This is my Al-Kuffa Tomato plant. I ordered them from Bakers Creek back in the spring.
Al-Kuffa TomatoNew!
This little tomato is early, and produces 3-4 ounce fruit on compact, dwarf vines that yielded till frost. We received this mild-tasting Iraqi variety from our friend Aziz Nail, who said, “Delicious one, useful for any purpose, strong bush plant cultivated in the south of Iraq in cool greenhouses for late spring or early summer markets. Also it is [grown] in the middle and north Iraq without greenhouse.”
The plant is about 5′ tall now and has a couple dozen tomatoes on them.
Bakers Creek had the seeds sent to them by an Iraqi farmer who seemed to be worried that the US occupation of Iraqi would endanger native heirloom varieties. There seems to be some concern for that under order 81 of the new Iraqi constitution.
It’s not that heirloom seeds would be made illegal, it’s just giant argo companies like Monsanto would make it more cost effective to use genetically modified seeds. Under the Cover of helping get Iraq back on its feet, the US is setting out to totally re-engineer the country’s traditional farming systems into a US-style corporate agribusiness
How ever you feel about Monsanto and GM seeds is pointless I guess. I simply thought it would a good experience to grow a vegetable that is common to all people, except the fact these happen to be grown on the other side of the world.
I read a paper tilted “The danger of excessive vaccination during brain development: the case for a link to Autism Spectrum Disorders” by Russell L. Blaylock.
This is the best review I’ve ever read about vaccines and autism. Blaylock a retired neurosurgeon explains a mountain of research in lay terms and walks the reader through the effects of vaccines on the body.
In 1976, children received 10 vaccines before attending school. Today they will receive over 36 injections. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control assured parents that it was safe to not only administer these vaccines, but that multiple vaccines could be given at one time with complete safety Like the vaccine Pentacel, a combo vaccine that combines Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Polio, and Hib. And they recommend it’s safe to start giving it at 6 weeks of birth!
The media of course does there part too, to promote vaccine safety. Remember a couple of years ago when the uproar was about thimerosal in vaccines. There was a lawsuit set to be filed against Eli Lilly for damages, and weeks before it went to court a provision was added at the end of the Patriot Act they gave vaccine makers immunity for any damages that vaccines cause.
Then the media started a campaign to inform parents that mercury doesn’t hurt their kids it might actually improve their IQ! I’m not kidding, just watch the video below.
They can announce that mercury is not only safe but also that it seems to actually increase the IQ, and the public is to accept such pronouncements as the truth. They can proclaim Thimerosal safe to use in vaccines without ever having conducted a single study on its safety in over 70 years of use, and we are to accept it.
Thimerosal, a compound that is 49 percent ethylmercury, was first manufactured in 1930 by Eli Lilly. As an initial safety test, the compound was given to 22 patients with meningococcal menintitis. “Most died within a few days, “Lilly concluded that since they died from meningitis, thimerosal was safe, and brought it to market.” By the time the FDA started mandating safety testing of products, it was eight years later, and thimerosal was grandfathered in.
What I like about Blaylock is his commonsense approach. He’s not out screaming that vaccines cause autism, but he does say there is more than enough proof today to call a halt to the present vaccine schedule and ban any level of mercury in all vaccines.
Blaylock suggest vaccines are much like cigarettes were in the 1940’s. The corporations who produce them know they are dangerous so they spend billions funding studies that say their safe. Because every year they can push back a ruling by the CDC or the FDA is billions in profits for them.
In the early 1980s, the incidence of children diagnosed with an ASD was about 1 in 10,000 children. By 2005, the incidence had leaped to about 1 in 250 and today it is more than 1 in 150 and appears to be still climbing—although this may be an under ascertainment artifact. One of the strongest apparent causal links to the increase in ASD cases was a drastic change in the vaccine programs of the United States and many other countries, which included a dramatic increase in the number of vaccines being given at a very early age.
Blaylock quotes a study that says removing the mercury from vaccines will decrease the number of cases of autism but it will not solve the problem. It is obvious from the extremely high incidence of ASD that these autoimmune related genes are very common, but they remain silent until triggered by vaccines or other environmental toxins.
This means that it’s not just the mercury in the vaccines that cause the damage, it’s the vaccines themselves. The goal of a vaccines is to create an autoimmune response. This response starts up the bodies natural immune system to fight infection. But because the vaccines is injected into the blood the body handles this infection differently. The immune system can stay on for months, and this causes the brain to swell. In the long term this continuous activation of the immune system suppresses your natural ability to fight infections.
This leaves people who got vaccinated with a higher risk of catching an infection that causes complications due to the brain swelling and the suppression of the immune system.
It’s really a great paper and worth the read. I have linked it here for download. Already highlighted from when I read the paper.
Sci-Fi Crimes came out at the end of August, and again it’s another solid album from Chevelle.
The album title was inspired by some off-road adventures with a friend of the band, whom Pete Loeffler described as “this really off-the-wall character, who was driving us around, who believes so whole-heartedly in aliens and UFOs that the subject just really piqued my interest.
If I look at the last ten years and had to pick 5 bands that really move me, Chevelle would without a doubt be in that group. Hard melodic rock is my weak point. I’m an old school fan of heavy guitar and distortion.
Excuse my language but I’m so tired of seeing pharmacies whore themselves out to selling vaccines, via a drive thur mentality.
We have made getting drugs as easy and convenient as possible, and then wonder why prescription drugs deaths are sky rocketing.
I just watched a commercial on my dinner for a Kroger Pharmacy. The Pharmacy manager is actually making a sales pitch to me to come on in and get my flu shot. Nothing could be easier or fastest then getting it at a grocery store!
I expect doctors and pharmacist to educate people on the dangers of any medication. But as soon as Flu season comes around it’s like the Mardi Gras of the pharmacy world. You just walk by and instead of lifting up your shirt, you lift up your sleeve and they will happily inject you.
You can even get a number telling you what time you can get your pharmaceutical cocktail, so as not to interfere with your shopping. After all they need you to spend money too.
It’s sick that most grocery stores over the next ten years see the biggest profit growth in the Pharmacy department. Not grocery, not produce, or bakery, or even prepared food. Selling flu shots, vaccines, and diabetic supplies is a cash cow.
Corporations are once again trading moral Consciousness for profits.
To make it even worse
I have seen picture of what Clorox calls their “Flu Kit”, I can’t seem to find any images online, but I have seen a promo picture that will go in grocery stores. It’s an end cap that displays “Clorox Flu Kit” a nicely wrapped package of Lysol, clorox wipes, rubber gloves, a mask, and hand sanitizer, from what I can make out from the image.
As if these are the things that will keep you safe from the seasonal or swine flu? As if just using Clorox is the key to a healthy life?
How about a package with Vitamin D, or some sambucol, or a bar of soap?
Nope just a package of chemicals that helps build virus resistance to all antibiotics.
Smart Clorox, any for a buck right.
You have to watch those pharmaceutical whores carefully, if you turn your back they’ll inject you with something to make you sick. And then turn and around and sell you a drug to fix it.
I go through a lot of news articles every month. I archive what i think is important into 71 different categories. But there are those articles that make a lasting impression and having a wider effect then just the day the story was printed.
I put these stories into my MUST READ folder. I wish I had the time or the space here to explain why I believe each of these stories is so important but I don’t. Hopefully something on this list will get you thinking.
The FBI Deputizes Business … an old article from 2008 that I just became aware of.This article talks about InfraGard. 23,000 representatives of private industry who are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
Job Growth Lacking in the Private Sector … The admission from main stream media that the American economy has added virtually no jobs in the private sector over a 10-year period. All economic growth has be in the government.
John Conyers “why would I read health care bill” … This one absolutely floors me. A member of congress say why should be read the bills? because it’s your job …. and the fact that he needs lawyers to tell him what the bill means proves that congressmen aren’t writing these bills. They’re being written by laywers of the lobbiest and then handed to congress to pass them. That’s enough proof for me right there that you should oppose the health reform bill.
Two executed as China fraud crackdown continues … I love this one. China executed two people for defrauding hundreds of investors out of millions of yuan in beauty parlour, cosmetics and property scams. So Bank CEO’s swindle taxpayers out of trillions of dollars and we give them millions in bonus …. you make a bad business deal and China and your dead!
Judge Orders Fed To Disclose Who Received Bailout Trillions … Bloomberg has sued the FED twice in the last year to get them to disclose where the bailout money went. Now A New York District Judge has ordered the Federal Reserve to disclose the destination of around $2 trillion dollars in bailout funds after the Fed failed to convince the Judge that the records should be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.
The Man Who Sells America’s I.O.U.’s … The auction of United States Treasury securities, and $32 billion has just been sold in a blink. It was another successful operation for Van Zeck, the commissioner of the public debt, who has the world’s biggest credit card.
Vital Signs and the “Fix” … As we approach the middle of the summer, 2009, it is of utmost importance to be able to slice deftly through the heavy propaganda fog that the government is pumping out through its mouthpiece the media.
Flu shot or get fired … Workers at Capital Region hospitals are going to have to get a flu shot this year or face losing their jobs …. This is a good one to get you thinking, what if this was the policy at your office?
Study Says World’s Stocks Controlled by Select Few … A recent analysis of the 2007 financial markets of 48 countries has revealed that the world’s finances are in the hands of just a few mutual funds, banks, and corporations. This is the first clear picture of the global concentration of financial power.
Common Sense 2009 … This article from Larry Flynt! is amazing. He’s been attacked for years for his free speech as the founder of Hustler. Now he’s hitting back. He writes “The American government — which we once called our government — has been taken over by Wall Street”
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