Mostly rant, yes, but more links below.
Glyphosate Awareness
This may sound nannyish or may be Important...Karen Kingston released an earlier version of this interview with another ally. I didn't link to that one. I'm linking to this one because it's not just the rerun of the first one that it will sound like if you've heard the first one. I really wish the girl had learned to type these things and post them on a blog, to make them easy for grown-ups to read...I know some of you readers are young, and you think "Why bother with typing, spelling, grammar, etc., when I can just talk into a phone or computer?" The answer is simple consideration for your audience's time! It takes five or ten minutes to read a full transcript of an hour-long video, and most of the time, most of us should not count on anyone being willing to spend an hour listening to what could have been written down. Anyway, in this hour-long interview much valuable information is spoken out loud:
What I've been meaning to put up here for some time now...We need more adults speaking out on all the public health issues that different people who connect through the Children's Health Defense sites have been working on. My issue is glyphosate. For me, problems with COVID vaccines seem like a distraction since having the jab was voluntary and we all already knew that new experimental vaccines carry a high potential for risk as well as benefits, but I understand why many people who were jabbed or have lost family members who were may see the vaccine as Priority #1. Do we have allies working on all of the major public health dangers Out There? It seems so. I hope so. Do we need more? Obviously yes.
But the stakes are getting higher. We need more adults who are getting into the fad to rediscover the pop songs of the late Tom Petty, going around singing "I don't scare easy" "and I won't back down." We need concerned, responsible adults in the second fifty years of their lives who are willing to be public and visible and, if necessary, wild and crazy in opposition to the pollutants that are doing so much harm to The Most Wonderful and Promising Children in All of Human History, our grandchildren, or nieces and nephews. We need younger people to be informed and aware, but not necessarily so public. Greta Thunberg and Rachel Parent and other young activists are splendid human beings but we have to make strategic use of our resources, as a movement. Not everyone needs or wants to give birth to babies, or beget them, but nobody should have to miss out on the experience of being at least a temporary influence, foster parent, teacher, etc., on children. We can rear and teach children, or we can put ourselves on the line opposing public enemies who are willing and able to harm us. Thunberg, Parent, Kingston, all the others who are less well known partly because they have children, definitely The Nephews? You're at the optimal age for caring for children. I'd hate to think of any one of your generation wasting that chance.
So it's for my generation to stand up to the greedheads in a public way. When you can honestly say, "If I live another fifty years, I'll still have a long list of things I want to do. If they kill me tomorrow, I'll still have had a longer and better life than many humans get. Into Thy hands, God..." then be bold, make videos, self-publish books if necessary, and sing along with Tom Petty's songs if you like. Some people in Glyphosate Awareness are well known as being old enough to do that: Kennedy certainly, Vandana Shiva, Neil Young. Others of us, like those of the Moms Across America whose children are still short and helpless, have a lot to do to promote Glyphosate Awareness:
* just not using products from companies that profit from the manufacture, use, or sale of glyphosate
* sharing the existing literature on the subject (samizdat are fine)
* growing your own food, even eating non-traditional food if you must, so you can let the glyphosate-contaminated crops rot and send farmers the message that poisoning people does not pay
* not spraying anything you don't want to drink, on anything, for any reason, outdoors
* doing your gardening by hand, picking out unwanted plants while they're young enough to eat rather than trying to poison them
* using any available land that's within five or six yards (or meters) from a paved road as a buffer zone for encouraging wildflowers, since the plans near a paved road capture chemicals that would make food toxic; call it a butterfly garden if you don't have an endangered native plant species to encourage
* raising healthy children, homeschooling if necessary
* raising everyone's awareness of the beauty and diversity of wildflowers, birds, butterflies, beetles, shellfish and other things that are endangered by chemical pollution. I'm doing butterflies because other people are doing birds and flowers. Bees, beetles, and water life are still wide open for youall to do blogs, artwork, and Zazzle merchandise to celebrate. There is a lot of interest in moths. There are more different moths than butterflies, they're easier to confuse and not so easy to love, but moths are beautiful winged things too. I don't think anybody's likely to live long enough to run out of moth species if they do one in-depth moth blog post per week, so feel free to start studying and publicizing the moths that produce cute, harmless caterpillars...my moth project covers only the stingingworms, which means fewer than a hundred species out of thousands. And shellfsh have been not getting the love they deserve for a long time.
Glyphosate Awareness never has asked you to donate money, and never will...but you can buy and redistribute either the heavy science books or the cute, harmless, nature-picture merchandise. I receive no money from Glyphosate Awareness. You can send me money to sponsor articles--that's definitely encouraged, and will keep this web site active. When you buy my Zazzle merchandise, 5% of what you pay goes to USPIRG, not to me, so they can continue to offer students their first grown-up jobs and outfit those students with pretty butterfly-theme clipboards and suchlike. (All we're asking the students to do is appreciate butterflies, and flowers and other pretty things.) You can also sponsor any of the animals featured in the Petfinder posts for fostering or adoption, which would allow more older and/or disabled animals to be adopted; if you do that you'd be sending money directly to the animal rescue group who have claimed responsibility for the animal. But I don't endorse any kind of effort to make money from Glyphosate Awareness. We want to do this work until it's done and then move on.
Back to the Kingston video...A very important distinction is made late in the video linked. I think most people active in CHD saw, though many of us didn't link or re-share, an earlier video in which a very sick-looking Karen Kingston begged people to stop poisoning her. I don't know how many of you are aware that in classical paranoid schizophrenia, where a very common symptom is that the patient suspects people are poisoning person and they're not, even then the patient is ill and is being poisoned--the disease is not located exclusively in per brain and is affecting the way per body digests food. A less common symptom is that these people insist that their excrement (often very irregular) doesn't smell like normal human excrenent. That's the proof that they're so special, etc., etc. Usually nobody wants to check, but this may be true--food is passing through these patients without absorbing the benign bacteria and digestive secretions that produce the normal odor. And they are feeling sick. That's not what we saw when Kingston was so visibly ill; it's a different disease that might be confused with what Kingston was reporting.
But yes, when she was looking so alarming to friends and fans as well as family, Kingston was obviously in a less than optimal state of consciousness. That is not to be confused with being a demented or "unstable" person generally. People who are generally competent, conscientious, reliable reporters can still get into conditions that make some of their statements less reliable than their usual standard. We need to be able to recognize that this happens without judging the person to be generally "unstable" or "unreliable," overall. Kingston was obviously having an extremely unpleasant physical reaction to something. That part of her Scary Video, which is likely to go out of circulation now, was absolutely believable. The part that blamed the CIA was a symptom, because people they intend to kill are nearly always dead, and because people who intend to harass and intimidate others are nearly always clever enough to try to implicate someone else. I think a lot of Kingston's allies' minds filled in those pieces of information automatically, and said among ourselves, "Pfizer operatives are doing it...but what a pity that Kingston's too ill to see all the little neon signs flashing PFIZER all over her story!" The only question in my mind was whether some other greedheads, trying to intimidate some other activist, were harassing Kingston so that everyone would blame Pfizer.
We may never know. What we do need to take away from this moment in history is that competent people have moments of mental confusion, from which they recover. To the classical claim that someone asserting something to be true is either lying (deliberately) or insane or telling the truth, we need to add that, on most topics, it's possible to be mistaken. The "only three possibilities" formula works for Jesus' claim to incarnate God and not for a great deal else.
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