Hi Peter, Our "Why Organic?" booth addressed these issues. It was hard for me to come up with a response to the fair theme, "Star Spangled Memories Uniting Bonner County" because it's obvious that we aren't united and that people with a certain point of view want to force the other's into quiet submission. Do you remember this poem, I'm paraphrasing..."He drew a circle that shut me out, terrorist, rabble-rouser and lout. But love and I had the wit to win, I drew a circle that let him in." When we put the Milky Way with the "You are here." sign under the fair theme on the front of the booth, we were redefining everything. That is what Fred Kirschenmann did in his speech about community. What we are doing on our road is trying to do something positive about our whole watershed, while the logging trucks carry their precious cargo out down our road to a mill. Men in this rural community don't have any work. They will extract timber and minerals as long as the law allows this.
Our local and state government in this state has been completely taken over too. Our local middle of the road Republican party was taken over by the far right wing who had help from the outside. How else did they suddenly have their whole voting constituency on computerized "Get out the vote" messages. The Democrats were left far behind. They would not embrace the environmentalists because they wanted to "win," they said, and nobody would vote for an environmental candidate. We have a whole bunch of unrepresented people in this county, none of whom would join the Green Party because it's evident that the laws and practices have already been set up to make it impossible for an independent candidate to win even a county office. Our democratic American values have been taken over by a fascist clique which has turned the whole world against all of us and those of us who are not "united" are disenfranchised in a national election by the Electoral College system. The Quakers are having a silent peace vigil on 9/11 and we are announcing it in the local paper as follows: THERE IS A BETTER WAY September 11th this year will be a day of reflection, first to remember those who lost their lives a year ago and in the days following as we reacted with military actions in the Middle East. But this will also be the time for us to consider the best way to change the attitudes and resolve the conflicts that led up to the events on that fateful day a year ago. As the anniversary of 9/11 approaches, President Bush is campaigning to use this event as the reason to expand the present conflict in the Middle East by invading Iraq. Sandpoint Friends (Quakers) believe that such action (added to the cruel economic sanctions already long imposed, and the more than 75 times we have bombed Iraq since 1999) will not only lose us the cooperation and respect of other nations, but will most surely result in more hatred and violence against the United States. Such action is not only morally wrong, it violates international conventions and completely aborts all efforts of the United Nations to resolve by peaceful means the conflicts that led up to that event. The Society of Friends (Quakers) has long held that conflicts should be resolved by peaceful means. Therefore, the Sandpoint Friends Meeting will hold a silent vigil in front of the Bonner County Courthouse from 5:00 to 6:30 PM on Wednesday, September 11th. Concerned citizens are invited to join the gathering there to bear witness that PEACE IS THE ONLY WAY. =========================================== PLANT HOPE, NOT HATE PEACE IS THE WAY TO BEGIN MAKE PEACE, NOT WAR GIVE PEACE A CHANCE ============================================ Peter, many people all over the globe are suffering from memory loss--some just their working memory (short-term memory) and others have Alzheimers. What is causing this? It's affecting so many people. Is it because everyone is living longer or are there other causes? There should be a way to reverse this trend. I've been searching and the only thing I found was a paper from the Neurobiology Department of the Yale University School of Medicine in Science 287 (17 March 2000) p2020 of the administration of D1 agonist, ABT 431 to female monkeys that they had purposely ruined the short-term memories of with a drug and then brought back somewhat..."These findings indicate that pharmacological modulation of the D1 signaling pathway can produce long-lasting changes in functional circuits underlying working memory. Resetting this pathway by brief exposure to the agonist may provide a valuable strategy for therapeutic intervention in schizophrenia and other dopamine dysfunctional states." Are the BD preps able to do anything about memory? I had to go to the Farmer's Market on Saturday without any breakfast. I just had time to take my vitamins and supplements on an empty stomach. One of the vendors is a grizzled Viet Nam veteran who heals men from the Homeless Men's shelter with herbs. He sells shots of wheatgrass juice at the market by grinding the wheatgrass from flats he brings. He gave me a shot of his elixir and suddenly I could carry on a conversation again...words came easily as I talked. I felt sharp. Why can't everyone's life be like this? Why is the world so dysfunctional? A friend said that she thought the whole world was going through a healing crisis. I think this is true and we need to put out as much as we can and not just sit around and let things happen that are pushing us in the wrong direction. I hope you can help your mother. It's so good that you are taking care of her. Best, Merla Peter Michael Bacchus wrote: > Hi Steve, > I think it is a wake up call to our conciousness. Howlong does > the alarm bell have to ring before you wake up? How much pain do we bare > before we say it is enough at take some decisive action. It took Chernoble > to wake Europe up. Then came B.S.E. I have just read an article about the > hormone disruption of "Envronmental" chemicals. Like a horror story thats > happening right outside our doors. Clean Green N.Z.!! well comparitive to > Calcutta, maybe. > Good on ya for doing what you do right next to a city where > garbage is exported by the trainload or barge load every day and big daddy > sees fit to drop a brick on his toe. The World needs more like those who > role their sleeves up and grow REAL FOOD! > I'm looking after a mother who is heading for alzheimers. > Were holding it back as best we can, good B.D. food and leaves off a Ginko > Bilboa growing in the garden. > Warm regards. > Peter. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
