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3/28/2013 12:37:54 PM
What about fabric softeners?

Don’t use them – they’re unnecessary and contain potentially harmful chemicals. Fabric softeners and dryer sheets coat your clothes with a layer of chemicals, most commonly “quats” (short for quaternary ammonium compounds).

The Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics, a leading international authority on asthma, calls many of these chemicals “asthmagens,” substances that can cause asthma to develop in otherwise healthy people. Many quats also have antibacterial qualities. While it might sound useful to keep clothes germ-free, freshly washed clothes are already plenty clean. Overuse of quats may spur development of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

Most fabric softeners and dryer sheets contain fragrances, actually made up of hundreds of untested chemicals including toxic ingredients such as phthalates and synthetic musks – both suspected hormone disruptors. Fragrances are among the world’s top five allergens. http://www.gogreenwebcast.com/Uneedit

Trygeania Dowell http://my.sociopal.com/uneedittoxic trygeaniadowell@gmail.com 336-422-6697
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3/28/2013 12:56:00 PM

Hi there!

Here's a letter I sent to my email list. It has 3 sections. First there's a letter I wrote. Then there is an article written by Mike Adams. If you read that, the last section will be self explanatory.

Helen

Hello Everyone

Here we are again on the GMO topic and what a sad day it is.

On Tuesday I sent an email asking everyone to call Obama. This shows how fast one has to act because on Wednesday Obama signed into law the 'dangerous rider found in Section 735' of a short term budget resolution.

Did you call? If you didn't, you helped Obama and the people (Big Corporations) who are ruling our respective countries.

I am all for free enterprise and private business but I am not for the Mega Multi-National Corporations running the government and I don't think most of us are. It is time to rise up! These Mega Companies use their money (actually OUR money) to get whatever THEY want and they don't care about the consequences to us. WE have to care about us.

I'll give you one example of how they use our money against us....

In the USA and Canada ..and probably in other countries, businesses who are selling nutritional supplements are being raided and shut down at gun-point by the FDA and Health Canada even though there has never been a complaint about the products or the owners.

In truth, the products are helping people maintain and improve their health! You can only understand this when you know who is working for the FDA and Health Canada. Many of the top decision makers in these governmental positions are from the pharmaceutical companies. Do your own study on it and you will see what I mean. It would not surprise me that some of them are drawing two cheques... one from the pharmaceutical company and one from the government. And who provides the money for the government? Yes, you and me. In this way, the pharmaceutical companies do not have to use their own money to come down on health stores and such. They use ours. Thieves!

We pay them to do it and we pay the police and enforcement agencies. We pay the judges and the judicial system. All paid for by the taxpayer. This is just one tiny example.
End of example

The people who run the Mega Companies are evil, lying, cheating, stealing and murdering thugs and rouges who are only concerned about the bottom lines so that they can line their own pockets. I am talking about CEO's who pay themselves 2 to 4 million dollars a year in salaries and on top of that give themselves bonuses of another 5 or 6 million dollars. I would have no objection to them earning even this much money if they were doing it legitimately and honestly with the consumer of their products in mind but they are not. They are lying, cheating and stealing killers; their toxic chemicals are killing us ...AND THEY KNOW IT!

Some people think we need to stick up for these companies because they are supplying the jobs. But what they don't realize is that if these Mega-Oligopolies (Monsanto comes to mind) were replaced by a number of smaller businesses that many more jobs would be available. On top of that, often the owners of the small business start out (at least in the beginning) with noble ideas of how they can give the best to their customers and often their employees. They listen to their customers when they say they don't want MSG in everything. (Side note: MSG is not only toxic but it causes weight gain. Did you know that? It is also addictive and causes terrible headaches, among other things.) Also take notice that as soon as a company gets bigger and shows promise, it is bought up by the Big Boys. There are laws against this but are rarely used.

Not only do they not provide the jobs everyone thinks they do but they harm our food. They contaminate our food, our world with chemicals and sneak horrid toxins into EVERYTHING. They are sneaking in MSG, Aspartame, Sucralose (these are slow poisons!) into as many food and drinks they possible can and to make matters worse they are lobbying the government continually to create laws that allows them to put this stuff into foods without our knowledge, without labeling! Example: They even want to put Aspartame into milk and Lipitor into MacDonald's hamburgers. Is this who you want ruling the country?

Do some research and read about what kind of people are running the US government and Canada.

And if you are Canadian, you ought to be watching your government's every move. They tend to follow along with a lot of things the US government starts. Remember we've got the corrupt and evil Monsanta here in Canada. Monsanto operates worldwide leaving a trail of carnage and corruption behind them. Lives are being destroyed, the smaller farms and companies are being bought up by Monsanto and other corporations but not until they destroy the farmer/business owner so that he has to let the farm/business go for next to nothing. Do you know that Monsanto has bought up a lot of the seed companies like Stokes and others? Monsanto wants to control all food everywhere in the world. That's the reason for genetically-modified crops.

Below is an article I received today. I will highlight parts of it for those who don't have time read a long article.

Helen

Obama betrays America yet again by signing the 'Monsanto Protection Act' into law

(NaturalNews) President Barack Obama campaigned on promises to end secret prisons, decriminalize marijuana, balance the budget, honor the Second Amendment and make health care affordable. But what really unfolded was an explosion in the national debt (now $16 trillion and climbing), the signing of the NDAA, a claimed new power to kill any American at any time, even on U.S. soil, the use of military drones to murder American children overseas, a full-on assault against the Bill of Rights, a doubling of health insurance rates and the destruction of the U.S. economy.

But that's not all.

Now Obama has signed the "Monsanto Protection Act" into law, stabbing America in the heart yet again and proving that no matter how convincing politicians appear on the campaign trail, they are still sociopathic liars in the end.

The Monsanto Protection Act, part of the HR 933 continuing resolution, allows Monsanto to override U.S. federal courts on the issue of planting experimental genetically engineered crops all across the country. Even if those experimental crops are found to be extremely dangerous or to cause a runaway crop plague, the U.S. government now has no judicial power to stop them from being planted and harvested.

As ibtimes.com reports, the bill "effectively bars federal courts from being able to halt the sale or planting of GMO or GE crops and seeds, no matter what health consequences from the consumption of these products may come to light in the future."

GMOs now evade all regulations: America has become a grand Monsanto experiment

A Food Democracy Now petition now states:

With the Senate passage of the Monsanto Protection Act, biotech lobbyists are one step closer to making sure that their new GMO crops can evade any serious scientific or regulatory review.

This dangerous provision, the Monsanto Protection Act, strips judges of their constitutional mandate to protect consumer and farmer rights and the environment, while opening up the floodgates for the planting of new untested genetically engineered crops, endangering farmers, citizens and the environment.


Note from helen ...I have to ask if this 'law' is even legal. Could it not be knocked out by the courts as unconstitutional?

Corporate-government conspiracy is fascism

This new law forces the USDA to automatically approve all GMO planting permits sought by Monsanto and other biotech firms, effectively granting Monsanto dominion over the U.S. government. This is the very definition of fascism, a form of tyrannical government where corporations conspire with the government to destroy or confiscate all rights, powers and assets, leaving the people impoverished and powerless.

What's interesting about this development is that now even democrats are starting to wake up and see how evil Obama really is. As ibtimes reports:

"In this hidden backroom deal, Sen. Mikulski turned her back on consumer, environmental and farmer protection in favor of corporate welfare for biotech companies such as Monsanto," Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of the Center for Food Safety, said in a statement. "This abuse of power is not the kind of leadership the public has come to expect from Sen. Mikulski or the Democrat Majority in the Senate."

Of course, for those of us who have been paying attention and warning everyone else about the dangerous power grab taking place under the Obama regime, this is exactly the kind of behavior we expected to see. The Senate has abandoned law. It has abandoned the Constitution, the rights of the People and even due process. We are now living under a corporate fascist tyranny where companies like Monsanto, General Electric and GlaxoSmithKline control the government and dictate policy. They literally write the laws.

This Monsanto Protect Act, says the Center for Food Safety, is "an unprecedented attack on U.S. judicial review of agency actions" and "a major violation of the separation of powers." (SOURCE)

But that's what Obama has always been about. He's the president who seized control of all farms, food and livestock across America. He's the guy who claims the power to decide who to assassinate anywhere in America. His administration has routinely conspired with Monsanto to endanger the American people and turn America's croplands into a grand, dangerous genetics experiment.

"Pandora's Box is unlocked, Obama just propped open the lid, and there's no way to cram the evil back in," wrote The Daily Sheeple. "I'm personally pledging at least one article per week about Monsanto, their incestuous relationship with the government, and their toxic grip on agriculture. I urge everyone to raise a deafening public outcry -- every voice adds to the noise that we can create."

Who is to blame? Senators Barbara Mikulski and Roy Blunt, among others

The chair of the committee that secretly slipped this provision into the bill was Sen. Barbara Mikulski, an absolute traitor to America for allowing the Monsanto Protection Act to become law. She could have stopped it, yet she did nothing to oppose it. She actually helped sneak it into law.

Like nearly all U.S. senators, Mikulski is now operating as an outright enemy of the People while selling out to corporate interests who are peddling poison and death.

There is hardly a U.S. senator remaining who respects his or her oath of office. While Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are showing real courage in the face of federal tyranny and oppression -- and Sen. Ron Wyden honestly tries to protect the people of Oregon from outrageous federal aggression -- most senators are now little more than corporate puppets who obey the bidding of their masters.

Sickeningly, Sen. Mikulski recently praised the creation of a Harriet Tubman memorial, honoring the courage of a woman who stood against tyranny and defended the people by creating the Underground Railroad. Yet Mikulski herself does the exact opposite, selling out to Monsanto and betraying people of all races by overseeing the passage of what is essentially a "judicial nullification power" now granted to a dangerous and truly evil corporation. Her actions in this matter were anti-trade, anti-America, anti-human and anti-justice.

Harriet Tubman, a true American hero, would absolutely shutter at the thought that a U.S. Senator honoring her memory was simultaneously betraying the people of America by handing over extra-judicial powers to a corporation engaged in widespread genetic pollution and agricultural malfeasance.

Harriet Tubman was born a slave and risked her life to lead others to freedom. Sen. Mikulski was born a privileged woman who risked nothing to lead her constituents to corporate slavery. For Mikulski to honor Tubman is an insult to the memory of Tubman and the freedom she stood for.

Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt actively conspired with Monsanto to write the provision

Mikulski wasn't the only Monsanto sellout in the U.S. Senate, of course: Missouri senator Roy Blunt was also part of the conspiracy to stab America in the heart and poison our food. According to another article on ibtimes.com:

The provision's language was apparently written in collusion with Monsanto. Lawmakers and companies working together to craft legislation is by no means a rare occurrence in this day and age. But the fact that Sen. Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri, actually worked with Monsanto on a provision that in effect allows them to keep selling seeds, which can then go on to be planted, even if it is found to be harmful to consumers, is stunning.

Who opposed the Monsanto Protection Act? Democratic Senator John Tester. As the NY Daily News reports:

Opposing the inclusion of the rider was Sen. John Tester (D-Mont.), who told Politico that the deal worked out with Monsanto was simply bad policy.

"These provisions are giveaways, pure and simple, and will be a boon worth millions of dollars to a handful of the biggest corporations in this country," Tester said.


Tester, of course, has been the voice of reason on several fronts in recent years, including the so-called Food Safety and Modernization Act of 2010 which granted the FDA vast new powers to terrorize gardeners and farmers across America. Sen. Tester proposed amendments that attempted to protect the freedoms of American farmers, but his efforts were of course thwarted by the evil corporate conspirators who now fill the U.S. Senate chambers.

America is lost... what now?

Voted into office by people whose hearts were filled with hope for real change, Obama now reveals himself to be a sinister serpent of deception who betrays the American people at every opportunity. The Obama Deception is the title of the film released by Alex Jones in 2009. At the time, Jones was ridiculed by Obama supporters who said Obama was their savior and anyone who criticized Obama was a racist.

Now, four years later, it's obvious that once again Alex Jones was right about Obama. Even democrats are increasingly realizing this shocking truth as they watch Obama betray the people of America on issues like GMOs, secret prisons, banker bailouts, due process and marijuana.

With deceivers like Obama at the helm, America has been turned over to corporate interests, and the rights and liberties of the People have been eviscerated. The U.S. federal government no longer represents the interests of the people. It has become a dominant, dangerous and arrogant machine of oppression and tyranny. It has abandoned law, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It has violated the very principles upon which this nation was founded and now plays God with our seeds, our food and our future.

These are times of such treachery and betrayal that we cannot even imagine the web of deception being weaved to entrap and destroy truth in America. We the People are being deceived by false media propaganda and told everything is fine while Senators and bureaucrats march us into pits of death while corporate bulldozers stand by to quickly cover up the mass graves.

The United States government is at WAR with the American people, and that war is being waged with every poison imaginable: genetic pollution, disinfo propaganda, chemical fluoride poisoning, vaccine lobotomies, chemtrails, psychiatric drugs and twisted mental health initiatives. The battleground for this war is your dinner plate, your tap water, your medicine and your core beliefs. The goal of the war is the complete decimation of all cognitive awareness and the abolition of freedom of thought. Give this a few more years, and the mere utterance of any idea critical of the government will be considered an "act of terrorism" punishable by death.

Today I ask: What are YOU doing to defend truth, liberty and justice against the march of government betrayal? Whatever it is, find a way to do more, or we will lose everything.

End of article

If you cannot overcome the urge to do something, write the Senators mentioned in this article, especially Senators Barbara Mikulski and Roy Blunt. If you don't know what to say, send them this email. Thank those who were against this law.

Canadians, write to your government, too, and ask them not to give Monsanto and other companies privileges as those outline in this article/email. Also write asking the government to stop their attack on nutritional supplements and herbs and etc. We want more of them, not less. I understand that the Canadian government is planning to pass laws in this realm that we are not going to like.

Below is what I sent to you on Tuesday. I recommend that you subscribe to the Institute for Responsible Technology.

Helen

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This is the letter I sent to you on Tuesday.

Hello Everyone

There is plenty of evidence that Genetically Modified
Foods are bad for our health. There is no evidence that they are good for us.

Things that happen in the US affect us in Canada ..indeed the world. Canadians should call Obama, too.

The phone number is below.


Helen



Call President Obama TODAY - 202.456.1111
Tell him to strike Section 735 from the 2013 Continuing Resolution!

On March 21st, Congress passed The Monsanto Protection Act that was slipped into a short term budget resolution. This dangerous rider found in Section 735 of the bill would create a precedent-setting limitation on judicial review of genetically-engineered crops, allowing them to be planted without federal safeguards in place that protect our environment, family farmers and citizens.

Call President Obama today; tell him to strike section 735 from the 2013 Continuing Resolution. Add your voice to the groundswell in response to this dangerous bill!


Together we WILL setting right this gross imbalance!
Call the White House 3/26/13
202.456.1111

Here is a see a sample script to use for your call:

"THIS IS (name), a registered voter from (city, state). I am calling with an urgent request that President Obama strike Section 735 from the 2013 Continuing Resolution. The rider defeats our country's constitutionally guaranteed Separation of Powers between the Legislation and the Courts by prohibiting the Courts from exercising their role regarding USDA Regulation and the nation's food safety. Please remove this harmful rider. Thank you."

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RE: SOUND OFF ON ANY TOPIC YOU WANT TO.
4/2/2013 1:16:57 PM
Hi Trygeania, I agree with not using fabric softeners, haven't used them in years after I developed chronic asthma and to be honest I don't miss them. Things come out of the dryer soft enough and I had quit using them on towels way before that because I had read somewhere that using a fabric softener on towels made them less absorbent and I found that to be very true. As you say fabric softeners are full of harmful chemicals and can be absorbed through the skin.

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What about fabric softeners?

Don’t use them – they’re unnecessary and contain potentially harmful chemicals. Fabric softeners and dryer sheets coat your clothes with a layer of chemicals, most commonly “quats” (short for quaternary ammonium compounds).

The Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics, a leading international authority on asthma, calls many of these chemicals “asthmagens,” substances that can cause asthma to develop in otherwise healthy people. Many quats also have antibacterial qualities. While it might sound useful to keep clothes germ-free, freshly washed clothes are already plenty clean. Overuse of quats may spur development of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

Most fabric softeners and dryer sheets contain fragrances, actually made up of hundreds of untested chemicals including toxic ingredients such as phthalates and synthetic musks – both suspected hormone disruptors. Fragrances are among the world’s top five allergens. http://www.gogreenwebcast.com/Uneedit

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RE: SOUND OFF ON ANY TOPIC YOU WANT TO.
4/2/2013 1:23:57 PM
Totally unfair Helen. The couple that bought my mom and dad's farm bought it to grow organic vegetables. Because my dad had been unable to plant and grow anything for several years before he died, the acreage was perfect since there had been no chemical fertilizers or insecticides used. Seems like I've read no chemicals can be used for nine years before anything grown can be certified as organic.
This is just up the road from where one of my sisters lives and the gentleman has kept her supplied with things he grew in his hot house over the winter months but he will start growing things outside after the weather warms up.

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Sickening isn't it ...and totally unfair!





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RE: SOUND OFF ON ANY TOPIC YOU WANT TO.
4/3/2013 1:53:53 PM
"A Time to Fight"
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