US citizens – Demand the right to know what’s in your food

Think your food labels are complete and honest, even if you can’t pronounce 3/4 of the ingredients?  Think again.  GMOs (genetically modified organisms) developed by Monsanto and proven to cause cancer and other DNA alterations are not required by the FDA to be labeled.

This video does a great job to illustrate the point.  Just don’t let the issue drop there.  After going here to tell Pres. Obama to cut all ties between the FDA and Monsanto, take another moment to write your representatives from the bottom up.  Let them know that not only are you fed up with Monsanto contaminating and controlling our food supply, but that as a human being you have a right to know what is in your food.  It is about time the US caught up with the rest of the world on this matter.

Lastly, do not forget to share your concerns with local grocery stores, family, and facebook friends and tweeters.

To find out more about Monsanto and the damage caused by genetically engineered “frankenfoods,” or GMOs, go here:

Quality not quantity counts – even with fruits & vegetables

11 yo homeschooler takes on Monsanto

Monsanto’s Dark History  (1901 – 2011)

Related articles

• Join The Protest Of Monsantos By The Organic Consumer Association On January 24, 20012 (elmsprogressivemedia.wordpress.com)

11 yo homeschooler takes on Monsanto

Nationwide, homeschoolers are rising to wake up our citizens and politicians to behind the scenes corruption in our biggest industries that affect everyone’s daily lives.  Today, we salute 11 yr old Birke Baehr from the Asheville region of NC who does a phenomenal job to prove that homeschoolers are not isolated in social bubbles, but are ready to even take center-stage to get their points across when necessary.

I used to want to be a NFL player.  Now, I want to be an organic farmer so that I can make a bigger impact on this world.  — Birke Baehr, 11

Here he takes on Monsanto – the industrial farming conglomerate with deep ties to the FDA.

 

To get a clearer picture about the controversy surrounding Monsanto check these out:

 

Quality not quantity counts – even with fruits & vegetables

 

Monsanto’s Dark History  (1901 – 2011)

DO YOUR PART to help fight Monsanto!

Click here to tell Pres. Obama to cut $$$ ties

between FDA & Monsanto

(It only takes 20 sec. to sign, 10 to share.)

Learn to Read with Stories/Games/Songs

I’ve begun tutoring a first grade reader recently, and I have to say, I really enjoy getting back to the beginning stages of learning again. Afterall, my own boys are ages 10 and 13 5/6ths years old, so their level of activities has taken on a whole new meaning comparative to the learning drills that could be turned into a game on a moment’s notice.

Their perspective of fun matures, but I find that as I grow older, I gain more of an appreciation for the simpler ways of experiencing (and learning from) life. I would say in direct ratio to how serious a person usually is or views life, is the same need to make time for more sillier pursuits.

Anyway, I began to think with my new little muse that he would respond better to games and activities that required reading, but were not long, extensive stories. Many of these same things would sharpen listening skills and reinforce following directions, yet the interactive nature gave him something to busy his hands with and control all at the same time.

I looked through a very useful site today published in England. The content is challenging for beginning readers, but varied and interesting. Whether it is reading a joke or creating crazy animals, it has many ideas that use sight words and high frequency words to get their stories across.

Another website Apples4Teachers offered a great deal of American literature, nursery rhymes, and other reading material for beginning to intermediate readers.

Click below to see reviews and links to full site:

Learn English, Kids!  by the British Council

Apples4Teachers

 

In the Aftermath of Nuclear Disaster

Sometimes there comes a point when you have to stop researching and start implementing what you’ve learned. Time to digest the changes, absorb the situation, and re-evaluate your priorities.

After several successive days and nights of spending most of my time trying to give this website project a jumpstart, the destructive trifecta of earthquake(s), tsunami, and nuclear radiation leakage knocked me into a reality check of my own family’s ability to protect and sustain itself should those circumstances either be duplicated or contaminate our little homestead.

The next day, a younger 3rd cousin of mine lost his wife after she gave birth to their son. A tragedy of epic proportions that although I cannot comprehend the depth, am immediately awakened to the need to address the here and now.

So, I spent the majority of the weekend offline. There comes a point where the many bigger issues must be taken apart to reveal that which is most important at its core, that which is most urgent, most effective, further reaching in its quest for longevity.

As a parent, this most often begins with my children. Have I spent any quality time with them lately? Have I – at least once today – let go of my own reality in order to visit their immature realms? A child’s priorities will never be an adult’s, but I find this mutually therapeutic when taken in small, frequent doses.

As a spouse, I wonder…how do I know when I’m working enough or working too much? Without an income or time clock attached to the deed, it is more difficult to measure. Then came the reflection, “Have I shown my appreciation?” Again, it is easier to assume that we have, than that we haven’t. I figured either way it went, it’d be a poor assumption.

There were also other things to consider:

How will possible nuclear fallout affect my food supply?
Would I be better off to start my peas indoors? v.s. the original plan to sow them directly in the ground right away? I just had gotten landscaping garden rows ready along the base of my fence.

Need to start collecting drink containers to sterilize with boiling water & keep filled for at least 2 weeks worth of drinking water.

Need to quit putting off my mini-root cellar idea. This will allow me to store plenty of cabbage, carrots, onions, potatoes, squash. Would be wise to consider constructing an indoor entrance to this. We don’t have a basement already, but we could easily modify a small section of flooring for indoor access to decrease chances of radiation exposure.

Stock up on iodine/potassium iodide. In essence, an adult needs 130mcg a day to saturate the thyroid. This protects the thyroid only, but is essential to blocking radioactive iodides. There could be other radioactive particles involved as well.

Clay – particularly bentonite – can be used as a mud bath, skin wrap, food/drink additive – to help draw out radiation.

Baking soda – Besides being the safest, most effective teeth cleaning substance, it also works to neutralize radioactive isotopes. Recommended to having 50 lbs on hand for emergency situations. Reportedly, you can get that much for ~$35. I thought I was doing good with the 3-4 small boxes we have put back.

Seaweed – any way you can get it, and get it pretty often because it contains high amounts of potassium iodide in the purest form available: food. Can be found dried/powdered in capsule form or as a direct food additive, salty/crunchy dehydrated snacks, fresh in salads, pickled…

Probably a good idea to store the water currently caught in my rain barrels in our covered portable cistern, & not use any rain caught this month without 1st treating it with baking soda. This is not drinking water I am talking about, either, but used for our garden instead.

Stock up on vitamin C, but make an effort to grow small citrus trees indoors beginning with orange and lemon.  Reportedly my great-grandfather kept miniatures growing and producing fruit in his basement even though he lived well out of range from their tropical native climate. 

Need to give special attention to my already growing antioxidant mustard greens, rosemary, and aloe vera. All of these are very easy to grow in small spaces and offer heavy metal detox for the circulatory system.

Time to include oregano in my herb garden. Praised for antimicrobial action, essential oil of oregano extracted from the plant is a strong daily defender of the immune system.

So back to my cycle of priorities…as always, they come back ’round to my family. So for now, I’m gonna log off, be eclectic and work on starting my pea sprouts indoors to help save our food supply while teaching my kids self-sufficiency and showing my mate that I’m thankful by bringing a bit o’ my own to the table…even if money doesn’t exchange hands.

Treatment for Nuclear Contamination

Radiation Protection: What can you do?

Radiation Exposure Map

How to Help Japan Crisis

Live Stream to Japanese News

Video: Leaking Nuclear Plants in the US

Video Illustrates Nuclear Bombs Worldwide 1945-1998

 

 

~ One Love ~ The Infamous FRIK

Japanese Nuclear Reactor Emergency Status – Area Evacuated – Bigger than Chernobyl Disaster

There have been massive amounts of radiation detected OUTside of the destabilized nuclear reactor, reports up to 1000 times higher than safe levels following the largest earthquake in Japanese 140 years of recorded history. All citizens in the area are urged to evacuate. Links with full details to follow.

This is the prime occasion to discuss the simple fact that nuclear energy and natural gas or oil are never safe, viable, life enhancing options. It really is that simple. No man-made structure will ever fully withstand natural disasters or climatic conditions over time (if ever at all), and they also increase the likelihood and number of casualties in the meantime.

No amount of convenience is worth the loss of life. After all, it’s the improvement in the quality of life that is the primary argument for such advances. However, over the last decade, it has become abundantly clear that it is not quality of life, but quantity of profit that drives these toxic invasions into our towns, homes, air, soil, and water.

Clean air (thus allowing in proper sunshine, temperature, & gases), soil, and water…the 3 necessities for life. These 3 things not only provide the ability to feed ourselves, but each on its own is a carrier of either nurturance or poison that will enter our bodies in a number of ways.

Do not support, do not believe media reports or classroom textbooks that try to charm you into thinking everything’s ok because we’ve learned how to manage/harnass/utilize safely that which is a proven poison.

Even if you think natural disasters or mandated gas pipelines lining your suburban ditches and urban sprawls don’t affect your region that much, they do. The nuclear power plant discreetly located on the other side of the state or in a no-man’s land of useless property, the truth is: fires feed off of fuel, they spread, & so does toxic release of wastes – whether by industrial neglect, terrorism, or the changing weather.

How to Help Victims of Earthquake & Tsunami

Live Stream Video Feed from Japan

Earthquake triggers Volcanos in Russia

Nuclear Explosion Imminent
Japanese Evacuation

How to Protect Yourself in an Earthquake

How to Protect Yourself from Nuclear Radiation coming next.

Stay Safe,The Infamous FRIK

8.8 Earthquake reported near Japan – UPDATED Survival Tips Included

8.8 EARTHQUAKE reported 20 min. ago near the east coast of Honshu, Japan! Just 2 days ago, a 7.2 earthquake ripped through the same region. This is the LARGEST earthquake in Japan’s history. Scroll down past tips to the comments for continual updated coverage including link to live streaming from Japan.

Thought this was more than appropriate time to repost some important earthquake survival tips that are a bit different from the generic misinformation that has been handed out for decades. This comes straight to you from Doug Copp, Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of the world’s most experienced rescue team.

EXTRACT FROM DOUG COPP’S ARTICLE ON THE: ‘TRIANGLE OF LIFE’

My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of the American Rescue Team International (ARTI), the world’s most experienced rescue team. The information in this article will save lives in an earthquake.

I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked with rescue teams from 60 countries, founded rescue teams in several countries, and I am a member of many rescue teams from many countries.

I was the United Nations expert in Disaster Mitigation for two years. I have worked at every major disaster in the world since 1985, except for simultaneous disasters.

The first building I ever crawled inside of was a school in Mexico City during the 1985 earthquake. Every child was under its desk. Every child was crushed to the thickness of their bones. They could have survived by lying down next to their desks in the aisles. It was obscene, unnecessary and I wondered why the children were not in the aisles. I didn’t at the time know that the children were told to hide under something.

Simply stated, when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceilings falling upon the objects or furniture inside crushes these objects, leaving a space or void next to them. This space is what I call the ‘triangle of life’. The larger the object, the stronger, the less it will compact. The less the object compacts, the larger the void, the greater the probability that the person who is using this void for safety will not be injured. The next time you watch collapsed buildings, on television, count the ‘triangles’ you see formed. They are everywhere. It is the most common shape, you will see, in a collapsed building.

TIPS FOR EARTHQUAKE SAFETY
1) Most everyone who simply ‘ducks and covers’ WHEN BUILDINGS COLLAPSE are crushed to death. People who get under objects, like desks or cars, are crushed.

2) Cats, dogs and babies often naturally curl up in the fetal position.You should too in an earthquake. It is a natural safety/survival instinct. You can survive in a smaller void. Get next to an object, next to a sofa, next to a large bulky object that will compress slightly but leave a void next to it.

3) Wooden buildings are the safest type of construction to be in during an earthquake. Wood is flexible and moves with the force of the earthquake. If the wooden building does collapse, large survival voids are created. Also, the wooden building has less concentrated, crushing weight. Brick buildings will break into individual bricks. Bricks will cause many injuries but less squashed bodies than concrete slabs.

4) If you are in bed during the night and an earthquake occurs, simply roll off the bed. A safe void will exist around the bed. Hotels can achieve a much greater survival rate in earthquakes, simply by posting a sign on The back of the door of every room telling occupants to lie down on the floor, next to the bottom of the bed during an earthquake.

5) If an earthquake happens and you cannot easily escape by getting out the door or window, then lie down and curl up in the fetal position next to a sofa, or large chair.

6) Most everyone who gets under a doorway when buildings collapse is killed. How? If you stand under a doorway and the doorjamb falls forward or backward you will be crushed by the ceiling above. If the door jam falls sideways you will be cut in half by the doorway. In either case, you will be killed!

7) Never go to the stairs. The stairs have a different ‘moment of frequency’ (they swing separately from the main part of the building). The stairs and remainder of the building continuously bump into each other until structural failure of the stairs takes place. The people who get on stairs before they fail are chopped up by the stair treads – horribly mutilated. Even if the building doesn’t collapse, stay away from the stairs. The stairs are a likely part of the building to be damaged. Even if the stairs are not collapsed by the earthquake, they may collapse later when overloaded by fleeing people. They should always be checked for safety, even when the rest of the building is not damaged..

8 ) Get Near the Outer Walls Of Buildings Or Outside Of Them If Possible – It is much better to be near the outside of the building rather than the interior. The farther inside you are from the outside perimeter of the building the greater the probability that your escape route will be blocked.

9) People inside of their vehicles are crushed when the road above falls in an earthquake and crushes their vehicles; which is exactly what happened with the slabs between the decks of the Nimitz Freeway. The victims of the San Francisco earthquake all stayed inside of their vehicles. They were all killed. They could have easily survived by getting out and sitting or lying next to their vehicles. Everyone killed would have survived if they had been able to get out of their cars and sit or lie next to them. All the crushed cars had voids 3 feet high next to them, except for the cars that had columns fall directly across them.

10) I discovered, while crawling inside of collapsed newspaper offices and other offices with a lot of paper, that paper does not compact. Large voids are found surrounding stacks of paper.

Spread the word and save someone’s life… The Entire world is experiencing natural calamities so be prepared!

Be prepared, and take care.
The Infamous FRIK

❂ Wildflowers

All images ©2010 by Jennifer O’Neal Simmons. 

Available in all sizes and formats from greeting cards to murals and oil painting overlays. 

Discounts available for multiple purchases.

FREE shipping for orders >$100 before applicable sales tax.

We accept PayPal only at this time.

Email:  infamous.frik@gmail.com  to get full order quote.

Prices and product options listed here.

A campside reunion with philosophy

Our family just returned from our first camping trip together in 9 years.  My, what a long time to have let pass before returning to the roots of our childhood and courtship.  Our last journey had been on a private island on an offshoot of the Catawba River.  It was my style of primitive enjoyment with available water and sufficient toilets.  However, 9 years ago, we were proudly parenting a toddler and an infant, and camping was just asking for mishaps and mayhem.  One child had never stopped us, we thought, so why should two?  Turns out, there are a lot of reasons.  And a lot of reasons that kept us sidetracked even once they had grown up a bit.  

Then, it dawned on me.  It was past due.  They are now 13 & 9, and camping afforded us the great excuse to log off, unplug, and tune in to each other once again.  This time, we chose the 2nd oldest river in the world – New River.  Here, is my weekend of observations:

• Organization really is your friend.  So is fire and a giant all metal pot that can sit directly on one.
• An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure.  All natural bug repellant made of essential oils kept us bite free, sunscreen kept us pliant, and 2 rolls of toilet paper save a lot of late night and early morning walking.  This attitude applies to dishes too — the dirties we doused into a big stock pot of boiling water over the fire to help cut grease and dissolve food prior to scrubbing.
• Choose heavy-duty and versatile over convenience or decorative trend.  Our cast iron, enamel ware, and mason jars were brilliant during an onslaught of wind gusts stirred up on the outer perimeter of a hurricane passing off the coast.  The mason jars served to boil water and make tea and coffee, but was kept padded by a large towel inside a large lidded enamel pot when not in use.  The smaller the container, the faster the water will heat 😉  Also…glass absorbs heat faster than metal, & metal faster than ceramic…but will lose heat at that rate (obviously) as well.
• Focus on the little things.  Start with your 5 senses, eventually sinking into your 6th.  Record random thoughts – especially creative ideas of any sort, whether they involve business strategy, teaching topics, discussion notes, or soap ingredients.
• There’s an energetic pool of wellness that exists in healthy nature.  Nature in balance tends to balance you.  Choose grass or gravel over concrete and asphalt.  Lean upon a tree before a handrail.  Listen to the insects, not the traffic.  Applied reflexology and polarity therapy can take this further by opening up our own energy meridians inside our bodies and realigning energetic fields for optimal functioning.  Awareness comes before all else. 

Let the wind fill you,

Expanding your thoughts along with your lungs.

Allow the ground to ground you

 beneath your bare feet,

The strength of roots will permeate

as you traverse an awkward path.

“Let the Wind”  © 2010  jennifer o’neal simmons