Rock Your Soul Opera begins to impact
Congress. #S-510 falters as Keep the Beet
and The Daily Show point activities
on the Hill begin to smell like
rotten eggs.
Is #S-510 fit for human consumption,
Keep The Beet, the Nation's Czarina of Foods
asks.
Noted Poem: Chewing on Food Safety:
A National Conversaton called forth
by the beet on October 5 in the Huffington Post
begins to be heard
begins to be heard.
Date: 12/3/2010 8:18:14 AM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 43552 times
NEW VIDEO
FRIDAY DECEMBER 3, 2010
Call the Capital switchboard and tell them
#S510 goes not go far enough to protect
real food safety.
In Act Seven of the Rock Your Soul Opera
called Beet Keepers Return!, The U.S. Senators
in their rush job to slam the Undigestable Food Safety
Legislation down the the throat of the Nation's Palate
are stunned to find that the seemingly
"uncontroversial" bill is suddenly moving into
the public spotlight, and more and more
people in the land of "America the Beautiful"
catch wind that something in smelling like
rotten eggs on the Hill.
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
FROM THE HUFFINGTON POST
December 2, 2010
The Nation's lead News Reporter, Jon Stewart
gets in the fray as is clearly revealed in this
spoof that was on :The Daily Show.
"The Senate held hands, mostly, Tuesday night to pass the sweeping Food Safety Modernization Act by a vote of 73-25. The landmark food safety bill allows for increased federal inspections of food processing facilities and gives the FDA the authority to directly order recalls, shifting that power from a voluntary recall system determined exclusively by the offending companies themselves, when they feel like it.
After spates of recalls in the last year alone, including a massive, nationwide egg recall of nearly half a billion eggs and numerous deaths, the food safety overhaul seemed like an uncontroversial, obvious improvement to a broken system that fell far beyond the left-right paradigm of most modern politicking. It is apparently anything but, however, as Jon Stewart pointed out on the Daily Show last night.
JON STEWART
THE NATION's HOT NEWS REPORTER
POINTS OUT THE "UNCONTROVERSIAL"
NATURE OF #S-510 ON THE DAILY SHOW.
ONE OF BEET THE BEET's FAVORITE
PROGRAMS
SCENE FIVE
FRIDAY DECEMBER 3, 2010
MISHMASH
5:16 pm
Lots of ping pong,
feeling of a question mark,
and fierce fightin behind the scenes.
Who will win out?
It is an nail briter.
FROM THE NATIONAL SUSTAINBLE AGRICULTURE
COALITION
This describes the Friday afternoon mishmash
of December 3, 2010
... elaborate game of legislative ping-pong fell prey to yet another problem in the Senate. Senate Republicans have decided to block consideration of all bills until a final deal is struck on legislation to extend the Bush-era tax cuts and to punt this fiscal year’s appropriations bills down the field until early next year. As a result, Senate consideration of the food safety bill, once it arrives from the House, will likely have to wait until all the major unfinished legislative pieces are ready to move either as a coordinated set of actions or as an omnibus measure of some kind.
All of this has made the path for the Senate food safety bill to become law more complicated and a bit delayed, but hopefully will not jeopardize the bill becoming law after clearing all of these roadblocks and hurdles.
SCENE FOUR
OF THE ROCK YOUR SOUL OPERA
DECEMBER 1 2010
TUESDAY
Micro-farmer Barry Logan, packed up in his van,
having giving away a ton of farming equipment vital to the
future of America the Beautiful on the Enchanted Garden Planet,
pulls out of his driveway to begin a year long "walk about"
with wife Leslie. Meanwhile 3000 miles away, U.S. Senators
imagine they have stuffed the flawed #S510 down the nation's
throat as Senators vote 73-25 for passage without much
discussion.
GOD BLESS MICRO FARMERS!
Barry Logan on Thanksgiving Day
prepares to leave for a year,
feeling depressed and in grief.
The Seven year La Milpa Social experiment
in Micro-farming shut down due to overregulation
September 18, on the Jewish Day of Fasting
and Atonemnent called Yom Kippur.
SCENE FIVE!
EMBARRASSMENT
NEWS LINKS
NOVEMBER 30 and DECEMBER !
BEGIN TO APPEAR THAT SOMETHING
HAS GONE WRONG
THe smell of rotten eggs begins coming from
the Hill
RADY ANANDA SUMS UP THE MISCHIEF
IN WASHINTON HERE
on HER WONDERFUL FOOD FREEDOM BLOG
DECEMBER 3
“Unconstitutional” food bill driven by Big Food lobby dollars
Posted on December 2, 2010 by Rady| 3 Comments
By Rady Ananda
Food Freedom
While over 200 organizations lobbied on the Food Safety Modernization Act (S.510), no one seemed to notice an unconstitutional section in the bill until after it passed on Tuesday. That day, Roll Call advised that the bill contained a provision, Sec. 107, allowing the Senate to raise revenues. This violates Article I, Section 7, of the U.S. Constitution, granting that power exclusively to the House. S.510 opponents now celebrate the House’s use of the “blue slip process” to return the bill to the Senate.
The Alliance for Natural Health figures that:
“The only possible ‘quick fix’ would be a unanimous consent agreement in the Senate to strike that revenue-raising provision from the bill—but Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) has already stated that he will oppose, so unanimity will be impossible.”
ANH believes it is unlikely that the Senate will return to a debate on S.510, given its full agenda. Its only other option is to “allow the bill to die at the end of this Congress [which means] a new Food Safety Bill will be introduced next year.”
MIKE ADAMS HEALTH RANGER
CHECKS IN
December 1, 2010
S.510 may be dead in the water
The upshot of this is that this fight is not yet over. Unless the House makes an unprecedented exception to this blue slip rule, this legislation will apparently need to go back to the Senate floor for another vote.
This story was first reported by RollCall.com (http://www.rollcall.com/news/-20101...) which says, "The debacle could prove to be a major embarrassment for Senate Democrats, who sought Tuesday to make the relatively unknown bill a major political issue by sending out numerous news releases trumpeting its passage." (http://www.rollcall.com/news/-20101...)
According to Roll Call, "The blue slip could lead to one of two likely outcomes. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) could simply drop the issue and let the next session of Congress start from scratch..."
SARINA DAILY GOODE CHECKS IN
DECEMBER 2 ON LESLIE's FACEBOOK PAGE
"Dear Leslie the Earth Maccabee
Thank you for taking care of Mama Earth
in your own special way.
wishing you a glorious victory over the forces
of corporate greed, clutter,
confusion & cynicism so communities could collaborate
and celebrate creating a better world for all
.In this time of darkness -
Let us feel the darkness.
In this time of darkness -
let us come together and remind each other
we are divine carrier of the light."
COMMENT NOTED ON MOTHER EARTH HEALS
December 2, 2010, written November 28, 2010
"
Date: 11/28/2010 6:55:42 PM ( 5 d ) ... viewed 75 times
"An intelligent, idealistic, and spiritual man,
Barry Logan ran an experimental organic micro-farm
in San Diego County. After 7 productive years,
La Milpa Organica Farm is shut down.
Young people came to the farm to learn organic techniques.
The State deemed these students to be "workers"
and jailed and fined Barry for worker's compensation
violations; he could not afford to keep La Milpa going.
In this video by Your Enchanted Gardener,
Barry speaks about the need for the freedom
for small and micro-farmers to grow nutritious organic food
without the strangulation of the rules and regulations
meant for large corporate farms."
--Liora Leah, Mother Earth Heals Blog http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1731018
Washington can not believe its ears!!!
Sounds deafen Lobbyists who had spent billions and billions
imagining they could buy stables of men and women
they thought that they had voted into office.
This can never be the case in America the Beautiful!
Our legislators--all of them--are well intended
and know truly in their hearts
America The Beautiful.
The sight is amazing!
Our Honored President is inspired
by fresh and local organic foods that Our First Lady
serves him from the White House
organic garden. He declares to the Nation
he is a Beet Keeper in this
the Enchanted Garden Era.
1000 years of peace start now.
Nations around the world honor
our president who was given
a nobel peace prize.
Birds Twitter!
Sustainability again rules the land.
It is one beet. Many Pulses
evermore.
Soldiers come home.
We honor our returning veterans
and send them back to school
to relearn how to grow food in
their own backyards.
A new middle class in America
is reborn. Children receive all the
plant based education they need,
and exude virtue that inspires
mothers, dads,
grandma and grandpa.
Young folks adopt elders.
A happy day returns as
farmers wake up
as Senators and all elected
say, "Happiness is organic."
The later verses
of "America the beautiful" sing out
throughout the Land:
*O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain...
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream
...beyond the years
...alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!
* POPULAR LINES
FROM The Song
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
IN THE ENCHANTED GARDEN ERA
On Oct 3, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Regina Jensen,
editor of the Space of Love Magazine
wrote:
Leslie, Dear!
Just got your note and link to your fabulous Huffington Post Blog on the so-called "Safe Food" travesties! WHAT will these controllers think of next to choke the life out of us?? This blog needs to go all over the world, Leslie, not just the USA.
What can happen here can happen much more easily elsewhere.
We saw what happened to Europe with the CODEX and now my family can't even get simple vitamins without a physician's prescription, nor may I send them any from here without someone having to go to the Customs office with a physician's prescription to pick them up.
Great "fun" and double expense for a 90 year-old man who needs supplemental nutrition such as my poor Dad after a severe accident! Who thought something like that could happen to a free, intelligent, questioning people such as the Europeans?
Thanks so much, Leslie, for being on top of this subtle attempt at taking over ONE more of our birth-rights - the freedom to eat what we want to eat and grow our own gardens. I made sure your blog would go on our international Space of Love Magazine website immediately, and will go into our next print issue coming up.
Also, Leslie, apropos growing our own safe local healthy foods, so none of us needs to lobby for, or against, health insurance in the first place. We had two great brand-new things concur here yesterday in Santa Barbara:
Our very first regional free edition of Space of Love Magazine, California Central and South Coast, a 16-page prototype for local editors all over the world came hot of the presses into the welcome hands of our Central Coast Community here. The first part of this quick-read SOL offers three pages for local editors to report exciting Community News around the issues of community generated economic and ecological renewal, to bring hope and excitement to confused people locally and all over the planet. The core, which will be the same all over the world, is chock-full of exciting, cutting-edge information about how to renew and regenerate our planet Earth locally and globally. And the last few pages in the back are for responsible, like-minded businesses to network and logo-list their services in a tasteful, inexpensive way. Hurrah!!
The other excitement was our First Annual SB SOL Festival (Sustainable, Organic, Local - SOL Food), organized by LOATree, Edible Santa Barbara and Alison and Heather Hartley's incredibly hard work and expertise. Thanks to them, Santa Barbara had a most satisfying, community-building, calm, soulful day in one of their parks amongst many booths by business which take sustainable living seriously. And our brand-new SOL Magazine, as we serendipitously call it for short, was right there with its inaugural complimentary issue smiling at everyone from its artful color covers to the great joy of visitors.
Much appreciation for your hard work.
Keep it up, please, and "say Hi" to Miss BEET for me!!
Regina
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