Let us remind ourselves that the European Commission is run by unelected technocrats, who have, over the years, granted themselves very substantial powers. Powers that carry with them the right to accept or reject vital policy decisions that affect us all every day of our lives. In the meantime, the European Parliament, which is an elected body, is largely consigned to the side lines, failing (more often than not) to imprint its conclusions on the statutory agenda overseen by the Commission.

So it is within this disturbingly autocratic context that we struggle to make an impression in our attempts to reform the Common Agricultural Policy and get tax payers money diverted to support those arenas that really need and merit it: the health and diversity of the food we eat, the countryside we love and those caring farmers who are the ultimate trustees of the land and all it produces. Make no mistake, at present your and my money is is supporting a regime wholly antithetical to this wish list. With 80% of CAP funds going to just 20% of farms, something looks decidedly wrong. But when one becomes aware that the 20% of farms getting the cream are mostly large scale, monocultural factory farming units and agro-industrial commodity dealers, it becomes abundantly clear that the CAP is little more than an institutionalised banking arm of the corporate agribusiness cartel. A cartel that fields hundreds of ‘lobbyists’ to infiltrate the Brussels networks and ensure that EU Commissioners are wined, dined and made thoroughly replete with all the necessary propaganda to convince them of the merits of Big Pharma and its GMO and seed industry cousins.

Now, anyone with a sense of fairness and justice will immediately recognise that this is a grossly biased way of doing business. What small or even medium sized business enterprise can afford to pay dozens of lobbyists to promote their cause? The 20% of our money being made available to the millions of smaller farms that struggle to make a living, does not begin to address their needs if they are to survive and thrive in the cut throat market places of today’s world.

Amongst such farms are virtually all the ecologically managed concerns, barring the few ‘landed’ large scale units, and the vast plethora of mixed traditional farming practices whose environmentally friendly methods have been past down from generation to generation over centuries. These are the farms with whom the majority of the discerning public have the most sympathy – and for good reason. They produce the only food fit to eat in Europe today.

It is corporate agribusiness, which has made its money turning pristine meadows into monocultural deserts, that gets the lion’s share of government and EU support. This leads to our hard won tax payer contributions being used to trash the food chain and ensure that nitrate soaked, sterile soils remain the foundation of the modern food chain. It also ensures the survival of the “efficiency and progress” dogma so beloved of politicians, academics and rapacious corporations. Such enterprises, after all, produce just about enough taxable revenue to convince bureaucrats that they are worth subsidising; whereas the majority of humane small and medium sized family farms are operating at close to the poverty line, thereby failing to enrich government coffers. Their owners do at least retain their independence, preferring the time honoured farming ‘way of life’ to becoming slaves to global agribusiness.

EU subsidies are paid to farmers on a per hector basis, so as long as this lasts, the largest farms will always get the greatest financial reward. And so long as decision makers are locked into mainstream economic dictats that cannot see beyond the ‘growth economy’ – regardless of the fact that it destroys virtually all it touches – we will be hard pressed to save our planet from certain sickness and ultimate sterility.

Over the past 3 to 4 decades Europe has experienced a rapid decline in agricultural land and number of small farms. Between 1960 and 2008, the EU lost 18% of its agricultural land and the same period has seen an intensification of agricultural practices concentrating on a smaller and smaller number of ever bigger farms. At the same time prices and rents have risen, severely restricting the opportunities for new applicants to enter the profession. While those farmers who have been able to maintain their enterprises are financially squeezed by the relentless speculative fluctuations of the market and rising farm costs that rarely match incoming revenue.

Additionally, all across Europe thousands of small community scale processing plants and abattoirs have been driven out of business by having totally unrealistic and unaffordable EU ‘sanitary and hygiene’ regulations imposed upon them. This has caused the fragmentation and destruction of the entire infrastructure upon which quality food processors and farmers rely.

Could this mark the nadir of the CAP and the turning point for a radically reformed EU?

Clearly only a major shift in thinking can bring about the deep rooted reforms that are needed to dig European agriculture out the ever deeper hole it finds itself pushed into.

The EU should start afresh by taking as its main point of emphasis ‘Food Security and Food Sovereignty’. Each member state should be encouraged to draw up and implement plans to ensure that as many of its citizens as possible have direct access to adequate amounts of good quality, home grown, pesticide and GMO free foods. As oil prices continue to climb and targets to prevent further fossil fuel emissions are tightened and enshrined in legal acts, the mass transportation of foods across the world is clearly becoming a no go area. Aside from wars, transportation has been identified as contributing the highest levels of CO2 emissions in our society and considerable environmental degradation.

EU policy makers should now be aware that rural economies do not thrive on the World Trade Organisation’s global import/export model. Under the WTO regime money is sucked out of local communities and lands up in the ever swelling pockets of vast supermarket chains that profit from a purchasing policy which coerces farmers into supplying mass produced commodities at knock down prices. The upshot of this is a catalogue of farm bankruptcies , degraded environments, increasingly sterile de-vitaminised foods and a major public health crisis.

The EU has to part company with the WTO’s Codex Alimentarus if it is to effect a realisable Food Security programme in Europe.

Under current WTO rulings, the pressures to mass produce tailor made “cheap food” for a global market place are so great that farmers will extract the last ounce of fertility from the soil in an effort to fulfil their contractual obligations to the super and hypermarket chains that epitomise globalised food retailing. Agrichemical inputs, antibiotics, growth promotors, animal cloning, hydroponics, irradiation and even nano technology are now being turned to as ways of maintaining the mass production of foods to fulfil the market’s rapacious demands. Thus once prolific rotational, bio-diverse farming practices carried out by generations of families who cared for the land, their farm animals and crops, are replaced by factory farming units that tick none of the boxes increasingly recognised as constituting good practice and ‘sustainable’ agriculture.

Under a regime redirected towards food security, the emphasis is not on import/export markets of mass produced commodities, but on stimulating self sustaining local and regional supply and demand chains and the least environmentally destructive practices. Food ‘quality’ replacing food ‘quantity’ as the key focus, with new links forged between consumers and producers which greatly shorten the supply chain. This has the benefit of ensuring fresh food is eaten in its optimum condition and as close as possible to its area of production – following a formula which I have called “The Proximity Principle”.

The EU should redirect its policies towards enabling and encouraging farmers and local authorities to establish strong circular regional food production and processing enterprises that catalyse the rural economies of the regions and lead to an abundance of distinctive, ecologically raised foods and that can be purchased directly off the farm, in local market places and in small to medium sized retail outlets that offer ‘local foods for local people’.

Food Security is also dependent upon high quality, vigorous seeds being widely available to farmers and growers. Therefore local ‘living seed banks’ should be strongly encouraged in order to fulfil this need. Non hybrid, traditional, un-engineered seeds have been shown to have greater vigour and more natural resilience than their finely tuned laboratory bred counterparts, when confronted by climactic fluctuations and airborn disease. The denaturing, patenting and corporate monopoly of seeds via genetic engineering have no place in any serious plan to address and stimulate national and regional food security. GM cross contamination of neighbouring crops via by wind blown pollen, bees, insects, birds and people makes it impossible to establish an ecologically stable food chain. What is needed is the local and interregional biological integrity which gives citizens the confidence to purchase foods raised on land free from the toxic residues and the novel genotypes that form the basis of genetic engineering techniques.

It has been repeatedly shown that some 65% of Europeans don’t want GM food products on their plates or in their fields. Such resistance has been vindicated by recent independent laboratory research studies carried out in four different European Countries which have conclusively shown that rodents fed on a diluted GM feed diet suffered severe lessions of the liver as well as malfunctioning of the kidneys within one year. After two years the rodents became infertile and died. As this provides an indication of what might happen to humans, its is only criminal negligence that has prevented GM crops being banned already.

The CAP exists because we pay for it. Almost no reasonably discerning citizen today actually wants his or her health to be compromised by the way in which our food is grown. We also don’t want our countryside to be dominated by vast expanses of chemically forced crops whose nutritional quality is as poor as the sterile soils from which they come. Neither do we want animal concentration camps where thousands of chickens and pigs spend their suffocatingly short lives confined to airless, neon lit sheds and a diet of antibiotic laced GM soya and maize whose residues have been shown to contaminate our food supply.

An ever growing number of EU citizens want real food from real farms and they want assurances that the methods used on these farms will not compromise their health or the health of the land the produce comes from. EU agricultural commissioner Dracian Coilos is increasingly reflecting these concerns in his pronouncements on CAP reform. He is doing so at the behest of a coordinated citizens action movement which is pressing for a fundamental rethink of EU agricultural policies, bringing them in line with recommendations made by the 400 specialists and scientists who made up the IAASTD report of 2006. Namely: that traditional mixed family farms and biological farming methods are best able to ensure national food security, and that genetically modified foods will not be effective in ensuring an end to global hunger.

Consensus on this message is essential if European food and farming is to survive and thrive in the 21st century.

Julian Rose June 2011.

Listen – do you want to survive? Do you want to have something edible on your plate?

Do you seriously believe that what you currently buy from Tesco and other hypermarkets is actually providing you with your nutritional needs? Do you even care? Or are you “too busy to think about it.” Do you ever read the label on the packaging? Do you know what all those ‘e’ numbers are or mean? The synthetic preservatives, colours and additives which form a significant part of the ‘food’ you eat – do you realise what they are doing to you and your children and your grandchildren?

Well I’ll tell you: they are destroying your immune systems – that’s what they are doing. They are eating away at your natural resistance to disease. They are hardening your arteries. They are blocking up the valves of your heart. They are contributing to the chances of getting cancer. Have you noticed that people are getting sick more and more frequently? If you haven’t noticed you must have been asleep for the past decade. How many times have you felt “really well” recently? Not often? Have you wondered why?

Do you take an interest in the quality of what you put in your belly? Yes? Then why do you still go to those huge supermarket stores that sell you junk food wrapped up in pretty packaging? Did you know that the ‘fresh food’ they sell you is never less than 5 days old? That it has often travelled half way around the world before it gets to you? That it is coming from huge monocultural fields whose soils have been soused with pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and nitrates? You don’t know what nitrates are? They are toxic stimulants that force plants to grow faster and bigger than they would naturally. All large scale commercial farmers use them. The residues from these nitrates land up in our drinking water – and therefore in our bellies – and so do the pesticides, herbicides and fungicides. So do you begin to get the picture?

But that’s not all! Oh no, whenever you buy those bakery products chances are you are getting genetically modified soya added to the flour – and ever wondered what that might be doing to you, slowly, over many years? No? Well, nor do the transnational corporations that profit from the sales. But we have strong evidence that they are contributing to the loss of your natural reproductive powers – yes – bringing on sterility. Oh, you don’t mind that you or your family may never be able to have children? You’re willing to risk this most precious gift of reproduction by ingesting GM residues ? They are not only in the bakery products but also come through in the milk and meat from livestock being fed GM soya and maize. Did you know that this government has put off banning the import of genetically modified animal feeds? That they haven’t even officially banned the growing of GM crops in Poland? Are you going to simply turn the other way and allow your government to quietly permit the irreversible genetic pollution of your food chain and beautiful countryside? Or will you get involved in preventing such a tragedy from ever happening?

Then what about all the refined white flour and sugar in these bakery foods? And what about this so called ‘flour’ – do you know how much wheat there is in most loaves of bread? Well – no one is going to tell you because if they did you would stop buying it.

Now then, I see some of you are still not convinced. If you don’t care what you put in your tummy, then perhaps you do at least care about what and who you are supporting when you purchase your food? You might care to know that when you buy this ‘stuff’ that passes for food in the big supermarkets and in many other shops unfortunately – you are directly supporting what is known as ‘factory farming’. Factory farming: those two words should make you feel a little sick, but then some of you are so thick skinned that it doesn’t. So I explain: factory farming is mass production of foods using techniques which are just about as inhumane as one could get. In the case of commercial meat, the pigs and chickens that provide some 45% of all meat eaten in this Country are raised in animal concentration camps. Their food is typically composed of genetically modified (maize and soya) that has been grown on vast sterile fields somewhere in the USA, Canada, Argentina, China or Brazil, fields that also demand large additions of agrichemicals. Then they are crushed for animal consumption and have antibiotics and other synthetic additives and fillers added to them. The hens and the pigs that are fed this toxic mix are kept in vast sheds with little or no access to daylight or the outdoors. They have no space. They cannot roam or play, and live out their brief lives on concrete floors under harsh neon lights. How long do they live? The fattening pigs maybe five months and the hens maybe three months. Egg laying hens and those for meat.

Then they get slaughtered – in their thousands. Just three months old. Humanely raised chickens can easily live happy lives for five years. Pigs considerably longer. But, dear supermarket consumer, you would really rather not know all this. You would rather prefer to believe the lovely adverts on TV which show contented hens running around in some field and smiling piggies gobbling buckets of delicious mash in their straw covered yard. Yes, that’s how they sell us the message about our food. And you swallow their sugary virtual reality message without ever questioning it?

Every time you do this you are consciously choosing to give your support to an inhumane factory farm – and to the corporations that manufacture the GM foods and agrichemicals – and to the vast supermarket chains that purchase this sad food, in full knowledge of the way it is raised. You see, we are complicit in the establishment of these vast profit making prisons. They wouldn’t exist if we didn’t support them through buying their produce. WE are the ones who condemn these animals to a life of purgatory. WE are the ones who, by choosing ‘not to know’ give license to huge corporations to take over control of the food chain and of our own lives. WE are submitting ourselves to becoming slaves to systems that are beneath the basic dignity of both the human and animal kingdom.

Yet many of you know that our Creator gave us dominion over the animals and over fruits of the land, in the hope that we might live together as an extended family. But is the factory farm sort of dominion you would like to be seen to be supporting when your face your Creator at the end of your days?

For God’s sake wake up! There are choices that need to be made here. Not making them is not an option any more. Its time to act. Human health, planetary health and universal health are not separate: they are inseparably connected. This health will not be secured by profit driven food corporations or bargain hunting consumers. It will be destroyed.

Read on ……

Farmers:

What do you think you are doing? Is it true that you don’t care about the quality of what you cultivate and raise from the land? Or is it that you are happy for your government to tell you what to grow and how to grow it? Or is it Cargill? Or is it the financial subsidies on offer from the EU that control your thinking? Or are you afraid of being innovative? Is it perhaps easier to just plod on in the same old way in hopes that somehow you will get-by?

Just beyond your door step are many people who could greatly benefit from getting the majority of their daily food needs from you. Of course, they would want this food to be of a good quality: fresh and flavourful. This is something the supermarkets can’t provide. They are operating through centralised packaging and distribution centres involving hundreds, if not thousands, of kilometres of road haulage. Nothing they provide is fresh, nor is it of any comparable quality to local food. Yet, for some reason you would rather accept the pitiful price the supermarket pays you than get yourselves organised and sell at a fair price to your own community or nearest town? Oh yes, under the communist regime it was much better; there were proper local processing plants and abattoirs and even help in distribution. But the European Union doesn’t like small scale self sufficient units that look after local people with good quality fresh food. No, it likes large scale monocultural farms employing as few people as possible and turning out thousands of tons of bland, lifeless foods to be sold in some vast bland and lifeless shop at the other end of the Country. The EU wants farmers to be business men and make decent profits so they can be taxed and provide a decent revenue to the government and to Brussels. You didn’t know that? What have you been doing for the past ten years? Listening to your ‘farmers union’ or ‘advice office’? Do you think they aren’t being paid by the EU and the government too?

Now, its time to get wise isn’t it? I mean, do you really want to spend the rest of your days being a slave to institutions that have declared it illegal to sell any processed food to the local village shop?

What kind of nonsense is this? Why would anyone go along with that sort of ‘navos’? Do you think that any other Country in Europe has such a distorted regulation? It looks like you need to brake free from this hangman’s rope. Are you trying to tell me that if a bunch of farmers got together with a bunch of shop keepers and did a deal that provided local food to these shops – you would turn around and say “Oh dear, I’m sorry, but its not allowed so I can’t do it.” Has your pride reached such a low ebb that you are prepared to give in to a bunch of petty bureaucrats?

Come on. Come to your senses. The EU wants you out of the way – and that’s the way they will win! They will get you trapped into feeling you ‘Can’t do anything’. They will try and make you feel guilty for doing something which is sensible, profitable and right. They will throw the ‘hygiene and sanitary’ rule book at you and tell you to fill in your ‘HASSAP’ form. They will try and cow you into feeling that you have to conform to their stinking global food marketing regime that has the net effect of killing off all the real family farms of Europe and replacing them with banking cartel owned and run ‘superfarms’. Places that operate with one man on five hundred hectares and the nation buying the resulting poisoned food from their nearest Tesco.

Now listen – there’s got to be a better way hasn’t there? I mean, if you want any of your children to take an interest in the farm do you really expect them to conform to an EU and government rule book which is written by people who have never set foot on a farm in their lives? Aren’t you feeling a bit foolish going along with this sort of rubbish?

If a bunch of locals came to you and asked you to grow some food for them – what would you do?

Set the dog on them? Swear at them? Tell them that its not allowed? Or might you perhaps invite them in for a cup of tea and a chat? Well, if you did, it just could be the starting point of a very interesting possibility. I mean, if these people offered you a fair price to grow some food for them or produce some milk or cheese or whatever it might be – then wouldn’t it be a bit foolish to turn them down? They get what they want and you get what you need – a secure local market – and not one controlled by some transnational corporation that wants to screw you. Have a think about it. But don’t think too long otherwise you will probably convince yourself that “its not possible.” Its this attitude that just leads to things getting worse and worse.

Consumers and Farmers:

In this letter I have addressed both the food buyers and the food producers: so now its down to you. Get together and take control of your destinies; or stay apart and to be killed off by transgenic laboratory foods, industrial farming cartels and sold-out corrupted governments. Its your choice.

Julian Rose Dec 2011

One of the most significant hurdles to our development as ‘whole’ human beings is our attachment to the false separation made between what is considered ‘practical’ and what is considered ‘spiritual’.

It is a dichotomy whose origins can be traced back to the invention of Religion: as a man made vessel in which to encapsulate the spirit, and as a formal statement of belief in one faith or another faith; one temple or another temple; one god or another god. In other words, to that point in history when our nature and spirit led celebrations of the miracle of life were superseded by the intellectualisation and compartmentalisation of such experiences under the specific control of an authoritative body:  i.e. a priesthood attached to a church.

Tragically, this false compartmentalisation of the spiritual has played a key role in keeping mankind locked away from the universality of spirit which is our birthright and true potential. So much so that it has been possible to foment crusading wars in the name of all-powerful sectarian gods and the blind faith which devotees hold in them. Millions have been, and continue to be, murdered in the name of the leading religions of our era, stretching back for centuries. For those who see themselves as free from ‘religious’ persuasions, money and power provide the latest totem of worship, but in truth this totem is followed with all the same blind belief as that to be found in religious cults.

When we are mere babies, those of us who were born into the Christian faith are initiated into the protective institutional arms of the church by the ritual known as ‘baptism’. Here, the mark of the cross is symbolically drawn on our innocent foreheads by the priest whose finger is first dipped in

sacred water deemed to form a direct link to John the Baptist’s initiation of Jesus Christ in the waters of the river Jordan some 2,000 years ago. In the eyes of the church – we are then one of its children. A condition which can later be endorsed by participation in the Christian confirmation ceremony of our early teens.

All this, of course, is supposed to provide a kind of insurance policy against falling prey to the forces of evil. Against the powers of darkness enslaving our souls to the doctrine of the devil.

However, the net effect of taking out this insurance policy (by our parents initially) is to be signed up to a definition of life which gives little room for free thinking or exploration of what ‘the spirit’ really is or what it has in mind for us. Religion and the church having already defined the scope of our spirit for us, so that all we are supposed to do is dutifully follow the script.

Millions do take this road through life, as can be witnessed in the ‘bible belt’ area of the US and amongst devout individuals and communities throughout the world. So strong are the allegiances formed around ‘religious beliefs’ that when any two or more clash the inevitable result is conflict which all too soon leads to out and out war. Just witness the current vilification of Islam (and by extension Iran) by the Judeo-Christian warmongers of Washington who use such vilification to incite hatred which in turn provides a useful alibi for establishing acts of military aggression.

So, as a precursor to further examination, it is very important to recognise how religion and spirituality are often confused with one another. While there can certainly be cross-over between the religious and the spiritual, the reality is that one is a dogma and the other a universal force which can be tapped by all of humanity and which is free of dogma.

The big question is: how to refocus human attention on the true manifestation of the great spiritual force which has the power to transform our daily lives and to counteract the forces of oppression that keep a great part of the community of man in a state of somnolent slavery?

Many adherents of the various ‘spiritual paths’ on offer in to-days world, seem to feel that it is not their place to get involved in taking direct action on behalf of this Great Spirit. In fact, they misguidedly see activism as contradictory to maintenance of the spiritual path. Many appear to feel exempted from having to take action to ameliorate the wrongs perpetrated upon our physical, mental and political World. This is a great error of judgement in my view. While personal spiritual pursuit may cause a bright light to shine in one’s own world, it nearly always fails to turn that light onto our oppressors in the physical world. It is due to this failure that our oppressors have largely got away with carrying on unimpeded in their progressive enslavement of mankind and the destruction of the environment which supports all life on earth.

A theory held by many spiritual aspirants is that ‘confrontation’ produces a negative vibration which detracts from spiritual development and only adds to the negative karma already present in society. However, to actively campaign for political, ecological or material change for the better requires that we confront the reality face to face, in order to know exactly what it is we are up against. Holding a fear that taking such a position might become an impediment to maintaining the peaceful vibratory levels achievable for example, in deep meditation, provides a false assessment of the truth.

In such cases, ‘Peace’ is wrongly defined as an essentially passive state largely free of any kind of friction. Spirituality thus takes on the appearance of a cosseted precious gem stone or delicate flower, the outward expression of a protective inner world which shuns contact with that which appears to be at odds with its supposed state of inner purity.

Adopting as a life philosophy such an inward ‘frictionless’ approach, has the net effect of leaving an open door to those who have no hesitation in exploiting the vacuum thus created. Free rein is given for negative forces to do their worst. At the extreme end these take the form of fascistic, totalitarian oligarchies that hold an almost total dominion in banking, big business, food and farming, health and education, politics, the media, the military and even the church. While such cartels are busy wielding their destructive powers upon our planet and upon our daily lives, those on the supposed path of ‘higher awareness’ all too often do nothing to apprehend the imposition of such a regime. Wittingly or unwittingly, they remain complicit in supporting the status quo: a way of life based on aggressive competition, consumerist indoctrination and violence.*

This is an innately hypocritical position: to preach peace and yet support violence – the violence that lies at the heart of our psychotic, capitalistic, consumption obsessed, Western societies. Leaving the forces of corruption unchallenged is simply not possible if one is truly following the spiritual path. On the contrary, the entre onto the spiritual path is achieved through committing to do one’s utmost to free our planet from bondage and to protect that which is our Creator’s work in all ways possible to us. If this means unmasking and exposing that which is blatantly dishonest, then this is what must be done.

It is my contention that by engaging in the direct defence of our basic freedoms and becoming active in the prevention of our collective enslavement, we discover the true means by which our largely dormant spiritual strength is most fully awakened. This way we become emissaries of a universal higher consciousness and are repaid a thousand times over for our efforts. Only when the inner work of spiritual practice is coupled to the outer work of activist involvement can we find the balance which once again unites the spiritual and the practical and makes us whole. Both must be entered into fully, for in reality they are two parts of one whole; just as an inhalation of breath is not separate from its exhalation. Why do we need to divide? That is the route of our oppressors.

Inner strength leads to outer action. Outer action leads in turn to more inner strength.. and so on ad infinitum. The resolution to the false state of separation made between these two states is ours for the making. The longer it remains sublimated within one or other of what we call ‘spiritual’ or what we call ‘practical’ there will be no respite for our divided world and no resolution to the sickness that holds back planetary rejuvenation.

What we call spiritual is actually the vibrant life force present in all matter, in all life. It is the composite energy expressed by the billions of swirling atoms that comprise all material and non material objects at all times. At the quantum point of engagement every cell in our body is now recognised as an intelligent being in its own right. A being having all the same intelligent faculties as the individual human being, but in microscopic form. The spirit courses through these cells in a manner indiscernible and inseparable from their cellular atomic structure. Everything that exists is at once spirit and material in simultaneity. The material is simply a third density expression of spirit.

Whereas spirit is simply the fourth, fifth and sixth density expression of the material.

When we humans fully ‘come alive’ it is said that we can also become invisible. The vibratory rate of our physical body merges with the vibratory rate of universal energy and at that point we are one and indistinct from the cosmic energy from which we once materialised.

So, in essence, spirit and material are one and the same. It is only because we have not yet catalysed the true potentiality inherent in us that we fail to recognise the oneness of energy/matter matter/energy and therefore the oneness of spiritual/material material/spiritual.

Once fired up to to take the sort of actions necessary to bring radical change into the unharmonious and downright destructive mechanisms of our ailing society, our cellular tissues literally tremble with rising energy. The passion to breathe new life into that which has been callously rendered lifeless raises the spirit (in us) from a largely dormant state to a vibrantly active state. The word ‘activist’ expresses this condition.

The sense of rightful indignation that burns in us when we are witness to, or the object of, a blatant act of cruelty, deceit or callous indifference, is the spirit rising up (in us) in spontaneous defence of that which is wronged or humiliated. Rightful indignation is a powerful tool in activism. The will to ‘right a wrong’ is one of the main catalysts to taking action, and it is, I would argue, the natural response for sentient humans. I am not describing the ‘vengeance’ sought in the case of “an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth” but the burning pain one feels out of empathy and compassion for a sentient life force which is being subjected to unreasonable exploitation.

This pain is the response of the universal spirit which vibrates through all of us and which grows in strength the more we follow its call. Thus, those who see great wrongs being committed on this planet and respond by taking action to defend and ameliorate that which suffers and thereby to bring the true spirit back to life, are truly following the spiritual road to consciousness, awareness and enlightenment. Their actions are the spontaneous expression of all that is Godly in us. To

ignore, suppress or subvert such a response is to deny the free expression of this higher calling.

Its more than time for everyone to become an activist.

Julian Rose,  April 20th 2012,  www.changingcourseforlife.pl

*see “7 Steps to Defeat the Matrix and Put an End to War”

Looming up in front of us like some ghoulish malevolent giant, is the prospect of mankind having to endure the devastation of a ‘Third World War’. An event, should it come to pass, which would pit brother against brother, sister against sister, ‘faith’ against ‘faith’, ideology against ideology, nation against nation and all of it together against the continuation of life on Earth.

The forces covertly operating to bring this Third World War about will not be in the direct line of fire, but a long way off, comfortably ensconced in leather chairs in the plush offices of high ranking officialdom. They made their plans many years ago and the Third World War is a keystone in bringing these plans to fruition.

These individuals come from Countries well practised in historical and modern empire building and share a ‘special relationship’ whose vision of the future excludes the great majority of us completely. We do not feature on the planet they see ahead of them, accept as slaves to whatever activities they may wish to pursue. To them, we are essentially ‘dispensable’.

Those who would perpitrate this plan have already prepared their underground bases to survive the destruction they propose to unleash on this world. We will not be invited to join them there either, except a few carefully chosen minions to manage the technologies that keep this underworld functioning and those who serve their daily needs. It is a very exclusive ‘club’.

The master plan involves certain nations being sacrificed to the cause. Those nations will have their populations wiped off the map and most of their history with them. The fact that they are nations situated in key geographical areas that hold extraordinary historical records of great importance to an evolving humanity – is not coincidental. The timing of this Third World War is not incidental either. Its perpetrators have long since noted the approaching changes at the universal macro-cosmic level which will directly affect Earth. They have noted that energies associated with these changes might work against them, especially if humanity were to embrace them unhindered.

So they set their clocks to ensure that this particular alarm will go off at a time designed to obscure the relevance of the simultaneously unfolding macro-cosmic event. And to draw the attention of mankind away from that which aids the evolution of its consciousness – and towards that which ensures its further victimization.

We are, according to the manipulators of this scenario, not supposed to know that we have a choice.

We are not, of course, supposed to ever recognize what their game is, or what our real potentials are. We are not supposed to know that we have the power to stop this Third World War from ever happening.

The procedures which have been put into effect to ensure that humankind remains in a state of non awareness are many and varied. Many, which are quite deadly underneath, look innocuous enough on the surface and remain accepted by the majority as necessary aspects of the standard routines of daily life. Others are less easily received and even resisted; but few amongst us comprehend the fact that they all belong to one underlying plan of repression, control and domination.

The financial and material resources employed to keep the lid on humanity’s awakening depend entirely upon the unconscious majority fulfilling their role as unstinting providers. Providers of both the energy and the money to keep in place all the elements of the control system. The 2012 London Olympic games are to provide a perfect smoke screen for the further imposition of this control system. There are to be some 35,000 police and troops on hand to impose ‘lock down London’ and the lock down will not be relinquished when the event is over. It has its complementarity in the heart of Europe where plans for a totalitarian superstate are nearing completion. And since bankers and ‘security agents’ feature strongly in the mix which constitutes ‘the club’ standing behind these impositions, it is not too difficult to guess where the ‘missing billions’ of recent banking scandals ultimately lands up.

In summary: unless we take conscious action to withdraw our support from the system, the Third World War will be sponsored by we the people, freely and at times grudgingly, donating our energy, our money and even our brain power to our own self destruction. That is – so long as we continue our refusal of consciousness and avoid seeing what is staring us in the eye almost every day of our lives. And that state of refusal, of course, is exactly what ‘the club’ wants maintained.

As the ‘occupy movement’ has discerned: it is the 1% who hold power over the 99% and in all other circumstances 99% would certainly hold the whip hand over 1%. But while the majority of the 99% remain dumbed down, docile and divided, they remain easy prey to the 1%. In a state of semi-sleep most can be hypnotically induced to accept the political lies and distortions that contrive to place in our minds an unimpeded acceptance of the ‘inevitability’ of a Third World War. A war which would constitute a big step down the road to the end of the human race.

Seven Steps to Defeat the Matrix and End War:

Now please take a deep breath. This is no idle threat dreamed up by an amateur prophet; it is a reality and one which is being revealed by more and more awaking individuals daily. We are getting a handle on the great lie being perpetrated against humanity and we have had enough. We are going to put an end to it. It is perfectly possible for us to make sure the Third World War never happens.

The fist step in doing so involves breaking the spell that ‘the club’ employs the mass media to hold us under. Just on the other side of the television set and the Sunday newspaper lies the road that leads to the end of war and the beginning of freedom … if we want to take it. But ‘freedom’ is not achievable without an effort; a real effort. Neither is freedom simply the removal of a state of oppression. It is a direct and determined statement of intent to put in place a better world and to take the actions that give expression to this intent: physically, mentally and spiritually.

The second step is to use this intent to challenge, unmask and expose corrupted authority by refusing to go along with its life inhibiting demands and revealing its ideology to be fundamentally false. The accompanying action to this involves withdrawing support for the military industrial complex which is the foundation of the war machine. This means taking pragmatic, practical steps. Start by taking your money out of the mainstream banking system and putting it into ethically oriented banks that do not support the weapons industry and the war machine, but do support benign enterprises and human scale creative initiatives.

The third step is to trace how the arteries of war are spread throughout the veins of our consumer society. How everyday acts of aggression, suppression and control are the elements that fuel corporate domination in today’s globalised market place.

How to-days (and yesterdays) education system encourages all the wrong instincts in young minds: the urge to be ‘competitive’, ‘successful’ and to achieve the exclusivity of status which guarantees the top positions and highest salaries in the matrix.

How deliberate human, animal and ecological exploitation are rife within the supermarket dominated food chain.

How the same deliberate exploitation is equally rife within the money system, the medical profession, the pharmaceutical industry, the housing market, the political and legal system, the family, marriage and in the church.

Join the dots and see how the same underlying ‘war’ symptoms are at large in all these and more.

The fourth step is to seek out others who are also endeavouring to bring about positive change. Keep company with such individuals; mutual support, cooperation and encouragement is crucial in overcoming the war state which relies on divisions and incriminations to keep society weakened, fractious and self absorbed.

The fifth step involves moving out of the city and into the country. That’s a big one isn’t it. However the only alternative is to be part of a major greening of the city and this may not be possible to achieve within the short time span available to us. The need is to transition away from the crass consumerist ‘supermarket syndrome’ and establish links with local food and farming operations that can provide fresh and nutritious foods grown in the proximity of your home. It also means starting to grow your own chemical free food, saving water and introducing renewable energy systems to heat your home and to cook with. Reasserting authority over your home is an excellent starting point from which wider fields of resistance can grow.

Step six is about re educating yourself. Re educating yourself to be able to recognise the behaviour patterns and appearances of oppressors, posers and infiltrators, for they are many and often move with great guile and cunning. Once one is true to ones self, one can spot those who disguise their intentions behind falsehood and flattery. The process of re education also involves dedicating serious time to researching and exploring the phenomena which stand behind events often portrayed by the mainstream media as the precise opposite of what they really are.

Step seven: grow your own spiritual and creative powers! This is a very personal process because there are many different pathways leading to creative and spiritual awakening. Each individual

needs to find his or her own right of passage and feel comfortable with it. However, a prerequisite for becoming a conscious human being is the recognition that this state is not something external to ourselves which we try to draw down; rather it is a force which lies dormant within us and simply needs awakening. Much of the process of this awakening involves shedding the protective layers we have built around ourselves as a form of extra persona, deemed necessary to get along in this distorted modern world. Beneath the mask of this persona lies a great wealth of creative spiritual potential just longing to be allowed to shine forth.

This potential is the quality most feared by our oppressors. This is because it has the power to render their control system and war agenda completely powerless. It is the one force capable of freeing humanity from the state of funk which holds millions in hypnotic captivity to a consumerist indoctrination which lies at the heart of our present society’s ills.

In order to renounce war we have to do far more than just come out onto the streets waving anti war placards. We have to vibrate with an unswerving passion to defend Life to the very end. Once so empowered, nothing can stand in the way of a process of planetary transformation which will cut the arteries of war off at their base and render those who stand behind its grotesque atrocities, powerless to pursue their dark agendas.

Julian Rose
March 2012

www.changingcourseforlife.info

Addendum: I would like to state that I would not be making any of the above recommendations if I had not already put them into effect in my own life and drawn great benefit thereby.

“Europe’s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation.”

Here, in a nutshell, we plainly see the trickery that stands behind the fabricated ‘Union’ of individual nations, each of which was led to believe that its economic and social stability would prosper once it committed to the ‘common market’ and the various treaties which mark its inexorable passage to ‘superstate’.

The actual mission of the founders of the EU has always been something of a chimera; Monet’s letter makes it clear however, that the motivation was both idealistic and elitist. The supranational entity was to be created “without (their) people understanding what was happening” following a pattern of elitist oligarchical ambition stretching back through past dynasties.

We can trace the roots of this latest ‘superstate’ experiment to the Schuman Plan of 1951, which was signed up to by six Countries and took the form of a treaty (The Treaty of Paris) centred around coal and steel industries being placed under common management, ostensibly to prevent any recurrence of the death and destruction of the 2^nd World War. Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg were the signaturies to this treaty whose empirical purpose was stated to be ensuring that none of these Countries could ever again manufacture weapons of war to be used against the other.

Then in 1957, the same six Countries expanded cooperation to other economic sectors and signed The Treaty of Rome. Thus creating the ‘European Economic Community’ also known as The Common Market. The UK joined up to this in 1973 under then Prime Minister Edward Heath.

The formal creation of the European Union, under the guidance of Jaques Delors, didn’t occur until February 1992 under the Maastricht Treaty. It formalised the introduction of the European Parliament and European Commission, the latter gaining considerable ‘management power’ under Jaques Santer, its first president. Interestingly the Commission was originally to be named “The High Authority”, which has strongly Masonic overtones. But this name was dropped in the 1960′s.

The single currency (Euro) element of the expanding Union was launched in 1999, along with the European Central Bank. Lastly came the Lisbon Treaty of December 2009 which created the new post of President of the European Council.

Within this brief synopsis of the EU’s birth and expansion, we can detect the process of creeping homogenisation which reflects Jean Monet’s covert master plan. As intended, on the surface it certainly appears that economic considerations were to the fore, not withstanding the supposedly benign ‘common’ interests like modernised infrastructure, the Common Agricultural Policy and the ‘no border’ agreements which were deemed to give the EU a more flowing socio economic (and cultural) connectivity. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was supposed to ensure that no one would go hungry in the new Europe and that farming interests would be financially protected against undue volatility within the wider market. Needless to say, the subsidised mono crops and intensive livestock holdings of the CAP have proved an unmitigated disaster for traditional bio diverse mixed family farms, food quality and the ecology of European farmland. Distorted (subsidised) trading policies have also exacted their toll on others.

What is undeniable in all this, is that Monet’s grand experiment has concentrated a very large amount of power into very few hands; and those hands are a long way removed from the hands of the labourers and workers who continue to form the majority of European Union citizens.

The creation of the single currency (Eurozone) has served to expose the fault lines that have, on more that one occasion, come to the surface of EU affairs. Whatever the founding fathers may have thought, the idea that Countries as socially, culturally and economically contrasting as Greece and Germany, could find commonality via some form of ‘fiscal agreement’ was anything but wise.

The creation of the European Central Bank epitomises the ‘trading block’ mentality of the Eurozone.

It has, as Winston Churchill once noted, brought home the fact that the EU could operate like “A United States of Europe”. A United States of Europe is just what Europe is becoming, with the president of the European Commission acting as the front man; a powerful central bank acting as Europe’s vault and a weak parliament struggling to introduce some semblance of democracy.

Within this top heavy and highly bureaucratic regime, global banking cartels have fully exploited the underlying sense of political insecurity. The European Central bank has teamed up with the International Monetary Fund to act as central controllers of the destinies of struggling Eurozone Countries. The result is a cold and soulless brand of exploitation which appears blind to anything other than the imposition of Orwellian authoritative control structures that suck dry the assets of any Country foolish enough to seek its financial support.

After presiding over the collapse of various European economies, Jose Manuel Barroso has used his position as President of the European Commission to recommend the imposition of a European Superstate as the only effective medicine left to hold the troubled ‘Union’ together. Resistance to this solution is taken as an infringement of the spirit of the project and those who dare to raise their voices as ‘deniers’. Sixty years on from the date of the Monet letter and the framework of the envisioned superstate is pushed into place.

As ailing Eurozone member states pledge their dwindling national assets to the voracious demands of the IMF and ECB, the interest payments that the IMF and ECB exact continue to fuel the financier led cabal’s war chest. Countries outside the Eurozone are now being asked to further top-up this chest, because apparently there is not enough in it to prepare further poisoned loan packages for the next victims.

What Jean Monet had in mind when he wrote his infamous letter, was the carefully crafted, covert instigation of an ultimate power heist. A heist which firmly installs a small band of all powerful

technocrats and oligarchs in the undisputed driving seat of one of the largest trading blocks of the planet. Under this regime, the sovereignty of nation states becomes strategically weakened and so heavily dependent upon outside economic support that it ultimately ceases to operate as a functional ‘sovereign’ system. Decisions of national importance once made via elected parliaments, are usurped by the centralized control system based in Brussels, but directly linked to London, New York, Washington, Frankfurt, Paris, Rome and Tokyo.

Any Country not part of this ‘club’ automatically becomes side-lined as a second class nation with little or no right to sit on key committees and influence the future. The fiscal union club is held up as the holy grail by which all nations must abide if they are to be members of the inner sanctum.

Under this regime transnational corporations, bankers and EU bureaucrats flourish, while the working citizens of the EU are imprisoned in a modern serfdom in which the banker controlled European Commission and signed-up nation states demand that the European labour force bail out the private banks by accepting lower pay, later retirement and the loss of social services.

In this way, we (the people) are asked to carry the can and submit to the austerity measures imposed upon us in order that governments can bail out banks and banks can satisfy their Eurocrat pay masters ensconsed behind their mahogany desks at the European Financial Stability agency. In close proximity also sit the shadowy ‘Frankfurt Group’. According to Larry Elliot, economics correspondent of the Guardian, the Frankfurt group is “an unelected cabal made up of eight people: Lagarde (IMF); Merkel; Sarkozy; Mario Draghi (president of ECB); Jose Manuel Barroso (president European Commission); Jean Claud Juncker (chairman Eurogroup); Herman van Rompuy (president European Council) and Olli Rehn (Europe’s Economic and Moneytary affairs commissioner). This group, which is accountable to no one, calls the shots in Europe.”

Given the free reign which this cabal now exercises in its management of European (if not global) financial matters, its hardly surprising that money and power constitute the overriding theme of Eurozone ambitions. How many times have you heard, over the past few months, heads of state declaring that meetings must be concluded at such and such a time “in order to give the markets a clear message.” Please note: not the people – but the markets. Everything, it now seems, is beholden to ‘the markets’. They have become a totem to which we are all expected to bow our heads in obeysance. The pervasive consumption and growth ideology and the covert lust for power which accompanies its pre-eminence suggests a deep sickness reaching into the heart of society. A sickness which gives licence to the establishment of technocratic dictatorships and the demotion of the instinct for democracy.

Jean Monet no doubt recognised this at the inception of the European Union. Maybe he saw how a small group of well schooled power seekers would be able to engineer the economic collapse of Countries that failed to fulfil the diktats of the private club which he and his colleagues had instigated. Was it foreseen that it might be possible to achieve what the Reichstaag had failed to achieve, but this time with little or no need for bloodshed?

In any event, gone is the Europe standing for a group of independent nation states banding together when appropriate, on internationally significant issues. The entire edifice of the extended family of nations called Europe, has been brought to a point of crisis due to the artifice and brinkmanship of the executors of this global power grab. A power which now controls the media, the politicians, the market and the people. “We give them what we make them think they want” is an apt summary of the heist’s blue print for success. In a world of mass media hype; virtual reality; ‘shopping’ as the number one leisure pursuit, plus every conceivable gismo to play around with; one can see how the artful creation of these superficial distractions has combined to become such a powerful opiate.

Tragically, the bankrupt materialistic imagination of the modern European fails to penetrate the veil of deceit which has allowed the clandestine take-over to proceed so smoothly. As Aldous Huxley

warned in Brave New World Revisited, 1958 “Democracy and Freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite soldiers, police, thought-manufacturers and mind manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit.”

So here we stand, on the edge of the precipice, yet mostly failing to recognize that it is a precipice.

The federal superstate, currently managed by the infamous ‘troika’, is closing around us, regardless of any nation’s membership or non membership of the single currency regime. This control system works on the principle of keeping people just intelligent enough to serve the system but not intelligent enough to recognize that it is a system. It has been largely successful in this mission, since up until now we have been pacified into accepting the role of grudging servitude with few signs of outward resistance.

However, all that may be about to change. 2012 looks set to be the crunch year. Signs of rebellion are appearing where once only the mists of sleep prevailed. The extremity of US and EU neo colonial war mongering in Africa, the Persian Gulf and Central Asia, is raising eyebrows and not a few hairs on the nape of the neck. Oil companies are turning in record profits; banks are barely humbled by their carefree profligacy of 2008/9 and multi millionaires are created every week in extravagant game shows and lottery draws. All this while government instigated austerity packages are bearing down on citizens struggling to make a reasonable living and hold onto some modicum of social responsibility and decorum. Something has to give. And probably more than Greece, Ireland and Portugal.

Our long running pretence at being anything other than the schizoid and hypocritical society that we are, is finally falling away. The bare bones of the truth can no longer be disguised behind placatory rhetoric and artful deception. As the realisation of what stands in front of us grows, we have a very real choice to make: stand on our own two feet and free ourselves from the encircling tentacles of the Monet and Delors inspired supranational dictatorship – or slide further under its control – losing our ability to forge our destinies for generations to come. The choice has never been so stark.

Its down to each of us to reach into richer soils and ensure that something altogether better is brought to birth.

JR

February 2012

Countries outside the euro zone also find themselves caught up by the effects of the gathering financial storm and are attempting to pitch their camps as appropriately as possible to deal with it.

But one thing that countries both inside and outside the euro zone share is a common problem of ‘debt’. Levels of national borrowing (sovereign debt) have, over the past decade, exceeded the ability of many countries to pay back the ensuing interest and capital within permitted time zones, thus catalysing the ‘restructuring’ of these loans by the lenders and the setting of new terms for repayment. The ‘lenders’ are thus put in a position of great power: they can pull the strings and set the agenda – so long as the countries which are borrowing wish to maintain their particular moneytary policies and ambitions for ‘economic growth’.

Poland, however, finds herself in a position of reasonable resilience to the euro zone storm. With a an economy that is largely internally stimulated and not overtly reliant on exports, the Country looks in fair shape to resist at least the worst consequences of the black hole which the euro zone is rapidly turning into.

All the more bizar then, is the determination of prime minister Tusk to throw his Country right into the centre of the black hole and to thereby surrender Poland’s hard won independence to a bunch of unelected technocrats who are the puppet masters of the European Commission and its various agencies.

Donald Tusk is making a name for himself by singing the praises of the European Union at every opportunity. A few months ago he he was quoted as saying that “The European Union is the greatest institution in the World.” He has now been joined by the foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski, who seems particularly keen on supporting German leadership of radical reforms to the euro zone. Tusk and Sikorski are, it seems, absolutely determined to hook Poland into the euro and ‘moneytary union’ within four years – “provided the euro zone undergoes necessary reforms” (Sikorsky).

So what might these reforms be?

If Angela Merkel’s reform package does indeed become the accepted way forward, then it will mean that Brussels will have hugely increased power over the economic and fiscal affairs of euro zone Countries. They will have to account to the European Commission and be open to the surveillance and even management of their economies, so that near guarantees can be made as to the credit worthiness of each Country.

Tusk is gunning for just such a recipe for Poland’s future. One which “will make Europe an effective enterprise with mechanisms of internal control and discipline” (Tusk, Warsaw Voice 5 December 2011). According to this ethos Polish citizens will find themselves paying contributions not only to Brussels and Warsaw but also into the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. Under such a regime, Poland will simply become ‘a unit of administration’ in a bureaucratic spiders web whose nerve centre is situated within the unelected cabal in Brussels. The danger lights should be flashing.

The European Union has already been responsible for hundreds of petty rules and regulations that make daily life more and more tedious and onerous. But they also include some very direct interference in civil liberties that strongly suggest a movement towards a totalitarian, centrally controlled Europe, where decisions will be taken without public debate – because they are unilaterally deemed “the right choice for the economy.” Such proclamations have their origins in corporate greed. A disease which stands behind all political insistence on obeying the demands of ‘market led’ moneytary forces.

In Poland, these same corporate and government calls to ‘put the economy first’ are currently being used to put the squeeze on both citizens and the natural environment. Just witness the covertly calculated attempts by government to by-pass vital public debate on the huge hazards presented by GMO and by hydraulic ‘Fracking’ for underground gas supplies. The Vice Minister of the Environment, Bernard Blaszcyk recently stated “We will do everything to assure that protests are not able to stop shale gas exploration in Poland”. Such threatening language is becoming the hallmark of institutions that appear to be moving inexorably towards dictatorship rather than democracy. The same barely veiled threat characterises Tusk and Sikorski’s increasingly strident calls for Poland to become deeply engaged in the euro zone.

But by lending support to the ‘one currency for all’ euro regime we would be selling our souls to the shadowy architects of a ‘one world government’. An institution which would, if it were allowed to manifest itself, exercise a central controlling influence over all our lives – an influence over which we would have no redress.

Already Greece and Italy have, at the blink of an eye, become the recipients of unelected technocrat leaders, whose job it is to enforce austerity measures meated out by the International Moneytary Fund (IMF) and the European Central Bank. When prime minister Papandreou stepped forward to offer the Greek government a referendum on whether they wished to accept the austerity terms of the IMF – he was viciously attacked by the architects of the euro zone. His courageous stand lasted just three days: the idea that the people should be asked their opinion on this momentous decision was smashed on the weathered rocks of the Accropolis, the birthplace of European democracy.

Polish citizens need to ask themselves just why Mr Tusk is so keen for his Country to join this unbending cabal? Just why is his government looking to the German nation to take control of the future of Europe – and therefore the future of Poland?

There are historical lessons that supposedly have been learnt – the hard way. No one Country or one entity (The European Commission) should be given the authority to take a dominant role in pan European decision making. The future freedom of our children and grand children demands that we never allow ourselves to become slaves to such a centralised nexus of power. And this means vigorously taking control of our individual and collective destinies in the here and now.

European nation states can manage their financial and social affairs without being dictated to by the European Commission or the German federation. In the loosely knit extended family which is Europe today, no two Countries and cultures are ‘the same’ nor do they wish to be. We should celebrate this fact, because that is the beauty of our individual yet diverse Europe. Yet the ‘fiscal unity’ medicine of the euro plan would squeeze this individuality into Orwellian conformity, turning the richness of diversity into a sterile monoculture to be overseen by faceless corporations and tunnel vision bureaucrats.

Right now, we have a vital opportunity to cut short the advance of this monster – which is looking to wrest absolute control over the democratic experiment. For Poland, this will mean citizens activating themselves to resolutely demand a public debate and referendum: on the Country’s desire for – or rejection of – becoming a co-partner to a supranational technocracy that has no roots in the European tradition and no public mandate to set the rules of other nations.

Julian Rose  December 2011.

However, in a world undergoing seismic socio economic and environmental convulsions that are growing by the day, gold may not prove to be the solution to our future security that many are hoping for.

If one stands back a little from the spinning vortex of speculative financial roulette that preoccupies the world’s media and many of her better-off citizens, one will observe that unfortunately gold is inedible (some will say ‘fortunately’) and is less easy to turn into plough shears than other baser metals. A fact that has not gone unnoticed by globally oriented financial investors. These speculators have recently started pouring money into agricultural land holdings as a hedge against higher food prices, set against a guaranteed demand for world staples like wheat, rice, maize and sorghum. Unfortunately the objective of such investment policies are not benign, but rather are symptomatic of the same convulsive profit driven motives that have catalysed the seismic economic swings of the past decade.

So, where to turn when all around is turmoil stirred by inflated egos, unashamed greed and rabid exploitation?

The answer to this starts by firstly recommending careful consideration of the circumstances that have brought us to this point. Then, a plan of action which offers a longer term commitment to a saner and perhaps ‘simpler’ model of everyday living – one which shifts decisively away from the present day capitalist consumerist ethos that has brought our planet to the brink of asset stripped ecocide and unchecked human inequality.

In seeking to raise our awareness of the background to this unprecedented upheaval, it soon becomes apparent that there is some other force operating behind the front line villains picked out as being responsible for the rising and falling fortunes of the global economy. Those ‘in the news’ are often simply puppets of this unseen regime which appears to be intent upon a far going domination of global events for its own ends. The regime appears to be composed of a rather small group of very wealthy individuals and corporations that have established a controlling influence over both national government and the international financial institutions that form the lynch pin of the global economy. It is a mostly shadowy cartel whose field of influence includes such institutions as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organisation. Its leaders are also strategically placed to control events within the European Union, the North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA) and the Pacific Rim economic zone.

Banking empires, pharmaceutical giants, oil magnates and food and seed monopolies are well represented within this club, which exercises decisive control over all our lives without us ever really noticing it. At their behest, moral codes and human values are flaunted and dispensed with with reckless abandon, and brutal wars are started in foreign countries with almost complete impunity.

One soon becomes aware that the fascist regime of the last Great War did not end with the Nuremburg trials, but re-established a formidable foot-hold within Western and North American society – performing this stealth-full manoeuvre right under our half closed sleep filled eyes.

The fact that this state of play is successfully disguised as ‘democracy’, is proof of their cleverness and our stupidity.

Recognising this state of affairs for the first time can be a shock, especially if one has pinned ones faith in the status quo to see us through these “troubled times”. However, reality it is, and once we have absorbed the truth there can be no turning back. Which brings us once again to the question:

“Where does one turn when all around is turmoil ..?”

The answer is – firstly we have to turn to ourselves; to recognise that we are complicit in allowing such a dark agenda to have become adopted right in our midst. After all, we live in what citizens of Europe and North America like to refer to as a “modern democracy”. Yet it is we ourselves who have repeatedly put our faith in autocratic charlatans who freely exercise the levers of despotic power. It is we ourselves who have handed responsibility to run our affairs to those who are masters of spin, deception and propaganda. It is we who have filled the role that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain filled on the cusp of World War two when he held up a scrap of paper and declared it to contain Hitler’s promise that Nazi Germany would never invade the United Kingdom. We too, like Chamberlain, have appeased ourselves in submitting our destinies to the diktats of the corporate vandals and the smiling politicians in their pay.

We have freely allowed ourselves to be duped into a state of virtual paralysis by a corporate backed media whose agenda has nothing to do with “raising awareness” but a great deal to do with keeping us busy with the trappings of superficial consumerism and junk status entertainment. The vast propaganda machine that pumps out the relentless message that we should strive ceaselessly to acquire the means to purchase our pleasures from the glittering shelves of the global market place.

However, these shelves are now beginning to lose their lustre, and we are beginning to lose the scales from our eyes. We can begin to see that we confused this ‘virtual reality’ with actual reality. The world turns out not to be a hypermarket after all, but a sentient being in an advanced stage of severe fever; poisoned, polluted and exploited almost beyond recognition – by us – the trolley pushing, brand seeking puppets of the global corporate elite. That small cartel marching on its robotic way to the grand take over of every last bankable asset on planet earth, as well as all those who, consciously or unconsciously, submit to becoming porns in its sinister master plan.

But now its time to take back our power and to take firm control of our destinies. We can still make this choice – its not too late. Nobody with the means of survival needs to be a slave – and nobody with some land needs to go without food. We are fast becoming aware that ‘money in the bank’ is no guarantee of our future security. As dying state and private financial institutions increasingly empower themselves to reach ever deeper into our pockets, we struggle to grasp the fact that much of what they steal goes straight into the pay cheque of the brightest scavengers and the bonuses of already bloated bosses. We barely seem to notice when our revenue payments are utilised to further crank up the deadly imperialist war machine so it can bludgeon its way through yet more oil and mineral rich countries in order to fulfil insatiable material addictions and barely disguised neo-colonial ambitions.

However, behind all events is a law of karma which states “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” And just as the despotic forces of imperialism appear to be wresting decisive control over mankind, strong voices of reason and truth are rising to challenge its dominion. Right in amongst the genocidal acts of nefarious despots we are witnessing the dawning of fresh visions of another way mankind can look after itself and this sentient planet upon which we all reside.

In fact we have arrived at something of a watershed; one where it will no longer be possible to sit on the fence and not commit to a resolution of this age old conflict, one way or another.

Thus, those now fretting about how and where to securely invest their financial savings, just might find that cosmic Lila has brought them to an auspicious karmic fork in the road of life. Pointing to the left – a signpost saying “Financial Security” and to the right a sign saying “Voluntary Simplicity.”

Those whose priority is to preserve their wealth will take the left fork and they will put their money into gold. Those who seek to deepen their awareness and move beyond material dependency will choose the right fork. Those who turn left may find themselves still in familiar territory with no lack of advisers on how to put up barriers against uncertainty and change. However this will merely ensure an extended contract with the dark ways of the old regime. For those who turn right will be a challenge of a very different nature: how to shift away from old material dependencies and towards a simpler and more harmonious relationship with the non material values of existence; the universal energies that are held back by materialistic indulgence. Those who take this path may wish to consider investing whatever funds they possess (individually or collectively) in some fertile land capable of producing good quality, ecological food, fuel and fibre for their daily needs. Thus taking control of their destinies and ultimately achieving independence from the clawing centralised control system which feeds upon the compliant serfdom of its participants.

The more we can free ourselves from from this unholy contract, the less power it will have over us and our World, and the more realised we will become in the fulfilment of our deeper needs and creative aspirations. Once the collapsing institutions of the status quo have dragged all that has value into the cauldron of its hastening demise – where we find our next meal, how we generate our energy and where we acquire pure water – will become of paramount importance. The skills of the land will be at a premium, whereas the skills of money making will become a useless impediment.

We can start right now. We can take our money out of the mainstream banks which fund the oppressive institutions of this planet – and put it instead into ethical investment institutions, local ecological food and farming ventures, local human scale renewable energy initiatives and/or the thousands of localised land based and artisan ventures now springing up all over the planet. We can, right now, begin to end years of energy sapping compromise and finally put our money where our hearts are. Because when the corporate gods are toppled and the lights go out, we will need to be prepared.

This preparation process can catalyse a new and positive interaction at the community level. One where we start purchasing the basic necessities of life from those who are already operating humane, responsible and environmentally benign enterprises; and not those who are exploiting the last seams of planetary wealth for their personal profit and power.

So to those who think they will find their salvation in precious metals, I would countenance them to think again. One cannot eat gold.

Julian Rose
September 2011

Julian is a British pioneer organic farmer, writer and activist. He is currently President of the International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside which is leading the fight against GMO in Poland. He is author of “Changing Course for Life – Local Solutions to Global Problems”

www.changingcourseforlife.info

Both appear to be teetering at the edge of a financial precipice and the great politico-bureaucratic machines that run the show – on both sides of the Atlantic – seem incapable of agreeing what economic medicine might keep this beast on the rails.

They, and we, are now learning that in a finite world no resource is infinite, least of all institutionalised financial wealth whose very existence is dependent upon interest payments made on capital lent to those who cannot sustain the levels of repayments demanded of them. In a ‘debt based’ economy (which ours is) all participants will ultimately land up losers.

We cannot know the exact timing surrounding the unhinging of a large sector of the global market place, but that some form of large scale collapse is imminent, there can be little doubt.

With this collapse will also ultimately go the entire foundation of modern day capitalism, and particularly the ‘perpetual growth’ based economic formulae that have driven this planet to the edge of ecocide and the mad growth machine perilously close to its own ultimate demise.

The vast debt based financial manipulations of the past decade already signalled that a global crisis was in the making. And attempts to solve this crisis by applying an ever tighter squeeze on the already minimal assets of the working man and woman has now reached a ‘back against the wall’ point of no return, provoking the first waves of citizen based ‘non compliance’ uprisings. We are likely to see more of these as the elite bankers and corporate despots who hold the reins of power, try to hang onto this power by exerting their repressive authority on an increasingly disenchanted populous.

The entire edifice which we were led to believe constituted the secure foundation of a modern civilisation, is now falling on its knees and the centuries old profligate ‘top down’ theft of both people and the planet is now rebounding on its perpetrators, dragging all and sundry in its turbulent wake. As a result, we are, in the next half decade, going to pass through the vortex of a huge change to our customary ways of life. A change for the better, if you don’t like the ‘take-all’ consumerist package at the helm of modern neo liberal capitalism. A change for the worse if you do.

Desperate rescue attempts will of course take place in which billions of dollars, Euros, pounds, yen and roubles will be thrown at the sinking banks, financial institutions and corporate marketing machines, in a vain attempt to resuscitate – one more time – the dying machine. But it won’t rise again because there is no crane big enough to lift it out of the grave it has dug for itself.

What will this mean to you and I?

Well, that depends on how reliant we each are on the trappings of the neoliberal consumer society.

If we are heavily reliant, we will have a long way to fall and will not have an easy landing. If we are not too trapped we will have less far to fall and may have a softer landing. However, we will all be subjected to an intense propaganda campaign as the wounded beast throws out its grasping tentacles to try to further enslave us in its accelerating demise. Beware of this. We will be heavily indoctrinated not to let go of old patterns of thought and behaviour which give a false sense of security concerning the strength of the status quo to see us through “these hard times”. We will be lent on – even by many of our friends – to tow the line and submit to the “austerity” measures dictated by our increasingly autocratic governments. Beware of this, for it is a deception. Austerity demands that hard working people continue to cut back on their meagre savings in order to enable the elite wealth mongers to maintain their seemingly impenetrable financial empires.

Crises are created by those at the sharp end of the power pyramid and have proven to be invaluable tools for the enslavement of the many. The main card in their austerity pack is the ‘fear card’. If we can be made to feel sufficiently frightened of what may lie on the other side of the collapsing financial world which is their citadel, then we will be more likely to do all that we are asked to do to avoid further rocking the boat. However, this is the road to unconditional slavery – and its what dying monsters feed upon to retain their self delusions of power.

So, if we want to avoid serfdom to the beast, we had better sit down and honestly ask ourselves here and now – before its too late – just what might lie on the other side of global economic collapse?

It will require some fortitude to look this question in the eye. It will require a deepening of our perceptions of what is actually going on around us and a willingness to research what forces stand behind extreme cyclical historical events. It will require recognition of the part that we ourselves – as well as our ancestors – have played in bringing about such crises and an awareness of the fact that they are largely a reflection of our own state of being. For the road to the great collapse is a long and pot-hole strewn one and is made up of many decades of blind adherence to false Gods.

We are all complicit – on different levels – and only by admitting this can we start to put things right.

Only when this first hurdle has been crossed will we be able to start constructing a proper platform for positive change. A platform which necessarily reintroduces us to some very simple premises concerning what steps to take to avoid being swept away, or reduced to serfdom, by the tsunami of global upheavals that are now under-way. I use the term tsunami advisedly because the way the planet has been treated over many generations of abject resource plundering, perpetual war and the toxic poisoning associated with excessive corporate greed, has resulted in a state of unprecedented geological, atmospheric and social destabilisation. A state mirrored by the current financial meltdown itself. How could it be otherwise? The two are inseparably locked into a cause and effect domino that has now reached breaking point.

Our ecology and climate cannot exist in hermetically sealed isolation from our financial activities.

The wounds we inflict upon our this Earth reverberate throughout and the repercussions return to haunt us. So, in taking our first steps of mitigation in the face of a world succumbing to both geological and financial turmoil, some very elementary questions shift into the foreground:

“Will I have the ability to procure enough food to feed myself and my family?”

“How can I be sure to have regular access to this resource?”

“How will we ensure that we have the basic security of a home, fresh water, warm clothes and enough energy to provide warmth, light and adequate cooking facilities?”

“What about our friends?”

“What if our savings are not enough to buy what we need?

“What if supplies dry-up?”

All these questions will crowd into the mind once we allow ourselves to face the truth. They are very valid questions – and they have answers. However, the right answers will not be arrived at via panic or fear. They must be nurtured into existence through prioritising another medium, an approach to problem solving which draws upon our latent creativity, inventive powers and love of life. As Albert Einstein so aptly pointed out “One cannot solve an existing problem using the same mode of thinking which created it.”

Metaphorically speaking the answer to all our questions lies ‘right in our own back yards’; and metaphysically speaking we will be guided – provided we remain flexible enough to allow our old skin to fall away and a new skin to emerge in its place. The very same process which our planet is now undergoing via the tumultuous cleansing process which will ultimately throw-off the toxic burden of generations of misguided inhabitants.

So now is the time to act in mitigation against being caught on the wrong foot before the collapsing structures of the old regime force us into last minute panic based survival actions. It is now time to seek out real answers and take real steps.

Emerging amongst the detritus of failing financial institutions and the war stained ambitions of global corporate giants, is a growing awareness that we have almost completely neglected the resources we have available to us right in front of our eyes; that a global problem often has a local solution and that this solution might not involve a seemingly inevitable descent into a lowly and disagreeable struggle to survive. On the contrary, it could lead to a more honest and simple approach to life which could enrich, rather than impoverish, the spirit while redeeming a lost sense of connection with the natural world.

Should enough of us decide to pursue such a path now, we just might be able to relieve our planet of a whole extra level of suffering which is sure to be experienced unless a significant change of course is undertaken by a critical mass of humanity.

In the final analysis, there is not much choice in this matter. Once a combination of crises in the food, air, energy and water sectors reaches criticality – many are either not going to be able to afford to fulfil their customary daily needs or will not be able to access them due to transport and infrastructural blockages.

However, we are conditioned to believe that such events will probably never actually happen in Western Europe and North America. Our corporate owned western media does not want to unduly alarm paid up members of ‘consumer-soc plc.’. They don’t want too many thinking they might have to change their ways – for example by ceasing to watch TV and to stop buying from supermarkets. So, as long as we carry on consuming “the daily diet for the dumbed down” there is little or no chance of responding to the rising winds of change that are blowing across our overburdened planet. But free the mind and take a few steps out of this virtual reality world which we have so carefully constructed for ourselves – and suddenly the truth starts to make itself felt.

And just what is this truth?

It was put very nicely by Dr Fritz Schumacher, the author of Small Is Beautiful, some 40 years ago. While lecturing in North America, he was asked if a switch from fossil fuels to human scale and regional renewable energy sources would mean that we would all have to accept “a lower standard of living?”

“No” he replied “I don’t subscribe to the term ‘lower standard of living’ to describe a state in which we freely elect to move towards a life of voluntary simplicity.” A life of voluntary simplicity means a turning away from the heavy ecological footprint excesses of our 21^st century consumer society and finding that we can manage well enough – or even rather better – on rather a little; provided that this ‘rather a little’ is genuinely good quality and doesn’t harm our environment, our body or our soul. An aware mind and a light ecological footprint are therefore prerequisites for life both before and ‘after the crash’ and as soon as we can get started on on them the less devastating the repercussions of this crash will be.

Rather than list the thousands of localised self sustaining group initiatives that are currently emerging in counterpoint to the tottering globalised economy, I prefer to recommend that we pay attention to what I have named “The Proximity Principle.” The Proximity Principle is perhaps best understood as a blend between a law of physics and what we once called ‘common sense’. It instructs us to think and act on the basis that where we reside (hamlet, village, town, city) is the centre of a circle – and what we need (daily necessities) fan out around that centre like spokes from the hub of a bicycle wheel. It says that we should try to access the majority of our daily needs for our physical well being and nourishment from an area as close as possible to the centre of the circle where we reside. Thus we seek to access our fresh food ‘from our own garden’; our local independent small grocer; our farmers market – or perhaps even directly from our nearest ecologically aware farmer.

Large cities present a serious challenge: some highly creative collective ‘greening’ is about the only practical life line available to citizens living in population densities of over 1 million. Very large cities like London access the great majority of their food and energy from abroad and this makes such city dwellers particularly vulnerable to the increasing oscillations of the global market place.

For such vast conurbations, the provision of food alone requires an energy intensive and complex coordinated operation which is likely to break down once secure financial backing is no longer guaranteed. Processed foods require a further energy input and long distance transportation yet more.

‘Fresh local food’ however requires very little energy input and is alive with vital nutrients and vitamins that are lost in transport, packaging and days on neon lit supermarket shelves – all factors contributing to the demise of our planet Earth. And so with energy: start again from your own wood burning stove; passive and photovoltaic solar panels or small wind generator – or link into a community renewable energy scheme. Obtain your firewood from a local timber merchant or farmer/forester. Make a serious effort to wean yourself off ‘the national grid’ and the super market (hugely consumptive energy footprint) and start supporting the local traders of your community: when the chips are down and the lights have gone out – it is here where your solution lies and the relationship we build with our local community will define how well we cope down the pathway to ‘voluntary simplicity’. It is only at the local level that we can participate in the intimate trading transactions that connect the ecological farmer, forester, blacksmith, baker and transporter. Having money will not be so important when bartering and exchange once again become community led activities. Unless we are connected into the dynamic of this infrastructure, our chances of getting through coming seismic events without too much pain are very small.

By following “The Proximity Principle” we will be guided towards the most elegant economic, ecological and socially constructive solutions concerning the sane management of our daily lives.

Such an approach also has the potential to catalyse a renaissance of meaningful relationships and cast a fresh light on shared creative endeavour – in the fields, on the streets and in the home. We will discover that there really are local solutions to global problems.

Julian Rose

August 1^st 2011

The global food economy, served and shaped via state and corporate control of the food chain, has resulted in unquantifiable levels of pollution, destruction and exploitation in every dimension of agriculture, from soil to seed, to plant, to animal and to man. In other words: our existence.

As we approach the second decade of the 21^st century, it is becoming abundantly clear that an entirely new vision, understanding and implementation is required in order for agriculture to truly serve its original purpose of feeding humanity (all peoples) with good quality, affordable and mostly local foods in ways that do not harm the environment.

In order to make this wholesale shift it is necessary to entirely step aside from State and corporate control of the food chain. No compromise is possible here. Maintaining and re establishing the genuine independence of farmers throughout the world is a prerequisite for our survival as sentient, healthy human beings.

Non participation in the corporately controlled global market place must, in order to be effective, be accompanied by the widespread implementation of localised, quality food production and consumption practices. Practices that bring into close proximity the food grower and the food consumer; at the same time – by-passing entirely, the corporate multiple chains that profit by keeping them separate. This is the only way that genuine accessibility of optimum condition foods and medicinal plants can be ensured for billions of people throughout the World.

Continuing to adhere to the present corporate and state controlled food and farming regimes means that:

• Farmer’s time honoured right to save their seeds and to cultivate, distribute and trade the produce resulting from these seeds will continue to be subverted, curtailed and stolen.
• People’s right to perpetuate the biodiversity of locally adapted native plants, herbs and animals will be denied.
• People’s rights to gain lawful access to unused or barren land for the purpose of growing food for their own consumption in ways that do not harm the environment will be blocked.
• People’s time honoured right to carry on the daily operations of good farming practice unhindered by state and corporate power structures, will be denied.

It is the obligation of head’s of state to consult the people, in advance, about any new laws or alterations of the current law and any political questions concerning agriculture.

“Farming for the People with the People” therefore calls for all farmers, growers and sympathetic citizens, to take back control over their destinies and to join together to free our agricultural practices from the corporate treadmill of destruction and despair to which they now are tied.

At the same time, we call upon the Polish government, and all national governments, to act NOW on the demands of the vast majority of their citizens to:

• Ban all forms of genetic engineering in agriculture, horticulture, silviculture and fisheries.
• Withdraw all financial support for factory farming regimes that dehumanise agriculture and debase the animal kingdom.
• Prohibit, without exception, any and all patenting of plants, animals, their traits and genes, as well as patents on breeding methods. Thereby making it unlawful to attempt to exercise control over biodiversity.

Every Country should have the right to protect its food sovereignty.

We call for a people led and people owned renaissance of agriculture. One which will liberate the creativity and ingenuity of man and draw inspiration from the time honoured peasant and family farming practices that still form the foundation of self sufficient, sustainable and ecological agricultural production throughout the world.

Please feel free to use and adopt in your Country!

This document was ratified on the occasion of the 10^th anniversary of the International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside (ICPPC) www.icppc.pl

during the seminar “Food Sovereignty, Self Sufficiency and the Family Farm”

November 20/21 2010.

The days of the Polish love affair with America may soon be coming to an end. The hegemonic ambitions of US geopolitics are causing Washington to actively seek new avenues to exploit, both militarily and through corporate buy-outs of national assets in Eastern Europe. In Poland’s case, a high percentage of those national assets have already been sold off to pay debts incurred by reliance on huge loans packaged by the International Monetary Fund.

The latest US’s gifts to Poland do not come in pretty parcels, nor are they likely to be as innocuous as the worn out F1 11 fighter planes sold to the Polish air force a few years ago. Poles, already softened-up by the Coca Cola company, Kentucky Fried Chicken and McDonalds – three corporate giants offering poison dressed up as something edible – are now being counted on not to offer any serious resistance to the next phase of attack. However, resistance is exactly what is needed. To find out why.. read on.

If corporate America gets its way and the Polish government gets its rewards – Poland will host, firstly: genetically modified food crops that permanently contaminate the natural food chain and turn once biodiverse fields into sterile monocultures. Secondly: corporate shale gas extraction (called ‘Fraking’) which pumps highly toxic chemicals into underground rock strata (shale) at high pressure thereby creating fissures which release natural gas. Then there’s the small matter of permanent US missile silos and army bases to be established in as yet undisclosed sites in the Polish countryside.

MISSILES

The Warsaw Voice of March 7 2011 had this to say:

“As was announced by our two presidents in December, we plan to establish a new permanent U.S. Air detachment in Poland, build missile defences in Poland, and as agreed at the NATO summit, develop a contingency plan for the region, Clinton told journalists at a joint briefing with Minister Sikorski ahead of their talks. Russia has been long opposed to the project, saying it could destroy the strategic balance of forces in Europe.”

The U.S. has bombed 21 Countries since World War II and has killed or displaced millions of innocent citizens in the process. The U.S. military/administration is perhaps the planet’s most infamous modern day ‘war criminal’ with an ever lengthening list of crimes against humanity to its name. England marches just a few steps behind.

FRAKING

To understand the environmental implications of ‘Fraking’ please see film GASLAND http://www.wykop.pl/link/708253/zagrozenie-wynikajace-z-wydobycia-gazu-lupkowego/

It appears that Prime Minister Tusk has already opened up the Polish countryside to US corporate exploitation via a deal that will allow leading US petroleum companies into the Country to drill for natural gas in the substantial fields that lie under much of the Polish countryside. Warnings are already being voiced that this will place severe strain on national water reserves and road infrastructures due to the vast volumes of water that are required to be transported to and from the drilling sites.

The water that is extracted as part of this process, is polluted with the chemicals that have been used to force open the shale rock and millions of litres of such water has to be dumped somewhere..

In the US, where Fraking is already prolific, the chemicals used in this process are now threatening underground drinking water reserves across millions of hectares of land and thousands of communities. Hundreds of households have been horrified to find gas coming out of their kitchen taps along with poisoned drinking water. The film (above) shows that when a match is put to this supply it catches fire instantly.

Fraking has all the hallmarks of yet another ruthless exploitation of nature for highly questionable goals. But its not too late to stop this as the French have already successfully done. Please urgently add your support to ‘Stop Fraking’ by writing to the Minister of the Environment and demanding a stop to this highly destructive process.

GMO

Genetically Modified Organisms are seen by the current US administration as an essential component of its global export earnings. To this end US corporations like Monsanto plc are State supported so as to extend their GM plant and animal breeding programmes into all areas of the world. Poland is now on the receiving end of this drive to modify and patent the global seed and animal breeding chain and to thereby consign nature’s designs to history.

In spite of the fact that we now know that GM animal feed causes infertility in rodents and that the Roundup Ready herbicides that are an indispensable part of the GM package cause placental damage in pregnant mothers – the Polish government consistently refuses to ban GM seeds and animal feeds.

Government ministers prefer to avert their eyes – even when genetically modified maize pollen has cross contaminated large areas of organic maize in Spain when the distance between these two crops was far beyond the supposed ‘safe levels’. Nine European Countries – including France and Germany – have already banned GM crops. They have found the evidence against them irrefutable.

Given that these facts are well known and well documented, the Polish government’s refusal to ban GMO is beginning to look like criminal negligence.

President Obama flies into Poland on May 27. No doubt his mission will include firming up the Polish government’s support for troops, missiles, wars, GMOs, Fraking and other such unwelcome objectives.

So don’t dream about any favours coming from the United States. You may find out that the dream isn’t a dream at all, but a cleverly packaged nightmare. It will be too late by then.

Just say “Enough!” And say it now.

Julian Rose (May 2011)