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It's just a short drive from our home in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains down to the Sacramento Valley floor to Chico, California. Chico is known for it's natural beauty, including forests, canyons and creeks in Bidwell Park...and for Chico State University California as well as the Sierra Nevada Brewery.
This part of California is known for it's vast orchards and farms. Every little town is the "capital" of some fruit or nut. Chico is the "almond capital" To the west is Corning, CA...the "olive capital." To the south, the town of Gridley, CA is called the "kiwi capital."
If California is "the breadbasket," then the northern Sacramento Valley is the "fruit and vegetable basket." There are huge quantities of tomatoes, walnuts, almonds, pistacios, peaches, apples, pears, pomegranates, plums, almonds, kiwis, sunflowers, prunes (believe it or not, prune trees are different than plum trees), nectarines, rice, olives, melons, cherries, berries and squashes...and more grown around here.
We are fortunate because we get fruits and vegetables of all varieties year round that are locally grown. And Chico has a kick-ass farmer's market that rivals any farmer's market. Several restaurants here use all local organic fruits, vegetables and meat grown nearby.
There is a lot of food consciousness around these parts...and so issues related to growing food is very important to the citizens of Chico and surrounding towns.
I was listening to our local community radio station: KZFR (http://kzfr.org/) yesterday to a live interview with a local woman named Pamm Larry (h/t USHomeopath). Pamm is the very person who is responsible for Proposition 37 being on the California ballot this election.
If passed, proposition 37 will require foods that contain GMO (genetically modified organism) ingredients to be labeled as such.
The passage of proposition 37 looked like a slam dunk, but big-time money from Monsanto has come into California at a 4:1 ratio larger than the "yes on 37" side is able to generate. Monsanto funded ads are fooling folks into believing a lie about labeling the food we buy. The lie is if proposition 37 passes, the cost of food will increase more than $400 per person per year. It's not true, but it has scared enough Californians into believing it now that proposition 37 looks like it will lose.
Another thing Pamm was talking about is something many people believe happens around here constantly...planes creating chemical contrails in criss-cross patterns in the sky dubbed "chemtrails." Pamm believes there is a link between chemtrails and GMO's.
Years ago, I used to think the chemtrails stuff was just a conspiracy theory-type thing, as do most people. Now, I must admit I'm on the fence regarding this subject. I really don't know what to think about the obvious geometric patterns of contrails created in the sky that don't follow flight paths.
I only bring them up because Pamm Larry (h/t USHomeopath!) was talking about it on the radio AND I had two patients in my office yesterday that were talking about it as well. So proposition 37 and chemtrails were on my mind as I wrote this New Day post.
Those that believe in chemical contrails say they are used: 1) to reflect sunlight back out into space and 2) to control weather patterns...a big concern for farmers and orchard growers and 3) to ultimately change weather patterns enough to be used as "weapons" against other parts of the world by causing crop failures due to droughts and floods.
They claim chemtrails are NOT just the normal contrails of water vapor that turn into the ice crystal trails you see behind commercial jets for a while before they dissipate...but instead contain aluminum oxide, barium and titanium that remain in the atmoshpere first as concentrated trails which then spread out creating thin chemical sheets blanketing the sky to reflect sunlight back into space and cause cloud seeding to occur.
They also claim the residue from chemtrails is toxic and is now being detected in our soils and water.
Below are a couple of links to full-length youtube movies about this subject which are eye opening:
http://www.youtube.com/...
http://www.youtube.com/...
What do you think about GMO's? And what do you think about chemtrails?
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NEW GROUPS LIST:
• California Central Valley Kossacks - Organizer: tgypsy
• New England Kossacks - Organizers:
Clytemnestra for Lower New England (Conneticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island)
GreenMountainBoy02 for Upper New England (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont)
• Houston Area Kossacks - Organizer: Chrislove
• Kossacks in India - Organizer: chandu
• CenTex Kossacks - Organizer: papa monzano
Current diary: Meet-up Planning Take 1
• Central Ohio Kossacks - Organizer: VetGrl
• Kansas City Kossacks - Organizer: kj in missouri, Formed Oct 15, 2012
• Phoenix Kossacks - Organizer: arizonablue, Formed Oct 16, 2012
Current diary: Phoenix Kossacks - Check in!
• Koscadia the Pacific Northwest coast from Northern California to Alaska
- Oganizer: Horace Boothroyd III based in Portland, OR, Formed Oct 17, 2012
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ESTABLISHED GROUPS LIST: (List will grow as we discover them)
• SFKossacks Founded by navajo, Formed: May 2, 2005, More than 80 members
• Maryland Kos Founded by timmyc, Formed: Feb 23, 2011, More than 54 members
• New York City Founded by Eddie C, More than 58 members
• Baja Arizona Kossacks Event Organizer: Azazello, 90 members
• Three Star Kossacks Tennessee, Founded by maryKK, Formed: Apr 8, 2011, 46 members
• Nashville KosKats Founded by ZenTrainer, Formed: Jan 30, 2012, 28 members
• Virginia Kos Founded by JamieG from Md, Formed: May 3, 2011, 85 members
• Kos Georgia Founded by pat208, Formed: Feb 13, 2011, 18 members
• Colorado COmmunity Founded by Leftcandid, Formed: Feb 13, 2011, 25 members
• New Mexico Kossaks Founded by claude, 13 members
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:: Events Currently on the Books for ALL Kossacks ::
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Saturday, November 10th
Northern California Central Valley Kossacks Potluck Lunch
TIME: Noon
LOCATION: Kestrel's home in Sacramento
There will also be a pre-meet up birding adventure at Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area.
ORGANIZERS: tgypsy and Kestrel - Send tygypsy a Kosmail to RSVP.
RSVPs:
1. tygypsy
2. Kestrel
3. Sally Cat
4. Mr. Cat
5. mrsgoo
6. cooper888
7. gotmooned
Latest diary: CV Kossacks: Post-Election Meet Up
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Saturday, November 10th
Phoenix Area Kossacks MEET-UP
TIME: 1:00 PM
LOCATION: Los Olivos Mexican Food Restaurant
7328 2nd Street
Scottsdale, Arizona
ORGANIZER: Send arizonablue a Kosmail to RSVP.
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RSVPs:
1. arizonablue
2. Mr.arizonablue
3. sparkysgal
4. blugrlnrdst
5. Azazello (maybe)
6. Mrs. Azazello (maybe)
7. Mr. Porterhouse
8. Mrs. Porterhouse
9. Kane in CA
10. Sun Tzu (maybe)
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11. puzzled
12. gaardvack
13. Mrs. gaardvack
14. LibChicAZ
15. LibChicAZ bf (maybe)
16. AZ RedWingsFan
17. BluejayRN
18. Mr. BluejayRN (maybe)
19. philboy38
20. OpherGopher (maybe)
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Latest diary: Phoenix Kossacks Meetup!
Saturday, November 10th
CONNECTICUT - New England Kossacks MEET-UP
TIME: 1:00 PM
LOCATION: Adam Mill restaurant
Manchester, CT (Central CT)
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RSVPs:
1. Phil S 33
2. zeke7237
3. Roger Fox
4. World Citizen
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Maybes:
GChaucer2
thankgodforairamerica
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ORGANIZER: Send Phil S 33 a Kosmail to RSVP.
Latest diary: Call for Connecticut Kossacks Meet-Up: Post-Election
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DailyKos readers who live and/or work in New England
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont)
Sunday, November 11th
New England Kossacks MEET-UP
TIME: 1:30pm - 4:30pm
LOCATION: The People's Pint
24 Federal St
Greenfield, MA 01301
(413) 773-0333
THE PEOPLE'S PINT IS CASH ONLY, no credit or debit cards
If you live in/near Albany, Schenectady, or Troy NY, this meet up is only 2 hours away!
ORGANIZER: Send Clytemnestra a Kosmail to RSVP.
We will be collecting donations for the Native American Netroots project Okiciyap at this Meet Up.
RSVPs:
1. Clytemnestra (willing to car pool - Southern MA/Northern RI area)
2. Remembering Jello
3. jarbyus
4. farmerchuck
5. MinervainNH
6. dlcmassage
7. dlcmassage's partner
8. ActivistGuy
9. betson08 (Long time active supporter of Okiciyap and Pretty Bird Woman House)
10. GreenMountainBoy02
11. commonmass
12. jack 1966
Maybes:
1. annieli
2. DeathDlr73 (willing to carpool - upper central MA)
3. Phil s 33
4. Knockbally
5. mataliandy
6. davidseth (willing to carpool - Columbia County, NY)
7. 4Freedom
Latest diary: New England Kossacks - November Meet Up Please read diary for all details.
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Send navajo a kosmail if you post a diary about an event so we can update our round-up.
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Tell us what you are doing on this NEW DAY?
6:16 PM PT: from dharmasyd...
(BTW...this within these parentheses is from pNUT...I knew all about Kuscnish and chemtrails. I was afraid to include his name regarding this subject. Chemtrails are actually real...don't tell anyone I said so...)
The Fossil Fuel industry funded...3 physicists from LLNL in 1996 to study how to combat global warming through the laws of physics. The physicists were our good friend, Mr. Super Nuke Bomb, Edward Teller, Roderick Hyde and Lowell Wood. There are numerous names for what is commonlycalled "Chemtrails."
It is ironic that the fossilb fuelindustry funded this, since they deny global warming. But there are more purposes than this, warfare, for example.
The Laurence Livermore physicists called the system "Scattering;" their results were presented at a world climate symposium in Sicily in 1977 in a study entitled "Global Warming and Ice Ages: Prospects for Physics-Based Modulation of Global Change, August 1997."
Dennis Kucinish tried for several years to present legislation to have them banned, to make it illegal to use space for warfare. To no avail...
I've followed Chemtrails closely because of my breathing problems, and I have been very aware of my "canary in the coal mine" syndrome on how they affect my health.
I've not read everything in this thread, but what I have read is accurate in regard to chemtrails. They are real. They are dangerous.
I don't know as much about GMOs, but I'm also against them. Actually I'm tired of the human ego's propensity to try to improve on nature without any sense of humility, respect, or balance!
Amen!