku is frighteningly clear. WATCH IT.
I am familiar with Dr. Kaku and his calm intelligence, and this seems
almost outrageous coming from him. He claims he and his fellow
scientists made a mistake, and that the 2012 solar cycle will be far
more disastrous than previously imagined. Wow.

Here’s a real doozy of a doomsday scenario recently outlined by New Scientist: Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe. Or how about this from the Daily Mail, Solar storm could cause planetary disaster at any time, warn scientists. A Danish study has even concluded that the earth’s magnetic field is impacting our climate. All this, and CNN is still debunking 2012 as a meaningless popular culture meme? Well, which one is it??

Australia is adding a new magnetic field observatory to study the weakening field and hopefully gain warning of an imminent polar reversal. Meanwhile check Spaceweather.com for news and updates. NOAA provides current solar data, and here’s their solar activity monitor. Here is their space weather prediction center. And the seed banks continue to be made ready by 2011.

Here’s a YouTube video
of Jay Weidner at the recent 2012 conference talking about the sun’s
reduced heliosphere and an inundation of radiation from the center of
the galaxy by 2012. The warnings, he explains, are important, but he
also separates himself from the ‘gloom and doomers’ by expressing that
this change could be seen as an opportunity, even if it was forced upon
us.

I
find myself agreeing with that. Using a pending Apocalypse as an
opportunity is the essence of Surfing the Tao. Whether anything will
happen in 2012 or not, current world events are forcing us to take a
hard look at how we are choosing to live on this planet. There are of
course many people who are too conditioned to the trees to even notice
the forest, much less discern any correlations and make adequate
preparations within themselves. But more people are growing vegetable
gardens this year than ever, and companies are even running out of
seeds. Murmurs of alternative energy solutions are louder than ever.
Communities are turning inwards for solutions, as well we all should. Networks
espousing such thoughtfulness, teamwork and sustainability are
springing up everywhere. Whether it’s to prepare for the End of the
World, or just the end of an unsustainable world of bad habits, it’s
all good.

Many
believe there will be a shift, whether wholly on this day or as a
beginning on this date (or perhaps now already started, to be completed
then) from the third to the fourth density; in other words some kind of
shift in consciousness, or dimensions. Of this possibility I have also
received a kind of inner confirmation, though it remains nebulous as to
what, how, where, and when. People seem to have their own theories on
that, to be sure. Love is key; true unselfish compassion is essential,
and perhaps if we can cultivate that, the rest will come. Personally, I
suggest the teachings of Jesus remain the best wisdom to follow in that
department, whatever your religious or spiritual beliefs, if any.

Indeed
we are very much affected by magnetic fields; would a significant
change in the field give us just what we would need to reach Beyond
what we think of as reality? A “perfect storm” indeed perhaps? Creation
from destruction? I might like to posit one additional intuition here
as well. I have always felt that this ’shift’ might also either
require, or gain a significant boost, from some sort of technology, yet
to be pinpointed. I’m not sure why I think that, or what it is, just
the idea of some kind of portal, stargate or even shield has continued
to nag at me. Call me crazy, but I think there are a lot of puzzle
pieces still out there. Just take a look at the megaliths around the
world. Seems a bit too contrived to be random. Anyway just a thought.

Whether
events converge to create the perfect storm in 2012, or simply give us
the perfect opportunity for a positive evolution, the best advice I can
give is pay attention. Be prepared, but not fearful. Keep your ear to the ground, and use your inner discernment to find the thread of truth.

And love your neighbor. You might need him one of these days.

Prevent trouble before it arises.

Put things in order before they exist.

-Tao Te Ching #64

As I was gathering information for my recent post Our Contaminated World: Making Nature Illegal, I ran across and bookmarked this website, The Who Farm, which hoped to encourage the White House to plan an organic garden.

Imagine my surprise to see Michelle Obama actually breaking ground the other day, to the delight of the media, a class of 5^th graders and a lot of well-meaning folks out there.

Frankly the timing is suspicious considering the very hot current topic of bill HR 875. This bill, otherwise known as The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, was
introduced by Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., in February. Her
husband is Stanley Greenburg, who works for Monsanto, wouldntcha know.
This bill threatens the very legality of organic farming, and the outcry is far and loud across the less mainstream Internet. Here is one typical discussion, but one can find raised hackles all over the place.

So is this Obama family garden plot a
little publicity aimed to steer the public away from the truth about
the administration’s apparent position on big ag? It raised an eyebrow
over at Cryptogon, and forums
are quickly picking up on the hypocrisy. It seems outrageous to clamor
over the wonderfulness of a White House organic garden without at least
mentioning the pending bill and its surrounding controversy.

This bill is sought by the current
administration in response to recent food safety issues. The tragic
problem of tainted food – spinach, peanut butter, etc – is creating
quite a convenient ’solution’. Could it be just another thing to add to
the list of the dialectical chess game currently being played by the
Oligarchy and the powers-that-be, in order to further consolidate and
empower a centralized control mechanism? Namely, and likely, the The Codex Alimentarius and its current offshoots. An interesting podcast about the Codex can be found over at Red Ice Creations with Scott Tips of the National Health Federation,
which seeks to protect individual rights to use dietary supplements and
alternative health therapies without government restriction. Dad 2059 has been talking about it for awhile now, and has some interesting links and discussion.

It reminds me of another recent issue of contaminated toys from China, which led to, of course, The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act,
which now requires rigorous, and expensive, testing of all materials in
children’s products. While some large American toy manufacturers are
seeing their sales improve due to the new regulations, smaller crafters
and second hand stores are going out of business by the dozen.

The Oligarchy is slowly but surely
wiping out the little guys, all in the name of safety. Wonder how it
got to be that way in the first place?

One wonders about Mrs. Obama’s position on HR 875, and whether she has discussed it with the hubby. Perhaps, as Cryptogon
tentatively hopes, it’s her way of speaking out against HR 875. Maybe
there are some interesting discussions going on in the White House
living quarters at night.

Or, perhaps it’s just a ruse. One
certainly wonders what she thinks about the monster likely behind the
bill, Monsanto, their terminator seed technology and the suicides of thousands of farmers around the world.

“Organic” doesn’t necessarily mean not
genetically modified. Therefore one naturally also wonders if the White
House will be using heirloom non-GMO seeds, and if so, whether they
plan on also saving the seeds they harvest themselves, which is the
irreplaceable link in the chain to true sustainable living and
survival. Teaching organic farming to 5^th graders without mentioning this is like leaving fractions out of math class.

And if the White House IS growing heirloom tomatoes and saving seeds, for example, I reiterate: how now, brown cow??

While the White House garden is a good
thing to see, as it may encourage others to go out there and grow a few
veggies themselves, it sure would be extra-refreshing to see someone
there speak out on the issue of non-GMO seeds and the seemingly
hypocritical bill which is well on its way to further controlling and
restricting the choices and freedoms of our natural heritage.

When taxes are too high, people go hungry.

When the government is too intrusive, people lose their spirit.

Act for the people’s benefit.

Trust them; leave them alone.

Tao Te Ching # 75

[original article on SurfingTheTao.com.]

This is the final of three articles.

Last
but certainly not least in this series is the long list of questionable
practices undertaken by our pharmaceutical industry, and supported by
our government. Now don’t get me wrong - certainly
many medicines have been proven to be life-saving, and invaluable for
people with serious conditions that become treatable with these medical
innovations. I’m not here to argue that modern medicine is a complete
flop by any means.

However
many argue that doctors are often too quick to prescribe a drug before
investigating other safer, alternative therapies such as nutrition and
natural supplements. For example, behavioral problems and grades improved in schools that changed their menus to healthy foods. But these days, so many people, including children, are being prescribed drugs which later have been proven harmful to many people.
Particularly of note here is the increasing rate at which doctors
recommend pharmaceuticals for such symptoms as obesity, ADHD, ED,
depression and fatigue. More studies certainly need to
be done on the multitude of interactions between all the various toxins
we face in our environment (see Part II
of this series). Likely as not, they, as well as the quality of the
foods we eat, could be affecting these types of conditions in the first
place. In many cases, a pill is given to treat a symptom instead of truly rooting out the cause of the dis-ease. However, as also indicated by the previous article in this series, big pharma seems to be winning out over natural solutions.

When
sanity and reason seem to have vanished, it begins to smell like…money.
A friend told me recently about someone who was prescribed an
antidepressant by a doctor and ended up sicker than before – and
addicted. Later it became evident that the doctor had received
compensation from the drug manufacturer to do so. After some
investigation my friend learned that pharmaceutical companies regularly
bribe doctors to prescribe their drugs. The more often doctors tout
these often still-experimental wares to their unwitting patients, the
more they get paid in kickbacks and what are called “spiffs”. The
entire scenario is outrageous and criminal. The New York Times published an editorial about it in 2007 entitled, “Is Your Doctor Tied to Drug Makers?” And there is plenty more where that came from. Natural News has a page of articles on such bribery. It’s quite a rabbit hole.

Another subject to mention here is the entire vaccination controversy,
which has reached a furor the past few years due to claims that
vaccines which contain thimerosol, a mercury-based preservative, are
causing autism and even death in a percentage of children. The war is
still raging, and official studies so far claim there is no link, even
though thousands of parents disagree.

I
am aware that many people with autism, while perhaps different in
various ways, carry their own brand of wisdom, ability, and genius,
often with the capacity to contribute a lot to the world. I must also
admit that the basic science behind vaccines changed the face of modern
medicine and has saved untold millions of lives. However if a drug that
is supposed to prevent future damage to an individual could be changing
the personalities they were born with and causing an increase in
medical costs and challenges for the families at home, then I begin to
wonder. With all the knowledge and technology available today, I might
imagine that someone could find a preservative that didn’t raise so
many concerns. It arouses suspicion.

The
vaccine controversy gets darker when one begins hearing of mandatory
requirements, and no way to really know of any added “preservative”. In
New Jersey, new laws requiring flu shots for children in day care have
been met with protests from parents. Is this just the beginning? On that note, I found a startling article, Drugging America to death,
about the true dark side of the pharmaceutical industry, including
controls mandated during GW’s time which has made forced vaccinations
and drugs a matter of national security,

This
is the second of three articles.

Due
to the current economic crisis, people are going
back to gardening
in droves these days. Elizabeth Hart at Reality
Sandwich
recently posted Grow
Your Own,
quoting Thomas Jefferson as saying, “Cultivators of the earth are
the most valuable citizens...They are the most vigorous, the most
independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country
and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.”
She brings to our attention The
Greenhorns,
a new documentary about our next generation of young people who are
returning to the land and a simpler life.

Our
recent financial collapse has often been compared to the Great
Depression, with one very important difference: many of our
grandparents survived because they knew how to grow food; in today's
world, not only are there many more millions of people, but most
wouldn't know the first thing about farming. Here is a link
to a list
of some non-GMO seed stores. You don't need much to get started –
a few pots or a rooftop can create a viable garden even for urban
dwellers.

Ironically,
it's becoming more and more difficult for smaller, local and organic
farmers to survive, even as demand has skyrocketed. Originally
published as an editorial in the New
York Times last
year, My
Forbidden Fruits (and Vegetables) by
local farmer Jack Hedin tells quite a story. Here's another article
recently from OpEd
News:
Organic
farming booby trapped.
The author encapsulates the issue and provides several links below,
which lead to various articles on the dismantling of sustainable
farming and USDA attacks on non-corporate farmers. In a nutshell,
many claim that the government has been working to get rid of organic
farming altogether by various means, including forcing farmers to use
Monsanto seeds and even raiding small farms and co-ops.

Another
similar issue is the increasing vigilance of the USDA, the FDA and
other organizations around the world to legislate away our access to
natural remedies. I
wrote a long while back
about Laetrile and the controversy surrounding “Vitamin B17” and
its anti-cancerous properties. Some
theorize
that cancer is a actually a deficiency disease much like scurvy or
pellagra, which could be easily cured with “B17”. The substance
is found occurring naturally in various foods, including apple seeds
and the kernels found inside apricot pits. According
to some doctors,
it's of beneficial use, but it's not legal to prescribe Laetrile for
cancer treatment in the U.S. You have to go to Mexico or some other
country to find a doctor who will prescribe it.

Also
at Reality
Sandwich,
Laura Jane posted Endocrine
Disruptors, Big Pharma, and BHRT,
which explains that bioidentical hormones, naturally occurring
substances that can make all the difference in the world for some
people with deficiencies, could soon be banned. You can't patent a
naturally occurring substance, don't you know.

It
seems as if the FDA is working hard to protect the pharmaceutical
companies, rather than ensuring that the populace as access to
healthy options. It is currently illegal in the U.S. to claim that
any natural substance can cure cancer. Cancer is big business these
days for drug manufacturers. Many herbal
remedies
and even vitamins
may soon be more difficult to access, and even become illegal, as may
happen also in
Canada.
Just recently, Natural
News
reported on the news that the FDA
Declares Form of Vitamin B6 a Drug, Effectively Banning Pyridoxamine
from Dietary Supplements,
and explained, “Now, any nutritional supplements containing
pyridoxamine will be considered adulterated
and illegal
by the FDA, which may raid vitamin companies and seize such products.
See the history of FDA raids on vitamin companies here.”
This is regardless of the fact that pyridoxamine occurs naturally in
various foods.

This
will all likely soon become a matter of international law, along with
our financial structures and trade agreements. From the Atlantic
Free Press:
“The Codex
Alimentarius Commission (CAC),
based in Rome, Italy, is an international organization jointly
created in 1962 by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and
the World Health Organization (WHO) of the United Nations “allegedly”
to protect the health of consumers with guidelines for food
standards...Codex treats food as toxins.” They are controversially
involved in the re-categorizing of herbs and dietary supplements as
drugs, making them controlled substances.

Interesting
that is so, when man-made chemicals with many known dangerous health
effects are allowed to remain in our foods, including aspartame,
high
fructose corn syrup,
MSG/autolyzed
yeast,
and other food additives and preservatives. I found an abstract for
an intriguing scientific paper published in the Journal
of Epidemiology and Community Health
entitled Persistent
toxic chemicals in the US Food Supply.
Toxic chemicals can be found in your laundry
detergent,
skin
care products,
and meat.
The list is long, and it's becoming difficult
to afford organic/non-GMO food for
many people. Tricky. How
to Afford Eating Organic
suggests it could be done, if we cut corners elsewhere and make it a
priority.

It's
almost too much to comprehend. Before you know it, you'll have to
buy a license to grow that basil out on your porch. It is such a
vital step for our civilization to return to local sustainability in
terms of food and energy production. I am not suggesting to give up
our global communications or other technologies. Personally I think
if we did it right, we could have both. But so far, the government
is still protecting large corporate interests over the common man.
The revolution should come in the form of local sustainability, not
rioting
in the streets, which is already in the news around the world, along
with a growing number of tent cities in
the U.S.

Working
together as neighbors, we might be able to avoid a total system
collapse and the inevitable martial law that would follow, though
some believe this is what They're aiming for anyway. I'll
believe in the “change” if I see the new administration do
something about this travesty. During these times in particular,
They should be encouraging sustainability, community-based,
non-corporate farming, and healthy alternatives.

Part
III: Our
Contaminated World: The Pharmaceutical Darkside coming
soon